Among the many new things in the first developer beta for macOS Tahoe, the new Finder icon was one that caught a lot of hate, and for good reason.
After sticking with a more-or-less similar design and color-scheme for the Finder icon since 1996, Apple decided to swap the blue and white colors on the Finder icon. A seemingly innocuous change, but one that certainly irked a lot of Mac users.
Well, in the new macOS Tahoe Developer Beta 2, the company has reverted the color swap, and made Finder look normal again; or as normal as it can look with the new Liquid Glass UI style.
Just as the Finder icon in Beta 1 was not set in stone, this new icon is also not definitive at this point. However, I certainly hope that any changes Apple decides to make to the Finder icon make it look better, not worse. After all, it is by far the most used app on a Mac, and it always stays on the Dock, so it might as well look good while it’s there.
Toasty Take
It seems Apple either got enough feedback about the new, color-swapped, monstrosity of an icon that it decided to revert the colors back to their original form, or the company executives themselves couldn’t stand the look of the new Finder icon on their own Macs.
Either way, it’s good for us that the Finder icon now looks slightly more normal. And, in the Liquid Glass design language, this new icon does look subtly different without being so drastically changed that it completely upends the expectations of any long time Mac user.