Apple Revamps Classic Macintosh HD Icon in macOS 26 Tahoe Beta

Apple has just released a new developer beta build of macOS 26 Tahoe, bringing with it a notable visual update to a long-standing system icon. The traditional Macintosh HD hard drive icon, which has historically represented a spinning hard drive, has been modernized. Its new design is clearly intended to resemble a solid-state drive (SSD), reflecting the current storage technology in most Macs. This change aligns with Apple’s long-standing transition to SSDs as the primary boot media for its computers, despite the internal disk icon having become less visible on desktops by default in recent macOS installations.

The original hard drive icon first appeared in 2000 with the introduction of Mac OS X. It remained largely unchanged for over a decade, receiving a Retina resolution upgrade in 2012 and a minor aesthetic facelift in Mac OS X Yosemite (version 10.10) in 2014. This latest redesign represents a more significant shift, bringing the iconic representation of Mac storage firmly into the modern era.

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