macOS Tahoe 26 Preview

Fresh faced.
Timelessly Mac.

Coming this autumn

Three Mac models facing forwards, 16-inch MacBook Pro in Silver at left with Phone app on screen showing recent contacts, 24‑inch iMac in Blue in centre, macOS Tahoe 26 wallpaper on screen, and 13-inch MacBook Air in Midnight at right, screen shows Spotlight Search over the desktop with Liquid Glass versions of the Dock and various widgets such as Calendar, Clock and Weather

Get the highlights.

A new design with Liquid Glass. Beautiful, delightful and instantly familiar.
Now with the Phone app¹ and Live Activities² from iPhone for next‑level Continuity.
Take hundreds of actions in Spotlight without lifting your hands off the keyboard.
Create more powerful shortcuts than ever with Apple Intelligence.³

Design

More you. Shines through.

Liquid Glass Clock, Calendar, Reminders and Weather widgets over an image of a surfer walking on the beach at sunset

Reimagined with Liquid Glass, macOS Tahoe is at once fresh and familiar. Apps bring more focus to your content. You can personalise 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.
Updated app icons.

Personalise your Mac with new options including updated light or dark appearances, new colour-tinted icons or a stunning clear look.
Personalised controls and menu bar.

Your display feels even larger with the transparent menu bar. And you have more ways to customise the controls and layout in the menu bar and Control Centre, even those from third parties.
Refreshed apps.

From Camera and Photos to Safari and FaceTime, your go-to apps feel fresh and expressive. And moving across apps and devices feels more harmonious than ever.

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

Live Translation.

Automatically translate texts in Messages,⁴ display live translated captions in FaceTime, and get spoken translations for calls in the Phone app.⁵
Accelerate your workflows.

Intelligent actions in Shortcuts can summarise text, create images or tap directly into Apple Intelligence models to provide responses that feed into your shortcut.
More ways to express yourself with images.

Mix emoji and descriptions to make something brand new. In Image Playground, discover additional ChatGPT styles. And have even more control when making images inspired by family and friends using Genmoji and Image Playground.⁶

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.
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
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
Stay productive while on hold.

Hold Assist keeps your place in the queue while you wait for a live agent and notifies you when they’re ready.⁸

Productivity

Calm in the brainstorm.

Make quick work of everyday tasks, jump into your favourite activities and turbocharge pro workflows — all with a 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.
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.
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.

macOS 26 features And so much more.

Accessibility.

Magnifier lets you zoom in on your surroundings using a connected camera. Accessibility Reader provides a systemwide, customised 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 customise 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 at your fingertips.

FaceTime.

Celebrate the people who matter most with a new tiled design that features beautiful and personalised Contact Posters.

Reminders.

With Apple Intelligence, Reminders can suggest tasks, shopping lists and follow-ups based on emails or other text on your device. It can also automatically categorise 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 personalise 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.