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Visual Look Up in macOS
IT’S MAGIC TO select a photo of a dog and be told that it’s a Havanese, or pick a painting and learn that it was created by Camille Pissarro. These are examples of macOS Monterey’s Visual Look Up in action, and a reflection of Apple’s growing use of machine learning. Notable landmarks, flowers and plants, dog and cat breeds, and paintings can be identified almost immediately on recent Macs and Apple devices.
There are small catches. This is currently only available for certain combinations of language and country; what we can do in macOS 12.3 in the US doesn’t work yet if you’re using English in France or Italy, where you’ll need to switch to the local language. Visual Look Up also relies on Siri Suggestions being enabled in Spotlight Search Results, a little quirk that has caught many users out already.
> The trials of Monterey
Soon after I start work on my MacBook Pro, it may become unusable for a couple of minutes because of triald. It also has a huge folder named Trial in my Home folder’s Library. What trial is this?
These are macOS services new to Big Sur supporting new machine learning features including Siri, Photos face and other recognition, Dictation, Live Text, translation and Visual Look Up. This is centered on triald, a background service to