Does anyone actually like macOS Tahoe?

[Moukee]

For some reason macOS 26 was working well for me from day one (MBP M1 Max 64 GB), so no complaints there.

I had more problems with iOS 26 on my 17 Pro, and still have smaller glitches with 26.2 (but it's much better compared to 26.0/26.1).

 

[webbga]

I tried the liquid glass look, but did not like it so I disabled it. From an aesthetic standpoint everything looks about the same on my Mac. I like some of the new features like personalized folders and the Spotlight has been improved. I am not discounting other people's perceptions and opinions, but it seems like every time there is an update a certain percent of people go ballistic and declare "the end of the mac." I am grateful for a system that works. I am pleased to hear that OS27 will be primarily tightening up OS26 and making it more solid. Change for the sake of change is not desirable.

I spent my working years battling Windows. For my own peace of mind and sanity I will not go into the myriad issues I had to deal with.

 

[TracerAnalog]

I don't dislike it, but I don't like it either. I want my OS to be out of the way and be unobtrusive. Liquid Glass... doesn't blow me away.

 

[Biffs]

First observation is that it, well, just works. Secondly though, it just doesn't look professional - it's gimmicky and cartoony rather than being slick and fit for real work rather than tootling around and doing fun stuff.

 

[fish_tank]

I don't even upgrade to it yet. I have heard a lot of negative reviews on this. So, as of now I'm not going to update it. Can anybody tell me, is it still buggy?

 

[Madonepro]

I don't even upgrade to it yet. I have heard a lot of negative reviews on this. So, as of now I'm not going to update it. Can anybody tell me, is it still buggy?

Hard to answer this for everyone, but for me, in my use case, no!

I do the usual browsing/emailing/watching of movies/ tv shows. I am learning to code, and also do a little bit of DaVinci video editing. I run the full gamut of Microsoft 365 applications, and run Windows 11 through Parallels. The machine I use, is a MacBook Pro M3 Pro, 14 inch.

 

[Parowdy]

i dunno, i would think that the ppl who post on the tahoe forum will see a poll on the same forum 🤔

Right? I agree that the statistical accuracy of a single poll is not great, but it isn’t irrelevant.
Like you said, it’s a poll about Tahoe in the Tahoe community, now also reaching Trending on the home page. It’s a mix of people invested in Tahoe and casual readers and macOS users alike, so definitely not irrelevant. Almost the opposite. Here are people actually caring about the software and the company, where almost everywhere else you can’t even be sure people know that their new OS is named Tahoe.

 

[Parowdy]

I don't even upgrade to it yet. I have heard a lot of negative reviews on this. So, as of now I'm not going to update it. Can anybody tell me, is it still buggy?

Depending on the applications you use or need. There are multiple other threads about compatibility and bugs, you might take a look.
But if you can afford not to upgrade, just hope it’s all figured out once you do.

 

[MBAir2010]

I’m going to assume you’re either trolling, or you’ve never actually used Windows 11.

I never troll since that is a waste of time and causes agitation.
also Dell does provide linux on their XPS.
recently I have been using windows 11 as I feel that OS suits my needs more than Monterey.
at the end of the day, these are just computers.

 

[Softice]

I'm on a MacBook Air M1 and I have no issues or problems or whatsoever with Tahoe. In fact it's faster than my old install of Sequoia. An example: I use Pages a lot sometimes, and on Sequoia it took 7 seconds for the program to open a document. On Tahoe it takes 2 seconds. Everything else is smooth and fast.

 

[maflynn]

For me, its not about love, hate, like, dislike, but does the operating system allow me to work the way I want to work, or must I conform to how it wants me to work. Does the non-core extraneous stuff interfere with my day to day activities, or are distracting enough for me to want to change operating systems?

Both Windows 11 and Tahoe largely allow me to work and play the way I want too.

Its the extraneous stuff that gets in the way and spoils the experience:
For Windows its copilot, its advertisements, its MS changing apps like notepad to something I don't want, ruining file explorer. Adding in RECALL where it takes a snapshot of each and every activity. Its finding out that MS has my decryption keys and the government can if they want too get those keys from MS. Updates that microsoft actually tells us to rollback and applying oujt of band hot fixes multiple times within a month

For macOS, the extraneous stuff, is seeing poor contrast in the control center, poor design in the systems settings, spotlight acting differently but not really impacting me

It seems for my experience, and personal opinion that macOS and particularly, Tahoe has a lot more going for it then Windows 11. Coming from (and still working in) windows 11, I'm really happy with how Tahoe is stable, fast doesn't get in my way.

There are people here in MR, that have threatened to leave the mac platform simply because the curvature of the corners is now different and they simply cannot tolerate such horrible decisions. I'm not saying Tahoe is perfect, there's plenty of rough spots, but Apple has dialed in and tightened the UI a lot since the beta, and the current version 26.2 is fast, stable, and no major issues with UI and UX

 

[macbookj0e]

macOS Nonoe

 

[foggygray]

It’s fine in my opinion. The massive rounded corners were off putting at first but I got used to it and don’t even notice. Liquid Glass isn't a huge deal to me. The OS as whole works well for me and my uses.

Tahoe is better than iPadOS 26 as far as changes went in my opinion.

 

[Madonepro]

For me, its not about love, hate, like, dislike, but does the operating system allow me to work the way I want to work, or must I conform to how it wants me to work. Does the non-core extraneous stuff interfere with my day to day activities, or are distracting enough for me to want to change operating systems?

Both Windows 11 and Tahoe largely allow me to work and play the way I want too.

Its the extraneous stuff that gets in the way and spoils the experience:
For Windows its copilot, its advertisements, its MS changing apps like notepad to something I don't want, ruining file explorer. Adding in RECALL where it takes a snapshot of each and every activity. Its finding out that MS has my decryption keys and the government can if they want too get those keys from MS. Updates that microsoft actually tells us to rollback and applying oujt of band hot fixes multiple times within a month

For macOS, the extraneous stuff, is seeing poor contrast in the control center, poor design in the systems settings, spotlight acting differently but not really impacting me

It seems for my experience, and personal opinion that macOS and particularly, Tahoe has a lot more going for it then Windows 11. Coming from (and still working in) windows 11, I'm really happy with how Tahoe is stable, fast doesn't get in my way.

There are people here in MR, that have threatened to leave the mac platform simply because the curvature of the corners is now different and they simply cannot tolerate such horrible decisions. I'm not saying Tahoe is perfect, there's plenty of rough spots, but Apple has dialed in and tightened the UI a lot since the beta, and the current version 26.2 is fast, stable, and no major issues with UI and UX

As I discovered recently, with a foolish decision to spend money on a relatively cheap Lenovo laptop, to play with windows 11, whilst my MBP was away for 10 days, getting a new screen. Turned on the Windows Laptop, and 4 hours later, it had update the software enough, to allow me to use it. Your comments on the experience are spot on, the intrusion by MS on almost every interaction, frustrating. Thankfully, by coincidence, the store I bought it from, had a 27" LG monitor on sale, and I exchanged the laptop for it. Be careful what you wish for eh.

 

[Anaxarxes]

Does it work? Yes. Does it perform? Yes. Can it be better? Oh yes. Do I complain? No. Do I want it to be refined? Yes.
Was this a sloppy release? Yes and No. Has Apple lost its way? No. Does Apple know that it's not perfect? Most definitely. Does Apple care? Yes.

 

[petersk55]

I am recognising basically all of the downgrades on various blogs, but personally I forgot about most of them when I use my mac. Other than UI and UX things, when I updated to 26.0 on day one expecting bugs and issues - nothing happened

 

[mitya]

I was new to MacOS in Monterey, Tahoe is the 2nd version I've really used, but I enjoy it quite a lot.

 

[aespana]

Liquid Glass is the reason of why I ditched my 13 Mini. Installed Tahoe on my M1 and two days later, I was using Sequoia again.

If I really really need to update to any OS using Liquid Glass is because an app or something like that but I doubt something like that happen since the M1 will probably get until Mac OS 28 at the best so, no problem.

 

[TechnoMonk]

I was new to MacOS in Monterey, Tahoe is the 2nd version I've really used, but I enjoy it quite a lot.

You avoided some bad ones. Mavericks was the worst release in past few years. I skipped Mavericks altogether.

 

[fisherking]

interesting that this forum's usual crew of complainers have yet to chime in on this thread...

Like you said, it’s a poll about Tahoe in the Tahoe community,

it's a poll about tahoe in the macrumors community....

 

[TechnoMonk]

As I discovered recently, with a foolish decision to spend money on a relatively cheap Lenovo laptop, to play with windows 11, whilst my MBP was away for 10 days, getting a new screen. Turned on the Windows Laptop, and 4 hours later, it had update the software enough, to allow me to use it. Your comments on the experience are spot on, the intrusion by MS on almost every interaction, frustrating. Thankfully, by coincidence, the store I bought it from, had a 27" LG monitor on sale, and I exchanged the laptop for it. Be careful what you wish for eh.

If I have to use teams, I have started asking my clients to ship a windows laptop, usually I end up getting Dell latitude 7x series. Just makes me appreciate mac osx more. I would recommend everyone to experience windows.

 

[thejadedmonkey]

I interact with Tahoe most frequently in 3 places. Finder, menus, and the screen itself. They managed to mess up all 3 of those places. If I wasn't doing iOS app development, I'd revert in an instant.

As it is, I may end up getting an XPS or Surface laptop if I can find one with half-height arrow keys.

 

[Mactech20]

I use it on my work laptop. It runs fine. I think the thing that bugs me is that personally I think the UI is universally worse. Worst macos upgrade since Ventura. Its on my terrible macos list consisting of

El Capitan
Catalina
Big Sur
Ventura
Tahoe

 

[WilliApple]

Mark my words, macOS Tahoe is Apple's Windows Vista, macOS 27 is going to be Apple's Windows 7

 

[csalm87]

My only real complaint is window roundness consistency. It's not consistent, even with apps updated for Liquid Glass. Implementation of Liquid Glass is also not consistent across apps. Some apps implement it fully, others don't. It's the same in iOS 26. All of this will improve with time.