Apple’s developer conference started today, and as is tradition, this means it also announced coming updates to its operating systems lineup. macOS is probably one of the two major ones OSNews readers are interested in, so let’s start there:
Much like Mac OS X Snow Leopard in 2009, Apple said it focused on improving macOS’s performance and dozens of underlying technologies this year.
macOS Golden Gate has some Liquid Glass design changes. For example, apps now have a unified toolbar at the top, and the sidebar now expands to the edge of the window.
A new slider on macOS 27 lets you customize the opacity of Liquid Glass.
↫ Joe Rossignol at MacRumors
Effectively, a ton of “Liquid Glass” features touted only a year ago are being changed and fixed, which should make using Liquid Glass less of a frustrating affair. Of course, there’s a whole slew of new “AI” stuff built entirely on top of Google’s Gemini, but luckily for us Europeans, we won’t be getting those features because EU privacy and consumer protection regulations are too strict. Apple, one of the world’s most valuable companies, seemingly cannot create “AI” features that comply with some basic consumer protection legislation.
As for the other major platform, that’s iOS of course.
At WWDC 2026 in Cupertino, Apple announced iOS 27, the next mobile operating system for compatible iPhones. The update focuses on tweaking and improving last year’s iOS 26, particularly in areas like app launch time, Liquid Glass design, and more. It does not offer a lot of major new features or upgrades, as Apple focused on polishing the experience. However, there are some new upgrades, such as reworked parental controls, new Siri AI, better search, and performance improvements.
↫ Taras Buria at Neowin
These new versions, as well as those of Apple’s other operating systems, will be available later this year.
Thom Holwerda,
On device AI likely would comply with consumer protections….but the tech giants all want to push for a future where they have our data and we’re tethered to their services.
As a advocate for owner empowering technology, I am not a fan of tech giants engineering solutions to diminish our control. There is so much untapped potential for federation, P2P, openness and connectivity at the edges without becoming locked into proprietary services. However absent significant regulatory intervention, it seems that technology will continue to strip away owner independence and autonomy in favor of proprietary services.
Where does it talk about the EU? Do you have another link for that?
See footnote 1 on https://www.apple.com/os/ios/?version=no-hero
Siri AI will be available In beta later this year and requires an Apple Intelligence–enabled device set to a supported language. Available in English to start. Siri AI will not initially be available in the EU on iOS and iPadOS.
The issue is not EU consumer law. As you rightly point out, you can very easily structure AI services to comply with consumer law. The problem is the Digital Markets Act, which is a competition law measure, not consumer law, and the specific issue is the requirement to provide equal access for competing AI agents which Apple is not willing to do on the iPhone and iPad. Siri AI will be available on Mac OS even in the EU, just not on iOS or iPad OS.
Edit: Here’s Apple’s official take on it: https://www.apple.com/uk/newsroom/2026/06/due-to-dma-siri-ai-delayed-in-eu-for-ios-27-and-ipados-27/