Mastodawn

Aha, I thought. I can get around Liquid Glass and return to my minimalist iOS 18 Home Screen, just by flipping the background from black to white! Genius! But no.

Whether I set a background to white (255,255,255) or use an image (255,255,255/#ffffff), iOS 26 makes it subtly darker, just so it can still show off its Liquid Glass effects around widgets. iOS 18 does not.

I don’t even.

This might not be news to anyone here, but, hey, I’m still discovering new things that annoy me about iOS 26.

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Craig Grannell May 11

What’s somehow even worse about this: if I open up the image in Photos on both of my phones, the *same* thing happens. In iOS 18, it’s #ffffff, but in iOS 26, it’s #fefefe. So iOS 26 is not accurately showing me the content of my (admittedly insanely simple) image, for… reasons. Good grief.

(If I’m wrong here or there’s some kind of weird setting I’ve turned on, please do say. But I cannot find anything. I’ve already turned off all accessibility stuff, just to check.)

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Riccardo Mori

@craiggrannell It’s absurd to me that an OS should actively fight one’s preferences. Or bend them to its whims.