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macOS Tahoe 26.4 Beta 2 - Bug fixes, changes, and more
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The problem appears to be related to filters (VPN), which are completely broken. I can't access my work databases from home anymore, so I need to spend more time at the office than I'd like to. Very annoying.
losthismarbles
macrumors regular
Am tempted to go very "new gen(TM)" with fiber, as speeds are already overkill for me, could subsist on 300 mbps easily; no exaggerating.
A 1ms ping on the other hand.. now that i might actually 'feel'. And that's doable if you know what you're doing.
Anyway, off topic all this, i know, so my apologies.
* Also, you had your chance. You could have said "no man, FPON, F for freedom". You missed that, not coming back 😛
losthismarbles
macrumors regular
A bit of advice, assuming that is you already know about ipv6, webrtc and everything else that could influence this, as it appears not everyone's affected by this:
If you have Mac(s), you aren't exactly starving, nor are you indifferent to this sort of tech.
So do yourself a favour and buy a good router.
One that allows you to enter your VPN (good ones allow for all 3 kinds of VPN services) directly into it. You could -potentially- even specify which terminal it will activate it for and which to leave as was. Extra bonus that if you've got yourself such a router, you can do some wonders with your resolution services.
It will save you a lot of trouble, more and more as time goes by (given the direction a number of factors have taken).
No matter what Apple tells you, a VPN cannot be 100% what you think it is when to employ it you rely on a two third parties; your VPN provider and Apple.
Adora
macrumors 68020
I also have Proton VPN in my router. I just wanted to test if the app is working again. I sometimes used it on top.
IPv6 is completely disabled in my router and set to link locally in macOS.
jwm
macrumors 6502
I tried the full installer, and that also stops at the same point.
jwm
macrumors 6502
That's a solid idea. I'll try that now. Mind you, I'm not sure I want to deal with all the other networking issues, lol.
juballharshaw
macrumors newbie
This did the trick for me as well. Seems Little Snitch's DNS filter & Private Relay are bumping, even with just the Content Filter running.
Adora
macrumors 68020
It got turned off when my canceled iCloud+ plan ended a while ago. Although I had all those network problems and still have some with not a single network filter or extension installed. 😕
Seems I can't even upload a screenshot here anymore. This should be one with my iCloud settings. If I drag it into the browser it completely disappears after saving and if I attach and insert it, it looks like that:
Isn't Private Relay also only affecting Safari and Mail? I am using FireDragon based on Firefox. With Little Snitch still installed it at least worked a little bit before it froze my Mac twice. When I tried Safari nothing worked at all without Private Relay being present.
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I appreciate it’s probably the wrong thread, but could you suggest some VPN router brands/models?
tia
I installed 26.4 beta 1 on top of beta 2, everything seems to be back to normal. I'll wait for beta 3.
losthismarbles
macrumors regular
Will PM.
On topic, for those of you using Al Dente, Battery Toolkit and the like?
Pretty safe to say the new charging cap's gonna make them all obsolete. Was having a look to see developer stance(s), came across this Googleing:
Thoughts about incoming 26.4 charge limit? · mhaeuser Battery-Toolkit · Discussion #175
In case you haven't heard about it: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/16/mac-charge-limit-macos-tahoe-26-4/ Was just wondering what your thoughts are and whether this will render (or not) Battery T...
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thgoepel
macrumors newbie
Seeing similar issues on the network performance, and disabled private relay and still had issues. Until I recalled that I had the Cloudstrike Falcon Filter running on my laptop and temporarily disabed it and the mac is back to full performance on the network. So this seems definitely that Apple has changed something in the VPN & Filter stack that is causing the issue in the networking stack. So all I guess we can do is wait for the next Beta and hope that this is resolved.
I think this remains to be seen. AlDente Free verion might actually get "obsolete", but Pro has functions that are do not seem to be present yet - like adjustable "hysteresis" ("sailing mode" limits in AlDente parlance) and function that prevents Apple Silicon machines to "bypass" the limit when put to sleep (by keeping system awake until limit is reached). If these would make the way into native charging stack then it is possible that AlDente would not be as useful as before. AlDente Pro has adjustable (battery) heat protection integrated as well and I do not know if this exists/would appear in native form or not.Will PM.
On topic, for those of you using Al Dente, Battery Toolkit and the like?
Pretty safe to say the new charging cap's gonna make them all obsolete. Was having a look to see developer stance(s), came across this Googleing:
Thoughts about incoming 26.4 charge limit? · mhaeuser Battery-Toolkit · Discussion #175
In case you haven't heard about it: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/16/mac-charge-limit-macos-tahoe-26-4/ Was just wondering what your thoughts are and whether this will render (or not) Battery T...
Anyway nothing is forcing to abandon it for now...
billgr0248
macrumors member
I have been getting "update failed" msgs since 26.3.? Restore in recovery mode from disk & I'm updated with the latest...I'm not real sure what's going on with my M3 MBP.
billgr0248
macrumors member
I've got a strange one...has something changed in how to boot into Safe Mode? As I remember the steps: shutdown, hold power button down, select boot disk while holding down the shift key, select "continue" and I come up in "normal" mode. Granted I am a Senior but I believe this was working about a month ago.
I forgot to say that I do NOT get the "Startup in Safe Mode" option...actually no options period.
Thoughts...?
billgr0248
I forgot to say that I do NOT get the "Startup in Safe Mode" option...actually no options period.
Thoughts...?
billgr0248
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Kal Madda
macrumors 601
Start up your Mac in safe mode
Starting up your Mac in safe mode may help you diagnose problems with your Mac.
losthismarbles
macrumors regular
You missed my point; or rather the dev's point.
Anyway, all moot for most people and that's for the best. A good step forward either way🙂
adrianlondon
macrumors 604
Same.
I run Ubuntu on an old (2013) MBP and have a Samba share set up as a TM destination.
It started failing (user/pass issue) on this beta. The destination can be successfully removed and re-added, and the sparse bundle accessed without issue, but TM fails as soon as it starts to back up. Bug.