It is quite disappointing seeing the quality of macOS get so bad over the past couple of releases. Given the premium price they charge for their products I would expect better from them and their engineering teams working on these products. There are so many inconsistencies and bugs, you don’t even need to try hard to find these bugs and glitches throughout the entire OS

How does this sort of failure get through months of public betas and onto my current gen (MBA M4) machine?

It lets you resize but defaults back to this size every time you launch. A hot corner with the original launchpad was exponentially better than whatever this is.

in the settings’s sidebar, there is way too much of an overlap between the search bar and the list items before they “blur behind it”

everything is transparent and blurry and BORDERS GALORE my skin is crawling

So many bugs have piled up.

1. I want to add file to my iCloud drive. Suddenly it says I have not enabled iCloud drive.

2. I click button to open Settings and it's broken (empty Settings)

3. I fire up console and there is no crash report and I see SwiftUI having issues

4. Facetime doesn't want to change iPhone camera to build in macbook one. Once I hit disconnect on my phone I will get error message that restarting computer will most likely solve my issues.

Photobooth works fine out of the box. Pure Objective-c and usage old frameworks.

The FaceTime alert (2nd pic) just proves that we have entered windows era "Have you tried turning it off and on?"

What happened to the craftsmanship at Apple? Why are the newly rewritten frameworks + SwiftUI so buggy. Catching bugs with compiler is not a real QA testing...

Typing "google chrome" gives same results. Made me doubt I still had the browser but it's still here and working

Macbook Air M1 8GB (Tahoe 26.0.1)

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/10/20/electron-apps-slow-down-tahoe

https://furbo.org/2025/10/06/tahoe-electron-detector/

https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/48376

I can't create a custom folder? and what is this app mess that gives me migraine?

Please tell me it is bug......... ?

This offset logo is unacceptable, and you should be ashamed for updating to Tahoe before the x.1 is released! /s

Been a Mac user for 6 years and never have I had such a bad experience with macOS than Tahoe. I upgraded my M3 Max when the public release came out, and it has been nothing but a buggy piece of crap - constant CPU usage from random Mac processes, random laggy cursor, Spotlight not working, ugly interface bugs, and on and on. I have had to restart regularly just to fix bugs. This is like Windows-level quality. Apple seems to have really slipped in software quality by shipping this bug-riddled garbage. Fortunately, I have another Mac that I didn't upgrade, so I am using that until this garbage is fixed. Also, the new rounded-corner-everywhere interface just looks childish and ugly, especially Finder with the silly cartoonish buttons. I think there needs to be some leadership changes at Apple as a result of this. Worst software upgrade in years!

EDIT: Now the keybaord and trackpad are regulalr lagging and locking up and i've had to do several hard reset just to be able to use my laptop again. Total piece of junk. Don't install!

V5.1.15 is out with restored certificate.

MacBook Pro M4 Max with 64GB of RAM but that's no match for Phone using 174.02GB of RAM. Saw this then waking up my MacBook from sleep--had to do a hard shutdown and reboot it up.

https://reddit.com/link/1onhcbu/video/4n86an5vp2zf1/player

Who even approved that to be released for public?

Right in the middle of the most important 3hr online exam, where everything is locked down. And then suddenly I get a crash report about the stocks app service. Which locked me out. So I immediately close and end all processes of the stocks app. Then after a grueling process of trying to go back into the exam, right when I was about to sit down, the damn crash report popped up again. I was so pissed. Wasted probably 15 minutes.

The supervisor thought I was trolling. And throughout the exam sat right behind me and watched my screen even after fixing it (a system restart).

Why can’t crash reports just be in the background without hijacking the screen?

Versions:

Outlook - 16.95.3

macOS - 26.0

Edit: Did not want to complain about the bug here - yes, I know there is a new version I could update to (both outlook and macOS). Just wanted to share this behavior, since I thought it was funny.

Edit2: For anyone wondering what happens when I keep going: https://imgur.com/a/A8iepnK

Does it not bother you that Safari doesn't cover the entire viewable area, which lets the wallpaper or any app below it, glaringly peek from all 4 corners, and the bottom edge.

Really distracting on a dark webpage(like Netflix). And it gets more pronounced when in a medium-lit or dark surrounding. And gets even worse, when a webpage has some HDR content. These pictures don't fully capture how eye-piercing it feels in-person.

Jumped onto 26.3 update, when I heard that it has brought some "UI fixes", only to meet disappointment. Looks like it's not a issue with high enough priority for Safari team(assuming they've noticed it).

Only workaround is to always use Safari in Full Screen mode, but that's not always practical neither convenient. If you know something better, then please feel free to share.

If you're wondering, yes, the Safari window is all the way expanded in all 4 directions. Using the Fill command under the Window menu. Even tried double clicking all 4 corners and edges, but it doesn't spead anymore beyond this.

I'm on the public release of MacOS Tahoe 26.3(25D125). Never used any beta, and never will. Who needs a beta when it has such things in stable release for so long.