Apple adds new toggle to make Liquid Glass less glassy

Apple’s latest iOS 26.1 beta has a new option that lets you tint iOS 26’s Liquid Glass elements so they’re more opaque. Since Liquid Glass’ announcement at WWDC this year, Apple has changed exactly how glassy Liquid Glass is – at first there were some readability issues – but this new setting gives you the choice of making things more transparent or frostier.

The option is now available in the iOS 26.1 developer beta released by Apple on Monday. You can access it from Settings > Display & Brightness > Liquid Glass, where you can choose between “Clear” and “Tint”. The latest developer betas iPadOS 26.1 and macOS 26.1 also allow you to tint Liquid Glass, MacRumors reports.

Here are some image sliders showing what things look like with clear or tinted liquid glass. For each of them, the screenshot on the left shows the app with the Liquid Glass “Clear” option while the screenshot on the right uses the “Tinted” one. The differences are subtle, but I much prefer the tinted versions.

The Liquid Glass toggle isn’t the only handy new option Apple added with the latest iOS 26.1 beta. The update also lets you disable the ability to swipe to the camera from the lock screen, which could prevent people with your phone from taking photos even if they can’t bypass your lock screen. You can access the toggle from Settings > Camera > Swipe lock screen to open camera.