Susan Kare, “Sketches for Graphic User Interface Icon” (detail) (1982), ink on graph paper, on view in ‘This Is for Everyone’ at MoMA (gift of the designer, 2015, photo by the author for Hyperallergic ...

Apple released a new developer beta build of macOS 26 Tahoe today, and it came with another big update for a familiar icon. The old Macintosh HD hard drive icon, for years represented by a facsimile ...

macOS Tahoe app icons came under fire late last year with commenters describing them as “terrible” and “objectively bad.” In our poll, 9to5Mac readers had exceedingly mixed views. Software engineer ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

If app icons suddenly disappear from the macOS dock someday, you can try out a few quick fixes first. These include performing a system restart, reopening the affected apps, clearing RAM and occupied ...

You don't have to settle for hundreds of identical blue folders. Every folder on macOS looks the same—a boring blue representation of a paper file. That makes browsing a folder full of folders harder ...