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Re: macOS Golden Gate icon comparison

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Post by gianthard » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 1:40 PM UTC

I love the upgrade, except Siri and iPhone Mirroring. Siri looks like outlined monotone Pepsi, and --- transparent glassy rectangle as a Phone? It's way too abstract (who can see the tiny line at the bottom?)

I appreciate the address update on Mail App.

Re: macOS Golden Gate icon comparison

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Post by _nickwhite » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 7:10 PM UTC

It's easy to beat up on Apple, but the new icons are like the "jellybean" glass effect filter was removed. I feel like Apple listened to the complaints and are making the right adjustments here.

Re: macOS Golden Gate icon comparison

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Post by glaslong » Wed, Jul 01, 2026, 1:48 AM UTC

ivell wrote: post #7

I used to look forward to MacOS upgrades. Nowadays I dread it. Spotlight used to be great for quick look up of files, now it is pretty much useless for me. I am back to using finder and manually looking up files. I hope things would improve and not degrade further. The updated icons is going in the right direction. More clarity and less useless effects.

New Spotlight is impressively unusable. It seems to have taken lessons (derogatory) from the Windows 10+11 Start Menu search.

Re: macOS Golden Gate icon comparison

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Post by jiehong » Sun, Jul 05, 2026, 8:03 PM UTC

Nice comparison, but those images are pretty heavy, making this website quite slow for me.