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title: "Liquid Glass · MacMelon"
description: "Liquid Glass is Apple's native design material on macOS 26, used for controls and navigation. What it changes for a Mac utility, and what it does not."
url: "https://macmelon.com/glossary/liquid-glass"
---

# Liquid Glass

Apple's translucent, native design material introduced with the macOS 26 generation.

Liquid Glass is Apple's design language for the system generation that includes macOS 26: translucent materials, controls that sit on a glass-like surface, and a look apps can adopt instead of drawing their own chrome. It is a visual system. It is not a privacy policy and not a file-system feature.

Our macOS 26 apps use that native material, so their windows and menu bar items look like the Mac they appear on. What an app does, such as a preview before a change or data that stays on the Mac, is independent of the material. More on that split is in Liquid Glass on a Mac utility.

## Apps

[Make room for what matters. Clear clutter with confidence. ### Disk Housekeeper](https://macmelon.com/apps/disk-housekeeper)[No more Force Quit in the middle of a build. ### Sentinely](https://macmelon.com/apps/sentinely)

## Related guides

[### How to free up disk space on a Mac](https://macmelon.com/guides/how-to-free-up-disk-space-on-a-mac)

## Related use cases

[### Free up space on a MacBook](https://macmelon.com/use-cases/free-up-space-on-a-macbook)

## Related terms

[The Mac operating system release that MacMelon apps require, and the home of Liquid Glass on the Mac. ### macOS 26](https://macmelon.com/glossary/macos-26)[The system strip at the top of a Mac screen, where status items live. ### Menu bar](https://macmelon.com/glossary/menu-bar)