macOS Golden Gate Beta 2 Now available for Developers

[johnsawyercjs]

Does anyone have the Expressive Voices? I have a MacBook Pro M3 Max with 36GB of memory, and Siri AI (Beta) enabled, but no expressive voice option.

I have a Macbook Pro M1 Max with 64GB of RAM, and I'm not seeing anything related to Expressive Voices in the Siri prefpane, both with beta 1 and 2.

 

[brosenz]

In macOS 27 B1 and B2 when I go into Mail preferences --> Fonts & Colors and try to change the Message List Font from System Font Regular 11 (default) to the same System Font Regular, but of size 13, the Font type gets change to Helvetica, then there is no way to go back to System Font Regular, my only option is to delete the mail.plist from within the container, then mail will be back to System Font Regular 11, I never selected to change the Font type, only the size, is there another way I can change the Font by editing the .plist file or a CLI command? Thanks

 

[johnsawyercjs]

I never got Siri AI working under macOS 27 beta 1 (it kept saying things like "Something went wrong" when I'd just ask if it was now available), but that seems to have been due to my Macbook's SSD not having enough free space (sometimes down to only about 20GB before I move files off of it) for Siri AI to unpack and initialize its files, and then to index the SSD.

This afternoon before I installed beta 2, I freed up about 92GB, and monitored the progress of Siri AI's initialization using this command in the Terminal app, both before and after the beta 2 install:

log stream --predicate 'process == "mobileassetd" || process == "PrivateMLClientInferenceProvider" || process == "TGOnDeviceInferenceProviderService"' --info

...and it then looked happy, screaming through a bunch of processes related to Siri AI initialization and indexing, but after about an hour of running those processes under beta 1, a bunch of them were still happening, and the Siri AI app was still saying things like "Something went wrong" when I just ask it if it's ready yet, so I installed beta 2 to see if that would get Siri AI working, but still no luck.

I guess I have to wait some more. Apparently some other people are finding the same thing, even when Siri AI worked for them under beta 1, so Siri AI under beta 2 seems to be redoing a lot of re-initialization and indexing for its new files.

 

[ImAppleDude]

Pathetic... View attachment 2640186

1. On the Mac with Apple silicon, choose Apple menu
   
   > Shut Down.
2. Press and hold the power button until “Loading startup options” appears.
3. Click Options, then click Continue.
4. Select a startup disk, then click Next.
5. Select an administrator account, then click Next.
6. Enter the password for the administrator account, then click Continue.
7. In the Recovery app, choose Utilities > Startup Security Utility.
8. Select the system you want to use to set the security policy.
9. If the disk is encrypted with FileVault, click Unlock, enter the password, then click Unlock.
10. Click Security Policy.
11. Select the following security options:
    
    • Full Security: Ensures that only your current OS, or signed operating system software currently trusted by Apple, can run. This mode requires a network connection at software installation time.
12. Click OK.
13. If you changed the security, click the User pop-up menu, choose an administrator account, enter the password for the account, then click OK.
14. Choose Apple menu > Restart.
    
    You must restart your Mac for the changes to take effect.

 

[johnsawyercjs]

I finally got Siri AI to work by restarting my Macbook into Safe Mode, which seems to have flushed some out-of-date beta 1 files, after which I restarted back into Normal mode, and Siri AI was still working. I asked Siri if it could tell me what version of macOS was running on my Macbook, but it said it can't tell me things like that. I asked it to confirm my Macbook was now in Normal mode, and it again said it didn't have a way of knowing that, and instead it told me to launch System Information and check its "Software" tab for that. So at the moment, Siri AI is pretty limited as far as its awareness of the configuration of many macOS things on the device it's currently running on.

It did say it was able to change some simple system settings like volume, brightness, Dark vs Light mode, etc., so I tested this by telling Siri to increase the Macbook's volume by one increment. It displayed "Working" for several seconds, and finally it did it, but I wonder why it took it so long.

 

[Camel993]

Was hoping they would bring back writing tools/proofread to the right click content menu, but they haven't at least yet.

Hit and miss but if use highlight the text and then use the ask Siri at the top and tell it to proofread it kinda triggers the same action, but its's really hit and miss, miss the writing tool as well

 

[cmatuk]

my iPhone mirroring is still not working but now at least it indicates it failed....so thats an update.

Saw this elsewhere and it fixed it... Revoking access on my iPhone first (Settings > General > AirPlay & Continuity > Phone Mirroring > Edit > Delete) and then on my Mac (iPhone Mirroring > Settings > Revoke iPhone Access). Reboot both first and then forced it to re-pair and it's working again.

 

[nortonandreev]

1. On the Mac with Apple silicon, choose Apple menu
   
   > Shut Down.
2. Press and hold the power button until “Loading startup options” appears.
3. Click Options, then click Continue.
4. Select a startup disk, then click Next.
5. Select an administrator account, then click Next.
6. Enter the password for the administrator account, then click Continue.
7. In the Recovery app, choose Utilities > Startup Security Utility.
8. Select the system you want to use to set the security policy.
9. If the disk is encrypted with FileVault, click Unlock, enter the password, then click Unlock.
10. Click Security Policy.
11. Select the following security options:
    • Full Security: Ensures that only your current OS, or signed operating system software currently trusted by Apple, can run. This mode requires a network connection at software installation time.
12. Click OK.
13. If you changed the security, click the User pop-up menu, choose an administrator account, enter the password for the account, then click OK.
14. Choose Apple menu > Restart.
    
    You must restart your Mac for the changes to take effect.

It’s not this.

I did a revive from my Neo using the Beta 2 image, then OTA worked…

 

[Camel993]

when waking up from sleep Mac mini was asking for password instead of Touch ID and then all the apps loaded in as if it would have been a cold boot, but nothing crashed, really strange, anybody seen this before?