iOS 26.1 changes, Vision Pro roadmap as Apple reacts to Meta smart glasses
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🗓️ 10 October 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Benjamin and Chance cover all the new changes in beta 2 of iOS 26.1, as Apple tidies up some loose ends in the new Liquid Glass design, and (kinda) brings back Slide Over on iPad. Also, Meta’s launch of smart glasses with displays apparently prompted a change to the Vision Pro roadmap, and the F1 streaming deal is apparently nearly done.
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Benjamin Mayo
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Links
- Everything new in iOS 26.1 beta 2
- Apple Notes in iOS 26.1 adds new swipe gesture for power users
- iOS 26.1 beta 2 makes alarms harder to accidentally dismiss
- iPadOS 26.1 beta 2 restores Slide Over multitasking back to iPad
- Meta presents its first screen-equipped smart glasses
- Apple Vision Air reportedly shelved over smart glasses development
- Leaked code points to new Apple Vision Pro ‘Dual Knit Band’
- Apple Stores are using new MagSafe chargers with silicone rings for iPhone 17 demo units
- Report: Apple hoping to announce F1 streaming deal at upcoming US Grand Prix
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | iOS 26.1 beta 2, Mayo is here. And again, a handful of small but notable changes here, I think. |
| 0:08.3 | Yeah, it's a decent update. One interesting thing that Apple is kind of backtracked on a bit or |
| 0:13.8 | addressed due to some complaints is the alarm screen. So the screen that comes up when you have an alarm |
| 0:18.4 | going off, when iOS 26 was released, you had two buttons. |
| 0:23.8 | You had a snooze button and a stop button. |
| 0:26.3 | Now what you get is a big snooze button and then to stop the alarm, you have to slide to stop. |
| 0:31.5 | Sort of like the classic like slide to unlock or slide to answer a phone call. |
| 0:35.9 | Slide to stop the alarm. |
| 0:39.1 | I guess the idea here is to make it harder to accidentally turn off your alarm instead of just snooze it. Yeah, I think they were getting |
| 0:45.2 | complaints to people like waking up in a daze and then just like stabbing their, you know, |
| 0:49.3 | like pick out their phone and then accidentally pressing one of the buttons. This doesn't really stop you from pressing snooze by accident. |
| 0:57.0 | At least snooze. |
| 0:57.7 | You had nine more minutes, so then it goes off again. |
| 1:00.1 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 1:01.5 | Although it's still hilarious to me. |
| 1:03.7 | One of the flagship iOS 26 features was now you can choose a custom duration of how the snoozes. |
| 1:09.2 | Only took 19 system versions. |
| 1:13.3 | 26. |
| 1:14.4 | 26. |
| 1:14.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:15.5 | 26 years. |
| 1:16.8 | 26 years, yeah, yeah. |
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