The necessary translucent image for Mac is pleasant, but MacOS TAHOE brings much more than gloss
MacOS Tahoe Review: Liquid glass
Apple describes a whole visual variable, which, as it brings everything that it brings to the platform. This means that the windows are a little rounded, which is a purely subjective improvement, but also means that the design elements are more clear.
For example, the text in the menu seems slightly smaller, but is definitely more distributed vertically. Therefore, the detection of the desired menu item is easier, and to choose it is also faster.
In most cases, the liquid glass is designed to make MAC design elements more clear, and this is definitely the case when Finder and the use windows seem more noticeable than before.
This is more obvious when there is a new design in each window, but the liquid glass is rounded from the corners
there is a menu problem that is now completely transparent, which makes it more, as if they are controlled that it has just risen at the top of the screen.
This is not the first time when Apple tried something like this & mdash; Back in 2007, he presented a transparent menu line with Mac OS X Leopard. It was an immediate failure, because it so often meant that the menu items were hidden wallpaper behind them, and therefore Apple retreated from this idea.
now he is returning, and better. With the complete lack of horizontal graphics of the menu, objects should be even more lost in the background, but this is not so.
Instead, Apple forced them to jump to the forefront, and they remained clear regardless of any Appleinsider wallpaper.
Management in the redesign of liquid glass is round and, here, in the video, also more
, as Apple says, the feeling that your screen is larger. But as part of the same goal, MacOS Tahoe does not necessarily offer transparent application badges to the dock, and this is less successful.
This certainly contributes to the feeling of your work, occupying most of the screen, and all control elements are present, but also not so. But after a week of constant attempt to find out which icon of the transparent application was, this option turned off AppleinSider.
on the left: Pages menu in Macos Tahoe. On the right: the same menu in the MacOS Sequoia
both transparent and in full color, however, the dock applications were redesigned and look more neat.
MacOS TAHOE ReVEW: Launchpad disappeared
Launchpad was replaced by Apps & Mdash; which is also available now in Spotlight
this was a series of applications located in the ranks and column. They failed or were a little tedious. “Col-SM-12″>So, at the top there is a list of the proposed applications that Mac believes that you will most likely want the following & mdash; Based on how often you use them, possibly also during the day.
Then, under the proposed applications, are the ranks of other, divided into categories. What you see depends on how many applications and what kind you have, but, for example, in Appleinsider's applications shows 14 categories, from creativity or business to travel and games.
what actually happened here is that the duties of Launchpad were transferred to the center of attention. Now they are only one of the many improvements to the Apple Spotlight.
MacOS TAHOE ReVEW: Spotlllight is changing
, by default, you still launch Spotlight, give Spocument Space and at first glance, it looks like Antainte Antis, only it looks like Anti Antaintes. The regions on the bar who appear are rounded, and all this seems less.
, but press the tab key or move your mouse, and the old compression with the worship of the spotlight, adding four new bubble options next to it. The first of them is called applications and presses them & mdash; or pressing commander-1 & mdash; It opens exactly the same window as the application icon in the dock.
in general, Spotlight, apparently, will significantly improve significantly in MacOS Tahoe, and this is obviously welcome. It is also a little difficult to determine quantitatively, since the results depend on what you are looking for.
Spotlight now gives you access to hundreds of Mac Actions & Mdash; And any of them can be assigned a quick key
However, as well as the general feeling that it is more useful and even more responsive, there is one clear improvement. After you were looking for something in the spotlight, the results are led by a series of buttons that filter the list.
The buttons also differ, depending on what applications you have, if not the type of element that you are looking for. But, for example, typical filter buttons include PDF, folders, notes and, if you have them, applications such as Pixelmator Pro are such.
All this happens in the main window window, but there are four additional bubbles:
- Applications (Command-1)
- Files (Command-2)
- Action (Command-3)
- Bube bube (Command-4)
“Col colorless =” Col colorlas->”Collsm -Sol”. Applications, again, this is the same list that you get from the application icon to the dock. Files do not seem very different from the usual search in the spotlight, except that by default it returns the results in the presentation of the icon instead of the list.
Then the actions are a potentially huge addition to the spotlight, but it is curiously called, and also has a curious icon. The icon is the same as for labels, and “actions” are the term of labels for steps in the task.
This makes sense as soon as you start the search, because the first results shown may well be labels if they correspond to your search terms. But the “Spotlight Actions” section also returns other results, therefore, perhaps the best name for this would be fast keys.
This is because Quick Keys is a name that Apple does not give for these actions, but for what you can do with these actions. Action appears against any search results, you can assign a sequence of letters.
It is difficult to describe that without a word, and this is not the same as the label with Capital S. This is also not in the way key, since this is usually one letter plus the modifier key, such as a team or control.
If you try to configure a fast key that includes, say, a command key, then you are immediately thrown out of the setting. Fast keys should be sequences of letters or numbers, up to 12 of them & mdash; And you cannot use punctuation.
The idea is that it is easy to remember what you installed, say “SM” to mean sending a message. And as soon as you have such quick keys, you can start Spotlight, enter SM, click a return and throws a message.
This is a real advantage here. You send a message or email, but you are doing this from Spotlight & Mdash; So you do it as quickly as pressing the command space.
Plus, keeping you in the spotlight means that you may have fewer email options, but you are not by mail. And you are not distracted by incoming messages.
MacOS TAHEE: clipboard
it ' S Easy to get toe excited Over this Last New Part of Spotlight, The Clipboard, Because It ' S A Feature To Users Have Had Had FOR FOR FOR FOR FOR FOR FOR FOR FOR FOR FOR FOR FORM Decades and it shoup always have been avalable to EVERYONE.
So there is little wonderful that Apple brought it to everyone & mdash; But, as it turns out, a little short – that's right. This is a limited story of the Buffer of the exchange, and the Apple version is not as good as any of the third -party rivals.
Usually you say that the manager of the Boofer Exchange is an unsurpassed good for the Mac, but the Apple version is beating all rivals
The basics are the same. This is copying and insert, with the exception of what you insert, it can be the last that you have copied, but this may be what before, or a thing before, and so on.
you choose what to insert from everything that you copied in any application, whether it is a text or image & mdash; Or even a password.
If such competitors as Alfred 5 will not copy the password or quickly wash it, the Apple version cannot correspond to this yet. Apple even warns that the exchange buffer may contain confidential information, and you can still find in testing Appleinsider that your passwords are on the review.
Apple makes one security concession. It's just not very good & mdash; Macos Tahoe wipes the story of the Buffer of the exchange after eight hours.
So, if you have standard blocks of text that you always use, or you just lost the document that you wrote yesterday, but you know that you copied it first, you are not lucky. If you do not have a third -party manager of the Buffer of the Exchange.
Apple decided to make these restrictions for the same reason as always. For example, Apple’s reminders can be excellent, but cannot replace Todoist or Omnifocus because Apple prefers simplicity to powerful functions.
Despite this, the first authoritative manager of the exchange buffer on Mac is a great thing, and, of course, one of the reasons why MacOS Tahoe can make you more productive.
MacOS Tahoe Review & Mdash; The magazine
there are more such functions for performance than in the spotlight, but they may be more niche. One of them is the long-awaited adding of the magazine to the Mac, and the other is an unequisite, but welcoming inclusion of a new telephone application.
None of them is yet perfect, and not one of them can reasonably expect that he will become over the next few years, if not only during the next months of beta.
Journal for Mac-there is a little naked bones next to the iPhone analogue, but at least it is
the journal, for example, is a slightly cut version of the iPhone application. The main difference is that there are absolutely no support for the shortcuts for the magazine on the Mac
on the iPhone, for example, you can create shortcuts for automatically adding records, including audio or to search for old records.
Then, manually adding an entry to the journal can begin with the fact that the iPhone offers you offers such as training or photographs. On Mac, you are just starting with an empty text field.
You can add photos, audio or place about the place. In addition, if you have a camera on your Mac, you can directly photograph or video in the magazine.
the real benefit from the magazine for Mac, however, this is the keyboard that you will definitely get with this device. The ability to write on a full -sized keyboard is infinitely preferable to tapping on the iPhone, especially for long records.
Thus, even without some users, Extras Journal can be used, this is still good that the application is now on the Mac.
at this stage of the beta process, however, this is one of the functions that is noticeably a glitch. This can take several hours before the magazine on the MAC is filled with your records with the iPhone, although after that synchronization seems more reliable.
Macos Tahoe Review & Mdash; Phone
The phone is a curious, but a welcome addition to Mac with MacOS Tahoe. You have long been able to place calls with Mac, for example, Facetime or Skype, but now there is this new application.
at the moment it is bugges, but when it works, you may never want to make calls differently than on your Mac
, and this is specifically for calls from your Mac, through your iPhone.
for the first time you try, you can get confused if you once made a form of calling with Mac. For example, in testing, Appleinsider Skype rose as a ghost and tried to make a call before realizing that his service no longer exists.
to correct this:
- Open the
- settings
- click General
- . Class = “Col-SM-12″>With this set, the ability to make actual phone calls with your Mac-Absolute Bouon & Mdash; In theory.
- Configure the tone of the text
- Make a list from the text
- Make a table from the text
- Corrected text
- rewrite text
- Summize the text
- However, it is much more important that there are now labels called model .
This is an action that gives you access to:
- intelligence apple on the device
- compute compute
- iMac (2020 and later)
- mac mini (2020 and later)
- Mac Pro (2019 and later)
- Mac Studio (2022 and later)
- MacBook Air with Apple Aish with Apple>2020
- .
- MacBook Pro 13-inch (2020, four ports Thunderbolt 3)
- MacBook Pro 16-inch (2019)
- macBook Pro with Apple Silicon (2020 and later)
- Apple intelligence or action
- Live translation
- Polls in messages
- A radical improved spotlight using a buffer manager
- New telephone application
- Apple Intelligence Actions in shortcuts
- Liquid Glass makes the elements of control of clear
- The transparent dock makes the applications more tough
- magazine-barebones
- Labels still do not have the iPhone parity
Phone> from Default
In practice, a telephone application for Mac is currently very glitch. When testing, this usually shows a notification when a call was received, but not always.
go to the new telephone application and settings to make sure that you do not call the ghost of the past Skype
for outgoing calls, sometimes this discarded the connection as soon as it answered. It is always possible that it was a problem with the connection, and not with the application for the phone, but it turned out to be too inconsistent to be sure.
, Nevertheless, when it works, the quality of the call is excellent, and it is actually hard to imagine to return to pick up your phone. As Beta moves, we hope this application will become more reliable, and as soon as it happens, it will become widely used.
there is one problem that is unlikely to change, since this is not a very mistake. But while there is no way to answer or finish the call only from the keyboard.
can be informed third-party applications for the Maestro keyboard utility to find the icon of the ring phone, and then click on it. Thus, according to the expansion, one could have buttons of the flow deck that respond to the calls.
But so far the application for the phone is not unreliable, which is difficult to even check these options.
MacOS Tahoe Review & Mdash; Labels
It is also insanely difficult to test certain functions of the labels that can be made with groups of tabs in Safari. Labels to do this were actually represented in the late version of MacOS 15, but such actions are added so rarely that they have been missed so far.
The idea is that you can have a shortcut that opens Safari and switches the browser to the specified set of tabs. Thus, using one button, you can open all your most used sites for relaxation, but when you hear how the boss goes, another button or clicking on work sites.
a complete shortcut for the recording that you say, and the return of the current list of tasks & mdash; Image loan: William Gallagher
it was possible on the iPhone for many years. It would be an iPhone, where a finger that presses on such a button rests about six pixels from its own Safari controls.
and it was not possible on the MAC, where, perhaps, the groups of the tabs are more convenient & mdash; And the label would be much more convenient.
Such a set of labels now exists, with the exception of a small problem that they do not work. It is also not a beta -problem of MacOS Tahoe, since the same function in the latest assemblies of MacOS Sequoia fails with the same “internal error”.
What we have in shortcuts that are clearly launched with MacOS Tahoe, and which definitely works is Apple Intelligence. As part of the labels on MacOS Tahoe, you now have actions for specific spelling tools:
But even now you can convey something like a text or sound in a shortcut and have a previously written prompt for reconnaissance Apple to cope with it. Your choice is then to use the most private, but also the least effective due to limitations on its size.
Using Private Cloud Cloud Compute means that you get Apple intelligence in full strength using the company's safe cloud services. training.Apple gave an example of a student who uses this to analyze his lecture notes and compare them with an audio session. Instead, Appleinsider created a shortcut that listens to you for ten minutes or more, and then creates a consistent, effective list of tasks based on what you said.
MacOS Tahoe Review & Mdash; What will happen next
Apple does not release typical specifics, such as the minimum RAM necessary for launching MacOS Tahoe. But it indicates that the full operating system works on the Apple Silicon MC1 or later, as well as on certain Mac Intel.
The full list of compatible Macs:
note that this is last year, when any Intel Macs will be supported outside the updates.
as in the latest MacOS updates, Intel Mac already get a more limited set of functions. Despite the fact that this can change in comparison with the beta process, at present Intel Mac will certainly not get:
there is a function that has now left the Apple Silicon Mac. As of MacOS Tahoe, Apple no longer supports Firewire on Mac.
Long replaced by USB-C and Thunderbolt, FireWire is still used through various hardware adapters. If the devices that it connects are necessary for your work, you cannot update MacOS Tahoe.
Macos Tahoe Review & Mdash; Pros
Macos Tahoe Review & Mdash; Conses
Reating: 4 of 5
Apple's attention that he is converting to MacOS, perhaps not what it should be. We believe that this makes sense based on a huge gap between the number of iPhone sold, and the number of Mac sold annually.
This is not the worst update that we saw, and this is not the best.
We will return to this review when the update is sent in the fall of 2025.
