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Over the years Apple has been adding natural language parsing to Reminders/Calendars (inconsistntly). In iOS/macOS 27 it's certainly better, albeit still way behind @flexibits Fantastical. Entered "Call Joe at 6pm next Monday." Adds for "today" at 6pm.
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Tried other ways such as Next Monday, call Joe at 6pm and also did for today. Only beta 1, and only one example, but Fanatical has iterated over the years for seemingly countless use cases, and seems Apple still has not. But glad to see improvement none the less.
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If only Apple added x minutes until next item widget which is by far my favorite feature of Fantastical. Even if it still doesn't support x minutes until time to drive to appointment yet.
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Jun 15
@ABBYY_Software Is Abbyy still being developed? Apple Silicon was released over half a decade ago. Apple finally will no longer allow apps that never updated from Intel. I have hundreds of apps and Abbyy is the one says still never updated and will no longer work in next macOS.
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Jun 15
I downloaded the latest Mac version from website. Did I download the wrong version since assume this was long ago updated for Apple Silicon? And if not, are you close to finally updating over the past 6 years so customer's don't have to find a more modern alternative?
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Jun 13
@JoannaStern On talk show you mentioned potential return to Apple Mail / IMAP, but that you may have some potential workaround(s) for the assumed major issue of no push on Gmail/Google Workplace, so emails always delayed when using Mail which is one of the major reasons
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Jun 13
get native push for Google Workplace customers? Have wanted that for so long! Mail unfortunately often doesn't display all messages in dark mode vs third party apps like Spark that have no problem with that and on mail macOS you can't customize swipes.
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Jun 13
But so much native goodness in Mail such as replying from Hide My Email, and blazingly fast search, and wallet/ship status, notify me, faster app open time, and so on. Hopefully some day Apple and Gmail agree to a solution.
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Jun 11
@aaronp613 by default SiriAI said it couldn’t help when asking questions about my health data. I asked in different way and then it said to enable this setting that seems to be off by default.
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Jun 11
Looks like it can read active energy and resting but for nutritional energy can only direct you to the screen but can access it itself so yes appears to be safety guard. Hopefully someone does a deep dive to detemine all the things it can access and can’t since the model seems
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Jun 11
Still says it can’t help when asking several questions about my health data. But can tell me how much I weigh today. Asked how much my calorie deficit was yesterday and explained how to calc but says can’t help with that. If I ask for the individual data points it can tho.
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Jun 11
So maybe more safety guard rails or something. The new AI gets a lot wrong initially but unlike old Siri when you follow up and guide now it’s much better at eventually getting there.
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Jun 10
It disabled ChatGPT extension (which I had enabled and signed into before). Let's me re-enable but not sure if it will use that then instead of Gemini for more advance stuff etc, so will leave off for now for initial testing.
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Jun 11
Wish you could copy part of responses in Siri app. The app gui is very bare bones vs ChatGPT or claude but they went from barebones to feature rich quite quickly so I’m hopeful unless they choose like with apple journal to keep very basic to easy learning curve rather than robust
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No more mistakenly texting a voice recording to Apple message contacts. Now if only could permanently remove people from share sheet suggestions and archive Apple messages from main list. #iOS27
Jun 9
New in iOS 27: Show in Text Field
You can now choose what shows in the text field in the Messages app.
Options are:
Record Audio
Start Dictation
None
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On macOS 27 you now have to download Rosetta to make @_Navicat work since it still somehow hasn't been updated for Apple Silicon. Starting in macOS 28 that will no longer be available and Navicat products will cease to work if not updated finally for Apple Silicon.
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Loved Mailbox, then Spark, then finally @mimestream which is essentially if Apple Mail has a baby with Gmail. Even in 2026 Mail.app still doesn't support push notification for paying Google users, dealbreaker, and Gmail is a terrible iOS and non existent Mac app.
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The other major issue with Mimestream compared to say Apple Mail is it still lacks AppleScript support. Which means you can't fully integrate it with any of the major launchers such as Raycast or Alfred. While LLMs can tie directly into your gmail these days,
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that's certainly not something I'd feel comfortable with privacy and security wise, so hopefully this still eventually gets added. And finally support for Apple Shortcuts, so when I swipe on mail I can have it integrate with a shortcut to triage that email however I want.
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