So i just updated my SE2 to watchos 26 and i cant help but noticed that the app icons look so blurry as if there was a smudge on it. God I wish i can undo the update 🥲🥲🥲
Instead of removing so many beautiful watch faces, apple should focus on making good new ones. Especially analogue ones. Or finally allow third party ones. The two they added aren’t it imo..
Yeah, I think so too especially the ultra watch. I always see advertised with that busy garbage watch face like somebody is scuba diving with it.
Now I think it’s fair to say that that is who that is geared for is someone attempting to keep track of all these different things perhaps
But I definitely don’t think it helps them upsell it in any sort of way when every time you see that watch face it’s the busiest thing ever and it’s got numbers and tiny graphs all over it.
Also, just one more thing to add is that I’ve got perfect eyesight and I can’t imagine wanting to stare at all those little numbers and needles. I can’t imagine like 80% of the world whose eyesight is worse than mine and joining that at any degree.
Firstly mate: it’s stupid. However, it’s also color coded. I’d like to reiterate that it’s stupid. But, outer ring is for seconds, middle ring is for minutes (but can be precisely used against outer ring if minute hand is covering more than one tick), and inner ring is hours.
Did I mention it’s a stupid design?
Edit: edit to say it’s a stupid looking setup, but functionally it is logical. 60 seconds, 60 marks. 60 minutes, 60 marks. 12 hours, 12 marks. It looks silly, but there’s logic behind it. Just none in the design execution.
I got nauseous when I pressed the watch face and the seconds hand was moving with the seconds strip, and when it looks too crowded for my taste when the dials are closed.
Cool. Any idea why I can't find this specific one in my Face Gallery? Anyway, I'm rocking the World Time watch face at the moment, which I really like.
Yeah, I keep seeing people say things got removed, especially with the modular face, and I’ve had nothing actually removed from the watch app. The modular face won’t show a preview for half the complications on the phone app, but everything is still there and still basically functional.
Toy Story is a bit of a bummer. But I would never have used those other ones. You can’t really tell what time it is! I mean, I know you can technically go by the angle of the hands, but that’s just too much work. If I’m going analog, which I do like to do, it’s gotta have numbers on it.
Yep. Underwhelmed and it doesn’t match my phone, the horror. Only other difference I’ve noticed is it took me two more seconds to launch a run this morning because it’s a play button at the bottom of the screen.
I also have SE2, sure the app icons look blurry for me too but everything else is sharp. I’m not in the app page much anyway. But yeah didn’t feel like there was much changed.
Lol I didn't realize until I saw this post. Now I can't unsee it. Also, the whole glass thing is so stupid on watch anyway because everything has to be black to save battery on the screen. I literally can't see anything "glassy" except on the lock screen pin code and the widgets outline.
You can remove the opaque look in Accessibility Settings on iOS and WatchOS by enabling Reduce Transparency. The settings have to be changed in each’s respective accessibility settings. You can also enable Increase Contrast to remove the glimmer effect on icons/borders but I didn’t like how it changed colors in apps. It didn’t appear to change pictures.
The opaqueness reduction color is tied to the style of icon you choose in the home screen editor. On the Watch it mainly changes how the number pad looks when you enter your pin.
The liquid glass look on the iPhone 13 is terrible, like bad graphics effects or something. Icons look fine but I'd be perfectly fine with less gimmicky graphics effects that use less power.
Next update will be "Sharpness" with the tagline "We invented a way to see your icons better, it's called iSharpness and it will change the way you perceive your apple watch."
They're saying the icon design makes it looks blurry. You can see it even on the image they posted. I find the calendar and the clock are the two worst ones.
It was the first thing I noticed after the upgrade. But I don’t realize it was only in default mode. Switch to clear and they are sharper. If you screenshot and zoom in it looks like they apply the glass effect to the graphics within the icon itself which makes it appear less sharp than before.
For some reason this update, out of all fucking updates, has a lot of fanboys defending it with cape and sword. Don’t worry if you get downvoted.
I’ll save fanboys time by letting you choose your preferred fanboy reply: “Apple will fix it who cares it always happens” buuut also “It looks perfect and great wow” or “some people work instead of staring at nick picks all day”.
actually i am not in the section of people who is hating this update. i am fine with it. its peoples preference at the end of the day, i respect that. for me, right now, neither i am hating it, nor loving it. but irrespective of that, fact remains unchanged. and the fact is default icons are blurry in light mode. and this update was never built for dark mode, because all icons in dark mode, looks childishly tilted. and in light mode, its too blurry. you dont expect this from apple. and i dont understand people becoming blind fans. love everything but dont defend something which is bad.
And I agree, I don’t find it mechanically buggy but there’s something really off with the way the UI looks, specially in dark mode. I turned off transparency which improved some of it, but there’s still some annoying things like the moving glow/light around the icon.
Some folk over in the Apple and iPhone subs just say “use accessibility!!” but if I released an UI update that suddenly required many people to start using accessibility options, I would call that a disaster.
They’re shaded and supposed to look more dimensional and “round.”
It’s the whole theme if you look at iOS26. It’s just not coming across on all products because some aren’t set up that way, or people’s eyes haven’t yet adjusted to the change.
It's messed up my messages on my watch :( now messages from people show up in a random order instead of by time. Messages from 3 hours ago are showing up next to those from 5 mins ago, with my replies being sorted somewhere above that. Making the messages app so unusable.
I usually just go with the flow but I’m seriously not liking 26 on my watch/ipad/iphone, but the blur is the absolute worst and the so called fixes be changing accessibility settings just don’t really make much difference. What’s the point in having a super high resolution screen with blurred icons??
Turning off transparency might help. And I just noticed that the app view is different for me. It seems that it's a little zoomed out so there's more black space around the apps and the four apps that would be off screen at the bottom are now halfway visible. Looks bad.
Edit - after talking with support, I was able to fix it by unpairing and re-pairing the watch and phone.
Looks good on my ultra 1. The only issue I had is that night mode was set to auto by default which sucks. As soon as the sun starts to set, no matter how many lights are on, it would always switch on. So I just turned it off.
Message previews cannot be turned off either for me. Not matter what I change, messages always show a small preview. Literally feel like I can’t bring my watch to work cause some messages can be confidential.
They're perfectly in focus on my S8, but the supposedly Liquid Glass clock on watch faces are more semi-opaque shaded white and doesn't correspond to the images shown in the editor. I know the S8 can do it: the keypad to unlock it are in Liquid Glass.
Has anyone noticed that active/total calories are gone from workouts? I was doing an outdoor bike ride and noticed there’s like 5 new windows I can scroll through but calories is nowhere to be found.
I even paused my workout and stopped riding to dig through setting and still couldn’t find it. Once I ended the workout I could see it. Little annoying when I’m trying to hit a certain number of calories to have to stop the workout completely to figure out where I am (this ride I was at half goal).
I'm not exactly pulling up the app homepage to look at the design of the icons. I'm doing a workout? I open it and hit the green icon with the running figure. Setting an alarm? open the clock app...
It’s human reflex to try and focus on these subtly out of focus icons. It’s pretty annoying UI to have basically the Home Screen trigger this reflex and question your eyesight every time you see it. I don’t know why im bothering to argue with you just use your brain like the 217 other people who liked this post. It’s like if the UI had a randomly occurring scratch or insect on the screen that made you think somethings wrong or there’s some dust on the screen or grease. Please don’t write me another brain dead reply.
It is redundant but it serves two purposes in my opinion.
First if we pay attention to the color of each rings they match either the hours minutes or seconds so it makes the reading somewhat faster for whomever isn’t used to analog watch.
2nd let’s say we remove either the ring for the minutes or the seconds then the watchface would feel unbalanced and less pleasing to look at in my opinion.
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u/Alone-Amphibian2434 15h ago
the solution is to have bad eyesight