How do I disable Liquid Glass background in iOS 26 on iPhone 16?

iPhone 16 just upgraded to iOS26 with Liquid Glass over night. The fuzzy background is very distracting. How do I revert? Thanks


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Posted on Sep 17, 2025 4:58 PM

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Posted on Sep 17, 2025 5:25 PM

Yiggle14 wrote:

iPhone 16 just upgraded to iOS26 with Liquid Glass over night. The fuzzy background is very distracting. How do I revert? Thanks

You can't turn off Liquid Glass. If you go to Settings>Accessibility>Display & Text Size, you can enable Reduce Transparency. That will moderate it some.


You can't revert to the previous version of iOS.

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Sep 17, 2025 5:25 PM in response to Yiggle14

Yiggle14 wrote:

iPhone 16 just upgraded to iOS26 with Liquid Glass over night. The fuzzy background is very distracting. How do I revert? Thanks

You can't turn off Liquid Glass. If you go to Settings>Accessibility>Display & Text Size, you can enable Reduce Transparency. That will moderate it some.


You can't revert to the previous version of iOS.

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