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We were wrong; macOS 27 is dubbed ‘Golden Gate,’ not ‘Big Bear’

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Oops. Guesses about the name of macOS 27 were wrong. The predictions was that it would be dubbed macOS Big Bear. However, it’s macOS Golden Gate.

Prior to 2013, macOS updates were named after big cats: Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion, and Mountain Lion. However, since then it’s named after places in California: Yosemite, El Capitan, Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina, Big Sur, Monterey, Ventura, Sequoia, and the current Lake Tahoe.

You can read all about macOS Golden Gate here.  A beta is out for developers. A public beta should arrive soon. And a version for end users is coming this fall.


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Dennis Sellers is the editor/publisher of Apple World Today. He’s been an “Apple journalist” since 1995 (starting with the first big Apple news site, MacCentral). He loves to read, run, play sports, and watch movies.

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