[HN Gopher] Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons
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Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons
Author : soheilpro
Score : 59 points
Date : 2026-03-21 17:46 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (512pixels.net)
(TXT) w3m dump (512pixels.net)
| john_alan wrote:
| Great now just need the same for the window corners and
| ridiculous Finder overlays.
| 0xFEE1DEAD wrote:
| Exactly.
|
| I blame apple for making me run an old macOS version because I
| don't want to look at this ugly mess they've created. I've been
| running macOS since 2008, and unless they manage to turn things
| around, my next laptop won't be an apple.
| reddalo wrote:
| I agree. I also tried Tahoe, and reverted back to Sequoia
| right away.
|
| Either Apple is going to turn things around, or I'm done with
| Apple for good.
| dawnerd wrote:
| There's actually a built in way to remove them in settings.
| System Settings -> Menu Bar.
|
| You can uncheck or drag items around in the menu bar and group
| some inside of the menu bar control (and even create new menu bar
| controls).
|
| I wish you could add third party apps to them, maybe that'll be
| next. But it's nice you can hide any apps icon right there.
| k2enemy wrote:
| This is for the icons in the drop-down menus, not the icons in
| the menu bar.
| Etheryte wrote:
| This is not what the article is about though?
| hyperhello wrote:
| It could have used a screen shot.
| watt wrote:
| Read Tonsky for that. https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/ a
| disgrace. https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-
| icons/writing_direction@2x.webp...
| andy_ppp wrote:
| Usually I like Apple's OS updates but Tahoe is absolutely awful
| from the glass to the noddy sizing of everything. MacOS does not
| have to harmonise with VisionOS at all and it's been a disaster
| for macOS to try.
| reddalo wrote:
| I agree. Tahoe is disgustingly unusable; I'm happy that Alan
| Dye left Apple.
|
| I hope Apple will backtrack on Liquid Glass after Tahoe.
| Otherwise, I'll just switch to Linux.
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| Related:
|
| _It 's hard to justify Tahoe icons_
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46497712
| hooch wrote:
| it's as if the icons get added by a lazy LLM prompt during CI
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| Source:
| https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/116262411548746327
| (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47468034)
| zahirbmirza wrote:
| I still miss launchpad. Which is made worse by the fact the
| spotlight has become terrible.
|
| Safari is unusable due to some weird sync that happens whenever I
| open a new window ( i dont use tabs) and adding bookmarks takes
| about 10-15 seconds.
|
| Please Apple, help? Apple seem to have lost their cultish drive
| to satisfy UI obsessive like me who often didn't even know what
| we wanted until they gave it to us. Now, we know what we want,
| but Apple can't give it to us.
| xoxxala wrote:
| Oh, thank you for posting this. Just ran the Terminal command and
| it's a vast improvement.
| neom wrote:
| I was really happy when they added the pictures! Dyslexia, the
| icons are 100% faster for me, I don't use those menus often
| enough to know what is in there word wise, but I can read the
| icons super fast.
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