I Rebuilt the iOS Tab Bar Using Apple’s New SwiftUI Glass Effect

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Apple quietly shipped a new Glass effect in SwiftUI, and almost nobody is talking about it. In this live coding session, I build a fully custom SwiftUI tab bar using the new .glassEffect API, experiment with interactive states, and show what actually works versus what looks good only in theory. No UIKit. No hacks. Just pure SwiftUI, GeometryReader, and real-time iteration. If you’re building modern iOS apps and want that liquid, Apple-native feel, this is something you need to see.

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A step-by-step walkthrough of implementing Apple's new glass effect modifier in SwiftUI to create a custom tab bar with a liquid glass appearance. The tutorial covers applying the gloss effect to tab items with different states (clear, interactive, identity), customizing the background with capsule shapes, and adjusting padding to achieve proper positioning. The implementation demonstrates how to make the custom tab bar flexible and customizable compared to the default SwiftUI tab view.