First impressions of iOS 26

I’ve always been a bleeding edge adopter. Probably crazy. I installed the PB on my iPad a couple weeks ago. I installed the RC candidate of Tahoe last week on my MacBook Air. Today I updated everything, iPhone, MBA, Mac mini, iPad, including watchOS. I don’t see an update for tvOS yet. I’m always very hesitant about updating the AppleTV. I’ve had problems with it before; if it has problems we lose TV, and my wife will not be a happy camper.

I am less unhappy with the look and feel of the 26 group than most people, apparently. Some visual glitches make me crazy. Some of the transparency makes it difficult to read text (notifications on the iPhone lock screen is an example for me). Overall I’m happy with Tahoe. I had a concerning glitch with Spotlight this morning on my M4 Mac mini – nothing (apps, files, etc.) would launch. Indexing had completed. It found the app or file, but it just wouldn’t launch/open. A restart fixed it.