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how to fix unreadable labels inside home screen folders?

Ever since ios 27.0.1 installed itself on my iphone 14, the labels of the icons inside of every home screen folder are completely unreadable. see image.



Because I find the liquid glass feature irritating, I have always had that turned off (i.e., the slider is all the way to the right “more tinted”). I also have dark mode turned on. Furthermore, under “accessibility”, I have “reduce transparency” enabled. I did all of this so I can see things better and reduce the eye strain that the default settings inevitably induce. But now, as you can see by the image, the new ios 27.0.1 has made these labels that are inside Home Screen Folders completely unreadable.


Does anyone know how to fix this, and yet still have dark mode and no liquid glass?


2 replies

Perhaps you did some contradictory things.

  • You moved the Liquid Glass slider all the way to ”more tinted”.
  • You enabled “reduce transparency”.


From this page in the iPhone User Guide:

Adjust iPhone display and text settings - Apple Support


”Note: If you turned on Reduced Transparency or Increased Contrast in Accessibility settings, you need to turn them off to change the look for Liquid Glass.”

I consider this a bug because if you use a dark homescreen wallpapet forcing icon text to be white your problem goes away.

I bet you have a light color homescreen wallpaper with black icon text?


  1. change to dark wallpaper
  2. Report the bug https://apple.com/feedback