![]() ![]() ![]() And column widths? Yeah they can no longer be customized. So you’ve got to spend more time scrolling and fiddling, especially on small screens. Everything is much bulkier, larger margins, lots of wasted empty space. It’s really a mess that needs to be fixed.Īnother suck point is that the new “Big Sur” design/ UI makes inefficient use of screen space. Even worse, the Trash folders display different deleted files, they are not synchronized at all. So you’ve got to have two Trash folders showing at all times in the sidebar. So then you have the “favorite” shortcut icon and the actual Trash folder still displayed with your other accounts. Now to get a global Trash folder, you have to add it as a “favorite”. Instead Trash appears beneath with the other account folders, even though it is supposed to be global. In the sidebar, the Trash folder does not appear along with the other primary folders like Inbox, Drafts, and Sent. Deleting an email results in permanent deletion, it is not sent to Trash. It’s like using a potato to handle your email workload.įor example, the Trash folder doesn’t work correctly. Less control over how they view and respond to messages. Now users have even less control over how the app behaves. And sadly with Big Sur, even more basic features have been removed. In fact, after the browser, Mail is the app that I use the most. But for the past several macOS updates, Mail has been going downhill rapidly. It once was great, flexible and reliable. Apple Mail suckingĪpple Mail is getting worse. ![]() The entire document suddenly jumps up to the top. For example, try deleting any chunk of text from a scrolled text file. And the Big Sur TextEdit is borked beyond belief. I make heavy use of plain text notes in my workflow, for all projects, etc. I had to switch to BBEdit (which is amazing). But now, even on a shiny new iMac, many apps are soooo slow to open. Before Big Sur these apps opened quickly every time. A few examples include Apple Mail, BBEdit, Affinity Photo (and Publisher, Designer), Final Cut Pro, and numerous others. On both machines, certain apps open very, very slowly. I am running Big Sur on an 2019 iMac and a 2015 MacBook Pro. So far, there are no (sane) solutions for any of the following. This is true for all of the following items, if there is a (sane) way of making it better, I will try it. When problems arise, I prefer to just fix them myself rather than relying on any tech support. And note that as a 10-year Mac user, I’ve learned how to check the docs and research when troubleshooting is necessary to fix issues and restore missing or broken functionality. To share some things that could be improved. But overall, Big Sur works and runs great on my Mac machines. Like rounded corners are back (lol), and the widgets are now located under a menu bar icon. There are some cosmetic and organizational changes. For my workflow, from a practical standpoint, Big Sur is not much different than Catalina. Everything (for the most part) still works flawlessly.Smooth install on my 2019 iMac and 2015 MacBook Pro.Now that I’ve spent a month or so working on Big Sur, here are some of the things I like: Once installed, I jumped through the hoops, flipped through the new features, and was back up and running. Other updates are more extreme, with changes that interrupt and impede my workflow. Some updates, the changes are minimal and I can keep working without much fuss. I measure the success of each new macOS update based on how much time I have to spend dealing with the changes. I want consistency more than I want new features. I switched from PC/Win to Mac around 10 years ago because it promised a better user experience. ![]()
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