iOS 26.5 beta 1 changes, more
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🗓️ 31 March 2026
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Stories discussed in this episode:
- iOS 26.5 beta 1: Here are all the new features
- iOS 26.5 beta arrives with no Gemini-powered AI features as focus shifts to iOS 27
- GM rolling out native Apple Music app to more cars starting today
- iOS 26.4 adds convenient new iCloud feature, here’s how to enable it
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to 95 Mac Daily for Tuesday, March 31st, 2026. I'm your host, Chance Miller. We are sponsored this week by Backblaze. |
| 0:13.6 | Leading off today, last December, GM began rolling out a dedicated native Apple music app for select Cadillac and Chevrolet cars. |
| 0:22.7 | Now, the automaker has announced another expansion of its Apple Music app, this time to select |
| 0:27.9 | Buick and GMC cars. |
| 0:30.2 | The Apple Music app is now rolling out to the 2026 Enclave and InVision, as well as the 25 and 26 Acadia Canyon, Sierra EV, Terrain, Yukon and YukonXL, and the |
| 0:42.9 | 2026 Hummer EV. According to GM, the Apple Music app will appear automatically on these cars, |
| 0:49.7 | and with the expansion, it's now available across 1.2 million cars on the road today. |
| 0:56.1 | Audio streaming apps, including Apple Music, are included for eight years through OnStar Basics on new GM cars. |
| 1:03.1 | But the reason to bring this up is that since GM started rolling out its native Apple Music app last December, |
| 1:09.3 | the move has largely been viewed as a bandaid for the |
| 1:12.1 | automaker's carplay problem. Almost exactly three years ago, GM announced that it was ditching |
| 1:18.0 | carplay in all of its future EVs. Most recently, it also said that it will gradually abandon |
| 1:24.1 | carplay on more cars in the future, including internal combustion engine cars. |
| 1:29.8 | A native Apple Music app does give GM drivers one aspect of the carplay experience, but there |
| 1:36.2 | are countless other things that are nice about carplay that GM drivers are still missing, |
| 1:41.6 | like Apple Maps, Apple Podcasts, third-party iPhone apps, and more. |
| 1:46.3 | We are sponsored this week by Backblaze. If you travel with your MacBook, you're carrying |
| 1:51.3 | your digital life with you. ICloud keeps your files in sync across devices while time |
| 1:56.8 | machine protects you locally. But what if while you're traveling, your MacBook is lost or |
| 2:01.5 | damaged? Would you have an off-site backup? Well, Backblaze runs automatically and creates a |
| 2:07.0 | separate backup of your entire Mac in the cloud, including external drives. I've used Backblaze before, |
| 2:14.1 | and it's easy to use. You set it up once and you forget about it. |
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