AI health rumors, iOS 18.4, and smart toothbrushes on the AppleInsider Podcast
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🗓️ 4 April 2025
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Now that iOS 18.4 is out, we're already into what's coming with iOS 18.5, and further off into the future with a rumored AI update to Apple Health. Plus the first reports of the M6 processor, and the benefits of a smart toothbrush, on the AppleInsider Podcast.
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- iOS 18.4 lands with more Apple Intelligence, Apple Vision Pro app
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- tvOS 18.4 brings Matter support for vacuums, lossless audio, and more to Apple TV
- Apple Intelligence now available on Apple Vision Pro with visionOS 2.4
- Apple restarts last developer beta cycle before WWDC with iOS 18.5, macOS 15.5
- Health app's future AI assistant will tell you how to keep fit
- Apple still wants an iPhone without physical buttons, but it won't happen soon
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- Apple CEO Tim Cook makes a cool $24 million in serendipitous stock sale
- Apple shares hammered after Trump tariff announcement
- How and where Trump's new tariffs affect Apple
- Work starts on Apple M6 chip with modems for future Macs
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- (00:00) - Intro
- (00:30) - iPad anniversary
- (09:40) - Happy Birthday, Apple
- (11:17) - iOS 18.4, macOS, watchOS...
- (35:54) - iOS 18.5
- (36:42) - Doctor AI
- (48:45) - Solid-State Buttons
- (51:15) - Controversy Corner
- (01:07:18) - M6 and beyond
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the Apple Insider podcast. I'm William Gallagher. As sponsors this week, |
| 0:12.1 | are fast-going trees and notion more about those data. And I'm joined by Wesley Hilliard. |
| 0:16.7 | Now, I could take this moment to point out that I'm coming to you from the UK, |
| 0:21.4 | and so for reasons passing understanding, |
| 0:23.8 | you now need to pay 10% more to get me. |
| 0:26.4 | But instead of that, have a listen to this, please. |
| 0:30.2 | You know, it's true. |
| 0:31.3 | When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, |
| 0:36.3 | it sort of becomes magical. |
| 0:38.3 | And that's exactly what the iPad is. |
| 0:45.3 | It's hard to see how something so simple, so thin and so light |
| 0:50.3 | could possibly be so capable. |
| 0:53.3 | Johnny Ive, then Apple's chief designer, speaking about the very first iPad, which was released |
| 0:59.3 | 15 years ago this week. |
| 1:02.3 | Now, it's the iPad, it's special. |
| 1:04.4 | Before we get to the news, and there is a lot of news this week, whereas I do remember that launch, |
| 1:09.2 | but I've always sort of, as much as I love iPads, you are iPad |
| 1:12.6 | man. Were you back then? Were you watching in 2010? 2010 didn't exist for me. I was basically |
| 1:21.5 | fresh out of boot camp in February of 2010 and then straight to nuclear power school, which basically takes up |
| 1:35.3 | your entire life. You get a little bit of free time, but there is really no such thing as anything |
| 1:39.2 | beyond sleeping, school, and maybe a little bit of PlayStation in between. |
| 1:44.5 | So especially, I knew a game had to come in there someone. |
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