Joe Rossignol: macOS Golden Gate also has design changes. For example, apps now have a unified toolbar at the top, and the sidebar now expands to the edge of the window. Hartley Charlton: Sidebar behavior is also being updated. Sidebars will now expand to the full edge of the window, with refraction effects continuing beneath […]

Wesley Hilliard: macOS Tahoe threw an icon on every menu item, making them impossible to distinguish at a glance. macOS Golden Gate has rectified that design taboo with blessedly iconless menus. Apple: In macOS 27.0, menu bar and context menus present a reduced set of menu item images, similar to the behavior prior to macOS […]

Ryan Christoffel: Last year with iOS 26, Apple redesigned its full lineup of app icons for iPhone. But just one year later, iOS 27 has even more design changes for many app icons. […] iOS 27’s new app icons are “sharper and more detailed,” per Apple’s description. And it really shows. Louie Mantia: If you’re […]

Hartley Charlton: Apple said it has heard user feedback, which it “deeply appreciates,” and is now making adjustments to the underlying foundations of how Liquid Glass is constructed. Chief among those changes is a new slider that lets users control transparency, ranging from fully opaque to completely clear. Benjamin Mayo: As well as offering this […]

Tim Hardwick: Apple at WWDC 2026 today said it has made several responsiveness improvements across its software ecosystem, speeding up system animations, app launching, and much more. Zac Hall: Overall, iOS 27 so far is a major collection of performance improvements and refinements. Ryan Christoffel: As had been rumored leading up to today, Apple has […]