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.

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The public beta for macOS Golden Gate is now live for Apple beta software program participants. Here are the top features coming to Macs this fall.