this mysterious sixth customer uses the alphabet of “seven days to the end with you,” another game by lizardry where you try to decode a language. spoiler for that game: it uses >!the caesar encryption method,!< although >!sometimes one letter is shifted.!< this customer’s request decodes to:

>!”xant (want) drink yarm (warm)”!<

after receiving the drink, they say:

>!“thanks”!<

if you give them >!hot coffee + another ingredient,!< they say:

>!”perfect”!<

if you give >!them hot coffee and nothing else,!< they say:

>!”svccess” (success)!<

if you give them >!cold coffee,!< they say:

>!”failvre” (failure)!<

i found it in the list of actions and saw a post where someone said that when you give it to toy type m2 the robot gives you a bomb. it’s not the broken pocket watch, neither the scrap merchant nor m2 respond to that

i enjoyed looking at and trying out most of the secret tips posted on this subreddit but i didn’t want to get all 23 album pictures at all hahaha… i think it’s the samurai and challenger overriding the researcher and collector?

if you ended up filling out all of the album pictures, what were your personality traits?

i tried clipboard, files, and base64. it was working a couple of weeks ago, i don’t know what changed

EDIT: it seems like as long as i have icloud for contacts enabled, any new or edited contact will no longer have transparency

depth effect can allow foreground elements of your wallpaper to overlap the clock. unfortunately, if you have 2d vector or pixel art with crisp edges, ai detection usually fails. if you can blur areas of your wallpaper, you can force depth effect. others have tested this by blurring half of the screen, which is a really interesting look. my strategy has been to blur the sky and lower the opacity and that has generally worked for me.

one thing to note: depth effect overlap is not always compatible with spatial scene unless there is a strong foreground element that can basically stay in place while the background shifts

one other hack that can work is

1. set the unblurred wallpaper
2. turn on depth detection
3. leave the wallpaper customization interface
4. return and replace with the blurred wallpaper

right now in ios 26, adding a shortcut to your home screen with a transparent png gives it a flat white app background by default and a dark gray gradient in dark mode. you can flatten the dark mode background or add a gradient to light mode without affecting the other mode by gradient masking the other mode’s app background and adjusting opacity.

this also has some creative utility - you could do a white cloud in light mode that turns into a dark cloud with raindrops in dark mode. you could do a sun that turns into a moon. i will be making mockups of these ideas and more later!

(the original post is a little too niche)

if you want to change the background of any app icon, or isolate any other image from its background, this might be a good starting point. i use procreate on iphone for this process. i sourced icons from logopedia, the google play store website, as well as other google image results and my own low quality screenshots.

(original profile post here)

start with your app icon. if it has apple’s default white or dark mode app backgrounds you can paste one of the two images i will leave in the comments. if it has a straight vertical gradient like this app icon, you can use the technique shown here.

gestures note: where the copy & paste menu appears, i have swiped down with 3 fingers. i also merge multiple layers by pinching them together.

creating an empty app icon
- duplicate your app icon
- using rectangle select, grab a thin rectangle at the edge of the icon, being careful not to touch the border or the icon or the shadow of the icon
- swipe down with 3 fingers, duplicate, transform, freeform mode, and extend it across the app but not all the way
- if there are edges peeking out at the top and bottom, select the original app icon layer again, rectangle select again, being careful not to touch any visible parts of the icon or shadow. repeat the duplication and freeform transform
- when all parts of the app icon have been covered, merge the layers with a pinch

get the difference between the app icon and the empty app icon
i’ve covered this in my profile post with a simpler process so if you saw that you can skip down.
- change the blend mode of the empty app icon to difference
- swipe down with 3 fingers and copy all

adjust the difference before masking
here’s where things get more complicated. the simple method linked above usually results in icons that are slightly more transparent than desired. the following process increases the opacity while leaving some parts translucent.
- using freehand select, go around the edges (while trying to avoid the shadows), invert the selection, and fill the layer with black
- separate the background (which has the shadow) from the app icon if necessary by using automatic select and duplicating it
- go to adjustments -> color adjustments -> hue, saturation, brightness and turn saturation to 0%. turn brightness up to increase the opacity of the app icon
- back in color adjustments, go to curves and on the gamma tab, move the top right corner to the left. (from what i understand this has a similar effect to increasing brightness but with more control)
- for your background layer, just do saturation and curve; skip brightness. this will make the shadow slightly more visible
- merge the background and app icon layers with a pinch. copy the layer

set a mask on the app icon
here’s where the tutorials converge:
- (hide everything except your original app icon) mask your original app icon layer and deselect the app icon by swiping right on it
- swipe down with 3 fingers and paste your adjusted difference in the mask

done!

you can add in any app background after this, including a (fake) “transparent” app background. you can also try app icons that swap between light and dark mode! (requires a transparent png) here is one method of making gradients look consistent between light/dark modes

it’s not my long term setup but i was testing it out. here is my process for isolating app icons and here is how i did the app backgrounds

[EDIT: here is my new in-depth tutorial]

if you have dark icons set to auto you can use a transparent png to allow the background color to come through. i added shading/grey gradient backgrounds by gradient masking an empty dark app icon and lowering the opacity.

since i have multiple setups i couldn’t really use the liquid glass hack so this is my current solution

thinking of making a minimalist year calendar widget series, but i think the design is missing something and im looking for suggestions. planning to make options to pick between circles and squares and accent color as well, but i’m wondering whether i should put the names of the months, change spacing, or anything else. all feedback appreciated!

i really like how these turned out but the first one will have to stay in landscape mode… somehow i didn’t realize there were naturally transparent widgets for clock, battery, and files. not sure which other apps have it?

pixel wallpapers from @16pxl on twitter and 1041uuu on tumblr

dot widgets from void widget

this is page one of my checkpoint workflow; here i have apps i’d like to check at the end of every day. the wallpapers are "stars" and "space" by @16pxl on twitter. this is the second post providing the next step of instructions - you can view the full list of posts at the bottom.

figma app slicer instructions: i used the link from this comment, rearranging it for my specific setup (iphone se). like the original commenter, this is my first time using figma. i’m using the desktop app on my macbook and the browser version on my ipad.

first, you have to save a copy. click on the dropdown next to the file name and Duplicate to your drafts.

then, from the left sidebar Layers panel, select Import Background Here. (if you’re trying to get widget slices, you’ll have to go into the widget folder -> Widget - Glass -> Mask Group -> Widget Background.)

on the right sidebar, find the Image thumbnail under Fill. click on the word Image. it should pop up bigger. click on the bigger image and you should see the option to Upload from computer. (there are instructions in the document too but basically you go into Edit Home Screen and take a screenshot of a blank page. i also moved my dock apps off.)

i had to adjust dimensions for the screenshot as well as scale and adjust app and widget size. once i was happy with the dimensions, i scaled everything up so that the app size was correct for icon composer (1024x1024).

once you’re ready to export, go to the figma icon at the top left -> File -> Export (or ctrl + shift + E) and check the Slice files you want. you can select a folder before exporting to narrow down the selection. to get just the background, i deleted all of the existing icons. then, for each icon i made, i dragged the specific slice i needed into icon composer and then the actual icon i made on top

post list:

1. default
   • beach waves wallpaper
   • wallet app icon highlight
   • depth effect blur instructions
2. checkpoint focus
   • stars and space wallpapers
   • mail app icon highlight
   • figma app slicer instructions
3. driving focus
   • ocean’s delight wallpaper
   • maps app icon highlight
   • pixel art instructions
4. work focus
   • moonrise wallpaper
   • camera app icon highlight
   • icon composer instructions
5. projects focus
   • left behind wallpaper
   • photos app icon highlight
   • shortcuts instructions

i’m making a series of liquid glass/colorful clear pixel art icons for different focus workflows; this is one is for projects. the photos app icon is really finicky in icon composer if you want it to look glasslike but not oversaturated. i found that multiple layers with different blend modes and turning translucency up helped, and that it has to be tuned differently for each background. the wallpaper is by @16pxl on twitter. i manually blurred it for depth effect detection.

i’ve also made posts highlighting the maps and camera app icons.

here is the google drive where you can find pixel icon raws. i’m also working on making default light/dark mode icons along with .icon files for each. please feel free to request any icons i don’t already have.

here is the post where i list all of the posts i’ve made in this series so far as well as links to what i use to put everything together.

back with another setup! this one is my work workflow. wallpaper from @16pxl on twitter. camera icon inspired by this ai generated concept. i like the idea of combining the older and newer renditions of the icon. (the icon file i posted is from another workflow though.) here’s the post where i consolidate the links to everything i’ve posted so far as well as the resources i use.

making a series of focus mode workflows. this one is what i use when driving. wallpaper from @16pxl on twitter, i manually blurred it for depth effect. icons also adapted by me (linked below, feel free to request specific icons); i used the wallpaper slicer from another post (linked below, instructions linked with my adaptation) and then put it together in icon composer (general instructions in original post)

links:

• original post (icon composer instructions)
• second post (nebula)
• original liquid glass icon slicer
• my adapted slicer (figma instructions)
• commonly used pixel icon raw layers

making multiple workflow-based focus modes; second in the series starting from this post. artist is @16pxl on twitter. i manually applied the blur; more info on how to do clear icons in the original post.

i’m creating a series of focus modes for specific workflows with different pixel art wallpapers. (that’s why the dock isn’t synced to this wallpaper—it needs to be universal.) this particular one is actually a page from my no-focus setup. after doing all of my app icons, i’ll look into doing widgets with widgy as well

wallpaper: from jubilee @16pxl on twitter, i blurred some parts of it to get depth effect to work (gaussian blur for the sky, perspective + gaussian for the foreground water). hacked overlap by using the unblurred version first, enabling depth effect, and then leaving and coming back to swap in the blurred version. overlap is incompatible with spatial scene for this wallpaper because it lacks a strong foreground element.

clear icons: i used the link from this comment, rearranging it for my specific setup (i still prefer the se) and then scaling it up so that the app slices were 1024x1024 pixels. [edited, had the wrong size]

i did the pixel art layers in procreate on my phone and scaled it to a 1024x1024 pixel canvas, then exported to icon composer and changed each group’s liquid glass effect until i was satisfied.

my icon composer settings:

icon (base background color):

• automatic (white) for a frosted/light diffusion effect at the bottom

layers (mostly in separate groups):

• usually hardlight or overlay (or some lower opacity combination of both)
• blur on
• chromatic shadow (if the icon is too light might do an additional group with a higher opacity neutral shadow)

background (app slice):

• no specular
• blur on
• no shadow