I’m looking forward to installing OS 26 and Tahoe on my devices. I don’t run beta software, so for me, the OSs will be a completely new experience. I also plan to finally upgrade my phone from the 13 Pro Max—so I’ll experience an event greater upgrade in my phone. 
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FWIW. You might want to hold off on Tahoe. I installed the RC on all my devices. Tolerable and useable on iOS. Too many friction points on Tahoe presently. Two of the small cuts for myself. 1) When you turn on the Mac, it takes a second or two before you can type in your password. 2) It does not save your printer selection, so every time I print you have to re-select the printer. It may be a small thing but these have an irritation that I don’t need.
I am keeping the iOS but I nuked and reinstalled Sequoia. Your mileage may vary.
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I plan to update my iPad Pro on Monday, but I’ll wait on macOS until the .1 release. I’ll also wait for my iPhone 17 Pro to experience iOS 26.
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Thanks for the advice. I’m surprised something like that is still happening after all of the beta testing.
Macrumors forum is the best place to find out the status of Tahoe. Based on what I’ve seen so far, it’s going to take a while before it’s ready. I’m not going to upgrade until at least .2 or maybe .3.
And I’m not going to upgrade to iOS 26 until I upgrade to Tahoe
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Agree 100%. I’ve always waited until at least .1 if not .2
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I’ve used all the betas on all devices. Here’s my 2 cents:
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Tahoe is nowhere near ready. Early adopters of this will be disappointed and frustrated.
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iOS seems fine to me, especially with the improvements from the last two betas. Some people may not like the design choices, and there are still a few design/legibility issues, but it’s new and shiny and will work fine for most people.
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iPadOS will come down to your opinion on the windowing. If you’ve wanted Mac-like windowing on a ipad screen - that alone will make the upgrade worth it for you. If, like me, slide over was the most important windowing feature of the OS, nothing else about the update offsets that loss.
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Thank you for that perspective. I normally update as soon as the public release is availbale, but in this case i will wait before updating Tahoe.
Been using the beta, takes getting used to it
Most change does. Over time new becomes the new normal.
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The bad:
they updated the look and feel AND how navigation works too, quite different… could have done just one or the other
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As always, I’ll upgrade to the latest version before the new MacOS is released and the sit with that for at least 3 months.
iOS, I’ve used all of the public betas.
IPadOS Urgh!
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I would absolutely not upgrade a primary or production Mac to Tahoe.
Lots of problems ranging from cosmetic to annoying (buttons overlapping, text placement on UI elements offset oddly or overlapping other elements making text illegible, and outright bugs like Preferences not saving. This is on a generic install, not one I’ve tweaked via preferences).
Not visually disabled friendly, even after tweaking. This is not something I would describe as an RC. It’s very Beta.
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Thanks to everyone who has brought up holding off on the new MacOS. I’m going to wait on updating that.
I set up the iPadOS beta two weeks back so I’m comfortable with it now. I really like the performance gain. Not as thrilled with the window management changes…but I don’t use my iPad for work so I’m sure I’ll get used to it.
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Same, not updating to Tahoe until later.
I’ve been just installing security updates
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I upgraded last week, I’ve been using it since the RC release. Maybe jumping in at the end has made me miss all the issues people seem to be experiencing.
I love iPadOS - the new windowing works in the same way I like to work, and I really like having windows on iPad. I was never a slide over user so I don’t miss that at all.
I’ve also had no issues on either of my Macs. Spotlight is incredible now - much snappier and with genuinely useful features. I also like the look and (probably because I mainly use stock apps) I’ve not had a single issue with any applications. This is much smoother than other releases on day 1 (for me). I haven’t experienced any bugs and find that everything is much more responsive and smooth.
I like Liquid Glass, especially on iPhone and iPad and love the upgrade so far.
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First thoughts
iOS (16 Pro)
- Not as big a change as I was expecting, probably because I don’t use too many Apple apps and third party apps are still in development
- the one I do use a lot, Safari, I mostly like the new look and layouts, even if a couple of things take one more click.
- The new Preview App is great, very happy with that
- The animations are a little bit too bouncy for my tastes
- The glassy look on the control centre and lock screen is bafflingly awful. No idea what they were aiming for, but they missed.
MacOS (M1 MBA)
- I love the overall aesthetic. Mail in particular feels much cleaner.
- I opened and played with all my weirdo utility apps, can’t see anything that doesn’t work, including Ice. All my automations seem fine. No printer issues I can see that others have reported.
- The new Spotlight looks cool. Not going to replace Alfred, but it does have some unique features, especially the ability to search through Mail, which Apple stopped third parties from doing a few years back and thus can’t be done in Raycast or Alfred (not in a neat way anyway)
- I won’t use the new application launcher in the dock myself, but for family members that don’t use text launchers, I bet that’s going to be useful. Launching an app that wasn’t already in your dock was weirdly difficult in the past.
- Not many bugs so far. The Reminders font size was set to enormous for some reason in the Accessibility settings, and its settings page won’t fit on the screen on my laptop.
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Oh, which version are you using?
On my Mac both the stable and the development version hide the entire left bar of the menu bar when revealing hidden apps. Worse, several dark elements on the entire screen then change their level of blackness…
v0.11.12, which afaik is the latest non-beta release. Ive seen others say they’re struggling with it, which is why I mentioned it. There’s a beta on github that apparently works ok with Tahoe. Bartender 6 is supposed to work too, not tried it myself.
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I almost always agree with your posts, but this time I have to say I am not looking forward to upgrading at all! It seems there are far more people in the “don’t upgrade” camp based on the posts I have read. Way more people than usual looking to downgrade after installing 26. IMO
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