Friday, January 23, 2026

The main reason I’m sticking with MacOS 15 Sequoia and refusing to install 26 Tahoe is because it has so many features. Serious UI regression In Tahoe. of Noisy, distracting, inconsistent icons prefix to menu item commands, Ruins the Mac’s signature menu bar system. Indiscriminate transparency that renders so many menus, windows, and sidebars mysterious and ugly. Window with childish rounded corners difficult to resize. of Comical and sad app icons. Why choose to suffer?

But what makes the decision to stay with 15 Sequoia easy is that, to be honest, it’s hard to think about what’s next. Any Tahoe features I’m missing. what is actually there like What about Tahoe? A small example is Apple’s Journal app. I’ve been using Journal since it debuted as an iPhone-only app in iOS 17.2 in December 2023. There are 785 entries and counting. With version 26 of the OS, Apple created a Journal version for the iPad and Mac (but not the Vision Pro). Syncing also works well via iCloud. All things considered, I’d like to have a version of Journal on my main Mac. But it’s okay without it. I’ve been writing entries without a Mac app since 2023, so if you want to create or edit journal entries from your Mac, keep doing what you’ve been doing. iPhone mirroring.

that’s it. The Journal app is one of the new features Tahoe offers that I wish I had right now. Never miss the latest version of Safari. Apple makes Safari 26 available on MacOS 15 Sequoia (And even 14 Sonoma). A few years ago, Apple added: New features To take advantage of these features on all devices, all devices must be updated to the new OS for the year. I don’t think there will be such a feature this year. My iPhone and iPad are running iOS 26 and everything is working perfectly, but my main Mac continues to use MacOS 15 Sequoia.

But now, Take a look at the column view In Tahoe Finder, Jeff Johnson has discovered another exciting new feature. In Mac OS 26, the Finder has a new display option ([表示]→[表示オプションの表示]) is added and the column is automatically resized to fit the longest file name displayed. See Johnson’s post For a screenshot of the new options in action.

Column view is one of the best views UI innovation with NeXTStepIf you think about it, this has always been the primary metaphor for viewing hierarchical applications on iOS. It’s good that the desktop proves to be the foundation of mobile. The Settings app on iPhone is a column view, showing one column at a time. This is a way to organize multiscreen apps visually and spatially, even if you’re limited to a 3.5-inch display.

Thanks to you greg’s browseris a great indie app, but I’ve been using column views in classic Mac OS since 1993, years before Apple acquired NeXT, and even before Mac OS X finally shipped (which was when column views first appeared in the Finder). One of the inherent frustrations with column views is that they don’t work well with long file names. It’s a waste of space to resize all columns to be long enough to accommodate long filenames, but it’s frustrating when long filenames don’t fit into standard width columns.

This new feature in Tahoe Finder is finally trying to solve this problem. I played around with it a bit this afternoon and it’s ok. This feels like an early prototype of what could become a sophisticated feature. For example, this exacerbates some layering bugs in the Finder. When you try to rename a file or folder that is partially scrolled below the sidebar, Tahoe Finder simply draws the rename edit field directly above the sidebar, even though it belongs to the layer that is scrolled below it. If you rename the folder named “Example ƒ” to “How is this possible?” it will look like this:

In MacOS 15, when you try to rename an item that is scrolled below the sidebar in Column view, the column containing that item snaps into place next to the sidebar, making it fully visible. It feels just right when it clicks into place. The way Tahoe works is that the columns don’t move and the text edit field for the file name is just drawn on top of the sidebar, making it feel like you’re using a computer that isn’t a Macintosh. Amateur time. )

I would like to be able to set this new column resizing option just to stretch the column to accommodate long filenames, but not shrink the column if all visible items have short filenames. However, the way it currently works is that all columns are adjusted to the width of the longest visible file name that each column is displaying. Some rows will be narrower and other rows will be wider. I would like to leave most columns at their default width. With this new option enabled, all the columns have different widths, which looks a bit messy.

Also, the obvious drawback is that this feature only adjusts columns to their longest size. currently displayed File name. If I scroll down the column and reach a file name that is too long to fit, nothing happens. It just doesn’t fit.

Even a future, more sophisticated version of this column view feature won’t, by itself, be enough to motivate me to upgrade to Tahoe. After about 30 years of using columns that don’t automatically adjust their width, you can wait another year. However, a sophisticated version of this functionality is not yet available. Today’s unrefined version of the feature only reiterates my belief that the Tahoe is a mistake to avoid. But while that’s a good idea, there aren’t many such ideas in the Tahoe.