Here's Everything New in macOS Tahoe Beta 2

[Lounge vibes 05]

Tim should just tell the board that he's out of ideas (not that any were his anyways) -- maybe I should just say "his C-suite team" is out of ideas, so they can terminate him and move on to someone that knows what they're doing.

He's over his head now that Steve's inventions have matured. The cow has run out of milk.

still pushing the ridiculous theory that a CEO is in a room twiddling his thumbs thinking up the next idea.
wasn’t Steve, certainly wasn’t Cook.
remember, the Macintosh team existed before Steve hopped on board.
The iMac design came from Johnny and Steve hated the name, wanting to call it the “MacMan”.
The iPod happened because of Toshiba, Tony, Phil and Steve.
The iPhone was a collaboration of basically the entire company.
The idea that the CEO is sitting there coming up with ideas is just ridiculous.

 

[Ilp.23]

apple concentrated on **** really, unbelievable!

 

[Schizoid]

As long as it’s still beautiful and glassy, like a gorgeous glass lens accentuating the buttons.
Who cares if it’s rubbish, we all want glass GLASS!

 

[svish]

Option to change menu bar background to more solid one is nice. Overall small changes. Waiting to see how it will evolve as the beta testing continues.

 

[Larsen2k4]

They fixed several bugs that I had reported in Beta 1. yay! 🙂
Still needs a lot of work in graphics performance (Exposé stutters like hell on my M1 MBP) and the Touch Bar is hanging and almost non-functional. Let’s see what Beta 3 will do.

 

[q64ceo]

Really glad about the menubar background being readded. Just wish they'd add a way to make the corners less rounded.

 

[Caseman93]

The new update is actually pathetic. Truly unstable and full of bugs. Why they rolled this out was beyond me.

 

[Larsen2k4]

The new update is actually pathetic. Truly unstable and full of bugs. Why they rolled this out was beyond me.

Errrm... cause it's an early dev beta. That means it is unstable and full of bugs.

 

[FNH15]

Sad, the biggest thing to talk about on Apple OS’s is the design language.

Least Apple could do is recognize the existence of ultra wide monitors. The top menu bar for apps is annoying on 49” monitor, always having to look to the top left. Same with ultra wide in Vision Pro. Do they actually use their own software? At a minimum the menu should have an option to center vs pin left. Better, put it on the top bar of the running app, so you don’t have to look away from what you’re doing to select a menu option.

So you want it to behave like Windows?

 

[Blackstick]

They can hide all they want, but now their mistake is preserved forever.

 

[Sami13496]

This has turned into fiddling with icons.
Who the hell actually cares about some damn icon.

 

[gramoflava]

I liked the previous one, it was light and pleasant. What is your's all problem with a little change, I don't know. I'd rather have them focused on solving all the blunder with button islands, really distracting. And the Safari tabs… I loved the unified tabbar, but again, people fighting change... Now have your tabs as awful buttons with black underlines

 

[Corefile]

I want to run iPadOS on my Mac so it can be more like an iPad. Why won't Apple let me do this?

 

[darngooddesign]

New icons are the new emojis successor, it seems. Who knew a new theming engine would be the driver for an OS update.

The much improved Spotlight is more of a driver, but sure Tahoe is only theme. 🙄

 

[darngooddesign]

still pushing the ridiculous theory that a CEO is in a room twiddling his thumbs thinking up the next idea.
wasn’t Steve, certainly wasn’t Cook.
remember, the Macintosh team existed before Steve hopped on board.
The iMac design came from Johnny and Steve hated the name, wanting to call it the “MacMan”.
The iPod happened because of Toshiba, Tony, Phil and Steve.
The iPhone was a collaboration of basically the entire company.
The idea that the CEO is sitting there coming up with ideas is just ridiculous.

 

[q64ceo]

The new update is actually pathetic. Truly unstable and full of bugs. Why they rolled this out was beyond me.

It's a beta. Bugs are to be expected. Such is the nature of beta software.

 

[Kr0019]

The new update is actually pathetic. Truly unstable and full of bugs. Why they rolled this out was beyond me.

What part of "Developer. Beta" don't you grasp?

 

[nathansz]

Tim should just tell the board that he's out of ideas (not that any were his anyways) -- maybe I should just say "his C-suite team" is out of ideas, so they can terminate him and move on to someone that knows what they're doing.

His only job is to ensure share holders turn a profit.

Pretty sure he’s doing that just fine.

 

[cwwilson]

The new screen saver still isn't animated for me. Hopefully they'll fix in the next beta.

 

[iMattPro]

I’m unclear what the problem was with their new Finder icon. I liked it. I think it looked cleaner.

 

[NewOldStock]

They sure spend a lot of money putting lipstick on a pig.
Thats all they got?

 

[bigpoppa]

I can no longer sync my music between my Mac and my iPhone. No issues at all with beta 1. Selecting Playlists does nothing.

 

[johnsawyercjs]

Did Apple say anything during WWDC about why app corners are more rounded on macOS (e.g. look at Settings in the screenshots above)?

Don't know, but I do know that I'm uncertain about the utility or desirability of these more-rounded corners. For one thing, in effect they make a window, palette, sheet, dialog, pane, etc. a bit smaller, requiring UI elements that were close to the corners and edges of these windows, etc. to move inward a bit, though maybe not by enough to fret about. But it also gives the OS more of a cartoonish look.

What I don't like is Tahoe's new look for the System Settings window (and maybe a few others too?), in which there's a pointless rounded outline around the list of settings, like a cartouche, if you select "Increase contrast" at Accessibility > Display:

When "Increase contrast" is turned off, the black outline is white, and though it's still there, it looks cleaner:

I don't see how making the outline around the list of settings black could be considered increasing its contrast. But I can live with it...somehow.

Edit: now I see that this cartouche also appears around the Sidebar in Finder windows. I guess I haven't spent enough time in the Finder recently to have noticed earlier.

 

[johnsawyercjs]

Is there an off switch for the glass nonsense? It's a usability nightmare.

The closest "off" switch so far is at Accessibility > Display > Reduce transparency. But that doesn't do the whole job--many UI elements remain partially transparent (the proper term is "translucent", but it seems Apple thought that word was too high-falutin).

 

[hutleytj]

The second developer beta of macOS Tahoe is now available for testing, and it includes a handful of smaller new features and changes on the Mac.

Below, we recap everything new that has been found in macOS Tahoe beta 2 so far.

Redesigned Finder App Icon

Crisis averted: Apple has restored the Finder icon's design to its former glory on the second beta.

On the first macOS Tahoe developer beta, the app icon's colors were inverted, with blue appearing on the right side and white appearing on the left side. That change disappointed some people, and Apple has evidently listened to that feedback.

Redesigned Migration Assistant App Icon

The second beta also gives a fresh coat of paint to the Migration Assistant app icon.

Menu Bar Background Option

Apple removed the frosted background from the menu bar by default on macOS Tahoe, as part of the Liquid Glass redesign. If you miss it, though, the second beta adds a "Show menu bar background" option to the System Settings app under Menu Bar.

AirPods Beta Firmware

As spotted by Federico Trevisani, the second macOS Tahoe beta lets you enroll in beta testing of AirPods firmware updates directly on a Mac.

First, connect your AirPods to your Mac. Next, open the System Settings app and click on the Bluetooth menu. Then, select the (i) symbol next to your AirPods. On the ensuing page, scroll down to the bottom and click on "AirPods Beta Updates. Finally, there is a toggle to enable beta firmware updates on your AirPods. Firmware updates will be installed when your AirPods are in their charging case and near the Мас.

Apple currently offers AirPods beta firmware updates to developers only. However, that will soon change. Apple plans to start offering public betas of AirPods firmware updates in July for the first time, beginning with the AirPods 4 and AirPods Pro 2.

The latest firmware beta for the ‌AirPods 4‌ and AirPods Pro 2 adds support for improved audio quality for phone calls and video calls, plus studio-quality audio recording for interviews, podcasts, and videos. There is also an option to use AirPods as a camera remote with the Camera app to take photos or start a video recording, and these AirPods models can automatically pause audio if it is detected that you fell asleep.

Other Changes

• Apple's release notes for the second macOS Tahoe developer beta mention the same new Recovery Assistant feature that was added to iOS 26. Apple: "Recovery Assistant is a new way to recover your device if it doesn't start up normally. It can look for problems and attempt to resolve them if found."
• We have not independently confirmed this yet, but a Reddit user claims that you can now use Apple Intelligence when booting macOS Tahoe from an external drive, by default. On the first beta, and macOS Sequoia, this was only possible through a manual process that involved the use of Terminal.
• There is a new "Your Mac has been updated" notification.
• Developers can test that their Mac apps no longer depend on Rosetta 2, which will be phased out starting with macOS 28.

The first macOS Tahoe public beta will be available in July, and the update will likely be released to the general public in September.

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