My Week in Clear View With Apple’s ‘More Clear’ Liquid Glass Setting

I’m moving on my phone, and sip on an overpriced espresso tonic at a San Francisco cafe. I watch the glass notifications pop up on my home screen, one after the other, scrolling the top rows of app icons in perfect sequence. Similar to how the glass in my hand changes the colors of the coffee, Apple’s interference. Liquid Glass it pulls at the edge of whatever lies behind each consciousness, and vanishes in a moment.

Apple stopped the public beta iOS 27 in mid-July, and the full release of the program is expected in September. The iOS beta version includes a new slider to adjust the Liquid Glass look across your iPhone. Apple operating system he was polarizing when it was launched in 2025, with some criticizing how its design affected the legality of the word. In response, Apple released an update that disrupted the Liquid Glass effect, manufacturing a smart phone very opaque appearance.

With iOS 27, Apple gives users the option to make Liquid Glass look better than it actually is. In the latest public beta, this option is available in the Favorites under the Appearance tab. If you click Liquid Glass here, you can drag it to the left for a better view.

“Clear” is on the left, and clear view is on the right.

Photo: Reece Rogers

Don’t worry—if you don’t feel the same way I do—you can drag this same slider to the right and increase the look of Liquid Glass. There is a chance that Reduce Exposure and Increase Contrast also.

I immediately changed my settings to make it sound better after I downloaded the public beta and left it to play for a week to get the hang of it. I can understand why some people prefer a clear color or need to change it for accessibility reasons, but I still enjoyed the curved colors and letters as I saw Liquid Glass in all its clear glory.

At the beginning of my trial, I found myself slowly scrolling through my Slack messages, watching as the names of the Slack rooms were removed from behind the menu at the bottom of my smartphone screen. I watched as the letters folded into meaningless lines and then reformed, on the other side, unscathed. The more I look at it, the more it feels like an insult, and I appreciate Apple’s risk of being made of glass.

Setting it to “clear” makes the images under the notifications almost transparent with a Liquid Glass effect.Photo: Reece Rodgers