iOS 26 Beta 2 - Apple Goes From 'Liquid Glass' to Frosted Glass (Apple Bitz XL, Ep. 347)
Apple Bitz XL w/ Brian Tong
Apple Bitz XL Podcast w/ Brian Tong
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🗓️ 28 June 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
I told you Apple needed to make some major changes to iOS 26's 'Liquid Glass' design because it was too hard to read. Now it looks a lot more like iOS 18 with some minor touches and animations. What's next for Apple's iPhone deisgn in the next 5 years? Plus, the M5 iPad Pro and Apple's future movie plans after their F1 movie.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, everybody, in this episode, we're going to talk about the new release of iOS 26 beta 2. |
| 0:06.3 | Did they make some changes? |
| 0:07.5 | Oh, yeah, you know they did. |
| 0:08.8 | We'll also talk about future iPhone stuff plus iPad Pro and Apple's F1 movie and what it means for the future of them doing movies. |
| 0:17.7 | So all that and more. |
| 0:18.8 | And you know what time it is? |
| 0:19.8 | Let's get to the show. |
| 0:29.4 | What's up, everybody? Welcome to the show. It's the Apple Bits XL. Brian Tong here, your host. |
| 0:35.0 | Doing the most for everything good and bad inside the world of Apple. |
| 0:39.2 | What is up, everybody? |
| 0:40.7 | So earlier this week, actually toward through the weekend, I was out of town. |
| 0:44.9 | I went offsite for a special shoot in Lake Tahoe. |
| 0:48.8 | The fruits of that labor will be coming out later. |
| 0:51.7 | So that's why we didn't have a show last week. |
| 0:53.9 | We had a whole lot of, you know, follow up to WWDC. We pumped be coming out later. So that's why we didn't have a show last week. We had a whole |
| 0:54.4 | lot of, you know, follow up to WWDC. We pumped out six videos and then some. So what we're |
| 1:00.6 | going to do is jump into this one. This is episode 347. We still go strong. Thanks to so many of you |
| 1:07.1 | who support on patreon.com slash Brian Tong. That is how you support this podcast and all my |
| 1:11.7 | content. And we'll talk about that more later in the show. But let's dive into the details and get |
| 1:16.8 | right in here. We said we'd talk about iOS 26 beta 2. And Apple released this earlier this week, |
| 1:23.6 | just a few days ago. And it shows how things have changed. But I think obviously the most |
| 1:28.6 | interesting thing is that we know that the big old feature of iOS and all their iOSes was liquid |
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