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macOS Tahoe Beta 2 Brings Back Classic Finder Color Scheme
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Apple should keep swapping them back and forth to keep everyone guessing, including MRs.
This has already happened at WWDC 2021 where safari was modified during the Beta and its concept only came now in iOS 26. In macOS 29 they come back with the Finder icon in white xD
As long as Apple is pretty much doing what we want at this point , BRING BACK SLIDE OVER ON IPAD!!!
I know this will be very controversial. But they pledged to make all OSes more consistent this time around. So shouldn't they just get rid of the "Finder" name altogether and just name it "Files"? Yes, my heart would cry but it would at least be CONSISTENT.
Other way. Files should be Finder and have proper desktop functions
I always saw a blue 1 in the white icon. Now it doesn't stick out that much anymore.
I'm totally in the odd man out camp, but I have never liked the Finder Icon colors inverted or not.
A smiling face with a big nose just never made sense to me for the app that finds things. A golden retriever would make more sense.
I get its a legacy thing... but so was a Rainbow apple, glowing apples on the backs of laptop lids, and many other things. The new version looked clean and a little nicer, IMO.
But Mac users will die from change. We can't have mass death and casualties.
They should have just really went for stroke level infuriation and changed it to a magnifying glass, or heck, rebranded it to Sherlock and resurrected that.
PS. I loved Sherlock.
A smiling face with a big nose just never made sense to me for the app that finds things. A golden retriever would make more sense.
I get its a legacy thing... but so was a Rainbow apple, glowing apples on the backs of laptop lids, and many other things. The new version looked clean and a little nicer, IMO.
But Mac users will die from change. We can't have mass death and casualties.
They should have just really went for stroke level infuriation and changed it to a magnifying glass, or heck, rebranded it to Sherlock and resurrected that.
PS. I loved Sherlock.
It wasn't change for the sake of change though.
The new version works better with the new design language, which gets lost when flipping it back, especially where translucency is concerned because it looks less like glass which is the entire theme.
+1 on the Phantom comment though.... but hey, when we think search, we all think "An icon of a face with a huge nose" right?
i agree. beta 1 version does look better and truer to Liquid Glass.
like a lot of change, the change was jarring.
i think the reason why they changed it back is that the thing about the mac finder icon is that its not just an icon.
it's iconic. it's almost a kind of secondary level of an apple logo.dating from when apple was only about the mac.
therefore apple really needs to think twice about changing it other than updating with the liquid glass design language.
a younger design team that implemented that logo-status icon change probably doesn't appreciate the gravity of changing it to the extent they did.
I don’t think it loses anything in the classic configuration. It’s not like we haven’t seen frosted glass in Apple’s design language.
Well it doesn’t, but I do like beta 1’s version more better now seeing beta 2’s version, though at the time I was one of those that wished they would have kept the color combo the same as it always has been. Does it really matter though, no not at all… It’s not like they totally redesigned the icon and kept it familiar, yet fresh and new.
Well, I hope that will be our last battlefield.
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Yeah me too now seeing beta 2’s version, though when I first saw that they changed the color combo, I was one of them that was hoping they would change it back. Whatever though, at least they didn’t totally change it and kept it familiar while looking fresh and new, and hopefully this is the last time they change it and focus on other more important parts of the OS.
I’m a fan of the Lightswitch #2. And also the last one. I hope they clean up System Preferences. It’s a mess right now. Go back to the way it was a few years ago. Everything was so easy to find.
As long as they keep the Windows icon as a blue-screen I’m fine with it
kinda logic because is your isn’t blue… but still blue in dark mode… should it be black and white?
for those who doesn’t know, the finder icon is a reflection of a face in a screen.
for those who doesn’t know, the finder icon is a reflection of a face in a screen.
Yes!!! I really miss the icon with the multiple offset gears because that's visually more pleasing because it's more dynamic and it's just not as boring as the subsequent-to-recent-ones. It looks much more realistic, which I know wasn't the goal ever since they went flat.
It's amazing to realize Apple has always been about meticulous, if not playful, richness of detail. It's what has always made Apple unique and set apart from their competitors. Yes, it may seem completely superfluous and inconsequential, but that also means not actually, really, understanding what has made Apple... Apple.
The old purple Finder face is actually my desktop wallpaper on my PC at the office heh. Really throws people off now and then. 🤣