Overview
- Apple pushed macOS 27 Golden Gate and iOS 27 public beta 2 on Thursday, July 23, with incremental polish and new Siri voice controls that let users adjust Pace and Expressivity for select voices.
- Beta testers and reporters discovered a hidden macOS 'voice pad' prototype that visually lays out up to 13 voice slots but the current beta lacks the voice models and falls back to the two available custom voices.
- Enabling the unfinished voice pad requires risky steps such as disabling System Integrity Protection or using a debugger, so the interface is not broadly accessible and may never ship in this form.
- Apple is gating full Siri AI by device capability, Apple Intelligence settings, waitlists, iCloud tiers, and regional regulatory work, and some features already require iPhone 15 Pro or newer hardware to try.
- The public betas also include fixes to Liquid Glass, system search, Visual Intelligence and new developer tools for Safari extensions and Shortcuts, and Apple aims to finish the staged rollout for a September release.