soheilproMar 21

Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons

https://512pixels.net/2026/03/hide-macos-tahoes-menu-icons-with-this-one-simple-trick/

Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons With This One Simple Trick - 512 Pixels

I really dislike Apple’s choice to clutter macOS Tahoe’s menus with icons. It makes menus hard to scan, and a bunch of the icons Apple has chosen make no sense and are inconsistent between system applications. Steve Troughton-Smith is my hero for finding a Terminal command to disable them: Here’s one for the icons-in-menus haters […]

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It's hard to justify Tahoe icons

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46497712

It's hard to justify Tahoe icons | Hacker News

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Show threadhoochMar 21
it's as if the icons get added by a lazy LLM prompt during CI
Show thread9devMar 21
Which is probably exactly what happened. Reportedly Apple is all-in on Claude across the board.
Show threadnayrocladeMar 22

Nah, blaming AI is too easy. It's more likely that Apple's design culture got rotted out under Alan Dye https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_dye_job

Now that Dye is gone, I still hold out hope that Apple will change direction and start fixing their UI. But that fact that it got this bad in the first place implies things are seriously broken at a senior leadership level.

Bad Dye Job

It might have made some sense to bring someone from the fashion/brand world to lead software design for Apple Watch, but it sure didn’t seem to make sense for the rest of Apple’s platforms. And the decade of Dye’s HI leadership has proven it.

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Show threadsaagarjhaMar 22
What makes you think that things aren't bad under him?