Sorry Liquid Glass critics, the upcoming macOS 27 will not be eliminating Apple’s newest design language. As a substitute, the MacBook maker is introducing a “slight redesign” to Liquid Glass with the subsequent macOS, in keeping with Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman.
On high of person complaints about poor textual content readability and inconsistent seems between apps, Gurman defined that Liquid Glass hasn’t seen a easy transition onto the bigger shows we see on desktops or laptops. In keeping with Gurman, that is due partly to Liquid Glass being created with OLED know-how in thoughts, whereas most Macs nonetheless run on LCD panels. To handle these points, Gurman stated Apple will goal the bizarre “shadows and transparency quirks” of Liquid Glass with macOS 27. On the {hardware} facet, the Liquid Glass interface may look quite a bit higher on the anticipated OLED touchscreen MacBook that might arrive as quickly as this 12 months.
Gurman reported that these upcoming Liquid Glass tweaks on macOS are purported to signify how the Apple design workforce needed it to look from the beginning, attributing the problems to “a not-completely-baked implementation from Apple’s software program engineering workforce.” Nonetheless, it is not the primary time Apple made modifications to Liquid Glass, since iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1 and macOS 26.1 added an choice to frost the interface for extra opacity and distinction. Moreover the Liquid Glass tweaks coming within the subsequent macOS, Gurman added that Apple is engaged on “bug fixes, battery-life upgrades and efficiency enhancements,” which will probably be formally unveiled on the subsequent WWDC on June 8.
