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Michael Tsai
• Michael Tsai
Golden Gate Window Corners
Adam Overholtzer: Corners! Simon B. Støvring: “We fixed corner radius” was a WWDC keynote highlight. Let that sink in. Rudrank: This should have been since macOS 26 #WWDC26 Folks getting excited for consistent corner radius 😂 Kuba Suder: Ehh, no change here, RIP Intel Macs… stuck on the v1 Liquid Glass forever 🫤 There was […]
Michael Tsai
• Michael Tsai
Golden Gate Sidebars and Toolbars
Joe Rossignol: macOS Golden Gate also has design changes. For example, apps now have a unified toolbar at the top, and the sidebar now expands to the edge of the window. Hartley Charlton: Sidebar behavior is also being updated. Sidebars will now expand to the full edge of the window, with refraction effects continuing beneath […]
Michael Tsai
• Michael Tsai
Golden Gate Menu Icons
Wesley Hilliard: macOS Tahoe threw an icon on every menu item, making them impossible to distinguish at a glance. macOS Golden Gate has rectified that design taboo with blessedly iconless menus. Apple: In macOS 27.0, menu bar and context menus present a reduced set of menu item images, similar to the behavior prior to macOS […]
Michael Tsai
• Michael Tsai
Liquid Glass 27 Icons
Ryan Christoffel: Last year with iOS 26, Apple redesigned its full lineup of app icons for iPhone. But just one year later, iOS 27 has even more design changes for many app icons. […] iOS 27’s new app icons are “sharper and more detailed,” per Apple’s description. And it really shows. Louie Mantia: If you’re […]
Michael Tsai
• Michael Tsai
Liquid Glass 27 Slider
Hartley Charlton: Apple said it has heard user feedback, which it “deeply appreciates,” and is now making adjustments to the underlying foundations of how Liquid Glass is constructed. Chief among those changes is a new slider that lets users control transparency, ranging from fully opaque to completely clear. Benjamin Mayo: As well as offering this […]
Michael Tsai
• Michael Tsai
Glow Leopard
Tim Hardwick: Apple at WWDC 2026 today said it has made several responsiveness improvements across its software ecosystem, speeding up system animations, app launching, and much more. Zac Hall: Overall, iOS 27 so far is a major collection of performance improvements and refinements. Ryan Christoffel: As had been rumored leading up to today, Apple has […]
Michael Tsai
• Michael Tsai
Xcode 27 Announced
Platforms State of the Union: Discover the newest advancements on Apple platforms. What’s new in Xcode 27: Discover the latest productivity enhancements in Xcode 27. Accelerate your development workflow through customization, coding agents, and Device Hub. Explore updates in localization, performance, and testing tools to refine your apps further. Xcode 27 Beta Release Notes: Xcode […]
Michael Tsai
• Michael Tsai
macOS Golden Gate 27 Announced
Joe Rossignol: Much like Mac OS X Snow Leopard in 2009, Apple said it focused on improving macOS’s performance and dozens of underlying technologies this year. Apple says macOS Golden Gate offers quicker AirDrop transfers, faster network file browsing, improved syncing in the Messages app, better Spotlight search suggestions, and other changes that make your […]
Michael Tsai
• Michael Tsai
iOS 27 Announced
Zac Hall: Photos: iCloud Shared Albums now supports sharing with Android and Windows. Health: Cycle tracking is more advanced. AirPods: Custom EQ is coming to Apple’s wireless headphones. Apple Maps is adding an upgraded Flyover feature with richer aerial imagery. Joe Rossignol: Apple said the CarPlay video feature is available in new vehicles that support […]
Michael Tsai
• Michael Tsai
iPadOS 27 Announced
Ryan Christoffel: Here’s what’s new in iPadOS 27: The Menu Bar can now be optionally kept always on screen iPhone apps can be resized in iPadOS Liquid Glass has been refined and is more customizable than ever Performance improvements make iPadOS 27 perform much quicker Screen Time has been revamped for managing your child’s device […]
Michael Tsai
• Michael Tsai
watchOS 27 Announced
Hartley Charlton: Apple today unveiled watchOS 27, featuring a redesigned dynamic app grid, new gesture controls, and a raft of usability and battery improvements. The new dynamic app grid surfaces and rearranges five apps based on context and usage. Users can simply tap the bottom center icon to go to the rest of their apps. […]
Michael Tsai
• Michael Tsai
tvOS 27 Announced
Joe Rossignol: Apple barely touched on tvOS 27 during its WWDC 2026 keynote today, but the update exists, and it adds some new features to the Apple TV. Benjamin Mayo: One major new feature for tvOS this year is an updated Podcasts app, as well as a new smart downloads feature, performance enhancements including faster […]
Michael Tsai
• Michael Tsai
visionOS 27 Announced
Ryan Christoffel: Here’s what’s new in visionOS 27: Turn panoramas you shoot into spatial scenes Use panoramas as your immersive Environment Enhanced Flyover features in Apple Maps Next-generation of Apple Intelligence Entirely new Siri that’s more responsive to your needs “New windows with curvature” Visual intelligence, so you can ask Siri about anything you’re looking […]
Michael Tsai
• Michael Tsai
WWDC 2026 Keynote
Joe Rossignol: Ahead of the WWDC 2026 keynote at 10 a.m. Pacific Time today, Apple CEO Tim Cook has shared a short video in which country singer Lainey Wilson, actress Rhea Seehorn, DJ and producer Zedd, and other celebrities say “good morning” in various ways. Apple (YouTube, MacRumors, 9To5Mac, Macworld, AppleInsider, Hacker News, The Verge, […]
There are only two conspiracy theories I truly, madly, deeply believe in: that LBJ had JFK killed, and that Gram Parsons wrote “Wild Horses.”
Pixel Envy
• Nick Heer
Siri A.I. Will Not Be Available on E.U. iPhones and iPads At Launch
Apple: Apple today introduced Siri AI, an entirely new version of Siri, powered by Apple Intelligence. Unfortunately, due to the Digital Markets Act (DMA), Apple will not be able to ship Siri AI in the European Union with the release of iOS 27 and iPadOS 27. Over the past several months, EU regulators did not […]⌥ Permalink
Apple OS 27: The Small Things
Rishi Ó:
My favorite Apple updates are not the flashy new features, but the quiet little touches: annoyances fixed, workflows made smoother, rough edges sanded down, and longstanding flaws thoughtfully reworked. To me, they’re the clearest sign of a company that cares about its craft.
Here’s a collection from a WWDC26 screen-grab, organized for easier reading, on improvements coming later this year.
That’s a lot of bullet points.
Good haul from Vintage Mio today.