iOS 27 Will Reportedly Be Like Mac OS X Snow Leopard

[neuropsychguy]

Guys, you really assume your Mac will work like before?) Liquid glass implementation is sucking your GPU cores and battery like crazy - optimization will not help. This OS was released too early, for the stable work specs/configs of your hardware should in general be way higher

Have you seen those issues in tests you've run with it?

As I just wrote in a different comment, my 2021 MacBook Pro is running macOS 26. I've done various before and after benchmarks. These are just with my own usage. Battery life is basically the same at about 10 minutes less than with the previous OS. I've had zero stability issues and no noticed bugs (and I started with 26.0). My scientific computing software using CPU and GPU runs the same as it did before, taking the same time to complete. I've had zero issues with it on my 2021 MacBook Pro and my base model M4 Mac Mini with Tahoe.

Again, I'm interested in what problems you've had with Tahoe on your computers.

 

[Gengar]

Wasn't that what iOS 12 was?

 

[teh_hunterer]

Bring on Snow Tahoe.

 

[turbineseaplane]

snowy tahowy
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new desktop picture for macos 27?

Do you have MenuBar & Dock hiding turned on or not?

I can't tell with Liquid Glass.

 

[Andreas from Zurich]

Will it include the fixing of conceptual bugs? Apple e. g. still doesn’t get multilingualism. It starts with weird flaws like that the „listen to page“ feature in Safari is only available for web pages written in the system language. Pages’s approach to multilanguage support is even more outlandish. Your keyboard settings decide in which language the document is spell-checked. Sorry, but only an ignoramus speaking nothing than ’murican can possibly have come up with an approach like that. Language is a characteristic of the text, not of your input device. And yes, as foreign as this may sound to some, texts can have paragraphs, or sentences or even just single words in another language. Most word processors from the 1990s got that right and allowed you to specify the language of a piece of text. But Apple in the year 2026?

And yes, I know, in the macOS version you can set spelling to “auto-detect language” and then Pages will attempt to determine the language paragraph by paragraph. That may be just about good enough for Notes or Mail. But it is still conceptually flawed and certainly not ok for an app that is basically a one trick pony for the creation of formatted text-heavy documents.

 

[Berti10]

Not the OS we want, but the one we desperately need.

 

[PBG4 Dude]

One thing that I miss from the 10.0–10.6 era was how Apple consistently improved the performance of OS X.

Coming from the Windows world, it was truly amazing how each OS upgrade ran better on the same hardware.

 

[im_to_hyper]

Snow Tahoe.

Frozen Lake Tahoe

 

[SebCohen]

This is not the humble brag you are looking for, move along. Move along.

 

[benwiggy]

One thing that I miss from the 10.0–10.6 era was how Apple consistently improved the performance of OS X.

My G4 iMac ran on Tiger noticeably faster than on Leopard.

 

[dimon2242]

Edit: Yes, it's iOS, but still, please, fix my mac 😩

Apple: Please, buy a new mac 🥺

 

[cicalinarrot]

Leopard looked cool but it was buggy and slow, so they made a cleaner OS that looked as good.
After iOS 26, I'd rather have another slow and buggy version that at least looks decent.

 

[quietstormSD]

Mostly in the comments section. Actual rumors of this kind of release are rare.

I read the comments too much!

 

[sza]

The most stable Mac OS is Mountain Lion

 

[Isamilis]

Seriously, every release since has been just a little more disappointing to use than the previous.

Except for 26, very disappointing.

 

[-BigMac-]

That means it must be compatible with ALL iOS26 devices. The software will be even more efficient than currently. Otherwise - misleading marketing

 

[Parowdy]

The new new unified system:

OS Snow 26

 

[xxFoxtail]

I feel like we hear this rumor every other week. Looking forward to it.

 

[baryon]

Awesome! Maybe then I'll install it.

 

[Mr.Scarface]

Snow Tahoe.

Lake Tahoe

 

[nfl46]

Lol, then when iOS 28 comes out, we will be back to square one with it being a buggy mess.

 

[ifxf]

I believe all the developer resources will be busy on the fold OS.

 

[macpro2000]

Yeah - one year of relief (with Snow Leopard) then they wrecked it again and thereafter with Lion and all the rest.

Yes. And Lion created System requirements, making systems unable to upgrade. I bet my Mac Pro from 2006 could still run Tahoe just fine if they let it.

 

[FastLaneJB]

I don’t quite buy this to be honest. It might be not many new features presented at WWDC but they’ve got to redesign most of the OS and apps to work with the iPhone Fold. That’s likely were most of the development effort is going but as that won’t be announced at WWDC, it’ll seem like iOS 27 won’t have a lot new.

And probably it won’t if you don’t buy an iPhone Fold and stick with a regular iPhone.

 

[Reeneman]

How? Isn’t the AI a huge new feature? Lol I feel like there’s gonna be a ton of new stuff here

Exactly this. That’s why the stuff from Gurman doesn’t make sense. Most likely the Siri stuff will be added with iOS 27, for sure not 26.5, Apple will do a lot of marketing around it and that’s far away from being a snow leopard „we have 0 new features…“.