What's new in the updates for macOS 27 Golden Gate

macOS 27 updates improve the stability, performance, or compatibility of your Mac and are recommended for all macOS 27 users.

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• What's new for enterprise in these updates

macOS 27.2

This update provides enhancements to Siri AI with the ability to retain useful context from previous Siri interactions as well as draw from a wider range of personal context. It also introduces Suggestions in Messages that help you take quick actions in apps like Calendar and Reminders based on context from your conversation. This release includes additional features, bug fixes, and security updates for your Mac.

Siri AI

• Siri AI can recall your past conversations, so you can ask Siri about something it told you before, like the restaurants it recommended last week.

• Siri AI can draw from more sources to give you a great answer, including photos attached in Messages, Calendar event attendees, your voicemails, and better results from Safari history and Reading List.

• Excluded Apps lets you choose which apps Siri, Search, and suggestions can access, all from one setting.

• Write with Siri is available right from the new formatting bar when you compose a message in Mail.

• Siri AI is available in more languages, with support for French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. Siri AI is not available in mainland China.

Other

• Suggestions in Messages help you take action based on the context of your conversations, like adding a Calendar invite for a dinner.

• Shared Albums in Photos adds the ability to edit captions and comments and avoid adding duplicate photos, and it can display a reminder before albums expire so participants can save important photos and videos.

• Support for SynthID watermarking to help identify whether an image was generated or modified with generative tools in Photos and Image Playground.

• The Home tab in the Podcasts app offers two separate sections for New Episodes and Continue Playing, letting you find the latest updates from your shows and then pick up where you left off.

• FaceTime supports adding a third-party sign-language interpreter or live captioner to a call.

macOS 27.0.1

This update provides bug fixes for your Mac.

macOS 27

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: Shift–Command–Space bar.

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.

New tools to browse in Safari

Automatically group your tabs into topics, so related pages are easier to find. With Notify Me, Safari can monitor pages for changes like price drops or restocks and alert you when it’s time to act. Describe an Extension lets you use natural language to create custom extensions, like adding a button to save your favorite recipes.

Easily create Shortcuts using natural language

With Describe a Shortcut, you can automate daily tasks with a simple description and all of the required steps are assembled on your behalf. For example, you can describe a shortcut to automatically text your partner when you’re headed home from work with an estimated arrival time based on traffic.

Even more refined design

Updates to Liquid Glass improve readability, and a new slider lets you customize how it looks, from ultra-clear to fully tinted. Uniform toolbars, edge-to-edge sidebars, and more detailed app icons further elevate the design.

New child safety features

Powerful new parental controls help parents more easily manage what content their children can see, who they can communicate with, and when they have access to apps. Ask to Browse requires kids to request permission before visiting any new website in Safari. Communication Safety expands its protections to help keep conversations safe. Time Allowances gives parents more flexible ways to manage the time kids spend in apps across categories, and offers guidance based on expert research that’s tailored to a child’s age. Schedules help manage which apps kids have access to at different times of the day and across the week.

A more responsive and delightful experience

An expansive set of improvements makes your Mac even faster, more reliable, and easier to use. Better search in Spotlight and Mail helps you find what you’re looking for with greater ease. AirDrop Transfers and network file browsing happen faster. And many more improvements make your day-to-day use more enjoyable.