June 9, 2025
PRESS RELEASE
macOS Tahoe 26 makes the Mac extra succesful, productive, and clever than ever
Introducing a shocking new design, extra Continuity experiences with the Cellphone app and Reside Actions, the most important replace to Highlight ever, and expanded Apple Intelligence capabilities
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple right now previewed the following main macOS launch — macOS Tahoe 26 — which introduces a shocking new design and highly effective capabilities that allow customers to get much more achieved. With the brand new design, iconic components of macOS will really feel extra expressive, pleasant, and private whereas remaining immediately acquainted, together with the desktop, Dock, in-app navigation, and toolbars. Customers can additional personalize the expertise with an up to date Management Middle and new colour choices for folders, app icons, and widgets. Continuity will get even higher with the Cellphone app arriving on Mac, so customers can entry acquainted options from iPhone — together with Recents, Contacts, and Voicemails — and new ones like Name Screening1 and Maintain Help.2 And with Reside Actions from iPhone, customers can keep up to the mark occurring in actual time, like an upcoming flight, proper on their Mac. Highlight will get its largest replace ever, permitting customers to now instantly execute tons of of actions — like sending an e-mail or making a notice — and benefit from all-new shopping experiences to get to content material sooner.
Apple Intelligence expands with highly effective new options that elevate the Mac expertise additional, whereas defending privateness at each step. Reside Translation helps customers simply talk throughout languages, translating textual content and audio. Genmoji and Picture Playground supply new choices for creativity.3 Shortcuts get much more highly effective with clever actions and the flexibility to now faucet instantly into Apple Intelligence fashions to automate advanced duties.
“macOS is the guts and soul of the Mac, and with Tahoe, we’re constructing on what customers love most. Whether or not you’re an influence person or simply getting began on Mac, there’s one thing for everybody, with much more options to turbocharge productiveness and make working throughout Mac and iPhone extra seamless than ever earlier than,” mentioned Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vp of Software program Engineering. “With its attractive new design, wonderful Continuity experiences, highly effective enhancements to Highlight, extra clever shortcuts, and updates to Apple Intelligence, the Mac expertise is healthier than ever.”
A Attractive New Design
The attractive new design enhances the Mac expertise in new methods, whereas sustaining the familiarity of macOS. It’s crafted with Liquid Glass, a translucent new materials that displays and refracts its environment. The Dock, sidebars, and toolbars have been refined, bringing better focus to a person’s content material. The menu bar is now utterly clear, making the show really feel even bigger. There are extra methods to customise what controls seem within the menu bar and Management Middle, together with how they’re laid out. The brand new design additionally unlocks extra personalization on the Mac. App icons come to life in gentle or darkish appearances, colourful new gentle and darkish tints, in addition to a chic new clear look. Customers can even change the colours of folders and add an emblem or emoji to provide them a novel identification. And when mixed with personalised wallpapers and theme colours, it’s simpler than ever to make Mac a seamless extension of a person’s fashion.
New Continuity Experiences with the Cellphone App and Reside Actions
The Cellphone app arrives on Mac because of Continuity, which lets customers relay mobile calls from their close by iPhone. The Cellphone app on Mac has the acquainted options of the Cellphone app on iPhone — together with Recents, Favorites, and Voicemails — and the most recent updates like Name Screening and Maintain Help. Name Screening mechanically solutions calls from unknown numbers and asks the caller for info so a person can resolve whether or not or to not reply. And when a person is caught on maintain, Maintain Help permits them to maintain their spot in line whereas they watch for a dwell agent, so customers can proceed engaged on their Mac.
Reside Actions from a person’s close by iPhone will now seem within the menu bar on their Mac to allow them to keep up to the mark occurring in actual time, like an upcoming Uber journey, flight, or dwell sports activities rating. When clicking on a Reside Exercise, the app opens in iPhone Mirroring to point out extra info so customers can take motion proper from their Mac.
The Greatest Replace Ever to Highlight
Highlight, the central place to seek for issues on Mac, makes discovering what customers are on the lookout for simpler than ever, and supplies customers with all-new methods to take motion. Throughout a search, all outcomes — together with information, folders, occasions, apps, messages, and extra — at the moment are listed collectively and ranked intelligently based mostly on relevance to the person. New filtering choices quickly slender searches to precisely what a person is on the lookout for, like PDFs or Mail messages. Highlight can even floor outcomes for paperwork saved on third-party cloud drives. And when a person doesn’t know precisely what they’re trying to find, Highlight’s new browse views make it simple to scan by means of their apps, information, clipboard historical past, and extra.
Customers can now take tons of of actions instantly from Highlight — like sending an e-mail, making a notice, or enjoying a podcast — with out leaping between apps. Customers can take actions from each Apple apps and apps constructed by builders, as a result of any app can present actions to Highlight utilizing the App Intents API. Customers can even run shortcuts and carry out actions from the menu bar within the app they’re at present working in, all with out lifting their fingers off the keyboard. Highlight learns from customers’ routines throughout the system and surfaces personalised actions, akin to sending a message to a colleague a person commonly talks to. Moreover, Highlight introduces fast keys, that are brief strings of characters that get customers proper to the motion they’re on the lookout for.
Model-New Capabilities Powered by Apple Intelligence
Apple Intelligence, the non-public intelligence system that delivers useful and related intelligence, will get much more succesful whereas defending customers’ privateness at each step.
- Seamless communication throughout language limitations with Reside Translation: In Messages, Reside Translation can mechanically translate messages, so if a person is planning with new buddies whereas touring overseas, their message could be translated as they kind and delivered within the recipient’s most popular language. And when the person receives a response, every textual content could be immediately translated.4 On FaceTime, a person can comply with together with translated dwell captions whereas nonetheless listening to the speaker’s voice. And when a person is on a name within the Cellphone app, their phrases are translated for the recipient as they converse.5 That is enabled by Apple-built fashions that run completely on gadget, so conversations keep personal.
- Shortcuts get extra clever: An entire new class of clever actions lets customers create shortcuts which can be extra highly effective than ever, together with summarizing textual content with Writing Instruments and creating pictures with Picture Playground. And now customers will have the ability to faucet instantly into Apple Intelligence fashions, both on-device or with Non-public Cloud Compute, to generate responses that feed into the remainder of their shortcut, sustaining the privateness of knowledge used. For instance, a pupil can construct a shortcut that makes use of Apple Intelligence fashions to check an audio transcription of a category lecture to the notes they took, and add any key factors they could have missed. Customers can even select to faucet into ChatGPT for its broad world information and experience. Moreover, customers can now run shortcuts mechanically on macOS, akin to at a particular time of day, or when taking a particular motion like saving a file to a folder or connecting a show.
- Updates to Genmoji and Picture Playground: macOS Tahoe brings new methods to create Genmoji, giving customers the flexibility to start out with current emoji and descriptions, modify private attributes like hair size or equipment, and choose expressions based mostly on the second. Customers may even have extra management of non-public attributes and expressions in Picture Playground, and might faucet into brand-new types with ChatGPT, like an oil portray fashion or vector artwork. For moments when customers have a particular thought in thoughts, they will faucet Any Type and describe precisely what they need.
- Elevated productiveness with Reminders: Apple Intelligence can evaluation an e-mail, web site, notice, or different content material on Mac to search out essentially the most related motion objects. And customers can even select to make use of Apple Intelligence to mechanically categorize Reminders into sections to make them extra manageable.
New Apple Video games App, Sport Overlay, and Extra Titles
macOS Tahoe introduces Apple Video games, a devoted app that provides gamers a house for all their video games, making it simpler to leap again into favorites, uncover new video games tailor-made only for them, and play with buddies in entire new methods. With the brand new Sport Overlay, gamers can conveniently modify their system settings, chat with buddies, or invite them to play, all with out having to go away their recreation. Gamers can even activate Low Energy Mode, which extends gaming periods and maximizes playtime on battery. For builders, macOS Tahoe introduces Steel 4, which brings much more superior graphics and next-generation rendering applied sciences to video games, like MetalFX Body Interpolation and MetalFX Denoising, for smoother visuals and sooner body charges.
Alongside these enhancements, builders proceed to ship thrilling new video games on Mac, together with upcoming titles like Crimson Desert and InZOI. Each video games leverage highly effective software program applied sciences like MetalFX Upscaling to speed up efficiency and ship high-quality visuals, in addition to benefit from the M3 and M4 household of chips with ray tracing for a panoramic expertise. Extra titles on the best way embody Cyberpunk 2077, Cronos: The New Daybreak, Architect: Land of Exiles, Lies of P: Overture, HITMAN World of Assassination, EVE Frontier, The place Winds Meet, and extra.
Extra options in macOS Tahoe embody:
- Safari, the world’s quickest browser,6 provides a recent however acquainted expertise, that includes a rounded tab design that floats within the toolbar, together with a refreshed sidebar with new sections to assist customers extra simply discover saved content material like iCloud Tabs and Saved. When in comparison with Chrome, Safari is 50 % sooner at loading ceaselessly visited web sites7 and provides as much as 4 extra hours of battery life when streaming video.8 And for even better safety from trackers when shopping, Safari now provides superior fingerprinting safety in all shopping by default.
- The Messages app brings Backgrounds, Polls, and a redesigned particulars view that helps customers simply navigate what has been shared in a dialog. Plus, it options typing indicators in teams to let contributors know precisely who’s going to chime in, in addition to the flexibility so as to add new contacts simply proper from the group chat and search with extra pure language.
- Journal involves Mac, making it simple to seize and write about on a regular basis moments and particular occasions when inspiration strikes. On Mac, it’s simple to kind lengthy, considerate entries and look at them on a map. Customers can hold a number of journals for numerous facets of life, that are all synced throughout Apple units.
- Photographs has an up to date design that features lovely Liquid Glass components, enhancements for personalization, simpler workflows, and sidebar consistency with iPadOS. Pinned Collections now come to Mac, so customers can entry the collections they use most with a click on on the sidebar. Customers may even discover new buttons to rapidly entry filtering and sorting choices in all views, and the flexibility to customise the dimensions of Collections tiles, to allow them to view their library simply how they like.
- On FaceTime, the reimagined touchdown web page options lovely Contact Posters of current callers, Liquid Glass controls now float within the backside proper and recede to create more room, and a brand new Extra button lets customers rapidly entry options like SharePlay and Reside Translation.
- Notes provides the flexibility to import and export a notice right into a markdown file, and help for capturing conversations within the Cellphone app as audio recordings with transcriptions.
- Accessibility options embody Magnifier on Mac, which permits customers with low imaginative and prescient to zoom in on their environment utilizing Continuity Digicam on iPhone or hooked up USB cameras, apply picture filters so objects are simpler to see or learn, and even change perspective when viewing displays or books from an angle. Extra options embody Accessibility Reader, a brand new systemwide studying mode designed with accessibility in thoughts; an all-new Braille Entry expertise that provides a user-friendly interface for these with a linked braille show; and Automobile Movement Cues, which helps scale back movement illness in a shifting automobile.
- With Passwords, customers can simply reference modifications they make to their accounts, together with checking earlier variations of passwords they save, together with particulars on after they had been modified.
Availability
All of those options can be found for testing beginning right now by means of the Apple Developer Program at developer.apple.com, and a public beta might be out there by means of the Apple Beta Software program Program subsequent month at beta.apple.com. The discharge might be out there as a free software program replace this fall. The Apple Intelligence options detailed require supported units, which embody all iPhone 16 fashions, iPhone 15 Professional, iPhone 15 Professional Max, iPad mini (A17 Professional), and iPad and Mac fashions with M1 and later which have Apple Intelligence enabled and Siri and gadget language set to the identical supported language: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, Japanese, Korean, or Chinese language (simplified). Extra languages might be coming by the top of this yr: Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese (Portugal), Swedish, Turkish, Chinese language (conventional), and Vietnamese. For extra info, go to apple.com/os/macos and apple.com/apple-intelligence. Options are topic to vary. Some options might not be out there in all languages or areas, and availability could differ because of native legal guidelines and laws. For extra details about availability, go to apple.com.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private know-how with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. At present, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, AirPods, Apple Watch, and Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. Apple’s six software program platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS, and tvOS — present seamless experiences throughout all Apple units and empower folks with breakthrough providers together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCloud, and Apple TV+. Apple’s greater than 150,000 workers are devoted to creating the perfect merchandise on earth and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.
- Name Screening helps Cantonese (China mainland, Hong Kong, Macao), English (U.S., Australia, Canada, India, Eire, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Singapore, South Africa, UK), French (Canada, France), German (Germany), Japanese (Japan), Korean (Korea), Mandarin Chinese language (China mainland, Taiwan, Macao), Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish (U.S., Mexico, Puerto Rico, Spain).
- Maintain Help might be out there in English (U.S.), English (Canada), English (UK), English (Singapore), English (Australia), English (India), French (France), Spanish (U.S.), Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (Spain), German (Germany), Portuguese (Brazil), Japanese (Japan), and Mandarin Chinese language (mainland China).
- Genmoji and Picture Playground can be found in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, and Japanese.
- Reside Translation in Messages helps English (U.S., UK), French (France), German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Spain), and Chinese language (simplified).
- Reside Translation in Cellphone and FaceTime is out there for one-on-one calls in English (U.S., UK), French (France), German, Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish (Spain).
- Testing performed by Apple in Might 2025 utilizing JetStream 2.2, MotionMark 1.3.1, and Speedometer 3.1 efficiency benchmarks. Examined with prerelease Safari 26.0 and newest secure variations of Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Firefox on the time of testing on: 15-inch MacBook Air methods with Apple M4 and prerelease macOS Tahoe, and Intel Core Extremely 9-based PC methods with Intel Arc Graphics and Home windows 11 Dwelling; iPad Professional 13-inch (M4) models with prerelease iPadOS 26.0, and Intel Core Extremely 7-based PC methods with Intel Arc Graphics and Home windows 11 Professional; and iPhone 16 Professional Max with prerelease iOS 26.0, and Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite-based smartphones with Android 15. Units examined with a WPA2 Wi-Fi community connection. Efficiency will differ based mostly on utilization, system configuration, community connection, and different components.
- Testing performed by Apple in Might 2025 by measuring web page load efficiency of snapshot variations of 10 in style web sites below simulated community situations. Examined on manufacturing 15-inch MacBook Air methods with Apple M4, 16GB of RAM, 256GB SSD, and prerelease macOS Tahoe. Examined with prerelease Safari 26.0 and Chrome v136.0.7103.93. Efficiency will differ based mostly on utilization, system configuration, community connection, and different components.
- Testing performed by Apple in Might 2025 on manufacturing 15-inch MacBook Air methods with Apple M4, 16GB of RAM, 256GB SSD, and prerelease macOS Tahoe. Techniques examined with WPA2 Wi-Fi community connection whereas operating on battery energy, with show brightness set to eight clicks from backside and keyboard backlight off. Video streaming examined with 1080p content material on prerelease Safari 26.0 and Chrome v136.0.7103.93. Not all options can be found on all units. Battery life varies by use and configuration. See apple.com/batteries for extra info.
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