If there’s one thing which is usually a very bad idea even for the most enthusiastic of Apple fans, it’s installing a first developer beta on any of your daily driver devices.

However, since my iPhone is the only iOS device I own recent enough to give access to the new Siri, and I’m extremely curious to try it, I made an exception in this case …

Indeed, while I wasn’t brave enough to install macOS 27 on my primary Mac, I have installed it on my MacBook Air.

I’m not completely crazy: I did wait long enough to allow those braver than I to determine that my devices were unlikely to explode, and that the betas were compatible with certain key apps. But still … I’ve never done this before and will likely never do it again.

On my iPhone, I’m still on the waitlist for the new Siri, so haven’t been able to test that functionality yet. I do have access to some of the other key new features like the AI photo editing capabilities, however. More on that topic later in the week.