How To Turn Off The New Liquid Glass Look In iOS 26 On Your iPhone

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Apple’s latest iOS 26 update is here, and along with new features like call screening and fresh ringtones, your iPhone also gets a brand-new Liquid Glass design. It’s Apple’s biggest visual shift since iOS 7. Also Read: iOS 26 Release Date Revealed: Check Eligible iPhones, Launch Date, Features, And How To Update

Menus and system elements now look translucent, with a blurred, glass-like effect. Some even animate with little wiggles when you tap them. While some users like the modern, layered look, others feel it’s distracting or harder to read. If you don’t want to have the new 

What Is Liquid Glass?

Liquid Glass adds transparency across the iPhone interface. The idea is to create depth, letting your wallpaper or app backgrounds shine through menus and controls. In theory, this helps you see how screen elements relate to each other.

In practice, not everyone is a fan; it can make menus feel busy and reduce legibility. Apple tried to tweak the design during beta testing, but the effect is still noticeable across apps like Messages, Safari, and Control Centre. 

Apple isn’t giving you the option to completely disable Liquid Glass, but you don’t have to live with it in full force either. With a few quick tweaks, your iPhone can look a lot more like it used to. Here’s how to do it. 

How to Reduce the Liquid Glass Effect

If you’d rather keep things simple, you can tone down Liquid Glass using built-in accessibility settings. Just follow these simple steps. 

• Go to the Settings app
• Then click on Accessibility.
• Go to Display and Text Size.
• Here, toggle on Reduce Transparency and adjust according to you.

This will help you replace the see-through menus with darker, more solid backgrounds, making text and buttons easier to read. For extra clarity, you can also enable Increase Contrast in the same menu. This option outlines or highlights elements more clearly, which helps separate them from the background.