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  • Reminder to wait a couple of months before upgrading macOS! Every single time issues are found after a new macOS version, give it a little bit of time before jumping right away on your work machine :)
    by dgellow
  • I’ve spent a lot of time testing the new Siri. Overall I like it and believe this will become a very powerful tool but definitely think it needs work.

    - Example: “Siri for the lights that are already on in the family room, can you put those lights to 50% brightness?” -> All the lights turn on incorrectly. This is a two step process. Get information from Home and then execute command with that info.

    - Example: “Remind me to call back Joe at 5pm.” -> Siri oddly has trouble with this. Asking me what time after I give this command. Is it not hearing full command?

    - Example: It seems to ask me to clarify the name of something when that name is readily available in recent personal context. Like recent 5 messages. It should be able to know some of this stuff as I’m most likely operating on recent stuff.

    It seems to be hampered in some way. Gemini should be able to handle that tool call really easily.

    Other things are great. Like I have my checking account and routing number buried in Notes somewhere. When I’m in safari and ask it to autofill with the routing number from notes. It does it. Amazing.

    I’m so bullish on LLMs and my personal context but there are some kinks here that hamper performance so far.

    by ryeguy_24
  • This is going to sound like a really weird and irrelevant nitpick, but I dislike how they changed the version numbers to be year+1. I like that they all unified and have a relationship to the current year, but we're not buying cars. We're getting operating systems and not being confused about chronology is pretty important for bug tracking or other minutiae. Plus, the Mac lineup use(d) the year of release. Why move away from it? Is it really necessary to market and sell an operating system like it's a car or the latest Microsoft Office suite?
    by usui
  • From the macOS 27 release notes in the System Settings app:

      System Improvements
  Discover lots of little ways your Mac is even enjoyable, like faster and smoother experiences across the systems.
    Doesn't anybody proofread copy anymore?

    /end-rant

    by j1mr10rd4n
  • I love Siri's suggestions for categories in my shopping list. At the moment it puts "Dishwasher Rinse Aid" in the "Beverages" category.
    by seanhunter
  • At the bottom of the press release they have links to individual OS pages:

    * iOS 27: https://www.apple.com/os/ios/

    * iPadOS 27: https://www.apple.com/os/ipados/

    * macOS: https://www.apple.com/os/macos/

    * watchOS: https://www.apple.com/os/watchos/

    * visionOS: https://www.apple.com/os/visionos/

    * tvOS 27: no link.

    * Overview: https://www.apple.com/os/?version=no-hero

    by throw0101d
  • Was just looking over the Safari 27 release notes¹, which is part of macOS 27, and noticed this:

    Web Driver

    New Features

    - Allow your agent to connect to a Safari browser for development and debugging via the Safari MCP server. (176038457)

    Related (From July 1st)

    Introducing the Safari MCP server for web developers

    https://webkit.org/blog/18136/introducing-the-safari-mcp-ser...

    So that's interesting. On the other hand, looks like WebXR support for Safari will never come.

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    ¹ https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safari-release-not...

    by Tepix
  • I've been using it for several months since the developer beta came out; overall I'm extremely positive on it. One of their better releases that seemingly focused more on quality and refinements than new-features.

    Siri is definitely worth using now, even if it remains still a work-in-progress/needs continued refinement. It can surprise you in good ways, but it isn't consistently good yet.

    The keyboard remains unfixed, as is tradition. The same issues they've "fixed" like three or four releases now, seemingly are identically broken, and I'm lost faith they CAN fix it.

    The iOS Keyboard and Search on Windows, are like the perpetually broken things that both companies have "fixed" every year for the last ten+ years and yet... It is almost farcical as this point.

    by Someone1234

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