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 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.
Sep 19, 2025 at 07:54 PM
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