Apple Seeds Second Beta of macOS Tahoe

[MacRumors]

Apple today provided developers with the second beta of macOS Tahoe 26 for testing purposes, with the update coming two weeks after the first beta was released following WWDC.

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.

Article Link: Apple Seeds Second Beta of macOS Tahoe

 

[yabeweb]

Updating right now.

The first one seems quite stable, let's hope we get better battery life.

 

[theeaglesfan005]

Updating right now.

The first one seems quite stable, let's hope we get better battery life.

Not showing for me

 

[yabeweb]

Not showing for me

I had to click check for update a couple of times.

About 5 ,01 GB on MacBook Air M4

 

[azentropy]

Not showing here yet (in Arizona). Have some annoying cosmetic items I how were fixed (window flickering).

 

[votdfak]

Come on beta 2! Save my MBP.

 

[theeaglesfan005]

I had to click check for update a couple of times.

About 5 ,01 GB on MacBook Air M4

Been clicking multiple times haha

 

[yabeweb]

I dunno, I guess either keep trying or wait a bit and try again.

iPad OS is not showing for me either, but on Mac it worked after a couple of tries.

 

[tweaknmod]

I know it depends on the device and uses, but how is the stability so far?

 

[yabeweb]

I know it depends on the device and uses, but how is the stability so far?

For me it has been as stable as the last OS release, so far everything I use (Affinity mostly and Office) but all the small pop I have have been working without issue.

Battery life has been poor but expected on a beta.

 

[azentropy]

I know it depends on the device and uses, but how is the stability so far?

It hasn't really crashed on me, but as I stated above I have a really annoying window/screen flickering issue. I think it may be do with some inherited settings. Even when I try and turn stuff off that I think is causing the issue it doesn't. I set up a different/clean profile/account on the same machine and don't seem to have that issue.

 

[votdfak]

I know it depends on the device and uses, but how is the stability so far?

For me, you can see devices in signature... worst first beta ever...

 

[tywebb13]

build number is 25A5295e

other beta 2 builds out today:

iOS 26 beta 2 (23A5276f)
iPadOS 26 beta 2 (23A5276f)
tvOS 26 beta 2 (23J5295e)
audioOS 26 beta 2 (23J5295e)
visionOS 26 beta 2 (23M5279f)
watchOS 26 beta 2 (23R5296f)

 

[Icaras]

It wasn’t showing for me either. Had to turn off beta updates, then turn it back on and it finally popped up for me

 

[azentropy]

Not showing here yet (in Arizona). Have some annoying cosmetic items I how were fixed (window flickering).

Showed up after about 10 minutes (pretty much constantly closing settings and re-openning and clicking Check for Updates)

 

[michaelward82]

Safari tabs: more apparent which one is active, but uglier 😂

 

[omarjanak]

Apple today provided developers with the second beta of macOS Tahoe 26 for testing purposes, with the update coming two weeks after the first beta was released following WWDC.

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.

Article Link: Apple Seeds Second Beta of macOS Tahoe

When is the Public Beta Coming out?

 

[Ransom666]

In the first beta, was Safari chewing up memory (resulting in running out of system memory) for anyone else? Hoping this update fixes that but thinking I probably need to disable my ad blocking extensions until things are stable. Assuming those are the culprit since I haven't seen others talk about Safari issues.

 

[Mateus1320]

They fixed the finder icon

 

[soundweave]

View attachment 2522358I dunno, I guess either keep trying or wait a bit and try again.

iPad OS is not showing for me either, but on Mac it worked after a couple of tries.

Really dislike the look of all these floating islands of buttons. And the side bar. Much less clean than it is now. Makes sense on iphone where the buttons have to share the space with the content so they float above it. But not on Mac where they have their own space.

 

[spazzcat]

When is the Public Beta Coming out?

Next week or a week after dev beta 3 would be my guess.

 

[spazzcat]

In the first beta, was Safari chewing up memory (resulting in running out of system memory) for anyone else? Hoping this update fixes that but thinking I probably need to disable my ad blocking extensions until things are stable. Assuming those are the culprit since I haven't seen others talk about Safari issues.

So far they seem like they spent a lot of time on Safari.

 

[minik]

Updated on a M1 MacBook Air, everything seems normal.

 

[yabeweb]

They fixed the finder icon

View attachment 2522376

Kinda dislike the border around it...but hey, it's better than having it reversed.

 

[ttam110]

Finder Icon is back