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Bob Mayo
User level: Level 2 (163 points)

429 Too Many Requests

Care to share your experiences using Siri AI for finding and opening documents on your Mac 's internal drive? I’ve asked it to locate files about certain topics; its answers list some txt or pdf files but they are not clickable to open in Siri AI’s answers and it doesn’t show a file path. If I control-click on the files it displays in the answer, it will show a sub-menu for opening them or for their “‘Get Info”, but those commands don’t work to open them either.

Have you tried similar prompts and what sorts of results have you seen?

Posted on Sep 24, 2026 11:06 PM

3 replies

Bob Mayo Author
User level: Level 2 (163 points)

Oct 29, 2026 1:29 PM in response to Bob Mayo

The MacOS update to 27.2 fixes this. Files located and cited by Siri AI in response to questions are now control-clickable to Open or Get Info, or Show in Finder. This works in new searches but does not work retroactively in search results remembered from previous queries prior to the 27.2 update. But that's okay, it works if you re-ask the requests.

PreCognition
User level: Level 6 (12,236 points)

Sep 26, 2026 5:34 PM in response to Bob Mayo

What you’re seeing sounds more like a limitation or bug in the current Siri AI beta than a problem with the files themselves. Apple says Siri AI can use personal context to help find information, but its current documentation doesn’t say that every file it lists in a conversational answer will be an actionable Finder result.


For actually locating and opening a document, I’d try the same search in Spotlight with Command-Space. Spotlight results should let you open the file directly, and you can hold Command to see its location.


So if Siri correctly names the files but its Open/Get Info commands do nothing, I’d report that to Apple as Siri AI beta feedback rather than start changing Finder or Spotlight settings.


Apple’s current Spotlight guide: Find what you need with Spotlight on Mac - Apple Support

Lsatric
User level: Level 1 (14 points)

Oct 10, 2026 8:03 AM in response to Bob Mayo

Here is a workaround I created using a shortcut. It works by capturing the text on your screen, finding any matching file names, and then searching for them directly in Finder. You just add it to the dock and press it when you want the files in finder.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/9fa515ef5d26428dae43e719999be59b

Originally posted at discussions.apple.com/thread/256364602