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I've never understood people rushing into upgrading to the latest OS. They always have bugs, sometimes serious or hard disk erasing. Some people get excited by the "latest and greatest" but for me most macOS upgrades seem like a regression, especially with the serious memory bloat and misfeatures.

I can understand upgrading for testing purposes, but on my personal machine I've always put it off as long as possible.

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I can help. It's security. There were multiple exploits patched in 26.3. Part of what users are paying the apple premium for is maintenance of exploits.

You can stay on Sequoia and still get security patches. They released 15.7.4 a few days ago. https://support.apple.com/en-us/126349

While it works for macOS, that strategy doesn't work for iOS. Apple has broken their contract of 2 supported OS versions to force people onto iOS 26 unwillingly as a deliberate strategy by sneakily not releasing iOS 18 security updates for all devices. A manufactured Hobson's choice between usability and security updates.

This is the third point release for the 26 series. Aren’t these primarily bugfixes? Or does Apple use a different versioning system?

They do x.y.z versionning where x is often a marketing version so they have to say something at the WWDC. Here on 26 it's more than marketing, but that's not always the case. y versions often contain bug fixes but also new features.

That's usually true with Apple for .0 releases: never install those if you need to work with macOs, iOS, ... but this Tahoe version has revealed itself as being in a sad state even after the .1 .2 and now .3 It's not unfair for it to have earned the title of Windows Vista of macOs, something has become really wrong with the management of that release.

Pioneers get slaughtered.

It's something to test out in a VM first rather than on real hardware that may actively, permanently thwart downgrading.

Living on the ragged edge for critical personal devices is generally unwise and unnecessary. And I don't think widespread proliferation of accessible betas for consumers is wise from a support perspective.

> Some people get excited by the "latest and greatest"

I'm going to get down-voted for this, but doesn't this describe Apples' target audience? Every year big live streamed events showing the "latest and greatest".

I just don't like red badges on icons.

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