Printed on: June 10, 2025
On iOS 26, iPadOS 26 and extra, your apps will tackle an entire new look primarily based on Apple’s Liquid Glass redesign. All you might want to do to undertake this new fashion in your apps is recompile. As soon as recompiled, your app can have all-new UI elements which suggests your app will look recent and proper at house in Apple’s newest OS.
That stated, there are lots of explanation why you would possibly not need to undertake Liquid Glass simply but.
It is a large redesign and for plenty of apps there shall be work to do to correctly adapt your designs to slot in with Liquid Glass.
For these apps, Apple permits builders to opt-out of the redesign utilizing a selected property checklist key you can add to your app’s Information. Whenever you add UIDesignRequiresCompatibility to your Information.plist and set it to YES, your app will run utilizing the previous OS design as an alternative of the brand new Liquid Glass design.
In accordance with Apple this flag ought to primarily be used for debugging and testing but it surely will also be used to remain on the previous design for some time longer. A phrase of warning although; Apple intends to take away this feature within the subsequent main Xcode launch. Which means regardless that in Xcode 26 it is possible for you to to opt-out, Xcode 27 will most likely make adopting Liquid Glass necessary.
That stated, for now you’ll be able to hold the previous appear and feel to your app whereas you determine how Liquid Glass impacts your design selections.
