{"id":128873,"date":"2025-11-11T02:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T02:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/128873\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T02:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T02:51:07","slug":"your-iphone-just-got-a-small-but-surprisingly-useful-new-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/128873\/","title":{"rendered":"Your iPhone Just Got a Small But Surprisingly Useful New Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Apple rolled out iOS 26 earlier this fall, it delivered a stunning \u201cLiquid Glass\u201d design to your current iPhone. Basically, it brought a transparent visual effect\u00a0\u2014 like you were looking through a shard of glass \u2014 to various apps, navigation bars, folders and docks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While undoubtedly cool, this Liquid Glass makeover also drew a lot of criticism because it affected the legibility of many apps and menus \u2014 the see-through effect blurred the foreground and background, which, in many instances, just looked messy and confusing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The good news is that, thanks to iOS 26.1 \u2014 which just recently rolled out \u2014 Apple is making its Liquid Glass design more customizable (and usable) than before.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-dominant-color=\"7c7f74\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #7c7f74;\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1300\" height=\"867\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/iphone-liquid-glass-setting-1.webp\" alt=\"Smartphone screen showing iOS 26.1 update details with an \" update=\"\" now=\"\" button=\"\" on=\"\" a=\"\" wooden=\"\" surface.=\"\" class=\"wp-image-940498 not-transparent\"  \/>In iOS 26.1, you can \u201ctint\u201d Liquid Glass to make your iPhone easier to read.  Photo by Tucker Bowe for Gear Patrol<\/p>\n<p>A tinted Liquid Glass<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prior to the most recent software patch, iPhone users who weren\u2019t completely happy with the Liquid Glass redesign had to face a tough reality: you couldn\u2019t turn it off. The only option was to go through Settings, Accessibility and toggle on \u201cReduce Transparency.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With iOS 26.1, you still can\u2019t completely turn it off, but there is a new \u201cLiquid Glass\u201d setting that lets you essentially disable it for specific elements on your iPhone\u2019s screen, most notably the Notification Center and certain search bars. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Apple rolled out iOS 26 earlier this fall, it delivered a stunning \u201cLiquid Glass\u201d design to your&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[342,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-128873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-mobile","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}