Honor launches MagicOS 11 with liquid glass design

On 17 September 2026, Honor announced MagicOS 11, its implementation of Android 17, at its Global Developer Conference, introducing a liquid glass design and an updated Yoyo AI.

Honor developed the liquid glass look using its custom Luminous and Hummingbird base architectures, which the company says optimize user interface dynamics, AI processing and hardware performance.

Honor says MagicOS 11 brings up to 20% faster system animations compared with MagicOS 10.

The update also refreshes icons, menu items and widgets, and adds customizable tinting for home screen icons and the dock.

The updated Yoyo AI is configured to serve more than 1,000 scenarios and, Honor says, integrates with over 10,000 third-party AI services in China at least.

Honor claims the assistant can execute long-distance tasks of up to 100 steps.

Storage Space 2.0 promises lossless compression of stored data and, Honor says, can free up to 60 gigabytes of space.

MagicOS 11 adds seamless file sharing and connectivity with Apple ecosystem devices and with devices from Oppo, vivo and Xiaomi.

Honor plans to debut MagicOS 11 on the upcoming Magic9 series phones; a public beta is already open for more than 18 devices, including the Magic8 series, Magic V6 and Honor 600 models.

Honor published a list of MagicOS 11 eligible devices (machine translated from Chinese).

A second list of devices eligible to register for the internal beta includes the Magic6 series, Magic V3 and the Honor 400 and Honor 500 series.

Honor says the next wave of supported devices will join between October and November.