iOS 26.4 offers two Liquid Glass customization updates

iOS 26.4 is launching soon, and it will bring two updates for how you can customize the Liquid Glass design on your iPhone.

Reduce Bright Effects and Reduce Motion let you minimize more Liquid Glass effects in iOS 26.4

Rumors indicate that Apple might let users adjust Liquid Glass with a slider in iOS 27. But until then, Apple continues adding new ways to update its iPhone design in iOS 26.

iOS 26.4 expands customization tools with two settings:

Reduce Bright Effects, which is brand new in iOS 26.4 Reduce Motion, which has been updated in iOS 26.4

Reduce Bright Effects lets you dial down the flashing effects that happen when interacting with certain Liquid Glass UI elements. Per Apple’s description:

Minimize highlighting and flashing when interacting with onscreen elements, such as buttons or the keyboard.

For examples of what this looks like, see this X post from my 9to5Mac colleague Dylan.

You can open Settings ⇾ Accessibility ⇾ Display & Text Size to find the new toggle.

Reduce Motion is not new to iOS 26.4, but the Accessibility feature has been updated and expanded in Apple’s latest update.

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