Welcome to 95 Mac Daily for Tuesday, October 21st, 2025.

I'm your host, Chance Miller.

We are sponsored this week by Backblaze.

Leading off today, iOS 26 introduced a bold new liquid glass design, bringing transparency and fluidity throughout the iPhone's interface.

iPadOS 26 and MacOS 26 brought similar designs to the iPad and the Mac.

Now, Apple has released iOS 26.1 Beta 4, and it introduces a new option to choose a more

opaque look for liquid glass. You can find the new option on the iPhone and iPad

by going to the settings app, navigating to display and brightness, then looking for the liquid

glass menu. This is where you'll find two new options for clear and tinted. Apple describes

clear as more transparent, revealing the content beneath, while tinted increases

opacity and adds more contrast. It's a binary option, so there's no toggle or slider

of any sort. You have a choice between Clear, which is Liquid Glass as we've known it since

iOS 26 was released, or this new tinted option that adds that contrast.

When enabled, the design applies to Liquid Glass in Apple's apps and elsewhere on the Mac,

iPad, and iPhone. For the iPhone and iPad specifically, it also increases opakness in notifications

on the lock screen. The change also applies to third-party apps that have implemented

liquid glass. So if a user opts for the new tinted design, that preference will also be

applied to those third-party apps. Apple explains that it heard from users throughout the iOS 26

beta testing period that they'd like a setting to manage the opaqueness of liquid glass.

This new option is designed to do exactly that, giving users an additional way to personalize

their iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

You can hit the link in the show notes for an in-depth look at these design changes across

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