macOS Tahoe: A Pattern of Poor Usability and Design Regression

[svenmany]

Ok, but many of the things being complained about, like round app window corners, have zero to do with accessibility or visibility concerns and are just a preference thing… And the reports of “poor visibility” of UI elements in Tahoe are greatly exaggerated… And nearly every legitimate case of poor visibility I’ve seen is a bug, not proper intended behavior of the system… 🤷🏼‍♂️. Or they’re cases of things that don’t naturally look bad, but people have very intentionally tried to make look as bad as possible… This is possible to do with lots of great designs if people try hard enough… 🤷🏼‍♂️

The biggest issue with the rounded window corners is the resizing bug. I hope you're aware of that. The help bring you up to speed:

Why It’s Difficult to Resize Windows on MacOS 26 Dyehoe

https://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe/

daringfireball.net

I will acknowledge that the loss of content space that the rounded corners cause is a sacrifice some don't notice. And some might like the rounded corners and be willing to pay the price.

There is a practical problem with the extremely rounded corners for web browsers. Developers of web pages (I'm one) have to cater for it. When you code your content, you try to make it look good in all browsers on all platforms. The radical changes in macOS is making this challenging.

Chrome recently released a rounded corner version for macOS. They chose to round the windows slightly less than what Safari did. (I don't think you would notice the difference.) But the latest Chrome on Windows has no change to curvature at all. So, in terms of radius of curvature we have

Chrome Windows < Chrome macOS < Safari macOS.

The Fastmail web app I use all day long has their content contained in its own slightly rounded corners - using a traditional curvature. It doesn't look good in Safari - at the bottom right of the window, their border pushes up against the window's edge. Chrome on macOS is not too bad. Chrome on Windows looks great. To be honest, I wouldn't have noticed the degradation in Chrome on macOS. Safari actually bothers me. But, I acknowledge that's a preference thing. People without a strong design sense wouldn't care or notice.

"And nearly every legitimate case of poor visibility I’ve seen is a bug, not proper intended behavior of the system…"

I think there's a chance you are right if you are referring to translucency issues. The fact that I cannot shut off the translucency in Preview with the "Reduce transparency" setting must be a bug. I wish Apple didn't have so many bugs in Liquid Glass. First impressions matter.

I'm not generally a fan of influencers, but John Gruber writes really well and comes across as very intelligent. He writes from a position of indirect knowledge since he interviews a lot of technical people. He also has some technical background as the creator of Markdown. I would suggest you take a look at more of his content than just the article I linked to above. He is very critical of Tahoe from a design/bug/regression perspective. In fact, you should really spend more time reading what professionals think. Strong opinions are best when mixed with knowledge.

 

[chmania]

Developers of web pages (I'm one) have to cater for it. When you code your content, you try to make it look good in all browsers on all platforms. The radical changes in macOS is making this challenging.

Then you’d better join the Apple Developer Program to understand how Liquid Glass works.

 

[svenmany]

Then you’d better join the Apple Developer Program to understand how Liquid Glass works.

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Tell me how this relates to cross platform development of web applications.

 

[Kal Madda]

The biggest issue with the rounded window corners is the resizing bug. I hope you're aware of that. The help bring you up to speed:

Why It’s Difficult to Resize Windows on MacOS 26 Dyehoe

https://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe/

daringfireball.net

I will acknowledge that the loss of content space that the rounded corners cause is a sacrifice some don't notice. And some might like the rounded corners and be willing to pay the price.

There is a practical problem with the extremely rounded corners for web browsers. Developers of web pages (I'm one) have to cater for it. When you code your content, you try to make it look good in all browsers on all platforms. The radical changes in macOS is making this challenging.

Chrome recently released a rounded corner version for macOS. They chose to round the windows slightly less than what Safari did. (I don't think you would notice the difference.) But the latest Chrome on Windows has no change to curvature at all. So, in terms of radius of curvature we have

Chrome Windows < Chrome macOS < Safari macOS.

The Fastmail web app I use all day long has their content contained in its own slightly rounded corners - using a traditional curvature. It doesn't look good in Safari - at the bottom right of the window, their border pushes up against the window's edge. Chrome on macOS is not too bad. Chrome on Windows looks great. To be honest, I wouldn't have noticed the degradation in Chrome on macOS. Safari actually bothers me. But, I acknowledge that's a preference thing. People without a strong design sense wouldn't care or notice.

"And nearly every legitimate case of poor visibility I’ve seen is a bug, not proper intended behavior of the system…"

I think there's a chance you are right if you are referring to translucency issues. The fact that I cannot shut off the translucency in Preview with the "Reduce transparency" setting must be a bug. I wish Apple didn't have so many bugs in Liquid Glass. First impressions matter.

I'm not generally a fan of influencers, but John Gruber writes really well and comes across as very intelligent. He writes from a position of indirect knowledge since he interviews a lot of technical people. He also has some technical background as the creator of Markdown. I would suggest you take a look at more of his content than just the article I linked to above. He is very critical of Tahoe from a design/bug/regression perspective. In fact, you should really spend more time reading what professionals think. Strong opinions are best when mixed with knowledge.

I have not had any issues resizing windows. And you even said it: “bug”… Bugs are not an inherent issue to a design, they can pop up in any version with any design… 🤷🏼‍♂️

It really doesn’t meaningfully reduce content space… Maybe a mm or two? It just doesn’t make that big of a difference in terms of content space. Respectfully, I think that is kind of grasping at straws…

Most visual elements on a page are not dictated by the corners… I highly doubt there’s a lot of things that need to be changed at all to accommodate for the window corners. I, for one, have not come across any websites that look awful with the rounded window corners… And macOS Sequoia also had rounded corners, just less rounded, and not matching the corner radius of the top display corners on the MacBook, a corner radius that Apple rather famously uses everywhere on nearly all of their major products! Even the AirPods case uses this corner radius on the lid when you open it. You can stack a ton of Apple devices corners overlapping on each-other, and they match. So it makes sense… 🤷🏼‍♂️. So basically, it’s just a matter of preference and which corner radiuses you want to match. Match window corner radiuses (a more fixed and standard quality) with the display corner radiuses (a very fixed quality as it’s based on the physical hardware)? Or match some rare visual elements in some webpages occasionally with the window corner radiuses? Furthermore, it is not as if the window corner radiuses of Sequoia always would match all possible visual content either… 🤷🏼‍♂️. Suppose you line up a hard square element against the corner of the window in Sequoia? It still wouldn’t perfectly match the corner. Or a circle element? That wouldn’t match either… It’s essentially impossible for all visual content that could ever possibly be displayed within a window to always perfectly match up with any corner radius… That’s an impossible standard that can’t be met by any window corner no matter how boxy or round it is…

And people with strong design sense actually like the rounded corners as well… Just because people like something you don’t doesn’t mean that they don’t have strong design sense… 🤷🏼‍♂️

Yeah, I think some are encountering bugs, and I hope that some bug fixes will fix the errors they’re running into. Some may require some troubleshooting or additional steps to resolve though unfortunately, like a clean reinstall. Sadly, that’s just the way things work sometimes, and it happens to some on every new version release.

Oh man, I strongly disagree with John Gruber on a lot of stuff, and personally, I feel he is one of the worst culprits for creating artificial clickbait (dare I say “rage bait”) scandals. I have read a lot of his content, it is usually pretty triggering for me, as I’ve often caught inaccuracies in his claims. I do read what professionals think… And there are many professionals who like macOS Tahoe as well… 🤷🏼‍♂️

And I have plenty of knowledge and experience to go with my “strong” opinion… 🙂👍🏻

 

[svenmany]

I have not had any issues resizing windows. And you even said it “bug”… Bugs are not an inherent issue to a design, they can pop up in any version with any design… 🤷🏼‍♂️

It really doesn’t meaningfully reduce content space… Maybe a mm or two? It just doesn’t make that big of a difference in terms of content space. Respectfully, I think that is kind of grasping at straws…

Most visual elements on a page are not dictated by the corners… I highly doubt there’s a lot of things that need to be changed at all to accommodate for the window corners. I, for one, have not come across any websites that look awful with the rounded window corners… And macOS Sequoia also had rounded corners, just less rounded, and not matching the corner radius of the top display corners on the MacBook, a corner radius that Apple rather famously uses everywhere on nearly all of their major products! Even the AirPods case uses this corner radius on the lid when you open it. You can stack a ton of Apple devices corners overlapping on each-other, and they match. So it makes sense… 🤷🏼‍♂️. So basically, it’s just a matter of preference and which corner radiuses you want to match. Match window corner radiuses (a more fixed and standard quality) with the display corner radiuses (a very fixed quality as it’s based on the physical hardware)? Or match some rare visual elements in some webpages occasionally with the window corner radiuses? Furthermore, it is not as if the window corner radiuses of Sequoia always would match all possible visual content either… 🤷🏼‍♂️. Suppose you line up a hard square element against the corner of the window in Sequoia? It still wouldn’t perfectly match the corner. Or a circle element? That wouldn’t match either… It’s essentially impossible for all visual content that could ever possibly be displayed within a window to always perfectly match up with any corner radius… That’s an impossible standard that can’t be met by any window corner no matter how boxy or round it is…

And people with strong design sense actually like the rounded corners as well… Just because people like something you don’t doesn’t mean that they don’t have strong design sense… 🤷🏼‍♂️

Yeah, I think some are encountering bugs, and I hope that some bug fixes will fix the errors they’re running into. Some may require some troubleshooting or additional steps to resolve though unfortunately, like a clean reinstall. Sadly, that’s just the way things work sometimes, and it happens to some on every new version release.

Oh man, I strongly disagree with John Gruber on a lot of stuff, and personally, I feel he is one of the worst culprits for creating artificial clickbait scandals. I have read a lot of his content, it is usually pretty triggering for me, as I’ve often caught inaccuracies in his claims. I do read what professionals think… And there are many professionals who like macOS Tahoe as well… 🤷🏼‍♂️

Could you provide a bunch of links to the professionals who talk about liking Tahoe.

 

[chmania]

Tell me how this relates to cross platform development of web applications.

That's exactly what I meant. If you are a developer of any kind, you should try to learn the basics. Liquid Glass is a new concept, so it’s best to familiarise yourself with it. You need to obtain information from those who are developing it. Complaining here won’t get you anywhere. That’s all there is to it.

 

[Kal Madda]

Could you provide a bunch of links to the professionals who talk about liking Tahoe.

A. I don’t have to hunt up a bunch of links for you… There are many on sites I read like 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, etc. Not all writers on those sites, but many of them, probably at least half I would say… 🤷🏼‍♂️

B. Any arguments on that premise would be a logical fallacy anyways. It’s a faulty appeal to authority. “Well x number of “experts” think this about this subjective thing, so that means that’s the only correct opinion.” That’s not a good argument…. It is completely irrelevant the number of “experts” (*cough* content creators that often try to drive clicks with rage bait and negativity) that align with one side or another on a debate that is subjective and opinion based…

 

[steve333]

that's pretty ridiculous. how many people do you know, and how often have you guys discussed this?

seriously, it's a moot point, since that was then, & this is now. i had no issue with Preferences, and no issue with Settings (which is the better one 😉)

There were multiple Threads about it when they first changed System Settings, so I guess it's not so ridiculous, eh?

 

[steve333]

Yep, this is cyclical, and seems to happen nearly every new OS release, or at least with basically any new change. There’s always something people seem to want to make a stink over. I remember people were complaining about dark mode icons (which are entirely optional), and the new customizable Control Center design in iOS 18, which is still my favorite feature from iOS 18, and something I have made extensive use of to pin Siri Shortcuts for quick access. Some just seem to want to be negative about any change, and want things to stay the same forever… 🤷🏼‍♂️. I think you got it spot on. 👍🏻

After I upgraded to Tahoe I couldn't read text anymore. I have astigmatism and whatever changes they made, and Liquid Crap is the most glaring example, I have never had this happen with any other OS change.
I had to read up on what changes to make and had to go into disability preferences for the first time ever and even that wasn't enough, I had to change settings in my monitor to make it readable again, and it still isn't what it was.
If you think that is no reason to be negative, I don't know what to tell you.

 

[Kal Madda]

After I upgraded to Tahoe I couldn't read text anymore. I have astigmatism and whatever changes they made, and Liquid Crap is the most glaring example, I have never had this happen with any other OS change.
I had to read up on what changes to make and had to go into disability preferences for the first time ever and even that wasn't enough, I had to change settings in my monitor to make it readable again, and it still isn't what it was.
If you think that is no reason to be negative, I don't know what to tell you.

I have prescription glasses for an astigmatism. I can see it perfectly fine… There’s no difference in readability vs Sequoia… If you’re having a hard time reading anything, then chances are you’re encountering some weird bug… 🤷🏼‍♂️

And if the accessibility settings, which make the design flat, is still “unreadable”, then that’s definitely a weird bug…

 

[steve333]

I have prescription glasses for an astigmatism. I can see it perfectly fine… There’s no difference in readability vs Sequoia… If you’re having a hard time reading anything, then chances are you’re encountering some weird bug… 🤷🏼‍♂️

And if the accessibility settings, which make the design flat, is still “unreadable”, then that’s definitely a weird bug…

The bug IS Tahoe.

The difference was so stark I felt that Apple made my new Mac mini unusable.

 

[Kal Madda]

The bug IS Tahoe.

The difference was so stark I felt that Apple made my new Mac mini unusable.

macOS Tahoe isn’t a “bug”. 🙄🤦🏼‍♂️

It’s awesome! I’m glad Apple finally is beginning to modernize macOS and it doesn’t feel as much like a forgotten/abandoned project from the 90s or early 2000s anymore…

It’s a beautiful design.

If you don’t like it, sorry, but Liquid Glass is here to stay. You may want to get used to it, because it isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. 🤷🏼‍♂️

 

[Pedersenko]

'brainless chicks'? that's your take?

and define 'normal people' 🤣

Sorry it might have offended your slightly, but i was just watching some YouTube influencers and I slowly losing my hope.

I already bought a proper PC that runs windows and linux, and will eventually replace my laptop with Dell after my M1 stops working. Unless MacOS goes back to normality (which I doubt).

 

[Pedersenko]

macOS Tahoe isn’t a “bug”. 🙄🤦🏼‍♂️

It’s awesome! I’m glad Apple finally is beginning to modernize macOS and it doesn’t feel as much like a forgotten/abandoned project from the 90s or early 2000s anymore…

It’s a beautiful design.

If you don’t like it, sorry, but Liquid Glass is here to stay. You may want to get used to it, because it isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. 🤷🏼‍♂️

It is going mate if you switch to wind / android. Easily going

 

[Pedersenko]

Macos has really turned away from “think different” to “don’t think at all”. I cannot justify to myself why macos is good any longer. I really can’t.

It has become a part of a big corporate machine/grinder.

Linux will eventually replace macos for enthusiasts. While macos will try to eat inti windows share. Which they might guven they are becoming competitive on pricing (due to long term contracts with hardware manufacturers).

But i have a feeling that mac is a neglected baby of Apple Inc.; have been daily mac user since 2015, but next will be windows (Win hardware manufacturers have did catch up big time lately, so mac hard doesn’t stand out as premium anymore).

Just the wat it goes

 

[throAU]

I'm sorry, what? Linux does that better than nearly everything else. macOS loves to drop network shares, NFS and SMB both, and Windows, well, Windows.

Finder > Go > Connect to Server... is worn the hell out on my mac.

OK, try this.

Open 5 applications on linux and try to load/save direct to an SMB share.

Chances are 2-3 of the apps won’t see the network. I say this because i actively run linux on my PC, and repeatedly run into this issue, and its been like this for the 30 years I’ve been running Linux.

 

[Wolf1701]

Macos has really turned away from “think different” to “don’t think at all”. I cannot justify to myself why macos is good any longer. I really can’t.

It has become a part of a big corporate machine/grinder.

Linux will eventually replace macos for enthusiasts. While macos will try to eat inti windows share. Which they might guven they are becoming competitive on pricing (due to long term contracts with hardware manufacturers).

But i have a feeling that mac is a neglected baby of Apple Inc.; have been daily mac user since 2015, but next will be windows (Win hardware manufacturers have did catch up big time lately, so mac hard doesn’t stand out as premium anymore).

Just the wat it goes

I agree that if Apple continues to treat macOS like the unwanted child, many users will look for alternatives. Similarly, if they castrate it like iOS, they may attract new users looking for something easy and fun (but for that, there's the iPad with a keyboard)... and lose the more savvy users.

At the moment, however, the alternatives are still the same: Windows (which is far from being decently developed: just look at the fact that, lately, every patch introduces serious bugs) or Linux (I recently started testing Kubuntu... The installation and settings have improved a lot, but in my opinion, it is still perpetually immature in other respects (monitor resolution to be configured, HDMI audio not working, use of the command line still rather inevitable). Its advantages are speed, low resource usage, and stability once everything is configured.

At the moment, I still hope that Apple will rediscover some love for macOS without distorting it, so that I don't have to choose the “least worst” among the rest... and give up an “ecosystem” that has proven to be solid over the years.

 

[chmania]

The bug IS Tahoe.

Well, you can revert to the previous operating system.

The difference was so stark I felt that Apple made my new Mac mini unusable.

Then there are two courses of action to take:

1. Phone Apple Support and voice your concerns.
2. Sell the device and exit the Mac world altogether.

 

[chmania]

After I upgraded to Tahoe I couldn't read text anymore. I have astigmatism and whatever changes they made, and Liquid Crap is the most glaring example, I have never had this happen with any other OS change.

All the more reason to send feedback to Apple and/or contact Apple Support. However, with astigmatism, you might encounter issues with all other operating systems as they also move towards a glassy aesthetic. If you still wish to use macOS, reverting to Sequoia might provide some relief. And, see your Ophthalmologist.

 

[chmania]

After I upgraded to Tahoe I couldn't read text anymore. I have astigmatism and whatever changes they made, and Liquid Crap is the most glaring example, I have never had this happen with any other OS change.

Continuing...

I wore prescription glasses for 33 years, and for the last two years, I have been free from them. I purchased my first MacBook Pro to use macOS; despite the MBP being a sleek piece of art, I didn't like the glossy screen. I had to change my spectacles twice while using it. I had previously used matte laptops for Linux and Windows. That glossy screen reflected everything behind me, including lights at night. My eyes were suffering as a result. A good ophthalmologist identified the beginning of a problem in my eyes, and operations were performed. After 33 years, I am now free of spectacles!

I eventually bought a Mac Mini M4, along with a matte 4K monitor and a few portable matte monitors. I even took the Mac Mini and a portable monitor on holiday. I would never buy a MacBook again, as Apple does not offer a matte screen option. I have a 12" papermatte AMOLED laptop for light use, even under harsh hospital corridor lighting. Your eyes are the most important, so make sure to find a good ophthalmologist. Take care!

 

[Kal Madda]

I agree that if Apple continues to treat macOS like the unwanted child, many users will look for alternatives. Similarly, if they castrate it like iOS, they may attract new users looking for something easy and fun (but for that, there's the iPad with a keyboard)... and lose the more savvy users.

At the moment, however, the alternatives are still the same: Windows (which is far from being decently developed: just look at the fact that, lately, every patch introduces serious bugs) or Linux (I recently started testing Kubuntu... The installation and settings have improved a lot, but in my opinion, it is still perpetually immature in other respects (monitor resolution to be configured, HDMI audio not working, use of the command line still rather inevitable). Its advantages are speed, low resource usage, and stability once everything is configured.

At the moment, I still hope that Apple will rediscover some love for macOS without distorting it, so that I don't have to choose the “least worst” among the rest... and give up an “ecosystem” that has proven to be solid over the years.

Of course you interpret this differently, but I think macOS Tahoe is a positive sign for the Mac that is not the forgotten child. If there was a time period that argument held up, in my opinion, it would have been the pre Apple Silicon era before macOS Big Sur. Catalina looked and felt very stale, as did the OS updates that proceeded it for several years. It just felt old, stale, and as if it were an almost abandoned product.

Apple Silicon combined with macOS Big Sur drawing more similar visual elements from Apple’s other modern platforms revitalized it and made it feel more modern. Yet it still hung onto quite a bit of legacy cruft in its design that became a lot more apparent after the initial novelty of Apple Silicon wore off… For example, the System Preferences app that had been allowed to completely stagnate and never catch up with Apple’s other platforms. The new System Settings app improved that, and made a big difference, at least for many users like me, in terms of being able to efficiently find settings, where the old setup sucked and was a pain in the neck. It required extra clicks to navigate, and wasn’t even consistent with other system Mac apps… 🤷🏼‍♂️. So we continued to see progress modernizing macOS and bringing it more closely aligned with all of Apple’s other modern platforms, rather than treating it like the unwanted stepchild they hid in the basement.

With macOS Tahoe, Apple is just continuing with modernizing macOS, and I would argue, it’s not even as big of a change as it needs ultimately. It’s a pleasant update with some much needed modernization applied to more of it’s UI elements that were neglected by prior updates, but we still need a lot more to modernize macOS and bring it up to speed with Apple’s other platforms. But Tahoe does demonstrate that Apple has not given up on modernizing the Mac, and that they haven’t decided to shove it back in the basement and let it go stale while their other platforms gain new designs and features…

Moving forward, I think there are a couple of primary areas where macOS still needs to modernize more. One is that Finder should be rebranded as Files. The smiley face icon doesn’t clearly indicate the purpose of the app. New users don’t look at a smiley face and thinking “oh, that’s the file manager”. So that needs to go and be replaced with the Files app icon which actually makes sense and clearly represents the apps purpose.

Another thing is that it needs more unification in terms of apps. macOS is still missing several Apple apps that iOS and iPadOS have. Apple should bring more of those apps to the Mac.

There are others, but these are a couple of the more glaring things. Tahoe checks off one of the modernizations that was required by modernizing the UI across the system, and removing some of that old cruft from the design. Tahoe makes macOS feel like it sits much more solidly in the modern era, and not as if it’s a semi-abandoned project from the 90s or early 2000s…

I think macOS Tahoe demonstrates that Apple is invested in the Mac, and that they’re not going to abandon it again anytime soon. It feels like it’s being adopted more into the family, rather than the aging and stale project they shuttered and hid in the basement because they didn’t want to invest the resources into modernizing and improving it.

That’s my opinion anyways. YMMV, but I see Tahoe as a major improvement In modernizing the UI. There are still some more changes I think we’re going to need to see, but at least the UI feels modern and consistent with Apple’s other platforms now.

 

[avkills]

I, for one, love the rounded app window corners. They make macOS look modern, and not like it’s some abandoned project from the 90s or early 2000s like it did before… And it actually matches the rounded corners of MacBook displays… It looks much nicer than hard square edges which look antique…

I would love an Apple Studio Display with rounded corners, it would look much nicer and more modern and sleek. I hope they do that. 👍🏻

I might not have explained good enough. I don't care if the physical corners of a display are rounded, but the actual LED display on Macs is square in the corners, which in my opinion makes having extreme rounded corners in OS windows stupid; kind of like how they used to curve (or crop the image to make it look rounded) the 4 corners of the desktop -- that was also stupid.

They make sense on iPads and iPhones because the physical LED display is cropped by the case to be rounded.

I have a feeling what you want is coming, because I bought a portable display for my NUC and all 4 corners of the actual LED are blocked by rounded case -- see pic

If Apple does this then maybe it makes sense; but I will still not like it much. I think they should tone down the curved corners back to how they were in Sequoia. For what I use my NUC for it does not matter, but I probably would have passed on getting that display if I knew the corners were like that.

 

[avkills]

I think if one opens the control center then who cares what is behind it; because you opened it to do something and if you can't see what the control center buttons are because content is showing through, then that seems like a usability issue to me. 🤷‍♂️

I am not updating to Tahoe anytime soon, so hopefully Apple can come up with a good in-bewteen to make everyone somewhat happy.

The concept seems ok, the execution just needs some work.

 

[Kal Madda]

I might not have explained good enough. I don't care if the physical corners of a display are rounded, but the actual LED display on Macs is square in the corners, which in my opinion makes having extreme rounded corners in OS windows stupid; kind of like how they used to curve (or crop the image to make it look rounded) the 4 corners of the desktop -- that was also stupid.

This is not the case. The top corners on all modern MacBooks are rounded (the display itself is rounded, just like iPads and iPhones). As shown in the picture here:

They make sense on iPads and iPhones because the physical LED display is cropped by the case to be rounded.

They also make sense on MacBooks, the most popular Mac products, as they also use rounded top display corners…

I have a feeling what you want is coming, because I bought a portable display for my NUC and all 4 corners of the actual LED are blocked by rounded case -- see pic

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That display looks nice. 👍🏻. What brand is it? How much did it cost? I may be interested in one! 🙂👍🏻 But yeah, since they already use it on MacBooks, I think it makes sense to expand it to the Studio Display and other Mac displays. It would look really nice in my opinion. 👍🏻

If Apple does this then maybe it makes sense; but I will still not like it much. I think they should tone down the curved corners back to how they were in Sequoia. For what I use my NUC for it does not matter, but I probably would have passed on getting that display if I knew the corners were like that.

That’s fine, different people have different preferences. To me, the rounded corners look more sleek and modern, and elegant. 👍🏻.

 

[Kal Madda]

I think if one opens the control center then who cares what is behind it; because you opened it to do something and if you can't see what the control center buttons are because content is showing through, then that seems like a usability issue to me. 🤷‍♂️

Control Center buttons are perfectly visible and legible to me. 🤷🏼‍♂️. Someone even shared this pic earlier as if it was a “visibility problem”, when all the Control Center buttons are clearly visible and legible. I really don’t get what their problem with this is… 🤷🏼‍♂️

I am not updating to Tahoe anytime soon, so hopefully Apple can come up with a good in-bewteen to make everyone somewhat happy.

The concept seems ok, the execution just needs some work.

I respect that. I think there are ways Apple will likely tweak and refine Liquid Glass with time. We’re still early in Liquid Glass. And I do think it can be improved to satisfy more people. 👍🏻