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    macOS Tahoe swaps the skeuomorphic Macintosh HD icon for a generic one representing flash storage

    The fifth beta of Apple’s macOS Tahoe 26 operating system has retired the familiar Macintosh HD icon, replacing it with a generic version that isn’t winning any hearts.

    The physical hard drive icon labeled “Macintosh HD” has been a familiar sight on the desktop of Mac computers since the very first version of Mac OS X Cheetah 10.0.0 was released on March 24, 2001. However, macOS Tahoe has ended its 24-year run and replaced the beautiful skeuomorphic icon with a new one that looks fairly generic in the fifth beta of the operating system.

    As you may imagine, the internet has flipped. That’s hardly a surprise. The new icon looks very basic, and people have been emotionally attached to the old icon for so many years that many of them don’t like the change.

    macOS Tahoe retires the skeuomorphic Macintosh HD icon

    Like iOS 26 and other upcoming Apple operating systems, macOS Tahoe 26 represents a complete overhaul of the user interface. I don’t have anything bad to say about the Liquid Glass design, but people have been used to the classic Macintosh HD icon for so long that they’re going to miss the old icon.

    At least its skeuomorphic design resembled a hard drive with screws, vents and a warning sticker whereas the new one looks more like a modern solid state drive with rounded edges and a big Apple logo right in the center. As many people noticed online, the perspective of the new icon feels off compared to the old one.

    I get it, Apple no longer offers Macs with built-in hard drives and the new icon simply reflects that trend, but the change has nevertheless upset some longtime Mac fans, who took to social media to vent their frustration. At least the new disk icon is still aluminum instead of receiving a glass treatment like the rest of the interface in Tahoe.

    macOS makes it easy to change icons

    Unfortunately, Apple doesn’t provide a toggle to bring back the old icon, but that shouldn’t be much of a problem as macOS makes it easy to set custom desktop icons for storage devices like hard drives, flash media and more. Just open the Get Info window for the selected drive and paste in your own icon.

    macOS Tahoe also brings a new look for the built-in Disk Utility app. These aren’t the only polarizing design changes in macOS Tahoe. In earlier Tahoe betas, Apple flipped the decades-old Finder icon by swapping the dark and light sides. Following an uproar online, Apple fixed the icon in a subsequent beta so that it now shows the dark side on the left, as has been the case for many, many years.

    Source link: https://www.idownloadblog.com/2025/08/06/macos-tahoe-macintosh-hd-icon-change/

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    iOS 26 lets you revert swipe direction when changing camera shooting modes

    Classic mode switching in the fifth beta of iOS 26 reverts the scroll direction when swiping to change shooting modes in the Camera app.

    The Liquid Glass redesign in iOS 26 brought some unexpected changes, including reverted scroll direction when swiping horizontally in the Camera app to cycle through the available shooting modes such as Portrait, Photo, Video and others.

    For example, to switch from Photo to Video mode, you must swipe left. This isn’t how swiping in the Camera app worked before. In iOS 18 and earlier, you swipe right to switch from Photo to Video mode as the selection moves in the opposite direction of your swipes. The fifth beta of iOS 26 introduces a new toggle that lets you choose scroll direction when swiping from mode to mode in the Camera app.

    iOS 26 brings classic mode switching for the Camera app

    iOS 26 defaults to the new system, where the glass loupe at the bottom follows the direction of your swipes. But now, there’s a new Mode Switching section in Settings > Camera with a switch labeled Classic Mode Switching.

    Turning it on will reverse the direction of mode switching in the Camera app, so that it works to how it did in iOS 18. As mentioned, this setting is turned off by default.

    This isn’t the only classic mode switching in iOS 26. For example, you can switch to the classic interface in the Phone app by tapping the menu in the top-right corner. And in Safari, you can easily turn on the old address bar within the Tabs section in Settings > Safari > instead of the new compact bar which hides the buttons for bookmarks, open tabs, and sharing options behind a three-dotted menu.

    Apple will release iOS 26 in the fall, and many people will undoubtedly take advantage of these options to revert the classic look in the Phone and Safari apps. And given the popularity of the iPhone camera, the new classic mode switching toggle will be very popular, I think.

    Source link: https://www.idownloadblog.com/2025/08/06/apple-ios-26-camera-classic-mode-switching-toggle/