Hands on with iPhone 15 Pro and Apple Watch Series 9
9to5Mac Happy Hour
9to5Mac
4.4 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2023
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Benjamin and Chance share their hands-on experiences with Apple’s latest hardware: the Apple Watch Series 9 and iPhone 15 Pro. Plus, macOS Sonoma brings some cool new features to the Mac, and the first iOS 17.1 developer seed is released, kicking off a whole new beta cycle.
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Chance Miller
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Benjamin Mayo
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Links
- Apple releases macOS Sonoma with interactive desktop widgets, Game Mode, new wallpapers, much more
- iOS 17.1 beta 1: New Apple Music and AirDrop features, more
- Apple Wallet app can now show current account balances from UK banks
- Apple was working on stock trading service for iPhone users, plans put on hold after the market tanked
- Apple explains why only revised AirPods Pro 2 support lossless audio from Vision Pro
- iPhone 15 can locate your friends up to 60 meters away with Precision Finding [Video]
- Hands-on: Unboxing the new iPhone 15 Pro Max in Natural Titanium [Gallery]
- iPhone 15 Pro overheating problems caused by design compromises, Kuo says
- iPhone 15 overheating reports, with temperatures as high as 116F
- iPhone 15 Pro design once again blamed for causing overheating
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Is your fan off? My fan is off. We're good. There we go. Perfect. It was only like three minutes. |
| 0:05.0 | Five minutes. I know it was. I heard at the beginning I was like, oh God, is this the whole episode? But no, it was just... |
| 0:10.0 | I would have fixed it if it was the whole episode. |
| 0:12.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:13.0 | Mcko-Senoma Mayo is here. Not a whole lot here, but I think there are some good changes. The biggest ones being widgets on the desktop so we got interactive widgets |
| 0:34.3 | normal widgets then also maybe the coolest part is that your iPhone widgets will |
| 0:40.3 | show up on your Mac assuming your iPhone is in range. |
| 0:43.0 | So like developers don't have to specifically build |
| 0:46.0 | widgets for the Mac or update their Mac apps to add widgets, |
| 0:50.0 | which is something that I'm sure would be very low on the priority list for a lot of |
| 0:54.2 | developers this time again. |
| 0:56.0 | So this is... |
| 0:57.0 | Have you been using the remote widgets though? |
| 0:59.0 | Because I obviously I only just upgrade you just to know me this week. |
| 1:01.9 | I know you were running in the beta season, but |
| 1:03.7 | remote widgets like sounds a bit hairy, you know? I was using them for things the |
| 1:11.3 | to do list app until they updated their Mac up this week with proper |
| 1:16.2 | Mac-O-S widgets but it works pretty well it's every so often it'll throw up an |
| 1:21.4 | air that it can't connect to your iPhone, but most of the time it's solid. |
| 1:26.0 | And I was using it for Timery, the time tracking app until this week, and that one was surprisingly good because it has to like sink the real time, |
| 1:35.1 | like stop and start of a timer obviously and it was pretty quick. |
| 1:40.2 | So yeah it's better than I expected for sure. |
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