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chri10
User level: Level 1 (4 points)

MacBook Air display and graphics anomalies after upgrade

I just saw my screen reverse the colours without me me doing anything other than reading the latest news. I just upgraded to my Macbook Air to Golden Gate. Also the music icon turned from red and white to black and white. I experience these 'glitches' as quite peculiar. Also when I slide the liquid glass knob it hardly has any effect on the transparency. Furthermore, not all widgets are transparant on a Safari window that keeps opening in this odd tablet sized window instead of full screen -after a start up in which the screen does not display any widgets at all-.It seems the renowned M4 processor has a problem with the most basic graphics. Does anyone know the reason of these oddities?

Posted on Nov 4, 2026 2:36 PM

3 replies

sberman
User level: Level 10 (280,982 points)

Nov 4, 2026 3:20 PM in response to chri10

chri10 wrote:
Also the music icon turned from red and white to black and white.

Apple made this change with the introduction of macOS Golden Gate 27.2 (as well as iOS 27.2 and iPadOS 27.2).

chri10 Author
User level: Level 1 (4 points)

Nov 5, 2026 12:18 AM in response to sberman

Thanks for letting me know. This change seemed not to be permanent immediately after the update to macOS Golden Gate 27.2. Today the transparency issue also seems to be fixed. In my opinion liquid glass, in this way, is definitely an improvement.

sberman
User level: Level 10 (280,982 points)

Nov 5, 2026 11:45 AM in response to chri10

Glad that helped! And glad the transparency issue worked out as well.


Enjoy your Apple gear.

Originally posted at discussions.apple.com/thread/256388909