Apple's 2025 translucent 'meta-material': controls behave like lenses that refract and reflect the content beneath them rather than merely blurring it. Concentric continuous-curvature capsules float above the canvas, tint themselves from the wallpaper, and flip between light and dark ink based on backdrop luminance.
Primary actionA capsule control that visibly bends the content scrolling beneath it — edge distortion plus a moving specular highlight — while its ink color adapts in real time to the luminance of whatever passes behind.