That’s swell, but rather than I like this vs. you like that, what the image conveys is there are several things that are just objectively wrong in the Tahoe picture.
Firstly, there are two tab states, but Apple has somehow decided to use three different shades for two states. Secondly, Apple has also decided that (some) tabs should use rounded bubbles. Nevertheless, faded fine lines have been left behind to additionally delimitate these round bubble tabs, but only in certain locations.
The before-Tahoe picture is perhaps not to everybody’s esthetic liking (a lot of folks have bemoaned the lack of color or flatness of the GUI), and to others that might be the case for the Tahoe picture, but that’s beside the point. The point is the Tahoe picture contains just outright bad UX. Not nice or ugly, just poorly executed in a usability sense.
So I continue to disagree - I still prefer the UI in the second photo. And I will also say that I am not seeing tabs that three different shading states in real-life Tahoe - this window I have open has 18 tabs open, with one pinned tab (a tiny circle on the far-left, which I think is better UI than before), the inactive tabs are all the same shade of gray, and the active tab is obvious - in part because it is the only one with text on it, but I think that happened before anyway.
And to me the controls on the toolbar are far easier to see - though, again, on real-life Tahoe on my machine the windows has a lot less contrast than your photo.
Really my only very minor complaint is that I don’t like the increased radius of the corners, which in the case of this tab are just touching the bottom of the blue “Reply” button on the bottom-left.
Simon, I cannot reproduce the tabs you show in your photo. I have 5 tabs open, and only the active one is in a bubble. If I pin a tab, it moves to the left in to a circle showing the site icon. The 4 non active tabs are separated by shortened vertical lines. Are the Start page and Gcal tabs doing some processing? I just can’t get the same look on my new instal. How did you do it?
Funny thing, as I usually work in dark mode, I did not saw so many changes. Transparencies look nice in some parts, but not everywhere and more when your eyesight is not as good as it used to be… interestingly Mr. Oakley article is spot on how to reduce the confusion!. Thanks for the link!
FWIW, the Journal app seems very buggy. Every time I try to add a location it hangs and has to be force quit. When I reopen the app and try to edit a location it hard crashes. Seems the key tipping point to me upgrading is badly broken.
AH, I have managed to solve the issue. Those dark grey tabs in a bubble are obtained by Cmd-click. Useful if you have a bunch of tabs, and want to move some to a new window or do a multiple close etc.
Well, in Music.app, shuffle BY ALBUM is broken. You get shuffle by “song”, regardless of what you select. I’ve been complaining that feature was missing from Music.app on iOS, it seems like instead of adding it to iOS, Apple has decided instead to BREAK it in Mac OS Music.app.
I played with Music.app a bit more. If I view the library “as songs”, “sort by album” is ignored. If I view “as albums”, it is honored. WHY should the viewing have any control over playback ordering?
Can somebody report on the new Spotlight, specifically its “snappiness”?
On Sequoia, even using the fastest Apple silicon money can buy right now (and making sure to turn off all web searching etc), there is often a significant lag, definitely feels like at least a second, between text entry and starting to see a populated list. Since I use Spotlight a lot for app launching (I’m a fast typer and I like keeping my hands on the KB), I notice this a lot (although if there’s only one obvious hit, Spotlight will eventually catch up so you can just hit return once you’re done typing without waiting for Spotlight to start showing stuff). So I’m curious if such a lag is still there of Apple has figured out in Tahoe how to make Spotlight listing super snappy.
Interesting. I have noticed a similar lag in Spotlight in recent weeks. I’m not sure when it began, but I’m sure that at some point in the Sequoia life cycle, it was fine. I was planning on rebuilding the indices when I get the chance. Have you tried that?
Once again, the Apple interface guys seem to have said “The Music interface isn’t broken enough, let’s break it some more!” Why are the playing controls now at the bottom of the screen and why can’t they be moved back to the top where they were more useful? If you search for a word in a song, there used to be an option to ‘show all’ – now you can only see nine at a time and have to scroll through them horizontally. As a podcaster, the Music app was one of my main apps but it’s now a nightmare every time I try to do anything which I could do before Tahoe. Hopefully, enough people will complain to Apple that they undo all the rubbish changes they’ve made to various bits of the interface … that’s if they’re taking notice …
Since iTunes demise it’s gotten worse and worse. I don’t Music much on my Mac but the controls moving to the bottom is definitely puzzling.
My requirements are few; a simple way to display my music and make it easy to find and play. I’d be happy to remove all the tiles for categories, suggestions, and AI generated playlists for “Picked for you” and “1990” and “Find your mood”. It’s a massive mess.
I have 3 observed problems with previous versions of Music.app:
Sometimes playback will stop on the computer’s speakers
Sometimes when it advances to the next track, the track doesn’t start playing. (Usually advancing to the next track, and then back-tracking will let the original track play.)
General unreliability with AirPlay speakers. That’s true for both my old Airport Express and my new HomePod Mini.
#1 has occurred already with the new release of Music.app, but I’ll continue testing to see if that was a one-of, or a chronic problem (as it has been with previous versions of Music.app.)
I’ve asked my friend who works at Apple to go find the person responsible for Mac Music.app and punch him/her, but my friend has not responded…
Something similar here. One song just stopped playing, I clicked on “Play”, but stopped playing again after one or two seconds. And again. And again.
I jumped to the following song, and it was ok again.
