You can disable Live Text in Language & Region settings, but what exactly does that do? Does it also block Visual Look Up, or connection to Apple?
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How images have text recognised within them as Live Text, and objects of interest are classified, using VisionKit, mediaanalysisd, Espresso, the ANE and more.
How frequent and large were macOS Sequoia’s updates? How has it grown in total system bundles and apps? Which categories have grown most?
Coming next month should be macOS Tahoe, security updates for Sequoia and Sonoma, but we’ve probably seen the last of support for Ventura. Which macOS will your Mac be running?
macOS Sequoia 15.6 is likely to be the last scheduled general update before Sequoia enters its two years […]
Apple has just released the update to bring macOS Sequoia to version 15.6, and security updates for 14.7.7 […]
Apple silicon Macs (and iPhones and iPads) with AI enabled load 23 cryptexes to support that. This explains how that works, and how you might see an odd volume named Creedence….
Security services including TXM, Core Crypto, AMFI, Credential Manager and the SEP Key Store, Gatekeeper and AppleSystemPolicy, tracked during startup.
There are substantial differences in the structure of the internal disks in macOS, iPadOS and iOS, as shown here. And there are at least 24 cryptexes now used to support AI.
How a long-deprecated extended attribute can stop files such as images from being found in Spotlight search, and how to fix it.
