Mac OS 26 Tahoe Mail Send Button Placement - Can it be moved?

smalltownguy wrote:

Yeah, in Gmail, Outlook, and in Mail (prior to OS 26) it is always over to the left, either down below or up above but that's just conventional practice. Either way, even if they provided an option to have it placed on the left that would be great.

I just discovered that they already do. Open a new message window, secondary-click (control-click, two-finger click) in the toolbar, select Customize Toolbar then just drag the button where you want it. You can put a spacer in if you don't want it right next to the stoplight buttons, move the timed send options next to it (as it was in macOS 15 Sequoia), etc. Have fun!

The default for Tahoe is on the far right as in your screenshot, and that's what the OP wanted to change. In Sequoia, it's on the left by default (and much more subtle than the blue dot arrow):

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I had no idea it was annoying. You can send feedback but I wouldn't count on it changing.

They made it a large blue circle and moved it to the upper right to match the style of how it is in iPhone. Of course on an iPhone, because of the different aspect ratio and the screen size difference compared to a MacBook, it's not as big of an inconvenience to have it in the upper right. I guess they just wanted to have a correlated design but didn't consider ergonomics or user habits on the different device. Maybe they're trying to exercise our brains by forcing us to learn something new.

I repositioned mine, although in my setup I access toolbar customization through the View button in the top bar. I put the Send button over to the left as you show it except I did put one space between it and the three small colored control dots. Although the space looks like a square in the toolbox containing the icons, when you put it in the top bar it's a thin vertical rectangle which you can add multiple times, but one of those rectangles is just enough to give it a little separation and that's what I did.

Neuroanatomist--TY!

I was able to use these direx and slide the return button over to the left. (It's natural home!)

For other readers: it doesn't look like the perky new blue one (on the right) or the paper airplane, but maybe like the old one (tho' I can't now remember!) with reply/forward arrows. It works, it's easy, and time-saving.

Now if only Mac Support knew this....

darrel288 wrote:

Why does Apple always mess with something that isn't broken? Are they that arrogant that they have to change things just to look busy?

Have you considered the possibility that not everyone has the same needs and preferences that you do? And that possibly, Apple is responding to feedback from a large number of customers who want something different than you?

Apple is never going to be able to please all of the people all of the time. So, sensibly, they don't try.

IdrisSeabright wrote:

darrel288 wrote:

Why does Apple always mess with something that isn't broken? Are they that arrogant that they have to change things just to look busy?

Have you considered the possibility that not everyone has the same needs and preferences that you do? And that possibly, Apple is responding to feedback from a large number of customers who want something different than you?

Apple is never going to be able to please all of the people all of the time. So, sensibly, they don't try.

I don’t care whether Apple can please others, as long as they please ME ME ME.

darrel288 wrote:

Why does Apple always mess with something that isn't broken? Are they that arrogant that they have to change things just to look busy?

If you bother to read the thread you added to you will learn how to organize the mail toolbar to your heart’s content.

If someone had asked me I couldn't have told them where the Send button was using anything. I looked at gmail.com and it is indeed on the bottom left. They could move it and it wouldn't bother me.

Thank you for the solution. Customizing that toolbar, moving the send button back to where I am used to it, and, for me, adding text is very helpful.

Odd...I did not customize mine in Tahoe and it was already on the right:

Maybe a leftover Sequoia preference?