Gurman: Apple Will Tweak Liquid Glass in macOS 27 – Thurrott.com

There’s been a lot of griping about Apple’s Liquid Glass design, but especially with Mac users, who haven’t yet benefited from some of the tweaks Apple has made over the past several months in iOS. But that’s finally going to change this fall, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says.
In his latest Power On newsletter, Gurman writes that part of the problem is that the Liquid Glass translucency, shadows, and glass effects look best on modern hardware with OLED displays, while the Mac lineup is still stuck on “industrial designs introduced several years ago” that utilize LCDs. This can make text difficult to read on a Mac running macOS 26, especially in interfaces like Control Center and any apps with sidebars.
To address these issues, Apple is preparing a “slight redesign” of Liquid Glass in macOS 27. Liquid Glass isn’t going away, of course, but it will be tweaked throughout the interface on the Mac, which Gurman says is in line with Apple’s broader efforts to focus on quality and refinement this year. Apparently, all the ’27 releases will also include bug fixes, battery life upgrades, and performance improvements. And AI. Again.
The AI improvements will focus on Siri this year, as they arguably did two years ago. This will include a new standalone Siri app with a chatbot interface, a new visual design, and a new focus as a proactive assistant that will help users accomplish a wide range of tasks. There will also be “deeper integration of Apple Intelligence features across new areas of the software.”
Beyond that, Gurman says that Safari in all the ’27 releases will feature automatic tab grouping, similar to other web browsers.
Paul Thurrott is an award-winning technology journalist and blogger with 30 years of industry experience and the author of 30 books. He is the owner of Thurrott.com and the host of three tech podcasts: Windows Weekly with Leo Laporte and Richard Campbell, Hands-On Windows, and First Ring Daily with Brad Sams. He was formerly the senior technology analyst at Windows IT Pro and the creator of the SuperSite for Windows from 1999 to 2014 and the Major Domo of Thurrott.com while at BWW Media Group from 2015 to 2023. You can reach Paul via email, Twitter or Mastodon.
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