Liquid Glass’ blurred content everywhere is especially cruel to those of us who use reading glasses or progressives.

The reflex to seeing blurry text on our phones is to adjust our sight angle or distance to sharpen it. But, of course, it’s not our fault, doesn’t sharpen, and just causes eyestrain.

Text on my phone should never be blurry.

You may ask, “How many people could this possibly affect?”

Well…

@marcoarment I'm gonna be that guy, but ChatGPT is not the right tool for this

@outadoc correct, a quick search led me to this well sourced article that indicates that chatgpt took north american numbers and made it sound like they are true for every continent – which they don’t seem to be.

https://www.contactlenses.co.uk/education/presbyopia-stats

doesn’t invalidate marco’s broader point, but of course the information is incorrect. because it fucking always is. (not true, it‘s just 50 % of the time when it comes to correctly regurgitating news. that’s fine, right? https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2025/bbc-research-shows-issues-with-answers-from-artificial-intelligence-assistants)

Presbyopia statistics worldwide in 2025

<p>As of 2025, presbyopia affects a very large portion of the world’s population. Estimates suggest that around 1.8 Billion people worldwide are presbyopic. <p>

@marcoarment @outadoc, it isn’t. However, long-sightedness *is* very common: doi.org/10.1016/j.ophtha.2018.04.013