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macOS Tahoe still terrible with bugs even with 26.2

Now Apple Music just quit unexpectedly. What a POS.

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Translated Report (Full Report Below)
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Process: Music [59801]
Path: /System/Applications/Music.app/Contents/MacOS/Music
Identifier: com.apple.Music
Version: 1.6.2 (1.6.2)
Build Info: MusicDesktop-1006002057001~5
Code Type: ARM-64 (Native)
Role: Foreground
Parent Process: launchd [1]
Coalition: com.apple.Music [10125]
User ID: 501

Date/Time: 2026-01-21 09:20:55.7099 -0700
Launch Time: 2026-01-21 08:49:41.4126 -0700
Hardware Model: Mac15,5
OS Version: macOS 26.2 (25C56)
Release Type: User

Crash Reporter Key: 59084A63-B506-1E58-D56F-B59E674E3935
Incident Identifier: DC1F6E97-36ED-4240-A8C6-D6FC139B1C1E

Time Awake Since Boot: 860000 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Triggered by Thread: 0 Music main, Dispatch Queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000

Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 6, Abort trap: 6
Terminating Process: Music [59801]


Application Specific Information:
abort() called
 
mw.lobo said:
worst Apple OS in its history. Tim Cook should be ashamed.
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yeah... I upgraded yesterday. I thought I was back to a very early version of MacOS only not as polished. The iPad upgraded too. Both seem a bit glitchy on input fields at times, and slower than before. Particularly my 2nd gen iPad pro. Can't say I've experienced any major issues, but the look is... not great.
 
I'd normally upgrade my macOS and iOS to the latest major version after the .1 or .2 release, thinking this was when most initial bugs had been worked through. That's basically been my mantra for decades including Windows versions for home and business. Disrupting my personal, work or business devices just isn't fun!

I'm so pleased I've stayed on 15.7.3 (and iOS 18, despite Apple's ever more desperate attempts to force 'upgrade'). I don't want to have an unstable, inconsistent and more resource hungry OS. I'll try and keep where I am as long as I can.

Sadly, as I'm on a 2019 Intel Macbook Pro it's likely that any 'Tahoe Snow Leopard' release later this year (rumoured) won't support my device. The path for me will probably be a new Macbook Pro with M5/M6 and what I hope will be a fixed and reliable OS, assuming Apple actually realise that poor quality yearly releases need to be ended.
 
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meggie_v said:
  • For me, the 26.2 update brought with it annoying rendering bugs all over the place. With a dark wallpaper and no background on the menu bar, a single-pixel-wide white line creeps across the top of the screen as you run through menu options;
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This just happens to me regardless of going through options or not. Just happens all the time, then it clears then it happens on specific areas in the menu bar, but always that single pixel white line....
 
I ended up having quirky behavior with FaceTime, particularly on my external LG 4K 24” monitor. Never had it happen before. On both displays (internal and LG), the FaceTime window would move to whichever desktop I went to instead of staying on the one I had set it to. Then, when on the external, it would copy itselfover and over again, frame by frame if I tried to reposition the window. Additionally, I was having stupid temps, awful battery, and just got tired of the lack of polish/general bugs. Web apps weren’t working right either. Tahoe was somewhat bearable. But it’s much nicer and feels much better using my MBA M4 on Sequoia 15.7.3 again. Better temps, basically no bugs, faster performance, and its all more comfortable to use. Plus, I can focus on content instead of feeling like a YouTuber constantly reviewing the OS. Much happier. Only downside is the loss of customization in control center and backgrounds in messages. But I’ll take the tradeoff for stability and simplicity.
 
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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Tahoe is a mess, at least on my 2019 (supported) 27" iMac. Whatever it's trying to do under the hood, fans regularly flare up and Activity Monitor reports 40+% on continuity and other related processes. Even with Spotlight and HandOff now disabled, the Mac will randomly come back to life as if it's trying to effect a vertical takeoff and leave the building. (and this is not even to go into the dubious aesthetics of liquid glass and rounded corners etc etc, which, in the end, are more like the eye candy that distracts from the lack of commitment to reliability.) Yet another half-baked OS pushed out by Apple before it's ready for wide-scale consumption. I should have know better.
 
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Patbee said:
Tahoe is a mess, at least on my 2019 (supported) 27" iMac
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It looks like from Apple's site, that your 2019 iMAc falls outside of the compatibility


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On MacBook Pro M2 Max.

When external monitors connected (via USB hubs) causing cursor jitter (and ending up on displays where it wasn't a moment ago), windows popping into focus without action, and text insertion bizzarity.

Admittedly, they're Apple Cinema displays connected via MiniDP; but they were working fine just before upgrade.

And can I just say that I kinda hate Glass? I don't need rounded corners on my windows; I don't need a transparent menu bar where I can't read the menu text. Geez - UX engineers run amok.

I'm going to downgrade - though this means a wipe / re-install of the OS. I'll figure it out - and wait for 26.6.
 
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Just updated to macOS Tahoe 26.3 and nothing in terms of bugs was fixed. Notes, Journal and Freeform all still glitch. The weird part is that using macOS Tahoe on UTM, there are no bugs in those apps. So is it a iCloud syncing problem or should I do a fresh install? Is reinstalling the OS, the same as doing a fresh install?
 
Red29359 said:
Is reinstalling the OS, the same as doing a fresh install?
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"Fresh" install would be using a new user account. Reinstall would be using the same user account, which typically equates to no change. This the world of Signed System Volume.
 
Red29359 said:
Just updated to macOS Tahoe 26.3 and nothing in terms of bugs was fixed. Notes, Journal and Freeform all still glitch. The weird part is that using macOS Tahoe on UTM, there are no bugs in those apps. So is it a iCloud syncing problem or should I do a fresh install? Is reinstalling the OS, the same as doing a fresh install?
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I was having a ton of issues with iCloud syncing, across a bunch of apps.. So much so, and more apps seemed to have an issue as time went on, and eventually nothing was really working at all (as far as iCloud sync goes). The usually "fix" of logging out of iCloud would be kind of a disaster for me as I have well over 1½ TBs worth of data. Having that clear and then having to redownload again would not be good. Too much for such a large issue.. So I did an Erase all contents and settings from the MBP's settings, and then when that was done, I reinstalled macOS entirely by connecting to my other Mac mini and putting it in DFU Mode. I then setup my Mac as a New Mac, not transferring anything from Time Machine or another Computer.. Then reinstalled ALL of the same apps I had before.. Copied everything over manually from my most recent Time Machine backup.. What, on paper, sounds like a much bigger PITA was actually not that bad? I'm using much less space on my main drive now, everything syncs up great, and it's surprising running much better/faster. So much so that now my only real gripe with this machine is the dang Touch Bar that just decides to stop working when returning from sleep..
 
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Problems continuing to present. Lately, the camera in my apple monitor is not recognised. Must restart the computer, and then good for week, then not.

Column bars in finder windows are incredibly finicky. Difficult to "catch" for adjusting width.

Finder windows now jump to the far left of the screen almost every time I click between columns. The only solution to date is to maximise the window.

Could continue, but it seems death by 1,000 paper cuts, or in this case a 1,000 lines of code.
 
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Its a pity. I just updated from Mac os 14 to 15, its slower in everything. Even video exports is slower on a m1 16”. Lets hope the rumors about a performance and bug fix release for this years wwdc.
 
Just updated my M4 Mac mini to Sequoia v18.7.4. I haven’t seen any obvious changes, still no incentive to go beyond Sequoia.
 
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