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Redesigned Traffic Light Window Controls Appear in macOS 27 Golden Gate Beta 6
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The beta replaces the classic three-circle window buttons with a more detailed, Aqua-style design that affects every app window.
Engineers testing on this beta will see the new button style in all windows, which may affect visual regression tests and screenshot baselines. Because the change is purely visual, window-management behavior remains unchanged, but any custom stoplight implementations should be reviewed for consistency.
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macOS 27 Golden Gate beta 6 introduces redesigned traffic light window controls with more detail resembling older Mac OS X Aqua buttons.
The updated button style applies system-wide to every app window, not just specific apps.
The beta is available to developers and the public, with an official release expected in September.
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macOS 27 Golden Gate beta 6 introduces redesigned traffic light window controls that feature more detail and resemble the older Mac OS X Aqua style.
The three stoplight buttons that close, hide, and maximize windows now have a richer visual appearance.
Because the change touches every app window, the new appearance is system-wide.
Engineers should verify that screenshots, visual regression tests, and UI previews still match the updated button graphics.
Automated tests that compare window frames pixel-by-pixel against a baseline expecting the old three-circle design will fail after the update.
The functional behavior of the buttons, closing, hiding, maximizing, remains unchanged, so core window-management logic continues to work.
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