This liquid glass delusion on iOS 26 leads me to madness

My colleagues did not believe me when I told them that all my app icons look slightly twisted after update iPhone 16 Pro to IOS 26 and obtain new liquid glass from Apple The user interface.

I told the staff correspondent Kyle Barr- a comprehensive consumer technology teacher, preventing you-to look at my main screen and told me that icons were slightly tending to the left, such as Bisa Millet Tower. He said, “I do not see him,” in an attempt to convince me that there was no oblique. He recently examined the updated iPhone 14 Pro and did not see any oblique icons as well.

It turns out that we are both true.

To create the effect of the glass and all its reflective and sparkling features, iOS 26 imposes each icon on your iPhone screen on a slight glow for them in the right and lower upper right corners. This gives the most accurate view of the tilt of your iPhone, creating the illusion that they got the thinnest layer of depth.

Against most home screen wallpapers – especially the most colored symbols – the App’s App icons do not appear. All shapes drew attention away from the corners of the refraction application. But this is not the case with many dark backgrounds, or solid black as I have on my iPhone. Above a pure black background and with the codes that are set on “dark”, “clear” or “colored”, everything looks inclined. I found it just a high and a kind of frustration if you look at my main screen for more than a few seconds.

I am not the only one who is annoyed by this visual illusion. A After r/iOS It contains more than 2.5 km and about 500 comments at the time of writing this report. “The effect of the tire glow makes the applications inclined, which really distracts me (I even feel a little dizziness),” said user Tantunidevouer.

People who have not noticed this confirmed after updating their iPhone devices. “I did not notice that at first glance, but now I cannot cancel the icons of the applicable application”, ” Silacko user books. Another Reddit user, Membership, he said“This update makes me feel drunk.”

Some users have suggested that they turn off the buried view of the accessibility department within the settings application. Apple added the “movement reduction” set iOS 7 Dizziness and nausea. (I was one of these users who felt nauseous from the impact of the zoom icon.) Run the movement reduction kills the animation, and the additional “cross transformations” setting helps “reduce the movement of the user interface control controls when it appears and disappears,” according to the Apple description. I operated both settings and I can confirm that it does not remove the corners of the refractive application icon. Apple may add another switch to the growth department constantly under access to the update of future programs. At this stage, why not only allow users to determine the extent of the glass and glass liquids who want iOS 26 on their devices with a kind of scroll settings that allow you to adjust transparency?

With liquid glass, Apple was going in a uniform design language that works across all its products, from iPhone to iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV. Some people love the fluid -like interface; Others hate it. If you are the last, you can Make liquid glass less liquid and glass with some adjustments to access.

I will not go to the point of saying everyone From iOS 26 it is “Optical nightmare,“Like Reddit Demenghi user, but I think there is room for improvement, or at least, more customization should be added.