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Apple has seeded the first developer beta of macOS 27.3 Golden Gate, build 26C5035r, just a week after macOS 27.2 shipped. The update is expected to add Siri AI support for Traditional Chinese, Norwegian, Turkish and Vietnamese, continuing a language rollout Apple has promised to complete by year's end.
Apple unveiled its first touchscreen MacBook Pro alongside new touch-specific features in macOS 27 Golden Gate, including enlarged traffic light icons, larger context menu items, and on-screen trackpad gestures like three-finger swipes and pinch-to-zoom. Developers also gain the ability to fully navigate the iOS simulator using touch instead of trackpad workarounds.
Apple released iPadOS 27.2, adding a contextual Siri popup that appears when text is selected with a trackpad or mouse, offering quick options like 'Proofread' and 'Rewrite.' The update also brings user profiles to the Apple TV app on iPad, letting multiple people on a shared device get separate watch histories, queues, and content recommendations. Siri AI in this release can also recall past conversations and pull answers from Messages photos, Calendar, voicemail, and Safari history.
Apple has released a MacBook Pro featuring an OLED 'PROLED XDR' display and, for the first time, touchscreen support, running macOS 27 Golden Gate. The touch functionality lets users tap and swipe the screen, with some UI elements in certain apps magnifying or expanding slightly in response, while mouse and trackpad input remain fully functional.
The latest episode of the Apple @ Work podcast features guest Adam West discussing his experience at the Jamf Nation User Conference (JNUC), along with conversation about macOS Golden Gate and Rosetta. The episode is sponsored by Mosyle, which bills itself as a unified platform for deploying, managing and protecting Apple devices in enterprise settings.
Apple released version 27.2 updates across iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS, adding a memory feature that lets Siri recall past conversations and pull from more data sources like voicemails and Messages attachments. The update also brings Siri AI to French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish, an 'Excluded Apps' privacy control, context-aware Messages suggestions, SynthID watermarking in Photos, Apple TV user profiles, a redesigned Apple Music logo, and Apple Pencil support for the iPhone Duo foldable.
Apple shipped macOS Tahoe with icons added to every menu item by default, a design choice that drew criticism. In the upcoming release referred to as Golden Gate, Apple has removed that default, and its updated Human Interface Guidelines now cite Tahoe's all-icon menus as an example of what not to do, according to John Gruber's reporting from June.
Apple has released the third developer and public release candidates for macOS Sequoia 15.8.2 (build 24H230) and macOS Tahoe 26.7.2 (build 25G330), alongside the first RC for macOS 27.2 Golden Gate. Apple's release notes describe the updates only as containing "important security fixes" recommended for all users.
Apple has released the first Release Candidate of macOS 27.2 Golden Gate, build 26B118, to developers and public beta testers, with a full public rollout expected in coming weeks. The update expands Siri AI language support to French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish, and adds new gesture recognition tools to built-in apps. A known bug causes windows in Electron-based apps to stop responding to dragging.
Apple has released the fourth developer beta of macOS 27.2 Golden Gate, resuming its weekly beta cadence after a two-week gap. The update's main feature is expanded Siri AI language support, adding French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish following the English-only launch with macOS 27.
Apple's macOS 27 Golden Gate and iOS 27 updates bring three changes to iPhone Mirroring: the mirroring window can now be freely resized for iOS 27-compatible apps, Control Center is accessible via a CMD+4 shortcut or the View menu, and DRM-protected video now plays instead of showing a black screen. The feature also gets a redesigned app icon matching other stock Apple apps.
Apple has released the initial release candidates for macOS Sequoia 15.8.2 and macOS Tahoe 26.7.2, skipping the usual preceding beta builds as it typically does for point updates to older macOS versions. Apple's notes describe the updates only as containing important security fixes recommended for all users, without further detail. The builds are identified as 24H219 for Sequoia and 25G320 for Tahoe.