Apple may be dialling back window corner radius in macOS 27

[StellarVixen]

Someone commented that they went back to the border radius used in Sequoia and previously. Even if they shrunk the border radius from Tahoe, it doesn't look like they shrunk it by that much. Screenshots will let us actually measure it!

If you mean me, no. I said that sidebar now looks almost exactly like in Sequoia. Not as a ramble, but in reply to:

For one year we saw two guys defend the ridiculous round corners and lack of title bar and gaslight anyone who didn’t like it. Now Apple brought back the title bar and restored the classic corners and the Yosemite sidebar.

 

[StellarVixen]

Fair enough. But that

Apple may be dialling back…​

It’s confirmed. As shown in the keynote.

Thread was started on the 20th of last month

 

[PotentPeas]

Measuring off of this Safari screenshot — https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macos-golden-gate-27-0-beta-1-whats-new.2483502/post-34621181

The border radius is indeed smaller than the Tahoe radius (for first-party Apple apps), but it is larger than the "medium radius" apps I mentioned running on Tahoe (i.e. Firefox) — and of course, certainly considerably larger than it was on Sequoia.

I don't particularly care, as long as they moved to it being consistent across the board, which is what it sounded like they were doing in the keynote.

 

[Mick_ag]

Thread was started on the 20th of last month

 

[SilverRubicon]

Corners are better but still not great. I don't understand Apple and their stance on this issue.

 

[KALLT]

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Literally Sequoia style sidebar (which started with Big Sur)

Looking at the keynote, it is similar, but not the same. The window content can still go underneath the sidebar, which wasn't possible before macOS 26. (Which raises the question: will both the desktop and the window content affect the sidebar appearance?) The selected item will also be displayed in bold font.

 

[auxbuss]

Corners are better but still not great. I don't understand Apple and their stance on this issue.

Yup. I'd prefer sharp angles, but I can live with Sequoia's. There's absolutely no reason to go any further.

At this point, it feels like a battle of wills. A ****ing useless battle, at that.

 

[DigitriX]

Apple can just give us a global slider for the corner radius and be done with it.

Everyone can pick what they want - from sharp rectangular corners to as big as on Tahoe.
Off (rectangular, no rounding - good for monitors)
Small (like on Sequoia)
Medium (between Sequoia and Tahoe)
Large (like on Tahoe)

 

[Nada Ting]

The only problem I have with the corner radius is in Music. Album and CD artwork do not have corner radii and it looks so wrong to add them there.

 

[tkermit]

Uh-oh, Alan Dye will NOT like this!View attachment 2636109

Seriously though. What about all that talk about concentricity?!