How to disable liquid glass in iOS 26?

I also struggle a lot with the Liquid glass since the upgrade to IOSpad 26.. Unfortunately even on my Android phone with Android 16 some graphical elements go the same route. It will probably gets worse by the mandated Times Roman Character set for all computers, phones and tablets. Some companies already started mandating Times Roman back in their Word and Powerpoint Templates. I am not sure if that is a good evolution too for visual impaired people, because all works then only for the sharp eyed.

Times New Roman font is only something proposed by a Senator for all government docs. Not some nationwide or global change. Info on it: https://www.npr.org/2025/12/11/nx-s1-5640715/state-department-font-times-new-roman-calibri

inetbas wrote:

It will probably gets worse by the mandated Times Roman Character set for all computers, phones and tablets. Some companies already started mandating Times Roman back in their Word and Powerpoint Templates. I am not sure if that is a good evolution too for visual impaired people, because all works then only for the sharp eyed.

Computer companies are not being mandated to use Times New Roman. The only entity that is being required to use Times New Roman is the U.S. State Department.

This has been on iOS for a long time. I found an image with it from iOS 12. And the fix you seek for is within that bar above the keyboard. You simply click the up or down arrow to scroll up or down and reveal the text box.

Disliking the iOS 26 update is not about preference or "getting used" to the placement of new icons. There are real accessibility issues that Apple has seemed to ignore. I appreciate all the guidance on how to minimize the negative impact of these features on vision and vertigo.

sashwa32 wrote:

Yes please help apple. This new figure is horrible

Apple isn't here. Just other users like yourself on this user to user only forum. There are many options and links posted throughout this thread. As opposed to responding to the first post in a thread, take YOUR time to read and learn how you can positive improvements.

Herr it is in iOS 26. It hovers above the keyboard text predict area and blocks out several site’s form submission buttons. With that and the keyboard almost half of the usable screen space is taken. Makes typing forms and responding to forum posts tricky. See screenshots. Hopefully a fix is coming.

You seem to have completely ignored my solution. There’s little to no change from other versions in terms of that bar covering text. They both were above the keyboard and therefore both cover up any text under it. Use my solution in my previous post.

Egd71 wrote:

It was installed last night. It is wretched and will likely be what finally drives me off of iPhone.

Don't forget to update to iOS 26.2, where there are additional Liquid Glass options. It was just released today so may take a little of time to propagate to your device. You can certainly choose any device you wish and no one here will stop you or even cares. Ironically those same kind of comments are seen on the Samsung/Android support page where they claim they are switching to the iPhone due to the problems they are having. It seems to be a moot and irrelevant statement.

dcsj_canada wrote:

Yeah but in this case the Liquid Glass effect truly is ugly.

That's a matter of opinion. I like it. I was unsure when it was first released, but as time went on and I used it, I realized that I really like it.

dcsj_canada wrote:

Yeah but in this case the Liquid Glass effect truly is ugly. Programmers with too much time on their hands, doing something that doesn’t increase functionality at all.

Not everyone hates Liquid Glass. I quite like it and I'm glad the engineers worked hard on it. It add a high degree of visual interest, which to me was lacking in flat lifeless icons. You'd better get use to this. This is THE design language of the future with more skeuomorphic designs.

Of course it’s a matter of opinion. Except please tell me how an esthetic change increases functionality at all? Yeah, some might prefer it, but it doesn’t allow them to do anything on the phone that I can’t do.

dcsj_canada wrote:

Of course it’s a matter of opinion. Except please tell me how an esthetic change increases functionality at all? Yeah, some might prefer it, but it doesn’t allow them to do anything on the phone that I can’t do.

Tell Apple what you think:

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dcsj_canada wrote:

Of course it’s a matter of opinion. Except please tell me how an esthetic change increases functionality at all? Yeah, some might prefer it, but it doesn’t allow them to do anything on the phone that I can’t do.

The updates include new features, UI look and feel, and security updates all in one bundle. There is no such thing as a partial update that you may be looking for.

I can drive any of my cars to the store where they all have that same functionality, but a new car may look better to me and others may also not like it either. That is pretty irrelevant.

dcsj_canada wrote:

Well, the analogy fails because I can always go to a different dealer and buy a different car

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