macOS 27 Golden Gate Beta 3 Release Notes:

Apple Intelligence for Home requires an iCloud+ subscription starting at 2TB.

Via Rajesh Pandey:

As part of the upgrade, the Home app uses AI to generate summaries of motion alerts from compatible HomeKit Secure Video cameras.

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Apple likely requires the 2TB iCloud+ tier because HomeKit Secure Video already relies on iCloud+ storage tiers. The 2TB plan supports a larger number of cameras, and AI-generated video descriptions would add to Apple’s cloud processing costs.

That makes sense, but it seems odd because the iCloud tiers are named based on storage amounts, yet the feature isn’t tied to how much space you’re actually using. A lower iCloud plan with tons of free space doesn’t get the features, yet a nearly full 2 TB plan does. There are already restrictions where supporting more cameras requires higher plans, but that is at least quasi related to storage.

I reluctantly upgraded to a 2 TB family plan within the last year or so. We don’t store many files in iCloud, messages are set to auto-delete after a year, and I manually offload photos older than a year (except for hearted favorites). It’s hard to believe given how I remember the original 5 GB free tier once being sufficient, but staying under 200 GB became untenable without a lot of extra work. It doesn’t help that Live Photos sometimes gets inadvertently turned on, so that we’re storing all these little videos without realizing it.

Previously:

• “Don’t Let Me Go” and iCloud Storage Tiers
• Limiting iMessage’s Disk Usage
• The Missing iCloud Storage Bump

Dando continuidade à nossa série de vídeos sobre o macOS Golden Gate 27, desta vez o foco foi em novidades que espalham inteligência artificial por diferentes cantos do sistema: Safari, Atalhos (Shortcuts), Finder, Image Playground e Fotos (Photos).

Neste segundo vídeo, mostramos o agrupamento inteligente de abas no Safari, os recursos de IA no app Atalhos e a sugestão inteligente de nomes para pastas no Finder, feita com base no conteúdo que elas guardam. Fechamos com o Image Playground e as novas ferramentas da Apple Intelligence que chegaram ao app Fotos.

Ainda tem mais pela frente nessa cobertura do macOS 27 — continue acompanhando o canal do MacMagazine para não perder os próximos vídeos! 😀

Brings language localizations and a smattering of improvements to the Photos management utility. ($29 new, free update, 6.5 MB, macOS 12+)

Brings improved reverse geocoding with a new service option and better offline accuracy. ($39 new, free update, 41.1 MB, macOS 12.4+)

Find out how to save one, a few, or all photos and videos from a shared iCloud album to your iPhone, iPad, and Mac in just a few quick steps.

Find out which toggles to turn off so other Instagram users and Meta’s Muse AI tool cannot use your photos for image generation.

Find out how to see all your identity cards, passport, driving license, and other identity documents’ photos in one place in iOS Photos app.

Learn how to rate your photos and videos from 1 to 5 stars (★★★★★) for better organization and easier searching in iOS 27 and macOS 27.

Find out how to react to a shared photo with your preferred emoji in iCloud shared albums in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 Golden Gate.

Learn how to export a slideshow as a video in the Photos app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac running iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 Golden Gate.

Photo editing is getting some of the most interesting Apple Intelligence features this fall. At WWDC, Tyler Stalman interviewed Jon McCormack, Apple’s Vice President of Camera and Photos Software Engineering, and Della Huff, the company’s Senior Manager of Camera and Photos Product Marketing, in a video that covers Spatial Reframing, Extend, and an improved Clean Up tool, along with demos of each:

The interview goes into depth on each feature and how they’re enhanced by the integration with Apple’s improved Private Cloud Compute models, sharing nuggets like the fact that Spatial Reframing of photos is possible even if an image is taken with a single-lens iPhone and the fact that Apple includes metadata in generatively edited photos identifying the use of AI and will add SynthID watermarking, a technology developed by Google, to AI-edited photos later this year.

I’m not a fan of wholesale image generation, which is why I appreciate the thoughtful approach Apple is taking with these photo editing features. The changes are at the margins of the photo and identified as edited using AI.