WHY MAC PRO USERS SHOULD RUSH TO UPGRADE TO MACOS 26 TAHOE THIS FAIL

IF YOU'RE A POWER USER, YOU MIGHT BE WONDERING WHAT APPLE'S MACOS TAHOE UPDATE HAS FOR YOU. THE ANSWER IS A LOT.

- BY ALEX BLAKE

When Apple announced macOS 26 Tahoe (fave.co/40tNQ7w) at the Worldwide Developers Conference (fave.co/3Kdcz7W) in June, much of the attention rightly went to its Liquid Glass user interface redesign (fave.co/45X4Dlq). It's a massive change to the look and feel of the Mac operating system, and it's the first time in years that anything this significant has happened to the visual style of macOS.

But macOS Tahoe isn't just a pretty face—it's packed with beefy features aimed squarely at power users. From incredibly capable new shortcuts to intelligent suggestions in the Reminders app, there's a lot for demanding pros to sink their teeth into. Here are five of the best power user features in macOS Tahoe, so you know exactly where to find them once it arrives on your Mac.

You can use Apple Intelligence to create smarter shortcut actions.

SMART SHORTCUTS

Shortcuts has always been a power user app par excellence, but with macOS Tahoe, it's been tuned up with a healthy dose of Apple Intelligence that takes the form of much smarter shortcut actions that can tap into Apple's Al to give you more options for powerful workflows.

For example, Apple says, "Users will see dedicated actions for features like summarizing text with Writing Tools or creating images with Image Playground." You're no longer required to manually activate these features to use their toolsets—you can instead create a shortcut that does it all for you.