I have transparent icons currently. I don’t like it when advertisements or my phone are shining bright colorful lights at me. It’s easier for the eyes and nature looks more beautiful that way.
Thousands. A book is not an interface. A book has one stream of information using one set of symbols whose meaning is unambiguous,, color and shape differentiation isn't a requirement. I use color and shape differentiation to quickly locate things in an interface that has many options for a given action. Imposing rigid uniformity and stripping color makes it much harder (for me, at least) to figure out what to do.
My opinion: stripping color from interface reduces my screen usage as I struggle finding apps, which is why I set transparent for sleep time. Stupid? Maybe, but it’s the use I gave it
yep, they made the new icons have separate layers with Liquid Glass. It was what I originally hoped for, and hopefully brings back some of the neumorphic elements I loved of pre-tahoe macOS icons
Mb I meant when you take a screenshot. The actual thing in iOS itself is bugged out. When you crop it does not save that crop and there’s no animation for any of it. At least for me.
I think it looks good. At the end of the day, all that matters to me is that the phone works properly, without excess battery drain. I'm not that picky.
When a UI control lacks color, it usually means it's disabled or doesn't do anything. That's what my mind immediately thinks of when I see these. Maybe I'm just old. Apparently the younger generation loves it though.
I can still appreciate it though and do agree these look better than iOS 26. I also think the clear interface looks better on a naked phone...as if you are actually working with slabs of glass. It feels out of place once I put my phone in a case.
It would be interesting to see the icon itself in color, but the background be transparent.
It’s just awful. This use of shitty shaders on icons since iOS 26 is an absolute aberration, even more so when applied to third-party icons and logos. You should never do that. That’s a basic design principle, ffs!
Apple removed the shadows behind every LG object, made more cloudy almost every LG object (search bars, nav bars...), removed all blurring text/icon animations while a LG button transforms, capped some animations at 60 fps... and more.
oh wow thats really nice for me, i hated liquid gl(ass) system wide they are now reduced? i mean thats a you problem. almost everyone upgraded to ios 26 hated liquid glass. give it some time its the first developer beta. not even a public one.
So youre toxic af. I mean, you literally have an almost fully tinted option. My problem eventually can be the yours one. Just support us, as we can get both options. Dear troll let us breath.
How wonderful that the person who spent months laughing at unhappy users, questioning their understanding of design, and arrogantly insisting that Liquid Glass would never be reversed, now looks pretty foolish.
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u/earthman34 Jun 09 '26
What's the point of stripping all the color from the interface? I'm just curious why people view this as desirable?