To create the effect of glass and all of its reflective and shimmering properties, iOS 26 forces every icon on your iPhone home screen to have a slight glow to them in the top left and lower right corners. This gives the subtlest parallax effect when you tilt your iPhone, creating the illusion that they’ve got the thinnest layer of depth.

Now the iPhone’s newly-released iOS 26 update is being lambasted for a function issue — it’s apparently draining users’ battery. After installing the update, which was initially announced in June at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference, many techheads noticed that their “juice bar” was being depleted within hours.