Power users, take note: macOS Tahoe is giving the Terminal app its first makeover in 24 years

We've heard a lot about macOS Tahoe 26's new features recently, with that big Liquid Glass redesign being a key change - and now comes news that Terminal is getting a makeover.

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In fact, this is the first time Apple has revamped the appearance of Terminal, although that isn't staggeringly surprising in some ways, given that it's the very epitome of function, not form, in the macOS library of apps.

MacRumors just noticed that Apple revealed the new look for Terminal in its State of the Platforms presentation at WWDC25.

So, what's changing? Well, of course, the app is getting the Liquid Glass treatment, and support for 24-bit color plus Powerline fonts. Nothing major, then, but this should help to provide more customization options. On the other hand, not everyone is sold on the idea of making their Terminal window transparent, as you might imagine.

Liquid Glass has had some considerable flak fired at it in recent times, most notably due to the redesign being reminiscent of Windows Vista, which is, of course, going back a long way.

That isn't very fair to Apple, though, given that Liquid Glass is a lot more sophisticated than Vista's Aero effect (which was shunned due to its toll on system resources - lag in games is bad enough, and you certainly don't want to be dealing with it on your desktop on a daily basis, that's for sure).