We have already discussed about How to adopt Liquid Glass in UIButton in Swift? It’s easy to adopt liquid glass design in any view with SwiftUI, I will add separate post for that. In this post let’s discuss about – create liquid glass for custom view in Swift.

Apple just introduced Liquid Glass design in WWDC25 event. Here I am posting little snippet that how to apply liquid glass style to UILabel in UIKit with Swift Language.

You have new UIGlassEffect a visual effect that renders a glass material to incorporate the new Liquid Glass design.

import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        
        addGlassLabel()
    }

    func addGlassLabel() {
        let effectView = UIVisualEffectView(frame: CGRect(x: self.view.frame.midX - 70, y: self.view.frame.midY - 25, width: 140, height: 50))
        
        let glassEffect = UIGlassEffect()
        glassEffect.isInteractive = true
        
        effectView.effect = glassEffect
        effectView.layer.cornerRadius = 20
        effectView.clipsToBounds = true
        
        self.view.addSubview(effectView)
        
        let label = UILabel(frame: CGRect(x: 10, y: 0, width: 140, height: 50))
        label.text = "This is text only!"
        label.textColor = .white
        
        effectView.contentView.addSubview(label)
    }
}

import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController {

override func viewDidLoad() {

super.viewDidLoad()

addGlassLabel()

}

func addGlassLabel() {

let effectView = UIVisualEffectView(frame: CGRect(x: self.view.frame.midX - 70, y: self.view.frame.midY - 25, width: 140, height: 50))

let glassEffect = UIGlassEffect()

glassEffect.isInteractive = true

effectView.effect = glassEffect

effectView.layer.cornerRadius = 20

effectView.clipsToBounds = true

self.view.addSubview(effectView)

let label = UILabel(frame: CGRect(x: 10, y: 0, width: 140, height: 50))

label.text = "This is text only!"

label.textColor = .white

effectView.contentView.addSubview(label)

}

UILabel with Liquid Glass Effect in Swift

Here you can customize the property like isInteractive to give tap behavior with glass. Also as you can see I have added UILabel in effectView. You can add any other view in the same way.

Conclusion

Xcode 26, iOS 26 and other beta just released. I will explore and keep posted.

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How to create Liquid glass for custom view in Swift?

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