How do you permanently disable Liquid Glass on the iOS 26 update?

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How do you permanently disable Liquid Glass on the iOS 26 update?

Reducing transparency is only a temporary fix as it continues to revert back to Liquid Glass.

When will Apple provide a work around for this to disable the Liquid Glass appearance?

I have visual impairments meaning I wear prescription glasses and the Liquid Glass makes it challenging for me to read properly even with my glasses on. This cannot be good for our optics, surely??

help sooner rather than later please…..

iPhone 13, iOS 26

Posted on Jan 24, 2026 11:57 PM

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Answer 1

Blue ivy

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Jan 25, 2026 12:40 AM in response to Aricaz

The Apple Support tech turned it off on my MacBook Pro, and I performed the same steps on my iPhone 15 by clicking on Display & Text Size;

disable "Reduce Transparency"
disable "Increase Contrast"
disable "Differentiate Without Color"
disable "Smart Invert"
disable "Classic Invert"
disable "Color Filters"
disable "Reduce Point"

At this point, both my iPhone 15 & MacBook Pro does not use the Liquid Glass features.

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Aricaz Author

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Jan 25, 2026 10:20 AM in response to Blue ivy

ive also learned that you can customise the Home Screen effects when you tap & hold down the home screen tap edit, customise, change from “clear” to “default” alternatively you can select dark and other options if you want.

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LD150

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Jan 25, 2026 2:29 PM in response to Blue ivy

Blue ivy wrote:

The Apple Support tech turned it off on my MacBook Pro, and I performed the same steps on my iPhone 15 by clicking on Display & Text Size;

• disable "Reduce Transparency"

• disable "Increase Contrast"

• disable "Differentiate Without Color"

• disable "Smart Invert"

• disable "Classic Invert"

• disable "Color Filters"

• disable "Reduce Point"

At this point, both my iPhone 15 & MacBook Pro does not use the Liquid Glass features.

You cannot have done those commands, they don't exist. Should say

Either

Settings, Display & Brightness , Liquid glass, set to Tinted instead of Clear

Or one or more of these

Settings, Accessibility, Display & Text size, reduce transparency

Settings, Accessibility, Display & Text size , increase contrast

Settings, Accessibility, Display & Text size , Display Borders

Settings, Accessibility, Motion, Reduce motion

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SravanKrA

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Jan 25, 2026 12:57 AM in response to Aricaz

There’s no single switch on iPhone that turns “Liquid Glass” on or off.

And the steps Blue ivy listed don’t activate it; they just remove things that can dull or override the effect.

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SravanKrA

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Jan 25, 2026 1:03 AM in response to Aricaz

See this discussion thread about how to disable liquid glass in iOS 26? which has 550 replies 423,003 views

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Answer 6

Aricaz Author

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Jan 25, 2026 10:10 AM in response to Blue ivy

Thank you. This seems to have worked

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Answer 7

Aricaz Author

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Jan 25, 2026 10:12 AM in response to SravanKrA

Thank you. I did read through the post and tried to filter through the many responses for the best solution but it was taking too long. Ivys response has worked.

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