Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons
6 hours ago
- #macOS
- #UI Design
- #Terminal Commands
- Apple's macOS Tahoe menus are cluttered with icons, making them hard to scan.
- Some icons are inconsistent and don't make sense across system applications.
- Steve Troughton-Smith found a Terminal command to disable menu icons: `defaults write -g NSMenuEnableActionImages -bool NO`.
- The command preserves necessary icons, like window zoom/resize controls.
- Apps need to be relaunched for the change to take effect.
- The author suggests Apple should either roll back this change in macOS 27 or provide a proper setting to disable these icons.