Gotta say, I have been using the new Mail app and every time I do, it feels like I am hitting my head against a brick wall. Emails seem to magically vanish yet are found when I use search is one annoying thing. Yeah every OS 26 Apple device I own feels like a buggy mess now in general use.
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Mac OS 26 Is Utter Garbage and Apple Has truly lost its way....
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Oh I hate the new compose window. Forcing square glyphs into circle buttons, and the changes to the reply/forward/send buttons…
Yeap, then on my Apple Watch Series 8 the workout app is awful, you can’t just select the workout you want, oh no, they have to bounce around and spin and it is like slot machines to catch the one you want, and then it takes several presses of the button for it to open up. Then we have the timer app on iOS 26, now in iOS 18 it used to just remember ONE event of your used timers, now it remembers them every time you use them and lists them all for you, so if you use 30 seconds a day like I do for my mouthwash rinse, sad I know, I now have a never ending list of 30 seconds timers, then if if I press on on it won’t jump you to the top to see the timer, on ho you have to spin that slot machines again…
Utter amateur garbage. I haven’t even bothered looking at the ‘Glass’ rubbish of OS 26 yet….
Holy cow, there’s so many opinions here! Maybe take some time off guys! Everything ok at home? I know, I get a bit miffed when some aspect of I-life doesn’t work the way I want it to, or expect it to, especially when it’s broken. Like Numbers. iOS26 did resolve a problem I was having when I used SMB to back up files to my Mac over WiFi, or to move a file from it to my phone. Whether this was fixed intentionally, or otherwise, I’m glad it works. I back up or pull files from an M2 NVMe SSD that sits in a Satechi base unit under my M2 Mac Mini. Lots cheaper than buying an expensive desktop NAS unit. Possibly it this was a result of updating my mini to Tahoe, as the same problem had existed on my original IPP, which runs iPadOS 17.7.10. I’m more than happy with my iPhone 16e and iOS26.
bogdanw
macrumors G3
Even old fanboys are “Losing confidence” https://eclecticlight.co/2025/11/30/last-week-on-my-mac-losing-confidence/ 🙂
SDAVE
macrumors 601
Yeah but what's the alternative? Windows? Linux? lol
bogdanw
macrumors G3
Fire Tim Cook, bring a CEO that can focus the company on quality, not quantity. I don’t need a garbage OS every year, I can wait 3 years for a good OS.
genexx
macrumors 6502
I have decided the first Time in Decades to spare this Update because i need space on my Screen.
The Optic... i do not care because i work on my Mac´s and they deliver as always.
I use Sequoia now on my Mini and only Tahoe on my MBA because i tried it there and have no Patience to Revert and no need as well...it runs...and mostly in Clamshell...
Btw i work 24/7 with my Mac and Restart very seldom, never switch off and have no Problems while using a Ton of Apps and Terminal and Program my App and so much more.
I carry my Install since El Capitan - A Decade - no New Install - only Update or Import the Backup via Migration Assistant.
To do that was impossible in the Old days i can tell you.....
iBookmaster
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iBookmaster
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Or you could just use the F11 or F12 to lower or raise the volume and enjoy your day.
iBookmaster
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kagharaht
macrumors 68020
I leave my iMac M3 on all the time. No sleep. So a few days ago I did a nice reboot to clear things up to experiment. I enabled sleep in 10 min when the screen turns off. Wake on Network access for Home Sharing. Used it as I normally do during the day. The only app I left running was Mail. Gone to bed and next morning iMac would not wake up. Keyboard unresponsive, trackpad unresponsive. I tap the power button on the back to see if it would wake up. Nothing... I had to hold the power button down for 5 seconds and nothing. I waited about a min and press the power button again and it finally turned on. No error message or kernel panic message. Just booted up normally. Checked crashed log. I see this and 2 other crash log. I leave it back on again and it hasn't added a new crash log since 12/1.
11/27/2025
Triggered by Thread: 0
Exception Type: EXC_GUARD
Exception Subtype: GUARD_TYPE_USER
Exception Message: namespc 31 reason_code 0x0000000000000000
Exception Codes: 0x600000000000001f, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note: SIMULATED (this is NOT a crash)
Termination Reason: Namespace WEBKIT, Code 0,
Thread 0 Crashed:
12/1/2025
Triggered by Thread: 0, Dispatch Queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGKILL)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000001, 0x00000001ae6da46c
Termination Reason: Namespace PAC_EXCEPTION, Code 1,
Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
12/1/2025
Triggered by Thread: 0, Dispatch Queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGKILL)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000001, 0x00000001ae6da46c
Termination Reason: Namespace PAC_EXCEPTION, Code 1,
Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
11/27/2025
Triggered by Thread: 0
Exception Type: EXC_GUARD
Exception Subtype: GUARD_TYPE_USER
Exception Message: namespc 31 reason_code 0x0000000000000000
Exception Codes: 0x600000000000001f, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note: SIMULATED (this is NOT a crash)
Termination Reason: Namespace WEBKIT, Code 0,
Thread 0 Crashed:
12/1/2025
Triggered by Thread: 0, Dispatch Queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGKILL)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000001, 0x00000001ae6da46c
Termination Reason: Namespace PAC_EXCEPTION, Code 1,
Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
12/1/2025
Triggered by Thread: 0, Dispatch Queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGKILL)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000001, 0x00000001ae6da46c
Termination Reason: Namespace PAC_EXCEPTION, Code 1,
Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
THIS!!! Release an updated or new OS every 3 years ish then spend the rest of the time fixing the damn bugs!!
It really is embarassing garbage. Worst UI/UX since WordPress Block Themes. Those things are a disgusting mess 🙂
Right! We are all busy enough in this life without having to put up with this crap yearly. A true sign that they have more money than brains. Yearly OS updates are as stupid as time changing. And damn, that is about as stupid as stupid gets.
Yeah but ChatGPT is way better than whatever AI Apple is giving us lately. And at least they fix things.
Not even Microsoft is this stupid! Their build updates are significant without taking a blowtorch to the OS.
turbineseaplane
macrumors Penryn
Agree with Thomas here.
It's just staggeringly bad.
It's just staggeringly bad.
AlumaMac
macrumors 6502
No, no he's got it all wrong...that's just the new "no distractions" mode.
bogdanw
macrumors G3
"macOS update required" - "Your Mac is up to date" 🙂
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macos-update-required.2472346/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macos-update-required.2472346/
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your all wrong. Apple is forward thinking, me am glad their moving forward. I live in the real world!
Bazza1
macrumors 65816
Problem is, Apple is following along with the demands of more than a few consumers, who expect something new and shiny every year - if not sooner.
"Android devices have an OS app that can do that? Why can't my iPhone / iPad? Come on Tim, hurry it along"
"Folding screens? Where's my folding screen?"
"Why am I having to rely on third party software to do this task. Apple is lagging behind"
"Jeez, the GUI is boring. Why can't I personalize it? Like now?"
"AI is 'the thing' now. Put it on our devices. For what purpose? Who cares - everyone else has it."
Market pressures mean that Apple spends more time working to keep the fickle happy, rather than build quality.
The blood-curdling screams would be deafening if Apple only produced an OS when they needed to, with monthly updates for security or newly discovered issues.
Besides, they need the yearly -if not more often now - releases of product to justify all those people in the donut, and to satisfy shareholders, who most certainly don't want 'old' products keeping users happy.
auxbuss
macrumors 6502a
Every CEO knows that existing customers are more valuable than finding new ones. i.e. it's easier to retain than attract.
By all means do new and shiny, but keep it out of the OS. Stick to new emojicons or whatever they're called; build a new tiktok app or some such. Operating systems *should* be boring. Whatever changes you want to make, do it slowly, then listen to your customers.
For example, I use LaunchBar instead of Spotlight. Why? Because Spotlight can't even do the basics, like reliably find an app in /Applications or the expenses spreadsheet I open every day, whose name hasn't changed for twenty years. Fix that ffs. Or simply buy LaunchBar and call it Spotlight+. I didn't want to use, let alone buy, LaunchBar, I just want Spotlight to work. But it doesn't. It's crap. Rinse and repeat.
Mine doesn’t have that problem. I don’t normally use Music that way but after reading your post I let a song pause for 45 minutes and when I hit play it picked up right where I left it.