When Apple introduced the Liquid Glass redesign last year, it also added a fun interactive easter egg to the Preview app on iPadOS. Now, it is bringing the same playful element to iOS 27.
iOS 27 gets an interactive loupe
When Apple introduced the Preview app to the Mac in 2001, its icon featured a couple of photos beneath a magnifying loupe.
Over the years, the icon went through several redesigns, eventually losing the photos and keeping only the loupe as part of last year’s Liquid Glass revamp.
Here’s Basic Apple Guy’s compilation of the several Preview icons from 2001 through 2025, as part of their fantastic macOS Icon History gallery from last year.
