He is official, the Great Apple software redesign is here and all your devices are about to look very different. Into WWDC 2025 Apple made known “Liquid glass“, Which is your own way of saying Apple:” Your iPhone is becoming much more unpleasant. ” Apple clockand even your streaming Apple TV 4K.
And, although the complete range of Apple products is affected by the change in visual vibration, it is ios that it will probably attract more attention and good reason. For one, very much and good People use iPhones in America and even the slightest retouching at the user interface can affect people on a mass scale. Secondly, what I can say without seeing the redesign for me, ios seems to be the worst affected by the new design. I mean, you really check:
Today, we are announcing our most beautiful software design change with Liquid Glass. And for the first time, it will arrive at iOS 26, iPados 26, Macos 26, Watchos 26 and Tast 26 at the same time! pic.twitter.com/p8pr8o1emm
– Greg Joswiak (@gregjoz) June 9, 2025
Although Apple does not state it explicitly, the redesign seems to be very influenced by what some designers could call “vidremorfism,“It is a visual style in user interface that incorporates many opaque menus and, unlike the” neutal “design design Apple, adds a bit to the icons that were once a type of 2D. See (ironically) other operating systems of, *cough, cough* MicrosoftIf you want another example of what glass can manifest. Someone more knowledgeable about what I could probably be out of the new look with a few thousand words, but a design design I am not. When I look at the liquid glass, I see things with a simpler light. I see mainly one thing: the risk.
On the one hand, this risk is exciting. I think the Apple user interface is due to an update. According to Apple’s estimate, the The last visual review was back to iOS 7When the iPhones still had a physical home button and “Obamacare” was still a political discussion issue. Not only that, but Apple, for a good reason, has been very accused in the last years of not trying to push the boundaries as he did once under the leadership of Steve Jobs and Jony Ive. A great way to show people who are not afraid to try something new, well, try something new. This is exactly what Apple did; It was a risk of a redesign that changes some basic elements of the user interface of your iPhone, the icons, the menus, put it.
But, like any daring new effort, there will be some commitments. One of these compensations, in this case, can be accessibility. As many of you have already noted, there are some visual peculiarities in Apple’s glass season, and readability may be at stake.
Say the fucking goodbye to accessibility #Wwdc25 pic.twitter.com/ckciwv2sns
– Ilya (@ilyamiskov) June 9, 2025
No matter how much I really like the aesthetically appearance of the new Apple liquid glass review, I think there will be some big haters and I can’t blame them exactly. Having clear windows may seem future, but when this design is found, let’s say, I don’t know, send a text message to a page, things can be a little messy. What you get, sometimes, is a visually angry menu that conflicts with other items on a page. I still do not jump to any conclusion, since I really have not seen the redesign for me or how it interacts with web pages or applications, but objectively, it seems that there is not as much contrast as the previous appearance of Apple. One thing I have noticed so far is that the subtle differences in the place where a menu is on an application or web page can have a huge impact. For example, see this image.
Apple has just introduced the design of “liquid glass” to iOS.
It’s beautiful, futuristic … and completely illegible.
What do we do here? 😵💫 pic.twitter.com/ybw8sixtqh
– Kalash (@amikalash) June 9, 2025
I don’t know about you, but what I see is a blurred and visual disaster. But if you check the video, you get this screenshot, only a second makes the difference. Here is the same visual demonstration, but the menu is slightly compensated to the text below.
I feel like there is a big difference in readability here. It is not perfect in any way and it certainly would not be called accessible, but it seems much better. All this is to say that I think there will be subtle differences that determine if you see something clear, pleasant and visual visual or if you are looking for a glass of glass glass. Of what I can say, there will also be different styles of liquid glass to choose from, which can affect the accessibility of the menus. There is also the fact that this redesign is not officially launched until the fall, so that anything could change.
The way to feel about liquid glass is obviously the debate, but one thing is clear (Pun’s intention), and this is that everything that Apple does with the redesign and liquid glass redesign is definitely a greater risk than past reviews. To risk accessibility or readability on a platform as large as iOS take a real vision, whether good or bad. We hope only that the vision, for the sake of anyone with an iPhone, is not as blurred or illegible as some of these early aspects.
