Macintosh HD and 20 other macOS Tahoe icons that will shock your eyes this fall

August 8, 2025

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You’ve read a lot about the macOS 26 interface this summer, but it’s not just menus and buttons that will be different on the Mac later this year. Apple is taking advantage of the Liquid Glass introduction to bring some new icon designs to the Mac as well to help give macOS a fresh look. You might have seen some of them on social media posts, but for many users, the differences will be jarring.

If you’re the type who primarily makes graphical identifications while looking around on your Mac, some of the icons may throw you off because Apple made a drastic change. Other icons will be instantly recognizable–you may not even notice a difference unless to pause a take a close look. In many cases, the icons are simpler and have less character than they did before.

Here are 21 examples of Apple apps that have new icons. In all of the images below, the icon on the left is from macOS Sequoia and the icon on the right is from the macOS Tahoe beta.