It's time for episode 635 of the Clockwise Podcast from Relay, recorded Wednesday, December 10th, 2025.

Clockwise, Four People, Four Tech Topics, 30 minutes. Welcome back to clockwise, the tech podcast that's jingling and ring-ting-ting-ting-to.

My name is Dan Morin, and I'm joined, as always, across this vast and snowy internet of hours by my good friend, my pal, the one, the only, Micah, Sergeant.

How you doing today, Micah?

It's a little chilly here, Dan, but I'm making it work.

Oh, okay.

I didn't realize it got that cold where you were.

It's because of the snow you mentioned.

You're mocking me.

You're mocking me and my freezing cold temperate.

It's fine. We're

okay. Everything's fine. Let's just move on. This is, of course, the show where we invite on to

fantastic guests to talk to us about four tech topics. Two mile left this week. Someone who is not,

it's not cold where they are, probably. It's the founder of Emojopedia,

now writing a mobile tech journal, Jeremy. How are you doing, Jeremy? It's always sunny here on

clockwise. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter to steer in the clockwise weather zone of sunshine.

Keep watching the sun. Don't look directly at it, though. To my left, senior reporter at NGadget,

it's Carissa Bell. Welcome back, Carissa. Hello, hello. You know how this works, 30 minutes, Foretac topics. Let me start it off by saying, what in your mind is the worst feature that Apple has added to its various software platforms this year, and why is it automix? No, that's mine. You can't steal it. Come up with something else. Jeremy, what do you got? What is the worst feature this year? I know it's easy to dunk on.

It's been a big topic for many reasons, but liquid glass is clearly the worst feature. Didn't

add anything for me. It's either neutral or bad, other than a cool few little areas. So I would happily ditch my

liquid glass on everything. But automix is also very bad, but I want to hear why Dan think so.

Micah, why is auto mix the worst? Dan, here's the problem. I also think I'm mixed as worst. I, so you'll talk plenty

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