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macOS 27 ‘Golden Gate’ delivers more Liquid Glass and updated Siri

Apple has unveiled its next Mac operating system, macOS Golden Gate, with Apple promising better performance, the improved Siri, and more.

Apple Music desktop interface showing sidebar navigation and colorful music playlists, including Viral Rewind and Afrobeats Hits, with a Recently Played row of album covers displayed along the bottom
A redesigned sidebar is part of macOS Golden Gate – image credit: Apple

The new macOS 27 has been revealed during the WWDC 2026 opening keynote, and while not as substantial a new release as macOS Tahoe, it does bring some key new features to the Mac.

It does of course retain the Liquid Glass design look that was introduced in 2025. That was always going to be the case, even if vocal critics of Liquid Glass wished otherwise. Apple will always iterate, and it will sometimes make larger leaps forward, but it won’t go back.

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