With Monday’s release of iOS 26 Beta 2, Apple has mounted one of the extra obvious points with Liquid Glass, its divisive new person interface design for the iPhone, iPad, and different Apple gadgets, introduced earlier this month at its WWDC 2025.
The refreshed person interface modernizes the working system’s feel and look with a design system impressed by the optical qualities of glass, together with the best way it refracts mild and its translucency.
However, early iOS 26 testers, considerably unfairly, have been fast to level out the issues with the up to date look within the early developer beta. Though the beta construct shouldn’t be but completed, customers shared screenshots and criticized areas the place Liquid Glass fell quick in phrases of readability and usefulness.
One of the customers’ bigger considerations was with how Liquid Glass made the Control Center (the menu accessed by swiping down on the precise aspect of the iPhone’s display) practically unreadable. Because of its semi see-through nature, it was arduous to distinguish the Control Center’s buttons and sliders from the icons and widgets on the iPhone’s Home Screen that appeared beneath.
In the newly launched beta, Apple has addressed the issue with the Control Center by adjusting the background blur, which higher obscures the Home Screen content material beneath.
Notifications within the first beta have been additionally arduous to learn, as many had identified. In the up to date beta, they’re a bit sharper however nonetheless want work, particularly for readability on brighter and lighter backgrounds.
These aren’t seemingly the ultimate changes, on condition that iOS 26 doesn’t launch publicly till the autumn. However, they’re indications that Apple is actively listening to early person suggestions and making tweaks accordingly.
Also in Beta 2, Apple has added an Accessibility part to the App Store’s product pages, enabled iCloud sync for the Journaling app on iPads, added order monitoring options to Apple Wallet, launched an Apple Music Radio widget, and extra.