At least if you’re going to modernise it, make it look half way decent. It’s just an appallingly bad icon design. Probably done by the same muppet who thought having 3 different corner radius for windows in Tahoe was a good idea.
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Macintosh HD Gets a New Look in Latest macOS Tahoe Beta
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Apple's design has just been getting more and more cartoonish over the years, do you remember though when the flat icons came out, people said they looked horrible, and I would agree - but we have become accustomed to them and just accept the change eventually.
This will probably be the same, because we will have no other opportunity as most of us are invested into the ecosystem, and to switch away is not really much of a possibility, and there really isn't anything to switch to that is half decent.
This will probably be the same, because we will have no other opportunity as most of us are invested into the ecosystem, and to switch away is not really much of a possibility, and there really isn't anything to switch to that is half decent.
I find those enormous corner radiuses genuinely appalling.
For all Apple’s faults and questionable design choices, I would never switch to an alternative. I can’t stand Windows or Android, and I genuinely despise Google as a company so refuse to use their products beyond the traditional Google search. Apple still provides the best experience across and between devices for me, so it’s a case of sucking it up and getting used to the new and crazy.
I don’t mind the larger corner radius; it’s not something I’d have changed personally, but it doesn’t bother me. The fact they’ve now got three different window corner sizes in play, however, is an absolute abomination. The inconsistency it will bring to macOS is unforgivable and whoever came up with that idea should have been marched out the door of Apple Park by lunchtime!
If this ends up in the first proper release of macOS 26 I'll have to replace it with a version that someone makes with correct perspective. I can't believe this passed QA. What has happened to Apple? 
It's like the Stop, Play, Fast Forward and Rewind symbols (all from the days of reel-to-reel tapes / cassettes) still used on remotes, CD / DVD players and in audio / video software on Macs and elsewhere. Lots of folks don't know the history of the symbols, but everyone knows what they mean.
Why reinvent something that doesn't need fixing? IIABDFI (If It Ain't Broke...) applies here. People with too much time on their hands.
This is part of why it's so broken.
There is zero actual feedback mechanism that actually hits Apple and forces some change.
It's a huge waste of space, is my issue with it.
Everything ends up needing to have more padding and content gets pushed in, which results in less actual usable content space for a given area. This reduction has been in shown in several comps with older OS's here on the site.
It's hilarious they are saying they are "focusing on our content" while literally reducing the usable content area in a given UI ... for no reason at all other than continuing to make everything into toyOS.
The original Aqua interface was more than just icons and a GUI, it was all about the user experience, the look and feel, being classy, enticing the user into wanting to do more, it was exciting - now we have a flat, boring, everything the same OS, with no imagination, just a vivid array of colors and gimmicks.....because.... IMO.
Found this the other day, for those who fancy a trip down memory lane.
And your unwavering loyalty to The Brand will be well rewarded...
...some day...I'm sure...
So the Calendar icon no longer has the month and date on. I find having the date on my dock icon really handy. (Yes, I know I can have the menu bar clock show the date.)
And the Migration Assistant and TextEdit icons could represent anything. The rest seem ok, apart from the wonky perspective on the disk icon.
And the Migration Assistant and TextEdit icons could represent anything. The rest seem ok, apart from the wonky perspective on the disk icon.
See, I don’t have any expectation of being rewarded. I like the products they produce and prefer them to the alternatives. It’s the small things they do (and do well) like a friend sharing a song on Apple Music through iMessage, and iMessage showing a live view of that song playing within the message with an interactive pause button. If that makes me a “sheeple” so be it. I enjoy using my Apple devices.
I don’t necessarily disagree with you, but I’m not feeling like the increased corner radius of windows is really having any negative impact on my experience using Tahoe. I do hate the removal of compact mode for Safari though, as that is absolutely stealing content space. They really need to bring that back as there is no rationale for removing it that I can see.
I’m also not particularly fond of the rounding of PDF pages in Preview. So far, with the documents I’ve used for work, it hasn’t actually obscured any content, but it feels strange.
You're losing space. It's an objective fact.
Whether it's an issue or not, is certainly subjective, but I personally don't want to have larger UI for no valuable reason.
Agreed.
I can't stand the excessive rounding of "everything".
Agreed. I waited until B3 to install Tahoe, mainly as the screenshots I was seeing made Finder windows look like they’d been eating far too many cream puffs. In reality, it wasn’t anywhere near as bad as the screenshots as my settings have sizing set small, but it’s been an adjustment for sure. The increased padding across the board is not something I particularly like. The + menu in Messages on iOS for example is ridiculous. That menu takes up just about the whole damn screen when I just want to add and send a photo!
Speaking of icons, you can peep all the icons macOS has built in by going to this directory
There's some pretty wild stuff in there:
/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/There's some pretty wild stuff in there:
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Yep! It's a real time capsule.Has been there for the past ~24 years.
Sent a feedback. Hope others will do the same. Wishing Apple makes the icons looking better.
Because people think “hd” doesn’t stand for high definition, right…
