seems like there were no major issues in DB-4

Hi.

Since macOS 26 doesn't include the new ringtones from iOS 26, does macOS 27 include the new ringtones from iOS 26 for FaceTime and calls?

Apple is building an immersive onboarding experience for when you first pick Siri's voice in OS 27. It also hints that OS 27 might include up to 13 voice options for Siri AI.

Instead of selecting from a row of voice options, the hidden interface starts as a nearly black canvas, where the selected voice is marked with a colored dot. As you press and hold and move around the Voice Pad, the interface comes alive with colors cycling across the view. A white point tracks the cursor's position. The colorful interface reveals a 3-column grid with 4, 5, and 4 voice options respectively.

The visuals are complemented by spatial audio. As the cursor approaches a voice, the voice selection moves and the new voice sounds clearer and more present. When the cursor moves away, voices become distant and ambient. In the background, the spatial mixer blends two ambient sound layers as the cursor moves around the screen. The spatial mixer is substantial: it tracks the pointer's distance, angle, and movement velocity, then adjusts volume, presence, reverb, occlusion, and filtering across voice and background tracks.

This new view reveals that Apple may be preparing to support up to 13 custom voices for Siri AI. In this recording, macOS 27 Beta 4 does not ship with the required 13 voice models, so macOS falls back to the two custom voices available.

After selecting a voice, Siri Settings will present the current voice picker with the Pace and Expressivity controls for later voice changes and tuning. Based on the current implementation, this view is solely an onboarding experience for choosing the underlying Siri voice.

macOS 27 includes a Voice Grid Distribution file with descriptions of delivery, characteristics, gender, and age for each supported voice. Here are the descriptions of the 13 voices the Voice Pad expects for American English:

This is obviously an unfinished UI, but there is complete localization for 44 languages. Because the underlying SiriSetup framework is shared between macOS and other operating systems, this experience may be coming to some or all OS 27 releases.

There's no easy way to enable this one. You need to enable the SiriSetup/linwood_voices feature flag, but also need to attach LLDB to SiriPreferenceExtension and override fetchRequiresVoiceSelection to return true, siriVariantInternal to return 2, and force VoiceSelectionView.shouldRun to return true. This last part requires SIP off. Then you can disable and re-enable Siri to get the new view.

First of all, this is a beta version of macos. I am on the NEW MACOS 27 BETA 4 and i just noticed after the update that when i switch desktops this happens. I restarted my laptop also just to be sure it isn't on my end but this still remains.

I HOPE this is a BUG not a NEW UI UPDATE cause this look awful (to me, i dont like this 😭)

Is this happening to you guys too? pls tell im panicking XD and also dw those black blobs are mine

The button is unresponsive and I am unable to access the Beta Updates menu, Is there anyway to fix this?

Hi everyone,

I have an M4 MacBook Air, and it's my main computer that I use every day. I'm really tempted to install the macOS Golden Gate Public Beta 2 because I want to try all the new features as soon as possible.

However, I'm a bit worried since this is my primary machine.

For those of you who have already installed the Public Beta 2:

• How stable is it in daily use?
• Have you experienced any major bugs, crashes, or battery drain?
• Are there any app compatibility issues?
• Would you recommend installing it on a main Mac, or is it better to wait for the official release?

I'd also love to hear your overall experience with it so far.

Thanks!

It looks kind of "bloody"

(Second image is the Tahoe icon)

Every "networking is broken on 27" thread is one of four different bugs with four different fixes. People keep getting handed the wrong one, & the Feedback reports scatter so none of them hit the 10-report line Apple acts on. Sort yours first.

Which one is yours?

1. Safari works, but Chrome / VS Code / Discord / Dropbox can't connect at all -> A (or B if you run no VPN or filter)
2. Internet's fine, but you can't reach a LAN device (Homebridge, a NAS, a local dev server) -> C
3. Everything connects, but one wired download randomly crawls at 6-10 Mbps while Wi-Fi is full speed -> D

A. A content filter is blocking Chromium apps (fixed in beta 4)

• Signs: Safari's fine, everything Chromium or Electron is dead. Chrome, Edge, VS Code, Discord, Dropbox time out or go blank.
• Cause: a VPN or security tool's network filter. Named so far: Cisco Secure Client, Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike Falcon, Little Snitch, Radio Silence, TripMode, LuLu, Tailscale.
• Fix: update to beta 4 (26A5388g). Not yet? Turn the filter off in Settings > General > Login Items & Extensions > Network Extensions.
• Report: Feedback Assistant, macOS > Internet & Connectivity. Name the filter. MacRumors thread

B. IPv6 has no route, so IPv6-first apps stall

• Signs: Chromium & Node apps hang, Safari's fine. ping6 google.com returns "No route to host."
• Fix: sudo networksetup -setv6off "Wi-Fi" (use your service name).
• Report: Feedback Assistant, macOS > Internet & Connectivity. Say "IPv6 RA, no route, Safari fine on v4."

C. Local Network permission is stuck (fixed in beta 4)

• Signs: internet's fine, but LAN stuff fails. Homebridge offline, a local web UI loads blank, your NAS won't answer.
• Fix: Settings > Privacy & Security > Local Network, toggle the app off & back on. Or update to beta 4.
• Report: Feedback Assistant, macOS > Privacy & Security. Say "Local Network permission, app denied LAN access."

D. Wired downloads throttled to single digits (NOT fixed, needs reports)

This is the one people blame on their Ethernet adapter & replace. It's not the adapter.

• Signs: everything connects, but one wired download drops to 6-10 Mbps for a few minutes to 40, then recovers on its own. Wi-Fi does 50-70 Mbps the same second. Eight downloads at once are fine; one at a time crawls. Hits jittery links: Verizon 5G Home, Starlink, cellular, congested cable.
• Cause: macOS 27 added a receive-side governor (tcp_rbbr, net.inet.tcp.recv_bg_algo=2) that opens a download at a 5,440-byte window & doubles it once per second on a clock instead of by data received, so on a jittery link it never ramps. Unchanged in beta 4 (26A5388g).
• Not this one if: disabling ECN (sudo sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.ecn_initiate_out=0) fixes it, or it's constant instead of intermittent. That's a different, mostly-26 issue.
• Test (read-only, no sudo, run while a download feels slow):URL="http://cachefly.cachefly.net/10mb.test"; TMP=$(mktemp) sysctl net.inet.tcp.recv_bg_algo S=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{speed_download}" --max-time 45 "$URL") for i in $(seq 1 8); do curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{speed_download}\n" --max-time 45 "$URL" >> "$TMP" & done; wait A=$(awk '{s+=$1} END{print s}' "$TMP"); rm -f "$TMP" echo "single: $(echo $S|awk '{printf "%.1f",$1*8/1e6}') Mbps | 8-flow: $(echo $A|awk '{printf "%.1f",$1*8/1e6}') Mbps" If recv_bg_algo is 2 & your single number is a small fraction of your 8-flow number, that's it.
• Fix: run the internet over Wi-Fi & keep the wired port for LAN. Wi-Fi doesn't get demoted, so it stays full speed.
• Report: Feedback Assistant, macOS > Internet & Connectivity, reference FB#23904785 . Paste your single-vs-8-flow numbers, your ISP, & your recv_bg_algo. Full writeup with packet captures & the kernel disassembly: Apple Developer Forums

My main two gripes with Mac OS (still my favorite desktop OS by far despite its flaws) are:

1. Mail search is not working for me. If I search the word "airline" it returns 0 results even tough there is a message last month from an airline with airline in the subject AND the sender also has airline in it, and airline is in the body. How can it be so bad?
2. Spotlight indexing has been weird for me lately. While search work well its been doing weird things with processor usage while indexing, using 100% processor for days then being ok then doing it again. Yes I've done all the procedures to clear and rebuild spotlight cache and it works ok after re-indexing but then starts to have the same issue a few days later.

Have either of these issues been improved in Mac OS Golden Gate betas?

during the previous beta, i never had any issues with iphone mirroring. however, there was a major bug when transferring files directly from my mac to my iphone. whenever i dragged a file into the mirroring window, the app would immediately crash and my iphone would restart to a blank screen.. in the current beta, though, iphone mirroring will not pair with my iphone at all. i’ve already tried several many steps? including resetting the relevant settings and signing out of and back into icloud, but nothing has worked...

Wanted to hear from others who have tested the new resolution scaling features and their experiences/recommendations.

I've only recently began using my Mac with an external display - in this case a 3440 x 1440 ultrawide that looks pretty darn sharp through my windows desktop, but either fuzzy on macOS.

So over the last few weeks I've been testing different resolutions on better display, anti aliasing on/off. HiDPI or native res. Just today I read that the MacOS 27 beta includes some tweaks for low resolution displays and better ultra wide support so I've installed it and I'm trying it out but,, I still feel like I have to use better display for the best text sharpness.

Best options so far by my eyes are:

• 3062 x 1282 (better display), anti aliasing off (scaling a bit large but best text clarity)
• 3440 x 1440p, anti aliasing off

All these by the way, still fall short of what I'm used to on windows. This was such a jarring disappointment, that I was almost considering cancelling my M5 pro MBP order.

Update after macOS 27 beta 4, the battery percentage not showing properly has been fixed. However the activity monitor reading is still not fixed. At this point, I believe Apple will only fix it in the stable release.

Or maybe I'm just asking the wrong questions

I receive a lot of mail in my trash in one of my accounts. About 75 every day. Each day I review the mail in the trash to see if any legit mail was put in there. To delete the mail, I would click on edit, select all, then delete. The bug is now when I click on select all in trash, it highlights All the mailboxes in mail, not just the mail in that trash. If I click on delete, that would delete emails in ALL boxes. It is repeatable. I did report the bug to Apple. The work around is to click on the first email in trash, press and hold the Shift key, then use the Down Arrow button to highlight all the mail in trash. You can then hit delete, and it will only delete those emails. My equipment is a Mac mini M2.

I live in terminals + coding agents and kept losing track of which Ghostty/iTerm/Others shell belonged to which repo.

So I vibe coded Terminal Dashboard (open source, MIT, Python stdlib only):

It looks ugly but quite helpful to switch between terminals

• Lists Terminal.app, iTerm2, Ghostty, Warp, WezTerm, Kitty, tmux, VS Code/Cursor shells…

• Groups them by working directory

• Click = inspect (doesn’t steal focus); explicit button to open the real terminal

• Open any folder in Ghostty / Terminal.app / your installed IDEs

• Export full Claude Code / Codex chats to Markdown for handoff to another agent

Run from source:

git clone https://github.com/mano7onam/terminal-dashboard

cd terminal-dashboard && python3 server.py

# open http://localhost:8080

Optional macOS .app + DMG (not App Store — Gatekeeper steps in README).

Repo: https://github.com/mano7onam/terminal-dashboard

Feedback welcome :)

Don’t know if this was a thing in Tahoe already (I skipped that) but in GG beta 4 I can’t drop files onto windows in Expose or Mission Control. Is Apple sleeping on that? Surely more people miss that? (Yes I’ve filed feedback, just wondering if more people even notice and use this? I think it’s super annoying…)

So far Apple has mirrored the beta release cycle of Tahoe with Golden Gate. With releases 14 days apart exactly. 26 followed the same frequency up to release 5 and then roughly one week all the way to the candidate for a total of 10 beta releases.

AI is by nature stochastic and with so many new features on this layer I wondered if they will be done early September this time around. It is a necessary step and an inflection point that will show the synergy of apple hardware with AI.

So far I’m pumped about the highlight text to AI feature and the voice blending UI that I have learned about from your contributions. What Intelligence features besides those two have been fun to test for you? what seems so broken that seems unrealistic to be solved by September? I finally started a new job and got a mac so I’m planning to actually start testing and contributing to the beta cycle with my personal machine

In macOS 27, Apple is working on a new Formatting Bar design for the message composer in Apple Mail. It includes Write with Siri, Edit with Siri, Proofread, and Rewrite, while collapsing the classic formatting controls to the right.

In Beta 4, the redesigned bar can now display contextual Smart Reply suggestions. Smart Reply itself isn’t new, as it was introduced with Apple Intelligence. But now, Apple has added support for previewing the Smart Reply before inserting it by hovering over the suggestion chip. With the previous in-line design, there was no way to preview the Smart Reply suggestion.

Note that in Beta 4, there's a bug where Mail will present the old Formatting Bar design when writing a new email. The new Formatting Bar design only appears when replying to a message.

To enable the new Formatting Bar design, add a FeatureFlags override:

sudo mkdir -p /Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain && \ sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain/WritingTools FormattingBar_macOS -dict Enabled -bool true

and restart your Mac. This is a private feature flag, and the UI is a work in progress.

Disable with:

sudo defaults delete /Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain/WritingTools FormattingBar_macOS

and restart your Mac.

This felt like it warranted its own breakout, but I'm getting horrible performance on DB4. Specifically kernal task jumping up which appears to be overheating. Windowserver pegged near 100% on a M5 Max max spec with two displays running external. Has anyone had similiar issues and found settings or apps that might be related to the issue? Menu bar hiding maybe?

When i ask for something to Siri it gets stuck on Working. Yes, i've sent feedback since Beta 1, yes i've killed Finder too. Anyone? Anyone? Siri issues... Anyone?

This is an AI generated summary of the entries that appear to be specific to Beta 4 rather than a general summary of everything introduced in macOS 27.

Apple's macOS release notes are cumulative, so most of the Beta 4 page was already present in Beta 3.

I compared the Beta 4 notes against the archived Beta 3 notes using Apple's issue IDs. This post separates:

• Entries that are completely new in Beta 4
• Issues that were listed as known in Beta 3 and are now marked resolved
• Cumulative entries that were already unchanged in Beta 3 and therefore aren't Beta 4 changes

TL;DR

• Beta 4 adds 9 entirely new release-note entries.
• Apple moved 79 issues from Known in Beta 3 to Resolved in Beta 4.
• Siri accounts for 24 of those resolved issues.
• There is still no explicit APFS or filesystem-corruption fix in the release notes.

Entirely new entries in Beta 4

These issue IDs do not appear anywhere in the archived Beta 3 notes.

• Messages: Fixed an issue where HDR screenshots could appear garbled when sent. (180859837)

• Notification Center: There is a new known issue where certain notifications might not be individually dismissible.

  Workaround: Open Notification Center and click "Dismiss All Notifications."

  (181736751)

• App Intents: Apple has documented a cumulative 10 MB size limit for an AppEntity, including all of its child properties and values. Exceeding the limit might crash the app. (181763422)

• StoreKit: There is a new StoreKit Testing issue where non-subscription purchases made through SKTestSession.buyProduct() might fail with an invalid-product error. The billingPlanType(_:) option might also be ignored for subscriptions. (181842500)

• AppKit: For apps linked against the macOS 27 SDK, the Layout Orientation command in an NSTextView context menu has moved under the Font submenu. (177605020)

• AppKit: Apple added two menu-image compatibility fixes:

  • Apps linked against the macOS 27 SDK now automatically hide both symbol and non-symbol menu-item images. (179374305)
  • Apps linked against older SDKs continue showing image-only menu items automatically. (179936632)

• Core AI: Fixed app-group support not working correctly with certain model types. (179732320)

• Game Controller: Fixed supportsHIDDevice: sometimes returning the wrong result for a recently connected HID device. (176985783)

Beta 3 known issues now marked resolved

The following problems were already documented as known issues in Beta 3, but Beta 4 now marks them fixed. These are legitimate Beta 4 changes even though their descriptions appeared in the older notes.

Siri

Apple marks 24 Siri issues resolved, including:

• Siri failing to find albums in Photos
• Navigation failing to start in AMap, Tencent Maps, or Baidu Maps
• Siri ignoring custom navigation preferences
• Maps searches returning empty or imprecise results when location accuracy is limited
• Siri requiring an exact reminder-list name
• Recurring reminders not being created or updated
• Calls failing in apps using CallKit and the phone.startCall schema
• Calls to short phone numbers failing
• Notes in Siri responses not being clickable
• Siri choosing an unrelated contact for a message
• Siri failing to resolve app-specific contacts indexed only in Spotlight
• Siri selecting the wrong person for calls, messages, or email
• The Send button in the message-confirmation interface failing
• Siri not responding correctly to voice input
• Conversations disappearing shortly after a streamed response
• Siri and Dictation history remaining after Siri was disabled
• Some ChatGPT follow-up responses potentially being logged by Apple

Everyday app and interface fixes

• Dock: Fixed the Dock remaining visible after entering or leaving Mission Control from a full-screen app.
• Dock: Fixed some apps being incorrectly shown as running in the background.
• Window management: Fixed windows becoming lost after exiting full screen through Mission Control.
• Mail: Fixed Smart Mailboxes not updating while Mail was open.
• Mail banners: Fixed early flights incorrectly being shown as delayed.
• Messages: Fixed GIFs and pasted images rendering at the wrong size.
• Music: Fixed Music Visualizer showing only a black screen.
• Media playback: Fixed window controls becoming unresponsive in Music, TV, or Podcasts after dragging the playhead.
• Safari: Fixed "Rename" and "Edit Address..." doing nothing in the sidebar.
• Safari: Fixed Safari Intelligence appearing ready before its assets finished downloading.
• Safari extensions: Fixed extensions created through "Describe an Extension" requiring a Safari relaunch after being enabled or disabled.
• News: Fixed the News app crashing at launch when configuration profiles were installed.
• Finder: Improved suggested file and folder names that were previously too generic.
• Search: Fixed slow asset downloads for languages and regions outside US English.
• Thunderbolt: Fixed a second identical display sometimes failing to illuminate.
• Writing Tools: Fixed Writing Tools stopping after "Describe Your Change" was used.

Apple Intelligence and machine-learning fixes

• Two Image Playground issues are marked fixed:

  • ChatGPT image generation failing in the Messages extension
  • The All and Suggested tabs being absent from the photo picker

• The on-device "Use Model" action in Shortcuts should now work with more output types.

• Apple Intelligence Reports should now include Home Intelligence data sent to Private Cloud Compute.

• Eight Core AI issues moved from Known to Resolved, covering:

  • Model-cache policies
  • GPU inference blocking
  • Neural Engine compatibility
  • Dynamic output shapes
  • coreai-torch models
  • Control flow over dynamic-shape tensors
  • Custom Metal kernels
  • Models compiled with older Xcode 27 betas

• PrivateCloudComputeLanguageModel no longer always uses greedy decoding.

Installation, displays, and external disks

• Background Security Improvements can now be installed when the Mac starts from an external storage device.
• Macs configured for Reduced Security should no longer encounter the documented macOS 27 installation problem.
• The previously documented AirPods Max 2 beta-firmware update issue is now marked resolved.
• Accessory Access should now work inside the App Sandbox and inside macOS virtual machines.

Virtualization and graphics fixes

• Four virtual-machine USB issues are now marked resolved, including:

  • VM state saving failing with passed-through USB devices
  • A crash after unassigning a passed-through Apple mouse
  • A restore crash when a previously attached USB mass-storage device is missing
  • USB accessory listeners failing with non-empty matching criteria

• Preview and Spatial Preview received fixes for:

  • Broken materials after opening certain 3D models
  • The annotation cursor remaining stuck as an open hand
  • Large or poorly connected models not appearing
  • Edits to USDZ files larger than 75 MB not synchronizing
  • Discovery showing incompatible Apple Vision Pro devices

• Additional fixes were made for RealityKit, ShaderGraph, USDKit, Metal, Swift Charts, Mac Catalyst, and Xcode virtual-machine installation.

Filesystem and corruption status

There is no Beta 4 release-note entry explicitly mentioning an APFS corruption fix, filesystem corruption, damaged volumes, directory corruption, snapshot corruption, fsck, Disk Utility repair failures, or general data loss.

The two closest storage-related fixes are:

• Background Security Improvements can now install from an external startup disk.
• A virtual machine should no longer crash during restoration when a previously connected USB mass-storage device is absent.

Neither is described as an APFS or host-filesystem-integrity fix.

The following storage-related entries were already present in Beta 3 and are not Beta 4 changes:

• Deprecation of encrypted HFS+ through CoreStorage
• Apple's recommendation to move encrypted external backups to APFS
• The new DiskImageKit framework
• SwiftUI's package-document writing optimization
• The known Startup Disk compatibility issue involving macOS 11

Bottom line

Beta 4 is primarily a bug-fix and stabilization release.

Its largest change is the substantial Siri cleanup, followed by fixes for Apple Intelligence, Mission Control, Mail, Messages, media playback, Safari, external displays, software installation, virtual machines, and several developer frameworks.

There is still no confirmed APFS or filesystem-corruption fix in Apple's published notes.

Source

• Apple's current macOS 27 release notes

Anyone else experiencing this?

Screen recording (cmd+shift+5) isn't working for me when I'm using my MBP in clamshell mode with an external monitor. I'm able to start and end the recording, but it doesn't get saved anywhere.

Since the update, my second (4k) display resolution won’t change from 800x600, which it is strangely defaulting to for some reason.

Anyone else experiencing this? Suggested fix? I’ve already tried resetting it and every other basic fix.