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| macOS Tahoe 26 Preview | |
| Fresh faced. | |
| Timelessly Mac. | |
| Coming this fall | |
| Reimagined with Liquid Glass, macOS Tahoe is at once fresh and familiar. Apps bring more focus to your content. You can personalize your Mac like never before. And everything just flows into place. | |
| Delightful new design. | |
| Liquid Glass refracts and reflects content in real time, bringing even more clarity to navigation and controls — and even more vitality to everything you do. | |
| Lock Screen showing a Liquid Glass typeface for the time | |
| Updated app icons. | |
| Personalize your Mac with new options including updated light or dark appearances, new color-tinted icons, or a stunning clear look. | |
| Liquid Glass app icons, including Apple TV, Notes, Calendar, and Podcasts, tinted with color to complement wallpaper image | |
| Personalized controls and menu bar. | |
| Your display feels even larger with the transparent menu bar. And you have more ways to customize the controls and layout in the menu bar and Control Center, even those from third parties. | |
| Right side of Mac screen showing Liquid Glass custom controls, like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, in Control Center | |
| Refreshed apps. | |
| Sidebars and toolbars in apps reflect the depth of your workspace and offer a subtle hint of the content within reach as you scroll. | |
| A webpage about ceramic pottery in the redesigned Safari, with the updated toolbar subtly reflecting colors from the page | |
| Apple Intelligence | |
| Get more done, from even more places. | |
| Now integrated into even more apps and experiences, Apple Intelligence helps you get things done effortlessly and communicate across languages.3 | |
| Continuity | |
| Together they’re better than ever. | |
| Continuity helps you work seamlessly across Apple devices. And with the Phone app and Live Activities coming to Mac, it’s even easier to stay on top of things happening in real time. | |
| Live Activities on Mac. | |
| The menu bar now features the Live Activities from your iPhone. And when you click one, the app opens in iPhone Mirroring so you can take action. | |
| Top of Mac device screen showing the menu bar with an expanded Live Activity for Uber Eats | |
| New Phone app for Mac. | |
| Make and take calls with a click. Conveniently access your synced content like Recents, Contacts, and Voicemail — and enjoy the familiar features from iPhone.1 | |
| FaceTime Contact Poster, Genmoji in center, person’s name top left, icons for reply, more options, hang up, and pick up on the bottom | |
| Manage unwanted calls. | |
| For unknown numbers, Call Screening finds out who’s calling and why. Once the caller shares their name and the reason for their call, your phone rings and you can decide if you want to pick up.7 | |
| Call Screening showing Screening New Caller notification | |
| Stay productive while on hold. | |
| Hold Assist keeps your spot in line while you wait for a live agent and notifies you when they’re ready.8 | |
| Right corner of Mac screen with Hold Assist Live Activity indicating user is on hold with a customer service representative | |
| Productivity | |
| Calm in the brainstorm. | |
| Make quick work of everyday tasks, jump into your favorite activities, and turbocharge pro workflows — all with a whole lot less effort. | |
| Biggest Spotlight update ever. | |
| Spotlight lets you take hundreds of actions without lifting your hands off the keyboard. And new quick keys help you perform actions even faster. | |
| User typing a text message within Spotlight to send via Messages app | |
| A faster way to browse. | |
| You can now keep all your apps and most accessed files within easy reach, including intelligent suggestions based on your routines. | |
| Spotlight browsing menu showing apps in categories: Suggestions, Productivity, Creativity, Information and Reading | |
| Smart, effortless automation. | |
| Now you can run shortcuts automatically — at a specific time of day or when you take specific actions, like saving a file to a particular folder or connecting to a display. | |
| Shortcuts app in Apple Intelligence indicating the use of Intelligent Actions | |
| Accessibility. | |
| Magnifier lets you zoom in on your surroundings using a connected camera. Accessibility Reader provides a systemwide, customized reading and listening experience. Braille Access creates an all-new interface for braille displays.9 And Vehicle Motion Cues help reduce motion sickness in moving vehicles. | |
| Family. | |
| Parents can take advantage of a wide set of parental controls designed to keep children safe. These include new enhancements across Communication Limits, Communication Safety, and the App Store. | |
| Journal. | |
| Now on Mac for the most comfortable writing experience, Journal makes it easy to capture and write about everyday moments and special events using photos, videos, audio recordings, places, and more. | |
| Photos. | |
| An updated design lets you quickly access filtering and sorting options and customize the size of Collections tiles so you can view your library just how you like. And with Pinned Collections, you can keep your most-visited ones right at your fingertips. | |
| FaceTime. | |
| Celebrate the people who matter most with a new tiled design that features beautiful and personalized Contact Posters. | |
| Reminders. | |
| With Apple Intelligence, Reminders can suggest tasks, grocery items, and follow-ups based on emails or other text on your device. It can also automatically categorize related reminders into sections within a list. | |
| Games. | |
| The new Games app brings together all the games you have on your Mac. In the Game Overlay, you can adjust system settings, chat with friends, or invite them to play — all without leaving the game. And for developers, Metal 4 brings even more advanced graphics and rendering technologies, like MetalFX Frame Interpolation and Denoising. | |
| Messages. | |
| Create polls and personalize conversations with backgrounds. Redesigned conversation details feature designated sections for contact info, photos, links, location, and more. Typing indicators in groups let you know exactly who is about to chime in. Screening tools detect spam and give you control. And the Add Contact button now appears next to an unknown number in a group. | |
| Passwords. | |
| Easily refer to changes you’ve made to your accounts. Find previous versions of passwords, along with when they were changed. | |
| Notes. | |
| Capture conversations in the Phone app as audio recordings with transcriptions.10 You can also export a note into a Markdown file. | |
| macOS 26 is compatible with these devices. | |
| Explore Mac | |
| MacBook Air with Apple silicon (2020 and later) | |
| MacBook Pro with Apple silicon (2020 and later) | |
| MacBook Pro | |
| (16‑inch, 2019) | |
| MacBook Pro | |
| (13‑inch, 2020, Four Thunderbolt 3 ports) | |
| iMac (2020 and later) | |
| Mac mini (2020 and later) | |
| Mac Studio (2022 and later) | |
| Mac Pro (2019 and later) | |
| The macOS Tahoe wallpaper across family of Mac models from left to right: Mac Studio, 13-in MacBook Air in Sky Blue, 14-in MacBook Pro in Space Black, and 24-in iMac in Silver | |
| Developers will love macOS 26, too. | |
| Learn more about developing for macOS | |
| Requires that your iPhone, with an active carrier plan, and Mac are signed in with the same Apple Account, your iPhone and Mac are near each other, signed in to FaceTime with the same Apple Account, have Wi-Fi turned on, and are connected to the same network. An external microphone or headset is required for Mac Studio, Mac mini and Mac Pro. | |
| Available on Mac computers with Apple silicon and Intel-based Mac computers with a T2 Security Chip. Requires that your iPhone and Mac are signed in with the same Apple Account using two-factor authentication, your iPhone and Mac are near each other and have Bluetooth and Wi-Fi turned on, and your Mac is not using AirPlay or Sidecar. Some iPhone features (e.g., camera and microphone) are not compatible with iPhone Mirroring. | |
| Apple Intelligence is available in beta on all iPhone 16 models, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, iPad mini (A17 Pro), and iPad and Mac models with M1 and later, with Siri and device language set to the same supported language, as part of an iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia software update. Supported languages include English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese (Simplified). More languages are coming over the course of the year, including Vietnamese. Some features may not be available in all regions or languages. | |
| Live Translation in Messages is available in Chinese (Simplified), English (UK, U.S.), French (France), German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish (Spain) when Apple Intelligence is enabled on a compatible iPhone, iPad, or Mac, as well as on Apple Watch Series 9 and later and Apple Watch Ultra 2 when paired with an Apple Intelligence–enabled iPhone. | |
| Live Translation in Phone and FaceTime is available for one-on-one calls in English (UK, U.S.), French (France), German, Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish (Spain) when Apple Intelligence is enabled on a compatible iPhone, iPad, or Mac. | |
| Genmoji and Image Playground are available in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish when Apple Intelligence is enabled on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. | |
| Available in Cantonese (China mainland, Hong Kong, Macao), English (Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Singapore, South Africa, UK, U.S.), French (Canada, France), German (Germany), Japanese (Japan), Korean (Korea), Mandarin Chinese (China mainland, Macao, Taiwan), Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish (Mexico, Puerto Rico, Spain, U.S.). | |
| Available in English (Australia, Canada, India, Singapore, UK, U.S.), French (France), German (Germany), Japanese (Japan), Mandarin Chinese (China mainland), Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish (Mexico, Spain, U.S.). | |
| Braille Access requires a connected braille display. The Live Captions feature is available in Cantonese (China mainland, Hong Kong), English (Australia, India, Singapore, UK, U.S.), French (Canada, France), German (Germany), Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese (China mainland), and Spanish (Mexico, Spain, U.S.). | |
| Available in Cantonese (Hong Kong), English (Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, Singapore, UK, U.S.), Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese (China mainland, Taiwan), and Spanish (Mexico, U.S.). | |
| Features are subject to change. Some features, applications, and services may not be available in all regions or all languages. |
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