In the most recent tvOS 27 betas, the icons for Apple’s apps on tvOS gained Liquid Glass refraction effects that change as you move your finger over the remote’s touch surface. This can be most clearly seen in the icons for Photos and Podcasts. How can our third-party apps make use of these effects on tvOS, which isn’t supported by Icon Composer? Is the intention for third party apps to continue using flat design while Apple’s own apps use Liquid Glass?

In “Design and build apps for watchOS 10”, Jennifer showed off a new variable blur effect that is applied to the navigation bar. Is this effect available for use in our own SwiftUI views? I’ve tried using a gradient mask on a material background, but the result isn’t as nice looking because it only fades the opacity of the material, not the blur level.