iOS 26.5 is here, iOS 27 is coming, and Android is trying to get ahead of Apple Intelligence, on the AppleInsider Podcast
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🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
There was no sign of the improved Apple Intelligence in this week's launch of iOS 26.5, which must've been a relief to Google as it talked up its apparently new but seemingly very familiar AI features in Android.
Contact your hosts:
- @williamgallagher_ on Threads
- @WGallagher on Twitter
- William's 58keys on YouTube
- William Gallagher on email
- Wes on Bluesky
- Wes Hilliard on email
- Wes's blog Hillitech
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Links from the Show:
- No signs of upgraded Apple Intelligence as iOS 26.5 arrives for all users
- Large-scale testing of encrypted RCS texting starts in iOS 26.5
- How to save on annual Apple App Store subscriptions, with a catch
- RCS & encryption haven't fixed the green bubble problem
- iOS 26 review one year later: Liquid Glass complaints hide the real problem
- iPhone & Android interoperability enhancements highlighted at Google I/O preshow
- Safari 27 will use AI to automatically group your browser tabs
- Liquid Glass won't get killed in macOS 27, expect a tune-up instead
- Easy to predict changes rumored for iOS 27 apps like a customizable Camera
- Intel Inside and out: Apple's 40-year relationship
- Indigo for Bluesky & Mastodon
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Apple Insider podcast. I'm your host, Wesley Hilliard speaking, |
| 0:08.6 | and I'm joined once again by William Gallagher. I'd like to thank our sponsors this week, |
| 0:12.8 | Clean My Mac by MacPaw, Claude, Bionthropic, and Scribe. If you don't want to hear anything about |
| 0:18.4 | ads, you can join Apple Insider Plus, where we're going to be discussing green bubbles. |
| 0:24.1 | Some thoughts behind them. |
| 0:25.5 | You'll see why on the show. |
| 0:26.5 | There's more to it. |
| 0:28.1 | But stick around for that. |
| 0:29.8 | Apple Insider Plus gets you an ad-free experience and bonus content at the end of every show. |
| 0:34.4 | So you can subscribe to that through Apple Podcasts or our Patreon. |
| 0:38.5 | William, how are you this week? Well, okay. We're talking in video now, possibly. And I was |
| 0:44.6 | thinking, how do we do that? And then I thought, I was trying to do an in-video gag there |
| 0:51.0 | where a light came on behind me and I pushed the wrong button. Yeah, I'm |
| 0:54.9 | frankly, I'm rubbish. That's how I am today. How are you? I'm good. I'm trying to remember |
| 0:59.6 | that I'm on a camera and I need to undo all of my military training of sitting perfectly still |
| 1:05.0 | like a statue. So if you do see this on YouTube or maybe Apple Podcast video, just understand that this is our first video. |
| 1:15.5 | I've been on video podcast with Andrew a few times on a HomeKit, now Smart Home Insider. |
| 1:20.9 | Uh, it's great. |
| 1:22.3 | My nose decides that it wants to run almost every single time. |
| 1:25.5 | So that's always very fun. |
| 1:26.6 | You have to wait for it. Like there's like, uh, a, you have to take a shot every time I need a tissue. I'm joking. I think I'll be fine today. But, yeah, keep an eye out for us to grow into this medium. William and I have worked very hard over the last few weeks to get our offices video ready. I mean, I bought a house just for this occasion, obviously. Yes. William, how are you feeling about your setup? Well, fine, but I'd like to say, you know, we're not forgetting audio is where we start, audio is where we're continuing. And in fact, if you are listening on audio, I'm the roguishly handsome one. |
| 2:01.5 | Okay. |
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