Is there a way to completely disable the liquid glass functionality on iOS 26? I'm not going to get into a lengthy diatribe over why it's awful, I just want it gone.
iPhone 13 Pro Max, iOS 18
iPhone14ProMaxVerizn wrote:
This doesn’t create enough contrast. Screen interface is still not crisp enough on iOS 26.2. I hate it!
There's nothing anyone here can do about the fact you hate it.
Tell Apple:
it is necessary to implement a function to reduce movement, add the ability to enable the display of animation for minimizing the application and opening the application manager. then the system will be responsive and work well. Now, when you turn on motion reduction, it's very difficult to use an iphone. but only this option saves the iPhone from heating up and preventing the battery from melting before our eyes.
ravenby wrote:
it is necessary to implement a function to reduce movement, add the ability to enable the display of animation for minimizing the application and opening the application manager. then the system will be responsive and work well. Now, when you turn on motion reduction, it's very difficult to use an iphone. but only this option saves the iPhone from heating up and preventing the battery from melting before our eyes.
There's nothing anyone here can do about that.
Tell Apple:
Liquid Glass is not making your phone "heat up" or causing the battery to "melt before our eyes." If your phone is getting that hot, there's something wrong with it and you should contact Apple and have them run diagnostics.
ravenby wrote:
it is necessary to implement a function to reduce movement, add the ability to enable the display of animation for minimizing the application and opening the application manager. then the system will be responsive and work well. Now, when you turn on motion reduction, it's very difficult to use an iphone. but only this option saves the iPhone from heating up and preventing the battery from melting before our eyes.
There is absolutely nothing which Motion on or off in Accessibility settings is doing to tax the battery in your iPhone. It uses miniscule battery power. Nor does turning off motion make it in any way difficult to use an iPhone. I don't know where you got either idea, but both are incorrect.
I'd recommend you check your battery health on your iPhone. Settings > Battery > Battery Health - if it is near, at or below 80%, the useful life of the battery has been spent and it would be time for a battery replacement at your Apple Store Genius Bar.
ravenby wrote: "...only this option saves the iPhone from heating up and preventing the battery from melting before our eyes"
ravenby ~ What model of iPhone is it?...
Settings > General > About > Model Name
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Go to settings, accessibility, display and text size, then hit “reduce transparency”
Leilabano wrote:
I already done that and it hasn’t made much difference. Everything is different,I hate it,I wish i could go back to previous display.
Tell Apple:
They need to incorporate the option to turn this liquid glass effect off. It is annoying, looks ugly, has no real purpose and the founder of this company would never have allowed such nonsense.
Liquid Glass looks awful with my background photo. The photo is sentimental and I do not want to remove it for a dark background. There needs to be a way to turn this defeature off.
No.
You can go to Settings>Accessibility>Display & Text Size and turn on Reduce Transparency and Increase Contrast and that will do some, but you cannot "turn off" Liquid Glass.
You can ask all you want but it won't happen. Downgrading the operating system is not supported.
And there is no such version as 24 or 25. It made the jump from iOS 18 to 26.
if you turn on your reduce transparency and increase contrast settings it pretty much eliminates the Liquid Glass look
I just discovered that reducing motion (Settings -> Accessibility -> Motion -> Reduce Motion) eliminates that weird glass distortion effect when you swipe to unlock!
This doesn’t create enough contrast. Screen interface is still not crisp enough on iOS 26.2.
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How to disable liquid glass in iOS 26?
