Who thought the glass effect was a good idea? Please add an option to disable it — my eyes aren’t a GPU benchmark, and it murders the battery.
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Original Title: iOS 26
iPhone 12 mini, iOS 26
While you cannot turn off Liquid Glass, you can reduce its transparency effect at Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Reduce Transparency. This removes the translucent "liquid" effect, making UI elements like menus and buttons more solid and easier to read, and reducing the load on the processor and battery usage.
Apple needs to give an option to turn this off, i have a condition with my optic nerve and this has now made my phone unusable.
IdrisSeabright wrote:
The only people who say that sort of thing is simple are people who don't do complex programming.
Indeed; nothing is difficult for the person who doesn’t have to do it.
kkflostl wrote:
... iOS 26 is impossible to visually navigate, even in "tinted" glass mode.
If my 74 year old non-tech wife can do it, why can't you?
Well I'd ask, who are they making the product for? The end user or the people writing the programming?
Thanks for sharing, it makes all the rest of the bubbles too dark/black on the home screen/lock screen. Downvote for the outcome, not the support. 🙏
lobsterghost1 wrote:
Questionable science indeed! I tested it myself using two iPhone 17 Pro phones. One with Transparency turned on and one with Transparency turned off. In neither phone was battery life diminished or enhanced. Both were connected to Wifi. I do believe that having motion on in Settings > Accessibility > Reduce Motion could have some minor affect on the battery. I personally didn't like the animation, so on my iPhone, Reduce Motion is turned on. Even that in itself should not have a significant impact on the battery.
The thing that has made the biggest difference in my battery life is the Adaptive Power. It's much better than just flipping on Low Power Mode when you think you might need it.
Disable glass effect in iOS 26 for better battery life
