OS 26 features a whole new design material that Apple calls Liquid Glass, with a focus on transparency that lets the content on your display

OS 26 and its Liquid Glass design have reached developers, who have discovered new accessibility features to help improve the readability of the OS' transparent elements.

Jony Ive’s long era of flat design is dead. At WWDC 2025 today, Apple ushered in “Liquid Glass,” a new interface for iOS 26 (all of Apple’s software platforms are jumping straight to “26”) modeled after the glassy, reflective, and translucent software design it first introduced for Vision Pro’s visionOS two years ago.