Marc EdwardsI am not into the macOS 26 brightness and volume overlays changing position. Normally they’re top right, but that moves to top center if you’re in full screen mode.
Fabien@marcedwards The model is to have this overlay near the Volume icon in the menu bar. If you’ve hidden it, default to top right. (although you're right I can't see why it couldn't also be top right in full screen)
@fabienmarry Yeah, I get it. By moving, it means it’s never really obvious where it’ll be. I preferred how it was on macOS 15.
Mindaugas Rudokas@marcedwards @fabienmarry That’s weird “optimization”.
And BTW I don’t see the full screen centering on 26.0.1. So either it is newer development, or it’s laptop-only (or maybe notch-only?).
@mrudokas @marcedwards I see it on the latest public release, on a external monitor driven by a M1 mba
Uhl Albert@marcedwards In 10+ years of using a Mac full time, the volume or brightness overlay has never gotten in my way…until now.
Since installing Tahoe, I’ve had several cases where it blocked something I needed to click. You can’t just click through it—you either wait or hit the on-hover close button.
I get what they were trying to do (associate it with its menu bar item), but IMO it makes it harder to notice and more likely to get in the way since the upper-right corner is already busy.
@uhl Yep! Agree with everything you’ve said. It was never an issue in the past, I see what they tried to do, but ultimately it’s worse.