Apple announces macOS 26 Tahoe with new design

Apple announced a caller mentation of macOS during its WWDC 2025 keynote presentation. The caller update, expected aboriginal this year, is called macOS 26 Tahoe. Upon merchandise this fall, Tahoe volition beryllium disposable for M-series Mac Pros, Mac Studios, MacBook Pros, and MacBook Airs, with aboriginal entree to a beta trial starting adjacent month.

While Apple is sticking with California-themed names successful Tahoe, this marks the archetypal clip Apple is numbering macOS to align with its yearly update docket — with 26 replacing past year’s macOS 15. The twelvemonth is of people 2025 close now, but astir of macOS 26’s clip successful the limelight volition beryllium during 2026. (Think of it similar the exemplary twelvemonth of cars, which ne'er gets confusing.)

The large caller alteration for macOS 26 Tahoe is an overhauled design, pursuing Apple’s caller Liquid Glass aesthetic it besides announced astatine WWDC 25. The glass-like benignant encompasses the Dock, toolbars, app icons, widgets, and colors.

Apple claims Spotlight is getting its biggest update to date, allowing users to instrumentality nonstop actions done it, similar taking a note, sending an email, oregon moving a shortcut. Additionally, Spotlight hunt results are listed and ranked based connected what should beryllium astir applicable to you, with the quality to filter your hunt further.

Tahoe besides has caller Apple Intelligence features, specified arsenic Live Translations, improved Shortcuts, and updates to Genmoji, Image Playground, and Reminders. You’ll beryllium capable to get live, automatic connection translations successful the Messages app — some incoming ones and outbound ones you write. And, akin to Windows 11’s diagnostic from past year, you tin get translated unrecorded captions to idiosyncratic speaking connected a FaceTime call.

Last year’s macOS 15 Sequoia was besides archetypal announced astatine WWDC, and it gave Mac users caller features similar iPhone mirroring, due model tiling, and entree to Apple Intelligence. 

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