just got it updated. beta 3 fixed a bunch of annoying things for me so far. Safari tabs, Finder column views, and it is snappier
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macOS Tahoe 26.0 Beta 3 - Bug fixes, changes, and more
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flew in this morning here in EU (DE/CH) ... happy not having have had to deal with the Rosetta hack ...
Updated to beta 3 this morning (M1 Pro, Rosetta is installed, showed up overnight) and first impressions:
- Safari is better but the tab view is still ugly. The non-active tab(s) have such a ghastly solid grey background, which is way too dark and opaque. I hope they will continue to tweak this over time and also bring back the compact tab view.
- Music Now Playing area is practically transparent, needs a shadow/light border and to use Liquid Glass properly with the reflections/refraction and lacks top/bottom progressive blur in the scroll views (it's better in Podcasts)
- Finder UI looks a bit better, especially when showing Path/Status bars
- App Store Updates tab STILL not showing any app updates, and can't be refreshed to check for/show updates 🙄
- Default folder icon colour now the traditional blue again in the Dock as well as Finder, good
- Previously hidden Menu Bar items had to be hidden again, no biggie
- Journal app shows 0 entries, doesn't appear to re-sync, crashes if you try to make a new entry
- Most widgets were blank until clicked to open their corresponding app, then they refreshed their content
- Dock appears more transparent than Beta 2
- Safari is better but the tab view is still ugly. The non-active tab(s) have such a ghastly solid grey background, which is way too dark and opaque. I hope they will continue to tweak this over time and also bring back the compact tab view.
- Music Now Playing area is practically transparent, needs a shadow/light border and to use Liquid Glass properly with the reflections/refraction and lacks top/bottom progressive blur in the scroll views (it's better in Podcasts)
- Finder UI looks a bit better, especially when showing Path/Status bars
- App Store Updates tab STILL not showing any app updates, and can't be refreshed to check for/show updates 🙄
- Default folder icon colour now the traditional blue again in the Dock as well as Finder, good
- Previously hidden Menu Bar items had to be hidden again, no biggie
- Journal app shows 0 entries, doesn't appear to re-sync, crashes if you try to make a new entry
- Most widgets were blank until clicked to open their corresponding app, then they refreshed their content
- Dock appears more transparent than Beta 2
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I agree - Safari is better but the tab view is still ugly.
Sstruggling with Menu Bar option Show Menu Background - for some reason it does turn background on Menu Bar to only light blue color, not reflecting the wallpaper color or Dark Mode. It used always reflect the color of the wallpaper, but now when turned on only light blue bar color is shown. Grrrr.. The only solution to have dark background on the Menu Bar is to turn on Reduce Transparency in the Accessibility?
I am not digging the outline in the Sidebar - its just plain ugly.
Even for Developer Beta, we do see some significant shift on the UI. I am puzzled to understand how this can go so so wrong in a few days. Apple was always impecable with their UI direction. This looks like one man student work. Major flaws, almost like there are no focus groups or design teams doing feedbacks. WTF?????
Sstruggling with Menu Bar option Show Menu Background - for some reason it does turn background on Menu Bar to only light blue color, not reflecting the wallpaper color or Dark Mode. It used always reflect the color of the wallpaper, but now when turned on only light blue bar color is shown. Grrrr.. The only solution to have dark background on the Menu Bar is to turn on Reduce Transparency in the Accessibility?
I am not digging the outline in the Sidebar - its just plain ugly.
Even for Developer Beta, we do see some significant shift on the UI. I am puzzled to understand how this can go so so wrong in a few days. Apple was always impecable with their UI direction. This looks like one man student work. Major flaws, almost like there are no focus groups or design teams doing feedbacks. WTF?????
I mean, not to sound cliché, but it's a beta of an OS with a new UI, there will be inconsistencies, backtracks, changes, reverts etc until we get the final polish.
The Now Playing bar in Music definitely needs more work. It's not liquid glass at all anymore.
If you use Wacom do not update to Beta 3
The table driver is not working here, neither by cable nor by Bluetooth. It was working in beta 1/2; there's no way to predict what beta 4 will be like. Wacom usually releases updates about a month after the new version is released, so be careful, you might be without your tablet until October until a Tahoe-compatible driver is released.
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One more argument against installing beta on your work machine that you depend on.
Hey everyone, just wanted to check if anyone else is experiencing this — my MacBook Air 15" M4 is taking forever to install the Beta 3 update. It’s been stuck on the update screen for quite a while now with no progress. Not sure if it’s frozen or just insanely slow. Anyone else running into the same issue?
I delete this folder:
/Library/Apple/usr/share/rosetta
/Library/Apple/usr/libexec
But not update Beta 3.
What am I doing wrong?
/Library/Apple/usr/share/rosetta
/Library/Apple/usr/libexec
But not update Beta 3.
What am I doing wrong?
overall beta 3 feels like beta 1 from any former iteration of MacOS...it is so much snappier then B2 and B1 (windows animations feel good, safari feels so much better
-safari tabs repaired kinda but side menu top part is broken, they just play around probably with the side menu and have hard time deciding if it should end with a toolbar or not /for me the side menu should be slighlty transparent and show on top of the window without changing the whole layot of the pages and tool bar but it is me (probably that would introduce other problems)
-safari tabs repaired kinda but side menu top part is broken, they just play around probably with the side menu and have hard time deciding if it should end with a toolbar or not /for me the side menu should be slighlty transparent and show on top of the window without changing the whole layot of the pages and tool bar but it is me (probably that would introduce other problems)
like you get 10 extra MacOSes and all the updates for them for free and you stup up by 10 like time traveling 10 years ahead (like MacOS 16 - MacOS 25) so you can only imagine how much everything had changed. IT is like comparing a Porsche 1 and Porsche 911 or Formula 1 and Formula 5
So far feeling a lot better on my 2019 16” MBP compared to Beta 2.
I had been struggling with making out Safari tabs, even after updating from Beta 2. I had a look and noticed my MacBook display was set to about 50-55% brightness, which is pretty comfortable when using it at night. Anyway, I turned the brightness up to 80-85% or so and the tabs and UI in general is now working a lot better for me. Need the brightness to get enough contrast with the Liquid UI, I guess.
Update fixes a bunch of menus too in Settings that would crop content and make controls unreachable.
I had been struggling with making out Safari tabs, even after updating from Beta 2. I had a look and noticed my MacBook display was set to about 50-55% brightness, which is pretty comfortable when using it at night. Anyway, I turned the brightness up to 80-85% or so and the tabs and UI in general is now working a lot better for me. Need the brightness to get enough contrast with the Liquid UI, I guess.
Update fixes a bunch of menus too in Settings that would crop content and make controls unreachable.
Not for me. I just like the thought of running the latest, so called greatest. We've hit the apex of computing. There's almost nothing new in this new OS.
yeah this update doesn't seem to add anything mind blowing , Maybe macOS 17 be better
Beta 3 is much more smooth than beta 2. It brings also translations which were forgotten in previous versions.
Safari seems to load content faster.
Can’t estimate battery life because my MacBook is used as a desktop.
Safari seems to load content faster.
Can’t estimate battery life because my MacBook is used as a desktop.
I think I was misunderstood. I was asking what happens if you try to install it without doing anything related to Rosetta, but I saw later what happens is the installer just gives an error message.
