Apple acquisition, iOS 26.4 features
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🗓️ 19 March 2026
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Stories discussed in this episode:
- Apple acquires MotionVFX, maker of popular Final Cut Pro plugins and more
- iOS 26.4 fixes iPhone keyboard accuracy, here's how
- Apple highlights 13 enhancements coming to iPhone with iOS 26.4
- macOS 26.4 release notes: Apple details six new features for Mac
- macOS Tahoe 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 add compact tab bar in Safari
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to 95 Mac Daily for Thursday, March 19th, 2026. |
| 0:07.3 | I'm your host, Chance Miller. |
| 0:09.5 | We are sponsored this week by Backblaze. |
| 0:13.4 | Leading off today, Apple has released the MacOS Tahoe 26.4 release candidate to developers and public beta testers. This is likely the final beta of |
| 0:23.9 | macOS 26.4 before its release to everyone as soon as next week or at least before the end of the |
| 0:29.8 | month. Along with this, Apple has shared its official release notes for the update for the first time, |
| 0:35.7 | confirming six changes coming to the Mac. |
| 0:39.2 | There are eight new emoji characters, including an orca, a trombone, a landslide, a ballet dancer, |
| 0:45.4 | and a distorted face. The compact tab bar option in Safari has returned. And Apple says it gives |
| 0:52.7 | you more space to browse and lets you search |
| 0:54.9 | directly from the active tab. |
| 0:57.4 | The freeform app is adding advanced image creation and editing tools and a premium content |
| 1:03.7 | library, now as part of Apple Creator Studio, which costs $13 per month or $129 per year. |
| 1:11.9 | You can mark reminders in the Reminders app as urgent using a keyboard shortcut, |
| 1:17.2 | and there's a new filtering option for urgent reminders in smart lists. |
| 1:21.9 | Purchase sharing lets adult members in family sharing groups use their own payment method when making purchases |
| 1:28.3 | without relying on the family organizer, and there are new changes to subtitle and caption |
| 1:34.4 | settings when watching video. Again, we expect macOS Tahoe 26.4 to be released to everyone as soon |
| 1:41.5 | as next week. Next up today, Apple has acquired a company called Motion VFX. |
| 1:48.4 | It's a company behind popular templates and plugins for Final Cut Pro. |
| 1:53.5 | Motion VFX announced the acquisition on its website, saying it is joining the Apple |
| 1:58.2 | team to continue to empower creators and editors to do their best work. |
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