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10+ macOS Tahoe Features You Should Check Out
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If it’s any consolation, I spent over an hour neatly organizing my apps in launchpad, and my changes were wiped out not once, but twice (and I gave up on it at that point). To me the loss of Launchpad is the loss of a buggy mess - so good riddance.
Yep. Exactly. People want change but hate change.
Maybe it's not innovation for the sake of innovation what people want? I mean I was genuinely looking forward to the new design and I was shocked how much I dislike it in practice. And that's not talking about the many many little bugs and glitches everywhere, which I never encountered this many of on any other update, launch day or not...
Liquid Glass on macOS seems less intrusive and more seamlessly integrated as part of the UI than on iOS, where it is annoyingly front and center.
I struggle to understand the difference between Spotlight Actions and Siri requests, especially with "type to Siri" . I used both to start a timer and they played different timer sounds. Sotlight's timer played the default sound assigned in the Clock app at least, whereas Siri ignored that setting. But with Spotlight you have to double click everything...
Adding the Applications folder to the dock seems to be a best compromise to losing Launchpad, though if you want a straight alpha-sort list of apps you have to create aliases of all the "utilities" and ignore the always-present Utilities folder in the middle of your list. Using the pinch gesture on MBP seems to bring up a system-defined layout and you can't customize it like with Launchpad for the Finder folder on the Dock, so there is a trade off.
I struggle to understand the difference between Spotlight Actions and Siri requests, especially with "type to Siri" . I used both to start a timer and they played different timer sounds. Sotlight's timer played the default sound assigned in the Clock app at least, whereas Siri ignored that setting. But with Spotlight you have to double click everything...
Adding the Applications folder to the dock seems to be a best compromise to losing Launchpad, though if you want a straight alpha-sort list of apps you have to create aliases of all the "utilities" and ignore the always-present Utilities folder in the middle of your list. Using the pinch gesture on MBP seems to bring up a system-defined layout and you can't customize it like with Launchpad for the Finder folder on the Dock, so there is a trade off.
I'd say that many of the things they do are useful or an improvement. I can point to several very recently: Hypertension, Live Translation etc. Not all - certainly - but many are good. This is so incredibly bad as to be notable. Hence my post.
This is like iOS7 for me.
Very strange, almost child like design choices for a UI.
Very strange, almost child like design choices for a UI.
I have been using iOS 26 since the first beta and really haven't had much issue with the UI design. But I have yet to install macOS 26 and seeing this really makes me want to stick with macOS 15 for as long as I possibly can. That is straight up hideous! 😳
Yeah none of this means anything to me. Did Apple just fire all of their actual software engineers and over staff their UI department or what? I’m going to give it till the end of the week but if I’m as unimpressed with 26 on Friday as I am right now, I’m just going to downgrade back rather than waste time undoing all this Liquid Glass nonsense.
Seriously what is up with Apple?
Seriously what is up with Apple?
With this attitude one can call removal of useful features "innovation". What Apple did was innovation for the sake of innovation (with bad outcome).
This. I used to work at a small IT company. We were working on a new version of software used by 14 state agencies and my boss presented an idea to change something that was in the current version. I told her I had spoken to many users and they didn't want something like that - that it's not how they would use the software to get their jobs done and it would force them to completely change their work processes. My boss replied "Well, we know what the users need more than they do." And she made us make the change.
I left that company for a new job within 4-6 months of my boss making that statement. It took that long to find a new position, or I would have gotten out of there sooner.
I completely disagree with everyone's complaints about visibility, it can be easily fixed by tweaking appearance settings. Things feel more smooth and connected.
My only complaint so far is, I would say, is the decision to replace launchpad with the app drawer seems like a brain-dead move. Launchpad would have fit this liquid glass and was more useful in every way than this drawer is.
My only complaint so far is, I would say, is the decision to replace launchpad with the app drawer seems like a brain-dead move. Launchpad would have fit this liquid glass and was more useful in every way than this drawer is.
You mean like half baked features such as Apple Intelligence? It's almost like they didn't learn anything from Siri.
I think what they mean is Apple doesn't block installing an older version.
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The big ass round corners have been bothering me for a day already.
Since my iMac can’t install Tahoe (thanks Tim!), curious how well iOS 26 will play with older MacOS versions.
Right click on the folder itself than choose 'Customize Folder…'
Have you tried having your Applications folder in your dock? It’s the best way to launch apps imo
Liquid glass is horrendous.
Leads to crap like this all over the UI
Captured straight from @Dan Barbera review video
Leads to crap like this all over the UI
Captured straight from @Dan Barbera review video
Exacta-mundo!!! This is the main reason I’m holding off on upgrading macOS.
It’s so easy using a five finger gesture to pop open launchpad (one handed!) and then launch an app using muscle memory. Because I know WHERE it physically resides. (Not just by name)
its looks like poeple were asking for macOS on iPad, and instead they got iPadOS on a Mac
Yowza..and the hits or lack of them just keep coming...any way to turn off the red Tahoe update bubble? I disabled auto update but its still there
Wow! That’s a horrible downgrade in appearance.
Previously the controls get out of your way… And now they demand attention away from the content!