Apple to Make Design Changes in macOS 27 to Address Tahoe Quirks (Gift Article)

From Mark Gurman:

Apple is planning design changes for macOS 27 this year to fix some quirks in macOS 26 Tahoe. Also: The company is testing a feature to automatically organize groups of tabs in the Safari browser. And finally, here’s the truth about the Vision Pro and this year’s visionOS.

I’m told the company is preparing what people internally consider to be a “slight redesign” for macOS 27. With the next update, Apple aims to address the shadows and transparency quirks.

But Liquid Glass itself isn’t going away, as I’ve said before. It’s simply being refined. I also expect iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 to include a range of interface tweaks, though nothing will be too dramatic. The goal is more of a cleanup and refinement effort aligned with the company’s wider push to polish its software this year.

In fact, the changes to macOS are meant to make Liquid Glass look the way Apple’s design team intended it to from the start. Last year’s operating systems didn’t necessarily suffer from design problems, I’m told, but rather a not-completely-baked implementation from Apple’s software engineering team.