Telegram for Android adds a touch of ‘Liquid Glass’ in beta [Gallery]

Telegram has released a new beta update on Android that adds a bit of Liquid Glass, and users aren’t very happy about it.

In Telegram for Android v12.2.0, the app is officially introducing “Liquid Glass.” This appears in the text input bar as well as the emoji, GIF, and sticker panels. The rest of the app is largely untouched by the UI change.

The change hasn’t graduated to the stable release channel yet, but it can be turned off via the “Power Saver” settings where Telegram directly refers to it as “Liquid Glass.”

In comparing the stable design to the latest update, the changes are relatively minor.

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Still, users don’t love it. The initial beta release that introduced this change has over 500 downvotes on Telegram’s beta release channel, accounting for a considerable portion of the channel’s total subscriber count. As such, it’s not entirely clear if this change will make its way to all users, but we’ll have to wait and see.

Notably, Telegram added Liquid Glass designs to its iOS app earlier this month, even for users not on iOS 26.

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