Apple Announces macOS Golden Gate

[reallynotnick]

Skipped last year’s MacOS and iOS but I’ll definitely be jumping on this one.

 

[winxmac]

So it's just Apple Silicon now. Will we get a smaller macOS installer?

 

[gvmelbrty]

I was thinking it should be Lake Tahoe, in keeping with the prior bug-fix releases of Sierra -> High Sierra and Leopard -> Snow Leopard.

 

[bluecoast]

Intel Macs get the iShaft

And they have to stay on macOS 26.

That's just cruel.

Maybe Apple made 26 so awful to force people to upgrade to Mx Macs?

Hmm...

 

[StellarVixen]

What happened to the glass, it's not even bending the light anymore?

 

[huge_apple_fangirl]

I noticed at the beginning when they showed some feature improvements they said SideCar is now optimized for touch… is this a sign of the touchscreen MacBook?

 

[maconservative]

I’m waiting for MacOS Ambassador Bridge and macOS Key West

macOS Compton
macOS Haight-Ashbury
macOS Crenshaw
macOS Alameda

 

[hyperactiv8]

That wallpaper is extremely underwhelming. Could’ve been a great real shot of the bridge or something but no . We get this ugliness .

Apple can't win for losing. They made a LOT of changes that everyone was complaining about. What is the new complaint? Wallpaper. Something most people will change anyways is the new target of your angst? I guess they nailed this update if THAT'S all you've got to complain about.

 

[heronstalker]

To install the beta or not to install the beta, that's the question.

Probably will, though... 😉

You can sandbox it by installing on a separate APFS volume and dual-boot. If you don't like the beta you can nuke it in disk utility and reclaim your disk space.

 

[ttyRazor]

Still miss buttons which are rectangles with rounded corners, but I guess people aren't into these things anymore.

the one very small upside to liquid glass is that they're buttons again instead of flat glyphs

 

[delsoul]

macOS Compton
macOS Haight-Ashbury
macOS Crenshaw
macOS Alameda

Compton is what the current iOS should have been called. It's just BAD!

 

[tywebb13]

build number is 26A5353q

here are the other betas released today

iOS 27 beta 1 (24A5355q)
iPadOS 27 beta 1 (24A5355q)
tvOS 27 beta 1 (24J5289o)
audioOS 27 beta 1 (24J5289o)
visionOS 27 beta 1 (24M5291p)
watchOS 27 beta 1 (24R5289n)

 

[963852741]

So it's just Apple Silicon now. Will we get a smaller macOS installer?

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No, you are already getting one based on the CPU architecture.

 

[Steve Adams]

Compton is what the current iOS should have been called. It's just BAD!

Haight ashbury yes yes yes. wallpaper is tie dye with steal your face logo and marching bears!

 

[Dozer_Zaibatsu]

So I stayed on Sequoia the whole time with apparently no downside. OK, Apple. Fair deal.

I look forward them eventually bringing us back the retro OSX Aqua-style theme by the time we get to MacOS VanNuys.

 

[Corefile]

I have used macOS on the Golden Gate Bridge before. First?

 

[Dr.Lee]

I noticed at the beginning when they showed some feature improvements they said SideCar is now optimized for touch… is this a sign of the touchscreen MacBook?

I must have missed that. I would absolutely use that feature.

 

[Wahlstrm]

Exactly, shouldn't the last OS for them be a polished experience?

Seriously, no need for a new OS every damn year. If Apple slowed down and took a few years between releases we could have an excellent user experience.

I would gladly go back to paying $20-$30 or whatever Snow Leopard was back when they shipped biannually. 🙂

 

[mikeboss]

 

[bradman83]

Exactly, shouldn't the last OS for them be a polished experience?

Seriously, no need for a new OS every damn year. If Apple slowed down and took a few years between releases we could have an excellent user experience.

Eh, even when Apple was on multi-year release cycles they regularly released hot garbage (OS X Lion for example)

 

[August West]

Glad to see Apple listened to the resounding complaints with Tahoe. Sounds like this addresses many of the issues I had which caused me to uninstalled after 2 days to return to Sequoia. Looking forward to the beta releases to see how well they implement the fixes.

 

[bradman83]

So Apple essentially went back to the Big Sur - Sequoia interface with a few Liquid Glass flourishes added in (and the refractions toned down).

I haven't found any screenshots of the full Apple Music for Mac window but it doesn't look like they returned the playback controls to the toolbar that they've been touting for other apps. Will be a bit disappointed if the control pill at the bottom of the window is still a thing.

 

[dwhankner]

I’m gonna love macOS 27. Golden gate. Love it. I love Liquid Glass. There was too little of it in macOS 26. Now finally more goodness

 

[WalsallSaddler]

This is the best MacOS update in years!

Especially for perfomance optimisation reason.

 

[AppliedMicro]

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