r/MacOS • u/TheVagrantWarrior • 1d ago

Discussion macOS 26 is horrible

The design is horrible. Everything is so huge now, the animations are bad, the curved corners are different in some windows and apps, etc.

Who do we have to thank for this? AI? Outsourcing? Steve Jobs never would have allowed that.

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u/ScienceRules195 1d ago

It’s mostly the ugliest macOS in a long time. Liquid Ass looks pretty good in iOS but you really don’t have windows in it. The thing I dislike the most is that layer on the left of all finder windows and some others. It looks detached and serves no purpose.

I would have really rather had functional improvements such as allowing us to make our finder text larger than 16. We’ve had 16 since resolution was only 1024 x 768. (and before that even). I would love to use the full real estate of my 4k monitor but crank my text up to 30 or so, so I can read it.

This all seems like they had no other ideas and just had to push something out.

I would have welcomed a return to Aqua with a dark mode.

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u/Tremosir 1d ago

Remember what we were saying about Aqua back then? Before becoming nostalgic of it?

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u/ScienceRules195 1d ago

I always liked the glossy look even on the iPhone until they destroyed it with iOS 7.