how to turn off liquid glass in Ios 26

You cannot turn it off, but you can reduce it some. Go to Settings>Accessibility>Display & Text Size>Reduce Transparency and Increase Contrast and turn them both on.

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from link above Liquid Glass - Love It Or Hate It - It's … - Apple Community

>Liquid Glass is hard coded into the very fiber of the OS -- i.e., it would take a major revision of the whole operating system to get us back to opaque icons. I can't wait.

Apparently one may try to get the old, easily visible, undistracting icons back by choosing from several dozen display combinations on a per/icon basis.

You-Tube's Payette Forward has a whole raft of suggestions to try to regain preferred settings and display, especially as to regaining battery time OS 16 may have drastically reduced.

Bailee125:

You’re only addressing fellow users here.

You can make your thoughts known to Apple via this mechanism:

Feedback - iPhone - Apple

I can’t find those options anywhere. I really dislike this liquid glass. Can we please go back to normal. This is ridiculous, sure it’s pretty and maybe some of the kids love your weird liquid glass. But as a serious adults, I actually find this difficult. I have enough stress in my day I don’t need to add the stress of not easily being able to identify items on my phone.

jesits wrote:

I can’t find those options anywhere. I really dislike this liquid glass. Can we please go back to normal. This is ridiculous, sure it’s pretty and maybe some of the kids love your weird liquid glass. But as a serious adults, I actually find this difficult. I have enough stress in my day I don’t need to add the stress of not easily being able to identify items on my phone.

Read this ALL the way through and choose options which better meet your needs --> https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-250010041

jesits wrote:

I can’t find those options anywhere. I really dislike this liquid glass. Can we please go back to normal. This is ridiculous, sure it’s pretty and maybe some of the kids love your weird liquid glass. But as a serious adults, I actually find this difficult. I have enough stress in my day I don’t need to add the stress of not easily being able to identify items on my phone.

It's not "our weird liquid glass." This is a user-to-user forum. Apple doesn't participate here.

I find your suggestion that anyone who likes liquid glass is a "kid" and not a "serious adult" somewhat offensive. While at 64, I'm young enough to be the child of some people who post here regularly, I don't think that quite makes me a "kid." And, though given to snarkiness and bad jokes, I am also what most people call a "serious adult." I own a house, a car, and have an administrative position at a well-regarded university. I've worn reading glasses for close to two decades. I also vote regularly.

I like Liquid Glass.

IdrisSeabright wrote:

jesits wrote:

I can’t find those options anywhere. I really dislike this liquid glass. Can we please go back to normal. This is ridiculous, sure it’s pretty and maybe some of the kids love your weird liquid glass. But as a serious adults, I actually find this difficult. I have enough stress in my day I don’t need to add the stress of not easily being able to identify items on my phone.

It's not "our weird liquid glass." This is a user-to-user forum. Apple doesn't participate here.

I find your suggestion that anyone who likes liquid glass is a "kid" and not a "serious adult" somewhat offensive. While at 64, I'm young enough to be the child of some people who post here regularly, I don't think that quite makes me a "kid." And, though given to snarkiness and bad jokes, I am also what most people call a "serious adult." I own a house, a car, and have an administrative position at a well-regarded university. I've worn reading glasses for close to two decades. I also vote regularly.

I like Liquid Glass.

I didn't even go there with the "kid" comment. As you're well aware, we're in our 70s here and we're both serious adults, who also vote, own a home, pay our taxes just like real adults do and we BOTH like Liquid Glass.

lobsterghost1 wrote:

I didn't even go there with the "kid" comment. As you're well aware, we're in our 70s here and we're both serious adults, who also vote, own a home, pay our taxes just like real adults do and we BOTH like Liquid Glass.

And I probably shouldn't have.

IdrisSeabright wrote:

lobsterghost1 wrote:

I didn't even go there with the "kid" comment. As you're well aware, we're in our 70s here and we're both serious adults, who also vote, own a home, pay our taxes just like real adults do and we BOTH like Liquid Glass.

And I probably shouldn't have.

I think it's actually good that we "seniors" speak up that age doesn't have anything to do with appreciating Liquid Glass. Nor should it! If I've learned anything from these LG threads is the old adage "You Can't Teach An Old Dog New Tricks," is sadly true for some people.

lobsterghost1 wrote:

I think it's actually good that we "seniors" speak up that age doesn't have anything to do with appreciating Liquid Glass. Nor should it! If I've learned anything from these LG threads is the old adage "You Can't Teach An Old Dog New Tricks," is sadly true for some people.

As a "kid," I always hated it when adults said, "You're too young to understand that, feel that way, think that."

I'm considering having "Just because I'm dead doesn't mean I can't still learn new things" as my epitaph.

IdrisSeabright wrote:

lobsterghost1 wrote:

I think it's actually good that we "seniors" speak up that age doesn't have anything to do with appreciating Liquid Glass. Nor should it! If I've learned anything from these LG threads is the old adage "You Can't Teach An Old Dog New Tricks," is sadly true for some people.

As a "kid," I always hated it when adults said, "You're too young to understand that, feel that way, think that."

I'm considering having "Just because I'm dead doesn't mean I can't still learn new things" as my epitaph.

I just might have to "steal" that from you!! Ha! Honestly, the day I can't learn or adjust to change is the day I should be put in an urn!

lobsterghost1 wrote:

IdrisSeabright wrote:

I just might have to "steal" that from you!! Ha! Honestly, the day I can't learn or adjust to change is the day I should be put in an urn!

I give it to you freely!

IdrisSeabright wrote:

lobsterghost1 wrote:

IdrisSeabright wrote:

I just might have to "steal" that from you!! Ha! Honestly, the day I can't learn or adjust to change is the day I should be put in an urn!

I give it to you freely!

Very generous of you!

You're welcome.