Sorry Liquid Glass critics, the upcoming macOS 27 won’t remove Apple’s latest design language. Instead, the MacBook maker is introducing a “slight redesign” of Liquid Glass with the next macOS, according to BloombergIt’s Mark Gurman.
In addition to user complaints about poor text readability and inconsistent appearance between apps, Gurman explained that Liquid Glass hasn’t had a smooth transition to the larger screens we see on desktop or laptop computers. According to Gurman, this is partly because Liquid Glass was created with OLED technology in mind, while most Macs still run on LCD panels. To address these issues, Gurman said Apple will target Liquid Glass’s strange “shadow and transparency quirks” with macOS 27. On the hardware side, Liquid Glass’s interface could be much better on the expected OLED touchscreen MacBook that could arrive as soon as this year.
Gurman reported that these upcoming adjustments to Liquid Glass on macOS are meant to represent what Apple’s design team wanted it to look like from the start, attributing the issues to “an implementation not completely prepared by Apple’s software engineering team.” However, this isn’t the first time Apple has made changes to Liquid Glass, as iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, and macOS 26.1 added an option to frost the interface for more opacity and contrast. In addition to changes to Liquid Glass in the upcoming macOS, Gurman added that Apple is working on “bug fixes, battery life upgrades, and performance improvements,” which will be officially revealed at the upcoming WWDC on June 8.