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macOS 26 Tahoe: The Ars Technica Review
Liquid Glass brings translucent sheen to the typical batch of iterative changes.
If you're upgrading to Tahoe from an older macOS version, you'll be shown a brief reel of demo videos highlighting some of the release's most user-noticeable features: the Liquid Glass UI, the new color customization options, some of the changes to Spotlight search, and the presence of the Phone app. The other, visible in some views of the Finder or in the Files app for the iPad, uses what Apple calls a "hard-style" effect, fading and diffusing underlying objects more aggressively right where the window content meets the title bar or category labels. Nothing here has the retro-cool factor of last year's classic Macintosh-themed wallpaper, but there are still some pretty ones: light and dark versions of an abstract blue glassy swirl that kind of evokes flowing water, and a shot of the shores of Lake Tahoe during four different times of day.
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