Once the page refreshes, the shortened URL will be there and the menu is back to normal. You can work around this by left-clicking in the address bar, hitting Enter and letting the page reload. The menu seems to only appear when the address bar is displaying the shortened URL, e.g., "." If the portion of the URL is in the address box, the settings option is not listed. This handy shortcut did seem to have one quirk though. All you have to do is right-click the URL box and select "Settings for this website," and it will open a drop-down menu for almost everything you could wish to turn off (or on). Of course, you still have the option to turn off cookies completely.Ī few other useful settings have been added as well including setting the zoom level for the site, browsing in reader mode when available and granting permission to websites to use your computer's camera, microphone or physical location.Ī nice added touch to these new options is a shortcut to get to them quickly for an individual website. The new Safari can prevent this while still allowing other cookies.
Not only are these ads annoying, but they are also irrelevant since you already purchased the product. This technology prevents cookies from tracking you to some extent.įor example, you might notice that if you buy a product from Amazon, you may see ads for that exact product pop up on Facebook. Intelligent Tracking Prevention, also referred to in Preferences as "Content Blockers," has been added to the web browser. You can also set your preference on a global level at the bottom of the pane. In the right-hand pane, currently opened tabs will appear and each will have three options to select from Allow Auto-Play, Stop Media with Sound, and Never Auto-Play. Under the new Websites tab in Safari preferences, select Auto-Play in the left-hand pane. The feature is enabled by default on most sites but if you stumble across an outlier, it is easy to halt it for future visits. One thing that I genuinely welcome in Safari is the new ability to shut down those terrible auto-play videos that some websites seem so fond of shoving in my face. Hopefully, Apple takes care of this bug with the first patch. Siri is something that I use on my Mac more than I ever thought I would, so I'm rather disappointed that it seems to be broken at the moment. Even after turning the input volume all the way up, Siri would still not respond to my requests (I even tried yelling). The waveform would not display in the Siri window and after several seconds, I would get an error stating that Siri was unable to hear me and to check my mic settings. Unfortunately, I did not get to test Siri's learning capabilities.Īfter working with the AI for several minutes, it stopped hearing me. The emphasis on improving Siri in regard to music is likely in part thanks to Apple integrating the voice assistant into its upcoming HomePod Smart Speaker. It will now list song information when requested and should be able to better locate music.
In fact, the voice assistant is handling music in general much better these days. It is not perfect in either respect as some voices still sound better than others (I prefer the American male voice) but the synthesis is getting better.Īccording to Apple, Siri's AI has also been improved and is capable of learning things like song preferences to improve suggestions. SiriĪpple has been working on making Siri sound more human both on the iPhone and in macOS 10.13 - not just in voice synthesis but how it responds to user input.
#UPGRADE MAC OS HIGH SIERRA REVIEW SOFTWARE#
After putting the software through its paces, I found some welcome changes (and a handful of bugs). Several popular apps have been improved as well including Siri, Safari, Photos and iCloud. Most of the major changes coming to the new operating system were under the hood like "Intelligent Tracking Prevention," a new faster File System (APFS), HEVC video support and support for the Metal 2 VR toolkit.
We got a preview of High Sierra back in June when Apple revealed it at WWDC 2017 and again when the public beta went live.
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