Ask Siri needs to resolve ambiguities in queries without long explanations or clarifications. This explains the context it’s provided with, including text from the active window.
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Three challenging questions you might ask about using Macs, put to four different help systems, including the Tips app, fm, Ask Siri, and Google’s AI Overview. Some did surprisingly well.
How an AIR reports proofreading, a Siri request about an image of a painting, and image generation in Image Playground, and the first release of AIRer to help you read your own reports.
Frustrated trying to read Apple Intelligence Reports? Try this new app that extracts their useful contents, converts dates, and lays them out to make them accessible and understandable.
How your Siri AI requests remain private even when processed off-device, by PCC. How a simple request becomes a long and elaborate prompt.
Golden Gate’s AI features go far beyond Visual Look Up and others. But do they use up too much disk space, and could there be a single switch to turn them all off?
How many sections in System Settings do you need to set your Mac’s primary language? If you use language-specific Accessibility features, where are they? And where to find Apple’s list of supported languages for the many features in macOS?
If you don’t want any of their services, you can turn Siri off in its settings, and disable indexing and search in Spotlight settings. Or you can use mdutil, if you know its limitations.
Frameworks provide much of the macOS API. Over the last 5 years, the percentage of Private Frameworks has risen from 76% to 84%. Why is macOS becoming more private?
How Apple and third-party developers can update the apps you use without your being aware, even if you have automatic updates disabled.
