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Apple Seeds Ninth Beta of macOS Tahoe to Developers

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Apple today provided developers with the ninth beta of macOS Tahoe 26 for testing purposes, with the update coming a week after the eighth 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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djgamble
13 months ago
Is it just me or are Apple’s macOS names getting worse every year?

They went from clean, global names like Tiger and Leopard to a bunch of US-centric tongue-twisters (Mojave, Ventura, now Tahoe). Half the world can’t even pronounce them properly... I still hear people saying 'Yo-se-might' instead of Yosemite (which, fun fact, was already the nickname for a blue-and-white G3 tower… back when the iMac was Bondi blue, showing Apple actually had a more global focus).

Feels like Apple’s boxed itself into a weird little California tourist brochure. Meanwhile, there are still a dozen cool big cat names they never used. Imagine macOS Lynx, Ocelot, or even Jaguar 2.0. Way easier to say and not tied to one country’s geography.

And let’s be real... they’re a global brand that's manufacturing in China and routing profits through Ireland. The 'California only' naming scheme feels less like heritage and more like a gimmick. At this rate, what’s next - macOS Fresno?
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ultratiem
13 months ago
Nothing has changed!!! Safari, as i write this on my ipad, is asking to fill in my password for this site in this textbox! Been like that for 5 betas. I guess it’s an ok bug to carry thru. Totally not a security issue. WTF!



macOS is the same. Not a single bug fixed. Music still opens in a tiny window, resizing often causes it to panic and compute like a slug. Not a damn thing has changed since B3.

Am I taking crazy pills? What is Apple even doing with their software???

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tywebb13
13 months ago
build number is 25A5351b

also there is

macOS 15.7 RC 5 (24G219)
macOS 14.8 RC 5 (23J19)
iOS 26.0 beta 9 (23A5336a)
iPadOS 26.0 beta 9 (23A5336a)
tvOS 26.0 beta 9 (23J5351a)
audioOS 26.0 beta 9 (23J5351a)
visionOS 26.0 beta 9 (23M5335b)
watchOS 26.0 beta 9 (23R5350b)
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armandxp
13 months ago
wonder if next week is the RC?
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inequals
13 months ago
funny, I was just coming on to say I am pretty pleased with the last couple of betas, using 9 and it feels like they've turned off the ultra debugging/profiling stuff (or fixed and/or optimised, how the hell should I know). I have an obscene amount of 3rd party software and tweaks etc installed as well. Finally this beta of Ice has been the most reliable menu bar wrangler out of Ice, Bartender and Barbee for the last few betas, and AlDente is fine.

Perhaps most surprising to me is that Spotlight has actually brought me back from Raycast now which I was using for at least a couple years. But then they started hawking a Pro subscription and of course crammed AI features therein. It could all be more or less avoided, but Apple putting clipboard history, the ability to search within apps and a pseudo-extensions equivalent with app intents or whatever (that could be really cool once supported by more apps) has won me back. Oh, and the file search appears to actually work now? Interesting choice, Apple! A highly pleasing development. (Hopefully they break it for the GM). Fr tho, considering +Space is my portal to basically everything not CLI (big fan of Warp terminal) rejuvenating Spotlight is music to my queer ears. (The less said about Music.app the better. I have deep trauma associated with it and the monster behind the mask, iTunes - but damn if that Automix feature isn't actually ... *whispers* good?)


That's right on the whole guys, I ain't bitchin'. Tempting fate though? Quite possibly....

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oh, man...you lost me at wokification.
thank God, someone else said it... name a more tiresome complaint in 2025 (besides complaining about the complaint, wise guys, although I take the point)? I mean I'd rather listen to me whinge for the 500th time about moving iPhone music syncing into the Finder or some **** than witness another "person"'s invocation of the lamest trigger word of the Persecution Industrial Complex with zero relevance or benefit to the topic (besides functioning as a four letter red flag parade)... I mean I don't mind if you want to bleat toxic nonsense about the "woke mind virus" just as long as you do it behind closed doors WITH CONSENTING ADULTS ONLY and don't ram it down the rest of our throats!!!! SO SICK OF THESE P.I.C. HEADS
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zula
13 months ago




I absolutely CANNOT see them naming it macOS Mammoth. 🦣

(PS: You forgot macOS Weed!)
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