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Be patient: even Apple is behind on its own Liquid Glass redesign

Very few developers have released Liquid Glass updates to their apps, and Apple isn’t fully compliant either with its own applications. Based on past experience, it’s going to take years before the redesign is the norm.

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Liquid Glass is here — in the Finder, just not in many apps yet

So many headlines from Apple and others this week have announced that Liquid Glass is here — and it isn’t entirely true. The base of the new redesign has launched, and there are apps that have adopted it already, but the majority have not.

That shouldn’t be a surprise, even though developers have had months since the WWDC 2025 announcement of Liquid Glass. Some developers have chosen to wait since the redesign changed throughout the beta process, and others are not about to let Apple dictate their development schedules.

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