Apple's OS redesign is here to stay, but the 'Reduce Brightness' setting on the latest update aims to make the transparency features less intrusive.

Apple’s iOS 26.4 update adds additional options intended to reduce the transparency of the company’s Liquid Glass interface. For some users, highly translucent UI elements can make text and controls harder to read depending on lighting and background content.

Apple's iOS 26.4 RC is out now. Discover the new Playlist Playground AI, 8 fresh emoji, and a crucial fix for Family Sharing payments.

Again, the most noteworthy change Apple made with iOS 26 is Liquid Glass, and the new design language permeates the entire UI on your iPhone after you install the update. It makes everything look, well, like liquid glass, with lots of transparency effects and dynamic animations that make everything flow very nicely — when it works.

New emojis include ballet dancers, a distorted face, a fight cloud, a sasquatch-like creature, a landslide, an orca, a trombone and a treasure chest.

While the iOS 26.3 Release Candidate is now available ahead of a public release, the first iOS 26.4 beta is likely still at least a week away. Following beta testing, iOS 26.4 will likely be released to the general public in March or April. Below, we have ...

Macworld reports that Apple’s Liquid Glass design from iOS 26 will remain despite claims of unpopularity, with Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman stating adoption rates are actually high. iOS 27 will be optimized for the upcoming iPhone Fold’s larger display,