The macOS 27 public beta is worth it just for the Liquid Glass tweaks

The upcoming Golden Gate update for macOS features a refined Liquid Glass design and an overflow button for the Menu Bar, both considered improvements. New Photos app features like Clean Up, Reframe, and Extend offer AI-powered editing, though Reframe’s results are mixed. Siri’s Expressive Voices are a notable upgrade, allowing for speech customization, but general Siri AI usefulness remains questionable.

• Golden Gate’s Liquid Glass design, unified corner window radii, and File Explorer/app sidebar visual improvements are positive changes.
• Siri’s Expressive Voices, available in public beta, allow customization of pacing and expressiveness.
• A new overflow button in the Menu Bar hides excess items to the left of the notch, expanding with a double-arrow button.
• The Photos app’s ‘Clean Up’ feature resembles Google’s Magic Eraser and effectively removes subjects from photos.
• Reframe and Extend features in Photos allow users to alter composition and expand framing, but Reframe’s results can look artificial, and both give Apple Intelligence significant freedom.
• Siri AI, despite upgrades, still struggles with consistent usefulness and user trust.
• An ‘Ask Siri’ menu item sometimes appears in context menus, and the updated battery percentage display in the Menu Bar is now integrated within the icon.
• The author prefers Golden Gate to Tahoe, finding the small improvements worthwhile for existing glassy-life users.
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