macOS Tahoe Brings Two iPhone Apps to Your Mac

Thursday June 26, 2025 7:54 am PDT by Joe Rossignol

The upcoming macOS Tahoe update adds three pre-installed Apple apps to all compatible Macs: Phone, Journal, and Games.

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Phone and Journal come from the iPhone, while Games is entirely new. Below, we provide an overview of each of these apps.

macOS Tahoe is currently available as a developer beta, and the update will likely be released to the general public in September.

Phone

Macs could already answer iPhone calls thanks to Apple's cross-platform Continuity features, but macOS Tahoe goes a step further.

Apple has expanded the Phone app to the Mac, complete with all of the new features coming to the app with iOS 26, such as Hold Assist, Call Screening, Live Translation, and more. The app syncs with your iPhone, allowing you to view recent phone calls and expanded contact cards, listen to voicemail messages, and more directly on your Mac.

Here is how Apple describes the Phone app on Mac:

The Phone app on Mac has the familiar features of the Phone app on iPhone — including Recents, Favorites, and Voicemails — and the latest updates like Call Screening and Hold Assist. Call Screening automatically answers calls from unknown numbers and asks the caller for information so a user can decide whether or not to answer. And when a user is stuck on hold, Hold Assist allows them to keep their spot in line while they wait for a live agent, so users can continue working on their Mac.

Journal

Apple introduced a Journal app on the iPhone with iOS 17, and it is now available on the Mac too. You can use this app to type out your daily thoughts, and you can include drawings, handwriting, photos, videos, audio recordings, and more.

On the Mac, users can take advantage of the Journal app's new features, including the options to create multiple journals and view the locations of journal entries on a map.

Games

The all-new Games app on the Mac, iPad, and iPhone is an all-in-one hub for your App Store and Apple Arcade games, and in-game events. There are also new single-player game challenges available for competing with friends and family.

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Top Rated Comments

ignatius345

3 hours ago at 07:57 am

I'm glad they saw the light with Journal. Now I just want the rest of the Health app on my Mac. I have a growing trove of data (my data!) in there, but I can only view and interact with it on my phone, the second smallest screen I own. I don't understand the logic there at all.

Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)

Cristim74

3 hours ago at 08:16 am

The two iPhone apps: Phone, Journal, and Games :)

Score: 8 Votes (Like | Disagree)

vegetassj4

2 hours ago at 08:51 am

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Apple Brings “Phone” and “Journal” to Mac, Continues Epic Quest to Avoid Putting macOS on iPad

CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA — June 26, 2025 — Apple® today triumphantly announced the arrival of the Phone and Journal apps on Mac®, finally answering a prayer no one uttered. Because while the entire tech world begged for macOS on iPad, we thought: “What if... phone app on desktop?”

We know you’ve been dying to take awkward phone calls on your MacBook in public, and now, dreams you didn’t know you shouldn’t have are coming true.

[HEADING=2]Introducing Apps You Already Had, But Bigger:[/HEADING]

* Phone on Mac: Because fumbling with your iPhone for a spam call from “Potential Scam” was just too convenient. Now enjoy it in glorious 16-inch Retina™ while your AirPods refuse to switch properly.
* Journal on Mac: Document your gratitude and emotional growth directly between hate-scrolling Twitter and doom-refreshing Slack. It's the analog soul-soothing experience you wanted—on a device with 36 Chrome tabs open.

“These new apps represent our deep commitment to giving users features they didn’t ask for, while completely sidestepping the one thing they’ve been begging us to do for years,” said Craig Federighi, pausing only to stare wistfully at an iPad running Final Cut in a sandboxed nightmare. “macOS on iPad? Too obvious. Too useful. Too soon.”

This move is part of Apple’s long-term strategy of “Platform Confusion as a Service™,” keeping all your devices slightly inconsistent in the name of magical experiences™.

[HEADING=2]A Vision for the Future[/HEADING]
Instead of unifying platforms or admitting the iPad could just be a Mac with touch, we remain committed to bringing iPhone apps to Mac one at a time, very slowly, while reminding you the iPad is “a computer, but different,” except where it’s not, but kind of is, until it’s not again.

Availability
Phone and Journal will arrive with macOS Sequoia™ this fall. macOS on iPad will arrive right after hell freezes over or the butterfly keyboard makes a comeback—whichever happens first.

Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)

DominikHoffmann

3 hours ago at 08:26 am

I'm glad they saw the light with Journal. Now I just want the rest of the Health app on my Mac. I have a growing trove of data (my data!) in there, but I can only view and interact with it on my phone, the second smallest screen I own. I don't understand the logic there at all.

I second a call for the Health app to be made available on the Mac.

Maybe its unavailability on macOS is due to its original intent to help sell iPhones. Maybe that is due to the fact that on macOS cannot as readily ensure that the information managed by the app can securely remain private. I would certainly not want to be in a situation, where having the Health app on macOS compromises my very intimate, personal data. You’d better believe that there would be plenty of hacking outfits looking to retrieve such data from a more open environment than iOS is.

Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)

svish

2 hours ago at 08:44 am

With the introduction of phone app, hoping that Apple will bring a cellular Mac soon. The journal app should have been there on the Mac from day 1. Good to see it now.

Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)

Lioness~

3 hours ago at 08:02 am

The Journal comes to Mac - sounds great ⭐️
Hope importing my journals and post from DayOne wont be a lot of trouble.
Looking forward to explore this to start with anyway.

Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)

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