The last important Redesign of Apple of a platform was iOS 7, a brilliant and vibrant version of the operating system, but which was developed and finally launched into a different apple. It was 2013, and Apple simply did not have so much cohesive ecosystem or so many devices.
However, it is not 2013. It is 2025, and Apple has an expansive and extraordinarily integrated ecosystem: it can copy and paste between an iPhone and a Mac, with an iPad in the middle, or vice versa. Universal Control allows you to use the keyboard of your Mac and Trackpad on an iPad, and Airpods quickly synchronizes among them all.
Then, with a set of features and a mantra or ethos that aims to combine hardware and software, Apple’s new liquid glass looks for all its platforms: iOS 26, ipados 26, macOS 26, Watchos 26, TVVOS 26 and VISIONS 26, begins to make a lot of sense.
There is also the fact that Apple has always loved glass; Case in question, I am writing with Apple Park in sight: a giant ring apparently made of glass.
Liquid glass is not a giant redesign in terms of relocation of buttons, as Apple introduced it during the key note and then re -expressed by the Vice President of Apple Human Interface Design, Alan Dye; It is designed to be instantly familiar.
Shortly after the special event of approximately 90 minutes wrapped, I could join a conversation with Alan Dye. It was brief but complete, focusing mainly on the new material and Apple design approach.
However, I don’t think we have to look very far to find out where the liquid glass came from. When Apple presented the Vision Pro and visits in 2023 on WWDC, it was announced as the future, and in my use, it certainly feels like that. Super apply applications, messages, facets, movies and everything else that can be a real -world visitor application that surrounds you.
So, if you vision are the future, it is now arriving for everyone else, well, now in a beta developer version, with a public beta in July, and this autumn as a complete launch, all within Vids Liquid Glass. It is a translucent and elegant operating system that before. As the finger moves around the screen on an Apple Watch, iPhone or iPad, everything flows together.
I could try to move along the new lower bar of music, since the highlighted portion becomes a perfectly rounded oval that slides gently. You can say the same for the cursor in the MAC.
With respect to the origins of liquid glass, Dye shared: “Much of the work you saw today was influenced by the many years we have worked on the visos.”
And that was about drinking glass, thanks to its translucent nature, and allowing you to place these various elements in the real world that surrounds you. That makes a lot of meaning for a space computer that happens to you over the head and eyes.
That effort finally led Dye and his team to think about how “they could take that language to the rest of our operating systems.” Of course, however, it is not an individual recreation. “We had to treat glass very differently,” Dye explained.
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And after trying the liquid glass, it is clear that it is a screen with an adequate back and the interface now flows between applications, and around superimposed windows and on a wallpaper. This digital material is much more malleable and transformable than real glass.
It is still the classic operating system, but I want to feel a bit different after a while: “It feels much more expressive. It feels much more receptive. You can feel that you are pushing through the screen and getting in touch with the liquid glass itself.”
It is also clear that Apple took its time with this launch, and that, similar to any other characteristic that the company unfolds, it must give in the target. Dye shared that “99% of the work we do in the study never goes into the world.” When asked why, he shared the notion that the design is difficult, specifically designing by simplicity.
That is a kind of Apple secret sauce, and although liquid glass shouts, well, glass and translucent, I think we will find that it has layers, and that, like any other release of the operating system, it will evolve.
For now, I am excited to see that Evolution reached iOS, as well as macOS, iPados, watchos, visions, tvos and anything else to come.
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