Apple has been updating some classic Mac icons during the macOS Tahoe beta, upsetting some longtime Mac users who prefer the original look. In beta 5, Apple changed the design of the built-in Mac ...

You’ve read a lot about the macOS 26 interface this summer, but it’s not just menus and buttons that will be different on the Mac later this year. Apple is taking advantage of the Liquid Glass ...

It turns out Apple TV isn’t the only new icon in today’s 26.1 beta 3 OS releases. Remember the controversial hard drive icon in macOS Tahoe from over the summer? Apple shipped the design, but it looks ...

And I'm curious: when did "Macintosh HD" actually start? System 2.1 default was "HD 20" and I seem to recall this naming convention holding right through HD 80. So did it start with PPC Macs? Click to ...

The original Macintosh HD icon had been outdated for a great many years. It very clearly depicted a spinning metal hard disk drive long after Apple made the switch to chip-mounted SSDs. It wasn’t ...