Following the brand new update to my iPhone 15 , the new icon layout puts a white border round my icons. I had spent ages making icons without borders that floated on my plain background . It says the new update is fully changeable but HOW do I get rid of these new bordered icons
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Original Title: icon issue
iPhone 15, iOS 26
Please follow this path,
iPhone > Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Increase Contrast > disable, if it is disabled, momentarily enable and then disable and restart iPhone.
"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.
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 🙁
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.
What a weird response. "Learn to appreciate it" lol and saying it's not bad. I haven't met a single person that likes it. I've talked to tons of friends from tech, finance, teachers, leadership, etc, people are either indifferent or absolutely hate it.
It's an abomonation -- and your response of telling people not to worry about it and to appreciate it is super strange. Almost like you were told to try to sway the narrative around it by apple. Do you work there or have brand partnerships with them?
Reddit readers are never happy, that's the whole point of that platform .
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.
This does not work on an Apple iPhone 16 Pro. Thanks for trying though.
How to remove white borders around icons on iPhone 15 after update?
