Apple love to preach “the UI gets out of the way of your content” with each new redesign, but how true is that in practice? Let’s compare the total height of the Safari UI with a toolbar, favourites bar and tab bar visible, across the three latest Mac OS design languages – Yosemite, Big Sur and now Tahoe. I’ve added a red line for emphasis.

It sure looks to me like the UI is eating more into my content with each redesign.

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  • rowdy@piefed.socialEnglish
    131·
    1 day ago

    Here’s some tips.

    1. Disable favorites bar. That would remove a 3rd of the UI real estate.
    2. macOS 11-15, enable ‘Compact Mode’

    macOS 26 Dev Beta 1 does not have Compact Mode. But I am confident it will be added back before release. Feel free to save this comment so you can dogpile me if I’m wrong.

    Seems a bit odd the complain about screen real estate while representing the UI at its largest form, instead of its smallest.