{"id":230981,"date":"2026-06-11T11:00:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/several-things-i-like-about-macos-27-golden-gate-that-have-nothing-to-do-with-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T11:00:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:00:32","slug":"several-things-i-like-about-macos-27-golden-gate-that-have-nothing-to-do-with-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/several-things-i-like-about-macos-27-golden-gate-that-have-nothing-to-do-with-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Several things I like about macOS 27 Golden Gate that have nothing to do with AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Apple Intelligence and Siri AI have sucked most of the oxygen out of the room at Apple&#8217;s Worldwide Developers Conference this year\u2014understandable, maybe, given that the AI-powered Siri delays are all anyone has wanted to ask any Apple executive about for the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>But Apple Intelligence is just one of the three big focus areas Apple outlined during its keynote this week. The second is new parental controls\u2014overdue, but promising-looking, as the parent of a 6-year-old with an iPad that I only begrudgingly connect to the Internet. And the third is &#8220;platform improvements,&#8221; a catch-all for a wide range of fit-and-finish changes aimed at boosting responsiveness and addressing common user complaints.<\/p>\n<p>I have the first beta of macOS 27 Golden Gate running on an M1 MacBook Air\u2014the oldest, slowest hardware Apple supports now that Intel compatibility is out the window. With some help from <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.oneberri.com\/posts\/wwdc26-the-small-things\">Apple&#8217;s densely packed wall-of-features slide<\/a>, here are a few things from the &#8220;platform improvements&#8221; column I like the most, plus one item I&#8217;d still like to see.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/06\/five-things-i-like-and-one-thing-i-still-want-in-the-macos-27-golden-gate-beta\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/06\/five-things-i-like-and-one-thing-i-still-want-in-the-macos-27-golden-gate-beta\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Intelligence and Siri AI have sucked most of the oxygen out of the room at Apple&#8217;s Worldwide Developers Conference this year\u2014understandable, maybe, given that the AI-powered Siri delays are all anyone has wanted to ask any Apple executive about for the last two years. But Apple Intelligence is just one of the three big focus areas Apple outlined during its keynote this week. 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