Siri can also create reminders, and looking up locations will surface a nice Maps view within the Siri window. From there, you could say something like ‘just show me the Pages documents’ and Siri would keep in context that you’re still looking for documents from last week, but you want to distill your search to just Pages documents.
Asking her to show you all of the files you worked on last week might bring up a list longer than you realized. More often than not, she’ll default to a Web search for queries like ‘what’s the score of the Giants game?’īut Siri can also peer into your system to open a file, much like Spotlight, and is conversational. In use, the Siri you get for desktop is the same Siri you’ll get with iOS 9. It’s a handy way to keep track of the weather in a location you may be traveling to next week, or seeing just how bad LeBron was beating up on the Warriors while you wrote a review for macOS.
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You can do things like drag-and-drop photos or Web links away from the Siri window, or save your search to the notifications pane, which will update in the background. There’s good reason for that, though.īecause this is the desktop, Siri also has some attention from AppKit, Apple’s underlying framework for creating apps for the desktop. She even follows you if you migrate to a full-screen app you have to dismiss her. When you launch Siri, she stays in a persistent window in the top right of your screen. Logically, it seems Apple is considering a ‘some key and the space bar’ for launching services Spotlight is launched with command>space bar. Apple tells me they’re toying with a keyboard quick-launch for Siri, so that may not make it to the final build. Yes, she’s found in two different places - the dock and menu bar - which is meant for convenience.Īt least as I write this, Siri can also be launched with a function>space bar keyboard command. The most substantial attraction for macOS Sierra will be Siri, which makes a home on the desktop for the first time.