That model of the icon persevered by the Apple Silicon-era Huge Sur redesign and was nonetheless with us in the primary 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 pictures (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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Different icons that reused or riffed on the previous laborious 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 previous one. Navigate to the /System/Library/CoreServices folder the place most of the built-in working system icons dwell, and you’ll see a bunch of others that change the previous HDD icon for the brand new SSD.
Apple first supplied 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 turn into 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 delivery spinning laborious drives completely when the final of the Intel iMacs went away.
This does not really matter a lot. The previous icon did not look very similar to the SSD in your Mac, and the brand new one would not actually seem like the SSD in your Mac both. However we did not need to let the previous icon’s passing go unremarked. So, thanks for the reminiscences, Macintosh HD laborious drive icon! Carry on spinning, wherever you might be.
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