How do I remove the liquid glass look from app icons on iOS 26?

There is a place to see the clear glass setting. But it still doesnt change anything even though it gives you two choices.

Go to Settings; display and brightness; liquid glass; clear or tinted

I had to end up going to settings; Accessibility; display and text size; turn on reduce transparency and increase contrast. Thats the closest you can get to the old version.

Love it all you want, but anyone who made custom home screens has had them completely messed up. I have a page on my phone that was full of invisible icons (all leading to music albums) and now that entire effect has been broken. So, sadly, now have an entirely broken look to my phone.

Thank you for your help!

The only thing I don't like, because it really disturbs my eyes, is the fact that the icons are always blurry, no matter what I do.

I will write to the link you sent. Thanks!

It looks like no one has mentioned that you can just turn off the liquid glass effect from the home screen.

Hold down on the home screen for a couple of seconds to enter the edit mode. The app icons will start quivering with a minus sign and in the top right corner of the screen there will be an edit button. It beings up a screen that lets you select the glass look you want, or you can go back to default.

There are some other options that you might like to try instead of going back to default, like having slightly larger icons without any text underneath, or tinted glass, etc.

If by liquid glass you mean the transparent look of the app icons/folders, you can go to

Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Reduce Transparency

And Turn it On.

You’ll get back the tinted/opaque look you had in iOS 18.

I've managed to get the clock numbers on the lock screen back to white, but I hate the rest. Just noticed when you swipe down from the top right corner, everything shows as Liquid Glass. Absolutely awful.

Hi to everyone here.

I don’t usually complain about things, but this is also affecting me physically from headaches because of the poor design and also my phone is not working correctly. I have tried all the steps and try to make adjustments. It’s simply bad design so we have two options to either wait for them to fix it software, which they haven’t or to get another phone. Should we all just keep reaching out to Apple and hoping they fix it? or just go to Android phones

JasonToddd wrote:

Should we all just keep reaching out to Apple and hoping they fix it? or just go to Android phones

If you have feedback for Apple, you should give it to them:

Product Feedback - Apple

Personally, I like Liquid Glass and have let Apple know that. As for whether or not you should switch to an Android phone, well 1) I doubt anyone here cares what you decide and 2) Android is moving to something similar to Liquid Glass called, I think, "Materials 3.0."

Sure, go to Android, we don't care here on this user to user only forum. But as Bob Timmons correctly suggests, you'll likely be pretty disappointed there as well.

Can we assume you popped in, read the first post and replied without reading any of the other responses? Had you taken the time to do read further, you'd have seen options which are available to you which would likely make you much happier.

See this and read ALL the way through and try the options --> Liquid Glass - Love It Or Hate It - It's … - Apple Community

Ever since this update is rolled out I’ve been getting migraines nonstop. I finally found another forum, which made it very simple you go into settings> accessibility> display, and Text size>

Here you will want to go and turn off the translucent part of the home screen apps/widgets by clicking “ reduce transparency” now others have said to also increase contrast but when I did that it made no difference. Hope this helps this thread, and in any case if there’s ever a issue for future updates since Apple doesn’t come here ever it seems and Apple support has been bit blamey vs forward thinking, just go complain about the new update here Product Feedback - Apple

until we get enough voices for any update of unhappiness they won’t do anything.

Happy holidays! 🌲

Crimsonkitten92 wrote:

Ever since this update is rolled out I’ve been getting migraines nonstop. I finally found another forum, which made it very simple you go into settings> accessibility> display, and Text size>

Here you will want to go and turn off the translucent part of the home screen apps/widgets by clicking “ reduce transparency” now others have said to also increase contrast but when I did that it made no difference.

That information has been included in this thread on every page.

So to fix that, you’ll want to go into your Settings and then head over to the “Accessibility” section. From there, you’ll find something like “Display & Text Size,” and you can look for an option called “Reduce Transparency.” If you turn that on, it should make those backgrounds more solid and get rid of that glassy look you don’t like.

to fix that, you’ll want to go into your Settings and then head over to the “Accessibility” section. From there, you’ll find something like “Display & Text Size,” and you can look for an option called “Reduce Transparency.” If you turn that on, it should make those backgrounds more solid and get rid of that glassy look you don’t like.

In Settings > Accessibility > Display and Text > Reduce Transparency