macOS Tahoe 26.2 has landed, with a helpful new upgrade for your video calls

It's rolling out now

News By David Nield published 13 December 2025

macOS Tahoe 26 launched in September 2025 (Image credit: Apple)

• macOS Tahoe 26.2 is rolling out to Macs and MacBooks now
• It features a new Edge Light feature for illuminating your video calls
• Other minor improvements and bug fixes are also included

Alongside iOS 26.2, Apple has also released the equivalent software updates for its other devices, and those updates include macOS Tahoe 26.2 – with a useful new Edge Light feature to illuminate your face during video calls on Apple Silicon Macs.

As MacRumors reports, the addition of Edge Light is the biggest change with this release. It will use your Mac display "to illuminate your face like a virtual ring light when you're on a video call in low light". With newer Macs, introduced in 2024 and later, you can have the light turn on automatically in low light conditions too.

The feature offers customizable light width and temperature settings, so you can tweak the illumination as you prefer, and when you use a mouse or trackpad the light will instantly recede so you can see what you're doing on screen.

We wrote about this feature when the developer beta for macOS Tahoe 26.2 was released, and it sounds like it could be particularly handy when you're rushing to get set up for a call and don't have as much time as you might like to sort out the lighting.

Minor updates and an AirDrop tweak

Other new features in macOS Tahoe 26.2 include automatically generated chapters in podcasts, embedded links to mentioned podcasts, improved filters in the Games library, in-game challenge updates, and support for connected controllers.

There are also a bunch of bug fixes and smaller tweaks too, as usual for a macOS update like this. Navigation has been improved within the Apple News app for example, while tables in the Freeform app are now more flexible in terms of what they can hold. A Favorite Songs playlist has been added to Top Picks in Apple Music too.

Apple also says that with this update, "AirDrop codes offer an additional layer of verification when using AirDrop with unknown contacts by providing a code on the receiver's device that the sender must enter to complete the transfer".

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