Apple AI coming to Spotlight search, new Sports app, iPhone 15 battery re-rated
9to5Mac Happy Hour
9to5Mac
4.4 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2024
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
The Apple news cycle continues apace this week, with the company launching a brand new app, Sports, for sports scores. The iPhone 15 battery is now rated for twice as many charge cycles, along with a redesigned Battery UI in iOS 17.4. Apple is reportedly planning new AI features for both Spotlight search and Xcode code completion, and the EU readies a $500 million fine for Apple’s anticompetitive behavior in music streaming market. Benjamin and Chance break down all that and more in this week’s episode.
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Chance Miller
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Benjamin Mayo
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Links
- Apple confirms iOS 17.4 removes Home Screen web apps in the EU, here’s why
- Report: EU to fine Apple about $500 million for anticompetitive App Store policy in music streaming market
- Is Microsoft planning an Xbox Cloud Gaming app for iPhone? Nope.
- Apple to launch new AI coding and testing features in Xcode this year: report
- Apple tests upgraded iPhone and Mac search using AI
- Apple Music Replay updated with monthly stats views, 2024 Replay Mix available starting today
- Apple Music testing feature that easily imports playlists from Spotify and other services
- Apple says iPhone 15 batteries have a longer lifespan than initially thought
- iOS 17.4 makes it easier to know if your iPhone's battery health is 'normal'
- iMessage quantum security arrives with iOS 17.4
- Apple releases Sports app for iPhone, featuring real-time scores, stats and more
- Apple teases MLS playoffs Immersive Video for Vision Pro coming soon, shot in 8K 3D
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Mayo do you have any progressive web apps saved your iPhone's home screen? |
| 0:05.0 | Uh, no. Me or I have one. It's for the Xbox Cloud Gaming website, |
| 0:11.0 | which we'll actually talk about more later too. But for now, |
| 0:15.0 | Apple has confirmed that iOS 17.4 in the European Union removes support for |
| 0:20.6 | progressive web apps or as Apple calls them home screen web apps. |
| 0:24.7 | Apple says that this is basically a byproduct of the Digital Markets Act saying |
| 0:30.2 | that they would have had to build a system to allow third-party web engine |
| 0:34.8 | browsers to also have home screen web apps and they could not do that. |
| 0:38.6 | Well they didn't want to. |
| 0:40.0 | Well they said that they could do it. |
| 0:41.6 | They didn't, their quote is that that was not practical to undertake |
| 0:46.1 | given the other demands of the DMA |
| 0:48.6 | and the very low adoption of home screen web apps. |
| 0:52.2 | I think most of this actually just boils down to the |
| 0:54.1 | DMA's requirement that all browsers have equality. So if Safari |
| 0:59.2 | can't have Home Screen web apps, if third-party browser engine apps like whatever Google or |
| 1:05.3 | Mozilla is working on also can't have home screen web apps. |
| 1:09.0 | Yeah so rather than everybody getting it nobody gets it. And that's okay. |
| 1:14.6 | Yeah, so when this story went up, |
| 1:16.3 | there was some pushback from like Android, |
| 1:20.1 | the Android camp, like, oh, we've had progressive web apps from any browser for |
| 1:24.4 | Donkeys years or whatever on Android and I'm sure you do in the Apple case I think they |
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