Yeah this is a good solution. I actually used to do this before Launchpad, I just didn't think of doing it again.
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Mac OS 26 Is Utter Garbage and Apple Has truly lost its way....
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Would be quite easily be solved by being able to pin your most used apps to the top of the list, or have a favourite apps page you can add them to and can arrange them as you wish, just like you can with Safari favourites.
Yes I know we have the Dock, but I also don't want it full of a hundred apps. It's nice to have a place where you have lesser used apps easily accessible, LaunchPad was that but now it's no more.
I absolutely agree with every word you said! Since I upgraded to Tahoe my apps freeze, shut down. My airpods disconnect, suddenly stop playing sound. Today my Mac M1 Macbook air was frozen like a windows computer. I couldn't close any apps, or restart the system. It blacked out and turned off. This has never happened before, since I've ever owned a Mac. This is a shame. Steve would be rolling in his grave if he'd knew what was going on. And the design looks like it was made by 13 year old girls. Nothing makes sense, it's complete chaos and lack of refinement and quality.
you realize that you're having an issue that is not typical? why not start a thread, and get some support here for what's happening. perhaps the upgrade didn't complete? not sure, but worth asking for help...
and still you had these things happen. anyway, might be worth a thread (as, again, it's not common). good luck 👍
somehow Tahoe "Tahoe'd" some videos taken via screenshot, saved to movies-
and placed them back on my desktop?
in other words, tahoe put those back on desktop.
like that baseball player who "Tahoe'd" a simple bunt and popped up in the 15th inning of a game!
I understand Tims and them are hungry for iCloud cash, but this eager?
and placed them back on my desktop?
in other words, tahoe put those back on desktop.
like that baseball player who "Tahoe'd" a simple bunt and popped up in the 15th inning of a game!
I understand Tims and them are hungry for iCloud cash, but this eager?
I don’t really agree to be honest.
Say what you will about apple‘s recent increase in advertising, but at least they keep it limited to within their applications.
For example, you might see advertisements within Apple news (bad ones) or Apple Music, TV and the App Store (which are less annoying, but still not great).
However, at least to this point, where I have never, ever seen an advertisement is with-in actual built-in system functions, with tiny exceptions that actually makes sense like AppleCare and iCloud storage within system settings.
But I have never seen an ad in the Apple menu, or control center, or the dock, or the Finder, or Mail, Contacts etc.
Meanwhile every time I open my windows computer it feels like they’re trying to shove everything on my screen at once, Microsoft accounts, copilot, streaming service subscriptions, this, that, and the other… All from the desktop. Not to mention the fact that *still in 2025* Windows is the worst with software updates, every single time you go to use the computer you’ve got half a dozen system software updates, drivers and individual application update installs.
How to turn off macOS update notifications because I'm spammed with them almost every day
the notification is permanent until you cave in, just remove systems settings with its red alert from the dock, *and ignore it.
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I truly understand and agree with jsnuff1. MacOS Tahoe is just buggy and this can't be forgiven for such a giant as Apple. Launchpad is unusable, Settings is laggy, many bugs across the system. Overall slow system speed. I thought it will be fixed after final release, but 26.1 is still like a beta one.
Tahoe has been fine for me so far. What is it you were expecting?
As I've said on a previous thread, no issues may end with the design, but yeah it's slow and glitchy and causing bugs for me across numerous computer. Don't normally have this level of sludge on a .0 release or even some of the previous betas. Happy to be back to Sequoia tbh.
The Mac OS26 and iPhone update are so horrible it makes my brain want to explode in my skull. I have a M1 Pro Mac now 2 years old. All web browsers, finder, Music app are so slow and clunky. It's driving me insane. The former SysPref now Settings is like Win11's Settings but worse. Bunch of my Sequoia supported apps stopped working. The phone is just a gdamn disgrace. Screen real estate is bananas, no apps even Apple's official apps are using the screen, liquid glass buttons or notch dynamic island correctly. And there's only been one update for each platform which has fixed nothing. I never post on the internet anymore but I'm old and I'm pissed (shakes fist)
I can relate. The changes in the OS frustrated me so much that I ended up giving away my iMac (including dual boot Bootcamp to Win 11), which is still a beast and works great under MS Win.
I switched to a portable abomination MS Surface/Win 11, and I wish I had done it sooner!
The only thing I’m sticking with for now is the iPhone 16 Pro, but once it’s done, I’m not buying Apple again until they get their act together.Windows 11 has its downsides and frustrations too, but they don’t bother me as much as Apple/Tahoe. I need to work on my PC, not fight with the OS UI and get frustrated.
Now, I just wish MS would make a Surface phone (I know, I know).
Cheers from MS Windows!
(and love to all the Apple fans).
The place where I worked sold PCs... Macs only on request. Why? Windows 10 and 11 PCs arrived regularly with a thousand problems (and consequent service profits), while Macs only appeared after 12 years (and I'm not joking). But good luck, especially with the Surface!I can relate. The changes in the OS frustrated me so much that I ended up giving away my iMac (including dual boot Bootcamp to Win 11), which is still a beast and works great under MS Win.
I switched to a portable abomination MS Surface/Win 11, and I wish I had done it sooner!
Windows 11 has its downsides and frustrations too, but they don’t bother me as much as Apple/Tahoe. I need to work on my PC, not fight with the OS UI and get frustrated.
Now, I just wish MS would make a Surface phone (I know, I know).
Cheers from MS Windows!
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i don't get it, i don't find my day-to-day experience with tahoe much different from the experience on sequoia. i open apps, work, write, surf. email. get my work done in logic pro, final cut.
i am experiencing speed and stability. my calendar continues to (sometimes) open to the wrong day; an inconvenience, not a disaster.
i don't sweat LG (now with a 'tone-it-down' option if you need that), i look at the content in a window, not the corners of the window. and there are, as there should be, slight changes & improvements over incremental OS releases.
anyway, i just looked outside, and no, the sky has not fallen...
i am experiencing speed and stability. my calendar continues to (sometimes) open to the wrong day; an inconvenience, not a disaster.
i don't sweat LG (now with a 'tone-it-down' option if you need that), i look at the content in a window, not the corners of the window. and there are, as there should be, slight changes & improvements over incremental OS releases.
anyway, i just looked outside, and no, the sky has not fallen...
This is my experience, exactly. I just do the same stuff I did before.
I was expecting an OS update to not completely screw up the usability of the OS.
Shockingly, different people have different experiences. I manage a few databases for a local sports-based non-profit as a volunteer/coach and Tahoe's instability and poor design (frequent crashes, apps and files hang randomly, visual glitches, inconsistent behaviour, difficulty in reading menus and tool-tips) have forced me to use a different machine to do this work. It's inconvenient and frustrating. This is on top of breaking workflows by arbitrarily replacing system features with worse versions that don't even attempt to transition any of the organisation or setup you had before. A literal trillion dollar company that asks for premium prices for their products should be able to manage a smooth OS update on the hardware they design, control, and produce.
To be clear; yes "forced'. I need to carve out time and mental energy to backup my stuff beyond trusting a time machine backup and download an OS, put it on a drive, and reinstall it on my main computer.
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Just re-logged in to MacRumors for the first time in years to say that default Gnome desktop is better than Tahoe at this point - it looks better, runs faster, is less buggy, and has a more intuitive design. And boy, is that a situation that Apple should be deeply embarrassed about. Tahoe doesn't improve on MacOS in any way that I can tell. And they make it so onerous to go back so you can just wait it out at least until they fix the bugs and performance issues.
Yep, garbage!
No more tahoe'd for my M1s and me, they have this right click option to erase a ssd external drive
which was almost executed twice this week.
if there was a way.....TIM....to remove that option since no one in their right mind would want to erase any ssd drive. TIM!
No more tahoe'd for my M1s and me, they have this right click option to erase a ssd external drive
which was almost executed twice this week.
if there was a way.....TIM....to remove that option since no one in their right mind would want to erase any ssd drive. TIM!
you're abandoning the OS because you almost right-clicked on an external to erase it? (also, there would be a confirmation message to get thru before the disk would get erased).
what if you don't select that option when you right click? 🤔
This reminds me of when Windows Vista came out: a modern, beautiful interface with a couple of minor inconveniences, and users are fussing like hell. I'll react the same way I did back then: come on now, is it really that bad? As far as I'm concerned, the system works very fine. First-world problem, as they say.
Vista wasn’t beautiful and nobody has ever forgiven it. One positive was that you could disable the Aero theme and have classical Windows theme.
No, it is a cost and product quality problem. When we pay thousands of dollars for expensive Macs we don’t want an interface that looks cheap, messy and badly thought out. There was nothing wrong with that last generation UI.
We don’t always need the wheel reinvented. All we needed was the same Apple apps on all Apple devices (Journal, Health, etc) and better Metal performance to match Windows gaming performance.