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Apple Releases macOS Golden Gate Beta 8

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Apple today provided developers with the eighth beta of macOS Golden Gate, with the update coming a week after Apple seeded the seventh beta.

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Developers can download macOS Golden Gate by going to System Settings > General > Software Update. Beta Updates will need to be enabled, and a free developer account is required.

macOS Golden Gate includes multiple design improvements. Liquid Glass opacity has been improved to increase readability, there's a slider for controlling the level of transparency, and changes to shadowing make it easier to tell when a window is active. Apps now have uniform toolbars, edge-to-edge sidebars, and less rounded corners, and there are fewer icons in menu bars.

Siri has been transformed into Siri AI, a chatbot-style assistant that combines general world knowledge, your personal data, and onscreen awareness to answer questions about anything and find information for you. Siri lives in Spotlight, and you can ask questions with the new Search or Ask interface.

There's also a Siri app where you can chat with Siri and view past conversations, and on newer Macs, you can set a custom voice for Siri with personalized pace and expressivity. Visual Intelligence is now on the Mac so Siri can answer questions about what's on your screen, and a Write with Siri feature lets Siri generate text or give feedback on your writing.

There are AI photo editing tools in the Photos app, AI tab organization in Safari, an option to use AI to automatically update weak passwords in the Passwords app, and a revamped Image Playground app that can generate photorealistic images.

More on all of the new features in macOS Golden Gate can be found in our macOS Golden Gate roundup.

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Hoping they fixed video/audio playback. I can't play videos because audio chokes. For example YouTube, ESPN and and AppleTV videos. I have to restart or mess with the audio format to get it working for a bit. Been happening since July. Reported it to Apple.
 
I hope they have fixed the unreasonable delay between clicking an item in the menu bar, and the menu actually appearing/responding. There have been so many menu bar and mission control issues that they've fixed through these dev builds, and this is the last one that interrupts my day-to-day usage. It's almost back to being "unannoyingly usable".
 
I wonder if someone with a real background in coding can answer this question. When it comes to “bugs” or other problems how can one bug only affect a small number of people vrs every user of that OS? Is it the actual OS that has a problem or is it an incompatibility with 3rd party software, or how they have their settings set up? I have never understood how this works.
 
appeals.key_0k said:
I hope they have fixed the unreasonable delay between clicking an item in the menu bar, and the menu actually appearing/responding. There have been so many menu bar and mission control issues that they've fixed through these dev builds, and this is the last one that interrupts my day-to-day usage. It's almost back to being "unannoyingly usable".
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I wonder (I do not know) if such latency is an effect of debugging logic/telemetry/logging or something like that, and if it just goes away with the first release candidate, when they turn that stuff off 🤔🤷‍♂️
 
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