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It's been a month since Apple's new Liquid Glass interface design broke cover at WWDC and promptly landed on the company's devices in the respective Developer Beta releases, but in the mean time, it's been anything but static.
The main change is the vastly increased opacity of most stock apps' navigation bars, as well as a slight toning down of the see-through transparency effect with app and folder icons. The difference is subtle but definitely improves the overall style and legibility of most interface elements. In fact, it makes me like Liquid Glass a bit more and makes the transition towards the new design language easier to stomach.
It's not all roses, though. I am yet to get used to the new Control Center, which feels a bit too detached from the rest of the interface. One of my New Year's resolutions was to switch back to Android in 2025, which I successfully did, but my previous daily driver still had a dedicated spot on my desk at home as a backup device and a beta-testing machine.
Moreover, if you open another video, and the audio from the first one will play alongside the other one. Lo and behold, I found out you can actually play up to four audio streams from your videos simultaneously for the ultimate cacophony before the Photos app would seemingly crash and no longer play videos at all.
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