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  • Search for seemingly anything in Photos for iOS and Mac thanks to Apple's object recogniti...

    nhughes said:
    I was excited when this came out, and it's pretty useful sometimes, but the one thing I really wanted it to do, and I *know* I'm not alone, is search for memes. Apple can find a stack of avocados but it can't find giant letters sprawled on a pic? This is a huge peve of mine. And that would be something genuinely useful, especially for anyone under 30. 
    I realize it's not the solution you're looking for, but a workaround would be to take memes and manually put them into their own album. If you do this on a Mac, it will sync with your iOS device, potentially making it a little easier/quicker.

    An app I used to use, Meme Generator, at one time automatically put user-generated memes into their own album. However, that functionality appears to have been broken since early 2016, based on what I can see in my own album.
    Thanks for the reply. That's a good thought, I'll definitely consider doing that next time I fire up my MBA.
    My folders don't sync between Mac and iOS. I have reported to Apple who have now escalated to twice now to a senior engineer. Suggest you check a few smaller test folders first before spending too much time on creating your own folders,
    watto_cobrapatchythepirate
  • Notes of interest from Apple's Q1 2017 conference call

    Interested to note Tim Cook's comments about HomeKit. Maybe this is a reaction to this year's CES? According to some reports products that connect to Amazon Echo products were in much grater numbers than those for Apple HomeKit.
    palomine
  • Apple demands specially-certified chips & factories for HomeKit devices, report says

    My order of a HomeKit upgraded internet bridge for my Tado heating system was originally due to ship late summer 2016. This dated has slipped a few times. Yesterday l recieved an update from Tado:

    We are just as excited as you to connect tado° to Apple HomeKit, and would like to apologise for the delay in launching the platform integration.

    In the past few weeks we have been able to solve the challenges posed by scaling up the production of the new Internet Bridge. Now we are waiting for the approval of our partners, who are responsible for the certification. We expect this to be completed in the next few weeks.

    The dispatch of the HomeKit-enabled Internet Bridges is expected to start in the second quarter of 2017.

    Assuming that Tado has picked the right certificated partners, the process of getting an Apple approval may have taken close to a  year longer than first planned. No doubt other manufacturers are also experiencing the same issue.
    Solicornchipwatto_cobra