In the WWDC, Apple announced its new liquid glass design language, which is coming to all its devices, including Max. I have been quarreling with 26 developer son on M4 MacBook Air for about a day. Until now, aesthetic changes range from smart to overcrott, but new features of spotlight search are nifty and useful.
The entire Macos 26 has new glasses of transparency, including dock, finishes, widgets, and built -in apps. This is more subtle than the iPhone, mostly because the Mac’s large screen makes real estate liquid glass elements more like a tone, it is considered much more than this dirt. I am not yet fond of it, but maybe it will increase to me, as is the trend of UI changes.
Watching the dock can be distorted and distorted behind it. Screenshot: Antonio G The Bendito / The Verge
The dock now has a pouring background that is more transparent than the sequatic flatter design. The aesthetic of the funny, frozen glasses also extends to the widget, such as the calendar and the weather, and the drop-down menos-while the latter is very blurred. Popups for volume and brightness now use the shape of this distorted glass, though they have moved to the upper right corner of the screen instead of being the center of the dock. In fact, they are ugly, and I see their new long horizontal look strange and out of place.
Surprisingly, the menu bar in the upper part of the screen is now hidden, so it no longer masks the screen marked cutout with a deep gray bar. At first I found this lightweight, but I quickly adjusted it, just as I did the first time when I saw a notch MacBook. It became most innocent, in which a bright wall paper also shows its borders. (If you really hate it, you can enable “reduce transparency” in the Rasa menu, bring back the loaded menu bar and kill the other transparent effects of Tahao too much.) A cool thing that enables the hidden menu to bar is a new animation: when you go to the top of the three -to -three toes. It is a rash flower, but it is one of the few effects of Tahu that tickles me.
1/3The way this top pan in control distorts the wallpaper because it slips into it, I will give it to it. Screenshot: Antonio G The Bendito / The Verge
The widgets now live on the desktop instead of the notification center swipe over the need, if you choose, you allow you to settle your desktop with a lot of blinking information like an iPad home screen. Open a Finder window and you see something more of Tahu’s round design, the sidebar now looks like his own long, orange nest window. Dark Mode and Light Mode show some differences here, Light mode has flattened Finder Windows a little more than its deep version, which makes me feel like more glasses.
The theme, which launches with iOS18, is now in Macos. Opening the appearance of the appearance can feature the overall shape (light, dark, and auto), colors, and change the icon and widget styles. The correct (or false) combination of these settings can change the format of the Macos in a dramatic way, at least to the least.
1/5Open a Finder window and you see something more of Tahu’s round design, the sidebar now looks like his own long, orange nest window. Screenshot: Antonio G The Bendito / The Verge
Power users have more interesting changes in light that are very easy to drive your Mac through the keyboard. The spotlight search now provides you with a shortcut to find files, launch apps, perform actions, and access the clipboard date. Pressing command and space is called the spotlight as usual, but now if you roam the search bar with the mouse, you see four icons for these new functions, in which each keyboard offers shortcuts.
Now it is spotlighting: by pressing the command and either 1, 2, 3, or 4 keys you can get quick access to apps, files, shortcuts and clipboards. After that, you can type what you are looking for or trying to do. Apps can serve as a mini -ranking launcher. The files have top suggestions and resorts. The shortcut allows you to type functions you want to make your Mac through compatible apps. Clipboard is an upside -down historical history of the recent things you copied.
Type the process in a spotlight. You can see that what I set up sharp keys are suggested from above. Screenshot: Antonio G The Bendito / The Verge
I really like the ability to set customs quick key commands. For example, I set “M” to become a quick key for a message, and set “TM” to set the timer. For each of these processes, some part of the gesture requires to type, such as the number of minutes in your timer or the contents of a message and the recipient. But if you want to use a lot of hotooks and wander around an app with tabs and Alt Cases, you are likely to feel fine at home.
Many readers have quickly commented that this is a “Shirkling” ray cast. Ray Cast is a very high custom and widespread spotlight alternative. It can conversion of mathematics and unit, seat timer, has its own appendable clipboard history, and a bunch of more, and it also supports the third party extension. Although the changes in Micros Tahao have allowed some racist tasks to be highlighted, it is not so wide. At least, not yet. Ray Cast is a power user tool, and Apple can develop some time and a lot to win.
I have been using the first Tahu developer son about a day. There will be more to learn about McCons Tahau because the developers will continue to use it in their existing beta form and Apple provided more updates. The public beta has not been coming any time until next month, and it is possible that Apple will advance some massive changes and UI opportunities before.
