Bypass Siri Waitlist in MacOS Golden Gate 27 Beta with a Terminal Trick
If you’re already running the macOS 27 Golden Gate beta, and you’d like to gain access to the new Siri capabilities that require joining a waitlist, you can use a little Terminal trick to bypass the Siri waitlist. Really! And no, you don’t need to disable SIP or do anything too crazy, it’s achieved through a defaults write command.
And once you bypass the Siri waitlist on the Mac, you will also have access to the new Siri AI features on any iPhone or iPad sharing the same Apple ID running iOS 27 beta or iPadOS 27, so this approach functions as a way to bypass the Siri waitlist on iPhone and iPad too.
How to Bypass the Siri Waitlist with MacOS 27 Golden Gate Beta
From the Mac running MacOS Golden Gate 27 beta:
- Open the Terminal app on your Mac
- Enter the following command and hit return
- Then restart your Mac
sudo defaults write "/Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain/GenerativeModels.plist" "EnhancedSiriWaitlist" -dict-add Enabled -bool NO
After MacOS Golden Gate reboots, you should find that the enhanced Siri features are now available and enabled.
The interesting thing about this is it unlocks Siri AI not only on your Mac, but also on any iOS 27 iPhone, or iPadOS 27 iPad, as long as it’s using the same Apple ID.
Cheers to @stephancasas on X for the find. Let us know if you try this out, and what you think of the new Siri.
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Thanks for the tip! I haven’t tried this myself, though I know there are many reports on Reddit of this working.
This might seem pedantic, but it feels sloppy to refer to the Mac operating system as “MacOS” when the actual name is macOS. I see that OS X Daily typically refers to it as “MacOS” (and even “Mac OS” in the navigation bar at the top of the site). When clicking “Mac OS” on the navigation bar, I see a page that says “Mac OS, Mac OS X, or macOS, is the operating system that resides on Apple’s desktop and portable computer lineup”. Sure, you can call it “Mac OS”, “MacOS”, or “Mac OS X” and we all know what you mean, but it has a name (macOS) and it’s an odd choice to refer to it by anything other than its name. The only one of those that was ever the name of an Apple OS was Mac OS X, which has not been the name of an Apple OS since OS X El Capitan in 2015. The “X” in “OS X” is the roman numeral for 10. It makes sense (it’s wrong but it makes sense) to refer to macOS 10.12, macOS 10.13, macOS 10.14, and macOS 10.15 as “OS X”, though it’s an even stranger choice to refer to macOS 11, macOS 12, macOS 13, macOS 14, macOS 15, and macOS 26 as “OS X” because the version number is no longer 10.xx.
I also see that this site typically refers to the Mac mini as the “Mac Mini”, the iPad mini as the “iPad Mini”, the HomePod mini as the “HomePod Mini”, and the iPhone mini as the “iPhone Mini”.
Similarly, Apple has not referred to the Apple Account as “Apple ID” since the release of iOS 18, which was over a year and a half ago.
I know that this silly and ultimately doesn’t matter, though I wonder, was there a specific choice made to not exclusively refer to Apple hardware software products by their name? Is this more of a “as long as we’re close enough that people know what me mean, it doesn’t matter if we’re calling products by what they’re called” sorta thing?
This didn’t work on my MacBook Air M2
Nie działa u mnie, co to może być?