Apple AI quietly adds automatic file-naming to productivity apps in macOS 27 Golden Gate

Apple's productivity apps have a small but useful AI enhancement

While the new Siri AI is, of course, taking the headlines, there are a number of less spectacular but still useful AI enhancements in Apple's upcoming operating systems. I recently highlighted the new AI photo editing tools, and Macworld has spotted a small but handy AI enhancement to Apple's productivity apps ... The site's Halyna Kubiv found that both Pages and Numbers were automatically suggesting file names for the documents she was creating. When you create a new Numbers, Pages, or TextEdit document and fill it with content, the AI model on your Mac accesses it, analyzes the content, and suggests a suitable name for the file. For example, after a few minutes, my ordinary Numbers file became "User Engagement Metrics iOS 27." On a Pages document, the app appropriately recommended the file name "iOS 27 Review" after a few minutes of writing. More than one potential name is suggested, and you can either accept one of these or, of course, type your own name instead. The file names automatically appear when you are a few minutes in, and are also suggested when you save a new document for the first time. I suspect we're going to discover a whole bunch of similar small but handy AI-powered enhancements in each of the new OS versions.

Apple took inspiration from its users for this macOS 27 feature

While using the macOS 27 Golden Gate beta, I stumbled upon a helpful little new feature in Apple's Numbers, Pages, and TextEdit apps: these apps can recommend names for nearly-created files. When you create a new Numbers, Pages, or TextEdit document and fill it with content, the AI model on your Mac accesses it, analyzes the content, and suggests a suitable name for the file. For example, after a few minutes, my ordinary Numbers file became "User Engagement Metrics iOS 27." On a Pages document, the app appropriately recommended the file name "iOS 27 Review" after a few minutes of writing. These names are marked as "Suggested" in the corresponding name field at the top of the document. When you click the drop-down arrow, a pop-up window appears and other name suggestions are offered. Also, if you trigger a Save command for the first time for a file, the Save As entry shows suggested file names. Of course, you have the option to create your own file name. It's also possible that this feature works in other Apple apps, but we looked at these three. File-naming seems like a trivial task, but this is a nifty little feature that demonstrates what Apple is doing to infuse AI into its operating systems. There's the grand gesture of Siri AI, helpful but more modest features such as Writing Tools, and little bits like naming suggestions. It'll be interesting to see where else AI is thoughtfully used. Learn more about macOS 27 Golden Gate. [Macworld U.S.'s Roman Loyola contributed to this report.]