Tuesday, October 27, 2026

macOS 27.2

Juli Clover (release notes, security, enterprise, developer, full installer, IPSW):

macOS Golden Gate 27.2 overhauls the brightness and volume sliders, plus it expands Siri AI to new languages including French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Mr. Macintosh (post):

Apple just broke the macOS security update record AGAIN, patching 263 CVEs in macOS Golden Gate 27.2! 🤯🔐

Jeff Johnson:

I decided to email Apple Product Security yesterday just to ask whether CVE-2026-112500 was my [e-mail privacy] issue. In the past I’ve had a number of email conversations with Apple Product Security, including a long-running thread initiated by them way back in 2024 about a WebKit security issue that I had reported, with last reply in July of this year. Sadly, as far as I can tell, I still haven’t been credit for that issue.

[…]

In other words, Apple Product Security no longer accepts reports via email, instead requiring security researchers to submit via a web form. But the web form wants you to “Report a vulnerability,” with no place for a simple question like mine, about a vulnerability already fixed. Also, the quoted paragraph implies that if you don’t use the web form, you might not get a CVE, which I suspect is what happened to me!

Gwynne Raskind:

PSA: If you use the removemacai tool and are having trouble updating to macOS 27.2, remove the RemoveMacAI profile in System Settings -> General -> Device Management. It appears to somehow block softwareupdate’s ability to download parts of the update.

Mario Guzmán:

macOS 27.2 beta brings back the solid divider line between sidebars and their details view.

Steve Troughton-Smith:

macOS 27.2 has reverted the [Mission Control] change: fullscreen apps are now once again titled by app name, not window title

David Deller:

Still broken on macOS 27.2. No response to my Feedback so far.

I’ve since added a workaround in Radiccio that simply removes the Liquid Glass effect (so the buttons can work again).

Hartley Charlton:

Upgrading to macOS 27 no longer removes an existing Rosetta installation[…]

Jeff Johnson:

I suspect what Apple really meant is that macOS 27 was not automatically reinstalling Rosetta, and now it does again in 27.2.

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