Maybe it’s early in the game, maybe we just have to get used to it, but Apple Intelligence is not yet as big a part of the Mac as it is the iPhone.
macOS Sequoia 15.1 review
Maybe it’s early in the game, maybe we just have to get used to it, but Apple Intelligence is not yet as big a part of the Mac as it is the iPhone.
Really, it seems that Apple Intelligence is made for the iPhone and the iPad. It’s there on the Mac, too, and the writing tools ought to be a perfect fit for macOS Sequoia, but in practice Apple Intelligence is making little impact on the Mac.
Apple Intelligence on Mac review — problems and bugs
Some of this is may genuinely be down to bugs in the beta test. Plus I’m in the UK and despite changing my Mac’s region settings correctly, it’s still possible that I’m not getting everything I should because my Apple ID is a non-American one.
But that can’t account for how some Apple Intelligence features appear, while others don’t. I’ve yet to see Safari Highlights for instance, but I’ve got writing tools.
And then it also doesn’t account for features coming and going.
For instance, those writing tools are supposed to appear when you select some of your writing, but in practice they only occasionally do.
It’s occasional enough that it’s surprising when there is a little icon next to your text, offering these features. With the most recent beta release of macOS, the icon would appear in some apps and not others — and then not consistently.
What is consistent is that you can select some text in just about any app, and the right-click to bring up a context menu that includes writing tools.
But compare that to the iPhone where as soon as you go to select anything, you get a pop up menu that has writing tools next to the familiar copy and paste.
Apple Intelligence on Mac review — Siri
Then every iPhone, and every iPad, has a microphone so you can call out “Hey, Siri”, or just “Siri”, and basically have Apple Intelligence listen to what you want. The MacBook Pro and MacBook Air have microphones too, but the iMac is the only desktop model that includes one.
