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Liquid Glass
Raised as a usability problem by 202 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2020–2026), in 82 threads.
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Every issue, all time, most people first
Transparency hurts text contrast for people with weaker visionUnreviewed
20202026- Text is distorted and nav bars jelly-like, making interfaces hard to read and use2026-03-25
- Interface is harder to read and use; buttons look confusing2026-03-24
- Buttons over contrasty backgrounds are hard to read, hurting legibility2026-03-10
Translucent elements are distracting and hard to focus onUnreviewed
20202026- Glass effect is distracting even with transparency slider set to opaque2026-06-08
- Transparency is on by default, hurting accessibility, and the design doesn't fit well on phone screens2026-02-18
- Search bars and list items are hard to see through translucent glass elements2026-01-26
Controls blend into the toolbar, making them hard to tell apartUnreviewed
20202026- Toolbar buttons fade in and out and are not always legible2026-06-11
- Floating buttons sit over content that doesn't need to scroll, and light/dark switching flickers on borderline brightness content2026-06-08
- Tabs and buttons blend into floating ovals, hard to tell apart in light mode2026-03-09
Interface is slow with worse legibility and density than beforeUnreviewed
20202026- Interface slows the iPhone to a crawl, making interaction maddeningly laggy2026-06-11
- Interface feels slow and looks worse on small screen even with effects off2026-01-05
- Interface is slow and has worse legibility and density than before2025-12-27
Constant redesigns leave older users struggling to adaptUnreviewed
20202026- Forced major interface redesign that users find hard to live with2026-03-05
- Constant UI redesigns disorient older users who struggle to adapt to changed interfaces2025-10-15
- Changing familiar interface layouts and controls frustrates existing users who must relearn them2025-07-02
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 50 complaints
- Liquid Glass design has negatively affected the user experience2026-10-28
- Disrupted accessibility on macOS, so users asked how to disable it2026-10-27
- Liquid Glass UI is distracting and hard to read2026-09-14
- Nav bar shrinks to an icon unexpectedly, shifting all elements on screen2026-09-14
- Notifications stay unreadable even at full opacity, requiring a hidden setting to fix2026-09-14
- Notifications are hard to read, and the reduce transparency setting is harder to find and use2026-09-14
- Liquid Glass interface design is so disliked the commenter installed a beta to get fixes2026-09-14
- Layout jank, garbled now-playing screen, and sort order that won't revert until restarting2026-09-10
- MacOS UI is badly thought out and inconsistent between apps2026-08-19
- Liquid Glass UI hurts clarity and legibility, with hard-to-target scrollbars and a broken resize region2026-08-02
- Commenter finds the new macOS interface horrible and hard to live with2026-07-28
- Visual design choices are seen as ignoring established usability research and hurting the interface2026-06-30
- Text overlaps and becomes unreadable, and scrollbars get visually cut off2026-06-30
- Interfaces described as logically consistent but unusable and ugly2026-06-30
- Toolbar buttons fade in and out and are not always legible2026-06-11
- Interface slows the iPhone to a crawl, making interaction maddeningly laggy2026-06-11
- Floating buttons sit over content that doesn't need to scroll, and light/dark switching flickers on borderline brightness content2026-06-08
- Glass effect is distracting even with transparency slider set to opaque2026-06-08
- Interface wastes space and has gaudy effects, though it is now usable2026-06-08
- Interface feels unusable after the Liquid Glass redesign2026-04-21
- Mail message list stuck at fixed width, truncating every subject line in portrait2026-04-02
- Large corner radius makes parts of the window basically unusable2026-03-28
- Text is distorted and nav bars jelly-like, making interfaces hard to read and use2026-03-25
- Lock screen buttons are too hard to read against wallpaper2026-03-24
- Hard to read and unusable with accessibility display settings enabled2026-03-24
- Interface is harder to read and use; buttons look confusing2026-03-24
- Liquid Glass visual material is hard to live with and cannot be turned off2026-03-23
- Liquid Glass introduces UI and UX problems that are annoying to users2026-03-21
- Text near top fades to gray while scrolling, with no way found to turn it off2026-03-18
- Buttons over contrasty backgrounds are hard to read, hurting legibility2026-03-10
- Tabs and buttons blend into floating ovals, hard to tell apart in light mode2026-03-09
- Can't recognize UI elements because they render differently with low contrast against background2026-03-09
- Camera app is hard to use, described as an unusable monstrosity2026-03-08
- Forced major interface redesign that users find hard to live with2026-03-05
- Forced updates with dark patterns push users onto an unwanted redesign2026-03-05
- Liquid Glass transparency reduces readability, so users disable it for accessibility2026-03-04
- Hard to tell which elements are content versus UI controls2026-02-19
- Transparency is on by default, hurting accessibility, and the design doesn't fit well on phone screens2026-02-18
- Interface design is harder to use than the older design2026-02-18
- Transparent design makes detailed text hard to read2026-02-16
- Video playback onscreen controls are harder to use than before2026-02-16
- Commenter sees no upgrade benefit and wants UX issues fixed in later releases2026-02-13
- Liquid Glass design makes the iPhone user experience painful and hostile to use2026-02-13
- Keyboard input and clicks lag or fail, so users must press or click repeatedly2026-02-13
- Phone lags with Liquid Glass and the user cannot roll back to the previous design2026-02-12
- Sometimes the lock screen won't open and just wiggles, so the user can't get in2026-02-12
- Half-baked Liquid Glass design on macOS hurts usability2026-02-12
- Animating Liquid Glass widgets causes lag while changing position or shape2026-02-11
- Flat redesign and iOS-style changes disrupted the author's established workflow2026-02-01
- Liquid Glass design described as an obvious regression in usability2026-01-27