Made the huge mistake of trying MacOS Tahoe on my very nice and very expensive late 2019 16” MacBook Pro.
It’s have various problems, but after the last update it does not recognize that is plugged in about 80% of the time, will say “plugged in but not charging” 80% of the 20% that is can tell it’s plugged in.
Tried various fixes and attempts from bootable USBs this morning until it was at absolute 0% and died.
I am nothing if not persistent, so I left it plugged in. It came up to 13% and is still charging. So I’m reinstalling Tahoe (that’s the best I can do), and if I can get it up to a reasonable power level I am downgrading right back to Sequoia or before.
Luckily I have a nice Chrome book in the meantime.
I’m still on Sonoma on my Macbook Air M2. Sequoia didn’t have anything interesting in the way of features as far as I’m concerned. Tahoe just looks terrible to me.
That, and how upgrading always leaves your not completely new Apple devices suddenly feeling slow, sluggish and useless, will probably see me sitting on Sequoia as long as I can. My Macbook is still as snappy and functional as the day I bought it. Bet that will change the minute I upgrade.
I know it’s not practical for most people, but I think it’s wild how the latest macOS on Apple hardware doesn’t feel like a substantial improvement over Debian Sid on a secondhand Thinkpad T60.
So I ran Reinstall Tahoe on the computer. Initially it was still not recognizing the charger. Then, last time I looked at it and test it an hour ago, it was.
I’ve had no luck at all making a bootable USB drive for one of the previous OSs. Which sucks.
But I am not giving up.
I’ve been running OS X for over 20 years and I’ve learned never to install a new OS version until at least .3 or .4. It’s just not worth it, there are always issues. Phone OS’s seem more reliable in this regard but then they do less.
I’m happy on Sequoia which seems reliable and fast on my M1.
I’m not a massive fan of iOS 26 and Liquid Glass (although I would say you kinda get used to it on the phone) which puts me off Tahoe - I’ll probably ignore it until I’m forced to upgrade. Maybe by then they’ll have sorted everything out. Here’s hoping!
Just to be that guy, it’s been fine for me, including working with audio hardware and recording equipment. Spotlight is a very welcome improvement. I like the new Control Center.
The only thing I hate is the nested window curve nonsense with sidebars for standard apps.
Apparently it is fine on Apple Silicon machines. This does not surprise me. None of it, actually. But of all the problems to have, battery charging is annoying. I was racing to try to get it fixed while it still had power!