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macOS Tahoe review — a strong update, just not for the reasons you expect

Liquid Glass will briefly startle you, but then it’s the new features in macOS Tahoe that make this a significant and a significantly useful upgrade.

macOS Tahoe text with blurred blue background and four app icons: Finder, Launchpad, Phone, and Continuity.
The new macOS Tahoe brings Liquid Glass but also new features like the Phone app

Each year AppleInsider does an immediate review of the latest macOS as it comes out in beta, and then a final, definitive one as it is officially released. But macOS doesn’t stop being developed when it is released, and that’s especially so with macOS Tahoe because of Liquid Glass.

This is the big visual change to macOS and we’ve already seen it change during the beta process. Those changes were primarily Apple toning Liquid Glass down such that it isn’t as big a visual change as it was.

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