A largely routine update, with a few interesting new features such as Edge Light, a security enhancement to AirDrop, and two important security fixes that have already been exploited in iOS.
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Fixes a crashing bug when using its Crawler feature. Analysis of provenance xattrs confirms they can be useful in providing more information about files.
What was the key to successfully learning to drive, ride a bike, or speak a foreign language? Confidence, and it’s every bit as important in computing, and in macOS.
When someone reports the most recent version of Safari that will open their webarchives is 18.6, and that’s the only version that you find can’t open some webarchives. You’ll be only too familiar with the culprit.
Normally, the x.1 update fixes many of the bugs from the first release. But in Tahoe, a crop of fresh bugs have been included. Here are some of them, and how they have arisen.
If you use Timers in the Clock app a lot, after a while the app may stop working and show a blank view. This is the result of a service hoarding old timers to its property list.
VMs running 26.1 can’t access iCloud and related services, with no workaround. Finder Services below an item’s thumbnail don’t work.
In macOS Mojave, Apple changed the way that Spotlight indexes the contents of plain text files. That introduced a bug that prevents indexing of any of the contents of files starting with certain characters. For many Macs, that bug won’t ever be fixed.
From Ventura (if not earlier) to Tahoe, Spotlight appears unable to index text files that start with two specific letters. Although those are exceedingly rare, this could still catch you out.
If you have a Mac Studio M3 Ultra and want to upgrade it to run macOS 26.0 Tahoe, […]
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