Apple finally lets users tone down Liquid Glass with latest iOS 26 update: here’s how it works

Apple has faced a lot of flak for its new Liquid Glass design language that made its debut with iOS 26. While some users absolutely loved the new UI from Apple, others couldn’t handle one bit of it. Early users had also pointed out legibility issues and eye strain due to Liquid Glass.

Thankfully, Apple has now woken up to the feedback from users and has added a new feature with iOS 26.1 Beta 4 which allows users to customize their Liquid Glass experience.

Users can now head to Settings to chose between the ‘Clear’ or ‘Tinted’ transparency setting for Liquid Glass. While Clear setting maintains the original high transparency effect, the Tinted setting improves opacity and contrast of UI elements that makes it easier to read.

How to change the new Liquid Glass setting in iOS 26.1 beta 4?

• Make sure you have updated to the latest beta version
• Go to Settings on your iPhone
• Tap on Display & brightness and then on Liquid Glass
• You will now see the new transparency options

In order to update to the new beta version. Head over to beta.apple.com and then sign up for Apple’s beta updates.

Go to Settings and then navigate to General > Software Update > Beta Updates and select iOS 26 Public Beta. The new feature should land with the new iOS 26.1 stable update for all users soon enough.

Apart from the new Liquid Glass transparency setting, there is also a new option with iOS 26.1 beta 4 that allows users to turn off the ability to go to open camera from the lock screen. The new feature would give more privacy control to users where they can stop strangers from taking pictures if they don’t have access to the lockscreen password.

The stable iOS 26.1 update will also bring Apple Intelligence to new languages including Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese (Portugal), Swedish, Turkish, Chinese (Traditional), and Vietnamese.

Meanwhile, the Live Translation feature on AirPods will also be compatible with fresh set of languages like Japanese, Korean, Italian, and Chinese (Mandarin and Simplified).