macOS 16 Tahoe - Compatibility & Discussion Thread

Configuration Help & General Discussion
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Good news, BTT will work fine on macOS 16 Tahoe and there are some interesting things that BTT could integrate with.

I'll definitely add support for Spotlight App Actions, I had always hoped Apple would implement an extensible Spotlight. I'll need to check how good these App Actions are and what can be done with them.

Also BTT's upcoming AI integration will definitely allow to use Apple's locally running AI models.

I was right about Apple adding a Clipboard Manager, although it is pretty limited right now in what it can do.

Developer Beta 1 is very rough though. Definitely do not install yet. BTT currently works but with various UI issues. BTT's Clipboard Manager currently pretty much freezes (also some UI issue). I'll fix these basic issues next week.

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Actually, it's kind of disappointing because the spotlight still seems very basic compared to Alfred. The ChatGPT integration with Spotlight is pretty odd too, and it's very slow. the new app icons are terribly designed. :(((

The only decent feature is the app actions.

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Even their clipboard manager can't handle multiple selections or fully support keyboard access... BTT and Alfred's clipboard history are way way better than Apple's.

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I think spotlight will get better once apps start supporting the new dynamic app intents (also there are tons of bugs in this beta)

I think I have some good plans on how to make this nice and extensible

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Porting BetterTouchTool to Linux :joy: ?

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nobody would pay for BTT on linux

but on topic, I am very excited to try out the beta but I am holding myself back because I only have 1x each apple platform. It's awesome to see spotlight get more love, I have been using more of spotlight than raycast anyways recently because it allows me to get to the information i need faster as everything is in the root search.

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Offtopic:

nobody would pay for BTT on linux

BTT offers sooo many (I cannot stress this enough) good stuff, so definitely a lot of users will pay, including me. But BTT for Linux won't happen :\ .
BTT is the only reason I would continue using macOS. Before I discovered BTT, I regretted my choice to use macOS/MacBook for a workstation.

On the topic - I'm relieved that BTT works on macOS 16, hopefully it will stay that way before the final release :slight_smile:

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yep linux is even more unlikely than Windows :sweat_smile:

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Have you try Keyboard Maestro as well? Using together with BTT, they make Mac the perfect desktop automation beast.
If using Tampermonkey together (yes, Tampermonkey script can call them though URL scheme, or using their built-in local webserver) ), could do even more incredible things.