{"id":600297,"date":"2026-07-23T13:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/600297\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T13:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T13:00:18","slug":"my-week-of-transparent-living-with-apples-more-clear-liquid-glass-setting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/600297\/","title":{"rendered":"My Week of Transparent Living With Apple\u2019s \u2018More Clear\u2019 Liquid Glass Setting"},"content":{"rendered":"

I scroll on my phone, sipping on an overpriced espresso tonic at a San Francisco caf\u00e9. I watch as glassy notifications pop up on my home screen, one after another, distorting the top row of app icons in neat succession. Similar to how the glass in my hand refracts the coffee\u2019s colors, the warping effect of Apple\u2019s Liquid Glass<\/a> tugs at the edges of whatever’s behind each notification, disappearing a second later.<\/p>\n

Apple dropped the public beta for iOS 27<\/a> in mid-July, with the software\u2019s full release expected in September. The beta version of iOS includes a new slider for adjusting Liquid Glass\u2019s appearance across your iPhone. Apple\u2019s translucent operating system was polarizing<\/a> when it launched in 2025, with some criticizing how the design impacted text legibility. In response, Apple rolled out updates that tampered with the Liquid Glass effect, making the smartphone<\/a> interface more opaque.<\/p>\n

With iOS 27, Apple gives users the option to make Liquid Glass even more transparent than its default. In the current public beta, this choice is available in Settings<\/strong> under the Appearance<\/strong> tab. If you tap on Liquid Glass<\/strong> here, you can drag it to the left for a more transparent experience.<\/p>\n

\"Image<\/p>\n

\u201cMore clear\u201d is on the left, with the more opaque look on the right.<\/p>\n

Photograph: Reece Rogers<\/p>\n

Fear not\u2014if you don\u2019t feel the same way as I do about transparency\u2014you can drag that same slider to the right and boost the overall opacity of Liquid Glass. There\u2019s still the option to Reduce Transparency<\/strong> and Increase Contrast<\/strong> as well.<\/p>\n

I immediately cranked my settings to maximum clarity after I downloaded the public beta and left the setting on for a week to get the full experience. I understand why some prefer the heavily tinted version or need to switch it for accessibility reasons, yet I reveled in the warped colors and characters as I experienced Liquid Glass in its clearest glory.<\/p>\n

Early during my tests, I found myself slowly scrolling up and down on my Slack messages, watching as the names of Slack rooms refracted behind the menu bar at the bottom of my smartphone screen. I watched as the letters curled into meaningless lines and then reformed, unharmed, on the other side. The more I stared, the more whimsical it felt, and the more I appreciated Apple\u2019s glassy design risk.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The \u201cmore clear\u201d setting makes icons under notifications almost glow with the Liquid Glass effect.Photograph: Reece Rodgers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I scroll on my phone, sipping on an overpriced espresso tonic at a San Francisco caf\u00e9. I watch…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[257],"tags":[311,366,18,19,2600,988,431,17,279,1313,864,82],"class_list":["post-600297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-apple","tag-design","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-interface","tag-ios","tag-iphone","tag-ireland","tag-mobile","tag-operating-systems","tag-software","tag-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116969422034857657","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}