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Accidental Tech Podcast

683: I Didn’t Want to Melt My Rug

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.3 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2026

⏱️ 142 minutes

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0:00.0

It's been a busy, busy few weeks.

0:05.2

All right. Well, we'll talk about that later. And speaking of, we have a lot to cover. So we're just going to plow right into follow-up. And I will start, I don't know, Marco, if you choose to dub in, we are the champions. Can we use that outside of the context of the Mac Pro? I think we can. But you're welcome world because we have apparently caused apple just us nobody else has caused

0:24.2

apple to ship a more sane workout app in watchOS 26.4 uh i haven't actually tried this myself

0:31.6

but allegedly uh in the new version of watchOS you can actually press on a workout type to start that workout.

0:38.9

You don't have to wait for the stupid animation, for the stupid play button to show up.

0:42.0

You can actually just hit the giant green thing that says, you know, like traditional strength training or whatever or outdoor run or what have you.

0:51.1

Allegedly, that is now fixed.

0:52.6

You're welcome world.

0:53.7

Yeah, that's, uh, that's very promising.

0:55.9

Also, a couple of quick notes.

0:58.7

When I was last ranting about the workout app, I did, I mentioned that I wish they had some

1:03.7

smarter, smarter settings around like reminding you to unpause workouts when you, like, you know,

1:10.4

when you start moving again this actually

1:12.6

is a built-in feature they do have reminders automatically to remind you to pause a workout if you

1:18.4

like stop moving for a while and to unpause it and in fact there's even a feature where we'll

1:22.7

try to automatically pause and unpause it when you start you know if you like stop in a run

1:26.8

and then you

1:27.9

resume again it will actually try to remind you what i found though is that those are first of all

1:33.6

very annoying like when you if you're actually on a run i i have used those and i have found them to be

1:39.3

just so aggressive of just like if you stop for a second like if you stop like at an intersection

1:44.9

tap tap you want to pause your workout like no i'm just i'm going to be here for eight seconds like no

1:51.0

so i i don't like those for that but then also i have found that in walking workouts they tend to be

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