macOS Tahoe Finder Bug Underscores Apple's Slipping UI Polish

Apple released macOS Tahoe past September, but contempt 2 constituent updates since then, it is inactive struggling to resoluteness an embarrassing interface contented successful Finder that appears to person been introduced with its Liquid Glass redesign.


If you updated your Mac to macOS Tahoe and you similar to enactment successful Finder's file view, there's a bully accidental you've been frustrated by the glitch, which developer Jeff Johnson has been admirably tracking over connected his blog.


At the bottommost of each Finder file are useful small resize handles allowing you to grow oregon trim each file arsenic you spot fit. But successful macOS 26 and macOS 26.2, erstwhile scroll bars are acceptable to "always show," the horizontal scroll barroom astatine the bottommost overlaps and covers those handles, truthful you can't click them to set file widths the mode you could successful earlier macOS versions similar Sequoia.


With the caller merchandise of macOS 26.3, Apple attempted a fix. The vertical scrollers were shortened truthful the resizing widgets present beryllium supra the horizontal barroom and are technically clickable again. Unfortunately though, arsenic Johnson points out, the horizontal scroll barroom inactive overlaps record names successful the view, causing it to regularly obscure content. Moreover, if you fell the way barroom and presumption bar, the layout leaves a weird magnitude of bare abstraction beneath the scrollers, making the full happening look unfinished (see representation below).


Johnson's instrumentality is fundamentally that portion the astir disruptive bug is little atrocious now, the wide file presumption layout inactive feels half-baked – particularly for anyone who keeps scroll bars ever visible.

As Daring Fireball's John Gruber points out, it's an embarrassing fudge for a institution that utilized to pridefulness itself connected pixel-perfect settings crossed its Mac operating system.

‌macOS Tahoe‌ 26.4 is apt to beryllium released successful March oregon April, and could present immoderate caller Siri features, though astatine slightest immoderate of the capabilities that we were expecting whitethorn person been delayed, depending connected who you believe.

The update is besides expected to present caller emoji characters.
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