This year, it’s the Mac’s System tweaks app.
According to everyone who has commented on it,the new design is an utter mess.
And it might be too late to do anything about it.
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“Apple prides itself on its sleekness, user-friendliness, and dependability.
This year, Apple has messed with the System Preferences app.
This is where all the non-app-specific tweaks for your Mac live.
A comparison between keyboard options in System Preferences and System Settings.Jeffrey Johnson
It has also recently been the place to find your saved passwords and manage your iCloud account.
And to be honest, the existing version is an utter mess.
Sections have been added over the years as they were needed.
Often, they follow the UI conventions or fashions of the era in which they were added.
And it’s equally hard to navigate.
But, incredibly, the new version looks even worse and is harder to use.
Swift Problems
The new design could have fixed this, but it’s made everything even weirder.
Buttons are cut off or don’t line up.
Drop-down menus appear slightly misaligned, or over on the other side of the window.
Text-input fields look like fixed elements that cannot be edited.
And it seems to be down to another one of Apple products, SwiftUI.
SwiftUIis a part of Apple’s Swift programming language.
Perhaps Apple can still pull this version and revert to the old one.
And if it doesn’t?
