Need help with making mesh smooth (again)

Hello once again. Sorta bouncing off the post I did a couple of weeks ago on making meshes smooth. I am making this cup in Blender and I want to make it smooth, but when I turned on Auto Smooth, it does nothing. I tried changing the degrees but it does nothing either. And I don’t want to use Shade Smooth. because it turns out weird in studio. I need help on this please, and I understand it’s such a simple thing!


Ty in advance :))))

You have to smooth shade to use auto smooth, iirc.

Oop never mind I think I got it! I selected “Shade Smooth” and then “Auto Smooth” and the shading issue is gone. Is that what you meant?

Yes. You can’t use auto smooth without shade smoothing first.

And please mark your post as the Solution so others don’t try to read through it to solve it. Thx.

as @Scottifly said mark the solution and close this if possible

Gotcha. My apologies. Thanks for the tips!