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macOS Tahoe 26: Liquid Glass, the Phone app and four other changes
macOS Tahoe 26 超有感升級！全新設計＋iPhone 功能整合｜彼得森
About this video
Twelve minutes on macOS 26, organised as five changes rather than as a tour: the Liquid Glass design language, the Phone app arriving on the Mac, Live Activities, Spotlight, and a quick pass over the native apps that were updated. Published six days after the WWDC 2025 keynote, so this is the first beta rather than the release.
The structure is more useful than a walkthrough: design first, then the three features that change what the machine does, then a quick pass over everything else. Published on 15 June 2025, six days after the WWDC keynote, so everything on screen is the first developer beta.
The design language comes first at 1:18 and gets a minute and a half, which is less than its share of the conversation that week. The video’s interest is in what the redesign enables: Liquid Glass is treated as the surface that the rest of the changes sit on, not as an end in itself.
The Phone app at 2:44 is where the review gets specific, and it is the chapter worth the time. A Mac that can place and take calls is a different machine from one that cannot, particularly for anyone who works with the laptop closed to a monitor — and it is the clearest example of the direction Apple took in this release, which is to stop treating the iPhone as a separate device with a sync relationship and start treating it as the Mac’s cellular modem.
Live Activities at 4:04 continues that argument, and Spotlight at 5:40 is the quiet one: an overhaul that changes how the feature works rather than how it looks, which is why it gets a chapter in a review that is otherwise about design. The native-app pass at 7:27 is a montage, and the chapter after it is a giveaway rather than a conclusion — so the review ends there.
What it covers
- Spotlight gets the longest single feature at 1:47, which is unusual in a design-focused review and reflects that its overhaul is a working change rather than a visual one.
- The Phone app gets eighty seconds, and the point is not the length: a Mac that can place and take calls is a different machine from one that cannot.
- Live Activities on the Mac is the other half of the iPhone integration, and it is treated separately from the Phone app for that reason.
- Spotlight gets its own chapter, which is unusual in a design-focused review and reflects that its overhaul is a working change rather than a visual one.
- The last chapter is a giveaway rather than a conclusion, so the review itself ends at 7:27.
Chapters
Chapter times are the creator's own list, published in the video description.
Apps in this video
No app page is linked. The video reviews the operating system and the apps Apple ships with it — Phone, Spotlight, the rest of the native set — and names no third-party app.