If You Don't Like Your iPhone's Liquid Glass Design, Here's How to Change It

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Apple released iOS 26.1 in November and one of the biggest changes it brought to your iPhone was a way to adjust some Liquid Glass elements across your device. This new setting could help resolve readability issues some folks on Reddit noted in iOS 26. So if you've had trouble reading things on your device and have iOS 26.1 or later downloaded on it, you should give this setting a shot.

Apple introduced Liquid Glass in September alongside iOS 26. It's the first major ...