Apple Releases First macOS Tahoe 26.2 Public Beta

Apple today provided public beta testers with the first release of an upcoming macOS Tahoe 26.2 update for testing purposes. The public beta comes a day after Apple provided the beta to developers.

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After signing up for beta testing on Apple's beta site, public beta testers can download the updates using the Software Update section in the System Settings app.

The Reminders app includes an option to have an alarm go off when a reminder is due, the News app has some design updates, and Apple is adding new features to the Podcasts app.

The beta is limited to developers and public beta testers right now, but it won't be a long testing period. We'll likely see Apple release macOS Tahoe 26.2 right around mid-December given past launch timelines.

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Ursadorable Avatar
5 weeks ago

Has Apple brought back the Safari Compact Tabs layout yet?
I really wanted to love Safari. There's just so much wrong with it, I can't consider it my daily browser.

The fact that it keeps putting background tabs to sleep, and not waking them back up properly annoys the heck out of me.. especially for our SaaS accounting software, forcing me to close the tab and log back in every time I'm away from the tab for 30 seconds or more, drives me nuts.

As for the rest of Tahoe.. they can take their liquid glass and shove it up their glasshole.
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Corefile Avatar
5 weeks ago
Is Sequoia the last of the good macOS releases? Sticking with it until we see what macOS 27 looketh like.
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JaydenA Avatar
5 weeks ago
Hopefully they continue to tone down the jaggies around elements.

"Liquid Glass / Liquid Vaseline / Completely Off" would be a welcome addition for a three way choice.
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5 weeks ago
Has Apple brought back the Safari Compact Tabs layout yet?
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5 weeks ago

Has Apple brought back the Safari Compact Tabs layout yet?
This is close to becoming a new Macrumors meme
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5 weeks ago
I won’t update to 26.x.x until the day Apple stops signing the last 15.x.x version of MacOS and the last 18.x.x version of iOS. 26 is the first Apple OS series I refuse to be a beta tester after General Release. That’s what these last few OS releases feel like to me. Just generally available beta versions. I mean…Apple just NOW has gotten around to making a Garsgeband icon update for the Glass theme. Really? A core OS app across platforms and you didn’t have it ready for the release of a radically new theme? I don’t think any of Apple’s future OS releases will be stable and not generally available beta versions until the AI mania dies down and Apple finally gets a couple of years past their actual rollout of their own 1 Trillion + parameter LLM. That may be 2030 at the earliest…( 2028 rollout of Apple LLM and two more years to shake it out and finally give Google Gemini the boot ).
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