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  • macOS Sequoia


    Latest version
    macOS 26.0 Beta
    (25A5279m)

    Apple Security Releases
    macOS 26 Release Notes
    macOS 26 Official Site
    macOS 26 Press Release

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    Design
    • New design Liquid Glass.
    • Final release for Intel Macs. link
    • New icons for all apps. link
    • Icons that didn't adhere to the square shape are now automatically wrapped in a square icon. link
    • New transparent menu bar.
    • New Control Center.
    • New sidebars and toolbars.
    • New cursor design. link
    • New welcome screen. link
    • Touch Bar redesign. link
    • Launchpad is gone and replaced by Apps. link
    • New Finder icon with reversed color layout.
    • Irregular shaped icons get a background shape. link
    • Menus now can optionally feature icons, making it very Windows-like
    • Menu bar can be set to opaque/translucent with reduce transparency.
    • Reduce transparency is buggy and can cause flickering in the first beta
    • Third-party menu bar items can now be removed.
    • Folder colours pick up the colours of previously tags, and works in tandem with this functionality (as expected)
    • Spotlight – Spotlight can now search clipboard history, including items from Universal Clipboard.
      • Clipboard history not present in beta 1?
      • You can assign Quick Keys to individual actions, allowing you to add a reminder by typing "ar" into Spotlight, for example. Not yet in beta 1?
      • Suggested apps listed in Spotlight include iPhone apps, which are opened with iPhone Mirroring. Spotlight can also now search through an active app's menu bar items.
    • Modal dialogues are now left-aligned. link
    • Links to Web-apps now correctly opens in your Web-app instead of in the default browser.
    • Web-app icons don't get the Liquid Glass treatment as of the first beta.
    • Set the clock appearance on screensaver and lockscreen in the Wallpaper settings.
    • New volume and brightness indicators. link
    • Background apps – macOS now notifies you via a new popup when apps attempt to run a daemon after they have been closed. You can "Always Allow" the background process to run or you can deny it permission.
    • PS5 controller options – A new Game Controllers settings menu lets you remap and customize PlayStation controllers, right down to the level of haptic feedback and even the lightbar colour.
    • Lock Screen Clock – In Wallpaper settings, you can now change the style of the Lock Screen clock, just like in iOS 18.
    • Control Center – Like iOS, you can now customize the layout of Control Center, with the ability to add third-party app controls, including apps installed on your iPhone (which launch iPhone Mirroring when clicked). These controls can also appear in the menu bar.



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    Apple Intelligence
    • New icon for Siri.
    • New icon for Apple Intelligence.
    • Apple Intelligence now integrates more into apps.
    • New languages including Vietnamese.
    • Live Translations for Messages, FaceTime and Phone.
    • Shortcuts integration of Apple Intelligence.
    • Image Playgrounds add the ChatGPT styles, including realistic.
    • Emoji support for Image Playground.
    • More control for images of friends and gamily with Genmoji.


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    iPhone Mirroring
    • New icon.
    • Live activities are now mirrored from iPhone in the menu bar and will open iPhone Mirroring when clicked.



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    Phone
    • New Phone app.
    • Support for Call Screening and Hold Assist.



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    Journal
    • New Journal app.



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    Games
    • New Games app consolidates your gaming library, Apple Arcade, lets you play with friends and lets even single player games have challenges and leaderboards.
    • Is not compatible with your Steam Library.
    • The new Game app comes with a Game Overlay that appears onscreen while you play. The overlay offers social features like friend invites and chat, along with quick access to system settings such as Low Power Mode.



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    Messages
    • New icon for Messages.
    • Supports all the new features from iOS.



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    Maps
    • Supports all the new features from iOS.



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    Passwords
    • New icon.



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    Safari
    • New Safari icon.
    • Unified Safari URL Bar – Safari no longer offers the option to unify the tab bar and the address bar (the Compact tab layout setting), perhaps because it wasn't popular with users. Apple could always reinstate it in a later beta version.
    • Safari now has a transparent address bar, and colours from webpages shine through the browser's main toolbar.



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    Calculator
    • Does not have button states



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    Calendar


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    Preview
    • New icon.
    • New design. link



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    Preview
    • New icon.



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    Photos
    • New icon.
    • New app redesign.



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    Weather
    • Weather demonstrates why the sidebar is floating. It seems they designed it with textured/coloured content first. It just looks weird and out of place on single colour windows, like in the Finder



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    Notes
    • New icon.
    • Lets you capture conversations in the Phone app as audio recordings with transcriptions.
    • Lets you export a note into a Markdown file.



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    Accesibility
    • New Magnifier app.
    • New Vehicle Motion Cues.



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    Developers


    All the little things and changes here and there, changes from Tahoe, and more — post them here! Let's keep this fun and positive! This is not a thread for bugs and troubleshooting, please keep it to new discoveries only. This post is editable.
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