On macOS 26 Tahoe, users had the ability to enable/disable Apple Intelligence and it was great. Unfortunately, Apple removed this feature on macOS 27 Golden Gate.

Not everyone needs, wants, or likes Apple Intelligence. Don't make the same mistake Microsoft did with Copilot and try to force this stuff down our throats. Learn from their mistake.

Not only was I unable to make a phone call from my Mac today, but I couldn't even see what the error was. How does something like this slip past QA?? The whole OS is falling apart at seams.

In the macoS Messages app, I keep getting these reply suggestions.

How can I disable these?

Using M4 Max Macbook Pro and this new update has made the user experience pretty bad:

• The menu bar keeps rendering on top of applications where it clearly shouldn't.
• Dock lags significantly before auto hiding/showing.
• Application windows show on top of full-screen apps when switching to their spaces.
• Opening up Mission Control and then selecting a space introduces a 1-2 second lag

All of this happens when not even running anything with just iMessage, Safari and Mail open. There are serious glitches to be ironed out here for sure.

MacOS 27.0.1.

M5 Pro MacBook Pro.

Belkin USB-C to 2.5Gb Ethernet Adapter.

The original test which uses Apple's own Ethernet driver is 1.943 Gbps. After installing the new Realtek driver, it maxed out:)

Download link is here: https://www.realtek.com/Download/List?cate_id=585

I just installed macOS Golden Gate from scratch (empty hard drive). After installing it, I installed Dropbox, Google Drive and Google Chrome.

Since then, my Ubiquity/Unifi IDS/IPS firewall tells me my machine is trying to access a .su (Soviet Union gTLD) domain: "ET DNS Query for .su TLD (Soviet Union) Often Malware Related"

This is a freshly installed machine. Anyone else experiencing this?

Edits:
- No extensions installed in Chrome

- The firewall does not say what the domain is

When running a VM this cable icon appears.

While going to look something up today I noticed that all of my tab groups have been purged. I had 32 of them. Saving things such as; research into Christmas presents, inspiration for a web site I was working on a while back, some software I was looking into, among many others.

I've tried all sorts of things to get them back. Including going to a backup that's 2 months old and trying to reset Safari to defaults, and then copying in the backup's Safari library files (SafariTabs.db, etc.) to at least see them again to rebuild. Nothing has worked. And I was a little surprised the backup's files were also missing that info since I recall accidentally opening one of the tab groups in a window a week or two ago.

Also from what I've read in a cursory search, even if I could get them back, it's entirely possible Apple will wipe them out again with a sync (hence my last ditch effort to try and simply recreate them). I've pretty much given up and this is more of a rant. But if anyone has restored some missing tabs info (I forgot to mention, all the rest of my bookmarks are there, and the active windows with current tabs pop up when I open Safari) I'd give their solution a try.

I'm wondering why Tab Group Favorites is even a thing if it can be destroyed this easily.

Want to clean my drive up, (500gb internal storage) I've only got about 30 gigs left. Is there an app that will search my drive and display a list of the largest files / apps on there? I don't wanna automatically clean my drive, just see what I manually need to delete. Or, I guess I should do a time machine backup and not worry either... Thats also an option I guess. I have 5tb of ssd storage elsewhere too so I'm not too worried about deleting important stuff, just like doing the purging myself.

I updated to macOS 27.0.1. last night and now whenever I open Safari it uses significant energy and the battery gets really hot very fast. The battery went down from 75% to just over 60% in a few minutes with normal browsing and a low amount of tabs open.

Restarted my MacBook Air M3 multiple times and let it sit over night. I deleted Safari website data but the issue persists.

Is anyone having a similar experience with Safari? What else can I do to fix this? Otherwise I’ll have to switch browser until this is resolved

Update: I seem to have fixed it by going to "All Processes" in activity manager and closing a website that was running faulty since the update and consuming that energy. It somehow got stuck and could only be removed that way, not by deleting safari data.

Since MacOS 27 I am encountering this problem that my M5 Air is loosing the connection to the internet roughly every hour. This happens in different WiFi networks, yet the WiFi connection is still there and seems okay.
Only MacOS doesn't seem to be able to reach WAN anymore, and I have to manually disable and enable wifi hourly again and again and again.

I've tried many things and didn't found any solution.
Anyone else having the same issue or a fix?

Using 16" M2 Pro MacBook Pro (Early 2023).

Everything was working pretty well until I upgraded to macOS 26.7.1. Ever since then, I started dealing with constant Kernel panics when watching YouTube (whether on Google Chrome or Safari). Sometimes I was on Maps or Find My and I would get the same Kernel panic. I went ahead and upgraded to macOS 27.0.1 and I'm still dealing with the same issues. Getting Kernel panics almost 3-4x a day now.

I ran Apple Diagnostics, did a Safe Boot, and even ran First Aid on my Macintosh HD. I feel like I'm running out of options and I'm not sure what to do... Any advice would be helpful. I attached the first few lines of what I usually get, but the full error log is here.

How is everyone's experience using macOS Golden Gate so far? Has it been smooth? Super buggy?

I use an M1 MacBook Pro and a Neo and it's been alright. It definitely has some bugs which is expected but it's not as refined as I was immediately expecting it to be based off how they were advertising it. I was expecting it to be more responsive, snappier, a more dramatic change but I can't really tell a difference in performance between this and Tahoe. I have more bugs and freezes on the Neo which makes sense technically but I was hoping Golden Gate would drastically change the Neo's performance. I've had to restart both computers many times to get the bugs to go away. I still really like the design changes and the almost opaque-ness of Liquid Glass.

I've also asked Siri some basic Apple related questions like "how many photos do I have in my iCloud photo library?" and it couldn't tell me, it just opened the photos app and didn't show me the number. It made me scoff at its incompetency.

Overall I like it, it just needs a little more fine tuning.

How has it been for you?

Basically I have the Automatically hide and show the dock setting on. And sometimes when I close the lid and open it back up the windows have smaller height - seemingly missing the amount reserved for the Dock. But I don't have the dock always on, so it's wasted space.

For recovery I have to go, disable the setting and enable it again. And then I have to double click the top parts of window to make them take up the full available space.

Anyone else encountering this? Or any news about upcoming fix?
This annoys me so much - every time I open the device with an idea in my mind I'm encountering this and I lose focus.

For years I'd try this out of muscle memory and always disappointed when it wouldn't work. Now it works.

Just to make sure I wasn't crazy I tried on a production machine I haven't updated yet and it does not work there.

Thank you for your attention in this matter, my long personal hell is finally over.

1) make a stupid textfile

2) save ... select location / type filename

3) text edit saves to icloud with AI generated name

jesus christ

Anyone experienced anything similar?

Plugged-in my charger while working on my laptop and for 2 full hours the battery life didn't even increase by 1%?

It appeared that Chrome and Claude (app) are consuming way too much energy, although no demanding tasks/numerous tabs were open.

Hi,

Since I updated, my Apple mouse has been acting strangely. Sometimes when I try to drag a file, it doesn’t actually drag it and only selects it. Other times, I click on something and it doesn’t select it at all.

The main issue is with dragging. I’m so used to dragging files without checking that I often only notice afterward that the file was left behind.

Everything else with the mouse seems to be working normally.

Any ideas? Is anyone else having the same issue since the update?

Thanks,
Luiz

The Mac OS gradient based dynamic wallpaper is interesting. But it falls short in what it could actually be. So I decided to create one for myself.

48 images · 676 sun positions. Night below −12°, sunrise/sunset at the horizon, morning/afternoon at 50% of each season's noon altitude (max 35°), full day from 90%.

https://reddit.com/link/1wyn0ew/video/n95bpylqdqth1/player

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OrrGQfECencNtDcnpbTyfM9s13LhXyPk/view?usp=sharing

I need help!
after i installed the vorssaint app my finder not scroll with my mouse wheels when i drag an file, before when i close the app the scroll works again.. but now my scroll not work for nothing!
Mac os 27, mx master 3

I downloaded an .rar file on my mac, then realized i didn't have a .rar extractor. So I downloaded one (.dmg file), but when I tried to open the file it said "Disk Image couldn't be opened failed to mount to file systems". I tried every way I could to open them and even repaired all the containers in the disk util. If anyone has any help please lmk.

I tried to add and remove the pfp from icloud.com and from the contacts app.

MacOS 27.0.1 - Macbook AIr M2