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 Apple has released iOS 27 beta 2 for developers, bringing the first major follow-up update after iOS 27 was introduced at WWDC. The new beta focuses on Siri AI, Apple Intelligence, Wallet changes, RCS improvements, Home app updates, and several smaller fixes before the public beta arrives in July.The iOS 27 beta 2 build number is 24A5370h, and registered developers can install it from the Settings app by going to General, then Software Update, and selecting iOS 27 Developer Beta under Beta Updates. Since this is still an early beta, users should avoid installing it on their main iPhone because bugs, battery drain, app issues, and performance problems can still appear. >> Full Article <<

 iOS 27 brings useful Apple Wallet features that make it easier to store passes, track orders, manage cards, and handle daily payments from your iPhone. >> Full Article <<

.Apple is making it much harder for Mac apps to quietly keep running after users think they have closed them. In macOS 27 Golden Gate, Apple has introduced a new visual change that clearly shows when an app continues running in the background, giving users more control over what stays active on their Mac.The change has drawn attention because apps such as Google Gemini for macOS previously continued running background processes even after users quit the app. While the process remained active, macOS did not make this behavior obvious, which often left users unaware that the app was still consuming system resources. >> Full Article <<

 Apple’s annual macOS updates often bring visual changes, performance tweaks, and new features. However, macOS 27 Golden Gate is more significant than a typical release. While macOS 26 Tahoe focused on refining the Apple Silicon transition, Golden Gate marks the point where Apple fully leaves Intel Macs behind.If you are wondering whether Golden Gate is a major upgrade or just another yearly update, here is a detailed comparison of what has actually changed. >> Full Article <<

MacDailyNewsiOS 27 and iPadOS 27 bring a Mac-style recovery mode to iPhone and iPad, allowing devices to boot into a lightweight recovery environment without loading the full OS.Similar to Apple silicon Macs, users can trigger it by powering off the device and holding the side button during startup. This opens a new screen with handy on-device options like Recovery Assistant, Software Update, Diagnostics Mode, Erase All Content and Settings, and Recovery Mode via Mac. It also shows battery percentage, auto-connects to known Wi-Fi, and lets you restart normally. >> Full Article <<

MacDaily News In the latest Power On newsletter from Bloomberg News‘ Mark Gurman, the spotlight is firmly on John Ternus, who will step into the role of Apple CEO on September 1, 2026, succeeding Tim Cook. Gurman argues that Ternus’s top priority should be nothing less than a full-scale revival of Apple’s once-legendary industrial design team — a group that has “lost its way” in the years since Jony Ive’s departure. >> Full Article <<

by: Paul HorowitzApple has released the second beta version of MacOS Golden Gate 27 to users participating in the developer beta testing program. Beta 2 arrives with a build number of #, full installer download links and IPSW are linked below. While technically anyone can install these beta versions, they’re best limited to advanced users on secondary hardware.MacOS Golden Gate 27 focuses on improvements to performance and Liquid Glass, along with new Apple Intelligence features, and Siri AI capabilities, along with other smaller changes and features like improvements to Spotlight search and Mail search.Separately, Apple has also released iOS 27 beta 2 for iPhone, iPadOS 27 beta 2 for iPad, along with beta 2 of watchOS 27, tvOS 27, and visionOS 27. >> Full Article <<

 Consumer technology, for some reason, lends itself to passionate, heavily partisan disagreement. And one of the most common arguments among tech fans centers on Apple’s prices, and whether or not they’re fair. >> Full Article <<

 Some Apple products are discontinued before the time is right. Maybe, if they were introduced today with modern technology, they could become a much bigger hit.A lot of Apple’s lesser-known experimental products were killed in 1997. Steve Jobs had just returned, the company was near bankruptcy, and he needed all hands on deck to develop the iMac and Mac OS X.But some real gems were lost along the way. These are the 10 products that Apple should bring back with modern technology. >> Full Article <<

 There are eight great new Safari features in iOS 27. The update fixes a lot of irritating design problems that have bothered me for years.Plus, if your phone supports Apple Intelligence, you’ll enjoy some smart new features that make your browsing easier — I’ve already created a couple custom extensions. And everyone will appreciate the speed and performance gains when they update.Check out what you can expect from Safari this fall when Apple releases iOS 27. >> Full Article <<

 by: Paul Horowitz Remember Quake, the popular first person shooter from 1996? It was a very innovative game at the time, and a massive hit, that initially debuted for Windows, before arriving unofficially on the Mac and Linux, and eventually got an official Mac release too (which I could swear did not perform as smoothly as the unofficial client, alas). >> Full Article <<

by: Jamie Cuevas MacOS Golden Gate 27 brings some refinements and new features that are sure to be popular among Mac users, including many performance related improvements, some Liquid Glass tweaks and a slider to adjust the intensity of the interface, new Apple Intelligence features, new Siri AI features, improvements to iPhone Mirroring, and many other small changes and features. If you’ve been keeping an eye on MacOS 27 Golden Gate, you are perhaps curious to know if your Mac will support and run MacOS 27.The list of compatible Macs for MacOS Golden Gate 27 is more strict than predecessor operating systems, and there are some Macs that were recently supported that will not make the cut to the newest version. >> Full Article <<

 by: Paul HorowitzNeed to install Java on your Mac to run a particular application? While most Mac users will never need Java, there are certain apps, development tools, enterprise software, and utilities that still require a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK) to function properly. You might discover this when you go to open the app, and you might see a message about requiring Java, or needing a Java Virtual Machine. If you’ve launched an app and received a message stating Java is required, or you’re setting up software that depends on Java, installing a modern JDK/JRE is usually the easiest solution. One of the best options available today is called Eclipse Adoptium⁠, which is a free, open-source distribution of OpenJDK that’s widely used on MacOS, Windows, and Linux, but obviously we’re focused on the Mac here. >> Full Article <<

by: Jamie CuevasRunning MacOS Beta versions within a virtual machine is generally a fantastic way to test out system software without having to fully commit to running the beta as the primary operating system. But sometimes even trying to get the VM setup fails. In this case, trying to install macOS Golden Gate 27 beta in a virtual machine may result in failure, error messages, or boot failures, preventing MacOS 27 beta from installing or running in the VM.For example, attempting to install MacOS Golden Gate 27 beta into a virtualization app with a restore IPSW file may result in an error message that says the following: “An error occurred during installation. Installation failed.”The screenshot here shows this error in UTM, but you might see the same or similar errors in other virtualization apps, including virtualbuddy, tart, Parallels, Vmware, and others too. Early testing of MacOS Golden Gate beta has suggested there’s a compatibility issue with virtualization environments, making

 by: Paul Horowitz The next major version of MacOS, versioned as MacOS Golden Gate 27, has been announced by Apple at WWDC 2026. MacOS Golden Gate 27 apparently has a significant emphasis on stability, performance, and general improvements to the Mac operating system. Of course you will also find some new features and changes as well, including a dedicated Siri app.CAUTION: You can download and install the MacOS Golden Gate 27 developer beta right now if you’d like, but that’s not recommended for the vast majority of people. Be sure to backup your Mac first, otherwise you could lose all of your data, and be unable to downgrade. >> Full Article <<

. Learn how to find and remove duplicate files on your Mac using Photos, Finder, Terminal, and dedicated cleanup apps. Free and paid methods explained.If you are running out of space on your Mac, deleting duplicate files can be a quick and easy way to recover valuable storage. Duplicate files often build up over time through repeated downloads, copied folders, email attachments, photo imports, and multiple versions of the same document, potentially consuming gigabytes of disk space.Finding and removing duplicate files doesn’t necessarily require specialist software. While macOS doesn’t include a dedicated duplicate-file finder, recent versions of the operating system can identify duplicate photos and videos, while Finder and Terminal offer ways to track down duplicate files elsewhere on your system.If you’d prefer a faster, more automated approach, dedicated duplicate-finder apps can scan your Mac and identify identical files wherever they are stored. These tools are often more effecti

by: Paul Horowitz TestFlight is an Apple developer app used for beta testing applications before they are available to the general public on the App Store. With TestFlight, a developer can easily distribute pre-release versions of their apps to users for beta testing, and the beta tester can easily download, install, and run the beta app. With WWDC just around the corner, where many apps will be in beta, now seems like a great time to review how to use TestFlight to download and install a beta app onto your iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, or Apple Vision Pro. The TestFlight app works the same basically across all devices, the only question is whether or not the app you’re beta testing is for a specific platform, or all devices. >> Full Article <<

By MacRumors StaffAt its 2026 Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple will unveil the next version of macOS, macOS 27. Most rumors ahead of WWDC focus on iOS because it's Apple's most popular platform, but there are many shared features between iOS and macOS, so we do have some insight into the features we're going to get in macOS 27.macOS 27 will include the same Siri upgrades that are coming to iOS, because the smarter version of Siri will come to all of Apple's software platforms.People haven't been entirely happy with the Liquid Glass redesign of macOS that Apple introduced in macOS Tahoe, so there could potentially be some macOS design updates coming to refine the Liquid Glass changes. iOS 27 is also going to be a "Snow Leopard" update focusing on performance and stability improvements, so we could also see some of that same careful code review and revision in macOS. macOS 27 will be previewed at the WWDC keynote on June 8, and then it will be provided to developers so they can get

by: Paul Horowitz  WWDC 2026 starts next week, where we will all get a first look at iOS 27, MacOS 27, iPadOS 27, and whatever else Apple is cooking up on the software side of things for us. To get into the spirit, Apple has provided a nifty WWDC 2026 wallpaper under a tagline that says “Glow All Out”, and the wallpaper is the top half of the Apple logo glowing. Presumably the glowing look and reference is a hint of something to expect at WWDC, perhaps a refinement to the Liquid Glass interface, or a new Siri/AI interface, both, or something else. >> Full Article <<

by: Paul Horowitz Did you know your Apple Watch can track the amount of time you spend in daylight? Indeed, Apple Watch models can use a built-in light sensor to automatically detect when you’re outside, recording the total amount of time you spend in daylight, and this is documented as a Health metric. Time in Daylight matters for various health reasons, ranging from eyesight and eye health, to mood, sleep, and the critical hormone Vitamin D, which NIH says is linked to bone health, neurological health, and health of the immune system – pretty important stuff! So, want to see how much time you’re spending in daylight and add it to your Health metrics to review on Apple Watch? We’ll show you how. >> Full Article <<

 by: Paul HorowitzAge of Empires II, regarded as one of the best real-time strategy games of all time, is finally available for Mac. Sure, it originally debuted back in 1999 for Windows, but AoE 2’s depth and replayability has allowed it to maintain a longstanding following that has kept the game wildly popular even 25+ years later.>> Full Article « 

 May 21, 2026, By Danny Bradbury Tech leaders have spent the past year telling everyone that AI agents are about to run financial systems, file your tax returns, and quietly buy your groceries. Just leave them alone, the rhetoric goes; they’ll handle it. But a New York startup left ten of them alone in a virtual town for two weeks, and things went south quickly.Emergence AI ran a series of simulations in which AI agents from several leading model families were told not to commit crimes. Then they mostly committed crimes anyway.Grok 4.1 Fast, developed by Elon Musk’s X.ai (now branded as xAI), fared worst. Its simulated worlds collapsed into widespread violence inside roughly four days.GPT-5-mini logged hardly any crimes at all, showing admirable restraint, but its agents all died of failed survival tasks inside a week. Oops.Gemini 3 Flash agents fell somewhere in the middle. They racked up 683 simulated criminal incidents over 15 days, including arson, assault, and self-deletion.Two Ge

by: Jamie CuevasIf your iPhone suddenly starts recording a voice message seemingly at random while you’re in the Messages app, you’re probably unintentionally triggering a feature called Raise to Listen. This feature is part of the iOS Messages app, where lifting the iPhone to your ear can automatically start to play or record an audio message. The trouble is that this feature is not well understood, and is often triggered in situations where you’re not holding the iPhone up to your ear at all, resulting in random voice and audio recordings, sometimes of personal or embarrassing situations. Some users may find the recording of voice messages to happen spontaneously when they’re exiting a text message conversation thread or tapping on the back button in Messages, others may find it activates seemingly so at random they can’t determine any consistency into why their iPhone is randomly recording them.For some iPhone users who understand and use Raise to Listen the feature is helpful and c

by: Jamie CuevasIf you’re a Mac user of the Chrome web browser, as many are, you might be interested to know that the latest versions of Chrome default to downloading a large local Gemini AI model that can take up around 4GB of storage space. While some users may appreciate and use the local Chrome Gemini AI model, which is used for things like autofill suggestions, scam detection, web page summaries, and writing tools, other users may find it either unnecessary because they don’t use AI, use another AI agent like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, a local model like LLama, or perhaps because they already have Apple Intelligence on their Mac to perform similar tasks. We’ll show you how to stop the Google Chrome browser form downloading a large local AI model on your Mac (and this applies to Windows too if you have a PC using Chrome too). >> Full Article <<