Apple's macOS 27 finalizes the move to Apple Silicon, leaving Intel Macs further behind. The software update was announced at Apple Park in Cupertino, California, as part of the company's annual developer conference. …
… Fall 2027: macOS 28 releases, ending Intel support Fall 2027 will see the release of macOS 28, Apple's next big Mac software update. Apple warned developers as far back as June 2025 that macOS 28 would not support Rosetta 2 for most apps. …
… Another enterprise-focused update for macOS Tahoe macOS Tahoe 26.5.1 continues Apple's recent focus on fixing issues affecting managed Mac deployments. In macOS Tahoe 26.5, Apple fixed an issue that could leave some Macs stuck on a black screen after a software update. …
… The complaints against Liquid Glass are valid but small, and the new macOS 27 also addresses some of those. Apple gives and Apple takes away On the surface, macOS Golden Gate is not as significant an upgrade as macOS Big Sur, or even macOS Tahoe with its Liquid Glass redesign. …
… The Asahi Installer has also been patched to prevent it from running on macOS until a workaround can be created, or if Apple fixes a bug. Since this a problem found in the first developer beta of macOS 27, it may be an artifact of Apple dropping support for Intel hardware. …
… The left menu shows a lack of icons in macOS Golden Gate and the right menu shows the icons in macOS Tahoe Apple spent a lot of its keynote addressing user complaints. …
… Apple hasn't announced new Retina scaling modes, Display Stream Compression enhancements, or changes to macOS display scaling technology. Apple released the first macOS 27 developer beta following its WWDC26 keynote on June 8. …
Apple's social media promo for WWDC may have given away the name of macOS 27, as it has before. Each year, the WWDC keynote has Craig Federighi joking about the "crack marketing team" that comes up with the name for that year's macOS release. …
… However, as warned in macOS Sequoia 15, support for the Apple Filing Protocol, AFP, was being deprecated and removed in a future macOS release. That turned out to be macOS 27, thanks to a notice in macOS 26 warning about the end of support for AirPort Disk and other Time Capsule disks. …
Apple is already developing its 2027 updates for iOS 28, iPadOS 28, macOS 28, and its other operating systems. …
