Don't hate it, but I found the red very recognizable.

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.

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?

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.

Yes it is better than earlier MacOS 27 releases but for those who are pushing it, Mission Control still stutters and will turn the whole desktop black and unusable.

I encountered this issue when using the thumb button of my M720 Triathlon mouse to access Mission Control, and was able to recreate this. I couldn’t recreate this on Magic Trackpad. It only comes back when I access Mission Control from my trackpad.

But I’ve only been able to recreate this when I access Mission Control constantly (talking 10 times in 10 seconds) so I don’t think it affects many. And while Mission Control was somewhat fast, it was not as smooth as Sequoia, and it still displayed many UI glitches

I should get a job.

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.

It’s finally released. This started as an update to my original Mavericks patcher script and became a much bigger project than I expected.

Note: This has been tested on Monterey and Tahoe. Monterey is the minimum supported macOS for this program.

Note 2: There is an ongoing issue with the 11,4. This is still being worked on. I have just released Beta 6 which provides some experimental, untested potential fixes, as well as diagnostic tools to help generate logs. If you have any issues, please raise an issue on GitHub and provide the logs there. Be aware I am unable to test the 11,4 myself as I do not have one.

MavericksResurrection installs Mavericks directly onto an internal partition or an external USB drive, from within your existing macOS installation. You don’t need to make a USB installer, boot into it, or manually run the post-install patches afterward. The app handles the installation and the patches.

The main additions are:

1. Direct installation to an internal partition or USB drive.

2. NVMe support, including buttons to add or remove it from an existing Mavericks installation without reinstalling the OS.

3. A post-update audio fix. Mavericks updates can break the internal speakers, microphone and HDMI audio. Boot back into your newer macOS, select “Fix post-update issues,” and let the app repair the affected installation.

4. MavericksForever integration, so the app can download and prepare Mavericks for you, or reuse an image it previously saved.

5. Diagnostic logging for troubleshooting.

I tested direct installs to both my internal NVMe SSD and a USB drive, installed the available Mavericks updates, repaired audio on both, and tested removing and reinstalling NVMe support on the USB installation. Both installations boot and work, and NVMe access returned after reinstalling the driver.

This is a beta because compatibility with the 11,4 and other NVMe drives still needs testing. My Apple NVMe SSD works, and the driver is intended to support third-party drives too, but I can’t promise every drive will work.

The app supports MacBookPro11,4 and MacBookPro11,5. My testing was on the 11,5, running the app from Monterey; the 11,4 remains untested.

Back up important files first. You need an existing Mac OS Extended (Journaled) partition. The app formats the partition you select—it does not partition your disk. Keep your newer macOS installation available for repairs and troubleshooting.

One important boot warning: HDMI connected directly to my 11,5’s built-in HDMI port prevented Mavericks from booting. Leave it disconnected until Mavericks reaches the desktop. HDMI through my dock worked, but other docks and the 11,4 are unconfirmed.

Huge thanks to Wowfunhappy for MavericksForever. Please direct MavericksResurrection issues to me, not them.

This took a ridiculous amount of testing. I’m very happy to finally get it out there.

The download and instructions are on the Jaegermeister-Dev GitHub repo. Please read the README before installing in case you have any questions. If you have any questions that the README doesn't cover, feel free to comment them here, and if you have any issues, either inform me here or on the GitHub repo.

If you just want to install, there's just one thing to know. Sometimes a window may reappear after its disappeared. I can't figure out why, but it doesn't affect functionality. If you see a window reappear that you had just confirmed, just ignore it. Interacting with it might interfere with the process. They seem to appear after entering admin credentials in the authentication popups. As far as I see, that's the only bug I can see from my testing.

Enjoy!

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.

On macOS 27.2, when I swipe from right to left to open the Notification Center, there is a flicker as the notification opens, and I can see through the widgets in the Notification Center.

https://reddit.com/link/1xgkmmo/video/masoc16d9yxh1/player

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?

Hello,

I have an M3 MacBook Pro.

Ever since I installed macOS 27, the corners of my screen flicker when I open or close applications, or when performing certain tasks. I’ve already updated to macOS 27.2, but the issue persists. Do you have any ideas?

Thanks.

I assume they're meant for anniversaries and suchlike, but they don't show in the Calendar app like birthdays. Am I missing something, or are they pointless?

Hi everyone. I’ve got an M1 Pro MacBook Pro with 16 GB of RAM. Right now I’m using the latest release of macOS Tahoe. Do you suggest me to update to macOS 27.2? Or I should stay to 26 because of optimisation problems? Thanks in advance everyone!

Hey, has anyone else run into this after upgrading to macOS 27.2? When I hold Cmd and drag a menu bar icon, the icon starts flashing like crazy as soon as I move the mouse, and it takes a second or two before it goes back to normal (stops flashing). Just wondering — is there any workaround for this?

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...

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.

Macbook Air M4

8 months old

Battery count 27

Battery health 100%

Running Tahoe

I always keep the system in sleep every night by closing the lid. I have an 80% charging limit (apple system setting).

Usually there is a 4-5% ideal battery drain every night.

Today I found my Macbook completely dead with full battery drained. Not sure what caused this.

Is there an easy way to find out what drained the battery? Any app or what activity drained the battery?

Why this could have happened? It has never happened in the past.

Thanks in advance for your help.

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?

In macOS 27.2, I am seeing a new bug with spotlight search. It is opening random apps when scrolled to the bottom and clicked on the empty space. Here is what I did:

• Open the spotlight search on desktop.
• Scroll to the bottom of it.
• Click on the empty space.
• The OS is opening random apps after I click. Check the GIF
• In my testing, it was opening
  • Claude
  • Firefox
  • Home
  • Android Studio

This is not as worse as the mission control bug in 27.0 & 27.0.1 release as no one would scroll to the bottom of the spotlight search and click on the empty space but Apple devs, if you come across this thread, please fix this.

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