Saying the new icons are inferior is subjective and opinion based, but they certainly have softer edges.
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Saying the new icons are inferior is subjective and opinion based, but they certainly have softer edges.
Like 10 people around me all switched to iOS26 and I don't think most of them have even noticed. With what did she have trouble?
People who are saying it's not blurry are right though. There's a number of stacked effects that can give one the impression that it's blurry, but they're not blurry. Saying that people who say that are just gaslighting is asinine and not listening to their argument.
There is a pretty huge difference between pointing out a pretty clear and obvious pattern relating to a general subset of forum posters and personally attacking forum members. If my doing the former has made you feel like I did the latter, some introspection on your part is probably warranted.
The "impression" that it's blurry means it is "blurry" to human eyes and that's all that actually matters.
“I see dead people”, oops wrong forum. 😅
This seems to be a situation of defined hard edges compared to soft feathered edges. Is anything in reality have hard defined edges when looking at it from a distance. When looking at it closely it does but at a distance the ambient light and our eyes makes it look soft.
In the above scenario LiquidGlass has achieved its outcome. I personally like it but some prefer hard defined edges and no my eyesight is fine it’s a preference thing.
This seems to be a situation of defined hard edges compared to soft feathered edges. Is anything in reality have hard defined edges when looking at it from a distance. When looking at it closely it does but at a distance the ambient light and our eyes makes it look soft.
In the above scenario LiquidGlass has achieved its outcome. I personally like it but some prefer hard defined edges and no my eyesight is fine it’s a preference thing.
There is a pretty clear difference between disagreeing with some opinions and outright insulting a group of posters by claiming they are lying. Your doing the latter was disingenuous.
In the very first example the top “app
Store logo” clearly looks better.
I think there is a lot of cognitive dissonance in these forums and people should figure that out.
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While I'm sure you meant "latter" instead of "former" in your comment, the reality is that I did neither. I simply pointed out that some users in these forums have a famously predictable slant on most topics (btw, I include myself in that assertion). Again, if you feel insulted by that, there is probably a good reason why.
ETA - I certainly did not claim anyone was lying. That was an interpretation of my comment you made up entirely on your own.
But contrary to your point there are a group of people who like iOS 26. I get people believe there are some visual glitches and bugs to be ironed out, but to me no more than other releases.
Sure, but that doesn't make it any less odd of a design choice. Mobile devices are things that people use up close - why would they want to have interactive parts of the interface look like something that is far away?
As they say here in Canada: okaybud.
Change for the sake of change and zero functional improvement is rarely a good thing.
It’s not change for the sake of change. If that is the case then iOS 6 was change for the sake of change as was iOS 7.
But functionally iOS 26 has a myriad of updates over iOS 18.
This is it entirely. Asking us to compare the relative blurriness of two screenshots when one is much smaller than the other means that one will be pixelated as compared to the larger one when we look at them magnified to the same size.
Relevant quote from the designer of Liquid Glass, Alan Dye:
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well, no... Blur means it's out of focus and therefor the color value of pixels "bleed out" into neighboring pixels. Here the elements are exactly where they are supposed to be and show refraction effects, every pixel is exactly the color gradient it's meant to be to mimic that effect.
If you look at the screenshots of that interface, and show it on a display 1:1, you wouldn't say "this display is blurry" because the image it's showing shows blurring/refraction effects.
That's literally the definition of blurry.
But according MR's liquid gaslighters, this abomination is "subjective" and they love it.
You’re literally saying that just because something looks like it’s blurry, that doesn’t mean that it’s blurry. Alan Dye, is that you?
Welcome to blur-o-vision! I’m used to it now but it fried my brain after I updated.
Just for your info after updating to ios26.2 automatic download and install of iOS is selected. You need to disable it again in settings if you don’t want it to update.
Mine is on ios26.1. Does 26.2 improve anything or is it just as bad?
I have turned off automatic updates on my iPad so it can stay on ios18 thank goodness.
I can understand what some people are saying about things we see in the distance having softer edges but a phone is used up close so it should be sharp. The blurriness keeps making me squint, as if my eyes are trying to fix it. I’m stuck with it so I’ll have to get used to it but I really can’t understand why any company would deliberately do this to their product.
I do the same, along with wiping my screen because I think there is a oily smudge on it.
Had a couple of comments from a non technical user with an iPhone 13 user yesterday when I was out. She had some problems with her entire calendar disappearing so phoned Apple support. They disabled iCloud calendars and turned it back on again which fixed it. However they told her to push an iOS26 update through.
The first comment she said was everything is fuzzy and soft and hard to look at now. Also laggy on the iPhone 13.
I really don't disagree with her.
The first comment she said was everything is fuzzy and soft and hard to look at now. Also laggy on the iPhone 13.
I really don't disagree with her.
It’s so incredibly obvious if one is being objective.
I can’t believe anybody is denying it here (ok …. I guess I can believe it actually.)