This appears to be a pervasive OS-level issue, likely related to the new, and unnecessary, iconography that Tahoe introduces throughout application menus. It does not affect menu functionality, but it does interfere significantly with readability. That Apple seems unaware of the problem is unfortunately not surprising. macOS 26 has introduced a broad set of regressions, and this is far from the most severe. Many developers have become discouraged from filing reports after repeatedly receiving the familiar “No other reports” response in Feedback Assistant, which in practice suppresses useful reporting rather than encouraging it. The most serious practical impact here is that this visual noise can completely obscure meaningful output in the Xcode debug console, making it difficult to spot real warnings, errors, or diagnostics when they matter. That an Apple engineer should reply to such a problem dismissively reinforces this perception. “Bad Dye Job” is likely the underlying cause.
Topic:
UI Frameworks
SubTopic:
AppKit
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