Indeed, Liquid Glass does bring somewhat of a major change to iOS 26, or what we would have called iOS 18 (Apple is switching ...

One problem with skeuomorphic design is that it doesn’t fit Apple’s design aesthetic in so many other apps. For instance, Safari or Mail don’t have any leather or ripped off pages.

At WWDC 2025, Apple revealed a major visual shake-up for iOS (not to mention the rest of the company’s operating systems).

In iOS 7, the Notes app was just a white screen where you write text, and the same applied to the vast majority of iPhone and iPad apps. We also lost many of the skeuomorphic animations that ...

Perhaps no app in Apple’s catalog has come as far as Notes. When it debuted with the original iPhone in 2007, Notes was the height of skeuomorphic design: ...

But Cotton isn’t just reviving skeuomorphic design in a more modern way, she’s leveraging it for a whole other purpose—to instill trust. You could call it skeuomorphic design 2.0.