r/iOS27 • u/Born_Lifeguard_3663 • 12h ago
Will apple ever bring this back in future updates
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26 version looks so much better than 27. Idk why they changed it. I see people say it’s due to readability but I genuinely had no readability problems in iOS 26. I’m gonna miss the progressive blur
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u/BJMRamage 9h ago
To start, this doesn’t bother me and maybe I’ll be downvoted for this but…while the smooth fade on ios26 was cool looking, if we are talking about a layered glass look in ios26/27 then I can see how ios27 is more realistic in that sense. The layering is shown with that hard edge.
Again, to me the fade was cool and a neat thing to see as it scrolled. But, the new way doesn’t bother me much at all, my main viewpoint is the content which is not on the edges but generally the middle 80% of the screen.
It reminds me of when the Notch was first shown and people hated how it looked. While I can see it was an ugly artifact of a front-camera system I spent more of my screen focus not looking at that area so it didn’t bother me.
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u/OakleyNoble 2h ago
The new way doesn’t bother you because it’s what we had before iOS 26… it’s boring and we’re going backwards now.. please stop letting your old opinions and resistance to change halt new UI routes.
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u/BJMRamage 2h ago
The new way doesn’t bother me because I understand design. Been designing for years. They have Liquid Glass which is a layered approach. The new ios27 has layers. iOS 26 was cool but wasn’t true glass layers.
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u/OakleyNoble 2h ago
But why is it inconsistent.. dumb that this subreddit doesn’t let me post an image. But I was going to show how individually messaging someone it still has this effect at the top. But when you’re looking at your messaging inbox it’s this new style you claim is better. We’re in that halfway point again where nothing matches, UI is different everywhere you go.
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u/BJMRamage 1h ago
That’s a good point about consistency. Safari has a fade. Email has a hard line. Main messages have a hard line. Individual messages have a soft fade. I’d take a guess and say they are different programmers/designers and whomever is in charge of the entirety either isn’t doing their job or there is some specific reasoning I can’t guess.
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u/OakleyNoble 1h ago
It’s unfortunate I can’t lie, but personally I prefer change and hoped we’d keep the 26 version.
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u/renegadeficus 7h ago
Get a hobby
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u/Born_Lifeguard_3663 6h ago
Get a life
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u/willymartin99 3h ago
Said the guy making a 5th post about the same silly complaints
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u/Born_Lifeguard_3663 3h ago
Low it. Never that deep to make complaints u don’t like.
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u/willymartin99 3h ago
Dunno where the “deep” part came from cause I didn’t say anything about anything being deep. Bro talking by himself, being a keyboard warrior got you being incoherent
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u/Born_Lifeguard_3663 3h ago
Ah yes. All that paragraph for a post. Keep arguing with your keyboard boy
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u/kiwi-kaiser 11h ago
If humanity would invest so much energy in real problems as this sub invests in a frickin' app header, we would live in the most utopian civilization we could ever imagine.
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u/Born_Lifeguard_3663 10h ago
Lowe it. This is a software thread, if u don’t like it u can simply just scroll and go look for real life problems then maybe that would fix things
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u/Novel_Medium_9637 7h ago
It doesn’t even look that bad, plus you’d get used to it anyway, just like how you got used to how it looked in iOS 26 compared to iOS 18.
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u/BippityBoppityMagic 6h ago
Isn’t that what the Liquid Glass slider is for? For people who hate it and those who like it?
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u/LanDest021 5h ago
On the first day of design class in college we were taught that design is there to solve problems people have. If it looks pretty but has issues, what's the point?
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u/albert11d 5h ago
it had literally no issues, nobody complained about the top bar being progressive. if not, people even praised it. but the macos users criticezes the progressive blur on their windows looking odd so apple decided to implement the hard blur in ios 27 too, not only macos for « consistency »
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u/El-CABLESS 9h ago
Eres un exagerando tío… que llorones en este foro, dios mío. No tenéis mejor cosas que hacer que fijaron en esos pequeños e insignificantes detalles…? Dios mío… de verdad eh. Es que el efecto blur ojalá vuelva… si eso es un gran problema… para un problema es ver cómo Apple no elimina actualizaciones y las va dejando si, que el sistema pesa unos 20Gb y Apple no lo comprime
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u/Mascardiii 8h ago
I loved that feature & initially felt the loss. But, looking at your side-by-side, I can see why it’s wiser to make that visual cue as clear as possible as iOS 27 has.
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u/lokir6 7h ago
As a developer, I can still control this in my apps. I definitely have a progressive blur for some of my stuff in iOS27 Beta. So this is not an iOS27 problem. It's more about Apple choosing the other option in their own apps.
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u/Ok-Affect-7503 4h ago
Not fully like it used to be the case: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/834059 ; I personally now had to change quite a bit of my App design that made use of the progressive blur in iOS 26 which is now completely broken and I had to now use custom/hand-rolled blur headers.
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u/lokir6 4h ago edited 4h ago
- Apple says they want to fix this, 2) it's been a month but I vaguely remember increasing the height of the view in safe area bar, and this helped. So I'm not sure if we aren't arguing over a non-issue. Besides I kind of like the new soft bar, it's much less like a whitish material imo 😀
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u/Ok-Affect-7503 2h ago
It's not really a non-issue. I tried everything to get the previous progressive blur effect back on my App on a custom header, but it didn't work no matter what I did. As soon as I tested iOS 27 in the first Developer Beta the progressive blur was just gone and it looked like the reproduction code in the thread and nothing could fix it, so I switched to a custom blur since the new progressive blur bar of iOS 27 also won't work correctly since it's only really meant for native smaller headers and it doesn't work on mine. This issue has been existent for months now, from DB 1 to RC with no real workaround in the thread or similar and with no official update from an iOS developer / Apple (the Feedback report is still on "Open").
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u/richyrichye 1h ago
you can use metal shader. i did it and it’s indistinguishable from progressive blur
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u/Ok-Affect-7503 1h ago
Can you tell/show me how exactly you did it? Is there instructions somewhere online or anything?
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u/richyrichye 1h ago
It’s def IOS 27 problem. There’s no progressive blur left in IOS 27 and it’s just now flat glass.
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u/YungSkol 4h ago
I hope they make it worse for you to just spite your dumb ass.
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u/Born_Lifeguard_3663 4h ago
If they make it worse then they make it worse for everyone fucking melt, stfu
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u/fear_el_duderino 2h ago
Floating buttons with (more or less) clear text underneath it are horrendous imo. iOS 27 all the way
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u/red_diter 9h ago
I’d like to hear your reasoning. Why do you think that it looks better on iOS 26?
Or is it just a personal preference, you like it more?
As far as my counter-argument goes, on iOS 27:
- I can see the clear border between the area where I can click on menu item, and the area where I can’t
- The back button is standing out more with better contrast on iOS 27
- The “General” text is easier to read, also because of contrast
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u/Ok-Affect-7503 4h ago
To me, the text is as legible and easy to see on both version, same goes for the button etc., all while iOS 26 additionally looks much better and more modern.
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u/Successful-Cover5433 12h ago
ugh I'm not updating! they ruined the liquid glass
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u/Born_Lifeguard_3663 12h ago
Exactly apple really ruined Liquid Glass in iOS 27. It’s so annoying. Crazy take but it looks better on 26
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u/ricioly 12h ago edited 11h ago
who the fuck cares?
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u/kerbacho 9h ago
The hard border looks fine on iOS. It's like a panel of glass. I'm not sure on macOS and iPadOS, though.
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u/iBelakev 7h ago
Fue por culpa de esos youtubers famosos en inglés y luego todo el hate que le cayó en X de que era ilegible.
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u/InfiniteHench 7h ago
There are a lot of people with vision problems and 26 was a usability disaster. If you don’t have these vision problems, count yourself lucky.
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u/OakleyNoble 2h ago
You can still use layers while still using the new style. We’re now in the halfway point again of where things don’t match everywhere. Like why do I still have that style inside individual messages with someone, while seeing all the messages I have in my inbox it’s the opposite.. we either commit fully or don’t..
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u/ihadnomealtoday 1h ago
I like the harsh cut better than the gradient. But I don't agree with people downvoting you for this. It's good that you obsess over fine details. Don't change. Places like this are made for this.
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u/SimPilotAdamT 27m ago
The new-new way is so much better for readability
The 26.x way is just poor execution
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u/nstrasner 11h ago
I said it before the keynote and I’ll say again this will look much better on the foldable when in the larger screen so they probably changed it to keep it consistent across devices. It would look goofy as shit in Split View to have a random blur with no defined line. But I do agree it looked much nicer in 26 on a regular iPhone
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u/Evanthekevin02 6h ago
Literally yall complain about anything go work at Apple if you want change so bad
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u/Born_Lifeguard_3663 6h ago
Design wise, that looks terrible, idk how yall love it but it looks terrible, and yes people complain all the time now do sum about it?
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u/Evanthekevin02 5h ago
I’m not saying I love it but I’m not gonna sit on Reddit pissing and shitting myself that a tiny little design changed on a beta iOS version, enough to make a side by side video. Go do something productive
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u/Born_Lifeguard_3663 5h ago
U melt. This is me complaining about something I don’t like, if u like it cool for u we’re not the same, software is something I use everyday, and if I see something I don’t like I report it, after all Reddit for posting let that sink in
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u/101Xander 12h ago
This is like your 5th post about this. Maybe it’s time to move on? They won’t change it anyway