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The smart searching feature work really well, so you can pick out sunsets or cats or your favorite people instantly, and iCloud Photo Library (introduced last year) is more intuitive and sensible than the old Photo Stream approach. The Photos upgrades are in line with the ones for iOSВ 10ДЄs we said about the changes in the mobile OS, it finally feels like Apple knows what it's doing with photos вЂ“ and it's about time. Still, it's early days, and if you can actually find the option then it works well.Д«ack to Photos, which gets all of the upgrades we saw in iOS 10: smart searches, face recognition, and the Memories feature that automatically combines your best pictures into highlights packages based around particular times and dates. Meanwhile the likes of Netflix and Hulu don't have it at all at the time of writing. While a PiP button appears on Vimeo clips, on YouTube it's hidden behind not one but two right-click menus. In operation it's slick and stable, with the only problem being it can be hard to find. That's picture-in-picture mode, so you can keep an eye on the video content of your choice while you're supposed to be working. As on iOS 10, Photos and Music get the biggest upgrades, though Safari has learned a useful new trick too. Picture-in-picture is a handy featureВ вЂ“ if you can find itДЄpple continues to insist on updating all of its desktop applications at the same time as macOS (which seems strange to us, but what do we know?).

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Unlike Cortana in Windows 10, there's no text entry fallback for Siri, which can come in handy if you're in a coffee shop or just not in a very talkative mood. It's not really something we've found ourselves turning to all that much, but it has some nice tricks up its sleeve (such as the option to pin Siri results to the Notification Center pane).

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But how helpful you find Siri to be depends on what you use your Mac for and how comfortable you are chatting with an AI entity living inside your laptop or desktop. That headline feature вЂ“ the arrival of Siri in macOS (no longer OS X) вЂ“ is likely to be what you notice first and what you spend most of your time playing around with once you've got Sierra installed.

Read on for New Atlas' macOS Sierra review. The new OS marks another stage in the Mac's evolution, and introduces a certain well-known digital assistant to the desktop too. After months of beta testing, Apple last week pushed the final version of macOS Sierra to compatible iMacs, MacBooks, Mac Pros and Mac Minis.

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