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macOS 27 Golden Gate: Here are Apple’s full release notes

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Why This Matters

Apple's published release notes for macOS 27 Golden Gate signal a shipping date of September 14 and confirm that a rebuilt, Apple Intelligence-powered "Siri AI" is finally arriving on the Mac, integrated directly into Spotlight and a new dedicated Siri app. The update also folds generative AI into core apps — Visual Intelligence for onscreen actions, AI photo editing, and Safari features like automatic tab grouping and natural-language extension creation. For users, it marks Apple's most substantial attempt yet to make on-device assistance genuinely useful rather than a demo.

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Apple has announced that macOS 27 Golden Gate will ship to all users next Monday, September 14. Here are Apple’s official release notes for macOS 27.

Apple’s official macOS 27 release notes now available

Today alongside shipping its RC (release candidate) updates, Apple published full release notes for iOS 27 and also for macOS 27 Golden Gate.

Here are the full, unedited macOS 27 release notes:

Experience the new Siri AI

Introducing Siri AI, an entirely new version of Siri powered by Apple Intelligence that’s more personal, more capable, and more conversational. It is integrated into Spotlight, so you can search for answers about almost any topic right from where you already search for things across your system. It can draw on personal context to find things across your messages, mail, photos, and more. And it can get things done across your apps, just by asking. Revisit and resume past conversations in the new dedicated Siri app, synced with iCloud across your Apple devices. Siri AI is rolling out to users, and you can get started by turning it on in Settings.

Take action on what’s onscreen

With Visual Intelligence, you can select a window of your screen and Siri can answer questions or take action with what’s onscreen, like adding events to your calendar. You can access Visual Intelligence with a dedicated keyboard shortcut — Command-Shift-Space.

Powerful new ways to edit photos

Use intelligent photo editing tools to reframe a photo after it’s been taken with Spatial Reframing or expand your shot with the Extend tool. And enhancements to Clean Up let you remove distractions with better quality and more realistic infill, even when the scene is complex.

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