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00:00we've applied liquid glass to this video will you be able to see us let's find out

00:12hey all welcome back to another tech connect today we are taking a look at something it is

00:18that is the talk of the town it's the internet buzz buzz buzz every single video that's released

00:23in the last two weeks is about this it is has it been two weeks i think it's been two weeks

00:27we are looking at liquid glass this is the new design language or new kind of design motif

00:36yeah you like that that apple introduced at wwdc we want to find out yes what how's it going to

00:44affect our low vision users good bad ugly sad beautiful we're not even sure we're about to

00:51find out this is the big beautiful uh operating system yes one big beautiful operating system

00:56stick with us let's find out how it works okay gory well i've got liquid glass on my phone because

01:03i signed up as a developer and managed to get the beta and we're going to take a look at see what

01:08it looks like so first of all i'm here on my home screen and uh currently we are set up with the icons

01:14as clear so this means that they are essentially transparent and i have a wallpaper as my background

01:20and uh yeah you can kind of see the wallpaper through the apps as if cory they were made of

01:27glass amazing stuff i'm not sure where the liquid comes in though i have to say i'm not maybe because

01:32it's fluid it's change it changes okay i like it so this kind of gives a good idea of what they're

01:38going for with this design as we move uh for example the podcast app over the background we can see how

01:45the lights in the picture behind it are being kind of reflected and diffracted through the light of

01:50the podcast app uh widgets there so it's a pretty cool thing visually uh but not super accessible

01:58because at the moment all of the apps are this same kind of transparent see-through color which as

02:03i'm sure you can imagine cory is not the best contest yeah uh however let's not just give up and

02:08throw our hands up and go to android because we can cory make changes if we don't like things in the

02:14words of david bowie yeah changes is he uh changes exactly all right gotta love a little copyright

02:23strike for each of our videos luckily this isn't our main money-making uh shenanigan all right so

02:29let's just take a look here on the home screen of course we can customize the background you know

02:33the wallpaper so maybe a solid color would make things look a little easier to see but also we can

02:38actually just set the apps themselves to be the regular color so if we hold our finger down on

02:44the home screen then we are able to edit it and we can change the wallpaper like i said but we can also

02:50go ahead and change the apps back to their default color and that's going to be a lot better contrast

02:55now some of them have changed design like the apple apps such as the camera or the mail app and

03:00stuff have changed visual design but now they're back to their regular colors and they really are

03:05perfectly visible in the same way that they would have been previously so uh even though you know

03:11at first glance maybe things are not great we can customize things back to make them visible again

03:18let's take a look at another way that we can do that by changing our transparency options

03:24all right so let's take a look at the control center this is a good place to see where liquid glass

03:29might be a bit of an issue and in the control center uh the background behind the control center

03:34previously was not blurred and people were complaining about that because you could see

03:38the background behind the control center very clearly which made it hard to see the control

03:41center itself now apple have fixed that now so the background behind behind the control center is

03:46blurred however it's still kind of visible through these um through these kind of glass like um widgets

03:54on the screen here right um and that is again in terms of low vision users not ideal because it's kind

03:59of you know a lot of kind of different colors a lot of kind of uh ambiguity ambiguity about uh kind

04:05of what's what so it's a bad motif if you ask me it's a very bad motif so uh luckily we can reduce

04:10transparency in the settings i'm going to go ahead and go into my settings here and uh we're just going

04:16to go ahead and choose the reduce transparency option and if we go back to the control center now

04:20um the apps are now or the widgets there in the control center are a lot less see-through so they stand

04:26out a lot more than they did before and that will apply you know across the whole system in terms of

04:32how opaque uh things are so that's a good little tip if you want to make things a little easier to see

04:39now in some circumstances it can be kind of hard to see some of the elements on the screen

04:44and one of the examples of that is in our emails where at the bottom we have the search bar the

04:50filters and the create new message button and if we are in the display theme of light

04:56so basically with white backgrounds it's really hard to see those elements at the bottom of the

05:00screen especially because they do have that transparency effect and so as we kind of scroll

05:05our emails we can kind of see our emails behind those elements and it makes those elements really

05:10hard to see so one little trick here is we can go into our display settings and change our theme from

05:15light to dark instead and then when we jump back to our emails the background of the emails is black

05:21but those elements the search bar the filters and the create new email button are still white and so

05:27they do contrast a lot better and are easier to see i'm sure that this is going to be the case in

05:31some other apps as well so just bear in mind you can change your display theme from light to dark if

05:36necessary luke i believe you have one more tip for these fine folks that's not a belief i literally

05:43told you that before we started filming behind the scenes everybody um so yeah we're going to take a

05:49look at messages real quick now one of the effects that we get with liquid glass is this blurring um

05:55effect and uh we can see that actually in the messages here so i'm going to open up a message

05:59conversation from corey and as we scroll the uh messages at the top and the bottom they're kind of

06:07blurred um as the messages scroll past the top and the bottom of the screen but in the center of the

06:12screen then they are in focus now i had said oh it's kind of weird how they blur there but you

06:16had said corey maybe that might be good for people with a vision impairment just in terms of keeping

06:20them focused on you know the stuff in the middle yeah i feel like it's probably somewhat equivalent to

06:26on uh video magnifiers kind of the lines and blinds feature i i'll be curious though i don't i don't know

06:34if that i'd like to get feedback from people put it down in the comments if you're using a beta version

06:39of 26 how do you feel about that if you're a low vision user yeah something for the individual to

06:44decide but uh one of the cool things that we can do here in messages now is if we have an i message

06:49conversation we're able to change the background of the message conversation and so you could uh here

06:54i've got some weird like uh sky uh motif there's that word again it's a word of the day uh some sky

07:02motif with this message uh conversation with corey but we can go in and let me choose something else i

07:06could choose a color for example so i will choose a uh oh i've got like a bright hot pink here oh

07:12yeah suits uh suits the conversation so we'll go ahead and choose that one and uh now if i go back

07:18to my message conversation i've got this hot pink color so you know there may be a color which works

07:23better for you and enables you actually to see those message conversations more clearly however just

07:28real real quick here corey um this actually is a good example of where liquid glass is quite bad in that

07:35the actual box where we enter our message at the bottom of the screen here you can barely see it

07:40because it's so transparent and it's uh you know really kind of like all of those background colors

07:44are coming through and making that message box hard to see now i did uh go ahead and to uh kind of uh

07:50change my transparencies back to normal again so let me just real quick jump into the settings here

07:55we'll turn on reduce transparency again and that message box box is a little easier to see but still

08:00pretty hard sure yeah i'm curious with this new background uh this option to kind of change the

08:06background if you go out of the conversation and go back to your main list of messages where it shows

08:11you the conversations yeah is my conversation in a pink background here okay so only until you and not

08:18until you actually tap in exactly okay yeah i just thought it might i mean i can see where it might be

08:23cool from an identification purpose to go okay i'm in in the conversation with so-and-so because i see this

08:28color yeah uh it would have been cool if it kind of carried over yeah i agree um anyway so there we

08:35go those are some examples of liquid glass and some of the pros and some of the cons and so let's do a

08:41quick lap up cory all right cory so that was liquid glass now i don't think it's the end of the world

08:47like some people would have you believe um however oh the sky is falling exactly hopefully it's liquid

08:53glass exactly um however you know okay couple of things number one you may have to do some

08:59customization which might be annoying especially if you don't know how to do it um so that is a pain

09:03and also there are some elements which really seem to be pretty bad we especially saw that in the

09:07messages when the message box is kind of you know very very hard to see so there's definite

09:14challenges there but i don't think it's you know gonna be completely unusable or anything like that

09:19and as a at the time of this video there i paid it too so there is some chance now the other thing

09:23we should mention uh for all honesty yes neither of us are low vision yes i'm no vision your normal

09:30vision vision so from our expertise which it's it's you could fill it up with in a glass

09:40it doesn't appear that it's going to be any kind of showstopper or nightmare or anything like that

09:45but put it down in the comments if you are low vision and you're using the beta if you're

09:50struggling with it point out some places where you see it to really be a problem and at the end

09:54of the day you know everybody's vision is going to be different so it's going to vary from person to

09:58person with that being said though if you like the video give us a like if you have got anything

10:03to tell us about anything that's going on in your life or anything about liquid glass put it down

10:07in the comments there and please do subscribe to the channel because those numbers really matter

10:11corey and why not also find more of our content at our lms corey techconnect.vision-forward.org

10:20head to techconnect.vision-forward.org all right it's time for us to go get a drink

10:26and have some liquid glass we'll catch you next time it burns

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