That's always been my biggest complaint about Safari was the centered, proportional tabs (and the centered bookmarks bar contents). I wish they kept everything left aligned like it had been in the earlier versions of Safari.
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Here Are Apple's macOS Tahoe 26 Release Notes
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Is Apple bringing back black fonts on white text?
Or will it still be shades of grey on grey?
Do we get color icons back?
Of course not ... color me surprised that they are going for more transparency and less readability and recognizability.
Sure, as a theme, I can see how " liquid ... " could be an opt in choice.
But for an OS default?? Eh. NO!
My main point is: we humans see in color, so bring back some contrast and color in the entire UI. I get eye strain from various windows, apps, menus and what not that let other apps bleed through.
Each time I fire up an old Mac, it is such a breath of fresh air to have the old UI with its colorful icons in settings, in the finder, ...
Or will it still be shades of grey on grey?
Do we get color icons back?
Of course not ... color me surprised that they are going for more transparency and less readability and recognizability.
Sure, as a theme, I can see how " liquid ... " could be an opt in choice.
But for an OS default?? Eh. NO!
My main point is: we humans see in color, so bring back some contrast and color in the entire UI. I get eye strain from various windows, apps, menus and what not that let other apps bleed through.
Each time I fire up an old Mac, it is such a breath of fresh air to have the old UI with its colorful icons in settings, in the finder, ...
I'll wait for a few weeks before installing, but iPadOS 16 public beta has been stable on my M2 iPad Air and I am actually liking the changes.
The teeth grinding about launchpad is funny to me because I was around for the threads about OS X Lion, where launchpad was introduced, and the absolute sky is falling doom and gloom about how launchpad signified the “end of the Mac as we know it!!!”
Soon the desktop will be gone, and all that will be left is the launchpad and you’ll only be able to download apps from the App Store and there will be no more terminal and no more file system and the world will end!!!
More time has passed since the release of that operating system then between that OS and the initial release of Mac OS X.
Why would you want a different account than yours to be able to access your phone? That sounds insecure.
A lot of this is in the eye of the beholder. I haven't used Tahoe yet, but I found Sequoia to have been both better looking and more useable than prior versions. I especially like the UI looking more like iPhone and have many ways that data can easily be shared between devices. I have a largely UNIX(ish) software development background so I also like the BSD underpinnings.
It's funny about those that have tried Tahoe. Some say as you that it's worse than prior versions and others seem to be loving it. Given these differences in user opinions, I can see how it could be hard for Apple to pick a direction that will satisfy everyone. If not you then someone else would be hating the new version for some other reasons.
That's very normal. There were very heated debates about keyboards back in the day too.
Apple could let you pick the interface you want. Liquid Glass or Monterey for instance. Themes are a thing after all. It doesn't have to be as drastically different as the Plasma-Cinnamon-MATE-Xfce options you get in Linux.
There are some interesting and perhaps useful features arriving in 26, but none of them are groundbreaking from my perspective. The convergence of the UIs on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS will be welcome, given the niggles about different layouts on each platform, but it's still not a must-have.
Of concern, though, is the level of comments about bugs in the betas that have been reported but not fixed. None of them seems major, but the number, nature and extent of unfixed bugs after all the beta releases do not inspire confidence. I am also left wondering - if they have not had resources available to fix the reported bugs, how solid is the rest of the system?
So, given my current workload and the above concerns, I am going to skip this update on all three platforms until there is some clarity over the stability and quality of the product.
Of concern, though, is the level of comments about bugs in the betas that have been reported but not fixed. None of them seems major, but the number, nature and extent of unfixed bugs after all the beta releases do not inspire confidence. I am also left wondering - if they have not had resources available to fix the reported bugs, how solid is the rest of the system?
So, given my current workload and the above concerns, I am going to skip this update on all three platforms until there is some clarity over the stability and quality of the product.
I remember that, back in 2011 with Mac OS X Lion!
And, to be fair to those people, the increased restrictions and hoops brought by recent versions of Gatekeeper are very cumbersome and annoying, to the effect of more or less looking things down a bit.
I have Tahoe running on my old Mac Studio and I just can't get over how weird the UI is. Spotlight jiggles when it launches. Everything has huge round corners of different radii and tabs are too visually prominent. They aquaed up all the icon shadows. I prefer cleaner more flat modern UIs. Did they hire Forstall back or something?
to Apple UI designers,
just bring back the Aqua interface, and you're done for a day
just bring back the Aqua interface, and you're done for a day
The RC and previous beta has been an unmitigated disaster where all the the other betas have been smooth. My M4 Pro Mini will literally hang at regular intervals, blocking mouse and keyboard input. A key part of the Mac experience since OS 1.0 has been that the mouse pointer ALWAYS works, even if everything else hangs. If you can't move the mouse, the entire system is dead. Big yikes that this is now happening.
They are killing of 1394 FireWire drivers & support. You adapters no longer work. > Que < the haters about how you shouldn't be using FW drives. This is NOT about that. move on please.
Its about access to a huge variety of DV, Digital8, DVDram ( cameras ) , Pro DV based VTR's where the preffered connection is FW to get device control and the actual digital bit stream. You are now SOL if you upgrade, or can't keep a machine on 15.7. There is ZERO reason to remove them, they work fine. This is ridiculous and you need to file a complaint wtih Apple its unacceptable.
Its possible the drivers will be embedded in FCP X to keep access to DV video devices, but I'm not counting on it since there has not been any release or hints this is how they will keep access alive for folks who do video and need thiis.
Its about access to a huge variety of DV, Digital8, DVDram ( cameras ) , Pro DV based VTR's where the preffered connection is FW to get device control and the actual digital bit stream. You are now SOL if you upgrade, or can't keep a machine on 15.7. There is ZERO reason to remove them, they work fine. This is ridiculous and you need to file a complaint wtih Apple its unacceptable.
Its possible the drivers will be embedded in FCP X to keep access to DV video devices, but I'm not counting on it since there has not been any release or hints this is how they will keep access alive for folks who do video and need thiis.
I installed the glass on beta on my iPhone - looks ok to me - as I had to to get things as I wanted in other ways. Good system overall imo.
But I'll probably wait for the mac's until .1 as I usually do unless there's a reason to install earlier - see what I feel?
But I'll probably wait for the mac's until .1 as I usually do unless there's a reason to install earlier - see what I feel?
On spotlight, hopefully they completely rewrote mds and mds_stores. High CPU usage of these is years old bug.
No, two Mac user accounts linked to two individual iPhones.
My partner and mine.
If you have both accounts logged in it stops working, no more continuity camera, no more personal hotspot, it’s a mess.
I did a reinstall on two machines and it doesn’t force you when doing it that way.
I’ll hold off on upgrading my Mac this time around after all the bugs from last year. Can’t risk workflow-breaking bugs from Apple’s poor quality control as of late.