Here's Everything New in macOS Tahoe Beta 2

The 2nd developer beta of macOS Tahoe is now available for testing, and it includes a fistful of smaller caller features and changes connected the Mac.


Below, we recap everything caller that has been recovered successful macOS Tahoe beta 2 truthful far.

Redesigned Finder App Icon

Crisis averted: Apple has restored the Finder icon's design to its erstwhile glory connected the 2nd beta.

On the archetypal macOS Tahoe developer beta, the app icon's colors were inverted, with bluish appearing connected the close broadside and achromatic appearing connected the near side. That alteration disappointed immoderate people, and Apple has evidently listened to that feedback.

Redesigned Migration Assistant App Icon

The 2nd beta besides gives a caller overgarment of overgarment to the Migration Assistant app icon.

Menu Bar Background Option

Apple removed the frosted inheritance from the paper barroom by default connected macOS Tahoe, arsenic portion of the Liquid Glass redesign. If you miss it, though, the 2nd beta adds a "Show paper barroom background" option to the System Settings app nether Menu Bar.

AirPods Beta Firmware

As spotted by Federico Trevisani, the 2nd macOS Tahoe beta lets you enroll successful beta investigating of AirPods firmware updates straight connected a Mac.

First, link your AirPods to your Mac. Next, unfastened the System Settings app and click connected the Bluetooth menu. Then, prime the (i) awesome adjacent to your AirPods. On the ensuing page, scroll down to the bottommost and click connected "AirPods Beta Updates. Finally, determination is simply a toggle to alteration beta firmware updates connected your AirPods. Firmware updates volition beryllium installed erstwhile your AirPods are successful their charging lawsuit and adjacent the Мас.

Apple presently offers AirPods beta firmware updates to developers only. However, that volition soon change. Apple plans to start offering nationalist betas of AirPods firmware updates successful July for the archetypal time, beginning with the AirPods 4 and AirPods Pro 2.

The latest firmware beta for the ‌AirPods 4‌ and AirPods Pro 2 adds enactment for improved audio prime for telephone calls and video calls, positive studio-quality audio signaling for interviews, podcasts, and videos. There is besides an enactment to usage AirPods arsenic a camera distant with the Camera app to instrumentality photos oregon commencement a video recording, and these AirPods models tin automatically intermission audio if it is detected that you fell asleep.

Other Changes

• Apple's release notes for the 2nd macOS Tahoe developer beta notation the aforesaid caller Recovery Assistant feature that was added to iOS 26. Apple: "Recovery Assistant is simply a caller mode to retrieve your instrumentality if it doesn't commencement up normally. It tin look for problems and effort to resoluteness them if found."


• We person not independently confirmed this yet, but a Reddit idiosyncratic claims that you tin present usage Apple Intelligence erstwhile booting macOS Tahoe from an outer drive, by default. On the archetypal beta, and macOS Sequoia, this was lone imaginable done a manual process that progressive the usage of Terminal.


• There is simply a caller "Your Mac has been updated" notification.

The archetypal macOS Tahoe nationalist beta volition beryllium available successful July, and the update volition apt beryllium released to the wide nationalist successful September.
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