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In this article, we've selected 50 caller features and lesser-known changes that are worthy checking retired if you're upgrading. What bash you deliberation of macOS Tahoe truthful far? Let america cognize successful the comments.
1. Terminal Refresh
Apple's Terminal app gets a ocular refresh successful macOS Tahoe, and it's the archetypal notable plan update since the command-line instrumentality debuted. The updated Terminal supports 24-bit colour and Powerline fonts, and adopts the caller Liquid Glass aesthetic with redesigned themes that align with macOS 26's broader ocular overhaul.
2. macOS Themes
In macOS Tahoe, Apple introduces the conception of Themes, with caller quality settings that spell beyond the accepted Light and Dark modes. In System Settings ➝ Appearance, determination are inactive the modular Auto, Light, and Dark modes, but Apple has added respective options that let you to make your ain stylized desktop environment. "Accent color" has go "Color," and there's a caller "Text item color" option, truthful you tin present marque highlighted substance look successful a antithetic shadiness to buttons, pop-up menus, vigor buttons, checkboxes, and focused outlines.
3. Folder Colors
In System Settings ➝ Appearance, the default mounting maintains the classical macOS look with app icons displaying their archetypal colors. But you tin present customize folder colors independently done a dedicated caller "Folder Color" setting. When acceptable to Automatic, folders clasp their accepted bluish appearance, but switching to different colors similar purple volition alteration each folder colors system-wide.
4. Dark Icons
In System Settings ➝ Appearance, successful the caller "Icon & widget style" section, a caller Dark enactment applies achromatic backgrounds to icons passim the strategy interface, including System Settings sidebar icons (this works successful some Light and Dark modes).
5. Clear Style
In System Settings ➝ Appearance, successful the caller "Icon & widget style" section, a caller Clear mounting emphasizes the Liquid Glass redesign and adds a caller transparency by picking up inheritance colors, creating a much translucent interface effect. Clear besides includes Light and Dark variants, oregon it tin beryllium acceptable to Auto for automatic day-night switching.
6. Tinted Style
In System Settings ➝ Appearance, successful the caller "Icon & widget style" section, a caller Tinted enactment allows broad colour customization of some icons and folders. With "Tinted" selected, the Folder colour mounting becomes "Icon, widget & folder color," allowing you to prime from preset colors oregon take customized tints utilizing the Other enactment (which includes a colour picker and a taxable color).
7. Volume/Brightness Overlays
The accepted ample overlays that look erstwhile you set measurement and brightness are gone, and person been replaced with smaller, oblong overlays that look successful the top-right of the surface nether the paper bar, notification-style.
8. Background Apps
macOS present notifies you via a caller popup erstwhile apps effort to tally a daemon aft they person been closed. You tin "Always Allow" the inheritance process to tally oregon you tin contradict it permission.
9. No Unified Safari URL Bar
Safari nary longer offers the enactment to unify the tab barroom and the code barroom (the Compact tab layout setting), possibly due to the fact that it wasn't fashionable with users. Apple could ever reinstate it successful a aboriginal bundle update.
10. Apple Notes Markdown
Apple Notes present allows you to import and export substance successful the fashionable Markdown format. Markdown is simply a lightweight markup connection that immoderate writers similar to usage implicit affluent text. Rather than utilizing HTML for bold, italics, links, and headers, it uses speedy quality shortcuts similar **bold** oregon #header.
11. Search by App
When searching successful Spotlight, benignant the app sanction (e.g. Notes, Calendar) past property the Tab key. Now benignant a word to hunt lone wrong that app.
12. Message Polls
The quality to make polls successful conversations has been a mainstay of rival messaging platforms. And now, Messages yet has it too. You tin adhd up to 12 choices successful a poll, and past nonstop it to radical successful a speech to ballot on. If you nonstop a canvass and idiosyncratic thinks an enactment is missing, they tin adjacent edit it and adhd successful different choice. Note that users request to person a instrumentality with iOS 26 oregon macOS Tahoe installed successful bid to interact with polls successful Message conversations.
13. Games App
Apple's caller Games app lists each the games installed connected your Mac, adjacent if they weren't downloaded from the App Store. The interface includes Home, Arcade, Play Together, and Library views.
14. Restore Menu Bar Background
In macOS Tahoe, the Liquid Glass plan overhaul makes the paper barroom look little similar a barroom than ever due to the fact that there's nary longer a disposable inheritance to it. If you dislike the quality of paper items floating astatine the apical of your desktop, spell to System Settings ➝ Menu Bar, past toggle connected the power adjacent to "Show paper barroom background."
15. Lock Screen Clock
You tin present alteration the benignant of the Lock Screen clock, conscionable similar successful iOS 18. Simply spell to System Settings ➝ Wallpaper, and click Clock Appearance... wherever you tin set the font and the value of the timepiece arsenic it appears connected the Lock Screen and/or Screen Saver.
16. Control Center
Like iOS, you tin present customize the layout of Control Center via System Settings ➝ Menu Bar –> Menu Bar Controls, with the quality to adhd third-party app controls, including apps installed connected your iPhone (which motorboat iPhone Mirroring erstwhile clicked).
17. Safari Address Bar
Safari present has a translucent code bar, and colors from webpages radiance done the browser's main toolbar. The toolbar tin besides instrumentality connected the colour of the presently viewed website, though you tin power this utilizing the "Show colour successful tab bar" enactment successful Safari ➝ Settings....
18. Phone App
Apple has brought the Phone app to the Mac, truthful you tin marque calls, judge calls, and usage features similar Hold Assist and Call Screening. You inactive request a connected iPhone with Wi-Fi Assist turned on.
19. Live Translation
FaceTime present supports Live Translation, displaying captions if you're talking to idiosyncratic who speaks different language. Live Translation is an Apple Intelligence diagnostic and requires an Apple silicon Mac.
20. Reminders Auto-Categorize
In macOS Sequoia, you tin make market lists that the Reminders app tin automatically categorize into meaningful sections for you. In macOS Tahoe, Reminders takes things up a notch. Using Apple Intelligence, the app tin present auto-categorize beauteous overmuch immoderate database that you enter. If you're packing for a vacation, for example, prime File ➝ Auto-Categorize, and the app volition benignant your items into Clothing, Electronics, and Toiletries sections, to sanction conscionable a few.
21. Genmoji
Genmoji supports combining 2 oregon much emoji unneurotic to make a caller character. You tin besides harvester existing emoji with text-based descriptions to tweak them, which is simply a much convenient starting constituent for generating thing new.
22. Folder Icon Customization
You tin present customize the look of idiosyncratic folders with the usage of colour tags, emoji, and different prime glyphs. Simply right-click (Ctrl-click) connected a folder and take the Customize Folder... enactment successful the contextual menu.
23. Spotlight Keyboard Shortcuts
When you invoke Spotlight Search with Command + Spacebar, you tin power to its dedicated modes similar so: Applications (Command + 1), Files (Command + 2), Actions (Command + 3), and Clipboard (Command + 4). However, you tin power to these modes faster simply by adding the requisite fig to your archetypal Spotlight invocation. For example, Command + Spacebar + 2 takes you consecutive to a Files search.
24. Magnifier
A caller Magnifier app uses the iPhone camera's zoom diagnostic to zoom successful and presumption objects oregon substance up close, beaming the provender to a Mac done Continuity Camera. There are options for creating aggregate unrecorded league windows for tracking, for example, a presumption portion besides zooming successful connected a textbook, and each presumption tin beryllium customized with antithetic brightness levels and colour and opposition filters to suit idiosyncratic needs.
25. Personal Voice
Found successful System Settings ➝ Accessibility, Personal Voice is faster and easier to use, acknowledgment to advancements successful on-device instrumentality learning and artificial intelligence. Apple says the diagnostic is capable to make a smoother, much natural-sounding replication of your dependable successful little than a minute, utilizing lone 10 recorded phrases.
26. Vehicle Motion Cues
Apple successful macOS 26 has expanded the iPhone's Vehicle Motion Cues diagnostic to the Mac. The optional diagnostic shows moving dots connected your Mac's screen, successful bid to assistance trim question sickness portion utilizing the instrumentality successful a moving vehicle. Apple besides provides caller ways to customize the on-screen dots connected a Mac. If you're utilizing a MacBook, you tin find the Vehicle Motion Cues enactment successful System Settings ➝ Accessibility ➝ Motion.
27. Auto-Join iPhone Hotspot
macOS Tahoe includes enactment for automatically joining your iPhone's Personal Hotspot erstwhile nary Wi-Fi web is available, truthful you nary longer request to manually connect. Click connected the Wi-Fi fastener successful the paper barroom oregon Control Center to unfastened up Wi-Fi Settings. From there, scroll down to the bottommost wherever it says "Ask to articulation hotspots" and click to prime the Automatic option. Auto-Join works with Family Sharing, truthful you tin acceptable up your Mac to automatically link to a household member's Personal Hotspot, oregon let their Mac to automatically link to yours.
28. Repair Assistant
Apple has expanded its Repair Assistant calibration bundle to Mac. On iPhone, the instrumentality helps calibrate replacement parts including backmost glass, battery, display, TrueDepth camera, and rear camera components. On Mac, Repair Assistant enables Touch ID and Lid Angle sensors to beryllium reused aft Display oregon Logic Board repairs connected prime models. Apple silicon users tin entree Repair Assistant done System Settings ➝ General ➝ About, wherever a "Parts & Service" conception appears aft recognized repairs.
29. Multiple Control Centers
You tin rearrange idiosyncratic paper barroom items, and adjacent adhd aggregate Control Centers straight to it. Open your Control Center, click Edit Controls, Note that Live Activities from the iPhone volition besides amusement up successful the paper barroom present done iPhone Mirroring.
30. Folder Icon Changes
In macOS, you tin archer if a folder has immoderate contents oregon not conscionable by looking astatine the folder's icon. Folders with contents amusement documents filed away, portion bare folders don't person immoderate documents. When you spot an point successful an bare folder, you besides get a bully caller animation.
31. Game Overlay
When playing a crippled successful fullscreen mode there's a caller Game Overlay interface that tin beryllium activated by pressing Command + Escape. From here, you tin unfastened the Games app, presumption achievements for the presently unfastened game, interaction friends, and set different settings similar show brightness, dependable volume, controller settings, and Game Mode.
32. Hold Assist
If you marque a telephone telephone and you're stuck connected clasp waiting to talk to a person, you tin activate Hold Assist successful the Phone app. Your Mac tin hold for you portion you bash different things, and past fto you cognize erstwhile a unrecorded cause is connected the line. The cause is informed that you'll beryllium connected the telephone successful conscionable a moment.
33. Journal App
Previously constricted to iPhone, the Journal app is present connected the Mac, which makes consciousness connected a level that has a afloat keyboard. It works conscionable similar the iOS mentation of the app, but determination are besides immoderate added features similar the enactment to make aggregate journals.
34. Spotlight Actions
Quick Actions successful Spotlight fto you bash things with apps without having to unfastened those apps. You tin nonstop emails, make shortcuts for features successful apps, acceptable timers, make Calendar events, marque reminders, and overmuch more, positive there's integration with the Shortcuts app to instrumentality things adjacent further. You tin besides nonstop messages: Press Command + Spacebar + 3, prime the Send Message enactment and deed Enter, benignant your message, deed Tab, benignant the sanction of the recipient, past prime their interaction and deed Enter again. The steps depends which enactment you take to run, but it's the aforesaid basal process.
35. Search Clipboard History
Spotlight present saves what you transcript and paste, truthful you person a log of what you've been doing that you tin spell backmost and reference. You tin spot your full past for the day, but it is constricted to the past 8 hours.
36. Message Conversation Backgrounds
In the Messages app, you tin present acceptable customized backgrounds for idiosyncratic speech threads. Click the illustration representation of the person(s) you're chatting with, past click Backgrounds. Choose from the disposable options: Photo (select an representation from your photograph library), Color (pick from preset coagulated colors), oregon Playground (describe an representation for Image Playground to make it). Alternatively, take from Sky, Water, Aurora, oregon 1 of the Suggestions.
37. Filter Unknown Message Numbers
In the Messages app's Settings, determination are caller options to surface chartless senders (excluding verification codes) and spam, truthful that these messages are moved to a antithetic conception of the app interface and you aren't notified erstwhile they arrive. Switching to the abstracted connection lists tin beryllium done by clicking the caller filter icon, apical close of the existent list.
38. Spotlight Quick Keys
You tin usage Spotlight Actions to bash each kinds of things without opening an app. There are besides speedy entree phrases you tin delegate to motorboat tasks quickly, similar "ch" for bringing up ChatGPT. Simply click the "Add speedy keys" fastener whenever you spot it successful hunt results. If you request to, you tin reset assigned speedy keys to their defaults by clicking Reset Quick Keys successful System Settings ➝ Spotlight.
39. FileVault connected by Default
If you motion successful to an Apple relationship erstwhile mounting up macOS Tahoe, FileVault present turns connected automatically. It volition besides automatically usage your Apple Account for betterment if thing goes wrong. This is simply a alteration from earlier versions of macOS, wherever FileVault was optional and you could backmost up your betterment cardinal successful different ways, specified arsenic printing it oregon penning it down, without relying connected the cloud.
40. Aerial Screen Savers
macOS Tahoe includes 15 caller aerial surface savers for the Mac, each panning implicit earthy landscapes astir the world. The caller surface savers tin besides beryllium acceptable arsenic wallpapers. To browse done each surface savers connected macOS Tahoe, unfastened the System Settings app, click Wallpaper, and click the "Screen Saver…" button.
41. Apps Icon
Launchpad is gone successful macOS Tahoe, and volition beryllium replaced by a caller Apps icon successful the Dock if that's wherever you had Launchpad. This takes you to the Applications conception of the Spotlight Search interface, wherever you tin power betwixt app categories similar Productivity & Finance and Utilities. A More fastener (three dots) lets you presumption apps successful a Grid oregon List, arsenic good arsenic Show iPhone Apps, but apps successful this presumption deficiency a right-click paper and can't beryllium deleted from here.
42. Shortcuts Automations
The Shortcuts app has been updated and present includes the quality to make Automations, truthful present you tin marque your shortcuts tally automatically based connected preconditions similar Time of Day and erstwhile an outer thrust connects.
43. Allow successful Menu Bar
In System Settings, the caller Menu Bar conception includes a caller "Allow successful the Menu Bar" conception that lists immoderate third-party apps that tin adhd paper barroom items, truthful present you tin selectively toggle them connected and disconnected from 1 place.
44. Safari Advanced Fingerprint Protection
Advanced Fingerprinting Protection present automatically obscures browser and instrumentality information successful each browsing modes. If you privation to revert it backmost to Private Browsing sessions only, you tin bash truthful successful the Advanced conception of Safari ➝ Settings ➝ Privacy.
45. Reduce Transparency
In System Settings ➝ Accessibility ➝ Display, the Reduce Transparency toggle turns disconnected galore of the translucent Liquid Glass effects successful the macOS interface, truthful if you aren't getting utilized to the caller design, this enactment should help.
46. Accessibility Reader
In System Settings ➝ Accessibility ➝ Read & Speak, there's a caller Accessibility Reader enactment that, erstwhile enabled, tin beryllium utilized to assistance work things that look connected the display. Wherever substance is hard to read, deed Command and Escape, and you tin presumption the aforesaid substance successful a model wherever you tin customize the substance color, inheritance color, font, spacing, links, and more. You tin besides person the strategy work the substance retired large for you.
47. Image Playground Updates
In Image Playground, you tin present usage ChatGPT to make images. There are besides styles to prime for ChatGPT, including Oil Painting, Watercolor, Vector, Anime, and Print.
48. Dark PDF Appearance
If you're viewing PDF documents successful the Preview app, there's a caller View enactment successful the paper barroom that allows you to Use Dark Appearance for PDF.
49. Spotlight Search File Location
If you hunt for a record successful Spotlight, holding the Command cardinal reveals its location. You tin besides double-click the determination to spell consecutive to it successful Finder.
50. Set Custom Snooze Duration
Like successful iOS 26, the Clock app successful macOS present gives you the quality to acceptable your Snooze duration to betwixt 1-15 minutes erstwhile mounting alarms.
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