How to remove white borders around icons on iPhone 15 after update?

charstars wrote:

I mean it’s very opinion based but in my opinion it is absolutely bad. I hate it so much, it’s the worst feature on my phone, I want to switch to android because of the Liquid Glass alone

Look before you leap. Android has adopted some very similar aspects to Liquid Glass and it's called Material 3. You're really not going to stop technology from moving forward. Not with Apple. Not with Google. Not with Android (which is a Google OS).

Telling only other users on a user to user only forum you're going to take your marbles and go somewhere else is meaningless. We don't honestly care what you choose to spend your money on. If you think you can truly escape the newer skeuomorphic design language, think again.

"Reduce Transparency" doesn't remove the white outline around app icons.

“‘Reduce Transparency’ doesn't remove the white outline around app icons.”

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Thank for spreading the word!

I did this, it disappeared for a second the came back

Please share a screenshot that shows the white borders.

This is a pretty bad way to fix the issue.

This update is so awful, really regret upgrading to 26.1

everything looks terrible with the borders

it absolutely is bad, a simple reddit search will tell you it’s very unpopular among many people. Ruined the aesthetic of mine and many others’s home screens.

Reddit readers are never happy, that's the whole point of that platform .

Does not work for me on iPhone 16 Pro.

Any news on this? Every update has at least one thing that makes my life a little worse. I tried all the suggestions here, and submitted feedback. I had a lovely home screen 20 mins ago. Now this 🙁

I mean it’s very opinion based but in my opinion it is absolutely bad. I hate it so much, it’s the worst feature on my phone, I want to switch to android because of the Liquid Glass alone

It has NOTHING to do with “technology moving forward”. It was a (in my opinion mis-guided) design decision that no one was asking for.

ok, you like it. But some do not, and it’s ok to complain about this. People give a lot of money for something they expect, or are familiar with. All your advice in honor, no one can „really“ tune down the aggressive oversharpen look. Especially the look of the icons. Why not the possibility to change to flat ui Theme besides the new themes? Almost any device on market allows to change the ui theme. It’s very sad.

I agree...these 'shifting' borders are ridiculous looking and ruin the aesthetics of the display. As a professional designer of 40 years, the liquid glass look is simply a terrible design and a poor implementation - like most of apple's attempts at visual design. And typical of Apple; they are so short sighted as to implement a visual feature that is sure to be controversial with no option to turn it off.

None of the suggestions work on the newer phones. I have an iPhone 16 Pro and the suggestions do NOT work.

As someone with at least $15k of Apple investment, I have the right to vent and complain in a forum like this, mixed in with my inquiry on how I might disable the feature. Those who rant about the people who are upset about the look of their $1500 dollar phones being degraded by a visually disturbing and overly busy new appearance feature with NO OPTION to turn that feature off, should get off their high horse....posting links to apple's feature suggestiin/complaint site are of no help- we all know this already and many have probably complained there already even though we all know that Apple doesn't really care and if they do decide to modify a feature; it will take them 10 years to do so.