Apple Seeds Sixth Beta of macOS Tahoe to Developers

Apple today provided developers with the sixth beta of macOS Tahoe 26 for testing purposes, with the update coming a week after the fifth beta.

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Registered developers can download the new beta software through the System Settings app.

‌macOS Tahoe‌ features Apple's Liquid Glass redesign, which extends across all of the new updates this year. Apple also brought the Phone and Journal apps to the Mac for the first time, and introduced a new cross-platform Games app.

With the update, Apple overhauled how Spotlight works, enabling new functionality that allows it to be used to complete all kinds of actions like sending emails without having to open up an app. There are also changes to a number of apps, including Messages, Safari, and Notes.

All of the new features that are included in ‌macOS Tahoe‌ are outlined in our dedicated roundup.

‌macOS Tahoe‌ is set to launch this fall.

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Top Rated Comments

27 weeks ago
For those with a 2019 16" Intel MacBook Pro, this is the first Tahoe beta that gave me back fluidity instead of all the stuttering when moving around windows/workspaces.

Finally! (Still not perfect but they definitely tweaked something).
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
MacGizmo Avatar
27 weeks ago

Safari Compact Bar? ??
I don't think that's ever coming back... at least not without some sort of hack/3rd-party utility. I hope I'm wrong because I got used to it and would prefer not to have all the empty/wasted space at the top of my browser window.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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27 weeks ago
Releases:
iOS 26 beta 6 (23A5318c)
iPadOS 26 beta 6 (23A5318c)
macOS 26 beta 6 (25A5338b)
tvOS 26 beta 6 (23J5339a)
visionOS 26 beta 6 (23M5322b)
watchOS 26 beta 6 (23R5340a)

Source ('https://developer.apple.com/news/releases/')
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
27 weeks ago
and

macOS 15.7 RC 2 (24G210)
macOS 14.8 RC 2 (23J10)
audioOS 26.0 beta 6 (23J5339a)
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
27 weeks ago

For those with a 2019 16" Intel MacBook Pro, this is the first Tahoe beta that gave me back fluidity instead of all the stuttering when moving around windows/workspaces.

Finally! (Still not perfect but they definitely tweaked something).
That is good to hear. This has been a rough beta for those of us still on the Intel chips.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
NervousFish2 Avatar
27 weeks ago

Have you registered for public betas before? I think you need to sign up for them at beta.apple.com for the option to show up even if you’re already registered for the developer betas.
Thanks. I tried that but it's not showing me any option there to enroll in the public beta.

I think I need to unroll from the dev beta program. But I am not quite sure how to do that.

Anyway, it's no biggie. But I am definitely curious why I am stuck on the dev beta program and how to get out of it.
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