What’s new in macOS 26.2? Three new features coming to your Mac

macOS Tahoe 26.2
Apple is gearing up to release macOS Tahoe 26.2 next month, bringing three new features to the Mac. From a clever video call enhancement that lights up your face in low-light conditions, to powerful Thunderbolt 5 clustering for building AI supercomputers at home, and smarter “Urgent” alarms in Reminders that won’t let you snooze critical tasks — these updates blend everyday usability with pro-level power.
Ryan Christoffel for 9to5Mac:
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Edge Light for video calls: Edge Light is a video effect that essentially aims to replicate the experience of using a ring light while on video calls. It adds a virtual light around the edges of your Mac display to illuminate your face if you’re in a dark room.
The feature, however, is also far more intelligent than using a traditional ring light. Using the Neural Engine in your Mac, Edge Light can detect your face, size, and where you’re located in the frame to ensure accurate lighting. The Image Signal Processor, meanwhile, is able to fine-tune the light to precisely adjust the brightness of Edge Light to match your exact environment.
Thunderbolt 5-powered Mac clusters: Devindra Hardawar writes at Engadget: Apple is introducing a new low-latency feature that lets you connect several Macs together using Thunderbolt 5. For developers and researchers, it’s a potentially useful way to create powerful AI supercomputers that can run massive local models. That allows four Mac Studios, which can each run up to 512GB of unified memory, to run the 1 trillion parameter Kimi-K2-Thinking model far more efficiently than PCs with power-hungry GPUs.
While we’ve seen Thunderbolt Mac clusters before, they were limited by slower Thunderbolt speeds, especially if they required a hub (which could reduce speeds to 10 Gb/s). Apple’s new feature allows for the full Thunderbolt 5 connectivity of up to 80Gb/s. The clustering capability also isn’t just limited to the pricey Mac Studio, it will also work with the M4 Pro Mac mini and M4 Pro/Max MacBook Pro. Developers won’t need any special hardware to build clusters, just standard Thunderbolt 5 cables and compatible Macs.
Urgent reminders: It’s a simple toggle in the details view that will trigger an alarm on your iPhone or iPad when the time comes. You’ll then be able to snooze it for nine minutes or mark it complete. That’s right: the macOS feature works alongside your iPhone or iPad to ensure you don’t miss an important alert.

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MacDailyNews Take: All three are excellent additions to the Mac and – thanks to Continuity – beyond that run the gamut from casual to pro Mac users!

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