I think you can still tell Siri to play white noise, etc. I prefer brown noise which seems to be missing, as it plays an Apple Music track. It is brown noise on the track, but that’s weird.
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macOS Ventura Tidbits: 'About This Mac' Redesigned, New Game Controller Menu, Background Sounds, and More
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It's becoming more like iOS. Next move will be to lock the Mac and allow apps only from the Appstore.
Thank goodness they finally fixed that awful About This Mac screen, said no one.
It’s been around since Mojave but it wasn’t until Big Sur that a toggle was added to turn it off and on; it was always on in Mojave and Catalina.
The reskins are most likely being done because Apple is slowly switching different views in macOS to be built with SwiftUI (rather than UIKit), giving Apple an additional reason to also update the UI at the same time.
Rather technical, but underlying it's helping Apple to move SwiftUI forward by eating its own dog food via macOS updates.
For those unfamiliar with the term "eat your own dog food"...
Eating your own dog food is a phrase that refers to the internal use of a company's own products or services in its day-to-day operations. The idea is that if the product is good enough for consumers, it is good enough for its employees to use on the job.
More design changes no one needed or asked for when what we really just want is a stable bug-free OS. I enjoy Federighi as a character. And I'm sure Tim Cook is more pleasant to be around than Steve Jobs ever was, but priorities are clearly not in the right places here.
Accessibility settings in MacOS, iOS and iPadOS have become a dumping ground for settings that have nothing to do with physical accessibility. Clearly, Apple is trying to score political points by moving settings from application/hardware preferences and burying them in Accessibility, in order to inflate the number of available settings. Apple wants to say "Look at us, we have this Accessibility thing with all these settings" when many of those settings should be located in more appropriate places.
MacOS
On a Mac laptop, trackpad scrolling speed is not located in trackpad preferences, but is buried in Accessibility (even though mouse scrolling speed is located in mouse preferences).
Mouse pointer size is not located in mouse preferences, but is buried in Accessibility.
To turn off spring loaded folders in the Finder, you don't go to Finder Preferences. Instead, that setting is buried in Accessibility.
iPhone/iPad
On iPhone and iPad if you go to Settings >Display & Brightness, there is no setting to control auto brightness. Instead, you have to go to Accessibility.
On iPads that have Touch ID, the setting to unlock by pressing the home button once and leaving your finger on the button is not located in Touch ID settings, but is buried in Accessibility.
Dynamic head tracking for Spatial Audio is not located in the Spatial Audio setting, but is buried in Accessibility.
Moving settings from the application/hardware preferences and burying them in Accessibility is not helpful at all. It just causes more irritation because people now have to look in two places to find things: the application/hardware preferences and Accessibility. Accessibility has become as convoluted as iTunes and this helps no one.
Yes, they are bringing macOS closer to iOS for Macs.
Have you ever been happy about Apple products? Your posting history doesn’t seem to support such.
This one is closer to the old old one, More focused on your Mac and not the version of MacOS you are on
Agreed and in some places tick boxes are used, in others switches!!!!
It seems obvious they meant Apple's own HIG for macOS....again since this is a thread about macOS...
Somehow everyone else figured that out.
Anyway, back to the topic though, I really dislike the switches in macOS. They remind me of a low quality website.
Ooh, Little Miss Passive-Aggressive. Apple is probably preparing macOS for being touchscreen-enabled, something Windows managed to do ages ago.
Interesting. I’ve always suspected no one at Apple actually used their own products.
I'm not sure if I'm a fan of the iOS derived 'vertical' dialog boxes, especially as the Mac screen/monitors emphasise the horizontal. Haven't the UI designers got anything better to do? But... I can live with it. 🤷♂️