iOS 18.4 features, AI Health service rumors, Apple Card drama
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🗓️ 3 April 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Benjamin and Chance start with a catch-up on changes to Friday Night Baseball, before diving into the software updates of the week, with the launch of iOS 18.4 and the first iOS 18.5 beta launching. Also, thoughts on Apple’s rumored AI Health service plans, and the latest on finding a new partner for the Apple Card.
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Chance Miller
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Benjamin Mayo
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Links
- iOS 18.4 now available: Here's what's new
- Apple releases first iOS 18.5 beta
- iOS 18.5 makes it easier to get the old Apple Mail design back
- Apple reportedly wants to 'replicate' your doctor next year with new Project Mulberry
- WSJ: Visa and Amex both vying to take over Apple Card
- VHS and Camcorder USB Video Capture Kit for Mac
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| 0:00.0 | So, Mayo, I have some baseball follow-up for this week, and I'll keep it brief and tie it directly to Apple the best that I can. |
| 0:07.9 | So first, Friday Night Baseball was back last week, and I watched the game. It was the Orioles. |
| 0:12.9 | And I posted about this on threads, but there's a new design for the score bug, which is like the box on the screen that shows you the score. |
| 0:24.9 | And the Apple TV plus baseball interface has always been really good. |
| 0:26.5 | I think just because it's very simple. |
| 0:32.9 | It has like Apple style fonts, very just Apple on brand for what you'd expect from Apple. |
| 0:35.1 | It was almost too neutral, right? |
| 0:35.9 | It was like... It was. |
| 0:36.6 | Very, very straight back to have... |
| 0:39.3 | It was actually like a rounded rectangle with a slight white border and that was it. |
| 0:42.9 | That was the kind of like visual design. |
| 0:45.4 | And what they've done this year is kind of... |
| 0:47.8 | It kind of fixes that problem. |
| 0:48.9 | So now you have some gradients. |
| 0:51.2 | So like, you have the scorebug and then the Orioles logo in the upper left corner of it has like an orange background to it. |
| 0:57.0 | It's basically, best I can tell, the same sort of style design that they use in the sports app, |
| 1:04.0 | where you have the gradients for each team color as you look at a score in the sports app or as you scroll through the upcoming games. |
| 1:09.0 | And it kind of blends them together. |
| 1:11.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:12.3 | So it's very, |
| 1:12.9 | it almost, |
| 1:14.3 | when you post that screenshot on threads, |
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