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Apple Releases First macOS Tahoe 26.2 Public Beta

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Apple today provided public beta testers with the first release of an upcoming macOS Tahoe 26.2 update for testing purposes. The public beta comes a day after Apple provided the beta to developers.

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After signing up for beta testing on Apple's beta site, public beta testers can download the updates using the Software Update section in the System Settings app.

The Reminders app includes an option to have an alarm go off when a reminder is due, the News app has some design updates, and Apple is adding new features to the Podcasts app.

The beta is limited to developers and public beta testers right now, but it won't be a long testing period. We'll likely see Apple release macOS Tahoe 26.2 right around mid-December given past launch timelines.

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tennisproha said:
Has Apple brought back the Safari Compact Tabs layout yet?
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I really wanted to love Safari. There's just so much wrong with it, I can't consider it my daily browser.

The fact that it keeps putting background tabs to sleep, and not waking them back up properly annoys the heck out of me.. especially for our SaaS accounting software, forcing me to close the tab and log back in every time I'm away from the tab for 30 seconds or more, drives me nuts.

As for the rest of Tahoe.. they can take their liquid glass and shove it up their glasshole.
 
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I won’t update to 26.x.x until the day Apple stops signing the last 15.x.x version of MacOS and the last 18.x.x version of iOS. 26 is the first Apple OS series I refuse to be a beta tester after General Release. That’s what these last few OS releases feel like to me. Just generally available beta versions. I mean…Apple just NOW has gotten around to making a Garsgeband icon update for the Glass theme. Really? A core OS app across platforms and you didn’t have it ready for the release of a radically new theme? I don’t think any of Apple’s future OS releases will be stable and not generally available beta versions until the AI mania dies down and Apple finally gets a couple of years past their actual rollout of their own 1 Trillion + parameter LLM. That may be 2030 at the earliest…( 2028 rollout of Apple LLM and two more years to shake it out and finally give Google Gemini the boot ).
 
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Ursadorable said:
I really wanted to love Safari. There's just so much wrong with it, I can't consider it my daily browser.

The fact that it keeps putting background tabs to sleep, and not waking them back up properly annoys the heck out of me.. especially for our SaaS accounting software, forcing me to close the tab and log back in every time I'm away from the tab for 30 seconds or more, drives me nuts.

As for the rest of Tahoe.. they can take their liquid glass and shove it up their glasshole.
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What about keeping it in separate window instead of a tab? MacOS doesn’t put any app to sleep until its minimised. Or so it seems.
 
Corefile said:
Is Sequoia the last of the good macOS releases? Sticking with it until we see what macOS 27 looketh like.
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Actually Sonoma is the last of the good macOS releases where good is defined as No AI and relatively free of bugs. ;)

Sequoia may be stable now but it wasn't when I gave up and reverted to Sonoma. It sounds like Tahoe is still at the hot smoking mess stage so I won't be in a hurry to try an upgrade. I was planning to wait until March, But I may join you in line for 27.

That assumes the M1 is still supported by 27. Or the M1 could stay supported but the system requirements raised to 16 GB of RAM. That would scrap a lot of hardware.
 
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1. I would like for Safari to have profiles that actually work, like Chrome, so I’m logged in to YT or Google properly.

2. I would like to customize the ugly side-bar in Tahoe - specifically the amount of color it inherits from the background. It’s one big white or dark slab of window depending on light/dark mode, even when I opt for “show background’s color” thingie. I would like the sidebar to contrast more. Hell, I would rather see Sequoia’s design and not some stupid “bar inside window”, but that ain’t gonna happen.

3. I would like to hide the window top bar button designs, and just show the icons. Or at the very least reduce drop shadows on light mode.

4. There several different tab designs in macOS, and several inconsistent interactions in expanding and contracting the sidebar. I would like for Apple to focus on consistency.

5. I long for a release where they clean house: focus just on optimization, cleaning house, getting rid of legacy code, just that. No new features.
 
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1. I would like for Safari to have profiles that actually work, like Chrome, so I’m logged in to YT or Google properly.
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They do work functionally, don't they? The only problem is they are so hard to use/manage. Seems like Apple couldn't make worse usability choices. Profiles (containers) are so easy to use in Firefox (I don't use Chrome), seems like perfect implementation. Safari implementation is quite opposite. I hate it. I sent them the list of like 10 crucial problems through feedback site. Of course they don't listen and will improve it only when they will run out of new features to present during some future WWDC. Sometime in the 30s hopefully.
 
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Wx_Man said:
I won’t update to 26.x.x until the day Apple stops signing the last 15.x.x version of MacOS and the last 18.x.x version of iOS. 26 is the first Apple OS series I refuse to be a beta tester after General Release. That’s what these last few OS releases feel like to me. Just generally available beta versions. I mean…Apple just NOW has gotten around to making a Garsgeband icon update for the Glass theme. Really? A core OS app across platforms and you didn’t have it ready for the release of a radically new theme? I don’t think any of Apple’s future OS releases will be stable and not generally available beta versions until the AI mania dies down and Apple finally gets a couple of years past their actual rollout of their own 1 Trillion + parameter LLM. That may be 2030 at the earliest…( 2028 rollout of Apple LLM and two more years to shake it out and finally give Google Gemini the boot ).
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You realize you're just screaming into the void. Apple. Does. Not. Care.
 
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Ursadorable said:
I really wanted to love Safari. There's just so much wrong with it, I can't consider it my daily browser.

The fact that it keeps putting background tabs to sleep, and not waking them back up properly annoys the heck out of me.. especially for our SaaS accounting software, forcing me to close the tab and log back in every time I'm away from the tab for 30 seconds or more, drives me nuts.

As for the rest of Tahoe.. they can take their liquid glass and shove it up their glasshole.
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This doesn’t happen for me and I use it exclusively at work with various web apps. Is this possibly related to some other power management going on?
 
ypl said:
They do work functionally, don't they? The only problem is they are so hard to use/manage. Seems like Apple couldn't make worse usability choices. Profiles (containers) are so easy to use in Firefox (I don't use Chrome), seems like perfect implementation. Safari implementation is quite opposite. I hate it. I sent them the list of like 10 crucial problems through feedback site. Of course they don't listen and will improve it only when they will run out of new features to present during some future WWDC. Sometime in the 30s hopefully.
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Hmmmm maybe I used them wrong then?
For example, when I switch to my “work” profile, I’m never logged on to my Google Suite services and others even though I was the day before.
It’s like it doesn’t store the active sessions. On Chrome I have to do nothing.
Because it’s so unreliable and have to jump between work, private and family profiles all the time, I gave up on Safari.

Another issue with Safari is the terrible in-browser developer tools. They just don’t offer the UX and ease of use that Chrome does.
 
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