When a popover is presented from a view that uses glassEffect(.regular.interactive()), I’m seeing mutually exclusive behavior: either the popover’s chrome (its navigation bar / toolbar) uses Liquid Glass or the originating control keeps its Liquid Glass “morph” behavior — but not both at the same time.
There are two ways that I can enable Liquid Glass on the container:
- Option 1 (background capsule with .glassEffect) → The popover’s toolbar shows Liquid Glass, but the menu button loses its morph effect.
- Option 2 (.glassEffect applied to the HStack) → The menu button keeps the morph effect, but the popover’s toolbar does not have Liquid Glass.
I'm using XCode 26.0.1, with latest iOS 26.0 stable simulator installed.
Here's an example code to reproduce the issue:
import PlaygroundSupport
import SwiftUI
// MARK: - TestView
struct TestView: View {
@State private var isPresented = false
var body: some View {
VStack {
Spacer()
HStack {
Button("", systemImage: "plus") {
isPresented = true
}
.popover(isPresented: $isPresented) {
MyPopover()
}
Menu {
Button("Option 1", action: {})
Button("Option 2", action: {})
Button("Option 3", action: {})
} label: {
Image(systemName: "ellipsis")
.frame(width: 40, height: 40)
}
}
.padding(.horizontal)
// Option 1 - The popover's toolbar will have liquid glass effect, but then the menu button loses liquid glass morph effect
.background {
Capsule()
.fill(Color.white)
.glassEffect(.regular.interactive())
}
// Option 2 - The popover's toolbar will not have liquid glass effect, but the menu button keeps liquid glass morph effect
// .glassEffect(.regular.interactive())
Spacer()
}
.frame(width: 400, height: 800)
}
}
// MARK: - MyPopover
private struct MyPopover: View {
var body: some View {
NavigationStack {
VStack {
ScrollView {
Text(
"Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum."
)
.padding(.horizontal)
}
}
.navigationTitle("Welcome")
.navigationBarTitleDisplayMode(.inline)
.toolbar {
ToolbarItem(placement: .cancellationAction) {
Button("", systemImage: "xmark", action: {})
}
}
}
.presentationCompactAdaptation(.popover)
.frame(width: 300, height: 200)
}
}
PlaygroundPage.current.setLiveView(
TestView()
)
Attached the screenshots for the difference.