Here Are Apple's macOS Tahoe 26 Release Notes

[ErikGrim]

How's the Music app in Tahoe?

We have a thread for this:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/music-missing-features-bugs-issues-troubleshooting-tahoe.2458544/

 

[CATiNTHESTORE]

Same buggy OS but with non sense liquid glass which is completely ruining UI perspective…

This OS doesn’t have any major features

 

[svish]

Will be updating soon. Eager to try everything out on my Mac. Happy with all the changes.

 

[insomniac86]

Doesn’t seem to be much features left for us living in EU and I hate the new menubar, so hard pass on this release.

Have no fear! You can turn it back on to have the solid menu bar, just like the old one.

Now you don't have to pass.
You're welcome.

 

[apr]

The main problem with this "idiot UI nobody asked for", that Tahoe will be the last OS for Intel macs. I"m sure next year the whole glass concept will be abandoned, but Intel macs won't be able to fixed by OS 27.

So the only option to stick forever with Sequoia on Intel macs.
(I would happy to switch to M4 or whatever, but I need some legacy win x86 virtualization support. Now I'm hoping/waiting for a powerful enough Mx, which will be able to simulate x86 environment for reasonable speed.)

 

[wanha]

I am actually pleasantly surprised how good it is. I am genuinely enjoying this OS. I just downloaded the RC yesterday and it's been fantastic. They seem to have ironed out all the visual things that bothered me initially.

nice to hear an honest take that doesn't disparage the new design (not because I have a strong opinion either way, but it's the critics that always seem to cry the loudest here)

I haven't tried it yet, but will embrace it with an open mind

 

[wanha]

Oh yeah and they messed up iPod sync with anything below gen6 classic and this is probably the end of perhaps the most iconic Apple device that is not a computer.

this is one of the most frustrating thing about accelerating technological progress - everything becomes outdated and stops working with other devices eventually, forcing us into a cycle of endless upgrades and learning curves and in some cases, cuts off access to devices we own and love

 

[johnnytravels]

this is one of the most frustrating thing about accelerating technological progress - everything becomes outdated and stops working with other devices eventually, forcing us into a cycle of endless upgrades and learning curves and in some cases, cuts off access to devices we own and love

Agreed, and makes me not want to buy into technological progress anymore as much as it used to.
There’s a feeling of fatigue surrounding consumer tech for me that makes me slow down my consumption.
It would probably take an average software engineer an afternoon or two to properly maintain the iPod drivers, but even that seems to much to ask.

 

[DavidDoyle]

I've looked at the release notes and just think - is there any under the hood improvements at all? Why is everything about this release just visual gimmicks? Previous releases enhanced eGPU performance and reliability, for example.

This just feels like another 'It's another year so we need to release something' which is the trap that Apple set for themselves.