If you say the wrong thing, you will very quickly discover the edges of its abilities. If you know the right things to say, it will tell you (or show you) what you want to know. The strengths and weaknesses of Siri on iOS are still in evidence on macOS. ![]() If you’re playing music or a video, the system will temporarily pause or mute that audio when you activate Siri, then restore it when your voice query is complete. Asking Siri to find photos will launch the Photos app and make a query there, so you can say “show me photos of cows” and it’ll do its best. You can ask Siri to display presentations from the last month, and it will oblige-listing up to 10 search results in the floating Siri window, along with a button that will open the complete set of results in the Finder. In El Capitan, Apple added the ability for more natural-language search queries inside Spotlight, and that feature has been rolled into Siri with Sierra. I get it, people use images they find on the web all the time, but it still kind of bothers me that Apple is encouraging you to rip an image off a web page and use it in your Keynote presentation. There’s a small warning on the Siri results box that says “images subject to copyright,” but that’s a bit like posting an episode of “Game of Thrones” to YouTube and putting “no copyright intended” in the description. Even Apple’s demos show off that if you say something like, “search the web for pictures of old computers,” it will provide you with an awesome collection of images-any of which you can drag anywhere and drop into something like a document or presentation. This leads to a few uncomfortable situations. (You can remove them later by clicking an X icon in the same location.) No copyright intended. You can drag and drop, or copy and paste, results into other apps, Many results also come with a plus icon in the top right corner, allowing you to pin them to the top of the Today view inside Notification Center. When Siri returns answers to your requests in that floating window, that’s not the end of the story. (You can choose what microphone Siri uses, and whether Siri speaks its results aloud, in the new Siri pane in the System Preferences app.) Activating Siri brings up a floating window with an audio waveform, and then displays the results of your query in that same window. ![]() It’s largely the Siri you know, but since a Mac is not an iPhone or iPad, there are a few interesting variations.įirst off, you can’t trigger Siri on the Mac with a “Hey Siri.” Unlike iOS devices, on the Mac you need to type a keystroke or click on the Siri icon in the menu bar or the Dock in order to begin speaking. It took five years, but Siri has finally made the leap from iOS to the Mac with Sierra. I’ve spent the last couple of months using Sierra almost every day. There’s also an intriguing new integration with iOS hardware, a major update to Photos, and a whole lot more. Though the name has changed, macOS Sierra follows Apple’s Mac gameplan of recent years, adding features in sync with updates to iOS, and expansion of iCloud integration. Version 10.12 of the operating system that runs the Mac is here, and with it, a new/old name: macOS. Note: This story has not been updated for several years. For more information, see Changes to Microsoft Edge browser TLS server certificate verification.MacOS Sierra Review: Hey Siri, where did my files go? It will be removed in Microsoft Edge version 115. The MicrosoftRootStoreEnabled policy will now be supported in Microsoft Edge version 113 and 114. When enabled or if the policy isn't configured, Microsoft Edge will recover the last state of PDF view and land users on the section where they ended reading in the last session. The RestorePdfView policy lets Admins control PDF View Recovery in Microsoft Edge. For more information, see Microsoft Edge for macOS switches from Microsoft AutoUpdate to EdgeUpdater. If you use update preferences for Microsoft Autoupdate to prevent browser updates, you will need to transition to the new EdgeUpdater UpdateDefault policy before Microsoft Edge 113 to prevent future automatic updates. This change only affects Microsoft Edge on macOS. ![]() Microsoft Edge for macOS will start using a new updater named EdgeUpdater.
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