Apple’s new Liquid Glass interface design brings transparency and blur effects to all Apple operating systems, but many users find it distracting or difficult to read. Here’s how to control its effects and make your interface more usable. Although the relevant Accessibility settings are quite similar across macOS, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS, I separate them because they offer different levels of utility in each. I have no experience with (or interest in) a Vision Pro, so I can’t comment on Liquid Glass in visionOS.
↫ Adam Engst at TidBITS
An incredibly detailed article showing exactly how to change the relevant settings, and exactly what they do, for each of Apple’s relevant platforms. I have a feeling quite a few of you will want to bookmark this one.
I don’t know. This reminds me of people turning off Luna to make XP look like 98/2000. I mean, go ahead, but I was never one of those people. I had WindowBlinds installed to run Luna Silver on Win98 instead.
I for one, quite enjoy Liquid Glass and really have no problems with readability. The screenshots I see online are universally cherry-picked to look bad, and they do not convey how things act in motion.
I bet you that most people either don’t care or they agree with me. Same as it was with XP.
I haven’t upgraded to 26 yet, but I prefer a UI with less animations, and less transparency. It doesn’t really have much to do with my vision quality either (though for sure, certain settings make things much more easier to read when you do have vision issues, and this is something that designers must account for). When I was young I was all into the crazy spinning 3D effects and stuff, but as I’ve gotten older, I just want my computing devices to “feel” more responsive, and turning off animations really helps with that, it’s kind of amazing how snappy everything felt when I turned them off, and I never looked back
” … will want to bookmark this one. ”
yeah — nevermind bookmarks: they have a tendency to go awry.
I’ll be saving that page as a PDF and stashing it in as many places as I can, just for my own sanity.