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iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by Stitch4223 »

Obscurity4340 wrote: post #284
Stitch4223 wrote: post #177

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Normally I’d agree. But my experience with 26 hasn’t been great. From the top of my head: Random repeated flashing window chrome in the background, notifications that keep on showing while everything is disabled, Finder tooltips from four windows down, tooltips that don’t disappear, Java update interruptions that hijack your flow - just when you where about to hit enter for something else the pop-up shows and bam: yo…

How do you shut down the notification system?

Without any warranty, you need to get rid of NotificationCenter and usernoted. The first gets rid of the gui, the second of the entire infrastructure.

launchctl disable "gui/$(id -u)/com.apple.notificationcenterui" killall NotificationCenter 2>/dev/null || true

launchctl disable "gui/$(id -u)/com.apple.usernoted" killall usernoted 2>/dev/null || true

To refine my statement on lazy or non-design. Notifications can be valuable, for me i'd like backup notifications and find my messages. Only those, ever. When only those are enabled, MacOS has their own secret settings and is allowed to nag about updates, incompatibility and maybe some other things i don't remember. Part of the problem is the illusion of control, and being spammy about self-importance of new OS versions. Great for some users, insulting to me.

This is made even worse by "focus" which still shows notifications but without the text. Then i'm distracted AND i don't know why.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by embedding-shape »

josh_p wrote: post #396
nozzlegear wrote: post #319

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I've been using the Safari MCP in a "grocery agent" tool I built. It takes the weekly menu my wife puts together, turns it into a shopping list, and then uses Safari to add things to the shopping cart on Walmart's website. It's pretty solid, I like it more than the Chrome dev protocol I had been using before Safari.

How are you getting around bot detection shutting you out? I tried exactly this but for stop and shop.

Not on macOS but have my own browser extension basically doing the same with Firefox, for use with agents.

It's using a clone of my real Firefox profile, and can "ping" me if it encounters a page that needs my human input, like a login page (as I don't give it access to my password manager) or captcha page. Although sometimes it "bypasses" the captcha page by itself, even though I've instructed it not to...

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by danaris »

ljm wrote: post #685
amoorthy wrote: post #346

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I struggle daily with Finder's search. It cannot find files in my Downloads folder even if I type the exact name. Do I need to rebuild some index or some other setting?

The annoying thing with Finder is when you're in a folder, you start to search, and then it defaults to "This Mac" and not the god damn folder you're in. Bloody daft.

That's because you have that set in your Finder Settings.

With the Finder open, go to Settings > Advanced, and change the drop-down at the bottom to "Search the Current Folder". This is something I do on the first run of every new Mac I set up.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by akho »

OptionOfT wrote: post #122
Someone1234 wrote: post #17

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…

I had issues with the Siri Beta. I would ask it to open the garage door, and often it just... failed. Un-enrolling from the beta fixed it.

— Open the garage door, Siri.

— I'm sorry, OptionOfT. I'm afraid I can't do that.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by tiborsaas »

dgellow wrote: post #11

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 :)

Maybe it's time to upgrade from Sequoia? But a few more months can't hurt :)

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by NSUserDefaults »

fodkodrasz wrote: post #610
snazz wrote: post #452

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I got the same feeling from the scene about the new Apple Watch features in the media event on Wednesday. Having a device listen to your conversations for you, so that you can avoid the hassle of having to ask someone to repeat themselves when you zone out, seems a little depressing to me. It makes Apple seem a little out of touch as well. (Are AI note taking "pins" and hardware devices really something people want?…

In business it is very useful, especially when you have to do lots of context switches.

Yeah and maybe you can replay your own requests to Siri if it doesn't catch it the first time?

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by Agingcoder »

Melatonic wrote: post #664
alex_suzuki wrote: post #181

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100% agree. We had to turn it off because it was too frustrating for everyone involve. Now we’re at “trust, but verify” where “verify” is looking at Screen Time stats at the end of each week. My only plausible explanation is that no one who works at Apple has kids.

Isn't it being revamped a big feature of iOS 27 ?

Yes and that’s my point. I don’t care about any ui or features change - I want the very basic functionality to work and it currently doesn’t.
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