macOS Tahoe 26 beta 5 retires the old Macintosh HD icon

On today’s developer beta release of macOS Tahoe 26, Apple replaced the old Macintosh HD icon, which depicted an actual hard disk drive, with a new SSD-looking icon. Here’s what it looks like.

The old icon, a silver metal box with screws, vents, and a warning sticker, had a good run, considering Apple hasn’t shipped Macs with mechanical hard drives for a while.

But with today’s beta release, the old Macintosh HD icon has been replaced with a sleeker aluminum-looking…