The beta landed around 1pm PT, right on schedule. The confirmed feature list includes a standalone Siri app for back-and-forth conversations, two Apple Intelligence photo tools (Extend and Reframe), generated subtitles for personal videos, Visual Intelligence reading nutrition labels via camera, and natural-language Shortcut creation. None of the Gemini integration rumors made it into the beta — that one stays speculation for now. The real headline buried in the platform announcements is macOS 27 dropping Intel Mac support entirely. Rosetta 2 was already flagged as sunset-bound back in May, but this confirms it: if your users are still on Intel hardware, they stop getting OS updates this cycle. Worth a frank conversation with any enterprise customers still holding out on Apple Silicon transitions.