![]() Click on this to bring up a handy bunch of controls for things like display brightness, sound, Do Not Disturb, AirPlay and AirDrop and Music controls. The other big change is over on the top right, where, alongside the little cluster of icons for things like Wi-Fi, battery, Spotlight search and the date and time you’ll see a new icon for the Control Centre. In fact many will be identical to those icons on the iPad and iPhone. In Big Sur (above) the app icons in the Dock will be more uniform – you’ll see from Apple’s example below that the new icon are all square – just like they are on the iPhone and iPad. ![]() ![]() Right now in Catalina (below) the Dock is a jumble of mismatched icons, some circular, some square and some neither. As you can see from this first image, there are a number of changes to the design and some entirely new elements, such as the Control Centre in the top right (more on that later). We’ll start by running thought some of the major design changes from Catalina to Big Sur. Is this redesigned macOS really the biggest overhaul in two decades? Probably, although due to its parallels with iOS you probably will have a sense that it’s more familiar than ever. ![]() We feel a sense of Déjà vu – it is after all only six years since Yosemite bought its own iOS-flavoured overhaul to the Mac, which at the time we said changed the look of Mac OS X more radically than any other upgrade since the switch from OS 9 to OS X (which arrived back in 2001). Apple’s describing the move from macOS 10.16 Catalina to macOS 11 Big Sur as “The biggest design upgrade since the introduction of Mac OS X”. ![]()
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