Apple’s F1 announcements, more
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🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Stories discussed in this episode:
- New Apple product launch week starts Monday, Tim Cook confirms
- iPhone and iPad approved to handle classified NATO information without any third-party add-on solutions
- Apple TV partners with IMAX to show Formula 1 races live in theaters
- Apple Maps adds detailed F1 experience ahead of 2026 season
- Here's how Apple will showcase F1 across Apple TV, Apple Music and more
- New ‘F1: Drive to Survive’ season is coming to Apple TV
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to 9 to 5 Mac Daily for Friday, February 27, 26. |
| 0:07.7 | I'm your host, Chance Miller. |
| 0:10.0 | We are sponsored this week by Ben Q. |
| 0:13.3 | Leading off today, Apple CEO Tim Cook just confirmed that the company will announce new products starting on Monday morning. |
| 0:25.7 | This will be the start of a release cycle that includes the press experience on Wednesday, |
| 0:29.7 | which again, I will be attending in person in New York City. |
| 0:37.1 | In a post on Twitter, Cook said, quote, a big week ahead, it all starts Monday morning. End quote. The attached graphic shows hands |
| 0:40.0 | revealing an incomplete Apple logo before shaping it with a squeeze and then a flick of the finger. |
| 0:46.1 | The gray color scheme resembles a silver aluminum Apple product. The teaser video, of course, |
| 0:52.4 | is a bit cryptic, but the message is clear. |
| 0:55.1 | Apple plans to announce new hardware starting Monday, March 2nd, and we should expect more than one day of announcements. |
| 1:02.6 | Apple will host a media event on Wednesday, including in New York City, plus London and Shanghai, |
| 1:08.6 | but it sounds like we shouldn't expect a single event keynote. |
| 1:12.5 | Instead, it looks like we're in for a few days of press releases, likely with specific |
| 1:16.5 | product videos, then a fun hands-on opportunity to wrap up the announcements on Wednesday. |
| 1:22.8 | Again, we're expecting the low-cost MacBook, the iPhone 17E, updates to the iPad Air and the base model iPad, and perhaps new studio displays, plus the more powerful M5 Pro and M5M6 MacBook Pros. |
| 1:37.0 | Next up today, Apple has announced that the iPhone and iPad have become the first consumer devices approved for use on classified NATO networks. |
| 1:46.2 | That's the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which is an intergovernmental military alliance |
| 1:52.5 | between 32 member states, 30 in Europe, and 2 in North America. |
| 1:57.8 | This means that an off-the-shelf iPhone running iOS 26 can access restricted NATO data |
| 2:04.5 | without requiring any specialized security software or custom hardware modifications. |
| 2:10.7 | In a statement to 9-5 Mac, Ivan Christic, Apple's vice president of security engineering and architecture, said, quote, |
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