One of the bar button items of my bottom toolbar needs to be a custom view., and I’m trying hard to get it to behave like the proper bar button items when it comes to Liquid Glass and matching the appearance of all the other bar button items on my toolbar. I’ve tried many variations of embedding custom views within visual effect views, and this comes closest. I inited a UIBarButtonItem with a custom UIView like you’re supposed to, and then I placed a UIVisualEffectView with Vibrancy within that, so that I could place a UIImageView inside it and the UIImageView would respect the adaptive color changing that comes with being within a Liquid Glass bar button item. I’ve made sure that the UIImageView is using an SF Symbol and a rendering mode of .alwaysTemplate, and that the .tintColor is set to .label, to ensure that I’m not overriding any Liquid Glass rendering. Below, you can see the bar button item with my custom view on the left, and a native Bar Button Item with the same SF symbol on the right, in several scenarios. It gets part of the way there there: against light backgrounds the image view turns black like it should. But against darker backgrounds, instead of turning white, the symbol has an additional vibrancy that comes close to the right white look against certain grays, but then is obviously too translucent against black. The symbol is still visible/experiencing some vibrancy, so I assume it might be some configuration of the UIImageView within the Vibrancy that can correct the behavior to match the images in the native bar button items in all conditions. Anyone got thoughts on what the missing piece might be?

Has anyone else discovered that Xcode 26 will not open any files that aren’t code? None of my project’s Storyboard, Launch Screen, Assets, built targets, Info plist will open when I click them in the Project Navigator… I just get a blank white screen in the main pane. They still exist, however: I can build my project just fine, using the pre-existing configurations and Storyboard.

 I’ve discovered a workaround, such as it is: I can open my project back in Xcode 16 to edit my Storyboard, and then open it once again in Xcode 26 to build the project. This works, but as you can imagine, it’s a PITA. I’m also not able to access any Xcode 26 improvements to the Interface Builder, if there are any.

 Has anyone else experienced this? Or even fixed it? I can report it as a bug but I'm surprised that I haven't even found anyone else encountering this yet.

iOS 26 Beta 3 finally introduced an API for the clear variant of Liquid Glass. But is there any way to switch system controls like the NavigationController back button or UIBarButtonItems to clear? They do not accept an effect like UIEffectView, and they do not have a configuration property like UIButton.