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Hands on with macOS Tahoe 26: Liquid Glass, new theme options, and Spotlight

Antonio G. Di Benedetto

created: June 10, 2025, 11:33 p.m. | updated: June 11, 2025, 12:14 p.m.

I’ve been tinkering with the macOS Tahoe 26 developer beta on the M4 MacBook Air for about a day. There are new touches of glassy transparency all over macOS 26, including the Dock, Finder, widgets, and built-in apps. Surprisingly, the Menu Bar at the top of the screen is now invisible, so it no longer masks the screen’s notch cutout with a dark gray bar. While the changes in macOS Tahoe let Spotlight encroach on some of the things Raycast can do, it’s not quite as expansive. There will be plenty more to learn about macOS Tahoe as developers continue using it in its current beta form and Apple delivers more updates.

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