Here Are Apple's macOS Tahoe 26 Release Notes

[mxrider88]

Oh I see what you mean. That does sound like an issue.

Yeah, been going on since Yosemite or so. They never fixed it, I reported it over 20 times for sure and had emails back and forth with an engineer for a good 3 months too. Ridiculous

 

[thebart]

That's always been my biggest complaint about Safari was the centered, proportional tabs (and the centered bookmarks bar contents). I wish they kept everything left aligned like it had been in the earlier versions of Safari.

I use Edge instead of Safari just because I don't like the way the tab and address bar look and function.

 

[Philip_S]

A lot of this is in the eye of the beholder. I haven't used Tahoe yet, but I found Sequoia to have been both better looking and more useable than prior versions. I especially like the UI looking more like iPhone and have many ways that data can easily be shared between devices. I have a largely UNIX(ish) software development background so I also like the BSD underpinnings.

It's funny about those that have tried Tahoe. Some say as you that it's worse than prior versions and others seem to be loving it. Given these differences in user opinions, I can see how it could be hard for Apple to pick a direction that will satisfy everyone. If not you then someone else would be hating the new version for some other reasons.

I haven’t used it yet because I’m waiting for the MacPorts Tahoe Problems page to be updated and then cleared of relevant (to me) issues, but it certainly looks attractive: IMO Sequoia was the first that (apart from fonts) was an aesthetic improvement on it’s predecessor since the pinstripes were removed. How it looks and feels in use is of course the real issue, and that will have to wait for a few weeks.

As for launchpad: I almost never used it because I preferred to use spotlight for anything that wasn’t in the dock, but I can understand why people wouldn’t like losing a feature they used.

My biggest UI wishlist item would be reversing the trend of hiding menu items and buttons behind pointless menus to provide more whitespace, but from Apple’s guidance on using Liquid Glass it seems that’s not happening.

 

[CATiNTHESTORE]

I use Edge instead of Safari just because I don't like the way the tab and address bar look and function.

Try Firefox dude

 

[bradman83]

I use Edge instead of Safari just because I don't like the way the tab and address bar look and function.

I like Edge but the fact that it uses so many non-native UI elements (pop up menus specifically) is a turn off for me. And no browser besides Safari supports a bookmarks/favorites toolbar in their iPad version which is a non-starter for me.

 

[ikea lamp]

Despite all the razzmatazz surrounding macOS26, I just don't see any benefit of Liquid Glass, it makes it more difficult to identify items. We merely use the operating system to facilitate the loading of apps that we really use. The OS is not the prime purpose of the machine.

But my biggest bugbear is the arbitrary removal of Launchpad from macOS. Why did you cripple the OS in such a manner?

I actually have the opposite complaint. I really like liquid glass in iOS 26, but I find it barely even noticeable in macOS 26.

 

[ajmetz82]

Anyone know what time it will be available on Monday? From the start of the 15th at 0:00am - and if so, which time zone? Have to be somewhere on Monday, and wondering if it'll be an install before I head out, or an install when I get back.

 

[yabeweb]

I actually have the opposite complaint. I really like liquid glass in iOS 26, but I find it barely even noticeable in macOS 26.

The glass effect is not very present in Mac OS apart from some elements, but the finder windows is atrocious.

 

[phillytim]

macOS Tahoe is coming out next Monday, and Apple provided the release candidate (RC) version of the software earlier this week. The RC came with notes highlighting the features that Apple believes are most important.

Apple has changed up the way that it provides release notes for macOS, and rather than a list of features, there's a carousel with more detailed descriptions of key additions and images to go along with each feature.macOS Tahoe will launch on September 15 alongside iOS 26, iPadOS 26, visionOS 26, watchOS 26, and tvOS 26.

Article Link: Here Are Apple's macOS Tahoe 26 Release Notes

Still do not see anything that would make me re-enable Apple Intelligence on my Mac, for this release.

 

[zantafio]

still not possible to have the iPhone mirroring app to stay floating in foreground. That simple change would make this app so much more useful

 

[EugW]

FileVault is force-enabled with a recovery-key added to Passwords.
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You can still disable FileVault in [System Settings > Privacy & Security]

If you have a user you want to login automatically at bootup without a password, you need to disable FileVault. The most confusing part is you can’t login to a passwordless user by leaving the password field blank until logging in first as an admin, or disabling FileVault.

Yeah, this is stupid. The installer didn't tell me it would enable FileVault. Luckily turning off FileVault only took a few seconds after the upgrade. I was surprised because I thought it might take hours to decrypt, but it was literally 2 s.