Apple Seeds macOS Tahoe Release Candidate

[MacRumors]

Apple today provided developers and public beta testers with the release candidate of macOS Tahoe 26 for testing purposes, with the RC coming after nine rounds of betas. The release candidate is the finalized version of macOS Tahoe that will be released to the public if no bugs are discovered during this last week of testing.

Registered developers can download the new beta software through the System Settings app.

macOS Tahoe features Apple's Liquid Glass redesign, which extends across all of the new updates this year. Apple also brought the Phone and Journal apps to the Mac for the first time, and introduced a new cross-platform Games app.

With the update, Apple overhauled how Spotlight works, enabling new functionality that allows it to be used to complete all kinds of actions like sending emails without having to open up an app. There are also changes to a number of apps, including Messages, Safari, and Notes.

All of the new features that are included in macOS Tahoe are outlined in our dedicated roundup. macOS Tahoe is set to launch on September 15.

Article Link: Apple Seeds macOS Tahoe Release Candidate

 

[matt_and_187_like_this]

this will be interesting, neither tahoe nor ios seem ready for rc imo

 

[Mac_tech]

I'm not seeing it for MacOS but do see it for iOS though.

Edit: it shows up for me now.

 

[xgman]

not showing up yet here. (ios yes)

 

[abenamu]

Not showing at all

 

[Cristim74]

Downloading the iOS and iPadOS RCs, but not seeing the macOS RC yet ...

 

[xgman]

clearly they're prioritizing ios as usual.

 

[marcelvelky]

iOS 26 is live, just popped up..

 

[thertrain]

iOS 26 feels ready for primetime but I am not sold on macOS... let's see if this RC feels more polished

 

[silvertech]

There is no way it’s ready.

 

[antmarobel]

Oh, there you are but, just to stay in that eternal lane, not here in Brasilia yet. But I just passed this to Terminal softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 26.0 Beta RC (RC is for Release Candidate) and Terminal is downloading something hahahah (I don't know if it's really the RC...) 🤣 🤔

 

[_smoee]

It just showed up on my M4 mac mini, rosetta 2 installed.

 

[archvile]

Weird, already got it installed on my MBA M3 but still not even showing on my Mac Studio. No Rosetta on either system.

 

[kostthem]

It is available on Greece too.

 

[Cristim74]

Just showed up and then I got this error about missing Rosetta update ... now again not showing up ...
LE: Got it to download now ... that was weird ...

 

[thertrain]

Where do people find the full installer? I would love to do a full clean install on my machine now that the Beta-testing process is over.

 

[maxoakland]

this will be interesting, neither tahoe nor ios seem ready for rc imo

They're not even close to ready. This is shaping up to be Apple's worst release since the 90s

 

[mrgreeneyes]

how safe is it to install the RC?

 

[thertrain]

how safe is it to install the RC?

In theory... it is the same version that will go public next week; unless something new pops up... relatively safe at this stage

 

[GlamCheese666]

Any 15.7 release info?

 

[Cristim74]

They're not even close to ready. This is shaping up to be Apple's worst release since the 90s

You have no ideea what you're talking about ...

 

[FlyingToasterStrudel]

Where do people find the full installer? I would love to do a full clean install on my machine now that the Beta-testing process is over.

Well technically the beta-testing process won’t be over until Sept. 15, the day of final release. They could still issue another RC before then.

 

[turbineseaplane]

Even a 10' pole can't keep this far enough away from my Mac.

 

[Ries]

So no Macs this year confirmed? Usually this goes live in October or later.

 

[q64ceo]

iOS26 is pretty awesome. It's beautiful. Cannot say the same for Tahoe. Apple is making a huge mistake with macOS.