macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess

ErneX

I noticed the Quick Look animation (space bar on any file) is very sluggish, at least on my M2 Max.

zitterbewegung

These visual UI problems which are showing some sloppiness in the UI is much better than macOS 26 and honestly I really like Golden Gate for more efficiency and the fact that Siri actually works now and can replace a great deal of things I usually would have googled.

tannhaeuser

Can Golden Gate really be considered a fix release for Tahoe with its massive AI updates?

bichonnages

There are so many new bugs… Safari Developer Tools freezes the app. Even though I’ve disabled the Siri AI tools, they still show up everywhere for some reason. The main menu bar sometimes gets darker. Apple Mail keeps formatting my emails in ways I don’t like (bullet lists, etc.). Apple Mail Smart Mailboxes are broken if you have multiple Macs. The list goes on…

aaronbrethorst

I've been running Golden Gate since the first beta was released in June. I've generally been very happy with it. I think it'll take a couple years to unwind the Alan Dye era, but Golden Gate is a significant improvement over macOS 26

Razengan

So is iOS Hell, frickin watchOS 27 Siri on my Ultra 3 can't set a timer because "the Clock app isn't installed on this device" ...???? and 2027 was supposed to be a "polishing" release. When will we start seeing the benefits of all the smart AI coding shit they've supposedly rented from Anthropic? 2030?

antfarm

It looks like Tahoe is about to become the new Snow Leopard.

king_crimson

What I notice is that the entire OS feels very laggy. Many interactions just don’t feel as snappy anymore as before. The worst candidate for this is definitely Mission Control, it has become a total dumpster fire in my opinion. (BTW: running on an M4 Pro MBP)

oefrha

I don’t understand why System Settings search is such a dumpster fire. It’s up to a couple thousand (probably overestimating) fixed text labels. Even when it’s not bugging out, half or more of deeper labels simply can’t be found even if you enter the exact string; and by deeper I mean simply not top level categories. Who the hell thought this sorry ass search is okay to ship and keep it that way after this many years? I swear even Windows’ settings search is more capable.

vachina

Still rocking a Sonoma and everything works, without the liquid glass slop.

dewey

I haven't noticed any bigger bugs (Apart from search in System Settings still not working), the main annoyance is the Siri bubble showing up next to text fields.

monegator

definitive proof that apple's engineers are using GNOME workstations internally: now MacOS system apps look like any software created using that garbage pile called libadwaita.

tiahura

It’s 25 years old at this point and got lapped by Gnome & kde at least 10 years ago. It’s time for some apple internal honesty about the state of MacOS gui.

rw_panic0_0

am I the only one not liking the black tint in Spotlight?

mcphage

I'm sure there's plenty of actual bugs, but a list of places where alignment is off by a few pixels ain't it, chief.

getpost

This isn't a new bug, it was present in MacOS Tahoe, but what happened to the tabs in the Maps app? The View menu still has Show Tab Bar and Show All Tabs itms, but they are always greyed-out. Cmd-T doesn't open a new tab, as was the case before Tahoe. (I count this as a bug in that the UI seems inconsistent with the function.) If anyone knows how to regain access to tabs, I'd love to hear it.

skullone

MacOS has felt like AI slop since before there was AI. I'm a decades long mac user, and there's simply no excuse for how sloppy their releases have become

_doctor_love

I was chatting with a friend about The Decline and Fall of Apple over the weekend. We both miss Steve Jobs. For all that Steve was batshit he was willing to do hard things that were "bad for business." I heard so many legendary stories over the years of Steve Jobs holding up releases at the last minute because they weren't up to par. That takes guts in a corporate environment where there is so much pressure to go along and say "well, we have to ship something." No, you don't have to ship something. You can take your time to do it right and ship things that are high quality. Apple shouldn't assume that just because they are the incumbent that they will be around forever. Today's Steve Jobs could already be alive and plotting...

JV00

If anybody from Apple is reading, just give this article link to claude or codex and have it fixed! The work has already being done for you!

dylan604

Have they fixed getting a name server over VPN?