This is an extension of Apple’s Handoff and Continuity features, and requires Bluetooth to be turned on on all the devices that want to make use of the Universal Clipboard.Īpple has completely redesigned the way your Mac shows “ Storage Use” with macOS Sierra, and it is awesome.

For example, I can copy text on my Mac and paste it in my iPhone, and vice-versa. Universal clipboard offers the functionality to copy text on any of your Apple devices and paste it into any of your Apple devices. Universal clipboard is one of those features that doesn’t sound like anything special at first, but once you start using it, it will be hard to live without it.

Soon we might be able to ask Siri to send messages on third-party apps like Line and WhatsApp, as well as book an Uber for us. Although Apple is playing catch-up here, it’s exciting that Siri will finally be able to perform up to its capabilities.

You can ask Siri to lower the brightness of your screen, toggle Bluetooth and other connectivity switches, and even ask “ How fast is my Mac?“, to which Siri replies with the name and clock speed of the processor in your Mac.Īpple is also opening up Siri to third-party developers, which means that we will finally be able to use Siri to do tasks other than just the ones that are built into it. Siri can do everything it did on the iPhone, and more. There’s a menu bar icon (next to the “ Notification Center” icon) that can be used to launch Siri, or, if you’re like me and prefer using the keyboard for almost everything, you can long press “ Command + Space” (yes, the Spotlight shortcut, only longer…) to launch Siri. Coming back to macOS Sierra, Siri is impressive. The most awaited feature in the macOS Sierra upgrade was Apple finally integrating Siri to the Mac: Something that Microsoft had done in Windows 10, and was immediately hailed as a useful feature to have in a laptop/desktop environment. I’ve tried my hands on macOS Sierra for a couple of days now, and have enjoyed it immensely, except for a couple of glitches here and there. In this article, I’ll compare the features in macOS Sierra vs OS X El Capitan.

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