Talk:Liquid Glass

Does this need a page?

I feel like this would do better in a page about like the style of apple or something instead of its own page. It just doesn't seem notable enough. 2A00:23C8:9C7F:B801:901C:1751:5B2:4396 (talk) 23:58, 9 June 2025 (UTC)

Aqua, Material Design, Aero, Metro, Fluent, and Adwaita all have dedicated pages. This being Apple's next big design language, all tech blogs will probably cover Liquid Glass in enough detail over the next few weeks and months to establish notability. Blubits (talk) 06:07, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

Is a "Reception" section necessary?

The responses to the design change don't seem very strong. Any controversy will probably be gone by the time it actually releases. It feels like recency bias to include it in the article. Pxldnky77 (talk) 00:28, 12 June 2025 (UTC)

We can change it accordingly as the reception evolves. Sohom (talk) 04:08, 12 June 2025 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 15:04, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

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• ... that Liquid Glass was criticised for being too transparent ?

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• • ALT1: ... that the design language used by Apple in its 2025 redesign of its operating systems has similar elements to the design language used by Windows Vista? Source:
  • ALT2: ... that Liquid Glass, a design language designed by Apple, was criticised for being too transparent? Source:
  • ALT3: ... that Apple’s Liquid Glass software designers fabricated real glass of different refractive properties to replicate it? Source:
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Guilty as Sock!

Created by Sohom Datta (talk), TempoaryAcc (talk), Limmidy (talk), and Blubits (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 13 past nominations.

Sohom (talk) 04:06, 12 June 2025 (UTC).

• @Blubits, Limmidy, Sohom Datta, and TempoaryAcc: Just noting that I've left some tags that may need attention before this nomination can proceed. Thanks for your work on this article! —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 08:19, 12 June 2025 (UTC)

  Fixed the issues mentioned in the tags (I think) :) Sohom (talk) 12:06, 12 June 2025 (UTC)

• @Sohom Datta: New enough (Jun 9), long enough (2800 B), no copyvio. Hooks interesting and verified in sources; I think ALT0 is easily the best. (Note for ALT3: your hook as written says "densities", but both the article and the source say "refractive properties". Otherwise it's fine.) The article is mostly well-sourced but I have a concern with this sentence: Craig Federighi acknowledged the additional computational power required for Liquid Glass, leading some to accuse Apple of planned obsolescence. It doesn't look like any of the cited sources explicitly make this connection. — Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 05:40, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

@Vigilantcosmicpenguin, Fixed the article, I've reworked ALT3. I'm really hoping for ALT0 as well :) (Would be a nice quirky hook!) Sohom (talk) 15:22, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

• Approved. Preference for ALT0. — Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 19:53, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

Article Name

I think it would be more suitable for this article to have a name like “Liquid Glass (user interface)” or “Liquid Glass (design language)” because on its own the term “Liquid Glass” isn’t indicative of the fact that it’s a design language. The name isn’t something like “Apple Liquid Glass” and I don’t think the name of Apple’s new design language will be particularly well known outside of people interested in user interfaces, design, etc. This would also match the article for Apple’s Aqua Tellurium6 (talk) 05:09, 12 June 2025 (UTC)

Per WP:D2D, this should only be done if there is another subject described on Wikipedia with precisely the name "Liquid Glass". jlwoodwa (talk) 05:18, 12 June 2025 (UTC)

For the record, Liquid Glass is the name of a "material" (i.e. visual effect) used in the new design language. As far as I can tell they don't really have a name for the new design system other than "the new design system". Leahcl (talk) 19:36, 3 July 2025 (UTC)

Neither Material Design nor Fluent Design System have anything in their names to indicate that they're design languages (other than perhaps "Design System" for the latter) or to indicate that they're from Google and Microsoft, respectively. Metro (design language) and Adwaita (design language) have "(design language)" in the page titles, but, as per jlwoodwa, that's because Metro is a disambiguation page that links to a lot of different "Metro"-related pages and Adwaita refers to a tortoise. Guy Harris (talk)

GA review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Liquid Glass/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: Sohom Datta (talk · contribs) 00:27, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

Reviewer: Crispybeatle (talk · contribs) 12:43, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

1. Well written?:

Prose quality:

Manual of Style compliance:

2. Factually accurate and verifiable?:

References to sources:

Citations to reliable sources, where required:

No original research:

3. Broad in coverage?:

Major aspects:

Focused:

4. Reflects a neutral point of view?:

Fair representation without bias:

5. Reasonably stable?

No edit wars, etc. (Vandalism does not count against GA):

6. Illustrated by images, when possible and appropriate?:

Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have fair use rationales:

Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions:

Overall:

Pass or Fail:

I like the prose, not much to say there. It's compliant with MOS and WP:INTEXT, I use Samsung, so I have no idea about this, but the article made it clear and that is always a good sign. I like the neutrality, I think it does fit an encyclopedic writing style. However, nothing is perfect:

Following criticism of the design accessibility during its first developer beta release, Apple adjusted the transparency of Liquid Glass to improve legibility.

This text could be better to add it in the Reception section.

Liquid Glass brings an overhaul to existing iOS interface components such as text, sliders, toggles, alerts, panels, sidebars, and the overall frosted glass design, by introducing a new material that can also be used by third-party apps.

Apple describes Liquid Glass as a dynamic material that combines the "optical properties of glass with a sense of fluidity"

It would be better if possible to not use a primary source

I don't think "overhaul" is really neutral

The citation on the lead section is not clear what are you trying to cite.

Semi-protected edit request on 11 October 2025

The codemame for Liquid Glass Is Solarium 108.60.175.164 (talk) 05:38, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. jolielover♥talk 06:26, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

Mention the "Liquid Ass" incident?

I think it's notable enough to add at least one sentence about it, and also to add a wikilink to the actual Liquid Ass somewhere, like how that stink bomb article links to this one. Example reference: Warren, Tom (June 10, 2025). "No more Liquid Ass". The Verge. Archived from the original on June 10, 2025. Retrieved June 10, 2025. ~2025-31125-33 (talk) 14:09, 5 November 2025 (UTC)

@~2025-31125-33

Support. I stand up for this too. There actually is a reference at the top of the article Liquid Ass but for some reason it's not mentioned at all on this article. I do get it why they haven't written about it since there isn't much to write about, but as you mentioned, notable enough to add at least one sentence about it. Hoping for this. Antonkneeyo (talk) 15:30, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

We would need more than this source to justify a full sentence, its not even an article. From what I'm seeing this wasn't widely reported in RS (despite being very funny). Jamedeus (talk) 22:11, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

Agree with jamedeus, the incident wasn't covered by RS enough to warrant a mention (even though it is funny) Sohom (talk) 04:14, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Liquid Glass Example

This may be superfluous, but the iOS 26.1 image of the iPhone 15's resolution is kind of poor. do we need to replace it? EnderDragon8158 (talk) 20:33, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

It's because of Wikipedia's policies around non-free content that prevent us from using a higher definition image; the image is copyrighted by Apple and there is no freely available high resolution alternative. GSK (talk • edits) 20:35, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

couldn't we just get an image from google? EnderDragon8158 (talk) 20:58, 9 April 2026 (UTC)

actually I just did research, never mind EnderDragon8158 (talk) 21:00, 9 April 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia App Screenshots

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  Wikipedia iOS app version 8.0.0 showing the Liquid Glass article
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  Wikipedia iOS app version 8.0.0 showing the Explore feed
• Wikipedia iOS app version 8.0.0 showing the Places feed
  Wikipedia iOS app version 8.0.0 showing the Places feed

I took some screenshots from the Wikipedia app showcasing the use of Liquid Glass elements as they did their redesign a few days ago. Also these images are freely licensed as the app itself is open source and it being a Wikipedia screenshots, so we can use these showing the use of Liquid Glass inside apps. EvanTech10 (talk) 21:55, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

@EvanTech10 I wonder if you can focus specifically on one of the bottom taskbars? The overall interfaces blend Codex (which is some derivative of Flat design) and Liquid Glass components and I feel like that can confuse readers? Sohom (talk) 00:54, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

File:IOS App 8.0.0 Explore (Cropped Bottom).png

Wikipedia iOS app version 8.0.0 showing the Explore feed (cropped to show w:Liquid Glass tab bar)

Sure! I cropped one of the images to show the tab bar EvanTech10 (talk) 02:01, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

That looks great! Sohom (talk) 18:58, 23 April 2026 (UTC)