macOS Tahoe 26.0 Beta 1 - Bug fixes, changes, and more

[basdeninard]

It gets worse - a roundRect running into a rect.

Here is a deactivated Finder window with Show Status Bar enabled.

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Is that some sort of ugly or what?

If it were April Fools...

 

[basdeninard]

It could be a bug. Try report it.

Lol, and watch them ignore your bug report like only Apple does. 🙄

 

[nortonandreev]

Battery life is so bad haha

 

[Aquamite]

Battery life is so bad haha

It's a beta.

 

[nortonandreev]

It's a beta.

Ofc. Just saying. Both things can be true at the same time.

 

[mxrider88]

Is it because I am using it in a UTM virtual machine and it runs at a weird resolution or did they increase the size of the UI elements and icons by a tiny bit? It looks like a toy.

 

[Aquamite]

The Touch Bar even gets a minor upgrade to the brightness and volume sliders to use the glass oval that is used by the system sliders. That's the only Touch Bar thing I see that's been updated. It is rather buggy right now

Can you post a photo of it?

 

[Cameront9]

Looks like FireWire drivers have been removed from DP1, intentionally or accidentally.

I hope this will be put back because I still have some older FireWire drives, and it would also break syncing capabilities with original iPods, which still worked!

 

[N9YTY]

All in all this is running really well. One quirk I haven't found a reference to, though, is that my Mail application is no longer automatically applying rules. If I select messages and do a manual "Apply Rules" it works fine, but they aren't filtered when they are initially downloaded.

 

[mblm85]

I am always still confused when I see this in my Dock... The first two days I always wondered what it might be, before closing it.

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Its the new Find My app for tracking recovering pets that have escaped their cone of shame.

 

[einsteinbqat]

I hope this will be put back because I still have some older FireWire drives, and it would also break syncing capabilities with original iPods, which still worked!

I submitted a report/feedback. I don’t know where that will go.

 

[VSMacOne]

Running very smoothly on my iMac. I’m actually enjoying the visual changes but wish they would bring back the compact view in Safari.

 

[MacGizmo]

Running very smoothly on my iMac. I’m actually enjoying the visual changes but wish they would bring back the compact view in Safari.

I didn't like Compact view in Safari at first, but I kept it on and got used to it fairly quickly. Now that I see they removed it from the beta, I turned the normal view back on (in Sequoia) and find it highly annoying that so much space is taken up for a single tab window.

Hopefully, they add the option back in on the shipping version.

 

[RandomDSdevel]

Appears that app icons that did not adhere to the square shape (like Spotify or Wireguard which always had round icons) are now automatically wrapped in a square icon:
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• Irregular shaped icons get a background shape. link

• Icons that didn't adhere to the square shape are now automatically wrapped in a square icon. link

…OK, now that's:

• Sad.
• Kind of rude.

(Cries in elegy and eulogy for pre-Big Sur Mac app icons.)

 

[Diskutant]

I hope this will be put back because I still have some older FireWire drives, and it would also break syncing capabilities with original iPods, which still worked!

Which Mac that supports macOS 26 has a FireWire port? The MacPro might be the only one when one adds a PCI card I think? How do you connect those drives to your MacBook Air 2019?

 

[RandomDSdevel]

I don't really like the floating, detached tabs in Safari's tab bar in this new major macOS release. (That isn't system-wide across all apps, is it? Or is it just in Safari?) They shouldn't have brought that over from visionOS.

 

[fisherking]

I don't really like the floating, detached tabs in Safari's tab bar in this new major macOS release. (That isn't system-wide across all apps, is it? Or is it just in Safari?) They shouldn't have brought that over from visionOS.

not seeing that, but if it's a bug... this is beta 1, and am sure it will be resolved...

 

[tenjikuronin]

…OK, now that's:

• Sad.
• Kind of rude.

(Cries in elegy and eulogy for pre-Big Sur Mac app icons.)

It's only bad if the human eye uses different shapes to help differentiate icons.

Oh wait.

 

[tkermit]

It's only bad if the human eye uses different shapes to help differentiate icons.

Thankfully they've added an option to make all icons the same color at least. 😏

 

[DaveFromCampbelltown]

Yeah...

Mostly the same problem with my M4 Mac mini here... I do manage to install the beta on a usb drive (I tried 2 different ones, a usb 3.0 and usb 3.2 drives respectively), run the OOBE up to account creation ( I little slow, but at the same time, an expected behaviour since it's working from a usb drive), then after a while, it becomes a black screen with only the cursor, hanging there.

Rebooting from the boot picker on to the internal drive does not work and still boots on to the external drive that has the beta on (hanging again with only the cursor on a black screen). Removing the external drive before powering on my Mac makes my Mac boot loop and I can't even access the boot picker! (I get no screen and it is shutting down after a while pressing the power button in hope of getting the boot picker)

The only way to save it is to revive the Mac mini from another computer...

I wonder what is the root cause of that problem? Anyone got the same problem?

Ok, this is now an officially known and acknowledged issue. From the latest Apple Feedback Release notes --

General​

Known Issues​

• Finder and Apple Configurator are unable to successfully restore some Macs in DFU mode. (153476458)
  Workaround: Restore the host to a version of macOS that is currently available.

 

[einsteinbqat]

Which Mac that supports macOS 26 has a FireWire port? The MacPro might be the only one when one adds a PCI card I think? How do you connect those drives to your MacBook Air 2019?

Back then, when Thunderbolt started arriving and was using mini-DP plug. Apple was selling a bidirectional FW800 to Thunderbolt ½. Then when Thunderbolt came around, and the plug switched to USB-C, Apple started selling bidirectional Thunderbolt 2 to Thunderbolt 3.

So those who still have a working FW800 drive, it would go like this FW800 drive <—> FW to TB2 <—> TB2 to TB3 <—> modern Mac with TB3/4/5 ports

 

[michaelward82]

corespeechd randomly consuming 100% CPU and causing my M1 MacBook Air to heat up. Force quitting kills it for a bit before it comes back again after a while.

Seeing the same.

 

[Cicada101]

Issues for me are:-

1. Battery not as good (expected this)
2. Safari some times misses clicks by the mouse/trackpad so you need to click again
3. Maps crashes from time to time
4. Dropping frames so not always 120hz (Scrolling mainly)
5. Youtube, in Safari always restarts the video after you've clicked it and the video hits the 2 second mark.

Most of those issues are within Safari based so it may be just linked to that. Other than that its all good 😂

M4 Pro, Macbook Pro by the way.

 

[Kenny99]

All in all this is running really well. One quirk I haven't found a reference to, though, is that my Mail application is no longer automatically applying rules. If I select messages and do a manual "Apply Rules" it works fine, but they aren't filtered when they are initially downloaded.

Me too, its driving me crazy receiving all the junk emails that I have “RULES” for.

 

[Dandu]

Which Mac that supports macOS 26 has a FireWire port? The MacPro might be the only one when one adds a PCI card I think? How do you connect those drives to your MacBook Air 2019?

All Mac with Thunderbolt. You can use a Thunderbolt 3 to 2 adapter, then the Thunderbolt to FireWire 800. And with Sequoia, it's possible to sync the first iPod like that