ts1722 wrote:
Only update to 15.7.3 Sequoia. Upgrading to 26.2 Tahoe may cause other problems and you may not be ready for Tahoe yet. Stay on Sequoia until you figure things out.
I did upgrade to 15.7.3 last night and was thinking about making the jump to Tahoe 26.2 tonight, but your suggestion makes sense and I will wait.
Do your own research into Tahoe before you upgrade. Make sure you understand all of the changes in Tahoe and make sure all of your third party hardware & software are compatible with Tahoe.
The most divisive aspect of Tahoe is the Liquid Glass look and the extreme rounded corners of app/document windows. Those exaggerated curves are very shocking at first. You do get used to them at least when the windows are maximized, but they will be noticed especially with the scrollbars and also in other ways. I don't like the shading for the sidebar in the Finder, very irritating to me personally.
Other common dislikes are the various graphical glitches related to all the forced transparency even when macOS is configured with the "Reduce Transparency" option enabled in the Accessibility System Settings (Display subsection). You notice it most often when scrolling goes beyond the viewing window. A glaring example is scrolling the left pane of the System Settings itself. Here is a screenshot of System Settings where the left pane is scrolled up & overlaps with the System Settings search field.....you can also see the more extreme rounded corner as well although it may not be as shocking in such a small screenshot. You can also see the rounded shaded area for the left pane (it is very faint here...maybe the last update lightened it). Notice how the search bar is nearly impossible to even see. This scrolling overlap occurs in the Finder and other apps as well. How Apple let this through to the public is beyond me especially when the Liquid Glass visuals are supposed to be Tahoe's big thing, yet visual issues like this exist. Sometimes buttons blend into the background until the cursor is hovering over them to make them stand out a bit (may be slightly better with macOS 26.2 now).
The other common issue is that many people find they need to user better quality cables to connect their external displays....cables need to be less than 1 meter in length and be high quality whether they are USB, Thunderbolt, or HDMI.
Plus some people report issues access DMG archives, especially encrypted DMG archives.
Read up on some of the reviews to understand the changes and check what issues others may be reporting with the critical third party hardware & software you require. If you have enough Free storage space on the internal SSD, or if you have a spare external USB3 SSD, then you can install Tahoe on it & test things out before you take the plunge to upgrade your main Sequoia boot volume. Just make sure not to store any critical information on the Tahoe test system, or at least make sure to transfer those items to the Sequoia system.
Most of the main launch day release issues associated with Tahoe have been dealt with in macOS 26.2, especially the memory & storage management/release issues which I also personally experienced with the earlier versions of Tahoe.
Most issues you will experience with Tahoe now will be due to issues with third party software so make sure you are running the latest versions of those third party apps.
I'm still running macOS 13.x Ventura on my main work laptop, but will need to choose whether I go with Sequoia or Tahoe. Still haven't decided since there is only one work related thing which may force me to choose Tahoe...maybe I can wait & hope macOS 27 will improve my current dislikes associated with Tahoe. Most third party developers support the three most current versions of macOS so you have time to decide, unless something requires you to upgrade to Tahoe. And make sure you have time to get acquainted with the new OS in case you encounter any problems. Don't upgrade when you have critical jobs to perform....wait until anything critical has been completed. And make sure to have good backups....you should always have frequent & regular backups anyway.
