Liquid Glass — Apple's New Material Design System

To apply Liquid Glass in SwiftUI, wrap your view with the .glassEffect() modifier. This lensing-based material automatically adapts to background content, improving legibility and visual hierarchy across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS.

Regular and Clear are Liquid Glass variants with specific usage guidelines. The system uses a three-condition rule to determine when the Clear variant is appropriate, ensuring adaptive UI maintains proper contrast and accessibility across different contexts.

Yes, Liquid Glass includes built-in accessibility guarantees and automatic light/dark context adaptation. The material handles environmental changes automatically, ensuring your adaptive UI remains legible and performs well across Apple platforms.

You can add adaptive tinting and scroll edge effects to glassEffect views using SwiftUI modifiers like scrollEdgeEffect. These tools help maintain visual clarity and hierarchy as users scroll through content layered behind Liquid Glass surfaces.

Yes, Liquid Glass provides a unified design system for platform-wide adoption across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS. It includes automatic platform adaptations to ensure design consistency for navigation bars, controls, and interactive elements.

Liquid Glass addresses performance considerations by providing a unified design system with built-in accessibility guarantees. It uses new SwiftUI container APIs and modifiers to efficiently render lensing-based visuals without compromising app responsiveness.