Latest iPhone update lets you reverse a big change | Tech News

Apple overhauled the look of its iPhone line up this 12 months with the iPhone 17 Pro and new slim iPhone Air, however no matter which iPhone you have, you’re getting fairly a lot of visible change if you update your telephone to iOS 26.

The new model of iOS, which replaces iOS 18 and is known as after 2026, introduces Apple’s new Liquid Glass design language. Though not wildly completely different, this provides new rounded icons to the working system in lots of apps, and debuts a new glassy look to many UI parts.

This means you must get used to some icons, search bars and different components of apps being translucent with a glasslike impact.

Available for each iPhone back to and together with 2019’s iPhone 11, iOS 26’s Liquid Glass look has induced a bit of a stir within the vocal online Apple group. Apart from not liking the change, some people have stated they discover it tough to learn some texts in sure apps as a result of of the clear app parts.

That is perhaps why within the newest iOS 26.1 beta, Apple has added the option to tone down the glassiness. A beta model is a model of software program that’s in testing. People can voluntarily be part of Apple’s developer and public betas of iOS with the understanding that the software program will not be remaining, and there might be bugs and efficiency points.

As noticed by MacRumors, Apple has added a Liquid Glass toggle in below Settings > Display & Brightness. You can both keep the Liquid Glass parts as ‘Clear’, as they’re within the present model of iOS 26, or change the toggle to the new ‘Tinted’ option. This modifications the opacity of the glassy components of the OS so they’re much less clear.

This might be a response to iPhone homeowners saying they’re discovering textual content tougher to learn because the visible change.

In the present model, when textual content in an app scrolls behind an on-screen button, you can see textual content by means of the button. With ‘Tinted’ on, it’s not as seen.

“Choose your preferred look for Liquid Glass. Clear is more transparent, revealing the content beneath”, the new Settings option says.

“Tinted increases opacity and adds more contrast.”

This option calls to thoughts Apple’s current choices within iOS’s settings for accessibility that may increase your iPhone textual content’s distinction, cut back transparency and blur of some backgrounds or bolden textual content to make it simpler to learn.

The truth this change is within the fourth and newest iOS 26.1 beta not solely means that the function will come to everybody within the public release of iOS 26.1, however that that release will not be far-off.