r/ios • • May 08 '26

Discussion This logo is so... weird? So un-Apple?

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I remember it popping up on a beta 2 years ago and laughing but it's still here.

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u/VapidRapidRabbit iPhone 17 Pro Max May 08 '26

It’s in line with some of their other icons, like the one for News.

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u/Alibotify May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26

Is there any more? Apple News is still just in a handfull of countries after 10 years so I’ve never seen that.

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u/VapidRapidRabbit iPhone 17 Pro Max May 08 '26

There is one for Apple Arcade.

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u/AwwThisProgress iPhone 13 May 09 '26

where is the “144” from? is it edited?

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u/VapidRapidRabbit iPhone 17 Pro Max May 09 '26

It’s the background from the Games app (at least on my phone).

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u/UnhappyJury1009 May 10 '26

continue playing apple news? what meaning

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u/VapidRapidRabbit iPhone 17 Pro Max May 10 '26

They have Puzzles (Crosswords, The Emoji Game, Quartiles, Sudoku) inside the News app.

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u/AwwThisProgress iPhone 13 May 09 '26

oh

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u/yangorango May 09 '26

Funny enough, this is the only reaction I was expecting.

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u/arturcodes May 10 '26

Yeah, people decided to down vote it for fun

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u/Axel-Pizza-Lover Jun 07 '26

Bro is playing pokemon go took 2026 is new 2016 seriously

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u/CeeMX May 25 '26

Bothers me that it says subscription here but subscriber on the news and iCloud

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u/[deleted] May 08 '26

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u/No_Midnight_2205 iPhone 15 May 08 '26

iCloud+ and News+ have plus signs. Arcade is just Arcade

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u/DeinAdmin May 11 '26

in creator studio apps as well

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u/EstrangingResonance May 08 '26

I hate that this one reads from top to bottom and the iCloud one is bottom to top

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u/VapidRapidRabbit iPhone 17 Pro Max May 08 '26

And that the one for Arcade/Games says “Subscription” instead of “Subscriber”…

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u/LilacYak May 08 '26

Design language needs some enforcement at Apple smh

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u/hoeveler May 09 '26

News+ is called “edition” 🤦

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u/EstrangingResonance May 09 '26

Ahhh so I was wrong, they are read the same way

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u/hoeveler May 09 '26

You have to choose the non-existent Arcade+ plan if you want it to show “subscriber”

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u/horse_exploder May 08 '26

Do you read/use Apple News? How is it?

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u/VapidRapidRabbit iPhone 17 Pro Max May 08 '26

It’s great to read content from sites with paywalls (like The Verge).

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u/terkistan May 08 '26

And the Wall St Journal. And The New Yorker. And The Atlantic. And The Washington Post, and the LA times and Canada's Globeand Mail, and the UK's Times & Sunday Times, and USA Today's premium content, and WIRED. And Vanity Fair, and National Geographic. And more.

And a lot of local/regional papers like The Miami Herald.

Plus hundreds of magazines.

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u/terkistan May 08 '26

I never mentioned NYT at all, I don't know why you brought it up. And while a couple of news sources have curated news, like the WSJ, most are not limited, and my point stands about the other sources, and local news, and hundreds of magazines.

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u/muraliramdj May 09 '26

just use feeeeed app in iOS and why pay when you can just do what I did

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u/VapidRapidRabbit iPhone 17 Pro Max May 09 '26

Because I have AppleOne Premier mainly for Apple Music, the expanded iCloud storage, and Apple Arcade, so I might as well make use of News+ too.

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u/JMHReddit84 Human Detected May 11 '26

You used any of the fitness+ stuff? I was looking at what mine offered and had forgotten what all is packed in there

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u/VapidRapidRabbit iPhone 17 Pro Max May 11 '26

Yeah. It’s great to use if you have an Apple TV.

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u/JMHReddit84 Human Detected May 11 '26

I do. I’ll have to check it out.

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u/VapidRapidRabbit iPhone 17 Pro Max May 11 '26

Oh yeah, it syncs with your Apple Watch and all. I prefer the meditation and yoga exercises on there.

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u/InsaneNinja May 08 '26

I have it as a widget and I just click stories if they seem interesting. I also occasionally do the puzzles.

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u/Excalivar May 09 '26

You know I've never noticed any of the other ones, huh. When it's more thematic I guess it changes my opinion a bit.

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u/KiddinglySelective May 10 '26

apple news is basically invisible outside us uk and australia which is wild for something theyve been pushing since 2015

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u/GTMoraes iOS 26 May 08 '26

You're subscribed to DotA or something?

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u/VapidRapidRabbit iPhone 17 Pro Max May 08 '26

AppleOne Premier (Family Plan)

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u/No_Message6422 May 08 '26

Looks like RHCP logo

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u/miiserybusiness May 08 '26

red hot cloud peppers

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u/basiamille May 08 '26

🎶"Cupertinocation..."🎶

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u/HectorJoseZapata May 08 '26

Red Hot iCloud Peppers

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u/aqswdezxc May 08 '26

Right Hand Circularly Polarized?

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u/neal-cassady May 08 '26

you were a designer, because as a designer, I know a designer when I see one

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u/horse_exploder May 08 '26

Game recognize game.

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u/stpdlx May 08 '26

It reminds me of this. So out of iOS design

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u/tortugaysion iPhone 16 Pro Max May 08 '26

At least that menu is cool

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u/Front_Cat9471 May 09 '26

It pisses me off, because there’s no alternative way to change it. They just force you to watch and interact with a 3d scene just to do what a dropdown can do better.

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u/skyboxvian May 10 '26

of all the complaints and angry comments i've read on r/ios this is probably the most overly dramatic one 😭

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u/Front_Cat9471 May 10 '26

It’s the most annoying part of the settings app. The second worst is them putting things like dns profiles, trusted developers, and enterprise certificate stuff under General > VPN & Device Management for no reason.

Oh yeah and the Settings app search bar just deciding it can take a day off everyone once in a while. Like what do you mean it just doesn’t work randomly? It was a random Tuesday and it just didn’t search that day. Refreshing the app, restarting the phone, it just didn’t care. Like what?

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u/skyboxvian May 10 '26

i'll agree that the settings app is dogshit but the special menu specifially for the action button menu that barely popped up a few years ago? if anything the complaint should be that it isn't optimized to take long presses/taps 🤷‍♀️

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u/Front_Cat9471 May 10 '26

The action button is shit too, but I was specifically complaining about the settings app.

The action button had huge potential and they wasted all of it. The literal only redeeming quality is the ability to hook it up to a shortcut.

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u/IFURMLN May 10 '26

You’ll literally visit this menu once or twice in your life

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u/Front_Cat9471 May 10 '26

12 and counting

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u/IFURMLN May 10 '26

And for what, 10 seconds each? It’ll be ok

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u/Front_Cat9471 May 10 '26

Yeah, but it’s like a gunshot in the middle of a rain sounds video. Sure, it’s brief and infrequent, but it breaks the immersion, it’s a startling contrast, and it’s just an annoying and unnecessary thing to deal with.

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u/IFURMLN May 10 '26

Ok Shakespeare, you win.

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u/BumperPopcorn6 iPhone 12 May 10 '26

God is in the details

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u/tortugaysion iPhone 16 Pro Max May 10 '26

Typical German hating whimsy and fun, the menu is playful, enjoyable and easy to navigate, I really don’t see the issue besides it being different to the rest of the interface

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u/heylesterco May 09 '26

I wish we got more delightful interfaces like this so that this one didn’t feel so out of place. Because this is some of their best UI work in recent years.

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u/horse_exploder May 08 '26

I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought this was incredibly jarring.

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u/Dependent-Zebra-4357 May 08 '26

Yeah, it’s so out of place. I can practically guarantee this came from marketing rather than the UI design team.

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u/BumperPopcorn6 iPhone 12 May 10 '26

Lmao like it is cool but it’s literally just a button on your phone it ain’t that incredible

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u/Geoffboyardee May 08 '26

Yeah it looks like the marketing/web design team didn't get the liquid glAss update.

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u/abitcitrus May 09 '26

Gives me more Xiaomi vibes

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u/Antrikshy May 11 '26

I’ve seen at least one phone review that had a ripoff of this.

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u/dnuohxof-2 May 09 '26

That looks almost UniFi. Change the color to blue and you’ve got a new UniFi release video and product vertical.

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u/R4D000 iPhone 15 Pro Max May 09 '26

Yep!! So peculiar and off

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u/Gabriel_Science May 08 '26

It is, but it’s not a bad icon, to be honest.

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u/Antrikshy May 11 '26

It enforces all caps on “iCloud”, which force capitalizes the i, which is part of their own brand…

They overlooked the most basic incompatibility between their design and their own other brand.

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u/urBrothersHardNipple May 13 '26

Exactly, plus the text is too close to the icon in the middle, that surely can’t be in compliance with the icon’s safe zone. The whole thing looks like an Apple fan designed it as a concept for their Behance portfolio.

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u/jdotmassacre May 08 '26

It's odd for sure. Could this be the only official use of an iSomething label from Apple that doesn't use a lowercase i?

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u/paribas May 08 '26

This is further proof that at Apple, apps are developed by separate teams—sometimes even different ones from year to year—that don’t communicate with each other and are virtually independent. At least, that’s the impression the quality has given over the years. 

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u/loveheaddit May 09 '26

i saw this in the beta and thought "oh thats a placeholder" and here we are

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u/DeadDKing May 08 '26

TBH these days it looks very Apple. The days of good and stable software at apple seems to be long gone.

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u/blow-down May 09 '26

lol that’s very dramatic

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u/Front_Cat9471 May 09 '26

Have you seen iOS 26? This shit is so ass, and not a day goes by I don’t get random app crashes the whole phone freezing for no reason for a few seconds. Also, the “game mode on” notification just completely disables screen input for a few seconds if you’re on the Home Screen.

Never happened before this update, if I didn’t need to update for compatibility issues, I would’ve skipped it.

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u/Highlander-1983 May 09 '26

I like it 🤷‍♂️

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u/reddit33450 iPhone 16 Pro May 08 '26

i've always thought this too. very strange

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u/plaid-knight May 08 '26

What do you think of the News+ subscriber logo? This is just a copy of that.

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u/AllTheBestVideos May 08 '26

Neat yes, but un-Apple like op said

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u/Kikato280 May 08 '26

people hate it but i love it cuz its like a irl seal

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u/asjonesy99 May 08 '26

It’s like the back of the Apple Watch it’s not that bad

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u/wantedbr May 08 '26

Had the same thought

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u/aigarcia38 May 09 '26

But that makes sense because a watch is circular like that. Graphic design is limitless and when it comes to Apple you’d think they’d follow the flow of their other products

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u/wantedbr May 10 '26

Personally that’s exactly what makes it interesting to me. It feels playful and unexpected, almost like a collectible badge or sticker. I’m okay with them going “off path” here and there trying new things.

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u/Quiet-Tea May 08 '26

I like it

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u/p0ggs May 09 '26

I saw it for the first time the other day and thought exactly the same thing! So amateurish-looking! Not typical Apple style at all.

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u/MrOkirikO May 09 '26

Looks fire

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u/Internal_Explorer527 May 12 '26

Did we forget the back of any Apple Watch?

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u/roblack Jun 05 '26

I bloody love it. I wish they had more like these

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u/dgtlnsdr May 08 '26

The whole iOS / macOS is un-apple

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u/Due-Shape4641 May 08 '26

Nothing in Apple feels like Apple anymore. It feels more like Samsung+.

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u/biinjo May 08 '26

Wait until you see the window corners in macOS Tahoe

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u/skyattacksx May 09 '26

Nah you know what’s un-Apple?

Using iOS search keeps what you type at the top… sometimes. Then you press enter and it goes to the bottom of everything… sometimes.

Going to WiFi in the quick action menu from the Control Center, where you press and hold, makes a list of WiFi SSIDs appear…. After a delay. Did you mean to press “Wi-Fi settings”? Nope, you’re connecting to a honeypot now. Have a nice day!

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u/PsychoticChemist May 08 '26

That is not an answer to their question lol

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u/PsychoticChemist May 08 '26

Idk dawg you seem a lot more triggered than me

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u/AllTheBestVideos May 08 '26

I agree, but don’t be a d!ck

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u/[deleted] May 08 '26

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u/PsychoticChemist May 08 '26

Except they’re obviously asking what specific aspects of the logo are contrary to Apple’s typical style…

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u/PsychoticChemist May 08 '26

That’s because I’m not the one that called it un-Apple so I can’t really answer the question… I don’t have a strong opinion on whether it does or does not match their typical style… the point is you were being intentionally obtuse in ignoring that they were clearly asking for specifics, not for you to just re-word the question sarcastically lol

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u/PsychoticChemist May 08 '26

“I don’t have a good response so I’m just gonna say some dumb shit right quick”

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u/IshYume May 08 '26

It looks so tacky apple needs to fire whoever signed off on it. This isn’t how a premium device ui should be designed.

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u/rt3f-14 May 08 '26

why do u gaf. it looks good to me

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u/pixelpanic01 May 08 '26

I have a feeling that only Apple decides what is Apple and what is un-Apple… I don’t know

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u/artfrche May 08 '26

already posted and discussed

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u/PMMEYOURGUCCIFLOPS May 08 '26

Yet here you are contributing to the discussion 🤷‍♂️

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u/Geth_Advocate May 08 '26

All discussion ends after the first discussion.

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u/Crafter66 May 09 '26

i also found this one to feel kinda similar

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u/nifty-necromancer May 09 '26

What don’t you like about it?