Creator Studio bundle, AirTag 2, new Siri features coming soon
9to5Mac Happy Hour
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4.4 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Benjamin and Chance review the proposition of the Creator Studio bundle now it is finally available, as well as some weirdness in the choices made of the apps in it. Also, Benjamin has been using his new AirTags for the past couple days, and Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman suggests that the new Gemini Siri features may be announced in February, sooner than we previously expected.
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Chance Miller
Benjamin Mayo
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Links
- Apple Creator Studio launches today, and it's an incredible value
- Stephen Robles: Apple Creator Studio
- Pages, Keynote, Numbers get iOS 26 updates, here’s everything new
- AirTag 2 vs AirTag: Here’s everything new
- AirTag 2 teardown reveals the speaker is now harder to remove
- AirTag 2 hands-on review: Apple’s clever item tracker finds even more utility with longer range and louder sound
- How to tell the difference between AirTag 2 and the original AirTag
- AirTag 2: Three tidbits you might have missed
- Apple to 'unveil' results of Google Gemini partnership as soon as next month: report
- Apple announces new Black Unity Braided Solo Loop for Apple Watch
- iOS 26.3 adds new feature to limit location data shared with your carrier
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Mayo, before we get started, we have one quick reminder for people that the Happy Hour |
| 0:04.5 | 20 or Happy 26 promo code for all the annual plans for Happy Hour Plus, Daily Plus, and 9 to 5 Mac |
| 0:11.0 | Pro, the bundle. That expires next Wednesday. So you have just under a week to cash in on that. |
| 0:19.0 | 26% off those annual plans. |
| 0:21.2 | Happy 26 is the promo code. |
| 0:23.1 | Use a checkout. |
| 0:24.3 | Or you can just use the links in the show notes, and it should automatically route you |
| 0:28.6 | to the right plan and automatically apply the promo code. |
| 0:32.5 | And thank you, too, to everybody who has already taken advantage of that. |
| 0:36.6 | It really means a lot to us. |
| 0:40.2 | Creator Studio, Apple Creator Studio, |
| 0:42.4 | officially launched yesterday, January 29th, January 28th, rather. |
| 0:47.1 | I have been on the test flights for the Creator Studio apps for the past two weeks. |
| 0:52.7 | The problem is I couldn't tell you much about how to use most of them. |
| 0:57.5 | I do not use Final Cut Pro at all. |
| 1:00.8 | I use Logic Pro to edit this podcast, which is like 1% of 1% of the Logic Pro features. |
| 1:08.8 | That's what I use. |
| 1:10.1 | It's kind of misusing Logic Pro to edit |
| 1:11.8 | to a point. To a degree. Yeah. But I did check out the pages, keynote, and number stuff. And my |
| 1:17.3 | takeaway from that was that the thing where you can create slides based on like an outline from a |
| 1:24.6 | document, those AI features, the content hub, the image generation, |
| 1:29.0 | all of that stuff is nice to have, |
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