iOS 18 public beta, ‘new’ HomePod, Apple Intelligence data controversy
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🗓️ 18 July 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Benjamin and Chance give their thoughts on their favorite iOS 18 features, the ongoing debate about the redesigned Photos app, and more changes, as the OS hits public beta. There’s also been some focus on the data used to train Apple Intelligence, and Apple even released a ‘new’ HomePod this week.
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Links
- iOS 18 public beta now available; here are all the new features
- iOS 18 adds new 'Recovered' album to the Photos app for finding lost or damaged content
- Apple releases watchOS 11 public beta 1
- tvOS 18 public beta 1 with InSight feature now available
- macOS Sequoia public beta 1 now available with iPhone Mirroring
- Apple releases new midnight color for HomePod mini, replacing space gray
- New HomePod corroborated by references to 'HomeAccessory'
- Touchscreen-ready interface hidden in tvOS amid HomePod rumors
- Apple trained AI models on YouTube content without consent
- Apple says its OpenELM model doesn't power Apple Intelligence amid YouTube controversy
- Apple TV+ scores Emmy nominations in every major 2024 category
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The IOS 18 public beta is here Mayo pretty much right on schedule right when we expected. |
| 0:05.1 | It was a little bit weird because on release day, which was Monday at the normal beta time which is 1 PM |
| 0:12.1 | eastern. We didn't get the public beta but we got like a revised |
| 0:16.1 | version of the developer beta. Then the public beta came at like the backup time of 4 PM |
| 0:21.6 | Eastern time. |
| 0:23.4 | So we had this hope that they were coming. |
| 0:24.9 | And then we got the developer beta |
| 0:26.4 | and we're like, oh, maybe not, maybe today's not the day. |
| 0:29.6 | But it was, after all. |
| 0:31.2 | So now anybody can try I. |
| 0:33.0 | I. O.S. Sequoio, Watch OS 11, TV OS 18, |
| 0:38.0 | iPad OS 18, |
| 0:40.0 | basically everything except for Vision OS 2 and the AirPods beta. |
| 0:45.8 | Yeah and I intentionally didn't upgrade to the revised Beta 3 because it actually takes away a feature. |
| 0:51.8 | It does, it takes away the emoji changes that you were so excited about right? |
| 0:56.4 | Yeah so the keyboard changes that we talked that last week have been taken out |
| 1:01.8 | presumably they weren't quite ready for prime time. |
| 1:04.8 | So this build was, they won't have the developer build be the same as the public bayou |
| 1:08.8 | build, so they just got rid of it. |
| 1:11.2 | And they also fixed a problem where icon tinting wasn't working for a lot of people in |
| 1:16.7 | Beta 3 so it makes sense that they would revise that and fix it. |
| 1:20.7 | Fix the biggest feature of I-One of the biggest features of IOS 18 before releasing the public |
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