New system apparently broke icon resolution. They seem out of focus now, very low quality. It happens for default icons only. Dark icons or tinted looks fine. Is this intentional? It looks like a design mistake or a bug.
iPad Air, iPadOS 26
Many users are having difficulties with the new "glass" UI introduced with iOS/iPadOS 26. You are definitely not alone.
While many are happy with the new look, some find difficulty. There are three Accessibility settings which may help with the appearance - each can be used singly or together.
The two principal settings are:
Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size >
The third Accessibility setting, which may help, is found here:
Settings > Accessibility > Motion > Reduce Motion - set to ON
This third setting removes some of the UI cosmetic motion effects, such as parallax and the lensing effect of the background/wallpaper. After many hours of testing, I have found that enabling this setting in isolation improves the clarity significantly - without introducing additional contrast artefacts or visual issues.
This setting provides additional benefit, in particular for older models of iPad and iPhone, in reducing CPU/GPU loading - resulting in smoother scrolling without visible jitter. In reducing CPU/GPU overheads, you may also see benefit in reduced battery utilisation.
If there are specific aspects of the new appearance and user-interface over which you would like to see change, or more configuration control, you would be best advised to submit constructive comment and feedback to Apple using the Product Feedback portal. For iPad and iPadOS:
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I don’t like blurry icon images
Hi even camera & photos icon also blurred
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Your photo… they look ok to me.
It’s definitely harder on my eyes than 18 was.
All icons are blurry due to the new frames. It really lookd blurry I have a headache from rhis and considering ios18 downgrade!
Also the keybort fonts are worse (tiny) compared to previous ios
You can not downgrade back to 18.
Have a look at this thread. The keyboard looks a bit smaller, but it’s actually bigger. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/256140994?answerId=261601863022&sortBy=oldest_first#261601863022
I wished I had never upgraded. Liquid Glass is total rubbish. My phone now looks an out of focus, faded and poorly drawn cartoon.
Yes unfortunatelly ios26 is not beta ersion anymore, so legal downgrade is imposible.
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iOS 26 icons are out of focus, blurry
