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Posted by soheilpro 21 hours ago

Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons(512pixels.net)
239 points | 95 commentspage 2
amelius 3 hours ago|
What option do I use if I want to disable the icons only in some cases?
xoxxala 16 hours ago||
Oh, thank you for posting this. Just ran the Terminal command and it’s a vast improvement.
elgrantomate 9 hours ago||
"apps will respect this change after relaunching" ...? I'm not seeing that happen. restart required?
masswerk 9 hours ago|
I guess, this means logging out as the current user and logging in again, so that the various services are relaunched with changed settings.
reserve 6 hours ago||
Great. Thank you for sharing this tip!
ndr42 2 hours ago||
Nice, except it doesn't work in Safari. Some are hidden in the Edit menu but most are still there.
JSR_FDED 13 hours ago||
Currently I’m blocking the Tahoe updates with Little Snitch. If that becomes untenable I’ll just run Sequoia in a VM.
AnonC 9 hours ago||
I’d like to know what rules you use to prevent Tahoe updates while allowing Sequoia updates. It would be quite useful to me, and I guess, to others here who use Little Snitch.
mrtesthah 8 hours ago||
Just enable the Sequoia developer/beta channel. You won’t see other updates then.
testing22321 13 hours ago||
I setup a do not disturb to run all day everyday. I have not had a notification to update to Tahoe in over a month.
mholm 12 hours ago||
I don't even have any special handling set and haven't had any Tahoe prompts beyond maybe the first one. I often forget that I'm not on the latest anymore.
ChrisArchitect 16 hours ago||
Source: https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/116262411548746327 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47468034)
zahirbmirza 16 hours ago||
I still miss launchpad. Which is made worse by the fact the spotlight has become terrible.

Safari is unusable due to some weird sync that happens whenever I open a new window ( i dont use tabs) and adding bookmarks takes about 10-15 seconds.

Please Apple, help? Apple seem to have lost their cultish drive to satisfy UI obsessive like me who often didn't even know what we wanted until they gave it to us. Now, we know what we want, but Apple can't give it to us.

halapro 6 hours ago|
As much as I resisted it, I switched to Alfred years ago and I don't see myself switching back anytime soon.
ChrisArchitect 16 hours ago||
Related:

It's hard to justify Tahoe icons

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46497712

hooch 16 hours ago|
it's as if the icons get added by a lazy LLM prompt during CI
9dev 15 hours ago||
Which is probably exactly what happened. Reportedly Apple is all-in on Claude across the board.
nayroclade 13 hours ago||
Nah, blaming AI is too easy. It's more likely that Apple's design culture got rotted out under Alan Dye https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_dye_job

Now that Dye is gone, I still hold out hope that Apple will change direction and start fixing their UI. But that fact that it got this bad in the first place implies things are seriously broken at a senior leadership level.

saagarjha 9 hours ago||
What makes you think that things aren't bad under him?
john_alan 17 hours ago|
Great now just need the same for the window corners and ridiculous Finder overlays.
0xFEE1DEAD 17 hours ago||
Exactly.

I blame apple for making me run an old macOS version because I don't want to look at this ugly mess they've created. I've been running macOS since 2008, and unless they manage to turn things around, my next laptop won't be an apple.

reddalo 16 hours ago|||
I agree. I also tried Tahoe, and reverted back to Sequoia right away.

Either Apple is going to turn things around, or I'm done with Apple for good.

username223 9 hours ago|||
> unless they manage to turn things around, my next laptop won't be an apple.

Meh. I ran Linux on a PowerBook back in the day, because Apple made the best hardware and behind-the-times software, before deciding that Mac OS X was "Unix with decent office software" and wholesale switching. I'm fine going back to FVWM on a MacBook if macOS 27 is as bad as 26.

josteink 5 hours ago||
I just stopped using Finder all together.

Bloom is a fairly cheap one-time purchase and infinitely more capable.

https://bloomapp.club/

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