macOS 26 Tahoe – Official Overview Summary

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Major Design Revolution A new design with Liquid Glass. Beautiful, delightful, and instantly familiar. 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.

Customization Options Updated app icons crafted from Liquid Glass. Personalize your Mac with new options including updated light or dark appearances, new color-tinted icons, or a stunning clear look. 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.

Apple Intelligence Integration

  • Live Translation: Automatically translate texts in Messages, display live translated captions in FaceTime, and get spoken translations for calls in the Phone app
  • Smart Shortcuts: Intelligent actions in Shortcuts can summarize text, create images, or tap directly into Apple Intelligence models to provide responses that feed into your shortcut
  • Enhanced Creativity: Mix emoji and descriptions to make something brand-new. In Image Playground, discover additional ChatGPT styles

iPhone Integration Features 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.

Call Management 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. Hold Assist keeps your spot in line while you wait for a live agent and notifies you when they’re ready.

Spotlight Revolution 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. You can now keep all your apps and most accessed files within easy reach, including intelligent suggestions based on your routines.

Smart 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.

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