macOS Tahoe has declared war on app icons with distinctive shapes.

No silhouettes. If your icon isn't a squircle, it will be shrunk to fit inside a default shape. The penalty box.

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2025/6/2.html

The loss of icon silhouettes is a big step down in usability. Erases decades of design guidelines.

https://pxlnv.com/blog/roundrect-dictator/

Frankly it's senseless.

https://www.flarup.email/p/through-the-liquid-glass

Insane but still working legacy workaround:

https://simonbs.dev/posts/how-to-bring-back-oddly-shaped-app...

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macOS isn't fun anymore.