Apple Seeds macOS Tahoe Release Candidate

[Situationen]

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

I must say you make a good argument!...

... It would be nice with some points to refute his claim, the things I've seen regarding the upcoming Mac OS from people using it in this forum seem to point to him being atleast somewhat right, as seen how the UI doesn't seem to have fully come together yet, not even close.

 

[omenatarhuri]

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

macOS is a bit weird here and there, too ipady… but that’s the direction it’s been going in for a while. I think there’s a lot of good in Tahoe as well.

 

[Mac_tech]

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.

Assuming nothing crops up last minutes for the release candidate, you can find the full installer from Mr. Macintosh.

 

[tywebb13]

build number is 25A353

also out are these

macOS 15.7 RC 6 (24G222)
macOS 14.8 RC 6 (23J21)
iOS 26.0 RC 1 (23A340)
iPadOS 26.0 RC 1 (23A340)
tvOS 26.0 RC 1 (23J352)
audioOS 26.0 RC 1 (23J352)
visionOS 26.0 RC 1 (23M336)
watchOS 26.0.1 RC 1 (23R8351) (for new ultra 3)
watchOS 26.0 RC 1 (23R351) (for current compatible apple watches)
watchOS 26.0 RC 1 (23R350) (for new series 11 and se 3)
iOS 18.7 RC 1 (22H20)
iPadOS 18.7 RC 1 (22H20)
iOS 16.7.12 RC 1 (20H364)
iPadOS 16.7.12 RC 1 (20H364)
iOS 15.8.5 RC 1 (19H394)
iPadOS 15.8.5 RC 1 (19H394)

 

[garranhado]

Is Apple Intelligence available in Portugal?

Apple promises but not available on betas.

 

[Jerry Fritschle]

Assuming nothing crops up last minutes for the release candidate, you can find the full installer from Mr. Macintosh.

I was about to tell them this--but I'll also mention that since SSVs came along, clean installs haven't really been necessary for years. They're sort of a throwback to the "Classic" days, where people would clean-install several times a year even without an update.

 

[kxc]

my finder still can't group by kind...
even tried several times rebuilding spotlight...
files all went to "others"...

 

[Mac_tech]

I was about to tell them this--but I'll also mention that since SSVs came along, clean installs haven't really been necessary for years. They're sort of a throwback to the "Classic" days, where people would clean-install several times a year even without an update.

I don't plan to clean install my system. SSVs, did you mean solid state drives?

 

[DeltaMac]

SSV is "Signed System Volume", the security feature in recent macOS systems that prevents the modification of the main boot volume. Some info here. Main system volume cannot be modified, so (in theory) a clean install should not be necessary, and is no longer considered a helpful troubleshooting step.

 

[Jerry Fritschle]

I don't plan to clean install my system. SSVs, did you mean solid state drives?

Like DeltaMac said above. I apologize for not being clear.

 

[abenamu]

I caved in and installed Rc on MacStudio, wow, that is all I can say... <please help me delete 2 posts, everytime I post there is an error, I do not need duplicates.

 

[abenamu]

I gave up and installed RC on Mac Studui, WOW, that is all I can say, now I have RC everywhere.

 

[abenamu]

Installed RC everywhere including Mac Studio, I am impressed.

 

[xvrdmng]

Any luck with packaged full installer?, MRMacintosh doesnt have RC yet

 

[cmdrkeen]

I’ve seen a couple of posts saying macOS Tahoe isn’t ready, what’s wrong with it? I haven’t installed the beta so I’m out of the loop.

 

[tywebb13]

Any luck with packaged full installer?, MRMacintosh doesnt have RC yet

there is a ipsw but not full installer yet

https://updates.cdn-apple.com/2025FallFCS/fullrestores/093-37294/119120C1-6306-4287-AC2B-0AF964CD0B3C/UniversalMac_26.0_25A353_Restore.ipsw

i'd be surprised if we get a full installer before public release.

although they had full installers for the betas they usually don't release full installers for rcs

 

[Siliconguy]

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

Lets' hope so. System 7.5.2, the first release for PCI Power Macs was truly dreadful.
Sequoia's initial release was bad enough that I rolled back to Sonoma.

 

[silvertech]

Having a weird bug with contrast where blacks get more grey after a few times of sleep.

 

[djmlfc]

Lets' hope so. System 7.5.2, the first release for PCI Power Macs was truly dreadful.
Sequoia's initial release was bad enough that I rolled back to Sonoma.

Would tend to agree with Cristim74. Have used the beta on my main machine since beta 5. All my apps have worked with a few rare minor issues. As there is no major overhaul to core service or kernel plumbing this beta phase has been one of the most hassle free I have observed since I started running macOS beta’s over a decade ago now. Not a fan of the UI and there are still one or two graphical bugs/inconsistencies but nothing major. If the Sequoia network issues were an 8 on a crap scale of 10 as far as releases go then I would put this as a 2 or 3

 

[AnTaR3s]

Hey guys! Quick question: I would do a clean instal of macOS Tahoe and was wondering if I can go ahead and install the RC and then continue on the standard (non-RC/Beta) upgrade path. I would just like to do it now since I have some spare time and next week is more tight.

 

[q64ceo]

Hey guys! Quick question: I would do a clean instal of macOS Tahoe and was wondering if I can go ahead and install the RC and then continue on the standard (non-RC/Beta) upgrade path. I would just like to do it now since I have some spare time and next week is more tight.

Yes. Just go into System Preferences, open the Beta Updates section, and set it to off. You'll get regular (non-beta) updates after that.

 

[burgman]

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

I've been running iPadOS and ATV OS public Betas and I would have agreed with you until I got the RC on both. The issues I had are gone. I'm going to wait on my Macs and phones because they are work related. If just the typical exploding heads on MR after release then I'll jump in.

 

[mdw1]

Does Time Machine stop working on Tahoe?

 

[cmdrkeen]

Does Time Machine stop working on Tahoe?

It's not Time Machine that stops working, it's the Time Capsule hardware. I think it's because it's HFS. I have an external SSD that is formatted as APFS and Time Machine is working fine.

 

[tywebb13]

It's not Time Machine that stops working, it's the Time Capsule hardware. I think it's because it's HFS. I have an external SSD that is formatted as APFS and Time Machine is working fine.

i have external hard drive formatted with hfs and use time machine to backup before and after each beta update - and i even go further than that and backup before and after installing anything.

so far it has been working with the tahoe betas and rc