Liquid Glass for iPhone
We have refreshed the iPhone interface with the latest Liquid Glass aesthetic introduced in iOS 26 and refined for the coming iOS 27. It looks lighter, feels more immersive, and removes a lot of small bits of friction across the app.
This update is focused on the iPhone only, but we're already busy updating iPad and Mac — and the Mac version is looking like it'll land sooner than we expected.
More Accessible Library
The biggest workflow win is in the library. On iPhone, Darkroom now uses the native floating tab bar with a new dedicated Library tab, making it much easier to jump between your Recent photos and navigate your Albums and collections.
Albums are an essential part of many photo workflows, especially when you are reviewing a shoot, organizing exports, or jumping back into a specific project. Giving your Library a dedicated home removes extra taps from those flows. You can jump into an album, switch to another one, then quickly return to Recents when you want to manage or edit across your wider library.
We also brought much more control to the photo grid itself. You can now change the number of columns in the iPhone grid, either through controls or with a quick pinch gesture directly on the grid. Zoom out to scan more of your library at once, or zoom in when you want larger thumbnails and a better sense of each image.
The grid is more flexible in other ways too. You can choose between square thumbnails and original photo aspect ratios, and more easily sort by when photos were added, modified, or created. Together, these options make the library better suited to different workflows, whether you are browsing quickly, comparing compositions, or finding the most recent changes in a shoot.
They are small controls individually, but together they make the library feel much more fluid in day-to-day use.
More Immersive Editing
The editing area also received visual update. When you zoom in, your photo now extends all the way to the top of the screen and subtly continues behind the tool area, visible through the glass surfaces around it. The actions at the top are overlaid instead of occupying a separate, heavier area, making the image feel larger and more present while you work.
Sliders have been updated to feel more glass-like, and all tool areas have been refined so they sit naturally within the new Liquid Glass environment. The goal was not just to make the editor look newer, but to make the act of editing feel more immersive, with fewer hard boundaries between the interface and the image.
This kind of polish is often hard to describe in a feature list, but it matters every time you open the app. Controls, panels, and overlays all add up to the feeling of whether an app is getting out of your way or asking you to work around it. We want Darkroom to feel calm and capable, especially when you are deep in an edit.
More Precise Range Masks
Alongside the interface work, we also upgraded the AI model we use for estimating depth. This dramatically improves the quality of Depth, Foreground, and Background masks, especially in images where subject separation used to be more difficult.
We also revamped the control used by Depth, Luminance, Color range masks. Range masks now support customizable falloff on both the lower and higher ends of the selected range, giving you much finer control over how adjustments blend in and out.
Together, these changes make masking both cleaner and more expressive. You get stronger starting points from improved depth estimation, then more control over how each mask fades through the image. You can isolate a tonal range without creating hard transitions, target a color while keeping neighboring hues protected, or refine a depth selection so it fades more naturally through the scene.
The result is fewer corrections, more natural-looking adjustments, and advanced masks that feel more powerful without becoming harder to control.
Help Center
One more thing that isn’t in the App Store release notes: we now have a proper Help Center.
For a long time, a lot of Darkroom knowledge lived scattered in release posts, release notes support emails, and word of mouth. The Help Center pulls that together into one fully searchable and easily browsable place — documentation for every feature, the FAQ for quick answers, and guides for the workflows people actually ask about.
Want to go deeper on the mask work in this release? Start with Masks & Local Adjustments. Looking for a particular look or workflow? There are guides for editing RAW, building a film look, creating presets, portrait and landscape editing, and more. Or open the FAQ and follow whatever rabbit hole looks useful.
We’ll keep expanding it as the app grows — if something isn’t covered yet, tell us.
As always, thank you for using Darkroom, sending feedback, and helping us keep refining the app one release at a time.
The Darkroom Team
