Several things I like about macOS 27 Golden Gate that have nothing to do with AI

关于 macOS 27 Golden Gate，除了 AI 之外我喜欢的几件事

Apple Intelligence and Siri AI have sucked most of the oxygen out of the room at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference this year—understandable, maybe, given that the AI-powered Siri delays are all anyone has wanted to ask any Apple executive about for the last two years. But Apple Intelligence is just one of the three big focus areas Apple outlined during its keynote this week.

在今年的苹果全球开发者大会（WWDC）上，Apple Intelligence 和 Siri AI 几乎占据了所有的关注度——这或许可以理解，毕竟过去两年里，人们见到苹果高管时最想问的都是关于 AI 驱动的 Siri 延期问题。但 Apple Intelligence 只是苹果本周主题演讲中强调的三大重点领域之一。

The second is new parental controls—overdue, but promising-looking, as the parent of a 6-year-old with an iPad that I only begrudgingly connect to the Internet. And the third is “platform improvements,” a catch-all for a wide range of fit-and-finish changes aimed at boosting responsiveness and addressing common user complaints.

第二个重点是新的家长控制功能——虽然姗姗来迟，但看起来很有前景。作为一个 6 岁孩子的家长，我那台 iPad 只有在万不得已时才会连上网。第三个重点是“平台改进”，这是一个涵盖了各种细节优化的统称，旨在提升系统响应速度并解决常见的用户痛点。

I have the first beta of macOS 27 Golden Gate running on an M1 MacBook Air—the oldest, slowest hardware Apple supports now that Intel compatibility is out the window. With some help from Apple’s densely packed wall-of-features slide, here are a few things from the “platform improvements” column I like the most, plus one item I’d still like to see. Note that these are screenshots from an early beta and that things will continue to change as Apple releases more updates.

我已经在 M1 MacBook Air 上运行了 macOS 27 Golden Gate 的首个测试版——随着 Intel 兼容性的彻底终结，这是目前苹果支持的最老、最慢的硬件。借助苹果那张密密麻麻的功能列表幻灯片，我整理了一些“平台改进”中我最喜欢的内容，以及一个我仍然期待看到的功能。请注意，这些截图来自早期测试版，随着苹果发布更多更新，内容仍会持续变化。

Liquid Glass and other UI changes

Liquid Glass（流体玻璃）及其他 UI 变化

Apple doesn’t retreat from Liquid Glass in macOS Golden Gate, but it does tone down the effect in a few places while reverting to a more Big Sur-ish design in a couple of crucial areas. The most prominent tweak is the slider in the Appearance settings that gives users fine-grained control over Liquid Glass’ opacity. This replaces the binary “Clear/Tinted” toggle that Apple added in the macOS 26.1 release, and it has been added to the macOS setup flow so users can choose what they want when they upgrade their operating system or get a new Mac.

在 macOS Golden Gate 中，苹果并没有放弃 Liquid Glass 设计，但在某些地方调低了效果，并在几个关键区域回归了更接近 Big Sur 的设计。最显著的调整是“外观”设置中的滑块，它让用户可以精细控制 Liquid Glass 的不透明度。这取代了苹果在 macOS 26.1 中加入的“透明/着色”二元开关，并且该选项已被加入到 macOS 的初始设置流程中，以便用户在升级系统或购买新 Mac 时就能做出选择。

Liquid Glass’ baseline appearance has been improved a bit, too, even for people who push that slider all the way to the left for maximum glassiness. But as we covered in our Tahoe review, the Mac’s version of Liquid Glass was already much less glassy than the iOS version, and even the slider’s glassiest setting leaves notifications, menu bar menus, Spotlight searches, and most other things looking more tinted than glassy.

Liquid Glass 的基础外观也得到了一些改进，即使对于那些将滑块拉到最左侧以获得最大玻璃质感的用户来说也是如此。但正如我们在 Tahoe 评测中所述，Mac 版的 Liquid Glass 本身就比 iOS 版的玻璃感弱得多，即使在滑块调到最“玻璃”的设置下，通知、菜单栏、Spotlight 搜索以及大多数其他界面看起来依然是“着色”感多于“玻璃”感。

In the handful of places where Golden Gate does use the glassier glass effect, including the Control Center and volume and screen brightness pop-ups, I can’t say I always find the tweaked light refraction to be an improvement. You still run into places where text overlaps other text, which is typically when Liquid Glass looks its worst. But at least now, people who are looking for maximum glassiness need to affirmatively choose it for themselves; the tinted view and the default halfway-between setting generally don’t cause as many problems.

在 Golden Gate 确实使用了更强玻璃效果的少数地方（包括控制中心、音量和屏幕亮度弹窗），我不能说调整后的光折射总是更好的。你仍然会遇到文字重叠的情况，这通常是 Liquid Glass 视觉效果最糟糕的时候。但至少现在，追求极致玻璃感的用户需要主动去选择它；而着色视图和默认的中间档设置通常不会引起那么多问题。