With iOS 26.2, Apple lets you roll back Liquid Glass again — this time on the Lock Screen

Apple is releasing different instrumentality to dial down Liquid Glass’s transparency with its merchandise of iOS 26.2, retired now. With the update, users volition beryllium capable to power the transparency of the Lock Screen’s clock. The merchandise follows an update that introduced a slider for controlling the opacity of Liquid Glass elements done the operating system, pursuing idiosyncratic complaints that the changes made their iPhone oregon different Apple instrumentality excessively hard to read.

Launched with iOS 26, the new plan language for Apple devices turns assorted interface elements similar buttons, sliders, and notifications semi-transparent. The elements besides refract light, giving them the optical qualities of glass.

Meant to modernize Apple’s operating systems and perchance hole for a satellite wherever the operating strategy moves to AI smartglasses, Liquid Glass received mixed reviews. Some recovered that the transparency made their instrumentality hard to use, arsenic it became tricky to work cardinal items, similar notifications oregon the name of an creator successful Apple Music. In effect to idiosyncratic complaints, Apple released a Liquid Glass instrumentality successful iOS 26.1 that allowed users to instrumentality their interface to a much “frosted” look, if desired.

With the slider for the Clock’s “glassiness,” Apple is again rolling backmost the transparency of the Liquid Glass update, but successful the signifier of different user-controlled customization feature, alternatively of a planetary change.

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These tweaks are notable arsenic they telegraph that possibly Apple isn’t lasting 100% down the plan overhaul arsenic being cleanable arsenic is.

The timing of the alteration is worthy noting, too. Earlier this month, Apple confirmed the plan enforcement down the Liquid Glass makeover, Alan Dye, was leaving the institution for Meta. While it didn’t look that Dye was pushed out, Apple replaced him with longtime Apple decorator Stephen Lemay.

Unlike Dye, Lemay’s vocation was spent successful interface and enactment plan — a accomplishment acceptable called for erstwhile it comes to fixing Liquid Glass, it tin beryllium argued.

iOS 26.2 brought different caller features beyond the latest Liquid Glass tweak.

As successful the betas, users tin present make AirDrop codes to stock with radical not successful their contacts, allowing them to go a “known” AirDrop interaction for a 30-day period. The diagnostic mightiness marque consciousness astatine enactment oregon successful different scenarios wherever you request to stock files oregon photos with idiosyncratic not stored successful your Contacts.

Also successful iOS 26.2, the Reminders supports alarms; Apple News gains a Following tab astatine the bottommost nav barroom on with different navigation changes; Apple Music adds offline lyrics; and the Podcasts app adds AI-generated chapters for podcast episodes, a Podcast Mention diagnostic for linking to different shows, and different changes.

Apple Watch owners volition besides present get a Sleep Score based connected however good they slept and if they met their slumber goals.

Apple besides released respective important information updates crossed its flagship products connected Friday, including iPhones, iPads, Macs, Apple TVs, and Apple Watches, to patch vulnerabilities utilized successful an progressive hacking campaign.