Some people mimic this by making a blurred overlay and gradient masking it, but that creates a nasty halo effect when you dim the opacity of a blur layer. It’s not worth it, don’t do it.
(By the way, we created this graphic using
Janum Trivedi’s VariableBlurView. Very fun to play with but not App Store-safe!!)
Here’s another common pattern that’s highly polished here: the media grid. You’d normally see this in a social media timeline, but we love the nested corner radius the grid items, how inner corners are sharper, and how items delightfully spring in and out of the light box view.