Last month Apple released their developer keynote (WWDC26) where they acknowledged their search function doesn’t work well. Obviously they were saying it now because they were releasing a fix but it was comical to hear them essentially say “have you ever searched in mail or finder for something you know is there, and search just can’t find it, yeah that shit happens to all of us” lol
The weird part is Apple’s search (whether Spotlight or within apps) always kicked ass for the longest time, it’s when they started to fuck with it that it got really bad.
Well now it is going to index every word from every file on your computer and return results based upon your key word searches I guess. while supposedly never allowing that index or the searches of those indexes to leave your machine. Seems like a scary amount of data for it to be scanning and hoping it never gets shed from your local machine… But I guess that’s why you should modify the index to not scam certain locations… Like say your PDF of your last 16 years of tax returns
I’d argue that if you really care about privacy, you wouldn’t be using neither apple or microsoft products, they can just implement this silently without telling you
Last month Apple released their developer keynote (WWDC26) where they acknowledged their search function doesn’t work well. Obviously they were saying it now because they were releasing a fix but it was comical to hear them essentially say “have you ever searched in mail or finder for something you know is there, and search just can’t find it, yeah that shit happens to all of us” lol
The weird part is Apple’s search (whether Spotlight or within apps) always kicked ass for the longest time, it’s when they started to fuck with it that it got really bad.
Well now it is going to index every word from every file on your computer and return results based upon your key word searches I guess. while supposedly never allowing that index or the searches of those indexes to leave your machine. Seems like a scary amount of data for it to be scanning and hoping it never gets shed from your local machine… But I guess that’s why you should modify the index to not scam certain locations… Like say your PDF of your last 16 years of tax returns
I’d argue that if you really care about privacy, you wouldn’t be using neither apple or microsoft products, they can just implement this silently without telling you