Apple released macOS Tahoe last September, but despite two point updates since then, it’s still struggling to fix a nagging interface issue in the Finder that appears to have been introduced with its Liquid Glass redesign.
If you’ve updated your Mac to macOS Tahoe and prefer to work in Finder’s column view, there’s a good chance you’ve been frustrated by a glitch that developer Jeff Johnson admirably tracked on his blog.
Column resize handles blocking the slider (Original image: Jeff Johnson)
At the bottom of each Finder column are handy little resizing handles that allow you to expand or shrink each column as you see fit. But in macOS 26 and macOS 26.2, when the sliders are set to “always show”, the horizontal slider at the bottom overlaps and hides these handles, so you can’t click them to adjust column widths like you could in earlier versions of macOS like Sequoia.
A slider that hides column content (Original image: Jeff Johnson)
With the recent release of macOS 26.3, Apple attempted a fix. The vertical sliders have been shortened so that the resize widgets now sit above the horizontal bar and are technically clickable again. Unfortunately, as Johnson points out, the horizontal scroll bar still overlaps the filenames in the view, causing it to periodically obscure the content. Additionally, if you hide the path bar and status bar, the layout leaves a weird amount of empty space below the sliders, making the whole thing look unfinished (see image below).
Column resizing handles suspended in mid-air (Original image: Jeff Johnson)
Essentially, Johnson thinks that while the most annoying bug is now less bad, the overall layout of the column views still feels clunky – especially for anyone who keeps sliders visible at all times.
Ace Brave fireballJohn Gruber points out that this is an embarrassing rip-off for a company that previously prided itself on setting the perfect pixel on the Mac operating system.
At this point, it’s unclear when Apple will iron out the UI inconsistencies introduced by Liquid Glass. macOS Tahoe 26.4 is likely to be released in March or April and could introduce some new Siri features, although at least some of the features we’ve come to expect may be delayed, depending on who you believe. The update is also expected to introduce new emoji characters.