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Apple previews Liquid Glass refinements in macOS 27

devJun 8, 202638392

At WWDC, Apple previewed macOS 27 Golden Gate and announced refinements to its Liquid Glass visuals, including a new slider that lets users reduce or disable the effect. Apple acknowledged backlash to the original Liquid Glass and said the updated visuals narrow iridescent highlights and adjust translucency and motion to improve legibility. The changes matter because Liquid Glass will be prominent across macOS 27 and the slider gives users and designers practical control to reduce brightness and motion without abandoning the new design language.

charli xkcd
@ky.fyi

lol, WWDC announcing right off the bat all the fixes to Liquid Glass: - glass effect is more opaque and user-controllable - Mac sidebars now span edge-to-edge - Mac window border radii are smaller and more consistent - UI toolbars now have hard edges instead of the gradient bg

54Yesterday
charli xkcd17

lots of performance updates and less flashy under-the-hood changes, which is something I love to see

The Verge
@theverge.com

The new OS follows last year’s Tahoe, which introduced the Liquid Glass redesign to MacBooks and Mac desktops.

34Yesterday
Glenn Fleishman
@glennf.com

“We listened and we added the ‘get rid of Liquid Glass’ slider.” #wwdc

28Yesterday
TechCrunch
@techcrunch.com

While some users liked the sleek, transparent designs that look "glassy," others found Apple's design overhaul from last year to be hard to read.

26Yesterday
Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦
@mackuba.eu

Ehh, no change here, RIP Intel Macs… stuck on the v1 Liquid Glass forever 🫤 #wwdc26

macOS 27 is compatible with these devices. MacBook Neo (2026) MacBook Air with Apple silicon (2020 and later) MacBook Pro with Apple silicon (2020 and later) iMac with Apple silicon (2021 and later) Mac mini with Apple silicon (2020 and later) Mac Studio (2022 and later) Mac Pro with Apple silicon (2023)
23Yesterday
Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦14

It's the year of Linux on the Mac desktop! #wwdc26

Pier4

Apple let Intel Macs stuck in probably the worst macOS version ever released it's a 4D chess move lol

Flaky 🔞2

they'll be fine with Windows 11, right? :D

Thorne 🌸
@ens0.me

I appreciate that they're taking the (heavily rumored) angle of focusing on polishing and refining the Apple OSes rather than adding a bunch of new stuff Liquid Glass was a huge paradigm shift, the OSes have basically everything I could ever want, just make it as close to perfect as you can

21Yesterday
9to5Mac
@9to5mac.com

Apple updates Liquid Glass UI in iOS 27 with new slider to customize how it looks

16Yesterday
Anuj Ahooja
@quillmatiq.com

"We know Liquid Glass sucked, but we did that on purpose" "We know we're behind on AI, but we did that on purpose" 👏

19Yesterday
Konstantin
@iamkonstantin.eu

Imagine being as big as Apple and still being whiny about the DMA. The reality behind Apple's motivations is as transparent as Liquid Glass and no amount of press-release text can hide it

12Yesterday
juliet
@juliet.paris

apple downfall will come in the form of adding sliders liquid glass slider parental control sliders AI sliders

14Yesterday
Brookie2

brb about to remove the sliders from pckt blog :(

AppleInsider
@appleinsider.com

Apple's latest AI upgrades are coming to every part of the ecosystem, including iPadOS 27, where Apple also focused on system optimizations and Liquid Glass changes.

10Yesterday
Lum
@brokentoys.social

now we're talking about liquid glass. liquid glass was bad. apple is saying they heard us and considered our feedback and now there will be more liquid glass all over everything.

10Yesterday
Joe Fabisevich
@mergesort.me

Translation for this new Liquid Glass: We fucked up, our bad. Hey, I'll take it.

9Yesterday
Joe Fabisevich7

So far the whole keynote is "here is every detail you've yelled at us about for the last year".

mb bischoff
@mbbischoff.com

Liquid Glass slider feels like a very strange compromise #WWDC26

9Yesterday
M.G. Siegler
@mgsiegler.com

Apple acknowledging that 'Liquid Glass' was too liquidy and too glassy. Basically giving you the option to go back to the way things were. Call it, Solid Steel? #wwdc26

9Yesterday
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theverge.comApple announces macOS 27 Golden Gate

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