macOS 27 Golden Gate Gains Native Ultrawide Display Support

[MacRumors]

Apple adds native ultrawide display support in macOS 27 Golden Gate, bringing higher resolutions and persistent display arrangements to users of widescreen monitors.

The update allows ultrawide displays to run at resolutions up to 5K at 120Hz. Apple also says that display arrangements are now preserved across connections, so the layout automatically restores exactly as the user left it each time they plug in.

The feature addresses a longstanding pain point for Mac users with ultrawide setups, who previously had to work around limited native resolution options or manually reconfigure their display arrangements after each connection.

macOS 27 Golden Gate is expected to ship to the public this fall. It is available to developers in beta now.

Article Link: macOS 27 Golden Gate Gains Native Ultrawide Display Support

 

[Extoll]

Cool i guess. I have a 45inch LG 5k2k and never had issue with it even running at 165hz.

 

[PsykX]

The macOS 27 wallpaper should have looked like this

 

[Hajj.david]

Cool i guess. I have a 45inch LG 5k2k and never had issue with it even running at 165hz.

Same Ive never heard of a resolution issue but the display arrangement issue was definitely annoying!

 

[t0rqx]

32inch iMac Ultra confirmed.

 

[Apple Knowledge Navigator]

Announced to widespread acclaim, no?

 

[lepetitnicolas]

Someone should create a 4 or 5k wallpaper from that beautiful image. When it showed in the keynote I thought it would be the official wallpaper... was deceived when I realized it won't be the official one :/

 

[adamw]

Great news! Now we can have higher refresh and resolution Mac display support and preserve the display arrangement also.

 

[Nyx1]

Wheres ultra motion Apple

 

[imac ios x]

I can't be the only one confused by this news? Currently I'm using the Dell U5226KW which is a 6k ultrawide with even higher resolution due to the more space in height (6144x2560), it runs just fine on 120hz. Daily I take my laptop home and next day just use the 1 cable thunderbolt to charge, connect keyboard and everything and never noticed any issues.

 

[Zorn]

Cool i guess. I have a 45inch LG 5k2k and never had issue with it even running at 165hz.

That's the first monitor I've had in years that was actually properly supported on macOS from the start. Prior to this, I had two flavors of the 49" Samsung 5120x1440 and it was just a nightmare. For no reason whatsoever that resolution randomly wasn't supported by the OS and you would need to use DisplayRes or something to force it, and things would always go wonky upon reboot/login as the system went crazy with res flickering.

Even did the whole dance with support, and a higher level person said to me it seemed to be a bug and shouldn't happen that way, but Apple closed the report out as working as expected. Kinda eye-rollingly ridiculous that something so basic took this long, but glad it's here.

 

[neuropsychguy]

Someone should create a 4 or 5k wallpaper from that beautiful image. When it showed in the keynote I thought it would be the official wallpaper... was deceived when I realized it won't be the official one :/

Here's my capture from the keynote. Both 5k and 4k. I exported at 95% jpeg quality to make the file sizes smaller.

 

[johnalan]

Golden Gate looks so great, I'm delighted.

They basically walked back all of Dye's reckless posturing.

I adore the Finder now compared with Tahoe, also corners are way better, plus all these low level fixes?!

The attention and polish, as someone with like 10k worth of Apple computers hook it to my veins. Love it.

 

[gusping]

Cool i guess. I have a 45inch LG 5k2k and never had issue with it even running at 165hz.

Which Mac have you got, out of interest? And are you using a TB port?

 

[Kissmo1980]

I don’t understand, I have a Samsung Neo G9 57 inch, 32:9, 7680x2160, supports 240Hz but I run it at 120.

I never had problems with Mac mini m4 and a macbook pro M3.
What exactly are they adding?

 

[Astuces iOS]

The wallpaper is nice, why apple doesn’t add it to macOS?

 

[syklee26]

I suppose the support is for M3 Macs?

 

[Zorn]

I suppose the support is for M3 Macs?

Gotta be for more models than that, the M2 Max Studio was completely unable to do 5120x1440 without third party hacks.

 

[Extoll]

Which Mac have you got, out of interest? And are you using a TB port?

MBP M4pro. Everything going into CalDigit TS4 (think that's the model i have) dock. Using TB4/TB5 cables

 

[kiranmk2]

There aren't any retina (>200 ppi) Ultrawide monitors. The best we ever got was a 5120x2160 34” panel which was ~160 ppi. Does this mean that Apple are allowing HiDPI scaling modes on Ultrawide sub retina displays now? Is there any benefit for base M chips (which always lacked options compared to Pro/Max/Ultra chips)?

 

[omenatarhuri]

Cool i guess. I have a 45inch LG 5k2k and never had issue with it even running at 165hz.

I get kernel panics if refresh rate is over 120. Wonder if they fixed that.

 

[StuBeck]

Curious what this actually means. There are limits on widescreen resolution support which are weird, but I'm running an LG Ultrawide right now. I'm assuming this just gives us mid 2000's resolution support which should have been around for a while now.

 

[xxFoxtail]

I wonder if the iPad gets this support too? I know everything looks oversized on an ultrawide with an iPad.

 

[AncTreat5358]

The macOS 27 wallpaper should have looked like this

Reminiscent of the flying toaster screensaver from years past.

 

[ctg7w6]

I don’t understand, I have a Samsung Neo G9 57 inch, 32:9, 7680x2160, supports 240Hz but I run it at 120.

I never had problems with Mac mini m4 and a macbook pro M3.
What exactly are they adding?

Since yesterday I’ve been trying to figure out what the news means about this because I have an m4 pro MacBook Pro and the same monitor as you. The only problem I’ve ever had is it likes to drop down to 60hz a lot, so maybe that is it?

I wish they’d fix their display scaling for resolutions that aren’t a multiple of their own resolutions. This is something Microsoft does well with.