iOS 26 introduced a bold new Liquid Glass design, and subsequent updates have added new ways to customize not only how your iPhone looks, but also how it works. Here are five recent new customization settings.
#1: Customize the Liquid Glass design
Apple has a broad customer base, so understandably the iPhone’s new Liquid Glass design hasn’t been everyone’s favorite.
Rather than tweaking Liquid Glass for everyone, Apple instead decided to add an optional Settings toggle.
Available under Display & Brightness ⇾ Liquid Glass, the setting offers two Liquid Glass options:
Clear
Tinted
‘Clear’ retains the same style of Liquid Glass that’s available by default. If you don’t like the clear look, however, or perhaps find readability a challenge, the ‘Tinted’ option will increase opacity and add more contrast systemwide.
#2: Camera swipe on Lock Screen
Not too long ago, the iPhone offered far fewer methods for launching the Camera app.
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