MacOs Tahoe, MacOS 26

[moordavidphoto]

Has anyone tried Mac OS 26 RC? Are Lightroom, Photoshop, and the Creative Cloud app now compatible with Mac OS 26? I've never updated a Mac major version since I switched to MAC, so I don't know if it's worth waiting for it to work reliably and stably, or if I can just go straight to the new system on September 15th. Thank you in advance for your answers.

[rudolfl27731976]

Thank you ExUSA. 
Today I upgraded to MacOS 26.0, Lightroom and Photoshop worked fine, until I saw your suggestion : indeed, Wacom tablet not working properly.  Removed old driver and software, installed 6.4.9-2 and everything is fine now. 

Upgrading the OS is always a risk ..... 

[ExUSA]

https://support.wacom.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/34963436253207-Wacom-Center-unable-to-synchronize...

[rudolfl27731976]

ExUSA, thanks !

[bobc999]

As soon as I updated to MAC OS 26 Tahoe, my Acrobat is "RIDICULOUSLY SLOW"! I can be editing a PDF and add a text annotation to a PDF and it will literally take between 1 and 3 seconds for each letter to register after I have already typed in the annotation paragraph. UGG> HELP!!!

[Ian Lyons]

@bobc999 

You've posted in the Lightroom Classic forum. I suggest that you raise your issue in the Adobe Acrobat forum.

[OBender]

Can confirm that Lightroom Classic is unusably slow in my M1/64GB after updating to MacOS 26

[mherndz]

I'm very miffed Adobe hasn't updated Illustrator or Photoshop yet.  They should have been working on this months ago knowing there was a MacOS upgrade coming.  I feel they hold users hostage from upgrading to MacOS Tahoe.

[nicorohrbach]

It’s the same every year. Indie developers have their apps ready on launch day of new macOS versions, yet Adobe doesn't even update the page about macOS compatibility. I’m sure Adobe will continue to ignore macOS 26 Tahoe until the Adobe MAX event at the end of October.

[Bertd]

True and we pay a reasonable amount montly to use the software so it would be very convinient to adapt to the latest MacOS version within a periode of one month.

[Conrad_C]

Well, who do you go to instead? I just visited the website of a Lightroom competitor, and their system requirements still say “macOS 13 or newer (tested on macOS 13.7.6, 14.7.6 and 15.5)”. No macOS 26 statement yet.

I also checked a different non-subscription Adobe competitor. Tahoe is not listed on their system requirements yet either, and their forums say there are problems...

I don’t think there is any "hostage-taking" on anyone’s part. All these companies are probably validating the actual 26.0 release which may have different bugs than any of the betas. It’s always better to wait for everybody’s (Apple’s and developers’) bug fix updates, instead of risking the stability of a workflow by upgrading too soon. This is from watching this same thing happen every year for decades…

[Ian Lyons]

There's a pinned post on the Photoshop forum that includes a Reddit post that may offer some insight and workarounds for issues caused by macOS 26 Tahoe.  I've provided links to both below

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/p-photoshop-unusable-after-updating-i...

The Reddit thread can be found at:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1no872w/psa_macos_26_bug_leads_to_performance_issues_in/?lin...