I guess they only work on Apple Silicon software by now and only do the absolute minimum on Intel/AMD support. It's getting phased out anyway next update, which is also a shame for a machine that 5 years ago cost more than a pretty great car.

What's crazy is that it's still a pretty good Windows machine even after MacOS stops getting updates. The irony.

Liquid Glass is horrible on my iPhone SE 2020. Slow and looks weird on the smaller screen. I tried to turn most effects off but it still is just worse in every way

I had a 16E and it was buggy, cramped, confusing, and drained my battery. My fault for being poor and not wanting to spend the extra $400 for a 16.

IOS26 broke my device, and what recourse do I have? None.

> what recourse do I have?

Buy a Pixel 9a for $399, flash GrapheneOS.

Already did. :)

That’s the case on larger screens as well.

Most MacOS major versions slow down older (but perfectly competent) hardware ("hehe whoopsie daisy")

It's sluggish on a 2023 M3 Pro!

That's weird; almost the only issue I don't have with Tahoe on a 2023 M2 Mini is its performance. Do you have transparency enabled?

Yes, I have 'reduce transparency' set to true. Overnight after upgrade the UI became noticably sluggish.

The outstanding example is Spotlight. For years since the M1 release I have been able to bring the bar up and type C-H-R then Enter, in ~500ms I guess, and I would always get Chrome.

Now, I have to wait another 1-2 seconds for it to think. If I hit enter before it has finished thinking, Spotlight goes away and nothing else happens!

The UI and Spotlight are still fine on my 2020 M1 Air running Sequioa

Fair enough. With Tahoe's removal of Launchpad, I assume you're talking about Spotlight in the sense of what appears when you press the Launchpad icon (F4)? Anyway, I can confirm that I also get very weird laggy behaviour from it—sometimes a double-press is interpreted as two presses, sometimes as just one.

I hadn't noticed that they killed Launchpad! On my M3's keyboard, F4 is a magnifying glass icon for Spotlight. I've always used cmd+space, which has been around for a while.

What's even worse is I have disabled all search categories for Spotlight except Apps and System Settings. It's searching a list of 40 apps and idk maybe 200 settings, and it still sucks.

I also never had a problem launching apps from Launchpad (I guess because that was its sole purpose, and it did it well) while I think it was pretty much day 1 that I encountered an app that just refused to show up in the Spotlight replacement.

At this point why even use spotlight? Raycast or a list of other maybe more minimalistic replacements would work great.

Can even vibe code your own like I did.

Claude Code wrote a single file AppKit program that uses 30mb memory (avoid SwiftUI).

Extended it with dictionary, quick translations, and more. Since I use it every day, I keep polishing it without writing code.

This sounds great. Anything on GitHub I can take inspo from?

totally possible it’s Tahoe but I’d rule some other potential issues out as well if you haven’t already