There are a variety of different ways to run MacOS Tahoe 26 beta, including installing it as an upgrade to an existing MacOS installation (which is not recommended for most people, by the way), but by far the safest and perhaps simplest way is to use a virtual machine. Virtual Machines (VM) offer isolated virtualized environments, making them perfect for testing out a new beta operating systme, like Tahoe 26. UTM, which is the VM tool we’ll focus on here, is a fantastic free virtual machine app that makes it easy to manage and run various virtualized operating systems on your Mac, including the latest MacOS Tahoe beta. UTM is easy to use, and setting up a virtualized MacOS Tahoe environment within UTM is easy too, as we’ll walk through the steps here.

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Amazon is on it yet again with some really great discounts on Apple products, including discounts on the entire M4 MacBook Air lineup with the upgraded 15″ 24GB model being the most deeply discounted at $175 off retail, the iPad Mini 7 available at a $100 discount for just $399, and slashing $100 off the Apple Watch Series 10 to start at just $299 as well. There’s no reason to pay full retail price from Apple when Amazon is offering such great deals, so enjoy them while they last!

M4 MacBook Air 13″ & 15″- Up to $175 Off

The M4 MacBook Air lineup is availabe at heavy discounts on Amazon again, taking up to $175 off in various configurations. The all new MacBook Air features the M4 chip with Apple Intelligence support, LCD display in 13″ or 15″ size, 12MP camera with Center Stage, Touch ID, backlit keyboard, all-day battery life, dual display support, MagSafe charging, two USB-C ports, and more. You’ll find the best deal, taking $175 off the 15″ MacBook Air 24GB/512GB model, in particular color options, so play around with configurations and colors until you find what suits you.

• M4 MacBook Air 13″ – 16GB / 256GB – $849 (down from $999)
• M4 MacBook Air 13″ – 16GB / 512GB – $1049 (down from $1199)
• M4 MacBook Air 15″ – 16GB / 512GB – $1249 (down from $1399)
• M4 MacBook Air 15″ – 24GB / 512GB – $1425 (down from $1599)

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iPadOS 26 offers a compelling set of features for iPad users that they have long asked for, including Mac-like windowing, improved multitasking capabilities, an improved Files app, the inclusion of Preview app, Phone app, plus all the popular iOS 26 features like the new Liquid Glass interface appearance, a redesigned Lock Screen, wallpapers in Messages, and so much more. If you’re an advanced iPad user and you don’t mind having a buggier than usual experience which is typical of beta operating systems, then it’s no wonder you might be interested in running the iPadOS 26 beta on your iPad right now.

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Amazon is offering some nice deals on iPad models and the M4 MacBook Air again. This time we have the polar opposites of iPad available at $100 off, including the iPad Air with an 8″ display for $399, and the iPad Air with 13″ display for $699. Whether you want a small screen or a jumbo screen iPad, both are fantastic and available at a $100 discount. Meanwhile, Amazon continues to offer great deals on the M4 series MacBook Air, a fantastic laptop that is a great choice for just about anyone.

iPad mini – $399 (down from $499)

The iPad mini 7 features an A17 processor with Apple Intelligence support, 8″ LCD display, a 12mp front and rear camera, 128 GB storage, USB-C charging, and support for optional Apple Pencil Pro. You can get iPad Mini 7 in multiple color options at a great discount:

• iPad mini 7 – $399 (down from $499)

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The second beta versions of iOS 18.6, iPadOS 18.6, and MacOS Sequoia 15.6, are available to users who are interested in running beta versions of the current generation of system software. Most likely that group of beta testers is almost entirely developers, since running betas of the current gen operating systems is not the most thrilling experience. This is particularly true when compared to the concurrent betas of iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and MacOS Sequoia 26, which feature all new interface appearances and a variety of new features.

iOS 18.6, iPadOS 18.6, and macOS Sequoia 15.6 are likely to focus on bug fixes and security enhancements, rather than new features.

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Liking the look of the new Sky Blue M4 MacBook Air, but don’t want to splurge on a new purchase? You can enjoy the new wallpaper without coughing up any dough, just download the full resolution version below.

The MacBook Air series was recently spec-bumped with a powerful M4 processor, and along with the new processor came a new color option; Sky Blue. Sky Blue is subtle and can look a lot like silver in some lighting conditions, and quite blue in others, but for some people it’s exactly what they want, and it makes for a nice wallpaper color too. This isn’t a completely new or redesigned wallpaper, in fact the M4 MacBook Air Sky Blue wallpaper is basically just a different color variation of the same other MacBook Air wallpapers introduced a few years ago, but that doesn’t mean it’s not nice to look at.

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Amazon is offering a nice discount on the 13″ M3 iPad Air with LCD display, M3 chip, Apple Intelligence support, 128GB base storage, 12MP front and rear cameras, Touch ID, great battery life, and support for Apple Pencil Pro and Magic Keyboard, taking $100 off the retail price in select color options:

• M3 iPad Air 13″ – $699 (down from $799)

M4 MacBook Air 13″ & 15″- $150 Off

M4 MacBook Air is discounted by Amazon, taking $150 off both 13″ and 15″ display sizes and in various color configurations. The MacBook Air features the M4 chip with Apple Intelligence support, LCD display in 13″ or 15″ size, 12MP camera with Center Stage, Touch ID, backlit keyboard, all-day battery life, dual display support, MagSafe charging, two USB-C ports, and more.

• M4 MacBook Air 13″ – 16GB / 256GB – $849 (down from $999)
• M4 MacBook Air 13″ – 16GB / 512GB – $1049 (down from $1199)
• M4 MacBook Air 15″ – 16GB / 512GB – $1249 (down from $1399)
• M4 MacBook Air 15″ – 24GB / 512GB – $1449 (down from $1599)

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Advanced Mac users who are savvy with the command line can rapdly build a MacOS Tahoe 26 beta virtual machine by issuing a few commands into the Terminal, with the help of tart. tart is a command line tool for managing virtual machines, and it’s one of the absolute fastest ways to get a virtual machine of MacOS Tahoe 26 running on any Apple Silicon Mac. After the commands have executed succesfully, macOS Tahoe 26 beta will be running in a windowed virtual machine right away, and performance is quite good on any Apple Silicon Mac. This really is as quick as it gets for Tahoe VM deployment, and after you experience this you’ll likely become a fan of tart.

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Creating a bootable macOS Tahoe installer USB is a handy way to perform clean installs, upgrade multiple Macs without redownloading, or keep a trusted recovery disk at your fingertips. Making a bootable Tahoe installer has a few requirements, but if you’ve got a spare flash USB drive, and don’t mind using the Terminal app, you’ll build one quickly, and be ready to easily install MacOS Tahoe using the boot disk.

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Apple has released MacOS Tahoe 26 beta 2 for Mac users enrolled in the developer beta testing program.

Separately, Apple has also issued iOS 26 beta 2, iPadOS 26 beta 2, visionOS 26 beta 2, tvOS 26 beta 2, and watchOS 26 beta 2.

MacOS Tahoe 26 includes an all new Liquid Glass interface appearance scheme with more transparency and shinier elements throughout the interface, along with the ability to change icon and folder colors, Spotlight gains actions and more search features, Live Activities arrive from iPhone, the Phone app is now on the Mac so you can check your voicemail and make calls from macOS, the Journal app arrives on the Mac, and a variety of other various changes and new features.

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Apple has released iOS 26 beta 2 for iPhone, alongside iPadOS 26 beta 2 for iPad, for users participating in the Apple developer beta testing programs. The second beta build for iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 includes a variety of changes and tweaks, along with some new features, as the beta refinement process continues.

Separately, Apple has also released macOS Tahoe 26 beta 2 for Mac, along with beta 2 for watchOS 26, tvOS 26, and visionOS 26 beta.

iOS 26 introduces an all new Liquid Glass interface appearance which has more transparency and shinier design elements, improvements to the Phone app including the ability to place calls on hold, Messages app gains background customizations and poll features, Carplay improvements, a new Games app, a new ringtone, iPadOS 26 gets a Preview app, and various other new features and changes.

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Apple is busy opening a new Apple Store in Perth, Australia, and to celebrate the occasion they have released an Apple-flora themed wallpaper. The wallpaper is available in three different sizes, for Mac (desktop), iPad (tablet), and “mobile” (iPhone, though I suppose Android users may want an Apple logo wallpaper too right), so grab and enjoy!

• Perth wallpaper – Mac
• Perth wallpaper – iPad
• Perth wallpaper – iPhone
• The Perth Apple Store page on Apple

Apple has released wallpapers associated with store openings in the past as well, including for Miami, Shanghai, South Korea, and more.

Check out more wallpapers while you’re at it.

If you’ve recently acquired some new AirPods or AirPods Pro, you might be in a situation where you’re wondering if the latest models of AirPods work with an older iPhone or iPad. This is a very important question, since many people will be in a situation where they themselves either buy new AirPods or gift them, but yourself or the recipient has an older model iPhone or iPad.

For example, let’s say the latest fancy new AirPods Pro 2 with Hearing Aid Functionality are gifted to someone that has an older iPhone that is stuck on iOS 16, and an older iPad that also can’t be updated beyond iOS 16, so will the AirPods still work? The answer is yes, sort of, and it’s somewhat complicated, as we’ll explain.

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Amazon has a really great deal on the M4 Mac Mini, knocking up to 22% off the retail price. The Mac Mini comes with an M4 chip (10-core CPU & 10-core GPU), support for Apple Intelligence, four and you 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD
Mac mini Desktop Computer with M4 chip with 10‑core CPU and 10‑core GPU: Built for Apple Intelligence, 24GB Unified Memory, 512GB SSD Storage, Gigabit Ethernet.

• M4 Mac Mini 16GB / 256GB – $469 (down from $599)
• M4 Mac Mini 16GB / 512GB – $689 (down from $799)
• M4 Mac Mini 24GB / 512GB – $849 (down from $999

A great accessory to the Mac Mini are easy small external storage devices like a 512GB USB-C flash drive that you can leave connected, and don’t forget a nice big display, an Apple keyboard, and a Apple mouse.

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If you have attempted to install MacOS Tahoe beta into a virtual machine by using the Tahoe installer or IPSW file, you might run into a looping failure where you’ll see a request to install a software update, to which you may attempt to install the update but it fails, followed by an “Installation failed. Can’t install the software because it is not currently available from the Software Update server” error message.

If you’ve seen the “a software update is required to install MacOS in a virtual machine” message followed by “Installation failed. Can’t install the software because it is not currently available from the Software Update server” error message, read on and you’ll have the problem fixed quickly, so that you can succesfully install MacOS Tahoe 26 beta into a virtual machine.

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iPadOS 26 has been announced, and it offers some of the most significant changes to iPadOS in a while. With a huge emphasis on improving multitasking capabilities, iPadOS 26 introduces a windowing system, a menu bar, window tiling, Expose, and you can now place files and folders in the Dock too. But that’s not all, iPadOS 26 also gains the new Liquid Glass interface look with more transparency and shinier icons, an updated Files app, folder icon colors, background tasks, the Preview app, Live Translation, and more.

With such major improvements to iPadOS coming with iPadOS 26, it’s no wonder that users are deeply curious about the new features and new look, and are therefore asking the obvious question, can my iPad run iPadOS 26? Let’s dive in and answer that question.

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MacOS Tahoe 26 features the all new Liquid Glass interface, brings the Phone app to the Mac, big Spotlight changes with actions, new Apple Intelligence features, a new Games app, backgrounds are added to Messages for the WhatsApp fans, Live Activities from iPhone, and much more. With so many new features combined with a significant visual overhaul, it’s no wonder many Mac users are curious about MacOS Tahoe, even if it’s in beta.

While beta versions of system software are really most appropriate for advanced users, and developer betas are intended for developers, that doesn’t mean you can’t install Tahoe right now. The big thing to remember is that beta system software is very buggy, less stable, and is under active development, so it’s likely that there will be issues and incompatibilities. But if you’re comfortable with that reality, you can install MacOS Tahoe 26 beta right now, and it’s quite easy to do so, as we’ll walk through here.

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Apple has issued the first beta versions of iOS 18.6 for iPhone, iPadOS 18.6 for iPad, and MacOS Sequoia 15.6 for Mac. These beta versions of system software are now concurrent with the next-gen iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and MacOS Tahoe 26 betas, which are also on the first beta.

The new beta versions of system software are intended as point release updates to the current generations of system software, meaning they’ll likely focus on bug fixes and security enhancements, over major new features. It’s possible some minor new features or changes will be included in iOS 18.6 and MacOS Sequoia 15.6, but the majority of new feature efforts are being put towards the iOS 26 and MacOS Tahoe 26 betas instead.

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