I have déjà vu.
I remember avoiding macOS 11 (I can’t bring myself to use it’s ridiculous name), and never upgrading to that OS.
Could the same be said for Tahoe? Is the UI-bug infected macOS 26 to be avoided completely?
Just wait for the next release in Q4 '26?
Or are we hoping 26.2 will be actually worth the “upgrade”?
I’m in a similar boat. I used to be a very late adopter to updates; I’ve even skipped a few major version releases, although I cut my Apple teeth on the venerable Snow Leopard… tends to make you spoiled 
. I’ve since become a little more liberal with my OS updates, but not that venturesome.
Stability > novelty.
Other than the excessive amount of settings (especially the ones that default to an unwanted behavior) I’m overall happy with 26.1 on my iPhone 17 Pro, and wouldn’t mind if the mac os was more similar to it than Sequoia 15.6, (and not only because I misspell “Sequoia” every single time I type it). I rely on crowd sourced experience when it comes to these updates, and the reviews on this OS seem the most polarized to me, like either love it or hate it.
Nope.
As I recall Apple normally supports a major update for 5 or 6 years, which means my M4 MBA may still be running macOS 15.7.X in 2030.
I regret “upgrading” to iOS/iPadOS 26 and won’t be making the same mistake with my Mac.
I think you’ll find you’re using everything that came with macOS 11 right now. Perhaps some of it has been smoothed over. But…
Every macOS release and every iOS/iPadOS release in recent memory has had its detractors and some who refuse to upgrade. Make your own choices but, eventually, you will upgrade (to or beyond) and you’ll just get used to it.
For myself, I just upgrade within a month or so of release unless there are show stopper bugs. There rarely are. Yes, Liquid Glass on Mac is not ideal, but many thousands have already upgraded and I don’t think they’re worrying about it any more. (With the notable exception of the echo chamber that is tech publishing.)
I will go back to Sequoia as soon as I have time for it. Tahoe is the worst I have ever seen on any PC OS. And I am using Windows since 3.11 for Workgroups.
Tahoe is a complete mess and I don’t speak about a ton of wasted space, non aligning extremely round corners and non centered buttons.
What really annoys me is that everything is so freaking laggy, slow and attention breaking and that they made it almost unusable in every regard. Look at this mess:
We are talking about an app that’s only purpose is to show you information about a person you know. And you see this kind of “design” everywhere. Like Safari. I was a Safari only user till Tahoe. I had Firefox as my backup but I loved Safari. I don’t have it in my dock anymore.
You know what, it is funny that the same people that cry “smaller becels, smaller becels” in every Apple event are responsible for that kind of bs. Like. We have square screens? Pictures are square? Everything feels like if you need to press square furniture into a completely round middle age tower… I am so glad that the person who is mainly responsible for all of this left Apple.
+1
Tahoe is such a disaster to me. I can’t stack windows properly with Keyboard Maestro without seeing 1 pixel of the window behind it, or at the round corner. One of the reasons I have KM and Moom is for proper windows arrangement. These windows are set to the same coordinate and expanded to the same size so that my desktop is not cluttered. Ok, it is an OCD but it worked all these years.
And the Preview tool bar. I can hardly see those editing icons and now I had “Increase Contrast” turned on like a bloody blind person!
I want to go back to Sequoia but I can’t image the work it will take to do this, only to one day come back to Tahoe-like design when I need to have security updates. I hope the executive changed will give me back my sanity in macOS 27.
I had an issue for the past few days where almost no videos would play. At first I thought it was my Internet connection, but then I realized that video worked on my desktop but not my laptop.
Of course my desktop is running the last version of macOS, and the laptop is running Tahoe. And it turns out the video thing is a known issue. Apparently, sometimes when the computer wakes from sleep, it just can’t play video. Rebooting sometimes helps. Reinstalling the operating system is actually a recommended solution.
I think that the idea that you might need to reinstall in order to reliably play video is pretty crazy. I am trying to remember, but I don’t think I can recall any other bugs that were that serious after a .1 release.
Are we in Windows 95 days again? This used to be a running joke with Windows. I’m still shocked that I’ve made it to the day when this is a recommendation for macOS. 
I can’t say I’ve ever seen this recommended. But I may have done it a hundred times, or more, to solve a problem.
For example, I installed Sequoia, then nuked it and reinstalled Sonoma twice before I got everything working correctly on macOS 15. That’s one reason I keep a minimum of files on the internal drive of my Mac.
I faced this issue!
Recently Apple TV had a Black Friday sale and I subscribed to it. I cannot view the first 3 minutes of every episode (from that new Apple logo to any Recap or Intro). It’s blank video but I could hear sound and see the close caption. The same video on my MacBook Air Sequoia on the same house network works fine. Fortunately, I can just randomly jumped forward 2-3 minutes and the video works. I don’t know if it’s a Tahoe or Apple TV app problem. I have watched almost 8 episodes of The Morning Show Season 4 that way.
What a disaster.
I must be one of the few people doing fine with Tahoe. I waited for 26.2 before updating all of our devices (3 Macs, 2 iPhones, an iPad, a watch, an Apple TV 4K) and all is well, and it fixed a Mac issue I had been having with Sequoia (delays after closing a VPN to restore connectivity). On all devices I reduced the UI transparency to “tinted”, which I recommend.
