I can resize mine downward. A lot of issues I have with it, I'd like it to be able to resize outward, not just down. The more I'm playing around with it, I understand it, where they moved things. f
It's like they believe people understand text more than visually, especially first-time buyers and older people! UGH
I've been calling it System Settings for a while now lol, my parents are like huh? I'm UGH same thing as Preferences, come on people you own iPhones and can connect the dots......
Absolutely!
I really use to like Apple’s design language and still feel it’s far superior to Windows and Android, but this is a big mistake. When Big Sur came out I was shocked at how much it resembled iOS and I didn’t really like the squircle app icons (I don’t like how overly rounded the corners are, much prefer a slight rounded corner). I’ve grown to like them more than I had at first, but I feel they design is a bit limiting though it gives a more constant unifying look which I feel was needed. I would bet that if enough people complain about the new system settings that they will rethink it (just look at what happened with Safari last year). I doubt though that enough ever will and we will be stuck with the new system settings though. Maybe they are going to add a touch screen Mac in the future, I mean MacOS is starting to look more touch friendly. I’ve grown to love a lot about MacOS since Big Sur, but this is one I just can’t wrap my head around as system preferences was one of the apps I loved the look of and wished Windows would have adopted the look of it as though their design is similar, it looks cheap, plain, and boring.
I don’t see your praise (as the king and the best) for the previous system preferences shared much even in this thread.
Let’s not pretend that system preference panes are arranged logically on macOS today, shall we?
At first glance this does look a bit like Mail. It's hierarchical which makes more sense that going back to a bunch squares to navigate. I've never gotten used to System Preferences. I've always sorted alphabetically because the categories didn't always fit with my need the moment. And I think it's easier to scan a list than rows. But we'll see. The problems are deeper than the UI. Internet vs AppleID? Displays vs. Accessibility? On and non about where to find things, although search often helps.
“Preferences appear as a grid of icons; the icons shown may vary depending on your Mac and the apps you have installed”
If a grid of icons was such a great idea, they’d have made Launchpad the default to …well, launch apps (other than the ones in your dock) years ago. Just like on iOS.
A rigid grid of icons isn’t automatically great usability. Not if you arrange them to just “fit the grid” as Apple does. If you can group things by content/functionality, it’s good practice to do so and giving the user visual cues for that.
Really don't want that to happen, touch screens for desktop computers are a pain in the a*s and not very user friendly to use, who wants to reach across their desk to tap on the screen, by screens are set well back on my desk, it is not easy to reach the screen to push a button. Touch screens work very well for handheld devices and may even laptops (though I question a touch screen usefulness even on a laptop). But, I want a robust OS for my Mac computers thank you very much.
I have a work Thinkpad and the touchscreen works well on it without causing SJ's infamous gorilla arm. I use the touchscreen for some things and a mouse for others. If I only had a desktop display I would just ignore the touchscreen.
I wasn’t in any way defending the new layout. I’m less than convinced by it. Especially by any category headed ‘general’ which, just like the ‘special’ menu in the classic Mac OS is always a terrible idea. It’s just that alphabetical arrangement wouldn’t necessarily be any better.
I assume that macOS Graphic is the name of the image she has chosen, the one that is highlighted lower down
maybe your brain, but mine expects things like Wi-Fi and sounds to be near the top of the list of the settings app on my iPad or whatever.
Sorry to burst your bubble butt system preferences has been re-organized several times over the last 20 years.
You are a long time member and long time Apple user I assume, you should know by now that Apple never gives options, you either take it or leave it.
Speaking of keyboard navigation, is there an easy way to tab through items in the Side Bar? It baffles me that it doesn't operate like column view using up/down/right/left arrows, etc.
I missed all that! lol
Nailed it, and this is literally what is wrong with Windows 10/11 even with a touch screen.
