Apple is preparing to introduce a “minor redesign” for the next version of macOS. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The update will introduce improvements to the Liquid Glass design language, which cleans up some of the rough edges seen in the Tahoe user interface.
This will likely include tweaks to the system’s use of transparency and shadows, which should address some user criticism of poor contrast when using Tahoe apps.
According to Gurman, the Tahoe incarnation of the new design is somewhat incomplete. The follow-up to macOS 27 will help bring Liquid Glass to the Mac the way the design team originally intended.
Gurman describes the current situation in his bulletin as follows:
In fact, the changes to macOS are meant to make Liquid Glass look the way Apple’s design team originally intended. Last year’s operating systems didn’t necessarily suffer from design issues, I’m told, just an undercooked implementation from Apple’s software engineering team.
From the sounds of it, if you hate the concept of Liquid Glass in general, you probably won’t like macOS 27 just yet. But if you have specific readability issues on your Mac, such as the transparency of sidebars, macOS 27 might just introduce changes that make you happy.
Apart from the design changes, Apple will also use macOS 27 to improve the reliability and efficiency of the software. Code cleanup seems to be a theme in new operating system versions this year. Apple will likely tell users they can expect better performance and longer battery life after the update, similar to iOS 12 marketing.
The big new feature in macOS 27 and iOS 27 will be an updated Siri with chatbot functionality (supported by smarter Gemini-based models) and other minor improvements powered by improvements to Apple’s artificial intelligence platform. Siri and Spotlight Search functions will also be integrated.
Apple will officially present the new operating systems on June 8 at the WWDC developer conference.
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