That model of the icon endured via the Apple Silicon-era Huge Sur redesign and was nonetheless with us within the first public beta construct for macOS 26 Tahoe that Apple launched final week. The brand new beta additionally updates the icons for exterior drives (orange, with a USB-C connector on prime), community shares (blue, with a globe on prime), and detachable disk photos (white, with an arrow on prime).
All the system’s disk icons get an replace within the newest macOS 26 Tahoe developer beta.
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Apple/Andrew Cunningham
Different icons that reused or riffed on the outdated exhausting drive icon have additionally been modified. Disk Utility now seems like a wrench tightening an Apple-branded white bolt, for some cause, and drive icons inside Disk Utility even have the brand new SSD-esque icon. Installer apps use the brand new icon as an alternative of the outdated one. Navigate to the /System/Library/CoreServices folder the place lots of the built-in working system icons stay, and you may see a bunch of others that change the outdated HDD icon for the brand new SSD.
Apple first provided a Mac with an SSD in 2008, when the unique MacBook Air got here out. By the point “Retina” Macs started arriving within the early 2010s, SSDs had grow to be the first boot disk for many of them; laptops tended to be all-SSD, whereas desktops may very well be configured with an SSD or a hybrid Fusion Drive that used an SSD as boot media and an HDD for mass storage. Apple stopped transport spinning exhausting drives fully when the final of the Intel iMacs went away.
This does not really matter a lot. The outdated icon did not look very like the SSD in your Mac, and the brand new one does not actually seem like the SSD in your Mac both. However we did not wish to let the outdated icon’s passing go unremarked. So, thanks for the recollections, Macintosh HD exhausting drive icon! Carry on spinning, wherever you might be.
