macOS Golden Gate (version 27) was announced at WWDC on June 8, 2026, and is expected to launch in late 2026. It is named after the Golden Gate, the strait connecting San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean, and is the fourteenth macOS release to bear a name from the company’s home state of California. Rather than a visual overhaul, macOS Golden Gate is a performance and stability release in the spirit of Snow Leopard, refining dozens of the technologies underneath the Mac. Its headline feature is the rebuilt Siri AI, Apple’s far more capable assistant, which you reach straight from Spotlight by typing a request. The Liquid Glass design introduced in Tahoe has been refined further, with a new slider to control how translucent or tinted the interface appears for better legibility. Everyday tasks feel quicker too, with faster AirDrop transfers, speedier network file browsing, improved Messages syncing and better Spotlight suggestions, alongside touches such as pull-to-refresh in more apps, a redesigned cursor and resizable iPhone Mirroring. macOS Golden Gate is the first version of macOS to run exclusively on Apple silicon and the last to include full Rosetta 2 support.
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macOS Golden Gate drops support for all Intel-based Macs and runs only on Macs with Apple silicon — every Mac with an M1 chip or later, as well as the A18 Pro-based MacBook Neo. Apple Intelligence is available across the range, while on-device Siri AI requires an M3 chip or later with at least 12GB of memory.