There were two things that immediately turned me off to macOS Tahoe. First and foremost was the removal of Launchpad. Secondly was the much-touted liquid glass.
I hated both so much in fact (not to mention the myriad of other annoying graphic glitches) that I after 48 hours of work that was unnecessarily difficult, I successfully reverted back to macOS Sequoia. But with the arrival of Tahoe 26.3 and the general consensus from the community that the majority of the glitches had been ironed out, I went ahead and upgraded again.
This time, however, I came prepared with the couple months’ worth of knowledge that came in the wake of this release.
Apple finally fixed the transparency bug that allows you to get rid of liquid glass by toggling “reduce transparency” in the Display section of the Accessibility pane of System Settings.
The lack of Launchpad was solved by a third-party program called LaunchOS. It restores the Launchpad that we all know and love, and it’s well worth the $6 for the permanent license.
Hi,
I missed the Launchpad too, so thank you for the LaunchOS app. I just purchased/installed it and it’s even better than the original thanks to its customization options.
All that for a very small fee.