"Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 betaUsers who don’t verify their age may not be able to download or purchase apps"

This is all getting rather stupid now. Of course it's not the UK - Australia and Singapore are getting screwed as well. It makes me wonder what personal computing will look like in the 2030s... in the meantime I have all the Apple apps I need thank you, and I'll not be giving Apple my PII.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/884306/apple-age-verification-uk-users-ios-26-4-beta

#Apple #tahoe26 #pii

The updated app launcher and Spotlight on macOS Tahoe is near fucking useless.
Can't find an installed application - both Hik-Vision and Microsoft fucking Excel. I have to open Finder and browse for it IN THE APPLICATIONS FOLDER like a barbaric person.

Hope the guy that signed this shit off fucks off with the Dye dude to Meta. At least then we'll be removed from this impressive level of paid incompetence.

It use to work. Why change it?

But hey, at least my phone apps shows up so that is bloody useful and at least I can open it up on my Desktop.
No. It is not useful. It clutters shit up and has as much use as the filt underneath my toe nail.

Snow Leopard was peak. Everything else afterwards had a slow decline of being ugly and broken.
It is no longer Job's Apple. You know what? Happily it won't be Cook's Apple anymore either.

#swearing #macos #macos26 #tahoe #tahoe26

𝗧𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝗮 𝘃𝗮𝗻 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗢𝗦 𝗧𝗮𝗵𝗼𝗲 26.2 𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗴𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗵𝘁 𝘃𝗼𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝗻𝘁𝘄𝗶𝗸𝗸𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗮𝗿𝘀: 𝗱𝗶𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗲𝘁 𝗷𝗲 𝘄𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗻

Testers kunnen aan de slag met de eerste beta van macOS Tahoe 26.2. De komende tijd wordt dit artikel bij elke nieuwe betaversie bijgewerkt.

https://www.iculture.nl/nieuws/macos-26-2-beta/

#macOS #Tahoe26 #ontwikkelaarsbeta

Low key - one of the coolest things that fixes a minor annoyance I've found this week -- the MacOS update to 26 (Tahoe) moved the screen brightness and volume indicators to the upper right of the display - where system notifications appear. That's the annoyance. Took me two days to figure it out as I also have a menu bar manager (Ice) that it conflicted with.

Must have made sense in the design shop, but not here. Why move something that has worked well and has conditioned long-time mac users (it's been in the original place for over 20 years) to look for it in the lower-midle of the screen? It's friendly, vanishes quickly, and gives immediate reinforcement as to what's happening without forcing the user to visually break from what they're doing to look at the smaller thing in the upper right.

VolumeHUD gives it back, and the brightness indicator too. Slightly updated styling to fit in with MacOS26, but otherwise like finding your favourite sweater just as a winter storm sets in.

Kudos to Danny Stewart for developing it.

volumeHUD: Bring back the pre-Tahoe macOS volume and brightness HUDs

https://github.com/dannystewart/volumeHUD

#VolumeHUD #MacOS #Apple #Tahoe26

Track which Electron apps slow down macOS 26 Tahoe

https://avarayr.github.io/shamelectron/

#HackerNews #TrackElectronApps #macOSPerformance #Tahoe26 #Shamelectron

Is MacOS Tahoe 26.0.1 usable for recreational use? #MacOS #tahoe26

Most of the buzz I'm hearing is from @atpfm boffins IOS design issues.

Are any old people using Tahoe? Post cataract surgery folk. Can Tleilaxu eyes read it? Are transparent icons causing readability issues?

I've long felt Tim Cook should be on the test team. He's old enough to be having senior vision issues.

And have they fixed the damned text box focus indication. I've been griping about this widget for 20 years. Pretends to have focus if is the only one present, think login screen.

Kann bitte jemand den UI Designer von Apple wieder ins Microsoft Windows Vista Team zurückbringen? Hat sich wohl in der Code Base verirrt...

Oder kann mir jemand sagen, wie ich dieses grusligen runden Ecken wieder loswerde?

#macos #tahoe #tahoe26 #userinterface #design #windows #vista #oldschool #liquidglass

iOS 26 glitchyness -
light mode < dark mode < dark mode with tint icons < dark mode with only white

Especially opening and closing a folder in the app drawer - the icons. It really is a shit show.
Even in macOS 26 Tahoe - if you open up the settings app, you can see how the thing is loading the icons one for one. This on an M4 MBP.

Really rubbish polish on this. Definitely not Job's Apple.

#apple #tahoe #tahoe26 #ios #ios26