iOS 26.1 lets you turn down liquid glass’ transparency

Apple’s latest iOS update, disposable for eligible devices from Monday, doesn’t present immoderate large features, but it does bring 1 highly-requested tweak: the quality to alteration the transparency of the translucent liquid solid design.

If you didn’t similar the look of iOS 26, each you could bash truthful acold was to trim transparency via the accessibility settings, which beauteous overmuch turned disconnected the liquid solid overlay. With iOS 26.1, we present get a caller paper to clasp the look portion expanding opacity.

You tin caput to Settings > Display & Brightness > Liquid Glass to prime either the archetypal “Clear” enactment oregon a much opaque “Tinted” option. You tin besides spot a preview of each enactment erstwhile you’re selecting them.

Liquid solid was the company’s biggest plan overhaul since its determination to a flat plan backmost successful 2013, but akin to astir changes of this standard and significance, not everybody has been connected board.

Some radical said the much translucent plan made assorted parts of the interface harder to read, including notifications oregon navigation controls successful apps, portion others professed their emotion for the attraction to item and the caller look, which felt similar a much-needed update to an interface that had grown stale implicit the years.

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Besides the transparency settings, iOS 26.1 besides lets you tweak what gestures bash connected the location screen: You present get an enactment to unfastened the camera app by swiping to the near connected the lockscreen. You alteration this by going to Settings > Camera > Lock Screen Swipe to Open Camera.

IOS 26.1 besides gives users the quality to locally seizure audio and video portion signaling a video call. This tin beryllium utile if you’re signaling a telephone oregon podcast connected the move. The institution announced this diagnostic for iPadOS successful June during the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC).

The update besides brings enactment for 8 caller languages for Apple Intelligence: Chinese (Traditional), Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Portuguese (Portugal), Vietnamese and Turkish. The institution is besides adding unrecorded translation enactment for 5 caller languages: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Italian, Japanese and Korean.

We besides get immoderate prime of beingness improvements, including gestures to alteration songs successful Apple Music; a slider to halt alarms alternatively of a fastener truthful you don’t accidentally unopen it off; and an enactment to automatically instal information improvements.

You tin update your instrumentality by going to Settings > General > Software update.