Juli Clover (iOS/iPadOS release notes, security, enterprise, no developer):
According to Apple’s release notes for the update, iOS 26.0.1 addresses a bug that could cause aberrations in photos captured with the iPhone Air and the iPhone 17 Pro models. It also fixes ongoing cellular and Wi-Fi issues that iPhone 17 owners have been dealing with, and addresses a bug with tinted icons.
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Update (2025-10-23): Steve Troughton-Smith:
Apple keeps putting iOS-26-updated versions of iWork on its product pages, but they still haven’t shipped any of it. At what point does it become false advertising? 😛
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Juli Clover (release notes, security, enterprise, no developer, full installer, IPSW):
According to Apple’s release notes, macOS Tahoe 26.0.1 addresses a bug that was preventing Mac Studio machines with an M3 Ultra chip from being upgraded to macOS Tahoe. A failed hardware check was causing macOS Tahoe installation attempts to be aborted, with Mac Studio users ultimately stuck on macOS Sequoia.
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Update (2025-09-30): Laurent Giroud:
This is just incredible. That this bug had to be fixed in a new release means they never tested it on that Ultra configuration.
That or they knew it prevented installation and chose to kept users of that setup to bang their heads against the wall when trying to upgrade.
Ricky Mondello:
Today’s update to macOS Tahoe (26.0.1) resolves an issue in apps where AutoFill for Mac apps could make apps slow down over time due to improper handling of event taps, causing them to accumulate over time. People particularly noticed this in Chromium-based web browsers and Electron apps. If your app or framework decided to work around this issue by using an internal AppKit defaults key to turn off AutoFill, I recommend you re-test on macOS 26.0.1, then limit that workaround only to macOS 26.0.0, and remove it for macOS 26.0.1 and above.
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Update (2025-10-01): Ric Ford:
Another MacInTouch reader emailed us about a tricky Tahoe change to music file handling that continues in the 26.0.1 release.
Dragging songs from the Music library window to the Desktop (or presumably anywhere outside the app) in MacOS 26 moves the file from its iTunes Music location. In prior versions, dragging would copy the file. Note this isn’t true for the TV app – it still copies the file.
I’m traveling and discovered this while away from backups. I deleted the song that I’d moved and will have to wait until I get to backups to restore.
Update (2025-10-07): Andrew Orr:
A handful of Mac owners say they can’t add Outlook accounts to Apple Mail after recent macOS updates, but the scope and cause of the problem remain murky.
The reports in the Apple forums describe failed authentication when trying to add Outlook.com, Hotmail, or Live accounts to Mail. Errors range from “Authentication Failed” to “Unable to verify account name or password.”
ednl:
One (other) very annoying thing Safari 26.0.1 does is flash a white page when navigating to any new site, despite MacOS using dark mode and regardless of the website’s background colour. That didn’t happen in previous versions.
I now developed a habit of closing my eyes before clicking a link to a new website to avoid the bright flash :-/
Update (2025-10-20): Warner Crocker:
Since the release of macOS Tahoe 26.0.1 I’ve seen strange memory leaks increasing for what I think are odd reasons. For example, a process known as IconServicesAgent increases the longer I go between rebooting sessions. According to documentation I’ve found online, one of the causes of this can be an overly large or corrupted icon cache, or specific icon causing the problem. A solution is to clear the icon cache, which I’ve done, but the problem reoccurs.
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There’s another memory leak that I see less frequently and seems a bit more random. You can see in the image above the amount of memory NotifcationsCenter is consuming.
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Prior to macOS 26 Tahoe I had long ago turned off Apple Intelligence’s Notification Summaries on macOS Sequoia. I turned them back on with this new release to see if things improved. They did not. In my experience they are just as bad and just as useless as they were previously.
I have a customer reporting that something changed and one of his .sparsebundle disk images won’t mount on Tahoe even though the same file works on other macOS versions.
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Juli Clover:
Note that watchOS is 26.0.2 because there was a watchOS 26.0.1 update designed to add Messages and Find My support to the Apple Watch Ultra 3 in Mexico.
According to Apple’s release notes, the software provides bug fixes and important security updates.
Only the visionOS update has documented security content.
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macOS 15.7.1 (full installer, security):
This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users.
macOS 14.8.1 (full installer, security):
This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users.
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Update (2025-10-04): Jezmund_Berserker:
A few people in our company have been running into the same issue since updating to 15.7.1 and I’m curious if any of you have seen it.
The update appears to work fine and the computer reboots into macOS and then:
- Computer runs unusually slowly
- At some point the computer shuts itself off
- Computer will not turn on unless you hold the power button for several seconds
Pierre Igot:
For good measure, after the very minor update from macOS 15.7 to macOS 15.7.1, macOS warns me… that a new device has been added to my Apple account!
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Update (2025-10-08): Pierre Igot:
Another very minor macOS update (from 15.7. to 15.7.1), another arbitrary reset by Apple of the destination folder setting for downloads, which, on my Mac, reverted back from my destination of choice to the default ~/Downloads.
What’s the point of giving the user a choice if you don’t respect that choice?
Update (2025-10-20): doekman:
I spotted a dark pattern on my Sequoia machine. macOS tricking me into installing Tahoe instead of the security update…
When clicking on the (i) symbol at the “Also available” section, the major-upgrade option is checked, instead of the minor-upgrade one would expect.
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Patreon:
Autopilot is an easy and automatic way to give your fans promotional offerings to drive your growth on Patreon.
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Autopilot is now automatically enabled for all creators. To change this setting, check the Autopilot section in the Promotions tab.
They’d previously sent an e-mail saying it would be activated on October 1, but I found that my Patreon already had it switched on. I turned it off.
Via Nick Heer:
As an extremely casual user, I do not love this; I think it is basically spam. I am sympathetic toward those who make their living with Patreon. I turned this off. If you have a Patreon creator page and missed this email, now you know.
And if you are a subscriber to anyone on Patreon and begin receiving begging emails next week, please be gracious. They might not be aware this feature was switched on.
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