Apple has made the macOS Golden Gate update available for download alongside iOS 27 for iPhones. macOS 27 can be installed on all Macs with Apple silicon processors. So, what are the new features?
After months of beta testing, macOS 27 Golden Gate has been released to everyone. This version brings Apple's new Siri AI, more comprehensive improvements to Liquid Glass, significant Safari innovations, and enhancements that boost performance and user experience.
What's New with macOS 27 Golden Gate Features 🆕
Mac users can now download the macOS Golden Gate update from the Software Update section in System Settings. This update introduces Siri AI, a smarter chatbot version with a dedicated Siri application. The update also brings Visual Intelligence to Mac for the first time and fine-tunes Apple's Liquid Glass design introduced last year. Here are all the macOS 27 innovations:
- Completely new Siri (Siri AI available in English)
- Visual Intelligence
- AI-powered tools in Photos
- Notify Me and Describe Extension features in Safari
- Creating shortcuts with commands in Siri Shortcuts
- Liquid Glass updates
- Faster and smoother experience
- Child safety features
macOS Golden Gate introduces Siri AI, a brand new version of Siri powered by Apple Intelligence, offering a more personal, capable, and natural conversational experience. Siri AI works integrated with Spotlight, allowing you to search for answers on almost any topic from wherever you are searching across the system. You can leverage personal context to find what you're looking for across Messages, Mail, Photos, and more. Additionally, you can perform various actions in apps just by speaking. You can also return to past conversations and pick up where you left off in the new and dedicated Siri app, which syncs with your Apple devices via iCloud. Siri AI can be enabled from Settings, but the Mac's language must be set to English.
With Visual Intelligence, you can select an area on your screen and have Siri answer questions based on the on-screen content or perform actions like adding events to your calendar. Visual Intelligence can also be accessed with the Command-Shift-Space keyboard shortcut.
macOS 27 Golden Gate brings new AI-powered editing tools to Photos. Using smart photo editing tools, you can reframe a captured photo with Spatial Reframing or expand your frame with the Expand tool. Furthermore, improvements to the Retouch feature allow you to remove distracting elements with higher quality and more realistic fill operations, even in complex scenes.
In Safari, you can automatically group your tabs by topic to find relevant pages more easily. With the Notify Me feature, Safari can track changes like price drops or stock replenishment and alert you when the time comes. The Describe Extension feature allows you to use natural language to create custom extensions, such as adding a button to save your favorite recipes.
With the Describe Shortcut feature, you can automate daily tasks with a simple description, allowing all necessary steps to be put together for you. For example, you can create a shortcut to automatically send a message to a friend with your estimated arrival time based on traffic conditions when returning home from work.
Liquid Glass updates improve readability, and with the new slider, you can customize the appearance between fully transparent (translucent) and lightly colored. Uniform toolbars, edge-to-edge sidebars, and more detailed app icons are among other notable innovations.
New parental controls help parents more easily manage what content children can see, who they can communicate with, and when they can access apps. The Navigation Permission feature requires children to ask for permission before visiting a new website in Safari. The Communication Safety feature expands its scope of protection to help keep conversations safe. Time Permissions offer parents more flexible ways to manage the time children spend in different app categories and provide guidance tailored to the child's age, based on expert research. Schedules also help manage which apps children can access at different times of the day or week.
Extensive improvements make the Mac even faster, more reliable, and easier to use. Enhanced search features in Spotlight and Mail allow users to find what they're looking for much more easily. AirDrop transfers and file viewing over the network have also been sped up.
Mac Models Receiving the macOS 27 Update 💻
- MacBook Neo (2026)
- Apple silicon MacBook Air (2020 and newer models)
- Apple silicon MacBook Pro (2020 and newer models)
- Apple silicon iMac (2021 and newer models)
- Apple silicon Mac mini (2020 and newer models)
- Mac Studio (2022 and newer models)
- Apple silicon Mac Pro (2023)
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