Now that macOS 27 Golden Gate is officially out, Apple is moving on to its next beta cycle, straight to macOS 27.2 beta 1. Here are the details.

After releasing macOS 27 Golden Gate earlier this week, Apple is now rolling out the first developer beta of macOS 27.2, skipping over the 27.1 betas. During its “Surprise and Shine” event earlier this month, Apple said that the new Siri AI, which launched in English, would expand to five more languages in October, including French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. Developers might find these languages in this first beta. Apple has yet to confirm a new rollout date for two features announced during WWDC but not in the first macOS 27 release: an agentic feature in Passwords that automatically changes leaked passwords, and suggestions in Messages conversations. We are digging through the code to check whether these made it to macOS 27.2 beta 1.

The release build is 26B5086k.

To install: Back up your Mac, open System Settings, go to General Software Update, click the ‘i’ icon next to Beta Updates, select the macOS Developer Golden Gate Beta, and hit ‘Done’. Did you spot anything new? Let us know in the comments.