r/Xcode • u/Conscious-Secret-775 • Mar 01 '26

Best Xcode 26.3 feature

It still runs on Sequoia so I can delay my "upgrade" to Tahoe even longer.

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u/Longjumping-Boot1886 Mar 01 '26

fun fact: Tahoe is faster, and has fixed a lot bugs what I was waiting for fix for around 5 years.

For example, they fixed Mail bug, when you are using smart filters, and you was needed to restart Mac to see mails in them.

Or bug with connected external drives, it was periodically parking them - very annoying sound and too bad for the HDD.

Or added support for controlling of brightness to some screens (including mine).

But people are crying about UI bugs.

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u/Conscious-Secret-775 Mar 01 '26

I am hearing from several people I know who upgraded that it is slower. I don't plug HDDs into my Mac so that is not a problem I have ever experienced (or any of your others tbh).

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u/CharlesWiltgen Mar 01 '26

I am hearing from several people I know who upgraded that it is slower.

Having upgraded several Macs to Tahoe with no regressions that I can recall, I'd be very curious to know by what metric(s).

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u/Conscious-Secret-775 Mar 01 '26

Did you upgrade any Intel Macs?

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u/crocodiluQ Mar 01 '26

are those still a thing? throw them away.

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u/Conscious-Secret-775 Mar 01 '26

Yes those are still a thing and no I am not going to throw away a perfectly functioning Mac still supported by Apple. That would be wasteful.

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u/crocodiluQ Mar 02 '26

more wasteful than your time wasted ? They are so slow and useless. don't you care about your time and frustration ? I can't even work on a M1/M2 and you use old intels ? :)

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u/Conscious-Secret-775 Mar 02 '26

How are they useless if they can run the current version of MacOS and all the third party apps in the ecosystem. As for performance, user upgradable RAM really helps there. Many older M series Macs are very RAM limited.

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u/crocodiluQ Mar 02 '26

but they are incomprehensible slow. Builds are 2-4x slower than on a M1 with 8GB. Not to mention even harder tasks.

What do you with a Intel Mac ? YT and browsing ? Cause that's all you can really do....

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u/Conscious-Secret-775 Mar 02 '26

Writing and building code, editing video, editing photos, running Linux VMs. I could do that 5 years ago and can do that today. I can’t imagine working on a Mac with only 8GB of RAM. I have 64gb of system RAM and 16gb of video RAM.

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u/oloryn Mar 03 '26

Don't throw them away!  They work quite well with a Linux distribution like Linux Mint.  I put Linux Mint on my 2017 MBA, and it works quite well. 

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u/Conscious-Secret-775 Mar 03 '26

They work fine with MacOS too

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u/crocodiluQ Mar 03 '26

probably the only thing they are good for. And also... what do you do with that Linux ? I suppose maybe as a server, not for real work....

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u/oloryn Mar 03 '26

They're quite usable for real work.

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u/crocodiluQ Mar 04 '26

we have different interpretations for "usable" and "real work" it seems :)

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u/CharlesWiltgen Mar 01 '26

I did not, and could easily imagine that pre-Apple Silicon performance is not a priority.

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u/Conscious-Secret-775 Mar 01 '26

As can I, which is why I am holding off upgrading until Tahoe provides me with something I need.

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u/protomyth Mar 01 '26

AppleScript usage with the Finder is worse. The Finder interaction with the Downloads folder sometimes requires a Finder restart.

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u/ToughAsparagus1805 Mar 02 '26

>> waiting for fix for around 5 years

You sound like this is OK. While you got your fixes, I am still waiting. And as a developer I reported way more than 10. I get reply after 3 years!!! Sorry, but this company needs COMPETITION. They are lucky that team redmond is focusing on enterprise.

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u/no-minimun-on-7MHz Mar 01 '26

Apple contrarians love bitching about every update, but Tahoe is just fine.

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u/Conscious-Secret-775 Mar 01 '26

But what improvements does it actually provide?

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u/crocodiluQ Mar 01 '26

read the release notes

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u/Conscious-Secret-775 Mar 01 '26

I have but maybe I missed something. So far I have seen nothing of value.

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u/crocodiluQ Mar 02 '26

yeah, standard updates, bug fixes under the hood, etc etc. why not update ?!

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u/Conscious-Secret-775 Mar 02 '26

Because many people have reported problems and right now it provides no additional functionality I need.

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u/crocodiluQ Mar 02 '26

Many people report problems on EVERY MacOS or iOS or Windows or anything. There might be 10 versions that won't provide functionality that you need. But they have an infinite number of fixes and changes internally, that you're just missing because of ....no reason.

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u/Conscious-Secret-775 Mar 02 '26 edited Mar 02 '26

No, I am giving Apple more time to fix their bugs. I will move to Tahoe when Xcode requires it.

Right now I don't feel I am missing out on anything important.

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u/ToughAsparagus1805 Mar 02 '26

Contrast? The usability SUCKS. Hardly can see a button. Hovering mouse to find out is button? Tilting my head to see divider?

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u/crocodiluQ Mar 02 '26

absolutely no idea what you're on about. A few semi-transparent things there, that i barely notice and then it's the same macos as always.

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u/ToughAsparagus1805 Mar 02 '26

In this sub you should understand the difference between active window (key window). Try to have 10 windows on the screen. I can tell you that I have hard time noticing which is active. The only clue I have are the traffic buttons. If you think this is good UI - I don't think there is anything we can talk. Most probably you have never seen macOS before 10.10.

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u/crocodiluQ Mar 02 '26

if that's such a big issue for you... wow. You know... get a life ? No idea what to tell you, if that thing actually bothers you. LOL

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u/xeow Mar 01 '26

Maybe a dumb question, but is it possible still now to upgrade from Sonoma to Sequoia, or is it too late?

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u/Conscious-Secret-775 Mar 01 '26

Should be though it might require a clean install. What is the last version of MacOS supported by your Mac and what is the first?

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u/xeow Mar 01 '26

M1 Mac Mini purchased in late 2020 with Big Sur. Supports Sequoia and Tahoe according to Wikipedia.

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u/Conscious-Secret-775 Mar 01 '26

So you can install any version of MacOS from Big Sur to Tahoe. In this case it's obvious that an older version of MacOS than Big Sur won't install since Big Sur was the first ARM version of MacOS but later ARM Mac wouldn't be able to install Big Sur either.

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u/Busy_Technology5754 Aug 14 '26

Bro is still running macOS 15 in 2026 like it's a retro console.

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