The updated Liquid Glass design looks great, but isn't as dramatic as you think. That's a good thing. Here's how iOS 26 compares to iOS 18.

iOS 26 looks new and modern. And for once, how Apple describes it — liquid glass — makes sense: it’s a lot of layers of transparent elements overlapping and, in places, the animations are quite… liquidy. Menus and buttons will respond to your touch, with some of them coalescing around your finger and sometimes separating out into new menus.