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What goes round Almost all the content displayed in windows is best suited to rectangular views. Images, video, webpages and other text crave areas bounded by right angles. Gentle rounding on the corners, as in Sequoia, is fine, but the significantly increased radius enforced in Tahoe is a misfit. This either leads to cropping of contents, or reduction in size of the view and wasted space. [roundrect1] Cropping is misleading, as seen in this enlarged view of a thumbnail image in the Finder's Gallery view, compared to the larger version shown below. The thumbnail misrepresents what's in the original. [roundrect2] Among Apple's claims for this new look is greater consistency. But two windows in the same app, both created using SwiftUI, can't even share a common radius, as shown below in Providable running in macOS 26.2. [understab1] Out of control Tahoe has also increased the size of its controls, without using that to improve their clarity. The best way to see that is in my Mallyshag demo app. [mallyshag2] This looks good in Sequoia above, but becomes a mess in Tahoe (below) because of its changed control dimensions. [mallyshag3] Those three buttons are significantly wider, so now overlap one another and are wider than the text box below. The user sees no benefit to this, though, as the text within the controls is identical. Iconoclasm App icons need to be both distinguishable and readily recalled. The first ensures that we can tell one from another, and relies on all the visual cues we can muster, including colours, form and content. Tahoe enforces a rule that everything in the icon must be fitted inside its uniform square with rounded corners, so restricting cues to colours and contents. As a result, the icons of many bundled and other Apple apps have become harder to distinguish in a crowded Dock. Some, including Apple's Developer app and the App Store, are indistinguishable, while others have degenerated into vague blotches. [unicon15] Above are most of the apps bundled in Sequoia, and below are those in Tahoe. [unicon26] Whiteout In real life, whiteouts are dangerous because they're so disorienting. There's no horizon, no features in the landscape, and no clues to navigation. We see and work best in visual environments that are rich in colour and tonal contrasts. Tahoe has continued a trend for Light Mode to be bleached-out white, and Dark Mode to be a moonless night. Seeing where controls, views and contents start and end is difficult, and leaves them suspended in the whiteout. [tahoelightstd] In light mode, with default transparency, tool icons and text are clearly distinguished tonally, as are some controls including buttons and checkboxes. However, text entry fields are indistinguishable from the background, and there's a general lack of demarcation, particularly between controls and the list view below. [tahoelightnorm] Wet-on-wet This technique is used in watercolours to merge layers of colour diffusely, and the best description of some of the results of transparency in Liquid Glass. My examples speak for themselves, and are drawn first from Apple's own design for System Settings. [understain1] Transparency of the Search box at the top of the sidebar on the left renders it incomprehensible when it's underlaid by scrolled navigational content. [understain2] Although the view title Keyboard remains readable, bleed-through of underlying colours is confusing, distracting and aesthetically upsetting. My next examples show the same window in Providable with a selected list row being scrolled up behind what used to be a window title bar. [understain3] With the window in focus, the selection colour overwhelms the traffic light controls and window title, which should read Drop Files. This also draws attention to the limited width necessary to accommodate rectangular content in a window with excessively rounded corners. [understain4] Out of focus the selected row is less overwhelming, but traffic lights and title have dissipated in grey blur. I'm sure that, in the right place and time, transparency effects of Liquid Glass can be visually pleasing. Not only is this the wrong time and place, but those with visual impairment can no longer remove or even reduce these effects, as the Reduce Transparency control in Accessibility settings no longer reduces transparency in any useful way. That was one of the regressions in 26.1 that hasn't been addressed in 26.2. Summary macOS Tahoe's visual interface: * Fits largely rectangular contents into windows with excessively rounded corners. * Enlarges controls without any functional benefit. * Results in app icons being more uniform, thus less distinguishable and memorable. * Fails to distinguish tools, controls and other interface elements using differences in tone, so making them harder to use. * Makes a mess where transparent layers are superimposed, and won't reduce transparency when that's needed to render its interface more accessible. Maybe this is because I'm getting older, but that gives me the benefit of having experienced Apple's older interfaces, with their exceptional quality and functionality. icloud20142 That was little more than a decade ago, in 2014. Not that I want to turn the clock back, but it would be really helpful if I could read clearly what's on my display once again. Share this: * Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X * Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook * Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit * Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest * Click to share on Threads (Opens in new window) Threads * Click to share on Mastodon (Opens in new window) Mastodon * Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky * Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email * Click to print (Opens in new window) Print * Like Loading... Related Posted in Macs, Technology and tagged human interface, Liquid Glass, macOS 26, SwiftUI, Tahoe. Bookmark the permalink. 36Comments Add yours 1. 1 Enzo Vincenzo's avatar Enzo Vincenzo on December 28, 2025 at 8:21 am Reply Thank you so much, Howard! You are our voice! And even if 'everything changes', there are things that, once they have reached a certain level of perfection, should not be ruined. At most, an alternative can be proposed for those who see computers as a game and accept everything, just as they accept the whims of fashion. But as it stands now, macOS change is being imposed, and therefore it is more or less like violence. Let us console ourselves with this wonderful live song, which also demonstrates how true beauty must serve the heart and the mind and should not necessarily be linked to slight or evanescent forms... LikeLiked by 2 people + 2 hoakley's avatar hoakley on December 28, 2025 at 9:46 pm Reply Than you, Enzo. Howard. LikeLike 2. 3 EcleX's avatar EcleX on December 28, 2025 at 8:47 am Reply Thanks for the interesting and wise article. Let's hope that apple learns from experience, to improve in the future. LikeLiked by 3 people 3. 4 peterkillick's avatar peterkillick on December 28, 2025 at 10:27 am Reply Is this not perhaps one of those occasional macOS annual updates that can be safely skipped in the hope that the next OS after this one will perfect its dodgier innovations and settle down any other shortcomings? (Lion, the follow-up to Snow Lwopard comes to mind.) And the fundamental rule that should govern any new hardware or software purchasing decision is what does it do that I can't do now? With the present uncertainty about who will even be providing Apple with a truly capable AI engine that is fully integrated with its OS, Tahoe comes up well short in that area too. LikeLiked by 3 people + 5 Duncan's avatar Duncan on December 28, 2025 at 4:28 pm Reply "And the fundamental rule that should govern any new hardware or software purchasing decision..." For well over a decade I have purchased nothing other than refurbished Macs from Apple (ie. not new models). Year(s)-old hardware, especially now in the Apple Silicon era, is perfectly fine for my needs, and the savings of buying refurbed means I can get a higher-end Mac for the same price as a lesser-spec'd new model. Overall I've been quite satisfied with this practice. One other benefit of buying an older model is I have present-day knowledge of the latest version of MacOS, and if I prefer using an earlier version then I try to match that up with the running specs of a refurb model. I recently upgraded to an M4 Studio (refreshing the Apple refurb page for numerous weeks to find just the right configuration), in large part because I knew it could still run Sequoia, which I'm using now. Had I waited to purchase the next model when it comes out, I would be stuck with Tahoe as the earliest supported OS. Objectively, this is a backwards way to decide what model to buy, but it's the deal that Apple has handed us. I used to look forward to WWDC announcements with eager anticipation, following the keynote through live updates on various tech sites. Now I read about them after-the-fact with a sense of dread. LikeLiked by 4 people + 6 hoakley's avatar hoakley on December 28, 2025 at 9:47 pm Reply As others have pointed out, it's Last Chance Saloon for the remaining supported Intel Macs, which leaves me feeling bitter that it couldn't have waited until macOS 27. Howard. LikeLiked by 1 person 4. 7 joethewalrus's avatar joethewalrus on December 28, 2025 at 10:37 am Reply Once again you have nailed it, all the little frustrations organized and laid out with screenshots. And my gosh that 2014 shot looks beautiful! This is the first time in my life that I feel like Apple has given me zero incentive to invest more in their products. Assuming I represent a class of formerly loyal customers, in the prime of their consumer lives, with an aging fleet of daily drivers (Macs from 2020 and 2021, Watch from 2022, iPhone from 2021, iPad from 2019), the fact that this class is meh on upgrading should scare Apple -- or at least scare their board and investors. Maybe I'm not really all that important, but I can't be the only person holding onto my money until I can be shown that it will be buying something other than frustration, bewilderment, and frankly ugliness. M-dash in the first paragraph my own, without any assistance. LikeLiked by 4 people + 8 hoakley's avatar hoakley on December 28, 2025 at 9:48 pm Reply Thank you, Joe. Howard. LikeLike 5. 9 Christian's avatar Christian on December 28, 2025 at 12:34 pm Reply Thank you Howard for a well founded position. My view is different: Nobody can expect an initial release (or a .2 version) to be as mature as a UI honed over several major releases. I rather like the new look & feel, which on a Mac is not really that different to before. I think it is important to innovate, taking some risks. Else you can easily end up in an awkward place, locking yourself in a very conservative corner (hello Windows). For me the important question is how Liquid Glass will evolve over a span of 2-3 years. This will give devs enough time so adapt their apps as well. LikeLiked by 2 people + 10 hoakley's avatar hoakley on December 28, 2025 at 9:56 pm Reply Thank you, Christian. I'm delighted to hear a dissenting opinion, as sometimes it's all too easy to be critical. I agree over Liquid Glass and its transparency effects, although you'd have thought that Apple would have spared the time and effort to get it looking right in System Settings of all places. Similarly, my apps shown above use SwiftUI in Xcode 26.2, the very latest APIs that you would have expected to lead the way. Where I can't agree is in other areas such as the increased radius in (most) rounded corners. Apple had already achieved a fine balance between the design effect and content. To change that so drastically, and inconsistently, is shocking. There are only two ways forward there: either revert to the previous balance by undoing the change, or persist with something that's glaringly wrong. No tweaks are possible. I like iOS 26, and find iPadOS 26 very acceptable too. But windows are largely absent in the former, and less prominent in the latter, so most of these flaws don't make their presence known on devices. Where they do, in macOS, the results are worse than any previous version of macOS, thinking right back to System 5, which I started with. Howard. LikeLiked by 1 person 6. 11 Rumpus Wraps's avatar Rumpus Wraps on December 28, 2025 at 2:01 pm Reply @Christian 1. Liquid Glass (therefore Tahoe) has been in development since 2021 internally, that is a long time to still get it wrong. 2. The public who pay good money for hardware today are not going to give Apple 2-3 years to perfect something. The expectation is that the OS will be completely usable (notwithstanding security fixes and minor bugs) 3. Apple famously innovate internally and ship a final product, you are suggesting innovation in public and by committee. 4. Style isn't conservative, it's a refinement of what works. Liquid Glass is nothing more than a glitzy fad - what actual use does it have? I do feel that we are stuck with LG, the 26.3 doesn't improve anything visually and looking at System Settings (a portrait window in a landscape environment) Apple are just too arrogant to say they got it wrong. Apple (unfortunately) is an iPhone company, and iPhone aesthetics are being shoehorned into the Mac. LikeLiked by 5 people + 12 M's avatar M on December 28, 2025 at 6:02 pm Reply I don't know about Liquid Glass per se, but Vision Pro, which was the primary driving force behind its development, certainly does date back to 2021. I was working for a competitor at the time whose XR project (which could have influenced Apple's, actually ) was clearly in limbo, and remember the company scrambling to pick up the broken pieces off the floor and stitch them back together into something competitive to release around the same time as Apple after finding out that RealityDevice and XROS were in the works... Oh well, it feels like the big tech these days is all about not letting anybody have the upper hand rather than truly innovating. Anyway, we can all see how unpolished Liquid Glass is, and rumor has it, Apple is working on touchscreen Macs. This might explain why they decided to ship it anyway... and what's worse, could mean that the excessively enlarged UI components and touch-friendly rounded corners are here to stay LikeLiked by 2 people 7. 13 bwillius's avatar bwillius on December 28, 2025 at 3:06 pm Reply You said that so much better than I could do as always. Wet-in-wet is a good analogy. It wouldn't be so bad if "reduce transparency" would still work. By the way, I had 7 users complaining about some of my AppleScripts hanging. I'm sure there were more who didn't write to me. After manually updating XProtect I got the same issue. Of course, I did not get any reaction from Apple. Neither on my ticket nor on the developer forum. In 20 years of developing software I ever had a bug scare me like this one. I forced the problematic AppleScripts from a thread into the main thread and currently everything is working. LikeLiked by 2 people + 14 hoakley's avatar hoakley on December 28, 2025 at 9:59 pm Reply Thank you. I still don't understand how that XProtect update could cause problems with other AppleScripts, though. Howard. LikeLiked by 1 person 8. 15 AI fied's avatar AI fied on December 28, 2025 at 3:15 pm Reply This is a sharp and carefully argued critique. What stands out most is how clearly you tie visual changes to real usability regressions, not just aesthetic preference. The examples around rounded corners misrepresenting content and transparency actively obscuring meaning make a strong case that consistency and "modernity" are being prioritized over clarity and accessibility. The point about Reduce Transparency no longer doing what it promises feels especially concerning, since that crosses from design debate into usability and inclusivity. LikeLiked by 4 people 9. 16 Tristan Hubsch's avatar Tristan Hubsch on December 28, 2025 at 4:22 pm Reply Dear Howard, you make (and have been, for a while) excellent points about Tahoe -- which made me stay among the Sequoias. And, while System Settings...>General>Software Update keeps offering the one-way voyage to Tahoe and even refused to show the 15.7.3 update (I recall checking 3-4 times, than giving up), sometime last week my MPB did update 15.7.2 - 15.7.3 overnight, as it should (I do have "Automatic Updates" on)... even if a week or so late. Oh, well. Indeed, "Todo cambia" = "tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis" = "Panta rhei" (older yet; anyone versed in Kemet or Bab-ili or Xia/Shang/Zhou know of a 3-4-millennial version? I'm certain "'tis old as dirt" ) cannot be avoided; one can merely wish for a return of visibility to macOS, a few snows from now, perhaps not unlike how skeuomorphism had been excommunicated, than (all too) slowly let to seep back... somewhat. As always, "de gustibus..." but the loss of functionality is what annoys . Then again, how can one expect a $4T (and rising) behemothzilla to pay attention to li'l moi refusing the one-way tickets to Tahoe? LikeLiked by 3 people + 17 hoakley's avatar hoakley on December 28, 2025 at 10:00 pm Reply Thank you, Tristan. Howard. LikeLike 10. 18 Paul R's avatar Paul R on December 28, 2025 at 4:32 pm Reply On one hand, "this too shall pass." On the other hand, things can always get worse. I really wonder what the process is for Apple's designers to absorb all this criticism. Most of it isn't as lucid as yours, but almost everything I've read is equally negative. Personally, I don't hate it quite as much as you do. But I agree with all your points. And can't understand why Apple won't use their near infinite resources for good. LikeLiked by 3 people + 19 hoakley's avatar hoakley on December 28, 2025 at 10:01 pm Reply Thank you, Paul. Howard. LikeLike 11. 20 jzonedotcom's avatar jzonedotcom on December 28, 2025 at 5:09 pm Reply Rumpus Wraps - I *really* appreciated your comment as well as this terrific article from Howard of course. Another great aspect of Howard's work is how it provides a platform for learning & for high-quality discussion. I've come to appreciate so many of the frequent commenters this year. To quote you, "iPhone aesthetics are being shoehorned into the Mac." For me this single sentence speaks volumes. Not to mention: "a portrait window in a landscape environment" - this idea is perfectly articulated and a great way to think of the mess that is System Settings (I'm always getting lost in there. I literally have to use search to regain my bearings) versus the simple navigation & easy logic that was System Preferences - with is next-level search / help feature. Interface designers - Primum non nocere! If "It just works" & intuitive "Drag and Drop" is on one end of the spectrum then macOS in it's current form is on the other. Lastly, in terms of icons - again I'm getting lost & having trouble instantly identifying the app based on its icon. Just try to confuse the Pacifist icon, it's not possible. Thank you Howard for explaining, investigating, and taking a deep-dive into this topic and for your invaluable tools & apps. And thank you to all the commenters for such interesting, helpful, and high-level discussion. ;-} LikeLiked by 3 people + 21 hoakley's avatar hoakley on December 28, 2025 at 10:02 pm Reply Thank you. Howard. LikeLike 12. 22 M's avatar M on December 28, 2025 at 5:39 pm Reply It's not you getting older Howard, I'm still in my 20s and looking at the screenshot you've attached at the bottom I could only think of one thing: this is all I really wanted when I was buying a Mac. Well, maybe with iCloud put aside I've been consistently disappointed with Apple's UI redesigns and the general direction of macOS since Yosemite (or was it Lion when the iOS-ification started? Either way, it was Yosemite that brought AMFI aboard). With every new update, it feels like Apple software teams have mostly lost the ability to execute. Nearly every change comes with new graphical glitches, security issues, and an ever-increasing amount of log spam. That last one is particularly alarming for a company that was once known for its meticulous attention to detail. If you develop software, there's no way you've never taken a peek at the system log. Minor glitches in the "placeholder applications" that nobody ever uses (I'm looking at you, TV) are excusable, but as a developer, more likely than not, at least 1/4 of your time goes into staring at the log and the debugger output. Apple engineers are no different. And yet, the present day macOS system log is a constant stream of errors and other, mostly expected failures. It's become nearly impossible to tell what's supposed to be there and what is actually related to the problem you're facing. This is a clear indication of a cultural shift at Apple--demo-quality software is fine, as long as you ship on time. Fine to the shareholders, maybe, but certainly not to the customers. Honestly, if they made a special LTS release of macOS where they only touched as little as it takes to fix bugs, I would have switched right away. I'd be more than happy to give up Stage Manager, Apple Intelligence, Liquid Glass, and all of the other "innovations" for a system that works *with* me and not *against* me. I grit my teeth, remind myself that I bought this machine for its hardware, and continue using Linux in a VM, but deep down I'm infinitely jealous of those who got to experience Mac OS X from before iOS... LikeLiked by 4 people + 23 Enzo Vincenzo's avatar Enzo Vincenzo on December 28, 2025 at 8:35 pm Reply You're right, M. The transition towards uniformity between Mac and iPhone began with Yosemite, and almost no one noticed that the name itself revealed this profound truth. Yosemite can be read and interpreted as iOSemeeting = meeting with iOS. Sigh LikeLiked by 2 people o 24 hoakley's avatar hoakley on December 28, 2025 at 10:08 pm Reply Uniformity in some interface features, maybe. But trust me the divides are still deep once you start coding. There's a great deal in SwiftUI to support devices, but much of the everyday requirements of macOS are still missing, and can only be accessed by calling on macOS-specific APIs. Howard. LikeLiked by 1 person 13. 25 David B.'s avatar David B. on December 28, 2025 at 6:39 pm Reply Nailed it. Newer != Better. Showing the windows from 2014 is a breath of fresh air compared to what we have been forced into. LikeLiked by 3 people 14. 26 Scott's avatar Scott on December 28, 2025 at 8:01 pm Reply "there are things that, once they have reached a certain level of perfection, should not be ruined." Unfortunately, once perfection is achieved, programmers run out of things to do and need to protect their jobs, managers need to justify their existence and make changes to get promotions, etc. I am thoroughly convinced this is driving many changes throughout industry (and not just software, of course). I have seen plenty of examples of perfectly good interfaces f'ed up with bad redesigns. The above must be a major reason. Liquid glass is just another example. Hoping 26.3 or .4 starts cleaning that up with better reduce transparency options until some manager gets a new brilliant idea to change it all again, hopefully this time for the better by at a minimum, not doing everything to please tweens and teens with iPhones. LikeLiked by 3 people + 27 hoakley's avatar hoakley on December 28, 2025 at 10:05 pm Reply Thank you, Scott. Howard. LikeLike 15. 28 fds's avatar fds on December 28, 2025 at 8:09 pm Reply What makes macOS Tahoe especially melancholic is that it is the end of the line, end of an era, the final release that will now forever be frozen in time on Intel Macs. Things will evolve, change, get corrected... but, only on Apple Silicon from now on. Whatever shape Tahoe will have managed to get into until macOS 27's release is as good as it will ever be on my beloved 27'' iMac. Really rotten luck the final release had to be such a dud. LikeLiked by 2 people + 29 hoakley's avatar hoakley on December 28, 2025 at 10:05 pm Reply Thank you - my feelings exactly. Howard. LikeLike + 30 Duncan's avatar Duncan on December 28, 2025 at 10:10 pm Reply Actually, the final version of MacOS (capital 'M', thank you) for Intel machines is 15.x Sequoia. That thing that Apple accidentally released that turns on a red badge on the Settings icon while nagging you click a button in the Software Update section? You'll just have to find a way to ignore it while continuing to use Sequoia. MacOS 15 is the pinnacle of Intel operating systems, not whatever happened on Sep. 15, 2025. LikeLiked by 1 person 16. 31 hstriepe's avatar hstriepe on December 28, 2025 at 8:59 pm Reply Amen. On a mature product that works, improvments become more challenging! This looks like it was driven by branding design and not user interaction. I wonder, what Steve Jobs would have said about this mess. LikeLiked by 3 people + 32 Tristan Hubsch's avatar Tristan Hubsch on December 28, 2025 at 9:28 pm Reply "You are seeing it wrong." (He was brilliant. Much of the time.) LikeLiked by 2 people o 33 hstriepe's avatar hstriepe on December 28, 2025 at 10:11 pm Reply The Contact app has been destroyed. I do not want a marketing page for my contact, I want the info! CardHop is not much better. LikeLiked by 1 person + 34 hoakley's avatar hoakley on December 28, 2025 at 10:09 pm Reply Thank you, Harald. Howard. LikeLike 17. 35 JeffSyrop's avatar JeffSyrop on December 28, 2025 at 9:06 pm Reply The gratuitous changing of the color of the Contacts icon on the dock is emblematic of how bad (and idiotic) the new interface is. I was a Windows IT guy 25 years ago, when I got a tech writing job at a Mac-only company, right before OSX came out. I immediately switched to Macs for life. So I've seen all of Apple's OS updates since then, and Tahoe is the worst ever. The first time I went looking for my Contacts icon on the dock after installing Tahoe, I spent about 10 stressful seconds looking for it before I realized that they had made the always-brown cover of the Contacts "book" beige. Even holding my cursor right where I remembered the icon to be, I couldn't initially find it. LikeLiked by 4 people + 36 hoakley's avatar hoakley on December 28, 2025 at 10:09 pm Reply Thank you, Jeff. Howard. 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