macOS Tahoe 26 Developer Beta 6
Apple today provided developers with the sixth beta of macOS Tahoe 26 for testing purposes, with the update coming a week after the fifth beta.
The release notes don’t call out any changes in beta 6.
Previously:
Update (2025-08-12): BasicAppleGuy:
Apple recently added several new aerial wallpapers in the latest macOS Tahoe Beta as the operating system barrels towards release in early fall.
Additionally, they updated their Tahoe lakeside wallpaper with dawn, dusk, and nighttime variations. The only catch? They didn’t make them dynamic. That’s where I stepped in.
macOS Tahoe includes 15 new aerial screen savers for the Mac, each panning over natural landscapes around the world.
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Update (2025-08-13): Dave Mark:
Kind of love this macOS 26 trash bin.
This new to Tahoe? Something I just never noticed before?
Note that the only thing in my trash was a single html doc. Guessing this pic is the same for everyone.
No matter. I dig it!
also notice all the trash is ‘floating’ at the top. The whole bin is translucent, and you can see where they just stopped.
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Update (2025-08-14): Mario Guzmán:
The new Macintosh HD icon in #macOSTahoe reminds me of the 7th gen iPod nano's bottom if faced down. Except Macintosh HD has THREE headphone jack ports. lol
I will get use to it, but man, this Liquid Glass sucks. It’s hard to read, my eyes keep looking at the toolbars for no reason and it’s slow as hell. Icons in front of every menu bar is distracting and I can’t find what I’m looking for.
It’s not fancy, it’s not the future, it just fucking sucks.
I have installed and used every Mac OS since System Software 5 on my Mac Plus, and none of them have made me sad until now.
It just throws all that away for… nothing. Nothing is gained. It doesn’t look better, it’s harder to use, and it makes all the hard work people have put into the rest of the OS invisible.
Update (2025-08-15): Guy English:
On macOS it would be nice to be able to drag this window around from anywhere in its content view. If you drag on the background weather view it should move the whole thing. Currently you need to drag it by an imaginary window title bar near the top. I discovered that because I know how things work. But that’ll not be obvious to most users.
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I finally installed this abomination on a work machine. The worst aspect is actually the icons. They are terrible. The glASS is bad, but I guess can be gotten used to. The metrics are far worse than looks. Every button is now HUGE and taking real-estate that it ought not take, and every element has padding around it that it need not have. Dark appearance looks much better than the light one. None of the idiotic control shadows show up in dark appearance, so it looks a lot flatter than light appearance, but I guess the "connnnttteeeennnnntttt" suffers, oh no.
> I will get use to it
That's the saddest thing about this garbage.
