I know it's so much more satisfying to complain like this, rather than spend the time making threads about some of the great stuff in the new OS 26es. But this kind of thing, once it starts to go bad, takes years or even decades to ever be “fixed.”

So here's a positive! The back and forward arrows in the old Music did NOT let you scrub through a music track if you held down the pointer. Now it does!

It's only 2025.

6/6? #AppleOS26

And all the horrible, empty space on the sides of the new control capsule! It's ridiculous.

I guess until you notice that this capsule floats over every single thing in Music now. Which, of course, it NEEDS to do to be always available for use.

Here it is at the bottom of the Home screen, with that controversial liquid glass muddying of readability. 5/ #AppleOS26

I hated that the playback progress bar in Music had, years ago, eschewed the time indicators (current time, total time), which, amazingly, I used to look at all the time. You have to ROLL OVER the playback for the times to appear IN EMPTY SPACE at each end of the bar! Why not make then permanent?

In macOS 26, you still have to roll over the bar, but now the numbers animate up (very nicely), but then COVER the other information until you roll away.

#AppleOS26 4/

…The playback information in Music on the Mac is now... AT THE FUCKING BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN?

What is the most important thing you need to see when your'e playing music in a music app? Yes, all the searching, browsing, organizing is HUGELY important, but what do you need to see when music is playing?

Music players got this correct a couple decades ago. So WHY WHY WHY?

Here: macOS 26, macOS 15, iPadOS 26

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#AppleOS26 3/