The new Settings app arranges settings into more coherent categories. The idea is that the sidebar gives quick access to different areas of the Settings app, with clearer names for each section and better organization. The design imagined here features a sidebar-heavy interface rather than the current control panel-esque interface of the current System Preferences app. For example, General on macOS houses everything from accent colours, light/dark mode appearance, and setting a default browser whereas General on iOS houses software updates, AirDrop controls, iPhone storage, Date & Time, and more.Īs such, The Basic Apple Guy has taken a stab at a “better way” to manage settings and preferences in macOS, starting by renaming the app to “Settings” in line with iOS and iPadOS. Not only is there a significant icon mismatch between the two platforms at a time where macOS is adopting the design language of iOS, but similarly named items contain radically different things. Yes… yes… I know iOS and the Mac are different, but whereas many apps have tried to create coherence between platforms, System Preferences stubbornly resists. My other main gripe with System Preferences is how differently it operates and looks relative to iOS. The concept comes from The Basic Apple Guy, who explains that even though there are clear differences between macOS and iOS, there is a common ground that can be achieved: A new concept imagines how Apple could revamp the System Preferences app design, with a focus on striking a balance between maintaining familiarity with the classic System Preferences design while also bringing it more in line with Settings on iOS and iPadOS. MacOS has gone through a handful of visual changes over the last several years, but one thing that has stayed largely the same is System Preferences.
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