Apple’s Liquid Glass redesign is shaping up to be a snoozer on Macs

Jul 25, 2025 - 02:00
Apple’s Liquid Glass redesign is shaping up to be a snoozer on Macs
A close-up of Control Center opened on a MacBook running macOS Tahoe 26 developer beta 4.
The Glass-ification will continue until morale improves. | Screenshot: macOS Tahoe 26

Apple's macOS Tahoe 26 public beta is finally available, and with it the same Liquid Glass design language that's coming to the rest of Apple's operating systems. It's a simultaneously weird yet milquetoast update. I've been testing the developer beta on an M4 MacBook Air since WWDC in June, and after using it through to the latest dev beta release (which is similar to the public one), I've had some ups and downs. But, frankly, it's mostly been a lot of "meh."

My first 24 hours with the first Tahoe developer beta left me baffled by Liquid Glass (with Windows Vista comparisons abounding), but I conceded that the design might grow on me. Inst …

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