As we speak, Apple unveiled MacOS Tahoe 26 throughout its 2025 Worldwide Builders Convention (WWDC) keynote. Tahoe brings an enormous visible redesign that includes a translucent new Liquid Glass motif. The brand new model, which can be launched to the general public this fall, additionally boasts expanded Apple Intelligence options, reside translation, a Cellphone app, and far more.
Liquid Glass Interface
macOS Tahoe sports activities an attractive new design that brings an enhanced expertise to macOS whereas remaining acquainted to customers. The interface is crafter utilizing Liquid Glass, which makes use of a brand new materials that each displays and refracts its environment. Apple has refined the Dock, sidebars, and toolbars. The menu bar is now fully clear, which Apple says makes the show really feel bigger.
The brand new design brings extra personalization choices to the Mac, with icons out there in each mild and darkish appearances, colourful new mild and darkish tints, and even an attractive clear look. Customers can customise folders by setting their colours and including an emoji or image to the folder, making them simpler to identify. The Mac Desktop additionally affords theme colours and customized wallpapers.
New Continuity Options, Together with a Cellphone App and Reside Actions
macOS Tahoe additionally brings new Continuity options, together with a brand new Cellphone app that permits customers to relay calls from their close by iPhone. The Mac Cellphone app affords many options iPhone customers are conversant in, together with Favorites, Recents, and Voicemail. It additionally contains new options which might be additionally out there in iOS 26, together with Maintain Help and Name Screening.
Maintain Help permits customers who’re placed on maintain to avoid wasting their spot within the queue whereas ready for an actual individual to reply, permitting them to proceed to be productive on their Mac whereas they wait. Maintain Help alerts customers when a human solutions, permitting them to shortly choose up the decision. The brand new Name Screening function robotically solutions calls from unknown numbers and asks the caller for info, which it relays to the person, permitting them to resolve whether or not or to not reply the decision.
Reside Actions on a person’s close by iPhone will now seem within the Mac’s menu bar, permitting customers to remain on high of real-time occasions, reminiscent of sports activities scores, deliveries, flights, and extra, When the person clicks on a Reside Exercise, the app opens up in iPhone Mirroring to indicate extra info so customers can shortly take motion from their Mac.
Highlight
Highlight now makes it simpler than ever for customers to search out what they’re searching for, in addition to new methods to take motion. When looking out, all outcomes are actually listed collectively — together with information, folders, occasions, apps, messages, and extra — and intelligently ranked based mostly on relevance to the person. Improved filtering permits customers to shortly slender searches to precisely what they’re trying to find. Highlight may even discover paperwork saved on third-party cloud storage. Highlight additionally affords a brand new browse view, making it straightforward for customers to scan by their apps, information, clipboard historical past, and different sources.
Highlight can now carry out a whole lot of recent actions, like creating notes, sending emails, and extra, with out transferring between apps, together with third-party apps, due to the App Intents API. The brand new fast keys function brings the flexibility for customers to enter quick strings of characters to guide customers to the motion they’re seeking to carry out.
New Apple Intelligence Options
Whereas Apple Intelligence nonetheless isn’t the place it ought to be in macOS Tahoe, a number of new options are coming to this 12 months’s launch.
Reside Translation
Within the Messages app, customers can have their messages robotically translated when speaking with somebody who speaks a special language. A message might be typed within the person’s language and delivered to the recipient in their very own language.
When the person receives a response, it may be immediately translated. On FaceTime Calls, translated reside captons can be found whereas nonetheless listening to the speaker’s voice. Calls within the Cellphone app are additionally translated in the identical manner. All translation is carried out utilizing Apple-built fashions that run on-device, so none of your conversations are ever despatched to the cloud.
Shortcuts
Shortcuts get extra clever and highly effective than ever. This contains creating pictures with Picture Playground, in addition to textual content summarizing with Writing Instruments. Customers can faucet into Apple Intelligence fashions, each on-device and with Personal Cloud Compute, to generate responses associated to the shortcut. Customers may faucet into ChatGPT in the event that they’d like. Shortcuts can now be run robotically on macOS and scheduled for a sure time of day or be set to run when taking particular actions, reminiscent of saving a file to a selected folder.
Genmoji and Picture Playground
There are actually new methods to create Genmoji, reminiscent of beginning with an exiting emoji and outline in Picture Playground, and modifying attributes and expressions, creating new kinds, reminiscent of vector artwork or totally different portray kinds.
Reminders
Apple Intelligence can now evaluate an e-mail, web site, observe, or different content material to unearth essentially the most related motion gadgets. Customers may instruct Apple Intelligence to robotically categorize Reminders into sections, making them extra manageable.
Video games App
A brand new devoted Apple Video games app offers a central residence for Mac customers video games, together with people who have been put in from exterior of the Mac App Retailer or Apple Arcade. The brand new app permits customers to extra simply uncover new video games, play with mates, and extra. A brand new Sport Overlay function permits players to shortly alter their system settings, chat with mates, invite mates to play, and extra, with out ever leaving the sport they’re taking part in.
A brand new low-power mode extends gaming periods whereas maximizing playtime whereas working on battery energy. macOS Tahoe additionally brings Steel 4, which offers extra superior graphics and rendering applied sciences to video games, offering smoother visuals and quicker body charges.
Different New Options
macOS Tahoe 26 additionally brings a number of different new and improved options.
Safari now affords a rounded tab design that floats within the toolbar, in addition to a refreshed sidebar that helps customers higher discover saved content material. Apple says Safari is 50% quicker than Chrome at loading steadily visited web sites whereas offering a further 4 hours of battery life when viewing streaming video. Safari additionally now affords superior fingerprinting safety in all shopping by default.
The Messages app now affords backgrounds, polls, and a redesigned particulars view to raised navigate conversations. New typing indicators present who’s about to remark in a gaggle dialog, and customers can add new contacts simply from the group chat. Search now makes use of extra pure language.
Journal is now out there on the Mac, making it doable for customers to jot down about their day or particular occasions at any time when they’d like. A number of journals might be stored and synced throughout all Apple gadgets.
The Images app has an up to date Liquid Glass design, enhanced customization, simpler workflows, and extra. Pinned Collections are actually out there on the Mac, and filtering and sorting choices can be found in all views.
Notes provide the flexibility to import and export notes into markdown information and now affords assist for capturing conversations within the Cellphone app and audio recordings with transcriptions.
FaceTime has a redesigned touchdown web page that includes contact posters of current callers, floating Liquid Glass controls, and extra.
macOS Tahoe 26 is now out there in beta kind to builders, by way of the Apple Developer Program at developer.apple.com, and a public beta can be out there by the Apple Beta Software program Program in July at beta.apple.com. The discharge can be out there as a free software program replace to the general public this fall.