{"id":49656,"date":"2025-10-16T15:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T19:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=49656"},"modified":"2026-03-18T10:46:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:46:55","slug":"tahoe-window-corners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/16\/tahoe-window-corners\/","title":{"rendered":"Tahoe Window Corners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mario Guzmán<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I can’t stop laughing at how comically large the corner radii are on #macOSTahoe windows. Clownish.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Dominik Wagner<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Preview? These are white, A4 PDF pages, they don’t have round corners. We are not on battlestar galactica. I need my pdf preview to show me my paper as it is, not with different rounded corners based on my zoom factor 😡<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Marcin Krzyzanowski<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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after I upgraded to macOS26 literally the only thing that annoys me the most is hikarious windows curvature. no content really fits in.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Rui Carmo<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I can see four<\/strike> five<\/em> different sizes of window corner radius on my Mac desktop. The overall visual design for menus and dialogs is still a joke, and is so badly executed that Apple should be ashamed of shipping it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

See also: Rob Jonson<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Perhaps I am taking this too literally. Then again, Apple is the one saying<\/a> application windows are no longer “configured for rectangular displays”, and that they now fit the “rounded corners of modern hardware”. Regardless of the justification, I quite like the roundness of these windows. Perhaps it is simply the newness, but they make applications seem friendlier and softer. I understand why they are controversial; the large radius severely restricts what can be present in the corners, thus lowering the information density of an application window. It seems Apple agrees it is more appropriate in some apps than in others — app windows in System Information and Terminal have a much smaller corner radius.<\/p>

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Even on a device with four rounded display corners, this dedication to concentricity is not always executed correctly. My iPhone 15 Pro, for example, has corners with a slightly smaller radius than an iPhone 16 Pro. The bottom corners of the share sheet on my device are cramped, nearly touching the edge of the display at their apex.<\/p>

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Then there are the issues caused by this dedication to concentricity. Look again at that Finder window screenshot above and pay attention to the buttons in the toolbar. In particular, notice how the icon in the item grouping button — the solitary one between the view switcher, and the group that includes the sharing button — looks like it is touching the rounded edge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n