Introducing Liquid Glass
All the new operating systems boast a new visual style, but why should we be excited?
As well as light and dark tints, there’s a new clear look, which gives the screen a fresh appearance.
Liquid Glass is Apple’s first major redesign to the look and feel of its operating systems since iOS 7, and this time it’s being applied across Apple’s entire product range. Today, apps regularly appear on multiple devices, with people switching between them as they work. This makes a common theme very useful, giving those operating systems a unifying feel without losing the comfortable familiarity that’s been built up over numerous software generations.
But what is Liquid Glass? Inspired by the layered virtual screens and tools of visionOS, the new interface design is based on a translucent material that both reflects and refracts its surrounding content, and dynamically transforms as you use it. So, for example, a menu that’s currently static can move in response to your touch or mouse pointer. Its background colour is taken from what’s behind it for a translucent look.