it's just one big pile of meh. but then i dont even use siri, so i'm not really the target audiance for anthropomorphized chatbots.
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For me the best new feature on macOS is the ability to natively put the temperature in the menu bar. You click on it, and it gives you some more info and from there can launch the full weather app.
It's a small addition and could have been there for a decade, but I like it a lot.
MacOS didn't have that before? That's impressive. Windows has had it for a long time, and KDE obviously does too, and with KDE you can put it anywhere. I can't understand why people still act like Apple products are premium.
Yep. Apple was trying to get things OUT of the menu bar for a long time. I dunno why current leadership has changed their tune.
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Is it worth the hype that Apple and cell carriers are throwing at it? Not really, but do I, as a user, enjoy a lot of the new features? For sure.
Double tap to type to Siri is great, and access to ChatGPT for answers Siri doesn’t know is much better than, “I couldn’t find the answer. Would you like me to search the internet?” And as a person with slight dyslexia and ADHD, Proofread is a fucking god send.
My only gripe is the lack of ChatGPT and search internet for answer options. I want to use both in various situations when Siri doesn’t get the answer directly.
That’s a fair point.
As the owner of a 13 Mini; what’s that?
We didn’t get anything at all from 18.1. There is literally nothing on my phone to tell me that it exists.
However, I do have it on both of my Macs, and have yet to do anything with it. I’m not in any hurry to bother either.
I just recently moved from 13 mini to 16, other than screen size you’re not missing much.
I have a mini specifically because I didn’t want a surfboard for a phone.
18.1 has some minor things, but the big ones are in 18.2. You will probably still not use them, but until you update, you probably won't see them.
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Good to see Apple or continuing in their vein of having the worst implementation of an assistant product.
EU: you guise tell me when you’ve got something decent
I really don’t get the advantage. It just feels like Siri with less.
My ex’s last name was pronounced worse after the upgrade too. It used to enunciate the T in the last name and then after spoke it like there was no T. Always bothered me when I would ask Siri to make a call to her.
It looks pretty? But beyond that, I’m not feeling any advantages like what ChatGPT or Copilot have.
I’m not feeling any advantages like what ChatGPT or Copilot have.
Unless you explicitly tell it to use ChatGPT, everything is done on device. That's an advantage for me.
Oh really? I didn’t know that was a thing.
So you tell Siri “Use ChatGPT” and then it switches over?
I had asked Siri what it could do after the update and didn’t get much information on what new features there were or how to access them.
I’m pretty smart myself, and I’m treated the same way. 😏
Get it off! Get it off!!