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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Show threadneomMar 21
I was really happy when they added the pictures! Dyslexia, the icons are 100% faster for me, I don't use those menus often enough to know what is in there word wise, but I can read the icons super fast.
Show threadcosmoticMar 21
How can you read the icons if they mean different things in different apps?
Show threadLeoPantheraMar 22
Can you provide some examples of this? In my experience, they're quite consistent.
Show threadOJFordMar 22
https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/ (second section on consistency)
It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons

Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe

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Show threadthenthenthen
The later examples are pretty wild, 3 different ‘minimize’ icons? Why? Different teams?
Mar 22 at 6:01amWeb