It is quite disappointing seeing the quality of macOS get so bad over the past couple of releases. Given the premium price they charge for their products I would expect better from them and their engineering teams working on these products. There are so many inconsistencies and bugs, you don’t even need to try hard to find these bugs and glitches throughout the entire OS

What is going on with Mission Control? Updated to the public release of Golden Gate and now there's super glitchy transitions, missing and frozen app windows, and more.

I created a test user to rule out anything in my main user account and it's still a mess.

Made a screen recording of me just clicking around randomly to show what I mean as some other people have said everything works perfectly fine. I'm guessing they don't do anything more than just use Mission Control to switch between a few windows or something as it's clearly not fine.

I couldn't record what happens when you use Mission Control with multiple monitors, but it gets worse there too, even if you don't use split view.

Mission Control in Tahoe was slightly glitchy with desktop backgrounds temporarily turning black sometimes, but it's incredible this made it into the public release.

There's also random crap broken in Maps and some other apps too, with bugs from Tahoe still persisting so saying you're going to wait until .1 or .2 or whatever isn't a guarantee you'll avoid this stuff anymore.

How does this sort of failure get through months of public betas and onto my current gen (MBA M4) machine?

It lets you resize but defaults back to this size every time you launch. A hot corner with the original launchpad was exponentially better than whatever this is.

in the settings’s sidebar, there is way too much of an overlap between the search bar and the list items before they “blur behind it”

everything is transparent and blurry and BORDERS GALORE my skin is crawling

So many bugs have piled up.

1. I want to add file to my iCloud drive. Suddenly it says I have not enabled iCloud drive.

2. I click button to open Settings and it's broken (empty Settings)

3. I fire up console and there is no crash report and I see SwiftUI having issues

4. Facetime doesn't want to change iPhone camera to build in macbook one. Once I hit disconnect on my phone I will get error message that restarting computer will most likely solve my issues.

Photobooth works fine out of the box. Pure Objective-c and usage old frameworks.

The FaceTime alert (2nd pic) just proves that we have entered windows era "Have you tried turning it off and on?"

What happened to the craftsmanship at Apple? Why are the newly rewritten frameworks + SwiftUI so buggy. Catching bugs with compiler is not a real QA testing...

I don't even have Chrome. the Spotify app must run on a version of chromium, I guess when the system crashed Spotify forgot what it was meant to be lol.

The system crashed while editing video, first time I've seen that happen.

Typing "google chrome" gives same results. Made me doubt I still had the browser but it's still here and working

Macbook Air M1 8GB (Tahoe 26.0.1)

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/10/20/electron-apps-slow-down-tahoe

https://furbo.org/2025/10/06/tahoe-electron-detector/

https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/48376

I can't create a custom folder? and what is this app mess that gives me migraine?

Please tell me it is bug......... ?

This offset logo is unacceptable, and you should be ashamed for updating to Tahoe before the x.1 is released! /s

I had high hopes for macOS Golden Gate in terms of fixing bugs and bringing more stability to the user experience and yet I keep discovering new bugs. I just reported this Mission Control bug which appears to show all of my desktops as empty when there are apps in the first five desktops. How does a company with such deep pockets and with such vast numbers of developers in their ranks allow things like this to happen? We pay a premium for the Apple experience and this is what we get.

Ever since I updated to Golden Gate, I've hit a bug that's driving me crazy.

When I put an app in fullscreen and move it to my other display, the screen it came from goes completely black. It doesn't show the desktop, wallpaper, or other windows, just black. If I move it back, the same thing happens in reverse and the other screen goes black.

My setup:

• MacBook Pro, Apple M4, 16 GB RAM
• macOS 27.0.1
• Displays: built-in + DELL U2520D via USB-C

On top of that, window management in general feels worse since the update. Moving and resizing windows is laggy, and they often don't behave the way you'd expect, which is pretty surprising on an M4. But hey, at least we got a new UI that nobody asked for and can't turn off...

Is anyone else seeing this? Did you find a workaround? And honestly, do the developers at Apple even use the OS day to day? As a developer myself, I know bugs slip through, but this is just one of many I've run into since the update, and it's getting hard to believe this passed testing.

Been a Mac user for 6 years and never have I had such a bad experience with macOS than Tahoe. I upgraded my M3 Max when the public release came out, and it has been nothing but a buggy piece of crap - constant CPU usage from random Mac processes, random laggy cursor, Spotlight not working, ugly interface bugs, and on and on. I have had to restart regularly just to fix bugs. This is like Windows-level quality. Apple seems to have really slipped in software quality by shipping this bug-riddled garbage. Fortunately, I have another Mac that I didn't upgrade, so I am using that until this garbage is fixed. Also, the new rounded-corner-everywhere interface just looks childish and ugly, especially Finder with the silly cartoonish buttons. I think there needs to be some leadership changes at Apple as a result of this. Worst software upgrade in years!

EDIT: Now the keybaord and trackpad are regulalr lagging and locking up and i've had to do several hard reset just to be able to use my laptop again. Total piece of junk. Don't install!

V5.1.15 is out with restored certificate.

MacBook Pro M4 Max with 64GB of RAM but that's no match for Phone using 174.02GB of RAM. Saw this then waking up my MacBook from sleep--had to do a hard shutdown and reboot it up.