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macOS 26 Tahoe's Dead Canary Utility App Icons

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405 points Bogdanp | 2 comments | 26 Aug 25 00:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.595s | source
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lh7777 ◴[26 Aug 25 01:26 UTC] No.45021226[source]▶
Personally, I'm more dismayed by this change:

> Apps that haven’t been updated with Tahoe-compliant everything-fits-in-a-squircle icons are put in “squircle jail” — their non-Tahoe-compliant icons are shrunk and placed atop a drab gray Tahoe squircle background, to force them into squircle compliance.

I've been replacing some app icons with their older, non-square versions for years (Firefox is probably my favorite). Will be disappointing to lose that option -- I've never understood why Apple feels the need to standardize app icons like this.

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1. PlunderBunny ◴[26 Aug 25 02:32 UTC] No.45021663[source]▶
I'd like someone running macOS 26 to weigh in here, but I'm not sure it's true that - if you replace an app icon (presumably by pasting in the Finder Get Info window) - the replacement is also confined to squircle jail?
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2. InTheArena ◴[26 Aug 25 15:17 UTC] No.45027790[source]▶
no.