{"id":97024,"date":"2025-08-27T19:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T19:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/97024\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T19:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T19:30:10","slug":"ios-26-vs-ios-18-five-new-icons-you-may-not-recognize-after-updating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/97024\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 26 vs iOS 18: Five new icons you may not recognize after updating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ios-26-apps-icons.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>iOS 26 is <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/07\/23\/ios-26-release-date-heres-when-the-new-iphone-update-will-launch\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">launching soon<\/a>, headlined by a fresh <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/07\/02\/ios-26s-new-liquid-glass-design-somehow-checks-all-the-right-boxes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liquid Glass design<\/a> that makes your iPhone look brand new. Apple has <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/07\/31\/new-ios-26-iphone-apps-icons-compared\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a ton of new app icons<\/a> coming with its redesign, but the following five icons might be especially hard to recognize after you update.<\/p>\n<p>AirDrop<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/airdrop-ios-26-icon.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1015957\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>AirDrop\u2019s icon is getting some fresh love from Apple this year.<\/p>\n<p>iOS 18\u2019s blue curves on a white background\u2014a classic, but very basic look\u2014has been replaced by a new blue iOS 26 icon with depth and more personality.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/airdrop-icon.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1015944\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Camera<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/camera-app-ios-26-icon.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1015953\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The Camera app icon has traditionally featured a glyph of a camera. <\/p>\n<p>But in iOS 26, Apple has given Camera a whole new look that focuses entirely on the lens.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it\u2019s fitting considering how huge the iPhone\u2019s cameras are these days?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/camera-app-icon-ios-18.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1015954\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Apple Games<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/games-app-icon-ios-26.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1015939\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t recognize the rocket ship icon? That\u2019s not a surprise, since it\u2019s for the brand new Apple Games app in iOS 26.<\/p>\n<p>Though iOS once offered a standalone Game Center app, it\u2019s been gone for almost a decade.<\/p>\n<p>The Games icon in iOS 26 takes its design cues from <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/arcade\/subscribe?itscg=30200&amp;itsct=arcade\\_box\\_subscribe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Arcade<\/a>, with a red-centric scheme that diverges a lot from Game Center\u2019s old look.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/game-center-icon.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1015949\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Image Playground<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-playground-ios-26-app-icon.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1015955\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Apple just launched the Image Playground app last year. But it\u2019s already getting a whole new look for its app icon. <\/p>\n<p>Gone is the cute and fluffy canine image, replaced by the standard Apple Intelligence logo in a bubble.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-playground-ios-18.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1015952\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Preview<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/preview-app-icon-comparison.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1015940\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, the Finder app is <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/08\/12\/ios-26-will-add-two-brand-new-apps-to-your-iphones-home-screen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">coming to the iPhone<\/a> with iOS 26\u2014and with a fresh icon.<\/p>\n<p>But while there\u2019s some loose resemblance to the old Mac icon, Apple\u2019s iOS 26 look definitely goes in a fresh direction while paying homage to the original.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of iOS 26\u2019s new icons? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>Best iPhone accessories<\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\">FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/bmx\/solidsafe-safer-solid-state-battery-for-iphone-wireless-usb?ref=gka71h\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1012938\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754437509_161_BMX-Mac-925-banner-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"150\"\/><\/a>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"iOS 26 is launching soon, headlined by a fresh Liquid Glass design that makes your iPhone look brand&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2306,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-97024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-mobile","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}