macOS 26.3
Juli Clover (release notes, security, enterprise, developer, full installer, IPSW):
According to Apple’s release notes, macOS Tahoe 26.3 focuses on bug fixes and security updates rather than new features, so it is a smaller update than some of the other releases we’ve had.
In the next couple of weeks, Apple will begin testing macOS Tahoe 26.4, an update that is expected to be much more feature packed.
Apple’s macOS engineers: I know you’re working incredibly hard to make Tahoe better. The long hours spent troubleshooting bugs and fixing interface issues… all that effort, only for it to be trivialized by this nonsense.
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Just take a look at the Final Cut Pro or Logic Pro patch notes. HUNDREDS OF MINOR FIXES LISTED!
How is it possible that an entire OPERATING SYSTEM does not have a single listed bug fix?
Apple just keep getting better and better.
What Apple doesn’t reveal is that it has improved, if not fixed, the shortcomings in Accessibility’s Reduced Transparency setting. When that’s enabled, at least some of the visual mess resulting from Liquid Glass, for example in the Search box in System Settings, is now cleaned up, as the sidebar header is now opaque.
Previously, some awkward aspects of Liquid Glass transparency persisted even after the user enabled Reduce Transparency, as shown in the Finder sidebar header and the System Settings Search field.
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Two other Liquid Glass-related pecadillos fared less well. First, although Apple fixed a macOS 26.2 problem that caused the column divider handles to be overwritten by scroll bars (first screenshot below), if you hide both the path bar and status bar, an unseemly gap appears between the scroll bar and the handles (fourth screenshot below). Additionally, while toggling the path and status bars, I managed to get the filenames to overwrite the status bar (third screenshot below). Worse, all of these were taken with Reduce Transparency on, so why are filenames ever visible under the scroll bar?
Saddens me that even in 26.3 RC for #macOSTahoe, toolbars are still very much visually broken in full screen. :(
I couldn’t in good conscience sell ChangeTheHeaders to new customers when it was likely that the Safari extension wouldn’t work as advertised. The good news is that in my testing, Safari version 26.3, released yesterday by Apple, appears to have fixed the bugs. Thus, I’ve now returned ChangeTheHeaders to the App Store!
There has been effectively zero progress on any of my critical showstopping UI-level blocker framework bugs since i/macOS 26.1. It really feels like we’re not going to see any progress again until WWDC and the next OS release. I have several apps I just haven’t been able to ship with Liquid Glass updates as a result.
Previously:
- Tahoe Broke Resizing Finder Columns View
- The Struggle of Resizing Windows on Tahoe
- Liquid Glass Disbelief
- macOS 26.2
- macOS 26.1
