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Apple’s latest iOS overhaul sports a glassier design and includes useful features like live language translation.
To create the effect of glass and all of its reflective and shimmering properties, iOS 26 forces every icon on your iPhone home screen to have a slight glow to them in the top left and lower right corners. This gives the subtlest parallax effect when you tilt your iPhone, creating the illusion that they’ve got the thinnest layer of depth.
OS 26 and Liquid Glass are now available for your iPhone. While it looks different from iOS 18, the changes aren't as dramatic as you might expect.