RIP to the Macintosh HD hard drive icon, 2000–2025

RIP to the Macintosh HD hard drive icon, 2000–2025

Latest macOS 26 Tahoe beta excises old spinning rust icons throughout the OS.

macOS Tahoe 26 beta 5 retires the old Macintosh HD icon

On macOS Tahoe 26, Apple is replacing the old Macintosh HD icon, which depicted an actual hard disk drive, with a new SSD-looking icon.

'macOS Tahoe 26' will redesign the Mac storage icon 'Macintosh HD,' which has been around for 26 years

At WWDC25 , held in June 2025, Apple announced the latest operating system for Macs, macOS Tahoe 26. macOS Tahoe 26 , scheduled for release around fall 2025, has already released a developer beta version. The latest version of this beta, macOS Tahoe 26 beta 5, finally revamps the 'Macintosh HD' internal storage icon, which has been used for 26 years since 2000. RIP to the Macintosh HD hard drive icon, 2000–2025 - Ars Technica https://arstechnica…

RIP To the Macintosh HD Hard Drive Icon, 2000-2025

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Apple released a new developer beta build of macOS 26 Tahoe today, and it came with another big update for a familiar icon. The old Macintosh HD hard drive icon, for years represented by a facsimile of an old spinning hard drive, has been replac...