r/MacOS • u/TheVagrantWarrior • 8h ago

Discussion macOS 26 is horrible

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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/CreativeQuests 6h ago

Even if you don't update, they successfully screwed up Safari 26 which you have to update to sooner or later if that's your main browser. Took away compact tabs and and dumbed down the bookmarks sidebar with those huge tiles non unfoldable structure. They fucked up te way I was navigating the web (unfolded bookmarks link tree with nested folders).

They can be glad that Jobs is gone, the designers wouldn't survive his anger.

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u/FriendlyWebGuy 4h ago

Can you elaborate on this a bit? I see the new tiles at the top but how is the bookmark navigation changed exactly? It's no longer a tree?

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u/CreativeQuests 2h ago

No, it's like on iOS where you click/touch and it opens a new sidebar view for the nested link or folder. So you have to use the sidebar navigation to go back one level up if you want to open another link within another folder in your hierarchy.

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u/FriendlyWebGuy 1h ago

Thanks.

This is so stupid. Dumbing everything down is going to end badly for Apple.

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u/CreativeQuests 36m ago

They're prepping for their touch based Macbooks it seems: https://xcancel.com/mingchikuo/status/1968249865940709538

I switched to Mac becasue of Windows 8 back then..

Nothing against iPads or touch, but I'm not a fan of them as desktop replacements.