WWDC 2026 was today. Tim Cook's last as CEO, Craig Federighi on stage talking about platform improvements, trust, and safety — and somewhere between the homeOS preview and the AI announcements, iOS 27 confirmed what became obvious pretty early in the 26.x saga: the Liquid Glass slider is real, it's coming, and it arrives in the same release that removes the ability to opt out of Liquid Glass entirely. I wrote in April that you'd get the knob to turn it down at the exact moment they took away the switch to turn it off. That post went up fourteen weeks ago. Today Apple confirmed it on stage. Verbatim. For anyone who's lost track of the version history: 26.1 brought a toggle — Clear or Tinted, that was the full extent of your control. 26.2, 26.3, nothing. 26.4 buried two more options in Accessibility menus. 26.5 shipped. No slider. Apple's official explanation was "engineering challenges," which is accurate in the specific sense that they built Liquid Glass so deeply into the OS…
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