Works great but...some weirdness with Lightroom Classic in full-frame mode on my larger screens. Basically the top of some of the image overlay text can get partially cut off. This is happening both on my 16" M4 MacBook Pro and on the 6K Pro Display XDR. It's fine if you maximize Lightroom in MacOS but when you choose "Enter Full Screen" from the Window menu in LR, it happens. So a minor annoyance. Definitely an Adobe issue that will get corrected in the next update.
That's pretty much the case with all OS on all platforms, computers, phones, tablets, etc. Wait for the masses of impatient users to flush out the bugs to be fixed.
I just checked for updates, and here it is "macOS Tahoe introduces a stunning new design and Apple Intelligence features, along with delightful ways to work across your devices and boost your productivity" - the stunning new design and delightful ways to boost my productivity sound scary! I guess it is best to wait for a while and update later this year.
EB-1 wrote:
That's pretty much the case with all OS on all platforms, computers, phones, tablets, etc. Wait for the masses of impatient users to flush out the bugs to be fixed.
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Release to the larger public — which orders of magnitude more users than are available ruing beta testing — often turns up some unexpected issue, and they frequently involve software and hardware that is used by a smaller number of people.
Unfortunately, but predictably, photography hardware and software have a slighlty greater tendency to see issues corp up with first releases. I’ve seen it with Adobe but also with Epson ringer hardware/software and with a few other tools over the ears.
If you rely on a machine for production or you just want to be conservative and let others do the. initial testing:
1. Wait at least a week after release to see what gotchas turn up.
2. Install on machines that aren’t central to your work.
3. Keep full backups — e.g. that well let you wipe a drive — or drives — and start fresh. You’ll be angry if the unexpected and unlikely happens and you have to start over… but you’ll be way better off than if you don’t have the backup.
4. Wait for hte “.1” updates that typically come in a month or so and which often knock down the first release surprises.
In general, MacOS updates tend to be very well tested. They’ve been used by public beta testers for months before they get officially released.
For my part, I’ll probably install the new versions on my iPad and a file server doing basic stuff first, then on my phone in a week or two, and only after a month on the computer that I use for photography purposes.
I’ve installed right away and found no issues. I had already used the beta on my laptop, iPad and second phone. At the same time, I haven’t gone out of my way to test anything. I just do my thing.
RoamingScott wrote:
A quick glance at https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/ shows some pretty bad bugs that should have never made it past simple QA testing.
Scott, I am not surprised. 2-6 months/.3 sounds about right!
I’m amused by the folks rooting for wanting to believe that the first release of the new Apple OS’s are full of Terrible Awful Horrible Disastrous Stupid Bugs The LIkes Of Which We Have Never Seen Before And Which Would Never Appear In Any Software Release Ever.
ruthenium wrote:
I just checked for updates, and here it is "macOS Tahoe introduces a stunning new design and Apple Intelligence features, along with delightful ways to work across your devices and boost your productivity" - the stunning new design and delightful ways to boost my productivity sound scary!
There have been many online complaints over the whole beta period about reduced usability of Tahoe, mainly backgrounds shining through making text illegible. The consensus seems to be to turn on Reduce Transparency in the Accessibility settings.
This won’t get rid of all the pointless icons which have been added to the menus.
All the beta testers in the world won’t make things good if Apple don’t read and act on bug reports. For example, it seems different developer groups within Apple have used different radii for the new very-rounded window corners, with some embarrassingly silly examples online that are said to have been reported months ago.
I don’t run it myself because this machine can’t... or is it that I haven’t bought a new machine because then I’d have to?
The Capture One release notes don’t list Tahoe as a supported version, but a Reddit thread says it works. Capture One does use Apple’s betas to test.
Whether you upgrade to Tahoe or stay on Sequoia you still get Safari 26. Within a couple of minutes of running it I encountered a bug: you can’t close tabs in compact mode; clicking the X does nothing. So I had to turn compact mode off – it simply doesn’t work (and isn’t even present on iPadOS Safari).
iPadOS 26 is a huge improvement over the old version. It looks better, fixes longstanding bugs in passcode entry, and has Preview. They finally fixed the windowing (it’s said) but I have that turned off. I did end up turning on Reduce Transparency.
tvOS 26 is very nice but I had to turn on Reduce Transparency to get crisp text in the interface.
I haven’t done the phone yet as I’ve only just finished moving data out of an old app that won’t be going forward onto 26.
The goofy, poorly-conceived UX stuff is all over iOS 26 too. Apple must have lost some talent in the last few years. Embarrassing stuff for the 3rd richest company on the planet.
melcat wrote:
There have been many online complaints over the whole beta period about reduced usability of Tahoe, mainly backgrounds shining through making text illegible. The consensus seems to be to turn on Reduce Transparency in the Accessibility settings.
This won’t get rid of all the pointless icons which have been added to the menus.
All the beta testers in the world won’t make things good if Apple don’t read and act on bug reports. For example, it seems different developer groups within Apple have used different radii for the new very-rounded window corners, with some embarrassingly silly examples online that are said to have been reported months ago.
I don’t run it myself because this machine can’t... or is it that I haven’t bought a new machine because then I’d have to?
The Capture One release notes don’t list Tahoe as a supported version, but a Reddit thread says it works. Capture One does use Apple’s betas to test.
Whether you upgrade to Tahoe or stay on Sequioa you still get Safari 26. Within a couple of minutes of running it I encountered a bug: you can’t close tabs in compact mode; clicking the X does nothing. So I had to turn compact mode off – it simply doesn’t work (and isn’t even present on iPadOS Safari).
iPadOS 26 is a huge improvement over the old version. It looks better, fixes longstanding bugs in passcode entry, and has Preview. They finally fixed the windowing (it’s said) but I have that turned off. I did end up turning on Reduce Transparency.
tvOS 26 is very nice but I had to turn on Reduce Transparency to get crisp text in the interface.
I haven’t done the phone yet as I’ve only just finished moving data out of an old app that won’t be going forward onto 26....Show more →
Working fine with Capture One, if anyone is interested. Haven't used LrC for a while now, but I can launch Photoshop from Capture one (no link issues), and everything seems fine in PS. Overall, I've had zero issues with MacOS Tahoe.
