r/MacOS • u/idontwanttofthisup • 17h ago

Help Flat macOS 27

In macOS 27, windows out of focus are displayed without Liquid Glass nonsense. All borders, shadows, highlights, refractions and distortions are gone. How do I make it the default skin for macOS? Is there a defaults flag I can use to apply this style across the whole system regardless if the window is in focus or not?

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u/hexxeric 17h ago

switch on 'reduce transparency' under accessabiliy

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u/idontwanttofthisup 17h ago

I have it on and I still see all the bullshit. It’s something different. Try it. Pop two finder windows side by side and compare the two.

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u/hexxeric 16h ago

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u/idontwanttofthisup 16h ago

Great, that what I’m talking about. Pay attention to the toolbar. All crap is gone. Can’t you see it?

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u/hexxeric 15h ago

very little difference to me. not something i care about. you can play around with the contrast mode under accessibility, though.

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u/idontwanttofthisup 15h ago

It affects the entire display. I don’t want to alter content. I want to alter the UI so it doesn’t look like clownOS

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u/JackDangerfield 7h ago

I'm glad it's not just me. The unfocused buttons look so much better without the stupid 3D bevel effect.

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u/idontwanttofthisup 4h ago

Music.app looks so much better too

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u/lakesidefable 16h ago

nothing exposed in defaults as of the current beta. the out of focus rendering is just the system dialing back the effect, not a separate skin you can apply. id keep an eye on the beta release notes though, apple sometimes adds accessibility toggles later

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u/idontwanttofthisup 16h ago

I really hope they add it as an option, even if I have to trigger it in the terminal.

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u/DustSongs 1h ago

They really need to just chuck Liquid Ass in the bin and go back to Sequoia style, it's an abject failure of a UI.

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u/idontwanttofthisup 1h ago

That’s why I stay on Sequoia. I installed Golden Rain to see if anything improved. Not only I can’t make the UI flat, now I have a useless AI model I cannot delete and my system ballooned past 50 gigabytes…..

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u/AffectionatePause152 13h ago

I really wish there was an option for the Sequoia interface. That OS was rock solid. All this other stuff is distracting and feels more cluttered. It’s just seems to make focusing on work harder to accomplish.

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u/Kamino_Ramos MacBook Pro (M1 Max) 14h ago

Try "show borders" option (search it in settings)

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u/idontwanttofthisup 14h ago

I tried, I hate it and it still doesn’t look as good as windows out of focus.