Apple Releases Version 26.4 of macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and HomePod Software

Could you elaborate a little more on the workout section? Does this mean that instead of hitting start, I would just double tap on whatever the workout is and it'll start?

I am thinking that I might just take the plunge with this as there's only so long I can hold off. But, is it any better? Is content still missing in Safari? Is it still not possible to navigate to headings when in the toolbar? I think I read in another post that one major issue has been fixed at least.

Prior to WatchOS 26 I would start a workout by just double tapping the one I wanted from a list. Once 26 came along, the very first time I did this it was the same, but subsequently I now have a dropdown list which I need to flick through and a start button. I'm hoping this update puts it back to how it was prior to 26 as this seemed faster to use.

I've not installed the update yet so might be wrong.

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I'm so glad the link issue with mac OS is fixed! I got so used to it that I didn't really realize how much it made it lag until they fixed it.

Siri voices are deleted by themselves don't know why. I keep redownloading them but they are automatically deleted. Any idea how to resolve this?

I got a bit reckless and upgraded to MacOs 26.4. I noticed in the rotor there is now a Content Chooser. Is this new to Tahoe? I've never noticed it before but then I don't use the rotor much.

It seems odd and possibly a bit pointless but I'm curious - has anyone found anywhere that it is useful?

In Mail, it gives me a list of my emails, if I'm lucky, or it just says it's loading and never finishes. Which is roughly the equivalent of pressing Cmd+1 but slightly less convenient.

In Outlook, if Mail is selected, it gives me a list of folders like Inbox, Favourites etc. But no matter which one I choose the focus pings off to wherever it wants to go instead.

I did think that maybe the use coes from being able to filter the results like you can with any other part of the rotor only. Except you can't - it just goes ping.

Has anyone found anywhere where this is useful?

This is frustrating as I had been thinking this was maybe fixed in Tahoe but no.

If you navigate to headings and that heading has a child element in it of any kind, then VoiceOver speaks the number of items and not the heading text. This was broken in Sonoma and it's really, really annoying.

Wait what? I swear headings were fixed. I haven't updated yet to 26.4 I think. Will keep you posted.

Oh OK - I must have just skipped past it before. I wonder what it is for. What ounts as content? Maybe the intention is that it's item chooser but it ignores toolbars, sidebars and whatnot. But from my play it didnt' seem to do anything useful.

A couple of observations after upgrading the watch.

Firstly, I was wrong - starting a workout is the same as before, I have no idea what this change is, then, as it all looks the same to me.

Secondly, and I'm sure this is going to be just me, but I am finding it weirdly difficult to get the time. So I raise my wrist and tap the screen and now I almost always miss and hear "watch widget microphone" or "actions available instead".

I suspect I know the answer to this question - but is anyone else noticing this or is it the same as it's always been and I've just got more clumsy over night?

I've exactly the same issue after updating to 26.4. To be precise, now VO reads the first complication instead of time when the screen wakes up. So if I remove all the complications from my clockface, or choose one, that has no of them by default, VO reads time as expected. But such settings makes my clockface almost useless.

I might be wrong about this, but prior to this version I would tap anywhere on the watch to take it and it would say the time. I think now it is possibly responding to the part of the watch that I tapped which might well be a complication. So I think with a bit of practice it's possible to get the time. straight away if you tap in the right place. I am finding f I tap to the middle right I usually get the time. Similarly, if I tap bottom right I get the status of my rings.

There is some sense to this if you can be conscious of where the complications are exactly. My gut reaction to this was that they had broken the single most important part of a watch. But I am wondering now if it is just going to take a little time to adapt then maybe it is more flexible and it might allow us to get to other complications more quickly.

Using watch 9, and if I tap on the watch 2 times, I get the time and haptics. Always get the haptic even if I touch the watch. Bug about that. If I slide to messages no issues or notifications on watch. Looks like it is working for me. Next week I am getting the 11. Long live cats. Wish me luck with setting it up.

It seams strange, but I'm currently having a different behavior. Independent where I tap the screen, VO always reads the first complication, it even reads the same if I set waking the screen by raising the wrist.

I am getting a weird bug, wondering if anyone else is getting this. I don't hear anything when I interact with a table in Pages via VO+shift+down arrow. Like literally no speech and after interacting (I assume) I don't hear anything when I try to navigate... Very strange.. Anyway maybe it is just me and I am crazy, or maybe I am just crazy anyway....

Edit:
Actually it does say 'in table name', but after that I can't navigate or hear anything about the cells and their contents

I think this is a temporary one off I occasionally have it too though very rare, restart voiceover / pages and the mac in this order and let us know here if you still experience it. I'll update to .4 as well tomorrow and see for myself. I hope you're just unlucky though this is easily a very bad one in the s-tear next to things like snr, cause blind users then lose access to a ton of content overnight with the update.

This might not be new to 266.4 and I think some of this has been reported before, but a few things I've noticed:

The Siri voices seem to work much better with VoiceOver, in that they don't drop to a rate of 1 when saying individual letters and numbers.

However there is some weirdness too.

I use Irish Siri voice 2 for Siri. Yesterday I added it to my voice rotor, and also created an activity for it. (OK I admit I am a sucker for that accent)

Today my voice rotor included US Siri voice 4. This might have been there before. But my Irish voice was missing and there was a blank option at the end of the list. In the settings menu, the Irish voice is still being showing as an additional voice.

I deleted the US Siri voice. However it still appeared in the menu (but when selected used my Primary voice instead). Restarting VO made it disappear. Still no Irish voice though. Switching to my Irish activity also did not switch the voice. I went back into VO Utility and deleted it from the voices list, then went to add it back in. It showed as already being installed, but when I went to add it, the preview option remained silent and it doesn't work. I can't see how I can delete it entirely and redownload?

The other thing I noticed which might be a bug but I prefer it, is that my login screen now has a US voice - I suspect it is Samantha - instead of Daniel. This is an improvement as far as I am concerned as I can't stand Daniel but not sure it is on purpose.

Oh, I restarted VoieOver and now the more actions thing does have an option to delete the voice, so at least I can start over.

One thing I noticed - whnen it was broken and I tried adding it to my additional voices list again without redownloading, the dialog had options at the bottom - something like Personal Option 1 and Personal Option 2 or something. I wonder if it had got confused and thought it was a personal voice or something? Now I've redownloaded and selected it again that dialog does not have those options.

OK I was talking total rubbish - if I touch the watch and it is asleep then I will always get watch widget microphone and not the time. I think when I was testing before I was maybe waking it by raising my wrist.

I've noticed that the standard file open dialog boxes have gone a bit weird with Tahoe. I'm guessing it's not new in 26.4 but could be.

It seems quite hard to find the actual list of files/folders. I think it's moved to the far left maybe which seems weird. But if I move to it, it doesn't seem to automatically interact - I can't use up and down arrows to select things or type file or folder names. I can interact with it and then try to use VO keys to find my way which is extremely tedious. Or I can restart VoiceOver and then it works properly.

I've noticed it when inserting an attachment in Outlook and elsewhere. I am pretty sure it isn't an Outlook thing.

Anyone else?