When Apple initially announced macOS Tahoe 26, it showed a redesigned Finder icon that moved the blue color to the right side, which went against nearly 30 years of history. Monday's beta fixes that.

Some things just aren't done. You wouldn't see Apple changing its logo, or renaming the iPhone, or jumping from iOS 18 to iOS 26. But it seems not everything is sacred to the company – not even the ...

Apple’s first macOS Tahoe 26 developer beta introduced a big change to the Finder icon that I really didn’t like, but thankfully, the company has reversed it with the second beta released today. A big ...

The new Finder icon in the first beta of macOS Tahoe 26 raised a lot of eyebrows when Apple did more than glassify it: the company also flipped the light and dark sides. The internet wasn’t happy, and ...

For a company as adept at design as Apple is, the company's decision to completely revamp the Finder icon in macOS Tahoe 26 was bewildering. Whereas the icon historically featured a dark shade of blue ...

As a general rule, you shouldn’t install beta versions of new Apple software on devices you depend on. If you do, you should do so with the understanding that this is, well, beta software, which means ...

Most Mac users will be familiar with Finder's ability to display icon previews for file types that it recognizes. The Finder icon for a JPEG image for example will show a small thumbnail-sized version ...

Proxy icons, or as Apple now calls them, “window title icons,” are tiny icons that sit next to the window title in Finder windows and windows from document-focused apps. Dragging the proxy icon to ...

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