macOS Big Sur makes it easy to use custom app icons. Here’s how it works, and where you can find alternative choices for your favorite apps.

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With macOS Big Sur, the software looks more than ever like Apple's mobile OS, including icons, Apple apps that use the same codebase as their iOS counterparts, and other iOS-like UI elements.

Big Sur’s floating Dock and iPad-inspired app icons. The other striking feature of the desktop is the aggressive translucency of the menu bar and Dock. In earlier versions of macOS, the more opaque ...

The result is that the Mac’s instant messaging app is more robust and works just like it does on the iPhone and iPad. Here’s an overview of Messages in Big Sur. More tools to write messages ...

There’s an updated, more translucent menu bar, new iOS-inspired icons for apps, a floating dock for those app icons to sit in, and translucent window designs all around. “macOS Big Sur also gets ...

Apple's suite of iWork apps is among the updates, with Pages, Numbers, and Keynotes all sporting refreshed icons and a "refined new design on macOS Big Sur." Stability and performance improvements ...

It’s finally release day for Apple’s macOS Big Sur — and there’s a lot to unpack here. It’s arguably the biggest change since the original macOS, with new features and a full redesign.

IDG. macOS used to show an overlaid lock icon as at left in Mojave; in Big Sur, at right, it no longer provides this indicator in the Finder. Prior to Big Sur, locked files would have a lock image ...