I hate it when applications do that, since it rarely seems to highlight the correct messages and wastes a chunk of space at the top of your screen. And some you may hate: for instance, Mail now jumps on the bandwagon of delivering "top hits" for search results like Google Inbox and Slack do. While Apple has made some notable tweaks to other applications - table support in Notes is really the highlight for me - the app updates aren't really compelling enough to merit a beta install. Screenshot by Lori Grunin/CNET Minor updates elsewhere I wanted to hear Siri's more natural-sounding voice, but when I tried to think of something long for her to say, well, this happened. It's really just cookie management to prevent sites from following you around the web, injecting ads for litter boxes everywhere because you made the mistake of checking out that high-tech self-cleaning model while shopping for cat food. The content-blocker feature is a bit of a misnomer. Safari speeds up, protects your privacy a bit moreĪutoplay blocking is great as long as the site autoplays both video and audio there's no way to block autoplaying videos altogether. But you can export looped and bounced as a GIF.
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For instance, you can't adjust how "long" the Long Exposure simulates it creates a single photo from the frames which is algorithmically decided based on the characteristics of the movie which underlies the Live Photo. Below the photo in the editor is a dropdown from which you can choose Loop, Bounce or Long Exposure, and you can choose a thumbnail or trim the clip with the frame slider. The new Live Photos editing tools are basic but decent. They're smaller than the originals, though. In addition to being able to edit Live Photos - here I've applied one of the new filters and used the Bounce effect - you can export them as GIFs. However a bug prevented me from trying it with an APFS-formatted drive. The Snapshot feature in the APFS file system maintains copies of your system state for easy backup and restoration, but I didn't test it by forcing a crash, and as yet Time Machine is the only application that can speed backup by using it. For instance, at the moment, the only part of the system that takes visible advantage of the Metal 2 graphics API is Mission Control.
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We're still waiting on software companies to take advantage of the new application programming interfaces to speed up operation. Most of the key updates are invisibleīy "invisible," I mean you probably won't notice a difference between Sierra and High Sierra in your everyday use, unless you're a developer or an avid Photos user. Since it's been around for a while, there shouldn't be any surprises. What's new is that, starting with the official High Sierra rollout in the fall, it will become the default. Note that AFPS isn't new it was implemented in Sierra, but as an optional alternative to to the old HPFS+. Converting your drive to the APFS file system is optional in the beta.