Android is getting a blur toggle soon.
This year’s Material 3 Expressive aesthetic looks great, but only if the heavy background blur doesn’t make things hard for you to read. If it does, a new Android test build includes a toggle to disable blur everywhere. No word yet on when it’s getting a stable release though. [Link: Google is fixing a big readability complaint with this new Android setting | https://www.androidauthority.com/android-reduce-blur-effe…
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