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 line with Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman.
On prime of consumer complaints about poor textual content readability and inconsistent appears between apps, Gurman defined that Liquid Glass hasn’t seen a easy transition onto the bigger shows we see on desktops or laptops. In line with Gurman, that is due partially to Liquid Glass being created with OLED expertise in thoughts, whereas most Macs nonetheless run on LCD panels. To handle these points, Gurman mentioned Apple will goal the bizarre “shadows and transparency quirks” of Liquid Glass with macOS 27. On the {hardware} aspect, 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 alleged to characterize how the Apple design staff wished it to look from the beginning, attributing the problems to “a not-completely-baked implementation from Apple’s software program engineering staff.” Nonetheless, it isn’t the primary time Apple made modifications to Liquid Glass, since iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1 and macOS 26.1 added an option to frost the interface for extra opacity and distinction. Apart from 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 can be formally unveiled on the subsequent WWDC on June 8.
