iOS 26 looks new and modern. And for once, how Apple describes it — liquid glass — makes sense: it’s a lot of layers of transparent elements overlapping and, in places, the animations are quite… liquidy. Menus and buttons will respond to your touch, with some of them coalescing around your finger and sometimes separating out into new menus.

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Liquid Glass may not bring quite as big of a shift to iOS as Apple might have you believe, but that’s probably not a bad thing. And while I'm focusing on Liqu