Midjourney Prompt for App Iconography: Liquid Glass iOS Icons
Generates a set of app icons in Apple’s Liquid Glass style translucent, refractive, internally lit from just an app category and a color, ready for iOS/iPadOS/macOS icon mockups. Liquid Glass Apple’s translucent, light-refracting material introduced across iOS, iPadOS, and macOS has a very specific look: soft internal glow, real depth instead of a flat drop...
A single {icon_subject} app icon, Apple Liquid Glass material, translucent
frosted glass with visible internal glow, light refracting through the
edges, subtle {color} tint, soft specular highlight in the upper left,
rounded square icon shape (squircle), centered composition, minimal and
clean, floating on a plain light gray background, soft studio lighting,
ultra-detailed 3D render, no text, no background scene
--ar 1:1 --style raw --v 8.2Variables
| Placeholder | Example | What changes if you alter it |
|---|---|---|
| {Icon subject} | weather app | What the icon represents changes the core shape/symbol Midjourney renders inside the glass. |
| {color} | soft blue | The tint running through the glass material; swap for your brand color. |
Actual output, by model
Real output this exact prompt produced — not a description of what it might do.
[Image: squircle-shaped icon, frosted/translucent blue-tinted glass material, visible internal glow, soft specular highlight upper-left, chromatic/rainbow refraction visible along the beveled edges, centered sun-behind-cloud weather icon glowing white-blue, plain light gray background, no text, no background scene. Matches prompt variables: icon_subject="weather app", color="soft blue".]
Which model runs this best
Midjourney rendered every specified element accurately with no edits needed correct squircle shape, frosted glass with visible internal glow, soft blue tint, upper-left specular highlight, and a clean centered weather icon with no stray text or background scene. It also added edge chromatic dispersion (a rainbow-tinted refraction along the glass bevel) that wasn't explicitly requested but reads as a plausible, high-quality interpretation of "light refracting through the edges."
Generates app icon concepts in Apple's Liquid Glass material translucent, internally lit, with real depth instead of flat glassmorphism.
How To Use
- Replace {icon_subject} with what the app does (e.g. "weather," "fitness tracker," "notes")
- Replace {color} with your brand or accent color
- Run in Midjourney; use Vary (Subtle) on your favorite to explore close variations before picking a final
Pro Tips
- ★Midjourney outputs a flattened image, not a transparent-background file bring your pick into a background-remover or your design tool afterward to get a clean icon asset
- ★Generate 3-4 {color} variants of the same {icon_subject} before picking Liquid Glass reads very differently in warm vs. cool tones
- ★If the glow looks too subtle, add "strong internal glow" to the prompt rather than raising brightness generally it targets the material, not the whole image
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Generates a set of app icons in Apple’s Liquid Glass style translucent, refractive, internally lit from just an app category and a color, ready for iOS/iPadOS/macOS icon mockups.
Liquid Glass Apple’s translucent, light-refracting material introduced across iOS, iPadOS, and macOS has a very specific look: soft internal glow, real depth instead of a flat drop shadow, and light that appears to pass through the icon rather than sit on top of it. Most “glass icon” prompts people copy-paste produce plain glassmorphism (blur + transparency), which reads as dated 2021 UI trend, not the newer material. This prompt is written to target that distinction directly.
It’s built for app developers, indie iOS teams, and designers who need fast icon concepts before committing design hours something to hold up next to a real App Store listing, not just a mood-board image.
What makes it hold up:
- Explicit material language (internal glow, refracted light, glossy highlight) rather than the generic “glassmorphism” keyword that most templates default to
- Locked to a single, centered icon composition with, so output is usable as an actual icon instead of a wider illustration that needs cropping
- {icon_subject} and {color} as separate variables, so a fitness app and a finance app in the same base color produce genuinely different silhouettes, not the same glass blob relabeled
One real limitation: Midjourney can’t guarantee pixel-perfect, transparent-background icon files see the Pro tips for the actual export step.
Version history
- September 25, 2026Baseline entry first test of this prompt with icon_subject="weather app",
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