How to disable liquid glass in iOS 26?

Barby83 wrote:

Don’t like Liquid Glass… can’t figure out how to forward anything

Not liking Liquid Glass is a personal opinion that support cannot change, but if you are having trouble forwarding something please provide more information on what you are trying to forward including the app you are using.

susapix wrote:

Wanting something that is supposedly not feasible is part of the human condition.

Hello~ That would be a great post on a philosophy site but alas this is a technical forum.

~Katana-San~

susapix wrote:

Wanting something that is supposedly not feasible is part of the human condition.

I suppose that is true. But I have no clue why you posted this to me? I've not wished for anything not feasible here at all. I actually quite like Liquid Glass.

I agree. Especially one prior poster who said, they gave us a changed GUI, because they really don't have anything else to give us. So, change for the sake of change. Yes I did complain on the Feedback.

Enough on that, a technical question about this forum. How come it almost NEVER remembers me and I have to login again, every time I want to post a question. Doesn't matter if it's just the next day or even later in the same day. Whereas my login to iCloud or Apple Account websites, seems to hold for quite a while. Sometimes as much as two weeks.

Usually leave my Firefox open all day. After being on this forum for a little while, I do close that tab. But I thought since I hadn't closed the browser, it'd retain my status as logged in. Same with the thread "order". I like NEWEST but constantly have to reset it to that.

Even with Chrome, if I'm signed in continuously, after a period of inactivity, I need to sign back into the forum, so this is normal. As to Sort order, have to tapped the circle top right hand corner and choose in Preferences the sort order you want as the default for all threads?

susapix wrote:

I don’t mean to be offensive but his thread has completely disintegrated into useless sniping that is cluttering up our inboxes. Is there any way for the mods to close it down to new comments?

You can unselect the Bell icon under the OP's post on top and you will no longer get email notifications from posts on this thread.

You are correct it has become just a honeypot, but that is what you can do on your end to stop the clutter in your inbox.

susapix wrote:

I don’t mean to be offensive but his thread has completely disintegrated into useless sniping that is cluttering up our inboxes. Is there any way for the mods to close it down to new comments?

Hello~ At some point …maybe. If you want to stop receiving notifications from this thread (which is understandable at this point) …try tapping the bell in upper right hand corner. Take care.

~Katana-San~

That's helpful information, thank you! I use my ipad for work and have been suppressing updates for a couple of months since liquid glass dropped, and when I just went to look at what version it was updating to I was shocked to see it say I was on 18 and attempting to update to 26. I don't typically update immdiately so that compatability issues can work themselves out, but I knew there was no way I had suppressed nearly 10 major updates!!

That's my plan for my iPhone. My wife got 26 a couple weeks ago and I wound up here trying to find out if Liquid Glass could be "turned off". On mine, I have disabled automatic updates and will hold off doing an update for as long as possible. Until it becomes such a problem that I have to. Like if some app won't load unless I update.

I also think this update is annoying and I should have the choice of what my phone looks like as it is MY PHONE. It’s not my job to always stay up to date with the updates 24/7 and check in every 5 minutes to know what an update is going to do to my device.

I’m neurodivergent and have neurological issues so the sudden change to my carefully organised phone was incredibly distressing (I cried about it twice) and I happy that it didn’t do its thing in WhatsApp… and now even WhatsApp has been infected by this inaccessibility.

additionally the keyboard has changed and I have joint issues so typing is actually physically painful now. No changing the keyboard size will not fix this, I have tried and it just makes it more ugly and uncomfortable to navigate.

the need to add an option to have this update on or off. From many people I know it has distressed them and it’s almost against the useability to add a useless visual affect to all devices when it’s something we should just choose to do ourselves.

That’s how I feel I have adhd and this is totally messing me up I didn’t even want the update but it updated automatically overnight iOS18 was better :(

some people like ios26 but me and brain think other wise :(

aiesha16 wrote:

That’s how I feel I have adhd and this is totally messing me up I didn’t even want the update but it updated automatically overnight iOS18 was better :(

some people like ios26 but me and brain think other wise :(

Have you told Apple what you think?

Product Feedback - Apple

aiesha16 wrote:

That’s how I feel I have adhd and this is totally messing me up I didn’t even want the update but it updated automatically overnight iOS18 was better :(

And.... If you looked at posts here from last year you would see the same thing that users hated iOS 18 and wanted iOS 17 back. That is not unusual for some with any change. You can bet the same thing will be said next year. We all seem to adapt just fine and you will be OK.

If you have anything specific that you would like help with, start by reading the information that has provided where there are many options for reducing the Liquid Glass effects if that is your concern. Otherwise general opinion statements have no relevance on a Support Site such as this. Some will say the like it, others will say they don't, but none of that even matters when the whole purpose is to post a technical support question where others users can assist with a solution if one is available. It may be that they think this is a Social Media site or that Apple will read their post here, but that does not happen.

You may still want to acknowledge that it is very good practice (to say it politely) to enable the disabling of a feature that is highly controversial in the sense that it has a major disadvantage (battery drain) in addition to being very dependent on personal preferences.