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macOS 26 Tahoe's Dead Canary Utility App Icons
These are the not the work of carpenters who care about the backs of the cabinets they’re building. These icons are so bad, they look like the work of untrained “How hard can it be?” dilettante carpenters who only last a few days on the job before sawing off one of their own fingers.
Monday, 25 August 2025 MacOS has shipped with a collection of “utility” apps since the prehistoric era of classic Mac OS. Ticket Viewer), some because they’re effectively deprecated (e.g. DVD Player, whose copyright date in MacOS 15 Sequoia is 2019), and some because they present themselves, when launched, not as apps but as system-level features (e.g. About This Mac) — are tucked away in/System/Library/CoreServices/ or/System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/. But these Apple utility apps have an entire sub-motif — inside their base squircle shape is a large wrench fitted against a bolt.
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