iOS 26 Developer Beta 6: Apple continues to screw to Liquid Glass

Anyone who has the opportunity to test Apple’s developer beta from iOS 26 has been experiencing up and down for months: the new surface, Liquid Glass, is always given new changes from the designers from Cupertino. If, for example, Developer Beta 2 was again towards more “frostiness” (which increased readability), the elements became sometimes glassier in later betas.

Small adjustments, great effect

With Developer Beta 6, which has been published this week, Apple is now returning to more transparent elements-possibly because there were observers who had accused the group of discouragement (or too quickly react to criticism of the readability of iOS-26 elements). Users of the beta, on the other hand, are increasingly wondering when Apple is finally deciding on a direction of march. This seems obviously not easy for the design team.

After installing iOS 26 Developer Beta 6 you can on the lockscreen depending on the background image more transparent watch figures see. If you hold a slide switch, it appears in glass shape. Navigation strips are sometimes more transparent, sometimes not. It is still not to be seen through which Algorithm Apple follows here, which is particularly annoying because you have to constantly tackle your applications adapted to iOS 26. On the other hand, the new animations when opening and closing apps have been successful, especially when opening dock icons, they have a much more dynamic. The control center can still be read quite properly, whereby the glass effect of the circular interface elements can confuse.

Onboarding video should make it easier to use

Otherwise, Apple is slowly preparing for the final version. So the code leak expert @aaronp613 An onboarding video Discovered that the new functions should explain. It can be seen, among other things, the new icon settings including the barely readable “Clear” variant, the operation of the new camera app and the use of Safari in the liquid glass UI.

Meanwhile, Apple has integrated a new onboarding screen on the iPad with iPados 26 Beta 6. Among other things, this explains the strongly converted new window system. The new operating systems are expected in mid -September, it is currently running too A public beta phase.