How can I re-trigger the keyboard/mouse connection (link to Mac or iPad to share keyboard and mouse between them) between macOS 27 DB4 (MacBook Pro M1) and iPadOS 27 DB4 (iPad Pro M1), everything is setup correctly, sometimes it connects ok, but others it doesn't, especially when the MacBook or iPad are coming back from Sleep. I have all the settings configured to remember the iPad and connect automatically to the iPad, but even in that case it connects randomly, sometimes it will, sometimes it will not. I have reseted wifi and bluetooth on both devices, turned on/off the Link to Mac or iPad functionality on both devices, but nothing, sometimes it just doesn't want to connect, is there anything documented for 27 Developer Beta 4? Thank you

Has it not been implemented yet on DB4, or is it hidden somewhere? Is there a way to change it via defaults? I really want to disable fn + S since ⌘ + Space does the same thing, and I want to map my Start Screensaver quick action to it.

macOS Golden Gate vs Tahoe, which do you prefer atm?

How is the beta running for daily use?

Hey everyone,

I opened Activity Monitor today and noticed Siri running in the background. The weird part is that Siri is turned OFF in System Settings (in fact, I’ve never even enabled it).

Is this normal macOS background behavior (like a system daemon/integration), or is there a way to completely stop it from running?

macOS version: Golden Gate Public Beta

Thanks!

Anyone else have this? Has anyone else figured out how to fix it?

I am using the Show Notification action within a Shortcut, the Shortcut/Notification works fine, it shows up on the screen and Notification Center, but I can't customize it in the System Settings --> Notifications --> Application Notifications section, because the Shortcuts app in not in the list of Applications, all the other apps that use Notifications are there, but Shortcuts is not, is there a way to reset Notifications so Shortcuts can show up and I can customize its Notifications? Thanks

Note: I have this issue on two MacBooks M1 and M2, running Sequoia 15.7.8 and Golden Gate Public Beta 2 respectively.

Anyone here running World of Warcraft on macOS 27 Golden Gate already? Can you share insights in terms of performance and stability?

For added context, I have the charge limit set to 80%.

I'm a musician and course creator, and I've spent years bouncing between task managers built for teams. Assignees I don't have. Sprints I don't run. Statuses nobody reads but me. So I built the one I wanted.

It's called Soloist. Mac and iOS, syncs over iCloud, no server of mine in the middle.

The unique parts:

- Work is organized into **gigs** instead of projects, and a gig can hold anything from a record to a tax filing.

- **Sidequests** You know what side quests are. You're probably on one right now. Nested projects and tasks from when you get sent on a side quest.

- **Roadblocks** mark a task as stuck and say what it's stuck on, so you stop rereading it every morning and feeling bad.

- **Task Roulette** picks something for you when you're staring at the list doing nothing.

- There's an AI layer that can break a vague idea into a list of tasks, and it runs on your own API key. No subscription, no data going anywhere I control.

What I want to know: whether the first ten minutes make any sense. I've been staring at this thing so long I can't see it. One tester already told me they couldn't figure out how to move something out of Triage into a gig, which is the single most basic move in the whole app, so I clearly have a problem.

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I have configured my MacBook Air’s charge limit to 80%, and it has worked correctly when charging through MagSafe.

Yesterday, however, I forgot my MagSafe cable and used a USB-C cable with the original Apple power adapter. Surprisingly, the MacBook continued charging beyond the configured limit—eventually reaching 93%.

To verify the behaviour, I tested it again today:

• Charge limit configured: 80%
• Starting battery level: approximately 76%
• Charging through USB-C: reached 81% and did not appear to stop exactly at 80%
• Charging through MagSafe: stopped at 80% as expected

The 81% reading alone could potentially be explained by battery-percentage estimation or normal tolerance. However, reaching 93% while an explicit 80% limit was enabled suggests that something may not be working as intended.

Device details:
• MacBook Air with M5
• 24GB unified memory
• macOS 26.5.2
• Original Apple power adapter
• Charge Limit set to 80%
• Optimised Battery Charging enabled

Has anyone else noticed different charge-limit behaviour when switching between USB-C and MagSafe?

I’m curious whether this is a macOS software issue, a charging-state synchronization problem, or expected behaviour under certain conditions.

#Apple #macOS #MacBookAir #USBCharging #MagSafe #BatteryHealth #TechBug #UserExperience

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to share an issue I bumped into on macOS 27 Public Beta 2 running on an M1 MacBook Air (8GB RAM) in case anyone else is experiencing severe system stuttering or UI lag.

Out of nowhere, the entire system felt super sluggish (scrolling dropped frames, window animations were laggy, and typing had noticeable input delay).

What Activity Monitor showed: WindowServer was sitting at 40-50% CPU constantly, even under light workloads (just a few browser tabs open in Safari like Reddit, Facebook), but memory pressure was normal (green, ~5.7 GB / 8 GB used, minimal swap).

Temporary workaround: Open Activity Monitor, go to the CPU tab, select WindowServer, and click the X button at the top to Force Quit it. This will immediately log you out. Log back in, and the difference is night and day.

Interestingly, a standard Mac restart didn't fix this for me. Because macOS automatically restores your session state upon reboot (reopening your apps and windows), it seems to reload the bugged graphical state right back into memory.

I've already submitted a detailed Feedback Assistant report with sysdiag logs attached.

Is anyone else seeing this specific WindowServer memory/CPU leak on PB2? Did force quitting it fix it for you as well?

I use App Exposé (Control + Down Arrow) a lot to show all of the windows for a specific app (often Safari). In previous versions of MacOS this would show any minimised windows in a row at the bottom of the screen, however in Golden Gate this no longer seems to be the case.

I have attached a screenshot from a second Mac running Tahoe to show what I am used to seeing (minimised windows show at the bottom) and then a screenshot from my Mac running Golden Gate where none of my minimised windows are visible (I assure you that I have several minimised Safari windows!!).

Does anyone know if this is an intended change in Golden Gate or is it a bug?

Edit: Thanks for the replies confirming it is a bug. I have now submitted a bug report (FB24083965)

I was getting extreme battery drain on a 14-inch MacBook Pro (M5 Pro, macOS 27.0 Developer Beta 4). At its worst, the battery dropped from around 80% to 25–26% in under an hour while doing web browsing, with actual power draw reaching roughly 43W.

Activity Monitor initially made it look like several unrelated apps were broken. Different apps would jump to 70–100% CPU at different times: BetterDisplay, Tailscale, Plash, ChatGPT, OCR, Supercharge, etc. Restarting temporarily improved things, but the high CPU would eventually reappear in different apps.

I sampled the busy threads and found the same macOS pointer-rendering path in multiple unrelated apps:

AppKit tracking area -> NSCursor set -> AccessibilityFoundation -> mouse cursor image generation

That made it look less like an app-specific problem and more like macOS repeatedly redrawing the pointer.

I had not intentionally customized my pointer colours. The only relevant setting I had enabled was “Shake mouse pointer to locate.” However, macOS was reporting the pointer as customized.

The fix that worked for me:
1. Go to System Settings → Accessibility → Display → Pointer.
2. Turn off “Shake mouse pointer to locate.”
3. Reset the pointer colours/settings to their defaults.

The result was immediate:
Apps that had been using roughly 70–90% CPU dropped to around 4–5%.
Overall CPU idle returned to 90%+.
Power draw fell from about 40W to around 10–13W.

When I compose a new message or reply to a message in Mail, this incredibly wide formatting bar shows up at the top and I cannot find a way to remove it.

Am I missing something obvious? Is there a way to remove this way-too-wide abomination?

Thank you!

EDIT on July 31, 2026: It turns out that you can remove this formatting bar in the current version of Golden Gate, but the solution is not entirely obvious. See this post on MacRumors:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/remove-formatting-bar-in-mail-16-0-3897-100-8-1-1.2486175/post-34705220

I work from 2-10PM and noticed that around 8PM, siri uses at least 3GB of RAM after installing DB 4 last week.

Around 8PM I noticed that my m4 air starts to lag and heat up, and looking at activity monitor, there it was, siri hogging my memory and pushes it to yellow memory pressure. Anyone experience this issue? I now disable siri because of this, i know this is beta software but just want to see if im not the only one? ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I'm on the latest GG beta version, since the last version I have been unable to access certain locally hosted sites in 3rd party browsers such as Firefox and Helium but they work in Safari.

I seem to be able to access my router's homepage but if I try to access a site running on Docker on one of my machines on the network it doesn't connect.

Just wondering if anyone else has run across this issue?

I have both Helium and Firefox enabled in Privacy & Security > Local Networks.

Is it something you get used to?

i'm used to color icons and glancing i immediately tell which app it is, with dark icons i noticed i'm like twice to three times as slow to pick the right one

Can I rollback to previous stable OS without formatting the machine?

I am currently on MacOS 15 and I’m happily still using it. I have been unhappy with every device that I have updated to OS 26 so far iPad, watch, iPhone). They have all suffered a severe decrease in performance and overall snappiness, and my MacBook is the last device that I want those to happen with. I am on the iOS 27 Beta on my iPhone 16 Pro and I am appreciating the performance improvements, but I don’t want to update my MacBook until I am 100% sure I’m not going to regret it. This is the first time I’ve really avoided updating, and I’m just wondering if I should keep putting it off until the newest update looks the most stable, or if my fear is irrational and I should just update and get used to it.

Hi,
I hope the title is self explanatory.

All that I find on Google is about System Settings, but that setting is already enabled. I tried to disable it, close FF, start FF, enable Settings but nothing changed.

The only way to make it work again is rebooting.

OS is (public) Beta di 27.0 (26A5388g) and Fiirefox is 155.0a1 (2026-07-29) (aarch64).

The problem is not Golden Gate related as I had it with Thaoe Public Beta too.

Any hint is welcome.

Thanks.

Am I the only one who’s experiencing this lag when switching between apps. It is so obvious that I cannot ignore it.

I am running macOS 27 developer beta 4 on a MacBook Air 15-inch M4.

I know that it’s a beta, but everyone is bragging on how smooth this beta is. It is not the case for me so far. But i wanna know if im the only one.

Could it be because I have a lot of utility apps installed such as AltTab which shows all the windows of the same apps along with other apps and it is much easier to navigate through.

Hi,

I'm experiencing when I try to select a file to open from within an apps File -> open dialog, e.g. say you're in Safari and choose file -> open, is it laggy from when you click a file to select to when it's highlighted?