After a month with macOS 27 Golden Gate on an M5 MacBook Pro, the most useful changes are not the ones making the most noise. Apple has repaired much of Tahoe’s overdone Liquid Glass design, rebuilt the search foundation behind Spotlight, Mail and Photos, and made Shortcuts far easier to use. Siri AI is more ambitious, but it remains a beta feature with a complicated Apple–Google–Nvidia architecture and more proving to do.
Tell all your friends on Tahoe.

Tell all your friends on Tahoe.

Let's just get this out of the way: I liked macOS 26 Tahoe. I liked it because it marked the first time in years where Apple seemed to embrace the fact that Mac users deserve…

After a month with macOS 27 Golden Gate on an M5 MacBook Pro, the most useful changes are not the ones making the most noise. Apple has repaired much of Tahoe’s overdone Liquid…

Apple's macOS Golden Gate public beta is now available. Here's how you can download it and test out all the new Apple Intelligence features for Macs.

AI Siri in macOS 27 is occasionally useful, but the real gold is in the AI-enabled Shortcuts app.