Talking Liquid Glass with Apple

loloquwowndueo · 2026-03-23T23:45:56 1774309556

Liquid glass is permanent. Crap. At least that should give them time to figure out and fix why this garbage visibly struggles and sometimes takes seconds to render simple layouts on a latest-generation iPhone 17.

pier25 · 2026-03-23T23:50:21 1774309821

Are they talking about the design language or the liquid glass material?

I had to update to iOS 26 recently. The liquid glass material is by far the worst aspect of it... but if it could be disabled I would be ok with most of the new UI changes.

Tahoe is a disaster though. I will stay with Sequoia until they fix that mess.

hu3 · 2026-03-23T23:40:53 1774309253

Evidently nothing is permanent. So that just shows arrogance.

joemi · 2026-03-24T00:12:38 1774311158

"Permanent" as used in the article was merely in contrast to the concept of "going to get rolled back soon", not a true declaration of forever.

cubefox · 2026-03-23T23:44:26 1774309466

This article is just an ad for a consultant. It's also at least partially AI written, which is evident e.g. from the parentheses in the subheadings.

joemi · 2026-03-24T00:19:12 1774311552

Parentheses in headings is a telltale AI sign now? I feel like this has been a common way for normal humans to write for ages.

cubefox · 2026-03-24T00:23:32 1774311812

Normal humans do it very rarely, LLMs do it all the time.

joemi · 2026-03-24T00:39:58 1774312798

I wish we had metrics for claims like this. I feel like it's been a very common thing to see in blog posts written by humans, not AIs, over the last two decades.

cubefox · 2026-03-24T00:43:04 1774312984

It's probably not long till approximately nobody can distinguish LLM and human text.

Simulacra · 2026-03-23T23:37:28 1774309048

My colleague refuses to update his iPhone so long as liquid glass exists. I've tried to encourage him to do so for the security updates, but he says that he's fully aware of the danger, but refuses to update because every time he does, Apple gives him something he doesn't want and takes away something he likes.

dafelst · 2026-03-23T23:44:37 1774309477

There is good, useful content in this article, but it is seriously overshadowed by the LLM-isms indicating that a nontrivial part of it is AI generated.

I'm obviously channeling my inner boomer here, but as soon as I start seeing the tells of AI authoring, I just give up on the article altogether. To the author, please consider that I and many others want to see your thought process, warts and all, there is no need to hide behind the facade of the LLM screed.

joemi · 2026-03-24T00:10:37 1774311037

Maybe I'm getting worse at recognizing it, but I didn't notice anything that made me think it was AI-authored. What were the telltale signs you noticed?

duskdozer · 2026-03-24T09:04:40 1774343080

It just reads like a marketing pitch. Using an AI-generated header image gives up the game at the start

croisillon · 2026-03-24T12:39:02 1774355942

But Apple has quietly built something else

Their reaction? Genuine shock.

Hierarchy wasn’t just a bullet point; it was the absolute anchor for the entire three-day session.

(and designers)

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hagbard_c · 2026-03-24T06:12:08 1774332728

> I'm obviously channeling my inner boomer here, but as soon as I start seeing the tells of AI authoring, I just give up on the article altogether.

Given that both my daughters - teen and tween - as well as I myself - gen X - have the same impulse I don't consider this a 'boomer' thing but a 'human' one. As long as genAI- produced text reads like empty marketroid drivel that impulse will remain.

zb3 · 2026-03-23T23:35:22 1774308922

> Liquid Glass is Permanent

Until it isn't...

asddubs · 2026-03-23T23:48:28 1774309708

I think contextually here what is meant isn't that liquid glass will exist for the next 1000 years, but that they are not going to do a rollback to the previous UI.