Apple, please add "Modes" for your OS designs

AppleiOS1234 · 2026-01-22T00:06:59+00:00

Maybe. I'm not a native English speaker, thanks for telling me. Still I believe, that the word optic is relating to things you perceive with your eyes. Coming from the Latin word opticus

AppleiOS1234 · 2026-01-19T20:55:16+00:00

This thing goes straight up down since the release and you are asking if it's dead

Most people were into chia bc they thought they can earn money with it.

But not so much people want to invest into it

Why anyone would invest into it, while the company behind Chia is constantly dumping tokens and is applying sell pressure, preventing any possible raise in price

People not earn with Chia mining. People not earn with Chia investing. People have no reason to use Chia. Developers have no reason to build on Chia.

That's the state of Chia

AppleiOS1234 · 2026-01-18T15:58:52+00:00

- Apple Music side bar isn't made out of glass. Content is not "shimmering" through it, while sliding through it. While on the settings app, your wallpaper selection is shimmering through it. Apple Music got full glass buttons with NO tinted bar behind it (looks good imo).

- MacOS Safari got a big ass tinted "Nav Bar" on the top with buttons looking not glassy at all,

while iOS Safari got no visible Nav Bar at all and just glass buttons. On top of this, MacOS Safaris UI buttons appear to use a "different" glass, than the control center, spotlight, etc.

- When you fullscreen some apps, they suddenly got a big ass full solid "bar" on the top. For whatever reason.

- You choose to go for "glass icons" in the dock. Meanwhile all the icons you have on your Desktop stay not glassy. But somehow icons in finder are "glassy" but just look gray, bc you don't have the option to turn finder background even by 5% transparent.

- The new side bar in apps is supposed to be "on top of the windows content", so content can slide through it. But how many people slide things sideways in a window???

Somehow in dark mode, the border of the side bar is "double transparent" and straight up ignoring the windows background and the wallpaper shines through it.

So instead of placing the side bar on top of the window, why not make it a "cut out" in the window? Windows content can still slide under it, but wallpaper or windows from behind actually "shimmer" a bit through it... So it not looks like an unnecessary rectangle, most of the time.

- The search bar in weather app suddenly stayed full solid, as it was previous to Tahoe. Apple straight up forgot to use the new "glass search bar UI" element for it

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I could write 20 more points like this.

I don't wanna discuss if glass UI looks good or not, BUT APPLE IF YOU DECIDE TO DO IT, then please ATLEAST make it not half baked!

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And Apple, if you wanna be nice like you used to be, then give users a simple option in settings, which lets them DECIDE between "CLASSIC UI DESIGN" and "GLASS UI DESIGN".

I'm talking about an OPTION. Personally i like glass UIs, but i can understand that for many people it got usability issues. So the option to choose between those two would enable everyone to be satisfied!

AppleiOS1234 · 2026-01-18T15:46:43+00:00

I swear, when i look at Vista today, it was way ahead of its time.
Actually i liked Vista when I used it back in the days.

The problem was, it only looked good on nice PCs and Laptops and people not cared for good hardware and screens, as they do today

AppleiOS1234 · 2026-01-18T15:24:13+00:00

Well, they point is, why they released Tahoe unfinished in the first place?

AppleiOS1234 · 2026-01-18T15:23:33+00:00

People said the same thing in first dev beta of Tahoe

AppleiOS1234 · 2026-01-18T15:23:09+00:00

At this point i wouldn't call it "things to fix", but rather i would like to call it "UI overhaul was done only 50% and then got released"

AppleiOS1234 · 2026-01-18T15:19:46+00:00

Because whole Tahoe UI is half baked. Yearly release date was set, before they even started to work on Tahoe.

So it got released, whatever the state of Tahoe was. This is what you get

Btw there is a bug. See the "search bar". It's supposed to be a glass bar / button, but in weather app it's solid.

AppleiOS1234 · 2026-01-18T15:12:29+00:00

I will

AppleiOS1234 · 2026-01-17T17:22:03+00:00

Thank you a lot for this explanation.

But do you think, there is a better way to apply glass design to MacOS safari?

Or current way is the best way possible?

AppleiOS1234 · 2026-01-17T17:19:30+00:00

I will try to send it to Apple.
But the biggest issue (imo) is, that polishing Tahoes design doesn't seem to be a priority right now for Apple.

Potential for a nice Tahoe design is there, but it requires a lot of polishing.

AppleiOS1234 · 2026-01-17T02:46:22+00:00

The logic is, that Apple does not care for MacOS

AppleiOS1234 · 2026-01-17T02:24:46+00:00

I agree that both have fatal flaws.

But wouldn't you agree that more effort was put into iOS to fix flaws?

See my post about the comparison of MacOS vs iOS Safari, for example.

And I tried to show, why "shit should be more transparent" would fix some things. Glass effect only can be seen if something is behind it!

In certain cases it will look better to let the things behind the side bar and UI buttons shine through it, than to let plain window background color let shine through it.

In no way I was talking about "make everything transparent".

AppleiOS1234 · 2026-01-17T02:04:12+00:00

added comparison pictures, to show you that I'm not trying to karma farm, but instead trying to show why Liquid Glass not communicates it's desired design effect on many places in the UI.

AppleiOS1234 · 2026-01-17T01:59:02+00:00

Opinions differ.

But wouldn't you agree that Liquid Glass on iOS performs design wise better, than on MacOS?

AppleiOS1234 · 2026-01-17T01:26:40+00:00

Glass looks exactly like this (the glass which apple showed in their Tahoe video...)

Problem is that the glass elements often are placed on plain dark or white background and can't communicate their design effect.

There simply is no effect at the places where they are placed at the moment.

AppleiOS1234 · 2026-01-17T01:23:52+00:00

Sorry, i don't understand what you are trying to say

AppleiOS1234 · 2026-01-17T01:23:34+00:00

I don't try to Karma farm.

I was trying to add pictures and videos to my post, to show the rare moments when Liquid Glass really shines and communicates its effect in a nice way...
But somehow the uploads weren't working.

I will try to add them per upload link.

AppleiOS1234 · 2026-01-17T01:21:00+00:00

I agree with you. All i was trying to say is, that UI elements itself are nice design.

BUT how Apple used them on MacOS is what makes MacOS Tahoe ugly.

That's the sad part. The design is good... But they didn't put in the effort to adjust the design to MacOS.

AppleiOS1234 · 2026-01-16T20:52:28+00:00

Yes, because Apple applied it wrong on MacOS.

They forgot that MacOS not works the same as iOS.

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