How to disable liquid glass in iOS 26?

XD_Puppet43 wrote:

If you want to turn of app Liquid Glass you simply have to hold down on the Home Screen to get the app to wobble or whatever they do and if you look to the very top left of the screen there is a edit button. Pressing that and then pressing customise will show app icon designs press either default or dark and they will no longer be liquidy

You should check the date of a post before you reply. You do realize you've provided information, which has been shared multiple times over and over and to the original post written in September.

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.

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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.

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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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m_eaves wrote:

its making response times on iPhone 14pro extremely slow, web pages and apps refreshes are delayed. Yeah yeah yeah I know I need to upgrade to a 17-18pro.

There is nothing in Liquid Glass which would cause any iPhone to slow down. But a degraded battery surely would. Open Settings > Battery > Battery Health - if your battery is near, at or below 80%, the useful life of the battery had been used and it's time to pay Apple to replace the battery --> iPhone Battery Replacement - Apple Support

Memory is another issue which could cause a phone to slowdown. Open Settings > General > iPhone Storage - you need to have at least 10GB of memory available at all times. If your available memory is less, that would definitely slow the phone down and you should delete things off your phone you don't need.

Apple has also NEVER supported downgrading iOS. You can let Apple know this is something you'd like, but I have more chance of winning the lottery at the same moment I'm struck by lightning than anyone does of being able to downgrade --> Feedback - iPhone - Apple

Katana-San wrote:

LD150 wrote:

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~Katana-San~

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I’m doubting this. I’m being as friendly as possible when I ask if you have a source for your first point. Even if it's small, to have a device update elements of UI based on the background element and apply effects based on the background, of course it would cause a device to slow down. There's obviously more processing as opposed to flat ui so it will create more tasks for the processors which can delay tasks, causing hangs.

Aslyduckdog wrote:

To reduce Liquid Glass, I went into accessibility and chose display and text size and turned on reduce transparency. It helped me a lot. Hope it works for you too.

It's a good idea to check the date of the post you're responding to. You responded to a post from September 16th and the original post. By now and after 32 pages of comments and suggestions, one can assume the Author knows the options available to them.

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.

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Easiest way to almost eliminate Liquid Glass is to enable a black background on your home screens.

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.