Apple Seeds Eighth Beta of macOS Tahoe to Developers

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

q64ceo Avatar
6 hours ago at 10:35 am
Liquid glass doesn't bother me as much as the overly roundness of everything does. So much wasted space.
Score: 10 Votes (Like | Disagree)
xgman Avatar
6 hours ago at 10:29 am
I don't like liquid glass one bit, but I guess we are stuck with it for a while. It's like OSX's Vista.. ugh
Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Paradoxally Avatar
6 hours ago at 10:38 am

Give us more liquid glass on Mac.
*less and a way to remove all the dumb, inconsistent corner radius across the entire system. Sequoia was fine.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
tywebb13 Avatar
6 hours ago at 10:20 am

Build number: 25M7546c
isn’t it 25A5349a ?

that’s what it says at https://developer.apple.com/news/releases/ at the moment

there is more

iOS 26 beta 8 is build 23A5330a
iPadOS 26 beta 8 is build 23A5330a
watchOS 26 beta 8 is build 23R5350a
visionOS 26 beta 8 is build 23M5332a
tvOS 26 beta 8 is build 23J5348a

and not on website is

audioOS 26 beta 8 is build 23J5348a
macOS 15.7 RC 4 is build 24G217
macOS 14.8 RC 4 is build 23J18
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
nutmac Avatar
5 hours ago at 10:46 am
I am frankly more bothered by the bigger rounded corner radius and floating toolbar icons. Liquid Glass is fairly subtle enough otherwise. Also, Apple is going to take the squircle icon jail right?
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Astuces iOS Avatar
5 hours ago at 11:08 am
Last beta before RC @everyone…
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)