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A magazine I occasionally write for just gave me updated guidelines for screenshots. As of the ’26’ operating systems, they mandate contributors have Reduce Transparency turned ON. Why? Because otherwise the grabs won’t be legible enough.

So we’re now at the point with Apple design where the default UI isn’t suitable for a long-running print publication. Good work, everyone at Apple! Everything is fine dot gif.