Windows 10's other major new feature is Ink, which translates notes written with your stylus or finger on the screen into text notes.
Microsoft introduced the option for Windows 10 PC and Xbox One owners to play against (or with) each other in games. Special Featuresīoth Windows 10 Anniversary Update and macOS Sierra allow you to unlock your device with a device (your phone on a PC and an Apple Watch on a Mac), but their other new special features differ greatly. Winner: Draw. Siri's arrival brings macOS to parity, but it doesn't surpass Cortana. In addition, while both Siri and Cortana offer dashboards for their assistants where you can see the results, only macOS lets you drag and drop those results onto documents you're working on. Cortana has one leg up on Siri: it accepts both verbal and typed commands, while you can only speak to Siri. In our testing, not only could Cortana answer the question "Who is the presdient of the U.S.?" but when we asked "how old is he?" it informed us that Barack Obama is 54 years old. In the keynote presentation at WWDC, Craig Federighi got Siri to whittle down his file search for images to just the photos that Ken had sent him that Craig tagged as Drafts. Like what you have read? Send Simon a donation via Tip Jar.While Siri can help manage files and Cortana can send news notifications, both now handle contextual follow-up questions. If it works for you, please consider donating to TomW80 via PayPal.įollow Simon Royal on Twitter or send him an Email. The instructions should work for all Windows 7, 8, and 10 handsets. I was able to once again sync music to it. I tried it with a Nokia Lumia 620 handset running Windows 8.1, and it worked for me. However, the instructions are fairly easy to follow – requiring a terminal window and copying and pasting.
This is a little more complicated than the last patch. Unfortunately, Microsoft’s Windows Phone app for Macs isn’t available officially anymore, and neither Low End Mac or TomW80 will supply it, so you will have to source an original version or an El Capitan patched version.
The Sierra patch requires you to have a copy of the Windows Phone app that has already had the El Capitan patch applied. A few days later, and he has come up with a fix.
Thankfully, TomW80 has come up wonders once again after reporting the issue to him. However, with the release of macOS Sierra, the Windows Phone app was once again broken. Luckily a kind and talented guy on the Microsoft forums named TomW80 created a fix. I wrote about the El Capitan Windows Phone App Fix back in late 2015. Connecting your phone to your Mac, the app just wouldn’t recognise that a phone was connected, making syncing impossible.įor a company struggling to cut into the established smartphone market, dropping support for the competitors OS and not updating the only method for syncing really isn’t the wisest move. The Windows Phone app for the Mac worked fine until the release of El Capitan, and then issues arose. Microsoft removed the official Windows Phone app for the Mac a while back. The ongoing saga of Mac support for the Windows Phone platform has hit yet another snag. Do you want to use your Windows Phone under macOS Sierra? You are in luck – there is now a fix.