Apple‘s big design overhaul for macOS 26 looks great on iPhones. But on most Macs? Not so much.
The company’s macOS 26 Tahoe introduced the same Liquid Glass interface seen in iOS 26—translucent effects and glass-like textures designed for crisp OLED displays. The problem: most Macs still use LCD screens, which don’t render those effects as well. The result is transparency and shadows that make text harder to read.
Apple is now planning what insiders call a “slight redesign” for macOS 27 to address the readability issues, Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman reports. The Liquid Glass look isn’t going away—it’s being refined. The company will unveil the update at its Worldwide Developers Conference on June 8.
The issue highlights a rare mismatch between Apple’s software and hardware. Liquid Glass was created with future devices in mind. Current Macs, with designs dating back to 2021 and 2022, weren’t built for it. macOS 27 aims to make the interface work better for the hardware people actually own.
Apple‘s big design overhaul for macOS 26 looks great on iPhones. But on most Macs? Not so much.
The company’s macOS 26 Tahoe introduced the same Liquid Glass interface seen in iOS 26—translucent effects and glass-like textures designed for crisp OLED displays. The problem: most Macs still use LCD screens, which don’t render those effects as well. The result is transparency and shadows that make text harder to read.
Apple is now planning what insiders call a “slight redesign” for macOS 27 to address the readability issues, Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman reports. The Liquid Glass look isn’t going away—it’s being refined. The company will unveil the update at its Worldwide Developers Conference on June 8.
The issue highlights a rare mismatch between Apple’s software and hardware. Liquid Glass was created with future devices in mind. Current Macs, with designs dating back to 2021 and 2022, weren’t built for it. macOS 27 aims to make the interface work better for the hardware people actually own.
