The updated Liquid Glass design looks great, but isn't as dramatic as you think. That's a good thing. Here's how iOS 26 compares to iOS 18.

iOS 26 looks new and modern. And for once, how Apple describes it — liquid glass — makes sense: it’s a lot of layers of transparent elements overlapping and, in places, the animations are quite… liquidy. Menus and buttons will respond to your touch, with some of them coalescing around your finger and sometimes separating out into new menus.

Certainly one of the main highlights of iOS 26, which was announced earlier this month at WWDC 2025, is the new Liquid Glass interface. But as we’ve reported here, the update also comes with a lot of other new features – such as many new APIs that open up a lot of possibilities for app developers.

The sixth developer beta of iOS 26 has been released by Apple, featuring new ringtones, interface changes, and a return to the original camera mode swipe direction.

There are seven new ringtones in iOS 26 beta 6, making a total of seven new ringtones, considering the one that was already available since beta 2. Interestingly, almost all the new ringtones are a variation of the existing “Reflection” ringtone. Even so, each one has a distinctive tone, ranging from softer melodies to more pop-like music.