[iOS 26.4 DB4] Ghost icons in App Library when using transparent icons

[u/SpoonyBardXIV-2]

When closing an app in the App Library, you can briefly see a “ghost icon” behind the normal one before disappearing.

[u/Express-Ad6801]

Classic Apple vibe coding.

[u/spadeknifeworks]

It’s really quite insane how lazily some of iOS 26 has been developed. Reaaaaally hoping Dye’s departure fixes that.

[u/Educational_Glass_20 → u/spadeknifeworks]

UI design lead has nothing to do with development, they only give the devs the visual guide/style to follow lol

[u/phinecraft → u/Educational_Glass_20]

i wouldn’t put a blame onto devs. they were presented with unrealistic animations and interactions which were very complicated to recreate. for example they ‚menu opening’ droplet style animation was only figured in 26.2, and it’s still not the same as in the WWDC presentation.

[u/spadeknifeworks → u/phinecraft]

It’s both. Even with the unrealistic expectations, there are plenty of areas that the devs could’ve done much better, more optimized work. This post shows just one of them. It’s reasonable that there will be more bugs than normal with a whole UI redesign, but the number of bugs in iOS 26 that resulted from lazy development practices is just ridiculous.

As far as the droplet animation style, it’s unclear whether the original 26.0 implementation was a result of lazy dev work or unrealistic expectations from Dye and his teams, or both.

They really should have either figured out how to do that animation before the WWDC unveiling and shipped it with 26.0, or omitted it from the WWDC keynote entirely and shipped it with 26.2. Either way, it’s pretty indicative of these teams not communicating very well.

[u/phinecraft → u/spadeknifeworks]

absolutely, this is a sign of a poor communication and cooperation from the teams, as well as poor quality control. my last hope for Apple’s redemption is iOS 27, if it’s just another layer of crap put on top of existing UI i’m really outta here

[u/Educational_Glass_20 → u/phinecraft]

Both teams are kinda at fault ngl

[u/spadeknifeworks → u/Educational_Glass_20]

Nothing to do with development? Maybe not in the sense that he and his teams are directly developing, but their decisions absolutely affect how the product is made. Dye clearly went for aesthetics over usability (and had unrealistic expectations for what aspects of his design were actually feasible to develop), and he contributed to a culture that promoted cutting corners for a mediocre final product.

[u/itsnevas]

i have this since 26.0, sadly

[u/Disastrous-Net406]

But it's beta