MacOS 26 seems slow.

[iBookmaster]

It should be hard to make an M# model lag, regardless of what people are saying about it being a beta, there should be no particular reason for it to slightly lag.
notice the weasel words

also, first impressions matter, beta or not. windows vista can tell you that.

I have an M1 MacBook Pro 14" with 16GB of ram and there is some slowness. The people saying the performance is really great seems to be the newest M3 or M4 computers. I would like to have one of the newer ones but, need to make my M1 last several more years. I know it's beta and older processors like mine (yeah, wow, M1s are old now) are not what Apple is testing betas on. They are testing them on the newest M4s.

 

[ignatius345]

All this chatter about whether the Developer Beta of macOS 26 is "snappier" or "seems slow" on this or that machine or whatever is completely irrelevant. You're literally running an unfinished OS and pretending it's the final product. If you've installed the beta, maybe instead of wasting your time here, put your comments into the Apple Feedback app and be prepared to explain specifically what seems slow under what circumstances... in other words, the entire point of participating in a beta evaluation. Doing this will actually contribute to making the final OS work better. Posting random anecdotes here will not.

 

[Madonepro]

All this chatter about whether the Developer Beta of macOS 26 is "snappier" or "seems slow" on this or that machine or whatever is completely irrelevant. You're literally running an unfinished OS and pretending it's the final product. If you've installed the beta, maybe instead of wasting your time here, put your comments into the Apple Feedback app and be prepared to explain specifically what seems slow under what circumstances... in other words, the entire point of participating in a beta evaluation. Doing this will actually contribute to making the final OS work better. Posting random anecdotes here will not.

Apolgies for repeating myself, but 'well said'. The instant gratification required by some, which if not met, leads to indignant condemnation, is so boorish.

 

[Eric_WVGG]

MacOS 26 seems slow. Scrolling, typing, etc all feels delayed, is this an issue with the OS or is it something else? What are probable causes of this?

This is very normal with early betas. They often include additional code that is monitoring problem spaces, practically designed to be slow.

I like running betas on my iPad just for fun, but I always wait until beta 3 for this reason. Not much fun using a clunky device. And I don’t go near iPhone betas until close to release candidate, betas are rough on batteries.

 

[avro707]

MacOS 26 seems slow. Scrolling, typing, etc all feels delayed, is this an issue with the OS or is it something else? What are probable causes of this?

I am using it on two 7,1 Mac Pros, an M4 Pro Mac mini and M2 MBA - it is running fine for me on all of them.

It has been very smooth going on the 2019 7,1 machines which I didn’t expect.

For all of them I used the upgrade process.

 

[JanetTheGreat]

All this chatter about whether the Developer Beta of macOS 26 is "snappier" or "seems slow" on this or that machine or whatever is completely irrelevant. You're literally running an unfinished OS and pretending it's the final product. If you've installed the beta, maybe instead of wasting your time here, put your comments into the Apple Feedback app and be prepared to explain specifically what seems slow under what circumstances... in other words, the entire point of participating in a beta evaluation. Doing this will actually contribute to making the final OS work better. Posting random anecdotes here will not.

You are missing the fact that I've already resolved the issue.

 

[iBookmaster]

All this chatter about whether the Developer Beta of macOS 26 is "snappier" or "seems slow" on this or that machine or whatever is completely irrelevant. You're literally running an unfinished OS and pretending it's the final product. If you've installed the beta, maybe instead of wasting your time here, put your comments into the Apple Feedback app and be prepared to explain specifically what seems slow under what circumstances... in other words, the entire point of participating in a beta evaluation. Doing this will actually contribute to making the final OS work better. Posting random anecdotes here will not.

Why are you wasting your time here? I don't see it as a waste of time. We are just talking about the performance of the new OS. Why not post here and Apple Feedback? Apple has been using Mac OSX for 24 years. It's about time the betas run pretty well since it's just add ons to the OS they have been upgrading for 24 years and this one is running pretty well for first beta of this upgrade. The people with M4s have the best experience it seems because it's the latest/greatest and what Apple is most likely testing the OS on.

 

[Pudlo]

hard to tell if it is os but definitely Safari is crazy laggy and it laggs out the whole OS (even when resizing windows etc.), address bar reacts to each click after some time and if you are not restarting your mac often, you will very quickly find out that SAfari can eat all your free memory like 270GB Safari no problemo, it will not show up in activity monitor, jsut at some point when your system runs out of memory it will ask which apps you want to close and 280gb or whatever free you have Safari will be there. So if you are running out of ssd space and don't know why...it is safari memory leak. BTW new clean install here
ps. i know it is a beta, I accept that it is slow, just sasying it is slow

 

[Astrohunter]

There are memory leaks at least in Safari.
Internet is also slower to load, and my Mac was getting hotter constantly.

 

[dmccloud]

Why are you wasting your time here? I don't see it as a waste of time. We are just talking about the performance of the new OS. Why not post here and Apple Feedback? Apple has been using Mac OSX for 24 years. It's about time the betas run pretty well since it's just add ons to the OS they have been upgrading for 24 years and this one is running pretty well for first beta of this upgrade. The people with M4s have the best experience it seems because it's the latest/greatest and what Apple is most likely testing the OS on.

While the core BSD underpinnings might be unchanged, modern Mac OS is not just stuff added onto the original OS X. Also, expecting the first developer betas to run pretty well is a fools' errand, especially when part of a beta like this is to identify bugs and flaws in the software so they can be addressed prior to the official launch of the OS.

 

[iBookmaster]

While the core BSD underpinnings might be unchanged, modern Mac OS is not just stuff added onto the original OS X. Also, expecting the first developer betas to run pretty well is a fools' errand, especially when part of a beta like this is to identify bugs and flaws in the software so they can be addressed prior to the official launch of the OS.

Well, I must be a fool because it's running pretty well!!! Using it every day on my main computers.

 

[MDTyKe]

My formerly super-fast M2 definitely feels like it's a 20 year old system struggling to run Windows Vista.

 

[dmccloud]

Well, I must be a fool because it's running pretty well!!! Using it every day on my main computers.

It runs well on my machine also, but I also expect that there will be bugs throughout the beta cycle. That's different from expecting them to run well, as part of the goal for these betas is to find and fix bugs before general release, both from Apple's side as well as app developers who will need to update their apps for the new OS.