Another week, another Liquid Glass-filled iOS 26 Developer Beta is upon us.
Apple has just released iOS 26 Developer Beta 6, exactly a week after we were treated to the previous Developer Beta 5.
As usual, we’re getting a trove of minor changes in this beta release, which furthers Apple’s improvement of the Liquid Glass redesign that’s fully coming this very September. With most of the previous betas, Apple has been adjusting the visual side of things, but iOS 26 DB6 seemingly puts an end to this.
It seems Apple is done with tinkering with the intensity of the Liquid Glass effect. Cupertino has settled on a fairly mellow interface translucency, which isn’t as intense as the very first beta but isn’t too opaque either.
What’s new in the latest Developer Beta 6?
There’s a new opening animation for apps on the dock, which is subtly changed but looks pretty decent in the context of the Liquid Glass redesign. It’s seemingly the same app opening animation that was added to the iPad in the first iPadOS 26 beta. It definitely gives the impression that apps open slightly faster than before, even if that’s not technically true.
A picture’s worth a thousand words, and a video is at least double that, so here’s what the new animation looks like.
