macOS Tahoe Finder Bug Underscores Apple's Slipping UI Polish

Slipping? Both Tahoe and the latest versions of iOS are an inconsistent mess that screams of managers demanding changes for the sake of having something to ship…and bullet points to throw in a slide deck for their boss.

In the last year or so Apple has completely lost my confidence when it comes to UI design.

The choices these days for a functional desktop are pretty abysmal. Either pick a Linux distro and tune the hell out of it to your liking for a week or battle AI on the MS side and a start menu that can’t even be consistent with search strings, or fight Apple changes for changes sake…and doing insane things like throwing a full screened YouTube video onto a virtual desktop for no apparent reason past the rule of cool…which seems to dominate their thinking on UI these days (see: stage manager, what a joke).

Finder has always been pretty garbage. Which view will the finder show this folder in? I never know, because it's always inconsistent.

Another bug, I'd been running the beta macos Sequoia 15.7.4, and if I'd search for all the e.g. PDFs in my ~/Downloads, then move them to the trash, they'd still show up in the search, but if you clicked on them, the filepath would show trash.

I doubt they will, but I hope they keep updating sequoia with security fixes for a while longer.

Staying on Sequoia and iOS 18. Despite potential security concerns, fuck OS 26 trash.