Please use this megathread for any and all discussion related to macOS Golden Gate 27 Beta 1.
This thread will be open until Beta 2 becomes available.
By AppleVis, 8 June, 2026
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downloading
It's downloading over here. I'll keep you all updated for anything I might discover while testing.
Same here
Let's see what they've done for us.
New voice over shortcuts
There are now shortcuts for ask about immage, ask about current screen, skip back, skip forward and a few more in the voice over shortcuts menu and assignable. None of them seem to do anything though.
serious voice over bug
In web areas, voice over speaks junk atributes when ever a text block is incountered. This can for example be seen in applevis comments.
wonder if the quick nav bug in Safari will finally be fixed
For at least three years now I've been waiting to see if apple will finally fix the quick nav bug in Safari.
My hopes are not high sadly.
script support broken
Well, triggering scripts using the option modifier is completelly broken and causes crashes.
Read image description
Is VO+Shift+L any different or is it still useless for anything except OCR?
I'm not even going to ask about the navigate by headings bug.
Read Image Description
In my limited testing, the image description command now gives you a much more detailed description of an image as long as you haven't enabled the option in VoiceOver Utility under the recognition category to not send images to a server. If you have, it appears to continue using the old behavior where descriptions aren't nearly as detailed. There are also two other commands. VO-Shift-p lets you ask questions about an image by typing them and pressing enter, and VO-Shift-e lets you explore an image and ask questions about it.
Unable to update
No, I am not burned out :) . I simply am not able to update my mac after 4 attempts, a couple of reboots and for once a proper time machine backup.
I get the message Failed to prepare the software update. Please try again. An error occurred while downloading the selected updates. Please check your internet connection and try again.. Of course voiceover for some reason is unable to see anything beyond dialog empty no matter how down I go in the interaction levels so I have to use VOCR.
Any tip? My mac has been plugged all the time.
I'll try over wire as my connection never actually drops.
I'm able to download it actually, I think it crashes after this
Preparing macOS 27 Beta…, About 35 minutes remaining 60% progress indicator
Yeah, same thing again
Failed to prepare the software update. Please try again.
An error occurred while downloading the selected updates. Please check your internet connection and try again.
Use Full Installer
Either use the softwareupdate CLI tool to grab the full installer (once beta update is enabled in Settings, use the --fetch-full-installer switch), or (much easier and faster) just grab it direct from Apple, here.
Install the package and it drops the installer in your Applications folder just as though you'd got it from the Mac App Store. You can now run the app to install it on the current system volume or a different one (APFS container or a completely different slice, which isn't usually supported by Software Update). You might find it easier to test from a separate volume/partition, anyway, albeit there's nothing quite like trying to use the latest beta with your production data to really see if it's working …
Be careful with beta software, as ever.
Yeah yeah no worries
I am literally not doing anything critical with my mac nowadays. I have a full backup in any case I am just too lazy to micro manage two partitions.
I didn't even know there was a cli tool for software update but I should have known better as I've read some apple mdm / configurator doc so... Thanks! I'll let you all know if it works or it doesn't.
Re: image description
Thanks, Chris - I'm looking forward to giving that a go. If the server responses are coming from the Apple private cloud thing then I hope this will be something I could use for work images that I prefer not to throw out into the world if I can help it.
Does it still manage OCR OK if you use the cloud option? That's about the only thing VO+Shift+L currently does a good enough job of.
I'm sure I remember a number of MacOs versions ago they added an option where you could select text in an image with the mouse and copy/paste it. (These were the days when my eyes worked a bit) think I only ever got that to work once though, but I always felt I should be able to interact with images in VoiceOver and do something similar.
Anyway this sounds like exactly what I need on my Mac, so this alone has got me excited for the new version. Now I just hope that it's not a horrible buggy mess so I can actually upgrade to it.