Glasy icons in iOS 26: Some users get bad

Currently almost 3700 upvotes – plus over 700 comments: A posting on Reddit on the subject of iOS-26 design causes hot discussions. It is about the way Apple changed the icons in the liquid glass look-more precisely around their edge. As can be seen, you can change the general transparency of the operating system (until completely turn off), but this is not an element.

“Cheaper” glass effect

Especially when using the dark mode and the display variant “colored”, app icons “crooked” look. “I updated my cell phone to iOS 26 and honestly was pretty shocked when I saw the start screen in dark mode! The frame” Glow “effect makes the apps look at an angle, which distracts me very much,” said the original poster. He is “even a little dizzy”. Other users agreed: “Crap, now that I see it, I can no longer make it unseen.” In addition, there is another Reddit poster that the dark mode in connection with the glass effect “cheap”. A user is really bad: “The update makes me feel drunk.”

If you want to reduce Liquid Glass as a whole, you can switch to the accessibility menu (operating aids) and then choose “reduce transparency” there. However, Apple overlooked the icon effect here, apparently because the group thought that it did not affect readability. In practice, this is actually the case – unless you took the icons “wrong”. The effect is also reinforced by the fact that it is dynamic: if you hold the iPhone differently, the effect also adapts. Furthermore, the movement can be reduced (also via the operating aids), but that also does not change anything, only applies in other places in the system.

Downgrade separates

In the meantime, users who have already switched to iOS 26 are considering a downgrade. At Google in the trends, the phrase “iOS 26 downgrade” increased in the first days after the new operating system was provided last Monday. Apple itself has instructions Only for the downgrade of beta versions Separate.

For this you need a Mac or a PC. After a backup, you will then work via the finder (or the Apple device app under Windows), but you need a suitable one IPSW filethe Apple currently still offers.