{"id":490138,"date":"2026-06-09T05:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T05:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/490138\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T05:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T05:59:08","slug":"macos-golden-gate-menus-revert-to-having-no-icons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/490138\/","title":{"rendered":"macOS Golden Gate menus revert to having no icons"},"content":{"rendered":"

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. <\/p>\n

In Disney’s 2004 animated film The Incredibles, a very basic concept of “when everyone is special, no one is” is explored. Alan Dye<\/a> must not have seen that movie or the many like it. <\/p>\n

Well, now that he’s gone, so is his team’s decision to frustratingly place icons next to every menu item. Apple announced macOS Golden Gate on Monday<\/a>, and it has fixed this problem. <\/p>\n

macOS Tahoe<\/a> introduced the controversial Liquid Glass design<\/a>, but that may not have been the most hated change to the platform. Oh, the weird Finder icon<\/a> was a problem Apple fixed immediately, but I’m talking about menu icons. <\/p>\n

For some reason, Apple went against its own age-old design guidelines to add special little SF symbols to every menu item. Every single item in the menu got these little pictures of cogs, squares, and pencils. <\/p>\n

The problem is, when every menu item has a little picture next to it, your brain stops distinguishing between them. They’re treated as another letter in a line of text and may as well not exist. <\/p>\n

Well, someone got the memo because macOS Golden Gate ditches the icons again. Here’s a side-by-side of the new menu next to the previous one. <\/p>\n

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The left menu shows a lack of icons in macOS Golden Gate and the right menu shows the icons in macOS Tahoe<\/p>\n

Apple spent a lot of its keynote addressing user complaints. Even the corner radii being mismatched was addressed directly. <\/p>\n

WWDC<\/a> 2026 is underway and AppleInsider is digging through<\/a> all of the betas for every small change. Even though Apple spent most of its keynote address talking about Apple Intelligence<\/a>, there are many new features and updates across every operating system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"macOS Tahoe threw an icon on every menu item, making them impossible to distinguish at a glance. macOS…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-490138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}