iOS 26 beta 2 changes, Liquid Glass on Apple Watch, Apple feature availability
9to5Mac Happy Hour
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4.4 • 884 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Benjamin and Chance talk about all the changes in iOS 26 beta 2 and macOS Tahoe beta 2, try out all the new features in watchOS 26 for the first time, and talk about why availability of Apple features and services can be so splintered.
And in Happy Hour Plus, Benjamin saw the F1 film in IMAX, and en route observed some horror stories of how people actually use their phones in the real world. Subscribe at 9to5mac.com/join.
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Chance Miller
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Benjamin Mayo
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Links
- Magic Rays of Light
- The Talk Show
- Apple Sports app redesigned with new personalized sections, adds tennis scores just in time for Wimbledon
- Everything new in iOS 26 beta 2
- iOS 26 beta 2 provides first possible confirmation of iPhone 17 Air resolution
- macOS Tahoe 26 beta 2 changes Finder icon
- macOS Tahoe 26 beta 2 includes toggle to restore menu bar background
- Camera Remote hint on watchOS 26
- F1 Marks Apple's Acceleration into a New Era of Entertainment
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Mayo, we both branched outside of the happy hour universe this week. |
| 0:05.1 | I had the pleasure of once again joining John Gruber on the talk show. |
| 0:10.1 | And the episode is not live yet, but I think it should be live this afternoon. |
| 0:14.6 | And we talked about what? |
| 0:16.9 | We talked about the open AI, Johnny Ive, I.O, I.O. That whole lawsuit thing that's going on. The total mess of that. And then some more post-WWDC impressions. So that'll hopefully be out today, I think, or hopefully by tomorrow at the latest. But you also made it a guest appearance on another podcast. Yes, I was on |
| 0:40.3 | Magic Razor Light talking about the F1 film because Sigmund and me and Jonathan went to go and see it at |
| 0:47.5 | IMAX and we'll talk a bit more on this show in the plus segment at the end. But we also talked |
| 0:53.4 | about a bit more detail in that magic |
| 0:56.3 | razor light segment, which you can find on Mac Stories. |
| 0:59.6 | I have not listened to it yet, but I can only imagine you and Sigmund on a podcast talking |
| 1:04.4 | about Apple TV together. |
| 1:05.7 | Hey, there was one. |
| 1:06.6 | We did an episode a couple of years ago. |
| 1:08.7 | Oh, that's right. |
| 1:09.4 | That's a great episode. |
| 1:11.2 | And since then, I think they've been probably about zero of our feedback, but that's how it goes. |
| 1:17.3 | Then you also have an anecdote to share about some confusion with your Apple Watch working |
| 1:22.0 | with your iPhone or something? |
| 1:23.2 | Yeah, so about, end of last week, my watch was like acting weirdly. |
| 1:30.2 | So you know how like on, if you're using your iPhone, the notification only pops |
| 1:35.0 | on your iPhone. |
| 1:35.5 | It doesn't pop on your, it doesn't vibrate your wrist, right? |
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