Craig Michael Patrick
John GruberPerfect MacOS 26 Tahoe screenshot from the Journal app. Apple shipped this.
Another Tahoe gem. Are these buttons ("Update", "Open", "Update All") enabled or disabled? Are they even legible?
Stephen Foskett@gruber they’re certainly not legible!
gurple@gruber I love this picking Apple everyone is doing on little layout issues. It’s the hard core usability issues that really piss me off. …the inconsistent non-front ’click through’ behaviors in Music.app, the 'where do I grab the corner to resize' windows, the Finder window sliders being activated when trying to select a bottom item when in column views, etc. It’s insane. Let’s talk more about those.
Aaron 
Josh Biggs@gruber I helped my 85 year old parents fill out their NCAA brackets on Wednesday night. We used my mom’s old touchbar MacBook Pro which hadn’t been updated in years. Pretty sure it was on Yosemite. It looked amazing to my eyes.
butternut@butternut @gruber Thanks - I love the CA names but I lost track of what came out when after the cat releases :)
GSStamas
Andrew | LisaGUI Updates@gruber Well, they certainly do vaguely look like buttons...
Laurent Boileau@gruber That reminds me of when I tried using the Graphite accent color. That same App Store screen made me switch back instantly.
Chris Glass@gruber I have my OS Theme set to "Multicolor" and for the longest time I thought there was an error loading my calendar... Actually, I still think there's an error.
Dr Keith Wilson 💭
Kay@gruber I think this is the BorderedButtonStyle that has been around on iOS for a few years. It’s definitely not new, though maybe it wasn’t used on macOS before. So, I assume it follows the old iOS rule: it uses the tint color so it’s active. Otherwise it would be desaturated.
Legible? Definitely not.
Conlan Spangler@gruber Is this the default “highlight” color? I think they need to disable the “choose your own” preference and just make it blue or whatever until they get their shit together.
Bruce Elrick@gruber That's hostile.
netop://ウィビ@gruber This looks disgusting
Scott Graham@gruber is "Update All" even a button? Why is it so different from the others?
Timo Grün
Greg Pierce@gruber at least you’ve got good taste in apps
Tuomas Hämäläinen 🇺🇦@gruber I hate to be fair to Tahoe because it needs to burn at a stake, but in this particular instance, Sequoia does not seem to fare better at all.
@gruber WTF? And it looks even worse when choosing the yellow ’theme’ in Appearance Settings! Seems like nobody tested it… 🤢
Jimmy
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Paul McGrane@gruber It certainly is more obvious in Dark Mode … one wonders if that is the mode the "designers" mostly use now
Pete Prodoehl 🍕@gruber So readable!
SteveC@gruber STILL not upgrading to Tahoe. For the first time ever I may skip a macOS release, while I hope that the upcoming version of macOS fixes this kind of crap.
Gareth Potter
Dave Mark@gruber I have SO many examples of this. Text fields that are cut off, text color choices that render text completely unreadable. In this regard, Apple design has lost the thread.
Bob Peterson
donkey@HootenHaller @davemark @gruber I’ve wondered a few times if he was a Zuck plant years ago to destabilise Apples product lines..
Ken Kocienda@gruber So many notes. Where to start? Let’s even forget the transparency. I wonder, is it:
- Dec 13, 2025
- 12/13/2025 (with looser letter spacing)
- 12/13/2025 (with tighter letter spacing)
Gabriel N@gruber yesterday, a huge iPhone hack for iOS 18 involving Safari began to be mentioned in the press.
I’ve been unwilling to update to iOS 26, due to all the problems with the new design language.
I was hoping that iOS 27 would fix all of this issues, but it seems that Apple will not be changing Liquid Glass, that they’re quite happy about it.
I think I’ll be forced to move to 26, in all the devices, soon:
tripleman, a 🇨🇦 in 🇩🇪
Mark
Oliver Busch@gruber My "highlight" is still the Contacts app.
The majority of the contact info area is a massive image.
Sidebar text is arbitrarily truncated.
Sidebar is not resizable (yet the respective control is shown).
Stil unfixed problems with importing a contacts backup.
Un. Effing. Usable.
The majority of the contact info area is a massive image.
Sidebar text is arbitrarily truncated.
Sidebar is not resizable (yet the respective control is shown).
Stil unfixed problems with importing a contacts backup.
Un. Effing. Usable.
Alexander S. Kunz@gummibando I purchased BusyContacts because of that. It's much better. @gruber
Jordan Krahn@gruber let alone trying to pick a new wifi network when there are a lot of them
Michael Solis
Numeric Citizen@gruber and so many examples here: crafted.numericcitizen.me/apple-liq…
Julian 
@gruber first thing that bothers me here: No correct date format!
How can they allow to put month first…
How can they allow to put month first…
Paul Mison@Loredo @gruber that’s just Americans being American. Language & Region would fix that. The rest, though…
@paulmison oh I know, just couldn’t resist to point out the irony
Imthaz
famousringo@gruber now imagine trying to do remote support through a compressed video stream on a low resolution monitor.
N4RSE - Jim@gruber sLime!
Chris Gervais 🎸🥁💻@gruber You gotta get out of Light Mode. I can't use Tahoe in anything but Dark Mode as it's just a massive glassy smear on the screen
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Jon@gruber but is somebody just screwing around with that "Accents" app and the MacBookNeo Citrus color? (i agree, it should never allow itself to be illegible)
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist[Perfect image in original post that demonstrates how unreadable Liquid Glass in #Tahoe can be.]
Thank you for posting this! Blinding. Literally. I am mildly visually impaired (#dyslexia & old age). Until there is a transparency slider that can be set to 100% opaque (why doesn't that exist?), #Apple 26.x operating systems are no longer visually accessible. Worse, the read screen options fail to read some websites or just quit intermittently. Does Apple have anyone eating their own dog food (testing accessibility features) any more? I am sure the OS doesn't pass #ADA guidelines necessary for government contracts. Sheesh. So disappointed!
ChasMusic (he/him)@sfwrtr @gruber In settings, accessibility, display, I have increase contrast and reduce transparency turned on and am not getting most liquid glass effects. ¿How is that different from a 100% opaque transparency setting? (Not trying to be hostile, just wondering whether you've tried those settings, and if you have, how they failed you.)
@ChasMusic @gruber Yep, I have all those setting on, but even so floating words over lap captions and disappear in contrasts spots, and plenty of "what were they thinking" nuances. Those accessibility features you cited and which I use help, but the incremental accommodations with each release feel like a child refusing to give up on having a Great Dane puppy.
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