Excitement at the Worldwide Developers Conference often runs high, but Apple users aren’t always jazzed about the updates at first.

Fruits of Their Labor

Apple’s latest round of product updates, including the Liquid Glass design, may be irritating to users at first, but they are the sort of changes that keep the company at the top of the technological heap

By Jonathan Margolis

At some point this fall, unless he has somehow gotten his hands on a pre-production sample of the glittering gold Trump phone he announced earlier this week, the president of the United States will wake up and find that his iPhone looks slightly unfamiliar and performs a little differently.

The numbers on the time display will be thinner and more elongated, and there will also be a new effect on the screen as you navigate through functions with your finger. Apple calls this Liquid Glass, and it’s difficult to describe, but it’s like your finger is producing a moving blob somewhere between a giant raindrop and a rounded piece of transparent Jell-O.