The update finished installing, the Mac restarted, and now you are staring at a machine that looks slightly different and behaves in ways nobody explained. You poke at a few settings, decide it is mostly a new coat of paint, and go back to doing things the same way you always have. Meanwhile the tools that would actually save you time are sitting there, one menu away, waiting for someone to point them out.

This free Smart Guide from The MacWhisperer walks you through the new macOS 27 Golden Gate features that are genuinely worth your attention, app by app, in plain language.

What you'll learn:

🪟 Dial in the Liquid Glass look you actually like, and get back the menu bar icons the notch was hiding

✏️ Draw right inside a note, drop in divider lines, and paste from an AI tool without the leftover symbols

🤖 Put the new Siri AI to work on whatever is already on your screen, and keep every conversation

🌐 Let Safari watch a page for news, sort your tabs by topic, and build you a custom extension on request

📸 Fix badly framed photos, filter an album down to your own shots, and share full quality pictures with anyone

🔥 Power Tip: there is one app already sitting on your Mac that most people have never opened, and in this update it will build things for you from a single plain English sentence.

You do not need to learn a new computer. You need someone to show you the handful of changes that matter and skip the rest. Once you see them, macOS 27 stops feeling like something that happened to your Mac and starts feeling like the reason you own one.