System Preferences Reimagined on macOS
If anyone hasn’t tried using System Settings yet on macOS Ventura, overall it’s…pretty bad. On iOS the canonical way to display a bunch of settings is a table view, because there really aren’t that many controls available to be used on a touch-first device. In Ventura they brought this over to macOS, trying to cram all the old settings into lists of options (which used to be nice little checkboxes, but are now tiny little switches that look pretty bad). In many cases the thoughtful, if somewhat dated, layout of some preference panes are completely lost and bulldozed over with the list of switches. In other places it’s clear that the team was forced to do the redesign and keep all the old options available somewhere, but couldn’t really figure out where to put the stuff, so there’s little push button on the bottom that will show a sheet with the UI that didn’t fit in the list. Of course, any settings that don’t really make sense to share with iOS are now lumped together and hidden from sight-in this case, under the “General” tab.If you remember how everyone moaned about iTunes and begged Apple to rewrite it, then got Music in macOS Catalina, you can kind of see how the new System Settings app is.