Turn off macOS Liquid Glass via the CLI
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Loud and bold disclaimer: I haven't used the following CLI command because I'm still holding onto the old macOS version. I'm not ready to deal with the "Liquid Glass" situation. However, if I upgrade my OS, I want to find this snippet in my bookmarks (aka my blog).
Here's Adam sharing all sorts of tricks to make Apple's new Liquid Glass design language more accessible. He claims that you can nuke it entirely with one CLI command (again, I didn't run it):
defaults write -g com.apple.SwiftUI.DisableSolarium -bool YES
The article is definitely worth reading if you've had enough of all these translucent UI elements.
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