![]() ![]() In recent years, Apple - along with Google and Microsoft - has adopted more modern, flat design and that's generally easier on the eyes. While the iOS versions use a clean, simple flat design, the Mac versions look like a throwback to the pre-2013 iPhone days when Apple used heavy-handed 3D icons that leaned into skeuomorphism, where icons look like the real-world counterpart of whatever they represent, such as a physical calendar or envelope. The problem is that in Big Sur, Apple went backwards with these icons by adding 3D shadows, which are especially apparent in the new icons for Messages and FaceTime on Mac. For example, the icons for Messages and Mail - which used to look completely different between the Mac and the iPhone or iPad - now use the same colors and shapes in their icons across the different operating systems. ![]() It brings them more in line with iOS, which isn't a bad thing. Big Sur does some weird stuff with its icons. Going all the way back to the launch of the Mac in 1984, icons have been one of the things that made the Mac the Mac. There's one nitpicky thing I noticed right away, and which I think plenty of you will notice too when you first try Big Sur. We'll talk about the most interesting new stuff in Big Sur in a minute, but first I want to talk about the most annoying thing to get it out of the way. ![]()
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