Accessibility, AI rumors, and Google I/O, on the AppleInsider Podcast
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ποΈ 22 May 2026
β±οΈ 65 minutes
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Summary
Apple has shown off the new Accessibility features coming in iOS 27, which did nothing to stem the torrent of rumors about what we'll see in Apple Intelligence, but possibly did steal a little bit of thunder from Google's peculiar mishmash of an I/O conference, on the AppleInsider Podcast.
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Links from the Show:
- Owning an Apple Home: implementing smart pet solutions
- Vision Pro wheelchair control & more accessibility features detailed ahead of WWDC
- Hikawa Grip & Stand for iPhone launches globally at a new lower price
- Revamped Siri may launch in beta, despite two year delay
- Privacy & data security will remain central to Apple's 2026 AI push
- Genmoji in iOS 27 will use what you type and what's in Photos for suggestions
- Improved Writing Tools, generated wallpapers, & easier Shortcut creation rumored for iOS 27
- AI is making smartphones verifiably worse by design
- Don't expect new Macs at WWDC 2026
- Google I/O 2026 had nothing to say and said it badly ahead of Apple's WWDC
- Problematic hinge could delay the iPhone Fold
- Apple's iPhone Fold hinge design may become industry standard
- Latest Apple Immersive rollout exemplifies Apple Vision Pro's entire problem
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm William Gallagher and this is the Apple Insider podcast. |
| 0:08.4 | Our sponsors this week are Nord Stella and bartender, more about those later. |
| 0:12.0 | If you're not a subscriber to Appensider Plus and we'll talk about how you can be later. |
| 0:17.6 | But in the meantime, there's so much more going on. |
| 0:19.4 | We've got to talk about this. |
| 0:20.5 | I'm joined, |
| 0:21.1 | as ever by Wesley Hilli are. So Wes, a busy week, including actually starting with your house, |
| 0:28.6 | right? Well, I just wanted to share that you might have seen this already. It's been on the |
| 0:34.6 | website for a few days, but I wrote a piece on smart |
| 0:38.8 | home with pets. I might have even mentioned it in the last episode, but it is published now. |
| 0:44.0 | It features photos of my cats. It's fun. But I discuss litter robot and this granary feeder |
| 0:50.7 | that's automatic that I have and just different little implementations around the home that you can do and |
| 0:55.6 | some wish list items for Apple Home and the fact that they don't really account for any of that, but it's still doable with apps on your iPhone. |
| 1:05.3 | You realize that most anybody you tuned into this has immediately stopped the moment you said cat and has gone off |
| 1:11.8 | to find this but you know if they come back at any point you mentioned a wish list there and that |
| 1:17.0 | reminds me you have this idea you mentioned last week as well about what Appensata Plus should be |
| 1:22.3 | this week uh what are you going for with this so we're going to do a couple of weeks. |
| 1:28.4 | So this week is going to be MacOS, Vision OS, and TVOS. |
| 1:32.3 | And we're going to discuss what we're expecting for OS 27 at WWDC, 26. |
| 1:38.0 | And that's not long. |
| 1:39.8 | A couple weeks away as we record. |
| 1:42.2 | June 8th is the day. So very excited. It's ludicrous how excited I get |
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