Microsoft OneDrive Blog:
OneDrive on macOS is a core part of the OneDrive ecosystem, designed to deliver a great experience for working with your files directly on your Mac. Over the years, we’ve continued to improve OneDrive for Mac, and we’ve also listened closely to your feedback. We want OneDrive to feel truly native on macOS, with a fast, reliable sync experience you can count on every day.
Over the past several years our team has been working behind the scenes to make the macOS experience better. Today, we’re shipping two major improvements coming soon to OneDrive on macOS:
- An all-new Mac-first experience in the OneDrive Activity Center, giving you clean sync status and control that embraces the visual design of the Mac, including support for Liquid Glass on macOS 26 and beyond.
- New Mac-native dialogs with the familiar look and feel of macOS 26.
The new Activity Center
The all-new OneDrive Activity Center on the Mac is the small window that appears when you click on the OneDrive icon in the menu bar, and right away you’ll notice the new, snappier interface that embraces the Swift UI design language, including support for Liquid Glass on macOS 26.
OneDrive Sync acivity center on MacOS
The design is simple and straightforward, showing only essential information initially and letting you easily explore further details as needed. It also offers enhanced accessibility options such as VoiceOver and Full Keyboard Access, making OneDrive easier for everyone to use than ever before.
OneDrive Sync activity feed
The list of changes you’ve made to your OneDrive is just a click away, and shows you the same information as before, but in a more compact, easier way to understand. Additionally, images and videos that appear here show a helpful thumbnail of the content when available, making it easier to identify what files changed.
OneDrive Sync errors
If you encounter an error or anything else that requires your attention, you can easily access it with just one click.
The new Activity Center is built entirely in SwiftUI, and it looks and works great on any version of macOS where OneDrive runs.
Mac-native dialogs
When using OneDrive, you'll sometimes see dialogs that provide information or prompt action—for example, when deleting a file for the first time, you learn how deletions work in OneDrive. These task dialogs are now built with native Mac controls to better fit its look and feel.
OneDrive Mac-native dialogs
Rollout
Starting today, we are rolling out this new experience to our Insiders audience with build 26.017. Once the new experience becomes accessible, OneDrive will upgrade automatically in the background. We welcome your feedback regarding this change. Please use the "Send Feedback" option in the OneDrive Activity Center to share your insights. Source:
