Release Note - 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.

The new Spotlight design in macOS Golden Gate 27.2 is absolutely awful.

The search bar is permanently black, regardless of whether macOS is set to Light or Dark mode. There’s no way to change its appearance. It looks completely out of place, as if it were designed for an entirely different operating system.

How did this make it past the design team? At the very least, users should be given the option to match Spotlight’s appearance to their system-wide appearance settings.

Is the worst I’ve been in for a while:
- should I up/downgrade to x.y.x?
- this pixel offends me
The occasional informative post isn’t enough amongst all these shite posts.

I don't have an external monitor so this is my screen. A lot of things were broken in 27.0.
Finally, Apple fixed the mission control bug that shouldn't have been the initial release. Its a little janky sometimes with respect to FPS but themajor issue seems to be resolved.

• The desktop selection is not jumping to the first one by default anymore.
• Desktop switching animation is a little smooth.
• Selected desktops are loading full screen

People with multiple monitors, are your issues resolved?

Jumped from sequoia to goldengate. Felt good for a month. But the battery drain is so bad. I am a medium to light user. Golden gate is so bad that i was losing at least 2hrs+ of battery backup ( with siri turned off). Now going back to sequoia. Do anyone else facing same issue? M4air 24gb

Update: It's been a few hours since the sequoia upgrade ( I must say). I regained my 100% battery life again and now the machine runs like butter without AI slop and liquid glass shite.

Hallelujah! I thought we were Tim Cooked, but Mission Control is finally back in working order, and now we're Tim Cooking.

That's all. Mission Control works as intended in 27.2. MacOS now feels "finished."

Bold claim: Best OS since Snow Leopard.

Sorry, I'm a bit ignorant.

Last week for the first time I installed the RC of macos 27.2. it was about 19gb.

Today I got a message saying that the OTA update of 27.2 is available and it's 3.3GB.

Have they changed something from RC to OTA? Is it normal that there's a difference between the RC and OTA?

I want to use Disk Utility to clone my whole internal 500 GB SSD to an image (Intel Mac from 2016). But my first attempts didn't work. I started in Recovery Mode and tried to clone the SSD from there. But I got immediately a message like "drive is busy". I then deactivated all of my APFS volumes on that SSD using Disk Utility. After that, the cloning worked, but the resulting image was only 60 GB of size and the cloning also finished much to fast, so it is clear that not my whole drive was cloned. I assume that the previously deactivated APFS volumes were not cloned within that process.

I then tried the very same procedure by booting macOS from an external hard drive and doing the cloning of the internal SSD from there. But the problems were the very same.

Has anybody of you succeeded in doing such a clone backup?

Please note that I want to use some internal Mac tool for that clone. I've already successfully created such a clone with Clonezilla. But for pretty specific reasons, I need another clone done by Disk Utility or by some other macOS native tool.

ChatGPT suggested that such a clone could also be done through the command line by using something like:

hdiutil create \
-srcdevice /dev/disk0 \
-format UDRO \
-o "/Volumes/Backup/Macbook-full.dmg"

I haven't looked into that deeper for now, but am ready to check it out if Disk Utility isn't working. Anybody has tried something like this?

EDIT:
The whole idea of all this is to have a full disk backup. If my Mac is getting broken, I could buy the very same Mac model on the used market, restore the clone, and everything will be like before.

Art fully by me taking the piss at the current civil war in every Linux forum/discussion thread in the past days, I didn't want to make something glazing MacOS but it sounds like the perfect BSD alternative for these peeps if it weren't for the fact that it's MacOS

Ok I'm tired but I'll try to lay it all out for you.

1. I too rolled back from Golden Gate to Sequoia this week. I don't regret the decision one bit.
2. I had paired a Wiimote+ to my Mac beforehand, and I'm going through the process of re-pairing all my devices. The Wiimote just won't pair.
3. I do see it pop up in Bluetooth system prefs under the name I manually gave it. this is how I found out BT devices are stored in the NVRAM. To confirm this I paired a different wiimote, which paired no problem and with the default name that is just the controller's model number.
4. I'm convinced that I can't re-pair this thing because it's stuck in the NVRAM. I tried "sudo nvram -c" and rebooted but that didn't do seem to do anything.
5. I read this, too. Say it ain't so, there must be a way to modify the NVRAM or coax my machine into doing so that doesn't mean wiping it again only harder?
6. Yes I could pair the other Wiimote and just use that but I don't want to.

I'm on an M3 15" MacBook Air

MacMini and MacBook Pro both stuck at 6.xxxGB of the update download.

Cause of issue is RemoveMacAI.

Undo changes that It makes, delete profile and retry macOS update, it will work after going “standard”.

I assume after update we just re-apply profile, etc…

Sigo teniendo este mismo problema a pesar de que actualicé a MacOs27.2
Cuando estoy viendo algo en pantalla completa, de un momento a otro el Dock deja de responder.
A alguien más le pasa?

I'm using a 2022 Macbook Air on Tahoe. I have a 1TB Sandisk SSD that this Macbook won't read. I plug it in, click allow, and nothing pops up/is shown in Finder. I restarted with the SSD connected and it was found in Disk Utility. This SSD loads fine connected to my smartphone (Samsung), and it loads fine connected to a Chromebook so there's something weird going on with the Macbook not liking it. Anyone have any advice? Also, if this isn't fixable, what's the best way I can get all my files from the SSD to Google Drive? Can I go buy a Windows-based computer, use it for a day just to get my files transferred from the SSD, and then return it? I have over 200GB of info I need transferred so I can't just transfer that using my phone or the Chromebook.

*Edit - I can't transfer files directly from the drive connected to Chromebook to Google Drive. The browser says it is not supported. And it is the most up to date that it can be. 🙄

I have Safari synced through iCloud across my iMac, iPhone, iPads and MacBook. The contents of the Reading List is the same.. so I know everything is syncing. However, the sort order of the Reading List on the iMac, iPads MacBook are identical but the iPhone is sorted differently.

For instance, today I added half a dozen items to the Reading List while on my iPhone. All of these items are synced to the other devices but while the iPhone has them as the most recent items they are literally scattered in what seems to be random order on the other devices.

It seems all but the iPhone keep the content as well as the order exactly the same.. the iPhone has a mind of its' own. I know there is not Sort By command for the Reading List but curious why the pattern I have is what it is...

An update is available.

5gb

15.8.2

First example: the search or ask bar saves position after closing and reopening.

Second example: the siri voice mode icon doesn't save position after closing and reopening.

If you have a username/password saved in Apple Passwords and add a Passkey, Apple neatly merges them into one entry. Makes perfect sense. But if you use "Sign in with Apple", it creates a completely separate, duplicate entry for the exact same website.
Why? It’s Apple’s own feature, yet it clutters the app instead of grouping with existing credentials like Passkeys do. Does anyone know if there is a way to fix this or merge them manually?

Has anyone else experienced laggy Launchpad animations on macOS 27.1 or 27.2?
I'm using a MacBook Air M5 with 16 GB of RAM. I first noticed that Launchpad's opening animation wasn't smooth on macOS 27.1. Today, I updated to macOS 27.2, hoping it would fix the issue, but the animation still feels the same.
The animation looks like it's dropping frames or stuttering when opening Launchpad. Everything else seems fine, and I'm not experiencing any heating issues. The problem is specifically with the Launchpad animation.
Since the issue persisted after updating, I'm wondering if this is a macOS software bug rather than a hardware problem.
Is anyone else experiencing this on an M-series Mac? Hopefully Apple will address it in a future update.
My Mac:
MacBook Air M5

16 GB RAM

Previously macOS 27.1, now macOS 27.2

Issue: Stuttering Launchpad opening animation

Has anyone else experienced laggy Launchpad animations on macOS 27.1 or 27.2?
I'm using a MacBook Air M5 with 16 GB of RAM. I first noticed that Launchpad's opening animation wasn't smooth on macOS 27.1. Today, I updated to macOS 27.2, hoping it would fix the issue, but the animation still feels the same.
The animation looks like it's dropping frames or stuttering when opening Launchpad. Everything else seems fine, and I'm not experiencing any heating issues. The problem is specifically with the Launchpad animation.
Since the issue persisted after updating, I'm wondering if this is a macOS software bug rather than a hardware problem.
Is anyone else experiencing this on an M-series Mac? Hopefully Apple will address it in a future update.
My Mac:
MacBook Air M5

16 GB RAM

Previously macOS 27.1, now macOS 27.2

Issue: Stuttering Launchpad opening animation

https://github.com/kaganisildak/macOS-7-Ultimate-SP1