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Good to upgrade to Apple’s 27 OS’s?

> Ok to upgrade to the new iOS and macOS 27?

Definitely. It’s not yet perfect, and there are occasional glitches that make me have to quit an app (Messages seems the main culprit). But for a .0 version, it’s really good and without glaring problems. Many folks including your humble have been testing it all summer, and other reports mirror my experience.

I am especially glad to have the new AI-powered Siri. After you upgrade, go to Settings > Siri, and enable the new Siri AI:

  1. Tap Try Siri AI (beta)
  2. Follow the prompts

It will put you on a “waitlist” that should let you in nearly right away. (They’re understandably trying to manage traffic.)

Once done, you’ll be in on all your devices. Then try Siri out—it doesn’t suck anymore!

Live Text is OCR everywhere

When it comes to scanning and/or printing documents, what is OCR?

Humans and their acronyms! OCR is fortunately real easy: “optical character recognition” meaning the computer turns a picture of text into copyable text. 

I use it on all my scans of documents, so I can just boop! copy and paste from the scan into an email or Word or wherever. Also, my Mac can then search for text inside scans. 

This used to be rarified magic, but now all of our phones and Macs are doing it on all of our pictures. You can even search your Photos library or Notes app for text that’s inside photos! And look for the little “live text” icon on your phone  when you open a photo or take a screenshot. That will let you select text, tap a phone number to call it or an address to map it, and even translate!