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

Antonio G. Di Benedetto

created: July 24, 2025, 5:15 p.m. | updated: July 24, 2025, 8:27 p.m.

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. Liquid Glass feels desperate, like Apple was fishing for ways to freshen things up for the sake of doing something different. But even though Apple is improving Liquid Glass a little, it’s still making choices I find odd or out of place. I hope Apple continues to tweak and refine Liquid Glass, but for now I’m just letting its mediocrity wash over me. I’m slowly building muscle memory for the Command + Space and Command + 4 sequence, which calls up the clipboard history.

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