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All right let's just jump into it and I said you know not not too much of a heavy

dose of news this week but But to start off the day, IOS 11.4, the sixth

beta of 11.4 has been released. It's kind of slowly and surely been ramping up with new features that we will expect to see before

iOS 12 at W.W. D.C. but at least here's what is in the developer version of iOS 11.4. We know that messages in

iCloud has been brought back. They were testing it in 11.3. They never put it out in the

release. So that'll be part of it. Home Pod stereo support

has returned in this beta but requires an unreleased home pod beta firmware to make it work. So, okay, that may or may not drop in 11.4. Airplay

2 has returned when used with TV OS 11.4 so you really have to be a developer to try all these things out but it just

shows us the indication that yes it is coming maybe an 11.4 sometimes they might

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