Notices by Tuomas Hämäläinen (tuomas_h@mastodon.social)

If you needed further evidence that iOS 26 is... not *quite* there yet, I present you a keyboard that doesn't fit on the screen. This was sent by a friend who upgraded their 13 mini.

*aTtEnTiOn tO dEtAiL*

Apple love to preach "the UI gets out of the way of your content" with each new redesign, but how true is that in practice? Let's compare the total height of the Safari UI with a toolbar, favourites bar and tab bar visible, across the three latest Mac OS design languages – Yosemite, Big Sur and now Tahoe. I've added a red line for emphasis.

It sure looks to me like the UI is eating more into my content with each redesign.

Before the Picards settled on their chateau in France (and famously took to the stars as we know), they ran a small but successful family business in Vienna, Austria, selling security doors and locks. #startrek

So I saw some lament about the QuickTime Player icon in my feed last week and got inspired to have a go at it.

And here we have it – four new interpretations of the best QuickTime icon in the Big Sur roundrect: Retro, Aqua, Aurora and Noir.