{"id":52606,"date":"2026-07-14T14:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T18:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=52606"},"modified":"2026-07-14T14:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T18:27:08","slug":"macos-27-public-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/14\/macos-27-public-beta\/","title":{"rendered":"macOS 27 Public Beta"},"content":{"rendered":"

Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Apple today released the first public beta of macOS Golden Gate<\/a>, expanding the macOS 27 beta test to non-developers. You can sign up to test the update on Apple’s beta website<\/a>, and then download it by going to System Settings > General > Software Update and toggling on the macOS 27 beta.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Jason Snell<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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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<\/em>. The truth is, Apple has rolled back numerous missteps and made changes to others to mitigate the issues they caused.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Antonio G. Di Benedetto<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

John Voorhees<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Jeff Johnson<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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This is the crazy Finder column view file selection dragging behavior I'm seeing in the latest Golden Gate developer beta.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Matthias Gansrigler-Hrad<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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With the release of the macOS 27 Golden Gate public beta, can we finally submit Mac apps built with Xcode 27?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n