How to disable Liquid Glass
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iOS 26 is about to be officially released!
And with iOS 26, comes the new Liquid Glass design system.
But what if your iOS app isn’t yet ready to support Liquid Glass?
What’s for sure is that you definitely don’t want your users on iOS 26 to be stuck with a broken version of your app.
Fortunately, there’s a very simple solution: your app can choose to temporarily opt-out of the new Liquid Glass design.
Let’s take the example of this app that’s currently running on iOS 26:
We’re going to go into this app’s Info.plist, add the key UIDesignRequiresCompatibility and set its value to YES.
And that’s actually it!
Thanks to this simple change the app will continue to use the previous design system even when running on iOS 26!
However be careful: this possibility will be available only for a limited time and will be deprecated with the future release of iOS 27 next year.
So make sure to soon start the work to properly support Liquid Glass!
