iOS 26: Make App Icons Clear on Your iPhone Home Screen

If you've conscionable downloaded the iOS 26 nationalist beta connected your iPhone, the archetypal happening you'll announcement is the caller Liquid Glass plan overhaul, which adopts translucent elements passim the strategy interface and successful banal apps.

On the Home Screen, the hunt bar, dock, and app folders are translucent. By default, app icons person a caller layered solid look that gives them dimension, but there's besides a caller enactment for "Clear" glass-like icons. This mounting turns your app icons transparent, and widgets too. So if you privation the afloat solid effect, work on.


In iOS 18, Apple introduced Dark Mode and Tinted app icons. With iOS 26 and iPadOS 26, Apple adds a 3rd ocular benignant – Clear – that removes the colour from app icons and widgets, and applies reflective, translucent effects to marque them look see-through.

There are 2 versions of the caller Clear style. In Light mode, app icons look semi-transparent, subtly darkening the wallpaper beneath them. Both icons and widgets lucifer glass-like panels with layered substance and images. In Dark mode, icons clasp immoderate transparency but diagnostic a darker background, making them much pronounced portion preserving the layered, translucent aesthetic.

Apple besides includes an Auto enactment that dynamically adapts to the Appearance mounting of your iPhone.

How to Get Clear App Icons successful iOS 26

1. On your iPhone's Home Screen, agelong property an bare abstraction until it enters jiggle mode.


2. Tap Edit successful the top-left corner, past pat Customize successful the pop-up menu.
   
   
3. Select Clear successful the sheet that appears astatine the bottom.


4. Choose Light, Dark, oregon Auto mode. If a mode makes icons oregon app labels hard to see, pat the prima icon successful the top-left of the Customize sheet to dim the wallpaper.
   
   

Accessibility Settings

If legibility is simply a problem, determination are 2 toggles successful Settings ➝ Accessibility ➝ Display & Text Size that interaction the look of the Clear benignant of icons. Try playing with Reduce Transparency and Increase Contrast – just enactment that toggling connected some settings volition origin the icons to suffer astir of their translucency.


Liquid Glass extends to iPadOS 26, macOS 26, watchOS 26, and tvOS 26. ‌iPadOS 26‌ looks a batch similar ‌iOS 26‌, and macOS 26 has a translucent paper barroom and dock background, positive it uses Liquid Glass for buttons, broadside bars, navigation bars, and the Control Center. What bash you deliberation of the caller Clear benignant and the Liquid Glass redesign of iOS 26 much broadly? Let america cognize successful the comments.
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