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macOS Tahoe still terrible with bugs even with 26.2

hieubui said:
Thisssss. It’s the single most annoying thing ever. And it’s not that hard to reproduce either. Do they even use what they created?
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Apple OS‘s are held together by gum and string.

To add more context. Since August Night Shift doesn’t turn off at 6.30 anymore, but at some random time after I woke up, even more than 6 hours later.
That’s a feature that was introduced literally 10 years ago and was never this broken, not even in the iOS 9.3 betas…
 
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Sometimes viewing a contact, the screen will not scroll with the Apple Trackpad. You have to get out of it, or click another contact, go back to the contact before and now you can scroll. LMAO!
 
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jchap said:
Outlook not opening? Sounds like Microsoft didn't do their homework and didn't get ready for the new OS with the betas. I feel your pain, but this one's not necessarily an Apple problem.


The rounded corners aren't a favorite with many people, although some people don't seem to mind, as evidenced by the threads of this forum. Please complain to Apple—they have a feedback form.

You can easily change the wallpaper, so no need to complain about that. I don't find the default wallpaper so great, either, but that's why users are given settings to change things. You have options.

As for the notch, that's not an OS problem—it's a hardware matter. It shouldn't affect your daily use of the machine. I'm not sure why you are complaining about ports, either.

When it comes to tech stuff, there are things you can change, things you can learn to live with, and things you can complain about to the manufacturer. Of course, you can gripe about it here, and you'll find company—there are plenty of people who are very vocal about the new OS. It won't help your situation, though. Good luck.
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Oh, I agree. And fully realise the distinction between software and hardware. It was more a gripe of the compounding issues that drive me up the wal.

There is no choice except to lump and live with the foibles Apple casts upon us. Apple giveth, and Apple taketh.
 
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Red29359 said:
I’ve been running into some pretty frustrating bugs lately on macOS 26 Tahoe, and I’m curious if others are seeing the same thing. I got to say in terms of bugs, this is the worst macOS version Apple has ever released, worse than Ventura was three years ago! I have had it with macOS Tahoe. The speed of the OS is fine but not the stability. The fact that users do not report this stuff often is the main reason bugs like this don't get fixed quickly. Here are the apps I have been experiencing problems with.

Freeform: When I type in a text box, the sentence or a entire paragraph would keep duplicating whatever I type whenever I add a period or a slash. It makes even simple notes turn into a mess of repeated sentences. iOS 26 Freeform does not do that.
Journal: I type a long paragraph and sometimes the text switches sides of my typing cursor. But also, the app would sometimes freeze and become unresponsive, and when it does, entire paragraphs disappear. It’s happened enough times now that I can’t trust it for longer entries.
Menu Bar: The Menu Bar animations become choppy just because a app is on the right side of the line where the trash app is on the dock. So if there is a app next to trash before the line, the menu bar animations are more choppy. It's these little things that Tahoe has that makes no sense.

Seriously, why can't be even basic apps be functional to the user. I just want to create new ideas but these apps glitch too much. I want to downgrade back to Sequoia or even Sonoma which is my favorite macOS for Apple Silicon, how do I do it? Why doesn't Apple allow the user to downgrade easily like Windows? Has anybody else been having bugs in this new macOS? macOS 26.2 has not fixed much bugs for me in my experience.
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You're running a beta, it's going to have bugs. If you are always running a beta release, this will never appear any better for you. I didn't even really have issues personally on any of the Betas, but all of my devices have been very stable and mostly bug free on public releases
 
Tahoe has been rock solid for me but I've never even opened Freeform or Journal. Adobe worked great from the start so that's what matters most to me
 
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bmark said:
I can't even understand what you are saying.
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you have never worked in qc or (t&e), the users form a population with a given distribution of systems for a symmetric distribution the mean (average) and median (the system at which equal number of users have more and less complicated systems) are equal. apple cares about the core user group more than the extreme complicated group
 
Abydos said:
you have never worked in qc or (t&e), the users form a population with a given distribution of systems for a symmetric distribution the mean (average) and median (the system at which equal number of users have more and less complicated systems) are equal. apple cares about the core user group more than the extreme complicated group
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If Apple cared about the core user group then MacOS/iOS 26 would have never been released! Also there is no QC team at Apple. They release Alpha software.
 
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I see a problem with the definition of core, it can be taken to be events between say 5 % and at most 95 % on the cdf (cumulative distribution function). I guess you can say an emotional versus statistical definition. remember we are all special
 
chama98 said:
I wonder if anyone at Apple looks at the forums on here?

Or do they not give a sh#t?
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There are people inside Apple who have to use this too.
I wonder if that is why rumors are the next OS release (27) will be more focused on performance & fixes, and less on new features? A la "Snow Leopard"?
(We'll see if that pans out.)
 
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chama98 said:
I wonder if anyone at Apple looks at the forums on here?

Or do they not give a sh#t?
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Probably. Then LTAO when they see how many times we click on the Settings for Appearance - Liquid Glass - Clear/Tinted from the provide anonymous statistics on that feature. Or when they read our post saying it doesn't do a dang thing going back and forth with that. 😛
 
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Andy_2341 said:
I hate to be that guy, but why do y’all have so many bugs and problems? I haven’t had any of these.
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You’re blaming the users for having bugs and problems? That’s ridiculous

Andy_2341 said:
Is it so bad to have a playful OS instead of it feeling blocky and boring? Blocky and boring is a good part of why I hate windows. What’s wrong with a bit of round and flowing?
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It's *too* round. It takes up too much space and looks bad IMO
 
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It came to my attentions I cannot set up email accounts connecting to my private email server (IMAP) any more, it gets stuck at the service selection window at the end... needless to say it works with all other macos versions I have in my place. Server logs look normal. This happens on a M1 MacBookAir. Needless to say this costs valuable work time and is a real show stopper for me to go to 26.2 at all. I'm wondering why these hasn't surfaced in beta testing. Is this process crap..?
 
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seek3r said:
Unless you have the IP set as static that wasnt tahoe changing your IP, that was your DHCP lease expiring and your router handing the machine a new address, exactly as it’s supposed to do

Either set your router to always hand your mini the same IP via MAC address mapping or set the IP manually on the mini

If you did have it set manually that’s a pretty bad bug, please report it
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What he said. After a reboot there is no guarantee that I will get the same IP address back UNLESS I have it set to manual, and the only things on manual are the server and the printer.
 
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Bigwaff said:
You need to DFU restore your Mac.

How to revive or restore Mac firmware - Apple Support

Rarely, a Mac with Apple silicon or the Apple T2 Security Chip might experience an issue that requires its firmware to be revived or restored by another Mac.
support.apple.com support.apple.com
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Not necessarily. When I got mad at Sequoia I reverted to Sonoma just with an installer on a USB stick. That was an M1 MacBook Air that came with Big Sur. You can reinstall whatever came on the machine or later without DFU mode. You have to boot into recovery mode and enable boot from external devices, and you will have a complete drive wipe when you are done so back up everything.

Oh, and Photos and Music libraries are not backward compatible, you will have to redo them completely unless you have a pre-Tahoe backup. Apple deliberately makes reverting painful.
 
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