AirPods public beta, more
9to5Mac Daily
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🗓️ 28 July 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Stories discussed in this episode:
- Rumor: iPhone 17 Pro could have three unexpected camera upgrades
- How to use AppleCare One with the iPhone Upgrade Program
- iOS 26 code hints at a sleep score feature for the Apple Watch
- Apple launches AirPods firmware public beta for iOS 26, here’s what’s new
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to 95 Mac Daily for Monday, July 28th, 2025. |
| 0:07.1 | I'm your host, Chance Miller. |
| 0:09.3 | We are sponsored this week by Bitwarden. |
| 0:12.7 | Leading off today, we talked last week about the new AppleCare 1 subscription option that lets you get AppleCare coverage on up to three devices for $20 per month. |
| 0:22.6 | Something I've been wondering and something I got a lot of questions about is how AppleCare |
| 0:27.1 | 1 can coexist with the iPhone upgrade program. After all, one of the nice benefits of the iPhone |
| 0:33.5 | upgrade program is that you pay a single monthly fee to get a new iPhone each year and |
| 0:38.7 | AppleCare coverage. An Apple spokesperson confirmed to six colors that it is possible to contact |
| 0:45.4 | Apple support and have Apple Care coverage unbundled from the iPhone upgrade program, then upgrade |
| 0:52.4 | to AppleCare 1 to cover that iPhone. |
| 0:55.4 | This is good to know, as you might be able to save a few bucks per month by bundling your |
| 1:00.1 | iPhone's AppleCare coverage with AppleCare 1, but as a long time iPhone upgrade program |
| 1:05.2 | subscriber, I think I appreciate the simplicity of the program too much to bother jumping |
| 1:10.5 | through these hoops. |
| 1:12.0 | But again, your mileage may vary. |
| 1:14.3 | Next up today, if you use a third-party sleep tracking app with your Apple Watch, you're probably |
| 1:19.5 | familiar with the concept of a sleep score, an index that combines signals like heart rate |
| 1:25.1 | variation and sleep stages to tell you how efficient your |
| 1:28.5 | sleep really was. And while the Apple Watch gained native sleep tracking support way back with |
| 1:34.3 | watchOS 7, it's been missing that kind of added context provided by a sleep score. But as it turns out, |
| 1:40.9 | Apple might be working on exactly that. The iOS 26 Health app has an unused illustration called Watch Focus Score, which features |
| 1:50.1 | an Apple Watch alongside multiple sleep-related symbols, including three colored segments that form |
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