ICON COMPOSER 2 AND SF SYMBOLS 8 NOW AVAILABLE AS BETAS

Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter

Apple has released beta versions of SF Symbols 8 and Icon Composer 2 for developers and designers following WWDC26. SF Symbols 8 adds new symbols across Apple's latest operating systems, bringing the total library to more than 7,000 symbols with support for animations, effects, and variable rendering. Icon Composer 2 introduces Liquid Glass design tools such as Refraction for realistic light distortion, improved specular highlights for better layer definition, and an Extended Preview mode that lets designers see how app icons will appear on both current and previous operating systems.