{"id":571958,"date":"2026-08-17T18:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T18:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/571958\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T18:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T18:54:09","slug":"apple-releases-macos-golden-gate-beta-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/571958\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Releases macOS Golden Gate Beta 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple today provided developers with the sixth beta of macOS Golden Gate<\/a>, with the update coming a week after Apple seeded the fifth beta.<\/p>\n

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Developers can download \u200cmacOS Golden Gate\u200c by going to System Settings > General > Software Update. Beta Updates will need to be enabled, and a free developer account is required.<\/p>\n

\u200cmacOS Golden Gate\u200c includes multiple design improvements. Liquid Glass opacity has been improved to increase readability, there’s a slider for controlling the level of transparency, and changes to shadowing make it easier to tell when a window is active. Apps now have uniform toolbars, edge-to-edge sidebars, and less rounded corners, plus there are fewer icons in menu bars.<\/p>\n

Siri<\/a> has been transformed into \u200cSiri\u200c AI, a chatbot-style assistant that combines general world knowledge, your personal data, and onscreen awareness to answer questions about anything and find information for you. \u200cSiri\u200c lives in Spotlight, and you can ask questions with the new Search or Ask interface.<\/p>\n

There’s also a \u200cSiri\u200c app where you can chat with \u200cSiri\u200c and view past conversations, and on newer Macs, you can set a custom voice for \u200cSiri\u200c with personalized pace and expressivity. Visual Intelligence<\/a> is now on the Mac so \u200cSiri\u200c can answer questions about what’s on your screen, and a Write with \u200cSiri\u200c feature lets \u200cSiri\u200c generate text or give feedback on your writing.<\/p>\n

There are AI photo editing tools in the Photos<\/a> app, AI tab organization in Safari, an option to use AI to automatically update weak passwords in the Passwords app, and a revamped Image Playground<\/a> app that can generate photorealistic images.<\/p>\n

More on all of the new features in \u200cmacOS Golden Gate\u200c can be found in our macOS Golden Gate roundup<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple today provided developers with the sixth beta of macOS Golden Gate, with the update coming a week…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[239139,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-571958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-macos-golden-gate","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}