macOS Tahoe Now Available With Liquid Glass Design, Phone App, Spotlight Actions and More

[amors]

Anybody else notice Apple Music sounds noticeably better? But it shouldn't right? I haven't changed anything else in my setup. I haven't tried on iOS yet.

Yes. I think so too.

 

[mysterydiner]

macOS Clownshoe released

Made this account just to say: Tahoe is macOS Clownshoe. They killed Launchpad, replaced it with a junk drawer of fixed categories, and slapped Fisher-Price radii on every corner. Window controls float inside panels like a half-baked Linux theme. This isn’t evolution. It’s vandalism.

 

[Aggedor]

Is there a reliable guide on how to DOWNGRADE back to Sequoia? I literally cannot see whatever the frak they replaced Launchpad with, as in I DO NOT HAVE THE EYESIGHT FOR THIS! So I need to downgrade just to use my freaking laptop! The replacement is useless in every possible way and several I didn't think possible.

I'm looking for this as well, but I saw on Reddit that Tahoe also updates your machine's firmware, so downgrading might not be an option.

 

[Sammy in SoCal]

Thanks for being the Guinea pigs 🐷. I’m staying put on 15.7 for the foreseeable future 😂

 

[djplong]

I can't believe that Apple released something as primitive and AWFUL as "Apps" and took away everyone's Launchpad.

Can't customize it or resize it or rearrange icons or make folder of make categories.

I used to have 3-click (at MOST) access to EVERYthing (Launchpad -> Folder -> App).

I *hate* this 'new' piece of the UI and making sure my wife's MacBook does NOT update until Apple fixed this HORRIBLE decision.

For the record - the move to "Apps" should have been OPTIONAL. For the people who like it, they should have access to it.

 

[mightysashiman]

It feels like Apple is having a windows Vista moment.

On my m3 14" it looks and feels horrendous. Playmobil-level bad.

Even Finder feels broken with the left pane covering up the left of browser pane (so I need to actually scroll right to get the beginning of files & folder names visible 😅 dafuk Apple.

I'm sorry to say but win10 & even win11 look miles better.

My intuition is UI design was scaled to look good in figma mockup screenshots copy-pasted in ppt slides for decision makers meetings. And they had to scale up UI controls so guys at the back of the room could see them clearly.

 

[Artsketch]

Who committed this crime against aesthetics? Will Mr. Tim be forced into retirement because of this?

 

[whatnot]

I saw some screenshots of this phlegm OS, and it just looks like someone threw up a pack of half digested jellybeans on their screen - peak progress!

 

[djplong]

I can deal with "Liquid Glass" (though I prefer 'old school'). I'm trying to use "Apps" on my laptop (since the Terminal/Launchpad hack was broken with the final Tahoe release and now "Apps" is non functional - hopefully fixed with another Terminal command line when I get home from work) and I have so many apps that I'd a LONG scroll to find an app who's name I don't recall (but remember the icon) that starts with a "Y".

Why not resizable?
Why not customizable?
Why no ability to move icons?
Why no ability to make folders?

WHO APPROVED THIS CRAP?