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Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far (9to5mac.com)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (7 children)

I’m very much enjoying the GenMoji stuff. Being able to send or react with an emoji tailored to the situation is not useful, but it’s fun when you come up with a good one.

Also Siri is definitely more functional than it used to be. It understands when I correct myself or change my mind. Very handy. Still far from perfect though.

Also on iPad all the AI-driven handwriting cleanup and stuff is really nice when taking notes.

But otherwise it’s not super useful. I don’t like the notification summaries, they aren’t very good. Though they are sometimes hilarious. Like Ring being summarized as “Thirteen people at your door and gunshots heard.”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah Siri being more understanding is pretty nice and has gotten me to actually use it more again, but beyond that none of it is super useful to me.

…I did enjoy finally getting to make “shrimp with cowboy hat” using Genmoji after Apple kept using that as an example, though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I made a “Sanderlanche” emoji for use when discussing Brandon Sanderson’s mastery of story structure. Reading every one of his books I reach a point where it feels like I have to frantically push to the end.

It’s just a book with a big vaguely-snowy wave coming out of it, but I like it.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Good to see Apple or continuing in their vein of having the worst implementation of an assistant product.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Shock, I tell you. Absolutely shocked. S

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

They need to let us whitelist 2FA App notifications from summary, so there is no lag time. I have to wait 30 seconds, where it used to be instant. My friend turned it off and his notifications went back to being instant again.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

EU: you guise tell me when you’ve got something decent

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