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Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

How To, Technology, Education, News, Tech News

4.8 • 977 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Mac Geek Gab, you, Pilot Pete, Adam Christianson, and Dave Hamilton dig deep into everything Apple announced for macOS 26 “Tahoe” and beyond. Get the scoop on which Macs make the cut, how Spotlight finally grows up into a proper launcher—with clipboard history—and why Shortcuts just became your new automation best friend. iPadOS 26 is the surprise hero with windowed multitasking, background tasks, audio input selection, and full-on live translation across the board. This update shifts iPads closer to Mac territory than ever before. Don’t Get Caught sleeping on these power features.
From Apple Intelligence to Xcode 26’s Swift Assist, it’s clear Apple’s leaning hard into AI and dev tools. You’ll hear why Craig Federighi says they delayed some of this to keep the quality bar high—and why that might be a good thing. Over on iOS 26, Hold Assist and group chat polls offer real upgrades, and Apple Maps now lets you set preferred routes. You’ll also learn what’s new in Apple Wallet, visionOS (yes, widgets and PS VR2 support!), and watchOS 26’s Wrist Flick and Workout Buddy. It’s a whirlwind tour of what’s next—served with your favorite geeky insights.

00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1093 for Monday, June 9th, 2025

June 9th: National Dark ’n’ Stormy Day
Police Code 10-93 – Blockage
MGG Monthly Giveaway – 1MORE

00:02:32 Liquid Glass

Remembering Bill Atkinson – Round-Rects are Everywhere

00:08:23 macOS 26 “Tahoe”

Which Macs will run macOS 26?
Spotlight becomes a launcher WITH a Clipboard History
Shortcuts automations can trigger when you add a file to a folder

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00:24:18 iPadOS 26

iPad gets windows!!
iPad gets audio input selector
Background tasks come to iPad
Live translation comes to all ‘26 Apple OSes

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00:35:36 Apple Intelligence

“This work needed more time to reach our high-quality bar” – Craig Federighi on June 9th, 2025

00:42:50 Visual Intelligence
00:44:39 Xcode 26

Swift Assist

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Transcript

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0:00.0	it's time for mac geekab and if you haven't yet watched apple's keynote or at least read or seen a
0:09.7	synopsis of it that might be good to know before you come into this because what we're doing
0:16.7	today is we are going to share our reactions, thoughts, dissections of the Apple keynote and
0:24.5	help contextualize everything because Apple did things strangely, but we'll get to that here
0:31.2	on Mac Geekab 1093 for Monday, June 9th, National Dark and Stormy Day.
0:39.3	And you might want one of those as you get started here, 2025.
0:43.2	Thank you. Greetings, folks, and welcome to Mac Geekab, the show where normally we share your quick tips, we answer your questions, we share your cool stuff found.
1:07.3	Today, as I said, we will be dissecting apples WWDC 25 keynote that happened
1:14.3	at least for us earlier today our monthly giveaway is with one more they're giving away a pair
1:22.8	of headphones actually a couple of pairs of headphones if I have that right but I might have that
1:26.5	wrong but you can learn about it at macgeeb.com slash giveaway.
1:30.1	Our sponsors for today are caldera lab.com slash MG which is where you can go and use MG at checkout for 20% off your first order.
1:40.5	You can go to storyworth.com slash macgeek gab.
1:44.5	I know that's a little different.
1:45.6	We put all the links in the show notes just for you at macgeekab.com.
1:49.0	At storyworth.com slash macgeekab, you can save $10 on your first purchase and coda.com.
1:54.5	I.O. slash MG where you can go to get six months of their team plan for startups for free.
2:01.5	For now, here in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton.
2:05.7	And here in South Dakota, I'm Adam Christensen.
2:09.1	And here also in New Hampshire, it's Pilot Pete.
2:13.0	Great to be with you guys.
2:14.5	I know.
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