No issues on my Mac Studio with M4 Max running Adobe LR Classic and Photoshop. I also updated my iPhone, iPad, watch and 2 Apple TVs without incident. I thought it was amazing that they rolled the updates simultaneously to their entire ecosystem.
I updated everything I have with the new OSs - Macs, iPads, iPhones. No issues at all other than I have to learn a few new tricks. I actually like the look. I got lost in the app menus a bit, but have it down now. I personally think it's OK. No effect on any of my photo editing apps, etc. Don't know what all the negative stuff is about.
I’m on an M1 MacBook Pro, haven’t had or just haven’t noticed the update prompt
I only use my Mac for working on my pictures with DXO and Affinity photo so not really interested in a new OS as long as it all works
I have always waited a while after any OS updates before updating as I would be stuck without my MacBook for for working on images
Any internet or messaging etc I use my iPad/phone
There is a known problem with a class of apps called “Electron” apps which cause a system-wide slowdown on Tahoe. These apps include a private copy of Electron which has a bug (explanation below) which causes this. It has now been fixed but the problem is that many apps haven’t yet incorporated the new version of Electron.
The bug manifests as 100% use of one GPU all the time. Those using a beefy Studio may not notice. Others on MacBooks may be seeing heavy battery use and hearing the fans.
Some popular apps which have been mentioned online as being still unfixed include 1Password, Signal, Figma, Slack, VS Code, Dropbox, Proton Mail and Proton Pass. If you depend on any of these and haven’t yet seen a release from them mentioning it’s been fixed, I recommend you not upgrade to Tahoe yet.
To be clear, this is absolutely not Apple’s fault. There is nothing wrong with Tahoe concerning this and nothing for Apple to fix.
Technical explanation: Chrome was using a private function within AppKit, the part of macOS which handles the GUI. In Tahoe, AppKit now draws the window shadow using different code which assumes that private function was not used. It remembers the shadow has been drawn, but because of what Chrome has done when it goes back to check that it is told the shadow wasn’t drawn. So AppKit draws the window shadow over and over again forever.
I only have Dropbox from the list you mention. A quick check of Activity Monitor shows no unusual monopoly of CPU time. I am presuming that measures GPU as well, which may not be the case.
Once Apple released the updated 26.0.1 version, I carefully and fully backed up my photography computer and installed it yesterday.
So for so good, with one small oddity. Due to what I Think is a new "feature" of the OS, the menus in Adobe Photoshop seem to not appear in the familiar way. I am set up so that they should automatically appear when I move the cursor to the top of the screen, but now a blank drop-down area appears and the menu tex only appears once I click this are.
It is possible that a restart, and Adobe update, or a settings change may alleviate this.
My bit concern was, as always, that there might be some incompatibility with my Epson printer — but I have printed and it seems fine.
Call me a late adopter or a pragmatist, but when Apple releases a new OS, that's when I upgrade to their OS-1.
With Tahoe now out, I just upgraded from Sonoma to Sequoia.
I actually don't mind having all the early adopters/trailblazers clearing that path of all the bugs before I jump in.
And, I still get that opening a new toy on Christmas feel with OS-1 and all its new features (for me), with the only positive difference being that the toy has no broken parts
I found out yesterday that there is a bug in Preview in Tahoe, not fixed in the 26.0.1. Basically, Preview is inert -- you cannot select or highlight text, etc. and need to use Acrobat instead. Apple have not publicly acknowledged the problem.
Not very relevant to photographers but a reminder that some serious bugs do slip right through the release process.
rob_ww wrote:
I found out yesterday that there is a bug in Preview in Tahoe, not fixed in the 26.0.1. Basically, Preview is inert -- you cannot select or highlight text, etc. and need to use Acrobat instead. Apple have not publicly acknowledged the problem.
Not very relevant to photographers but a reminder that some serious bugs do slip right through the release process.
Must be an intermittent bug, as I was able to select and copy text from a jpg using Preview yesterday.
There are some other little oddball interface issues on the Mac OS version and on iOS in my experience using iPhone, iPand, Apple Watch, and a Mac.
Above I mentioned an odd bug in Photoshop where the application menu doesn’t appear when I move the cursor to the top of the screen. Instead a narrow, wide blank area drops down where the menu would be expected. Clicking on it reveals teh menu, but it is awkward. The problem seems intermittent — while using the menus to save a series of files (all of the same type) it appears correct for some of them and incorrect for others.
I think there may also be a new behavior when displaying finisher windows sorted by “last modified” date — it shows up in the finder and in the Open File dialogs. IIRC, the old behavior was that all files in a group (by date) were sub-sorted alphabetically. This made it easy to find a particular file on that date. What I’m seeing now appears to be that the subfiles within the date group are sub-sorted by time… which means that a file name starring with A may bppear before a file name starting with Z. There is a kind of logic to that, I suppose, but it is making my life a little bit more complicated.
I’ve also seen a few small interface oddities on my Apple Watch. For example, when a timer expires and shows up on the main screen, initially the x and repeat buttons at teh bottom are blank for a second or so.
None of these are major issues or keep me from doing my work, but they should be fixed.
Interesting, Dan. It seems to vary by PDF. I have found some can select text and copy, but not highlight, others are inert. I tried a few docs in JPEG format but couldn't select and copy text from them as you describe.
When I investigated after first seeing the problem, there were widespread reports about similar issues, so just assumed everyone would have it.
As a long-time (20+ years) Mac user, I am philosophical that the problem will never be acknowledged and will disappear in the next release or 2.
rob_ww wrote:
I found out yesterday that there is a bug in Preview in Tahoe, not fixed in the 26.0.1. Basically, Preview is inert -- you cannot select or highlight text, etc. and need to use Acrobat instead. Apple have not publicly acknowledged the problem.
Not very relevant to photographers but a reminder that some serious bugs do slip right through the release process.
Did you check the file settings ? Some .pdfs can be locked down by the author to prevent copying etc.
I upgraded my new Mac Studio with M4 Max and what I found is that when I use INSTAGRAM website all photos look really blurry. I am using my old Full HD Monitor - there was not issue before upgrade
PIOK wrote:
I upgraded my new Mac Studio with M4 Max and what I found is that when I use INSTAGRAM website all photos look really blurry. I am using my old Full HD Monitor - there was not issue before upgrade
Something is off with Instagram, I think it has been for a while. No matter what I upload it looks like garbage. Images on my website look find so I know its not a Safari/OS problem.
LiveShots wrote:
Something is off with Instagram, I think it has been for a while. No matter what I upload it looks like garbage. Images on my website look find so I know its not a Safari/OS problem.
It must be related to new macOS. They look very sharp on Windows laptop, and they do on older iMac. It just happened after I upgraded OS yesterday...And I checked other photographers IG accounts, all I see is blurry ( not sharp ) images...
I am using my old Full HD Monitor - there was not issue before upgrade