If you feel like macOS Tahoe has all your app icons look a bit lackluster (at best), you’re not alone. Rogue Amoeba CEO/Lackey Paul Kafasis runs down many of the changes, for better and for ill. Mostly for ill.
My personal favorite is the new Calendar icon which, as Paul points out, has a mathematical oddity in the number of dots it shows:
I remember that 30 days hath November, April, June, and September. And I thought all the rest had 31, except February, which has 28, except in a leap year when it has 29. Which month is it that has 24 days?
The look and feel of the Mac has always been—if you’ll pardon the pun—iconic. App icons were a place that developers could show off their creativity, and make apps that are instantly identifiable. Squircle jail remains a thing in macOS 26.1 (and, I’d argue, is worse than before, with a new lighter gray background that feels even more jarring). Here’s hoping this trend gets reversed before too long.
