iOS Blur Guidebook. Engineering for Transport.

This how the new iOS blur effects look like in a real life example.

Daniel Budynski
Sidney & Co.
3 min readMar 9, 2020

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Photo credits: Getty images

We all love blurs,

so in order to allow our developers easy communication with designers, we’ve created this little guidebook, which we’ve been using as our cheat sheet,when working with blurs in TUUUB app.

Now, we would like to share it with you.

Image captions follow scheme:

iOS blur style name (apple docs) ● iOS version where style can be applied

Image behind a blur layer
Light ● available from iOS 8
Dark ● available from iOS 8
Regular ● available from iOS 10
Prominent ● available from iOS 10
SystemUltraThinMaterial ● available from iOS 13
SystemThinMaterial ● available from iOS 13
SystemMaterial ● available from iOS 13
SystemThickMaterial ● available from iOS 13
SystemChromeMaterial ● available from iOS 13
SystemUltraThinMaterialLight ● available from iOS 13
SystemThinMaterialLight ● available from iOS 13
SystemMaterialLight ● available from iOS 13
SystemThickMaterialLight ● available from iOS 13
SystemChromeMaterialLight ● available from iOS 13
SystemUltraThinMaterialDark ● available from iOS 13
SystemThinMaterialDark ● available from iOS 13
SystemMaterialDark ● available from iOS 13
SystemThickMaterialDark ● available from iOS 13
SystemChromeMaterialDark ● available from iOS 13

We hope it was useful for you — if so, then have a wonderful day.

Sidney&Co.

Nonconformist gems from upon Thames.

Daniel & Radek

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