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Android 16 Material 3 Expressive vs. iOS 26 Liquid Glass: Imperfect polar opposites
Android users aren't missing out one bit by not having Liquid Glass, at least for now.
Meanwhile, Material 3 Expressive won't feel like as big of a change as Liquid Glass because Google tends to ship updates and tweaks on a more regular basis than Apple. By comparison, it feels like Apple waited to bring all its major default apps and system elements to the present until now, when it would coincide with the Liquid Glass visual update. (Image credit: Brady Snyder / Android Central)I do want to emphasize that many of these system and app-wide updates included in iOS 26 aren't directly correlated to the Liquid Glass design language.
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