Bug Prevents M3 Ultra Mac Studios From Installing macOS Tahoe

[dannyyankou]

Simple reason why Apple failed to catch this bug: they don't read their feedback submitted via Feedback Assistant. Dunno why Apple does public betas if they refuse to consider feedback from those who test it.

They read beta feedback. They just take forever to get to it. I’ve had a couple bugs I’ve submitted that were addressed before. They need to do a better job looking at bug reports in a timely manner though.

 

[edrozenberg]

I'm mad that I wasn't the first one here to say "feature not a bug!" - this garbage OS 26 release doesn't belong on any Apple hardware. Whoever designed this bubbly crp which breaks the UI of all apps and puts borders highlights 3D effects and wastes space everywhere for UI controls which need to be invisible and stay out of the way until needed, these people who play with glass polyhedrons and glass toys all day and put out horrible UI work would have been fired or likely NEVER HIRED by Steve Jobs or Johnny or Scott and never would have gotten anywhere close to the UI design team if things were still being done properly at Apple.

 

[videomyster]

I have an M3 Ultra Studio Pro, and I've been running the betas since the first one. No issues with installations here. I'm guessing it may have popped up in the RC or Release version.

 

[Jdshewman]

I don't update to any new version of macOS until 6 months after release. There is literally no reason to. In order for them to get the OS flawless they should release a new one every 2-3 years.

 

[Acidsplat]

I have an M3 Ultra Studio Pro, and I've been running the betas since the first one. No issues with installations here. I'm guessing it may have popped up in the RC or Release version.

It seems to be people that upgraded to 15.7 first and then tried to install Tahoe

 

[canadianreader]

So, uh, the Beta and RC didn't catch this bug?!??!? What is even the point of doing betas and RCs if these kinds of bugs persists to release? LOL...

The RC is to prepare you for the official public beta

 

[turbineseaplane]

They read beta feedback. They just take forever to get to it. I’ve had a couple bugs I’ve submitted that were addressed before. They need to do a better job looking at bug reports in a timely manner though.

Especially for a 3 trillion dollar company.

 

[nortonandreev]

QA Lab was closed for.... uh, refurbishment

It’s been closed for the past couple of years.

 

[flybass]

so apple didn't even bother to test this? whoah

 

[Corefile]

Truly embarrassing PR disaster for Apple. The level of incompetence in their software organization is incredible.

 

[vegetassj4]

It just occured to me that the Mac Pro is still on M2 Ultra...WTH?!?

 

[bnumerick]

I guess I got lucky. I'm running Tahoe on a Mac Studio M3 Ultra. I went from 15.6.1 to 26 without any issues, and I have a fairly complex set of Thunderbolt devices hooked up.

 

[lazyrighteye]

Wait - did no M3 Ultra users installed the betas or did this issue not show up until Monday? The former would surprise me. The later is both surprising and bad.

My M2 beta and GM installs were fine. Hope there’s a fix soon.

 

[kagharaht]

This is joke right? I saw this post on the community forum as an answer from Apple Support. Seriously? LOL. "They have no ETA on the resolution. They basically saying try with next release but we can't guarantee the successful outcome "

 

[Astuces iOS]

More expensive ≠ better choice

 

[dannyyankou]

that's what you get for buying an m3 in the age of m4

M4 Ultra doesn’t exist

 

[Acidsplat]

Wait - did no M3 Ultra users installed the betas or did this issue not show up until Monday? The former would surprise me. The later is both surprising and bad.

My M2 beta and GM installs were fine. Hope there’s a fix soon.

I was on the developer beta all summer on my M3 Ultra, the issue seems to be coming from people who installed 15.7 first which only came out on Monday.

 

[coolfactor]

I wish a bug had preve3nted me from installing iOS 26 on my iPad, this is the buggiest apple software I've ever seen, and I've been a Mac user since before Steve Jobs came back with NeXt.

List the top 3 bugs that are impacting your usage.

 

[coolfactor]

It's a feature to keep people safe from the horrible new UI.

You'll adapt pretty quickly. I did tweak on iOS to enable "Increase Contrast", which offered up cleaner lines, less blurriness. I prefer that. But that same trick didn't work well on macOS. On my M1 Air, I've already adapted and do appreciate some of the ingenious UI effects now in place. Give it a chance and you'll come to appreciate it, too. I'm confident in that.

 

[ZipZilla]

Nothing but quality at apple these days

 

[lazyrighteye]

I was on the developer beta all summer on my M3 Ultra, the issue seems to be coming from people who installed 15.7 first which only came out on Monday.

Whoa. That’s wild. I knew it wasn’t something that had been identified in betas - we would have heard something before now. Again, wild.

 

[Siliconguy]

So, uh, the Beta and RC didn't catch this bug?!??!? What is even the point of doing betas and RCs if these kinds of bugs persists to release? LOL...

That's what I thought. They didn't test the RC on their flagship machine. Oops doesn't begin to cover it.

 

[frenchcamp49er]

Lots of people are also having issues getting Messages to reactivate also. Cluster

 

[FCX]

Hm. Should be interesting. My M3 Ultra Studio is my production machine, so I decided to do the 15.7 update short-term, and go Tahoe when things cool down a bit.

I guess that puts me in a bit of a pickle, but I suspect they'll iron it out before I decide to go 26

 

[xSushi]

It's trying to protect itself from OS Twenty Sucks.