Do you like Liquid Glass on Mac?

Do you like Liquid Glass on Mac?

  • Yes

  • Meh…

  • No

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macOS is my least favourite implementation of Liquid Glass. I don’t hate it, I don’t dislike it. It just doesn’t feel as natural and fitting as it does on iOS and iPadOS.

What I really like about Liquid Glass is both the reflective characteristics and the way that the UI elements interact with my touch. That just doesn’t translate so well to the desktop experience.

I do like the Liquid Glass in menus, control centre and widgets on macOS.
 
StellarVixen said:
It looks way better on iOS and iPad OS. macOS implementation feels like an afterthought
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Contacts app in Tahoe looks like it woke up in the wrong OS. Someone tell Apple Handoff wasn’t meant for design shortcuts.

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AAPLGeek said:
Contacts app in Tahoe looks like it woke up in the wrong OS. Someone tell Apple Handoff wasn’t meant for design shortcuts.

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Not having all the important information front and centre (without scrolling) is a nightmare if you regularly manage contacts. Is there a way to disable this ‘card’ view and return to the classic?
 
Apple Knowledge Navigator said:
Not having all the important information front and centre (without scrolling) is a nightmare if you regularly manage contacts. Is there a way to disable this ‘card’ view and return to the classic?
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Unfortunately, the only way to return to the classic is never upgrading to Tahoe.

It's just sad to see Apple letting the iPad toddlers continue to desecrate a perfectly functional desktop OS.
 
Hello All. I think my household is the most average of users. I put Tahoe on an external drive, have been running it for a couple of, days. I like it, it looks "slick" is my way of describing it. I have read the threads and replies and I admit I was going in a little biased in the negative direction. Overall the look is not so different that the wife had no issues navigating. Now admittedly I not a power user. iMovie, GB, and all my games run fine. Overall, looking forward to the official release. Count me as Ok with it.
 
I like what little of it is in macOS 26 so far. Looks good in Control Center and the Dock. Really needs some type of implementation in Notification Center. Finder windows could look good with Liquid Glass with a small amount of transparency and background blur.
 
50 votes as of august 8 morning; the 'yes's are in the lead 👍. still....50 people, out of how many macusers worldwide?

it's fine to discuss these things of course, but in the real world, most ppl just use their macs, they don't fret over rounded windows or transparent overlays. even on this forum, some people don't see much difference.
 
fisherking said:
50 votes as of august 8 morning; the 'yes's are in the lead 👍. still....50 people, out of how many macusers worldwide?

it's fine to discuss these things of course, but in the real world, most ppl just use their macs, they don't fret over rounded windows or transparent overlays. even on this forum, some people don't see much difference.
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I haven't made up my mind yet. I like the glass dock. I don't like the glass control center. The more rounded window corners are terrible. The styling in Contacts is atrocious. All the Apple apps have a weirdly over-nested containers vibe. I like the glass Spotlight bar.
 
I'm convinced that age and length of experience with Mac is a factor here.

I know of nobody (ages 40-65) that likes this design direction for the Mac specifically.
 
While I’m not running the beta on my Mac I do run it on my iPad and I actually like the “look and feel” of Liquid Glass on that device so I am quite confident that will extend to the Mac once I upgrade
 
turbineseaplane said:
I'm convinced that age and length of experience with Mac is a factor here.

I know of nobody (ages 40-65) that likes this design direction for the Mac specifically.
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Maybe. I see it as whomever spends the effort to really learn to power through the UI should be rewarded with efficiency and speed that never decreases with new OS versions. So much of this glam in the liquid glass is irrelevant to me, and I'll get used to whatever it settles on. If they reduce screen real estate utilization a little by rounding corners more, that'll irritate me. If they change the icon for the root drive on the desktop, I can't care less (and why don't people flip that off anyway?). The fact that PB1 had math take 3s to compute in the Spotlight bar suuuuuuuuuucked, but they fixed that in PB2.
 
turbineseaplane said:
I'm convinced that age and length of experience with Mac is a factor here.

I know of nobody (ages 40-65) that likes this design direction for the Mac specifically.
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Wrong there, I am 67, wife is little older and we do like it. We have both been long time OS users, does 10 plus years count as enough experience to make a personal judgement?
 
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