MacOS 15 System Settings rumors

[Cmaier]

macOS 15 to bring changes for controversial System Settings app - 9to5Mac

Two years after changing System Preferences to a redesigned System Settings in macOS, Apple is reportedly prepping app changes for macOS 15.

9to5mac.com

I’d prefer if they’d revert to the age-old panel design, but that ship has sailed. Sounds like they aren’t planning anything major, but they are aware that the organization needs a rework.

 

[Roller]

I agree. The current setup is a hot mess. It's crazy that I often have to use the search function when I'm trying to find or change a setting.

 

[jbailey]

macOS 15 to bring changes for controversial System Settings app - 9to5Mac

Two years after changing System Preferences to a redesigned System Settings in macOS, Apple is reportedly prepping app changes for macOS 15.

9to5mac.com

I’d prefer if they’d revert to the age-old panel design, but that ship has sailed. Sounds like they aren’t planning anything major, but they are aware that the organization needs a rework.

Makes sense since I just got used to it.

 

[casperes1996]

I agree. The current setup is a hot mess. It's crazy that I often have to use the search function when I'm trying to find or change a setting.

Been relying almost exclusively on search since they ruined system preferences. A three column view could work. Two columns don’t.

 

[mr_roboto]

Been relying almost exclusively on search since they ruined system preferences. A three column view could work. Two columns don’t.

I've had much the same thought. There's so many places where they're emulating three columns with buttons that pop up a dialog and it's a nightmare, especially when they make the buttons indistinct (that's a whole other rant - I absolutely despise "flat" UI design). Settings would be far cleaner if they made it work more like column view in Finder whenever there's a large number of subtopics.

 

[Yoused]

Back in the Leopard days, I had some sort of add-on, perhaps it was called "MenuEnhancer", that gave me a sub-menu off of System Preferences in the Apple menu so that I could just go right to the thing I needed. It was awesome. Also, I used PathFinder as my Finder, and I could get a cascading directory navigation submenu tree straight off a folder right-click.

But, I have stayed away from Mac during the Intel years, so the way things work these days is taking me some getting used to.

 

[throAU]

I agree. The current setup is a hot mess. It's crazy that I often have to use the search function when I'm trying to find or change a setting.

Its a mess but its migrated to the swiftUI framework which is hopefully a sign of more unification between the ipad and the mac.

I know some people hate the idea of platform convergence, but they're now basically the same hardware, the same kernel.... all it needs is some UI widgets that adapt to the input paradigm (i.e., swiftUI) and we're looking at cross platform software that shifts UI between touch and mouse/keyboard pretty seamlessly.

I foresee that macos and ipados will converge and essentially just use a slightly different UI based on whether touch or keyboard/trackpad are present.

 

[Roller]

Its a mess but its migrated to the swiftUI framework which is hopefully a sign of more unification between the ipad and the mac.

I know some people hate the idea of platform convergence, but they're now basically the same hardware, the same kernel.... all it needs is some UI widgets that adapt to the input paradigm (i.e., swiftUI) and we're looking at cross platform software that shifts UI between touch and mouse/keyboard pretty seamlessly.

I foresee that macos and ipados will converge and essentially just use a slightly different UI based on whether touch or keyboard/trackpad are present.

I don’t mind convergence as long as it doesn’t result in deletion of features just because they’re hard - or impossible - to implement on one platform.