Your favorite Monterey features?

I have experienced a bug which apparently was first seen in the beta and is still not fixed. In Safari, if you click a link that is supposed to open a new tab or window, instead it opens a new start page. However I found a fix for it:

I noticed my original Airpods now work reliably with my MBP.

Live text is useful, also translation.

Photos now recognizes not just a cat or a dog but takes a stab at guessing the breed and has an icon to open a wikipedia page. Without a size reference, it thought a golden retriever puppy was a great pyrenees and can’t tell a rough collie from a sheltie. It also recognizes flowers but not butterflies apparently.

Giant leap backwards for the Books app. The table view where you can edit metadata is gone. I can’t see how to edit metadata at all. I use Books for PDF manuals for software, hardware and household appliances, but I also have some fiction and non fiction. A fundamental first organizational divide in a library or bookstore is to separate the fiction from the non fiction, but this has never been the case in the Books app. When sorting by Author, Apple-authored manuals appear between Andre Norton and Arthur Conan Doyle. Worse, sorting by author is a random mixture of alphabetical by first name and alphabetical by last name.

Hiding metadata is one of Apple’s worst antipatterns in my opinion, and it’s sad to see Books getting worse rather than better.

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