Do you miss Aqua UI?

[Black_Mage]

When I bought my first Mac in 2006, Tiger was the current OS, and Aqua was paired with an aluminium finish. It looked amazing. It gave the Mac a fun look. I miss it. I blame Jony Ive for taking it away from us. Do you miss it?

 

[ResPublica]

Although I don't hate what we have today, I do miss the good old Aqua. It was really beautiful, not only the icons but also the scroll bars and other interface items.

 

[Tar Sniffer]

Yes, but I also wouldn’t want to return to such a ‘heavy’ interface,

 

[Black_Mage]

Yes, but I also wouldn’t want to return to such a ‘heavy’ interface,

It may have been taxing for the hardware during 10.1 but I remember my 2006 MacBook being able to handle it no problem. Apple Silicon would have no problems running that UI at least 60 FPS.

 

[maflynn]

Yes, and in some ways when Liquid Glass was announced, I had thought Aqua was making a comeback in some form

 

[benwiggy]

Everything is now so white! We have these incredible displays with superb colour, and we're just using three light shades of off-white.

Liquid Glass controls would actually look better on top of a mid-grey surface.

And God forbid we had some coloured icons in the Sidebar...

 

[WarmWinterHat]

It's nostalgic and fun to look at, but I don't want to actually go back to it. I'm pretty much over 3d and transparent interfaces.

 

[boswald]

I love that interface, but why are the folders so huge?

 

[Fishrrman]

It was around the time of Snow Leopard that I thought they had things "just right"...

 

[turbineseaplane]

I miss contrast and legibility.

Everything is shades of white and white and more white now.

It's just not a very eye friendly OS these days.

 

[thejadedmonkey]

If I could run macOS 26 with the UI from Tiger or even Panther, I'd be so very happy.

The current abomination is just boring. It tries so hard not to be offensive to anyone, but by doing so means it doesn't make anyone happy either. It's the computing version of the 50 shades of automotive grey.

In this one instance, even Windows does it better.

 

[boswald]

If I could run macOS 26 with the UI from Tiger or even Panther, I'd be so very happy.

The current abomination is just boring. It tries so hard not to be offensive to anyone, but by doing so means it doesn't make anyone happy either. It's the computing version of the 50 shades of automotive grey.

In this one instance, even Windows does it better.

I like the new interface in general, but Liquid Glass doesn't seem to be implemented throughout the whole system properly. It could be because I'm still new to the Mac interface or I'm just knit-picking, but I thought it would be a little more uniform. But I like the icons, the HD icons, and the transparent widgets.

 

[chown33]

I love that interface, but why are the folders so huge?

Icon size was adjustable. Right-click and choose Show View Options in any Finder window.