Apple Retires the Classic Macintosh HD Icon: A Look Back at its 25-Year History
The debut of a new developer beta for macOS 26 Tahoe happens today at Apple, along with a giant makeover of a well-known icon. Thus, the old classic Macintosh HD hard drive icon, which for years was an image of an old spinning hard drive, has now been updated to present something which clearly tries to resemble a solid-state drive. Although an actual SSD in your Mac is far from looking like a few chips soldered on a circuit board, that can be overlooked.
With the new installations of macOS ceasing to show the internal disk on the desktop by default, a few years ago, the old Macintosh HD icon began to disappear from sight entirely. Furthermore, it has indeed been some time since Apple switched to SSDs for booting new Macs. The original hard drive icon was introduced in 2000, coinci...