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macOS Golden Gate menus revert to having no icons by each item, as it should be

macOS Tahoe threw an icon on every menu item, making them impossible to distinguish at a glance. macOS Golden Gate has rectified that design taboo with blessedly iconless menus.

Mac Finder window in dark mode showing Applications folder icons, with the Finder menu bar open and a translucent dropdown listing options like New Finder Window, New Folder, and Open
macOS Golden Gate gets rid of the icons by menu items

In Disney’s 2004 animated film The Incredibles, a very basic concept of “when everyone is special, no one is” is explored. Alan Dye must not have seen that movie or the many like it.

Well, now that he’s gone, so is his team’s decision to frustratingly place icons next to every menu item. Apple announced macOS Golden Gate on Monday, and it has fixed this problem.

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