Apple Creator Studio, ChatGPT health, and iPhone 18 rumors on the AppleInsider Podcast
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🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
At last the Apple Creator Studio is here, and we're slowly learning what's actually new in it, what's different, and asking Apple about some launch oddities. Plus there are more iPhone 18 rumors, and more reasons to not give your health data to ChatGPT.
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Links from the Show:
- Apple AirTag 2 improve battery, tracking, and safety
- AirTag 2 has a thinner motherboard, bigger speaker coil, and lots of glue
- Apple Creator Studio review: Incredible value for most creative pros
- Remember: Cancel Final Cut Pro iPad subscriptions when you set up Apple Creator Studio
- John Ternus solidifies his role as Apple CEO-apparent amid design team shakeup
- Apple Design Team gains Halide co-founder, but the pro camera app isn't going anywhere
- iPhone 18 Pro Max smaller Dynamic Island dimensions detailed in new leak
- If you give ChatGPT your health data, have your doctor on speed-dial
- Moral low ground: App Store is rife with AI 'nudify' apps
- Apple's unusual OS 27 code name shift could reflect AI strategy changes, or nothing at all
- Tim Cook slammed for attending 'Melania' screening on night of Alex Pretti killing
- Apple CEO Tim Cook 'heartbroken' after repeated ICE killings in Minneapolis
- Apple C-series modem enables new privacy-focused limit precise location feature
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- (00:00) - Intro
- (02:32) - AirTags
- (14:15) - Apple Creator Studio
- (47:38) - Apple Design and Halide
- (55:31) - iPhone 18
- (01:02:16) - ChatGPT health warning
- (01:03:49) - Controversy Corner
- (01:11:18) - Modem privacy
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Apple Insider podcast. |
| 0:10.6 | This is your host, Wesley Hilliard speaking. |
| 0:12.8 | I'm joined once again by William Gallagher and our sponsors this week are co-pilot money, |
| 0:18.3 | Squarespace, and Tempo. |
| 0:20.4 | We're going to get into it this week. There's a lot |
| 0:22.2 | of little topics. Nothing too crazy going on as we prepare for February as we get towards Apple's |
| 0:31.4 | big Apple intelligence releases. But we did finally get Apple Creator Studio and Apple snuck out an air tag |
| 0:37.1 | update. So all of that will be |
| 0:38.8 | covered. But first, Apple Insider Plus is going to be discussing Apple's responsibility when it |
| 0:45.7 | comes to Sherlocking features and services. Is it really its job to take care of other businesses |
| 0:53.4 | in light of this current lawsuit with |
| 0:55.8 | Camo, the app suing Apple over continuity camera. |
| 1:00.3 | I don't know if we'll get into that in the show, but that is the post-show content. |
| 1:04.6 | If you subscribe to Apple Insider Plus, of course, you get that after show and an ad-free |
| 1:09.0 | experience. |
| 1:10.0 | So stick around for that. William, |
| 1:13.0 | how are you doing today? Oh, I am delighted and perplexed and I managed to break Creator's |
| 1:19.3 | studio. I'm all over the place, but absolutely riveted by PixelMeta Pro on the iPad with my Apple Pencil, |
| 1:26.3 | except in 24 hours, I have lost my Apple Pencil three times and found it twice. |
| 1:32.8 | It's here somewhere. |
| 1:34.4 | That's how I am. |
| 1:35.8 | So you need to get an Apple Pencil bracelet attachment or something? |
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