The promise of Liquid Glass design on iPhones promised almost magical transparency, but the iOS 27 beta has turned that virtue into a flaw. Users report that the content behind the glass appears blurry and low-resolution. On social media, the debate oscillates between considering it a serious bug or a minor detail that Apple will fix. For the average user, the phone's visual experience could suffer.
The technical flaw behind the liquid glass 🔍
The problem seems to originate from the new rendering layer that iOS 27 applies to animated backgrounds. Instead of optimizing transparency, the system prioritizes battery saving by reducing the refresh rate of elements behind the glass. This generates an unwanted blur effect and loss of sharpness. Developers on technical forums point out that the solution could involve an adjustment in the interface metadata. Apple has not yet issued an official statement.
The blurry effect nobody asked for 🧼
So now we have an iPhone with glass so liquid it looks like someone poured soap on it. The design purists in Cupertino must be fuming, while the rest of us wonder if this is a bug or an experimental feature so we don't see error messages. The good thing is that the update is beta, so there's still hope that by September the glass will be transparent again and not a digital shower curtain.