Sun icons turned white after updating to iOS 16.4

Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Increase Contrast - turn off and sun icons will turn back to yellow colour.

Hello everyone! I had the same issue with 16.4.1, updated yesterday, ugly white sun icons.

I applied the fix posted above and it worked. Then I realized there is a “per app” accessibility setting at the bottom of the accessibility menu. I added weather to this, turned “increase contrast” off for weather then on in the main accessibility menu and it worked. So that “increase contrast” is on for everything but weather. Hope this helps someone.

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Hi everyone I fixed the issue with my sun on the weather app showing white I was disappointed at first Lol until I read on here how to change it back to yellow I’m a happy camper!! 🏕️⛺️😁 Thanks Ya’ll

100% agree. I've been looking for this issue online thinking I was the only one experiencing this issue, I even spoke to my wife who didn't understand what I was talking about. Then I came across your post. Thank you for raising it. I tried the temporary solution by turning off the increased contrast, you are right it does fix the weather app, however it also affects other parts of the phone like iMessage, the colours of the blue bubbles look washed out 😔.

I really hope Apple look at this and address the issue. If there's anything else I can do to help like log it somewhere else please let me know.

This is still a problem in iOS 17 and macOS 14:

I've been submitting and adding info to this issue in the Feedback app for two years now (FB12390156, FB12940956, FB12085983)! 😩

To be clear, disabling Increase Contrast is a workaround, not a fix. That setting is meant to increase contrast for readability (4.5:1 for small text; 3:1 for large text) since many of Apple's stock apps aren't accessible out of the box. This is clearly a bug as it shouldn't change the sun and rain elements in the Weather app to three different colors!

For those who actually use the Increase Contrast setting, please submit feedback via the Apple Product Feedback page or Feedback Assistant. Maybe the more people who report it, the more likely it’ll be fixed!? 🤞

#AccessibilityMatters

Hi Gabi, that turns contrast off for the whole system. Removing contrast just for the weather app is clearly the way to go. You should read the other comments up there first 👌

Mine too! My current iOS version on my iPhone 14 Pro is 16.4.

Thanks for the investigation and the temporary fix!

I've been looking for this issue. This is really annoying...

I do have the Increase Contrast option turned On by default. But in the Weather app... turning all the icons to white actually _decreases_ the visibility. This is so silly... why do they try to fix what's already working? I hope they revert this. I want to have increased contrast with the colorful Weather icons.

Thank you for the solution. This same issue was observed following the 16.4.1 update yesterday morning where the graphics colors changed. Very annoying to say the least. Could not find a posting regarding issue till I read this thread. Again thanks

Way less of a question that a customer expressing annoyance at a change that seems more of a downgrade than upgrade. Apple is constantly making changes that don’t need to be made. “If it ain’t broke…”

I liked the distinction in color between the sun, cloud, and rain from before. No one asked me!

You are a big time saver!!! All this time I thought I was the only one with the issue. Last year after a software update, the sun on the weather app turned red. 🙄🙄🙄 I dealt with it cause I couldn’t find the answer anywhere on the web and no one I knew seemed to have the issue. Thank you sooooo much for sharing.