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Which macOS Operating System are you using as of July 2026?

Which macOS Operating System are you using as of July 2026

  • macOS 27 Golden Gate (Beta)

    Votes: 78 15.7%

  • macOS 26 Tahoe

    Votes: 218 44.0%

  • macOS 15 Sequoia

    Votes: 155 31.3%

  • macOS 14 Sonoma

    Votes: 12 2.4%

  • Other

    Votes: 33 6.7%
  • Total voters
    496
  • Poll closed .
Red29359 said:
macOS Operating System as of July 2026?
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I have a Macbook air 15 running Sequoia and I will never, NEVER, EVER upgrade it to Tahoe. My mac mini M2 Pro 32GB RAM is running Tahoe and it is now a box of COMPLETE CRAP. I updated this morning to 26.5.2 (25F84) HOPING that it would fix some issues, but instead I now have nothing but spinning beach balls in iMovie and Apple Music continues to be a CRASH FACTORY.

MEANWHILE, I just got off my MBA 15 to do the work I find now IMPOSSIBLE to do on my mini and it was smooooth like warm knife thru butter, as per usual. TAHOE IS GARBAGE and I'm in a mood to DUMP my AAPL because I seriously think they don't know what they're freaking doing anymore. NOTHING has been right since I heard the two stupid words "Liquid Glass."
 
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eyoungren said:
This is my same outlook. As long as I can do what I need/want to do, then I'm good.

Once, long ago (2001) I updated OS9 while I was on a deadline day for the weekly newspaper I worked for. That had the result of crippling the Mac I was using and it made it quite difficult to do my job in getting my part of the newspaper out on time.

After that incident, I do NOT immediately update/upgrade whenever there is a newly released OS or version of OS. At least on important and/or critical devices. And there is always a backup.
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You are smarter than I am. My curiosity generally gets the better of me and I usually end up running the public betas of the next OS. It hasn’t burned me yet, and I wait until I have the time to deal with the fallout, but I like to see what’s coming.

It has become pretty important for me to know what’s coming though, as I need to be ready to help people with it once it releases. So I suppose I have an excuse.
 
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Luftkopf said:
You are smarter than I am. My curiosity generally gets the better of me and I usually end up running the public betas of the next OS. It hasn’t burned me yet, and I wait until I have the time to deal with the fallout, but I like to see what’s coming.

It has become pretty important for me to know what’s coming though, as I need to be ready to help people with it once it releases. So I suppose I have an excuse.
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I’ve a general rule on this - I have work machines and hobby machines.

Never mess around with work machines. Play around with the hobby machines.

If it’s how you make money, don’t experiment with it, because you need it to behave exactly as you expect it to.
 
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eyoungren said:
Once, long ago (2001) I updated OS9 while I was on a deadline day for the weekly newspaper I worked for. That had the result of crippling the Mac I was using and it made it quite difficult to do my job in getting my part of the newspaper out on time.
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If you don't mind explaining, what happened? Was it something deep down, like a kernel panic, or "just" some apps that failed to launch?
 
boswald said:
Overall I like Tahoe. I like the windows. My one complaint - well, two - are performance issues (laggy animations, frozen applications, etc) and uneven corner radii with windows. Iron out those and I'll be 100% happy.
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They are fixing all of that in MacOS 27 Golden Gate. You will enjoy it.
 
inventor7777 said:
If you don't mind explaining, what happened? Was it something deep down, like a kernel panic, or "just" some apps that failed to launch?
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Well, it was OS9, which predates OS X and is not based on UNIX.

As I recall, I had apps quitting on me randomly as well as system bombs. Apps quitting on you randomly is bad enough if you're working on stuff and can't get it saved on time. It's even worse if the Mac itself keeps bombing on you.

Below is a very basic example of an OS9 bomb with the only possible action.

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I believe an update later on fixed things, but for that particular day I learned my lesson. Do not update/upgrade a critical Mac when on a deadline.
 
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Happy_John said:
I’ve a general rule on this - I have work machines and hobby machines.

Never mess around with work machines. Play around with the hobby machines.

If it’s how you make money, don’t experiment with it, because you need it to behave exactly as you expect it to.
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That is good advice in normal circumstances. However, since my backup computer is my old Windows gaming PC (that I hate using) that will run enough to get me out of trouble, and one of the things my clients rely on is my knowledge of Apple devices, OSs, and apps, I think it is worth the risk. I go in with my eyes open, having read up on what the state-of-play is like, and I don’t upgrade before deadlines.

It’s worked for me so far.
 
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26 Tahoe for me - I'm kinda new at using a MacBook so no 27 for me yet, until the real deal is distributed
 
curnalpanic said:
Golden gate on my MBP, Sequoia on old Intel iMac, and Monterey on even older MBP.
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Golden Gate on my M2 MBP, Tahoe on my M1 MBP, Sequoia on my 2019 iMac, Ventura on my OCLP 2016 MBP (soon to be Sonoma), Sequoia on my M2 Pro mini and OCLP Sequoia on my 2015 15” MBP…oh, and Catalina on my 2012 15” rMBP and High Sierra on my 2011 15” MBP. Might be time to retire some of these.
 
ignatius345 said:
I’ve liked everything I’ve heard about it. As soon as the Public Beta opens, I’ll create a virtual machine and start messing around with it a bit.
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I'm running the developer beta in a Parallels VM on my primary Mac. So far, so good, but I'm definitely looking forward to the first public beta.

I use Camtasia a lot, and over the years it has not liked beta versions of macOS, so it'll most likely be VMs for me until the final release (which then forces TechSmith to make Camtasia fully compatible).
 
MacInTO said:
Yes I can still authenticate it. It has to be be done offline because CS6 isn't supported by Adobe anymore.
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I’m impressed you were able to find a dmg. Spent hours searching everywhere and no luck so far. Thinking about purchasing a copy on eBay but the prices are a tough pill to swallow.
 
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This survey might work better if it allowed multiple boxes to be ticked - I have old intel machines, daily work machines and a beta test machine - all running different versions.
 
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I am using Sequoia 15.7.7 for now because Tahoe broke my wifi after upgrading and was way to buggy. I will be installing the Public beta on both my Mac Mini M2 and my MacBook Air M4.
 
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inventor7777 said:
LOL. I'm now showing my (lack of) age, I was not even alive when OS9 was released.


Thanks for explaining, that is interesting that it only had one recovery option but considering the time, it makes sense.
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Well…LOL, my youth was the 80s. A Commodore 64 in 1984 and a modem in 1985. By 1987 I was running a BBS. Macs didn't come in for me until the early 90s in graphic design school. 😉

Anyway, that's why OS X was so revolutionary. It sandboxed apps, so that if one crashed it didn't take down the entire system and force a restart.

PS. My son was born in 2003 and my daughter in 2008, so not too far away from your age.
 
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I’m sticking with Sequoia on my 2019 Intel MBP, despite it supporting Tahoe, because I’m not too big on everything about the design in Tahoe, most of it is fixed in Golden Gate, but my Intel Mac doesn’t support GG, so I’m going to hold off upgrading until I finally upgrade to a Silicon MacBook.
 
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