How to Adjust Your iPhone's Liquid Glass Appearance in a Few Easy Steps

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Apple released iOS 26.5 on May 11, and that update brought end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging to your iPhone and more. But when Apple released iOS 26.1 in November, that update introduced a way to adjust some Liquid Glass elements across your device. This new setting could help resolve readability issues some folks on Reddit noted in iOS 26. So if you've had trouble reading things on your device and have iOS 26.1 or later downloaded on it, you should give this setting a shot.

Apple introduced the Liquid Glass design in September alongside iOS 26. It's the first major visual change on iPhones since iOS 7 in 2013. Before iOS 26.1, you only had a few ways to change Liquid Glass elements on your iPhone. You could add a dark tint to home screen elements or adjust the Reduce Transparencysetting to alter how Liquid Glass looked across your...

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