Upgrade to Tahoe?

[MallardDuck]

Hi, after all the fuss around Tahoe and all those negative comments, I'm wondering whether to update to Tahoe or not. I have MacBook Air M2 and in Sequoia. It's stable for me and working great.

So my question is how stable is Tahoe for you? what about battery life?

all about the glass - love it, upgrade. hate it, upgrade and turn it off.

 

[grammatica]

Liquid Glass doesn't make sense on Mac. Also, the app icon loading issue persists in Tahoe.

 

[MarineBand5524]

Liquid Glass doesn't make sense on Mac. Also, the app icon loading issue persists in Tahoe.

what App icon loading issue?

 

[grammatica]

what App icon loading issue?

The icons in the Settings app load one by one. Likewise, the new apps drawer does the same. It's like the apps are not kept in memory or something. Check Reddit. There are various complaints.

 

[MarineBand5524]

App drawer?

Have you tried any of these to see if they help you?

# Restart the System Settings app (Sonoma/Ventura/Sequoia+)
killall SystemSettings

# Or for older macOS (System Preferences)
killall SystemPreferences

# Restart the core system configuration daemon (cfprefsd) – this reloads preferences/plists
killall -9 cfprefsd

# If Dock icons or Finder settings are acting up
killall Dock
killall Finder

 

[tk111]

Hi, after all the fuss around Tahoe and all those negative comments, I'm wondering whether to update to Tahoe or not. I have MacBook Air M2 and in Sequoia. It's stable for me and working great.

So my question is how stable is Tahoe for you? what about battery life?

I had Tahoe installed on my MBP 14 M2 Max, and it was super glitchy, so I rolled back to Sequoia. I recently picked up a MBP 14 M5 with Tahoe pre-installed. After a fresh install, it was glitchy for the first few days, but it's better now. Apps definitely open faster on the M5 than on the M2 Max, though the Tahoe UI still feels sluggish compared to Sequoia. Battery life is okay in 26.1. I wouldn't upgrade M2 Air just yet.

 

[MarineBand5524]

I had Tahoe installed on my MBP 14 M2 Max, and it was super glitchy, so I rolled back to Sequoia. I recently picked up a MBP 14 M5 with Tahoe pre-installed. After a fresh install, it was glitchy for the first few days, but it's better now. Apps definitely open faster on the M5 than on the M2 Max, though the Tahoe UI still feels sluggish compared to Sequoia. Battery life is okay in 26.1. I wouldn't upgrade M2 Air just yet.

crazy as my M1 Max has absolutely zero issues since Beta 1.

 

[tk111]

crazy as my M1 Max has absolutely zero issues since Beta 1.

Lucky you! Mine was rough: Finder icons took half a sec to load, Activity Monitor crawled, and web scrolling was glitchy. That was Tahoe 26.0 on M2 Max

 

[ParsaS]

I had Tahoe installed on my MBP 14 M2 Max, and it was super glitchy, so I rolled back to Sequoia. I recently picked up a MBP 14 M5 with Tahoe pre-installed. After a fresh install, it was glitchy for the first few days, but it's better now. Apps definitely open faster on the M5 than on the M2 Max, though the Tahoe UI still feels sluggish compared to Sequoia. Battery life is okay in 26.1. I wouldn't upgrade M2 Air just yet.

Thanks. You answered very well, I'm convinced to stay at sequoia.

 

[ParsaS]

I have m2 mba. Tahoe ravaged battery life and performance of my machine, though it may have improved with recent updates. I recommend just sticking with sequoia to be safe.

Maybe it's indexing.

 

[Bungaree.Chubbins]

I've been running Tahoe since the public betas were released, and am now off the beta track and running 26.1. If time were rewound I would still install Tahoe. You'd have to pay me a lot of money to make me go back. I had less trouble going from Sequoia to Tahoe than I did going from Sonoma to Sequoia, and there was barely any issue at all going to Sequoia.