From Andrew Orr at AppleInsider. Wow, I didn’t realize GitHub is just allowing all this malware and telling you to run it in the Terminal, basically bypassing any security! be careful!
https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/09/apple-music-just-added-my-most-wished-for-feature-in-ios-26/ I would love to be able to pin my favorite playlists to the top of my library, but I don’t sync my library, and I should still be able to use the feature! I tried music syncing when it first came out and thankfully I had most of my library well backed up because it literally ruined it! It put wrong artwork in files and mislabeled music and basically ruined my whole library. And I have a ton of music not available on the App Store, live tracks and the like that I listen to constantly. I still get 1 Tb phone to fit all my music (heck I would love 2 TB’s but I don’t want an iPhone Max).
OK so I have upgraded my iPhone and iPad to version 26, and while it certainly has some great new features and ability to customize, its signature feature Liquid Glass is just plain ugly! I haven’t upgraded my Mac to 26 yet as I am busy making sure I have digitized all of my DV tapes and Tahoe gets rid of FireWire support, so i have not seen it’s ugliness on the desktop as of yet, but on the iPad and iPhone it is just ugly. I have always hated transparency in a user interface because it lowers usability. By bleeding backgrounds into foregrounds things are harder to see and especially read! I hated it when Mac made the menu bar partially transparent and now it is fully transparent! WTF! And it obviously is more processor intensive, because it has screwed up the screen display many times! I have unlocked the phone and iPad and had it just freeze on the background! And I have had pages of apps all be clear, when I move to them. So I am sure it is more processor intensive, and I would rather have the os talk less processing more not more! Honestly it is so ugly, I feel like people will complain and iOS 27 will have to roll this back, it is just ugly, but also harder to use! And most reviews at best say you get used to it. I don’t want to get used to it!
https://youtu.be/FbFIuLfP2yI?si=yTEcY5c62s1pgicn The transfer to Premier Pro desktop is great, but I sure hope it works like LumaFusion and is actually like Premiere and not a simplified version.
So instagram has released a full iPad app, but it default home is Reels, so it is trying to be Tik Tok, not instagram. Soto get to the old home, you have to hit the button below home to get to that. Now you can re-order that tab to get the default content you want to see, but you still have to switch off reels ever time you open instagram, which is beyond frustrating. If you as annoyed with this as me, consider leaving a low rating on the app, to get Facebook to change this.
From Malcolm Owen at AppleInsider this version adds a backdoor to your computer which is terrifying. Staying away from pirated software will likely keep you safer
For those who can’t afford external hardware like an elgato stream deck you can do it with a spare number pad, AppleInsider tells you how.
https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/23/macos-tahoe-26-beta-2-includes-toggle-to-restore-menu-bar-background/ Good! Was worried it would take a 3rd party app to fix this.
Apple has done semi transparent menu bars before and I could not have hated them more, so fully transparent just seems like an awful idea. The whole liquid glass things worries me a bit, sure it looks snazzy in a demo or for a casual user, but a pro user needs consistency, not transparency that will make things always look different. I hope this can be turned off, or someone figures out a fix, because I like to read my menus!
https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/19/firewire-400-800-macos-26-support/ It is a good thing I have been trying to capture all of my old DV tapes before they become unusable. And now I am fighting not just the tapes deteriorating (thankfully I have been able to buy 3 new DV cleaning tapes to keep my old Sony DSR 20 running) but the OS support of FireWire! Surprisingly I have been unable to pull the 24pa out of most of the DV footage which was shot that way, so I have had to use Twixtor to retime the footage from 29.97 to 23.976. I tried using After Effects to guess pulldown, but it always ended up wrong. And I am using Topaz Video AI to convert from SD to HD. This is all a very time intensive process, but if I don’t do it now the footage will just all be done. I have old footage from Mr T’s Bowl and Footage from Birds in Hollywood. The Mr T’s will hopefully end up in a documentary that Mile TV and I will be working on.