Apple’s annual World Wide Developers Conference began today, as always with the Keynote, where the next versions of all of its OSes were announced. macOS 27 will be called “Golden Gate,” and, of course, there is a new OS-specific wallpaper. I was very enamored with the dark version, and thanks to Basic Apple Guy, it now adorns my MacBook Pro’s PowerBook’s desktop:
Because I have a free Apple Developer account, I have access to the developer betas of the new OSes. I only have one machine that can run the new Mac OS, and I’m not about to put that on my everyday machine. I do, however, have an iPhone 12 mini that I’ve been dabbling in iOS 26 with, so I decided to put iOS 27 on there as well, most notably to check out the supposed improvements regarding Liquid Glass.
It was noted during the keynote that there is now an opacity slider for iOS, so you can reduce the transparent glassiness of the OS. However, if you want to turn that completely off, as I do, your best bet remains going to Settings -> Accessibility -> Reduce Transparency.
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With actual developers I count as friends and acquaintances, it’s going to be interesting to see what they have to say in the coming weeks. Apple releases the new operating systems to the public in the fall.