I have been using SuperDuper! (SD) for my backup needs for many years, and it is just such a reliable, extremely critical program, at least for me (I also have some others that are important). I keep in touch with David Nanian to obtain any progress with updating SD. Hence, that is my connection with him and his company. This was especially important about a year ago, when there were issues, created by Apple, with their replicator software. Through David’s efforts and persistence, Apple FINALLY got it straight with OS 15.3. I definitely appreciate David’s efforts and forward-looking thinking. And SD has “saved my bacon” a couple of times.
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OK, finally see the OS 26.2 beta on the list.
I’d been using the beta for a while on my ARM MacBook Air and found no problems, but I don’t use it that much. Put the 26 release on my Intel iMac and found that it would freeze almost every day. 26.1 seems to have fixed it. I do wonder how many changes there were from the final beta to the release candidate. Apple seems to have got their QC totally wrong. Beta seems to be development, as they are changing things with the appearance and how things work. It guarantees that there will be problems at release. They need to start making the beta release only contain stable components. That means freezing development about a month before on the .0 release and anything that isn’t ready goes into the .1 release, which should be planned for release in January.
I updated my iPhone to iOS 18.7.2 last night (8 Nov 25) and am updating my iPads right now.
Just ran across this change to Spotlight in macOS 26.1.
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macOS Tahoe 26.2 Beta 3 was recently released:
More than half of the comments are positive, but for me, it will take the needed update to SuperDuper! to move from the latest version of Sequoia to Tahoe. Also, looks like one can get an installer for this beta. Look at the last post on the first page of that discussion.
You may already know this, but ShirtPocket says that except for liquid glass support, SuperDuper beta 3.20 works fine with Tahoe.
https://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
David
Thanks, David. But I still want to wait until “everything” is stabilized, ie, an “almost completely” bug free version of Tahoe (maybe V26.2?), and a stable non-beta version of SuperDuper!. But thanks for the info.
Looks like though there has been an “on going” security issue with SuperDuper!:
I have yet to be impacted by this, but I just downloaded and installed V3.11 of the program, which is the latest version that contains those security updates. Better to be safe than sorry!
Just today I’ve had 2 or 3 App crashes (Photos, Safari)…
Did you report them to Apple? Also, any more issues?
Yes I’m late to the party so if any of these complaints have already been addressed and/or solved forgive me but… A good many of my comments (but not all) will have to do with the application Music but Apple’s odd choices show up all over the place!
Apple has in a whole lot of their changes in this macOS and very, very importantly, to me at least, looked away from something as simple as muscle memory.
On the good side:
Things, generally, appear to be a whole lot faster and more stable.
More security and more speed is always a good thing! (Except if you have to explain it to a cop!)
On the UNnecessary side:
System: To me “Liquid Glass” is no better than something nasty on the sidewalk. Something you would gladly walk around and forget about. For me it’s almost totally worthless/useless. It’s seems to be another one of those changes for change sake!
Icons: Did anyone really need a change to the look of the icons??? I mean I’m all for moving on something if there’s a real need for a change but…really?
Mail: At times Mail shows a thin (regular) line for separation of mail and messages but at times it becomes a thicker line.
Music: For audio volume in Music your hand/mouse wants to go to the top, where the volume control has been for years, but apparently someone got the bright idea to put it at the bottom (I imagine the discussion went something like: “Oooh let’s change this little thing and really f**k ‘em up!”). Using it [might] be doable if it weren’t for the unmovable part of the feature. I still can’t figure out why anyone would want it that way. That goes for the system volume to. The same people also thought it good idea to put the scroll bar at the bottom where interferes with seeing song when it’s down there. A real and obvious waste screen real estate.
Music: The icon for “syncing” in Music was made minuscule, almost invisible, and put in a really out of the way place also all the way down at the very bottom of the page.
Music: Dismissing Music in favor of it’s mini player manually works fine but when done from a key command it doesn’t dismiss the larger application image.
Tiling: I really wanted to find it useful but I was hard pressed to find anything helpful about it. I guess if we were still in ‘60s and I was on the production team for the film The Thomas Crown Affair it might make sense.
I’m sure more observations will come into view but for now that’s it.
One bug that hasn’t been fixed in 26.1.
I can reliably get iOS Safari to crash this way: bring up a fresh browser tab, scroll to the iCloud tabs Reading list section, tap and hold an entry and select delete from its menu. Safari will then crash. When you restart it, you’ll see that the item was indeed deleted right before the browser nuked itself.
Here’s hoping for 26.2. Well…, and that iCloud tabs reliably starts working again as a whole. It’s been in a semi-broken state for about 3 years now.
MacOS? iOS? Since you say “tap and hold”, I assume that you mean iOS. When I do this on iOS, I do not see a “Delete” option in the pop-up menu - just “open in new tab”, “open in tab group”, “add to reading list”, “copy”, “share”, and “close”. (iPadOS 26.1 is the same.)
On MacOS, clicking and holding does nothing, so I assume that it must be iOS?
I did try tapping all of the menu items that popped up and Safari did not crash for me.
Misspoke. Reading list, not iCloud tabs. The latter’s also broken, but that’s been the case for far longer than just 26.
Got it. You still didn’t specify MacOS or iOS.
I don’t use Reading List much (I had it turned off on the new tab page), but there were a few things there. I just tried it, all three OSes, and Safari did not crash for me on Mac (with a right-click and delete rather than tap and hold, of course), iPhone, or iPad.
I don’t have too many extensions on any of them - 1Password, Stop The Madness Pro, Wipr2 for ad blocking on iOS and iPadOS, 1Blocker on MacOS - I’ve been having issues with Wipr on some web sites on Mac Safari so I’ve been trying out 1Blocker again.
Like I said, it reliably crashes Safari every single time I try it on this iPhone 15. That holds regardless of the one (unrelated) extension Safari on that iPhone has. I can turn off extensions and still every single Reading List item, regardless of page source, will crash Safari upon delete. It’s like clockwork. And new to 26. Since I use Reading List and iCloud Tabs all the time, any changes I usually notice immediately.
I can’t reproduce this in iOS 26.2RC, so perhaps something has changed.
Since I can’t replicate it in 26.1 either, I’d say it’s probably a specific issue to @Simon. The only other thing I can think of is a RAM issue. I’m using a 15 Pro, which has enough RAM to be certified for Apple Intelligence (which I believe means it’s at least 8 GB), so perhaps a device with less RAM crashes in this case? But I’d suggest doing Apple Support, to at least let them know there is an issue.