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macOS Tahoe 26.0 Beta 7 - Bug fixes, changes, and more

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Adora said:
I always used the Application folder too and never Launchpad. You have all apps in there at once and grid view looks very similar to Launchpad. You also can zoom if you want bigger or smaller icons. With cmd + and cmd -.
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Yeah, I have seen this replacement floated. If it works for you, awesome. But the issue for me, why this isn't a LaunchPad replacement, is because it still forces the alphabetical view. You can't rearrange the icons as you please, or arrange them into subfolders. (Well you can actually move the apps into subfolders and that will be reflected, but LaunchPad allowed you to do it without actually changing where the apps live on disk. I use Homebrew's cask functionality to manage app updates, so having the apps live in different folders would add further complication...)
 
Adora said:
Is anyone still missing this? The outrage was similar when it had been removed. I never used it too. Because I started using Macs shortly before Mavericks had been released and it already seemed outdated to me.

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Yeah, me, I'm the one missing this every day because the overlay was just so much more flexible than our current options.

Not to mention you could put website sections into Dashboard, to stay up to date with whatever you wanted, instead of having to install an app for everything.


Losing Exposé to its inferior version Launchpad has been much more painful though.
 
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im getting an invalid certificate when trying to print with my Airport printer now. Ive logged into the printer UI and generated a new certificate, but the issue still won't let me print from my Mac mini, but will from my iPhone. where do I update the certificate settings?
 
Selena Agna said:
Yeah, me, I'm the one missing this every day because the overlay was just so much more flexible than our current options.

Not to mention you could put website sections into Dashboard, to stay up to date with whatever you wanted, instead of having to install an app for everything.


Losing Exposé to its inferior version Launchpad has been much more painful though.
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I kinda liked Dashboard too. But when I first really recognized it there some of those mini apps/widgets were not working anymore I think. It's too long ago. I can't even remember if I already tried it in Mavericks or later. But something was wrong with it...

That app I posted was recommended as a Dashboard replacement, but it's just a pack of some nice widgets that has to be added like other widgets too. The colors can be changed. It's free, you can try if it's running on 26.

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I have been having this behavior with widget that disappearing, it usually happens when swapping to another desktop from a filled/full application window.
This morning, after going to sleep things are resolved on they own, probably because the screen was locked
This is from beta 4 I think

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Carlson-online said:
Beta 7 has introduced audio crackling (reported via feedback assistant). M4 Max 14" MBP

Can replicate it every time by opening spotlight via command+space
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I can relate to this one, yesterday night I did hear a crackling sound, thought it was my Fans, but when I used Macs Fan Control app to spin up the fans, the crackling was still there, but I could hear the fans spinning full speed, then I reverted back to automatic, and I think the noise stop a few second, or not because I thought it was a beta bug, but since the morning nothing so far
 
Pre-macOS 16, you could right click on the Address Bar anywhere and select "Move to Tab Group", but I'm now only seeing this on iOS 26 and iPadOS 26. Not seeing how to move a Safari Tab to another Tab Group now..
 
PotentPeas said:
Yeah, I have seen this replacement floated. If it works for you, awesome. But the issue for me, why this isn't a LaunchPad replacement, is because it still forces the alphabetical view. You can't rearrange the icons as you please, or arrange them into subfolders. (Well you can actually move the apps into subfolders and that will be reflected, but LaunchPad allowed you to do it without actually changing where the apps live on disk. I use Homebrew's cask functionality to manage app updates, so having the apps live in different folders would add further complication...)
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Speaking of Homebrew and cask, have you tried a GUI manager like Cork? I've had a great experience with it: https://github.com/buresdv/Cork

This doesn't fix Launchpad or inherently make organizing easier, but it's a visual way to track and follow on packages.
 
Sniper08 said:
Speaking of Homebrew and cask, have you tried a GUI manager like Cork? I've had a great experience with it: https://github.com/buresdv/Cork

This doesn't fix Launchpad or inherently make organizing easier, but it's a visual way to track and follow on packages.
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I do get that having a GUI would be helpful for many people. But I'm a terminal & automation junkie, so it's actually less interesting to me. I have a script that I run every morning which checks for updates for apps across several systems (Windows, Mac, & Linux) and homebrew casks fills the Mac part of that pretty nicely.

I'm actually frequently looking for "Terminal" ways to automate things that people have written nice GUI tools for (and occasionally writing my own when someone else hasn't done it).
 
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I miss Dashboard...but I also accept that it's gone.

Exposé isn't gone though? You can still do the exact same thing with hot corners.
 
Spotlight won’t pull up the music app, only a “shortcut” to it, and when I open it, it straight up knocks my internet off. I have to restart my Mac
 
I only installed Tahoe starting with Beta 7 so I don't know how long this has been here, but I noticed this with Safari's sidebar; when windowed, if you go to Bookmarks or Reading List you get a header with a back button on top. If Safari is fullscreened, that header, and more importantly the back button to get back to the tab group view, gets covered up by a blank part of the toolbar stretching the whole width. The only way back is to switch out of fullscreen; there isn't even an option to go back to the tab sidebar view from the View menu, even though there are options for everything else.

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Are bookmarks used so infrequently from the sidebar by the Safari developers that they missed this literal corner case? Why does the sidebar go under the toolbar at all? it looks like it's the same "height" as the buttons which also appear to stick up from the toolbar when windowed, so why does maximizing it put the sidebar behind the toolbar?

At least the close/min/max buttons come back if you mouse over the menu bar, but hiding them at all is just left over from the default hiding of title bars in full screen. If there's no titlebar to hide, I don't' see why they wouldn't just keep the traffic light visible.

Edit: It gets even worse. If you toggle the option "Always Show Toolbar in Fulllscreen" in the View menu, you end up with this:

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It just takes the overlaid top of the sidebar with it as it autohides.
 
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dumiku said:
I have been having this behavior with widget that disappearing, it usually happens when swapping to another desktop from a filled/full application window.
This morning, after going to sleep things are resolved on they own, probably because the screen was locked
This is from beta 4 I think

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I was seeing this behavior in macOS 15 so I keep hoping it gets fixed by 26…
 
Personally I am not really sure about the root cause, it just happen randomly.
I installed Beta 8 yesterday, tried to reproduce the steps, nothing yet.
 
I also sometimes have Kernel panic when dealing with Privacy settings in System Settings.
The mac will freeze when entering exposé, then when I close it, open it again it get out of exposé, but trying click on any app automatically freeze it again, I have to force shut it down. Happen more than 4 times since the betas
 
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