Susan Kare, “Sketches for Graphic User Interface Icon” (detail) (1982), ink on graph paper, on view in ‘This Is for Everyone’ at MoMA (gift of the designer, 2015, photo by the author for Hyperallergic ...

Apple released a new developer beta build of macOS 26 Tahoe today, and it came with another big update for a familiar icon. The old Macintosh HD hard drive icon, for years represented by a facsimile ...

macOS Tahoe quietly retires the old Mac drive icon in favor of a sleeker, SSD-inspired design. Tuesday's developer beta release of macOS Tahoe 26 brought a bit of sad news. The old Macintosh HD icon ...

What if the apps you use every day suddenly felt fresher, more intuitive, and visually striking? Apple’s latest redesign of its app icons is doing just that—redefining how users interact with their ...

On today’s developer beta release of macOS Tahoe 26, Apple replaced the old Macintosh HD icon, which depicted an actual hard disk drive, with a new SSD-looking icon. Here’s what it looks like. The old ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

If you decide you no longer want the Trash icon on your desktop, you can remove it by dragging the Trash folder to the actual Trash icon in the Dock. This will delete the symbolic link and remove the ...