Juli Clover:
Apple today provided developers with the seventh beta of macOS Tahoe 26 for testing purposes, with the update coming a week after the sixth beta.
The release notes are still titled “beta 6” and don’t call out any changes since beta 5.
Xcode is still at beta 5.
Previously:
Update (2025-08-19): BasicAppleGuy:
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iWork Suite: Keynote, Pages, & Numbers
Nikhil Nigade:
A quick tip when capturing #screenshots of your Mac app for promo material for #macOS26 Tahoe: DONT
Instead, do the following: Take a screen recording of your app’s window/s and then, pick a frame from that window.
Notice the difference. You get all the glass element refractions and specular highlights, especially on elements like the floating sidebar.
Adrian Schönig:
No improvements in beta 6 or beta 7 on the messed up order of queue entries. Please don’t tell me that Tahoe is going to ship with a broken #MusicKit.
Jonathan Wight:
This is my app launcher on Ubuntu. Honestly - ignoring the difference in aspect ratio…
I cannot tell the difference between most of these icons and macOS 26 icons. In fact - i think i prefer many of the Ubuntu icons.
A linux distribution now has iconography equal or better to Apple’s.
Norbert Heger:
Reading menus on macOS Tahoe is quite a rollercoaster ride now…
John Siracusa:
Behold, the state of SwiftUI layout in Tahoe beta 7! Watch the controls move on mouse-over! Watch the scroll bar disappear! […] This worked fine before Tahoe.)
Update (2025-08-20): Jonathan Wight:
The new Installer icon…
Marcin Krzyzanowski:
I join the @caseyliss “low contrast on macOS 26” war, as I installed the beta finally. All I see on my screen in white blob with some gray areas. everything is melted altogether. I’d like to learn what displays they use to design these at Apple. So far it doesn’t look good on my MacBook Air display, nor my Apple Display monitor 🤷
Marcin Krzyzanowski:
peek text readability found in Settings, but really all over the #macOS 26 sidebar
Ezekiel Elin:
I regret to inform you that in macOS Tahoe, typing into a contact card too fast still goes backwards[…]
Update (2025-08-21): Norbert Doerner:
To punish us for always wanting to see the scroll bars, they are now huge and fat in #macOS26 “Smear”.
Norbert Doerner:
They still have the option to “Show toolbar button shapes” in the still mostly unusable “System Settings”, which in the past had drawn a nice thin line around these to make them actually, I don’t know, like, VISIBLE to the user?
But the giant ugly blobs in macOS 26 “smear” that are supposed to be “toolbar buttons” cannot even do that anymore.
So this option is a NO-OP now and doesn’t change anything.
Pat Castaldo:
I’ve never downgraded a Mac OS in my life — I’ve stuck with every beta, kept moving everything “forward” — Tahoe is the biggest step back in usability I’ve ever experienced.
I just tried using it without Reduced Transparency enabled and I literally got queasy.
My M1 MacBook Air now feels slow as shit. At Beta 7, there’s no excuses left.
Louie Mantia:
I said this with beta 1: this is a 25 year old product. I get that there will be bugs, but you have all the time in the world to make this right. why would you ship anything before it’s ready? beta or not, there’s just never been a reasonable excuse for 15 or 20 years now. this is a mature product.
Oskar Groth:
I’ve uncovered the best new Liquid Glass style icons from the upcoming macOS Tahoe. Including some never-before-seen secret ones made by Apple designers.
Save this as inspiration for your next app icon[…]
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Juli Clover:
Apple today provided developers with the seventh betas of iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 for testing purposes, with the updates coming a week after Apple seeded the sixth betas.
The release notes are still titled “beta 6” and don’t call out any changes since beta 5.
Joe Rossignol:
The seventh developer betas of iOS 26 and watchOS 26 include a redesigned Blood Oxygen feature on Apple Watch Series 9, Apple Watch Series 10, and Apple Watch Ultra 2 models sold in the U.S. since mid-January 2024.
Previously:
Update (2025-08-19): Ezekiel Elin:
It is not generally correct that the Blood Oxygen change is only Series 9/10 and Ultra 2.
My series 8 watch didn’t have it either and today’s change re-enabled it.
Seems like every news outlet is completely ignoring the fact that Series 8 watches continue to be sold/furnished to customers as new even now.
Joe Rossignol:
iOS 26 beta 7 adds an additional Adaptive Power Notifications toggle in the Settings app, under Battery → Power Mode. This setting allows you to choose whether you receive push notifications each time Adaptive Power mode kicks in.
Steve Troughton-Smith:
I feel as lost now with beta 7 as I did with the WWDC seeds; system components just aren’t coming together and I can’t afford to lose a week each time waiting for the next build. This design language needs at least another six months in the oven, with third party developer testing and collaboration, because I don’t think it’s ready to meet the challenge of a million third party apps. Alan Dye’s team is about to have all their theories tested, in public, on a billion devices
Steve Troughton-Smith:
Not looking good on the radar front in beta 7, and I’m starting to see bug reports, and blockers, being punted ‘to a future OS release’ (read 26.1 and beyond). September is starting to feel like a lost cause.
Emídio Cunha:
I was surprised to find this latest beta having new animations even when you set the motion to off in the accessibility settings. There’s an shutter open effect now when you open an app. It makes it slow which is what I wanted to avoid with this setting.
Marco Arment:
iOS beta 7 still has so many little animation bugs that I’m needing to scale back my redesign.
Overcast’s adoption of Liquid Glass for 26.0 is going to be a small set of incremental changes, not a “redesign”, really.
Update (2025-08-20): Greg Pierce:
August 18th and APIs are still changing (looking at you AssetInventory)
Craig Hockenberry:
Imagine that you’re a developer at a company that has had a certain shade of red as a part of their branding for the past 134 years. It’s a red that’s known worldwide.
You pop that color into your iOS app and quickly realize two things:
- The red you specified is not the red that’s displayed.
- Your brand color is secondary to the chrome that Apple has imposed.
Marketing blows a gasket so you start implementing your own controls: without accessibility, device traits, etc.
Craig Grannell:
If the iOS 26 install intro remains in the final build, yikes. It is a vestibular accessibility disaster. Yes, you can skip it, but you’ll already have been ‘zapped’ by that point. And, yes, I’m dizzy right now. And not very happy about it.
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[…]
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Via Edward Sanchez:
The fathers of SwiftUI left Apple and are working on a new project together to create native apps in with phone just through prompting! Super impressive technology!
Jacob Xiao and Kyle Macomber presented SwiftUI at WWDC 2019.
Bitrig:
Bitrig builds Swift and SwiftUI apps, which run on your iPhone using a custom Swift interpreter.
Your apps call directly into the native SDK, so they can do things like access health data, post user notifications, and play haptics.
We’re ingesting the iOS SDK into bitrig piece-by-piece. Tell us what you’re building, we’ll prioritize what you need!
Lokesh T. R.:
It’s a custom interpreter for swift, written in swift. Whenever it encounters library calls, the interpreter makes native calls.
While shipping, we ship the swift code that runs natively and compiled using the actual compiler.
This sounds great, though I don’t understand how it’s compatible with the App Review Guidelines.
Kyle Macomber:
Today we’re launching TestFlight integration in bitrig.
Now you can vibe code, test, and deploy Swift apps. All from your iPhone.
pepicrft:
Seeing Bitrig hot-reloading code changes makes me wonder why hasn’t Apple brought us something like that in years instead of booting a simulator within Xcode and labelling it as previews.
Evan Bacon:
Interesting that the payments link goes to Stripe instead of using in-app purchases, and that you can use it to distribute native code outside of the App Store.
Previously:
Update (2025-08-21): It’s now shipped to the App Store (YouTube).
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