Overview
- macOS Tahoe adds icons to nearly every menu item across the system, expanding Apple’s push for visual cues.
- Critiques say the dense iconography increases visual noise and slows users who rely on quick menu scanning.
- Reviewers document inconsistent symbol choices across and within apps, including reused icons for unrelated actions.
- Icons are very small and rendered as vector symbol fonts, which reviewers say lose detail and appear blurry at menu sizes.
- Detailed analyses by Niki and Nikita Prokopov highlight confusing metaphors and text-as-icons, with no Apple response reported.