Work around for Liquid glass (OS 26) for accessibility issues

This post has several settings that might help:

How Do You Turn Off the Bouncy Notification Pop-up Animations for ios 26?

The bouncy notification banners are making my wife's iPhone unusable for her because it is making her feel sick and triggers migraines. For her specific issue I found the setting to just turn off the pop-up notification banners for now until Apple adds a setting to turn off that useless animation. Go to Settings > Notifications > Messages and under "Alerts" uncheck "Banners". That at least stopped the animated banners from popping up.

Do not update. The settings don’t make any difference. I’m going to use my mom’s old mini because I can’t revert.

the movie version:

Liquid Glass:

There are two settings you can change to reduce the liquid glass effects:

Settings ≥ Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Reduce Transparency > ON

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If you have recently updated to iOS 26.1 (not to be confused with 26.0.1)

there is additional relief available, but it is not obvious:

Settings > Display & Brightness > Liquid Glass.

Here, you'll find two options: Clear and Tinted.

'Tinted' further reduces the translucency of the glass effect, making it not very glass-like any more.

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the deeper discussion:

Liquid Glass - Love It Or Hate It - It's Here To Stay

Blessedbethee wrote:

So if I go to 26.1 I will have more options to keep it more accessible? I just want to have all my ducks in a row before I update. Thank you

Your husband and kids should by now be updated to iOS 26.1, so you can compare what these changes look like on their device so you will know before upgrading yours.

I recommend this approach:

Borrow one of those household phones that is already running 26.1, and make the settings changes.

See if you can live with the results.

You (or the iPhone owner) can easily change them back if they like the liquid glass look.