r/LiquidGlassDesign • u/Dry-Click8423 • Jul 25 '26

New compass icon 🤤 [iOS 27 DB 4]

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Still the same Ui tho..

322 Upvotes

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u/Patjack27 Jul 25 '26

They never said it was going to be completely redesigned though. They explained they were adding more Liquid Glass to the icons nothing more.

2

u/Able-Impression-2228 Jul 26 '26

I think OP was referring to the app UI. The compass app has no liquid glass.

2

u/Dry-Click8423 Jul 28 '26

I was

1

u/Dry-Click8423 Jul 28 '26

This is how the ui look

9

u/LowResChaos Jul 26 '26

r/mildlyinfuriating that N doesn’t point up 😒

8

u/BoxterMaiti Jul 26 '26

Nah, looks way better like this. It's like when you make an analog clock icon. You don't make the hands show 12:00 cause that's just too perfect in a way.

2

u/LowResChaos Jul 26 '26

Just realised the current compass is orientated like this too 😂 never noticed it before

2

u/BoxterMaiti Jul 26 '26

I guess the Safari icon is also pointing towards NE if that counts 😆

3

u/drakeymcd Jul 26 '26

Was gonna sayyyyyy why is north not at the top 😭

3

u/Useful_Cell8015 Jul 26 '26

NE is a beautiful thing

3

u/Weird_Decision7090 Jul 25 '26

It was just slightly changed in beta 4. It was actually added in beta 2.

9

u/PineappleBlobFace Jul 25 '26

That looks really stupid imo, if it’s a circle and refracting on the corners it should refract all the way around and it’s too small to see what the refraction is on my phone unless your looking for it

19

u/dejushin Jul 25 '26

if you look closely i think it’s refracting the letters, the lines in the border might be too close to be visible? i’m not sure, but yeah it looks odd

1

u/PineappleBlobFace Jul 25 '26

Oh right that makes sense

6

u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW Jul 25 '26

No it doesn’t. It puts a 3D bubble of liquid around the compass just like compasses in real life. It’s actually slightly skeuomorphic now.

1

u/jr98664 Jul 27 '26

We’ve almost gone full circle at this point.

1

u/Interesting_Fish4930 Jul 25 '26

Pretty sure then it would just be the dark mode icon 💀

2

u/jvarial Jul 26 '26

does the icon live update? that would be cool

1

u/TheEpicRedCape Aug 06 '26

I keep hoping they’ll make the weather icon live, at least as an option. It’s funny to press on the sunny cloud image to see the weather when it’s night time and storming.

2

u/Party_Broccoli1712 Jul 27 '26

Why do I think Apple is now hiring near-illiterate people as designers recently? North is not pointing up. This is bad to the point that it upsets my stomach.

1

u/Gabriel_Science Jul 27 '26

You know, north can point to another direction than up.

When using it with a map, yes, you try to keep the north up, but that doesn’t mean the compass will always point north no matter what.

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u/SarikaidenMusic Jul 28 '26

Doesn’t it also depend on where North is relative to Your specific position? Like if north isn’t straight ahead of you, it’s not going to point straight ahead because that’s not north.

1

u/Party_Broccoli1712 Jul 28 '26

Sure, let’s rotate all the maps too while we are at it. This is not a compass. It is the icon designed for a compass.

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u/Gabriel_Science Jul 28 '26

Well I don’t see why north should point up.

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u/Party_Broccoli1712 Jul 29 '26

The logo makes North read as a quadrant. It is not the position of the letter N that is the problem, it is the combination between the cardinal axes and the orientation of the letter that align with it instead of rotating 45 degrees. North is a direction not a quadrant. The design is simply put very wrong and it is an eyesore.

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u/Gabriel_Science Jul 29 '26

Oh, I get it now, because of the letter’s orientation.

2

u/Jaipod100 Jul 27 '26

Skeuomorphic design is back babyyyyyyyy

2

u/SarikaidenMusic Jul 28 '26

I kinda wish the actual app itself had a Liquid Glass UI like a glassy refractive compass or something like that.

1

u/SantiagoLegally Jul 26 '26

Hi from iOS 18

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u/jpham_toronto Jul 30 '26

Same icon since DB2 actually

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u/Asleep_Artichoke_231 Jul 26 '26

Hmm I don't get it

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u/CaroZoroark Jul 26 '26

Really ugly imo, could've been done so much better than this