Welcome to 9 to 5 Mac Daily for Thursday, July 3rd, 2025.

I'm your host, Chance Miller.

And today I'm joined by the one and only Benjamin Mayo.

How's it going, Mayo?

Hi-oh, I'm doing good.

So for today's episode, I think we just wanted to run through some esoteric, some smaller changes in iOS 26 that we've both been using since we've been running the beta for the last three weeks at this point.

We're getting in a good rhythm about the features that we use on a daily basis.

So I'll go first.

Then you'll go mail.

We'll just round robin it a couple times.

My first feature is

auto mix in Apple Music. This is the feature that uses artificial intelligence, but not Apple

intelligence. So it works on any phone that can run iOS 26, and it uses artificial intelligence

to create seamless transitions from song to song as you're listening to a playlist or listening to

something on shuffle.

It does things like bridge the gap between the songs.

It'll cut the intro of the next song if it has like a really long intro.

It's kind of like a DJ experience where it's meant to make sure there's no, there's no

lull as you go from one song to the next. It's crossfade, but more vans. Cross fade, but on steroids, basically. And I don't know how much time in testing you've spent with it, Mayo, but I spent a lot of time with it in the car on a long drive over the weekend. And it's a very cool feature. It does some funky things. There were a couple

times where it would transition, it would start transitioning to the next song like 45 seconds

before the song was over and there was not a smooth transition at all. So still some kinks

to be worked out. But the vast majority of the time, it creates a really cool and a really

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