macOS 27 Public Beta
Apple today released the first public beta of macOS Golden Gate, expanding the macOS 27 beta test to non-developers. You can sign up to test the update on Apple’s beta website, and then download it by going to System Settings > General > Software Update and toggling on the macOS 27 beta.
The fact that there are more design changes in macOS than any of Apple’s other 27 updates speaks volumes about how broken many of the Tahoe design decisions were. Apple describes the design as “even more refined,” because in Apple marketing-speak, broken features are never remedied or fixed—past features are just improved. The truth is, Apple has rolled back numerous missteps and made changes to others to mitigate the issues they caused.
The Golden Gate developer beta has proven stable in my everyday use on an M5 MacBook Air and M5 Max MacBook Pro, which is notable since dev betas often have side effects like tanking battery life or causing hardware to run hotter than normal.
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Would I still prefer to go back to the flatter design of macOS Sequoia? Yes, unequivocally. But at least Liquid Glass is more tolerable and less distracting now.
Nowhere is the Snow Leopard of it all more apparent than in the hundreds of little changes made to improve the day-to-day use of your Mac. I’m not going to catalog them all here, but I’ve used Golden Gate on two different Macs at this point, and based on my experiences so far, the changes are meaningful.
This is the crazy Finder column view file selection dragging behavior I'm seeing in the latest Golden Gate developer beta.
With the release of the macOS 27 Golden Gate public beta, can we finally submit Mac apps built with Xcode 27?
Previously:
- Golden Gate Spotlight
- Apple Intelligence in appleOS 27
- macOS Touch
- AI-Generated Shortcuts
- Siri AI Announced
- Glow Leopard
- macOS 27 Golden Gate Announced
- Liquid Glass 27 Slider
- Liquid Glass 27 Icons
- Golden Gate Window Corners
- Golden Gate Sidebars and Toolbars
- Golden Gate Menu Icons
- appleOS 26 Public Betas
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That bug looks like consolidating behavior with how iOS handles selection for a future touch-enabled Mac.
> This is the crazy Finder column view file selection dragging behavior I'm seeing in the latest Golden Gate developer beta.
Probably b/c they're rewriting everything with gesture recognizers. Hope that gets fixed before release b/c I have enough NSBrowser hacks in my app already!
This all reminds me so much of living through Windows Vista. Jason Snell's quote especially.
Finally, our Windows 7 may be on the horizon.
And now that Dye is finally gone, maybe we can finally stop having "the biggest macOS redesign ever" every single year, each year worse than the last.
