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WWDC 2025: What to Expect From macOS 26 Tahoe
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.When new OSes come out they always look a little foreign to me before I never use them in light mode. The vision pro white text on light background is yikes.
Also, I think macOS should drop the location names. It’s already relegated to nothing more than a desktop background and answers to trivia questions anyway, so just leave them behind.
Also, I think macOS should drop the location names. It’s already relegated to nothing more than a desktop background and answers to trivia questions anyway, so just leave them behind.
Or Linux. Last year's Linux Mint is supported until 2029. It runs fine on a 2012 Mac Mini. The limitation is if you need some specific commercial application not available on Linux.
I mean, Samsung did this same thing with their phones back in 2020 and haven't looked back since
In the end, it's just a number and even as someone who is techy, I couldn't care less that they're skipping over 19 and going to 26
Samsung also did it from 10 to 20 and only on a single hardware line, which is a lot easier of a transition than several assorted numbers for OSes all sent straight to “26”
I'd hazard a guess that 90% of my friends and family with iPhones/iPads have never once updated iOS/iPadOS after purchase
It'd be a missed opportunity if they don't unify all the OS releases that year under a single California codename—iPhoneOS Tahoe, macOS Tahoe, iPadOS Tahoe, etc. The common year numbering makes sense, but at some point the branding cohesion would be even more powerful than just matching numbers.
After that they can have a "Snow Leopard/Mountain Lion" release and call it Mac OS Breakfast Taco
Trouble is macs are the only current models on sale, whereas they'll keep selling iPhones a year or 2 old along with the new ones, so not quite the same. Don't think someone in 2026 wants to think they're buying a 2024 iPhone. But buying an iPhone 16 in 2026 doesn't sound as bad.
I think you just supported their plan to drive upgrades for the latest models.
So it's basically tarting it up visually a bit and suggesting they might finally add some worthwhile Apple Intelligence features at some point before WWDC 2026? 🤔
I'm not gonna complain, it's free after all, but it all depends on getting any decent Siri/AI working, as per the last number of years.
I'm not gonna complain, it's free after all, but it all depends on getting any decent Siri/AI working, as per the last number of years.
Stay in one lane, fix the bugs quicker and leave it be for a few years once it works. This constant change, with new bugs that will take months to fix if they are ever fixed, is tiring.
They do not give a single f*ck. It's all about zoomer-esque features like Genmojis, AI garbage, iToy "integration".
Sounds like a lightweight release in general, which hopefully means we can expect them to focus a lot more on under the hood fixes and improvements to performance. Honestly I’d take anything that even remotely resembles a Snow Leopard effort, even if they split work between that and updating the UI, I will take anything that brings more focus to fixing bugs, and hope that those improvements trickle down to sister platforms.
Why? What? What good does that do? It's an OPTIONAL install.
Meh, I have always liked transparency in a desktop UI. Maybe I'm just a simpleton, but Win7/Vista aero glass was cool, heck even all the way back in the day messing around with Enlightenment on Linux. It's an aesthetic, but it's one that I like... as opposed to the page flipping crap.
"aero glass was cool" but Imo https://www.glasswire.com/ is pie of Sh.. lol anyway https://www.sphinx-soft.com/ is even bigger.
That wouldn’t surprise me at all. The amount of separation between people like us, who visit forums/websites like these, and the average user is pretty vast.
You could call the new iOS or Mac OS anything you wanted and a majority wouldn’t notice either way. Heck, you could start recycling OS names from the past like Tiger or Leopard and I’d still be shocked if the average person even took notice then.