10+ macOS Tahoe Features You Might Have Missed

[SnowCrocodile]

UI now looks clunky and ugly - silly rounded corners make no sense in most apps - think weedy lines splattered everywhere - buttons vanishing - UI text unreadable - inconsistency - are these the features ?

Yes. The rounded corners look cheap, tacky, ugly and out of place. Mac isn’t an iPhone, why copy iPhone corners everywhere? (And I’d much prefer the iPhone to have square corners as well).

 

[Madonepro]

A link would be helpful here.

Here is one; but these forums have a search feature you can use.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/is-launch-pad-gone-or-simply-not-part-of-the-default-apps-on-the-bottom-row.2466058/page-2?post=34146577#post-34146577

 

[iluvcrap2000]

more useless "features" People won't use. bah.

 

[eifelbube]

Preview toolbar looks like this with Reduce Transparency ON:

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.... though, interestingly Preview's Settings has an option to set the background colour for the window, which affects the toolbar. I rather think that the buttons look quite nice with a stronger background, regardless of whether Transparency is reduced or not:

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... though I'm not wild about the sidebar shape.

I'd love to have that option for Finder windows, and other apps generally. Some colours work quite well:

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Thanks much for making the effort to share the screens. I was curious what the dimmed app buttons in the 2 original MR screens i “replied” to would look like with Reduce Transparency activated.

 

[AppleTO]

This also removes launchpad. It’s a no-go for me at the moment.

 

[ArrayDecay]

Humbug!

 

[AppleTO]

I just don't understand what we are gaining with everything being trapped in a capsule shape.
Feels much more visually "busy" to me.

Sequoia Finder below

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Same, I don’t see the need for toolbars to have those shapes. I was curious (and couldn’t remember) so I looked back at previous versions. They were removed in Big Sur, but previously looked like this is Catalina. Much more compact.

As far as I can tell, the capsules are just so Apple can show off the glass effect. They don’t really serve a purpose at all.

I know this won’t happen, because this is Apple, but it would be nice if they offered themes, including the new glass style, but also the previous “compact” style.

 

[DBR2025]

Fugly OS. Hard pass. About to throw my new iPhone across the room in frustration with the laggy, low contrast, unnecessary ornaments and effects that clutter the screen and take up far too much real estate. Not gonna do that to my daily driver, no way.

The dumbest thing ive read on this forum in 2025.

Bet youre still using that iphone 17.

 

[RedWeasel]

Same, I don’t see the need for toolbars to have those shapes. I was curious (and couldn’t remember) so I looked back at previous versions. They were removed in Big Sur, but previously looked like this is Catalina. Much more compact.

As far as I can tell, the capsules are just so Apple can show off the glass effect. They don’t really serve a purpose at all.

I know this won’t happen, because this is Apple, but it would be nice if they offered themes, including the new glass style, but also the previous “compact” style.

To be fair, toolbars once looked like this (in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, 20 years ago)

after initially (in the earlier Mac OS X releases) looking more like this

The Tiger look interestingly bears some resemblance to Liquid Glass IMHO.

Image sources: Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger - Ars Technica