iOS 26 icons, public beta feedback and iPhone 17 rumors
9to5Mac Happy Hour
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4.4 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Benjamin and Chance analyze the new iOS 26 icon set, as well as respond to some public beta feedback Chance has received from his family. Also, a test iPhone 17 prototype was seemingly caught on camera on the streets of San Francisco.
And in Happy Hour Plus, Chance has finally updated to watchOS 26 beta, and the pair discuss the surprising utility of the new wrist flick gesture. Subscribe at 9to5mac.com/join.
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Chance Miller
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Benjamin Mayo
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Links
- Mayo’s Feedback response
- iOS 26 public beta now available with new design and more
- iOS 18 vs iOS 26 compared: Here’s all the new app icons coming to your iPhone home screen
- Did someone just get caught using the iPhone 17 Pro in the wild?
- Rumor: iPhone 17 Pro could have three unexpected camera upgrades
- New iPhone 17 Pro video shows full color lineup with dummy models
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So, Mayo, we cover Apple for a living. So we know where to find Apple News. We cover Apple News. We are some people's source of Apple News. Do you have something that you follow, like, as closely as Apple, but you don't cover it? So, like, another topic that you're interested in? |
| 0:18.4 | Hmm. Like F1 or, like, gaming or anything? I don't cover it. I don't follow, I mean, I follow like F1 on Reddit and stuff, so I keep abreast of what's going on, but I don't study anything as closely as what I do for Apple, right? The closest probably get is like Hollywood news. I'm kind of into that. So. But again... Just some crossover now. |
| 0:38.0 | Yeah, I mean, that does... |
| 0:39.2 | I mean, Apple does so much stuff. It's hard to find. My F1 feed will be in my Apple in the not too distant future. I mean, you probably follow baseball, right? Well... That's where this topic is going. Yeah, there's tentacles in all pies. but no |
| 0:35.3 | I don't cover anything |
| 0:36.4 | as studiously |
| 0:37.7 | as I cover Apple |
| 0:38.4 | because I am interested us going. Yeah, there's tentacles in all pies. But no, I don't cover anything as studiously |
| 0:56.3 | as I cover Apple because, A, I'm interested in it, B, it's the work, right? Hollywood's news |
| 1:01.9 | is probably the closer to get, but that's just mostly through vectors of reading deadline |
| 1:06.6 | and Hollywood Reporter and, you know, social media and stuff like that. So nothing so exact. I mean, let me put this way. I don't have, like, tweet that columns for anything but Apple, if you know what I mean. Because, I mean, I dedicate a lot of time to that stuff. Right. So other hobbies are either, like, completely away from any sort of, like, research, or, you know, I just watch YouTube or you know do other stuff right |
| 1:29.0 | the reason I ask is because this week is the trade deadline for major league baseball so the last |
| 1:34.8 | week actually I tell you what film I watched this week okay money bowl really okay welcome to the |
| 1:40.8 | baseball world yeah that's a good film I like that film it is a good film. I like that film. It is a good film, yeah. |
| 1:44.4 | I'm pretty sure I've seen it before, but I forgot. I feel like most people saw it when it came out and most people, because it was so big. It was so popular, and it was such a cool story. Yeah. I just randomly saw it on my infuse came around. I was, I'll watch that. with Aaron Sorkin, I think, didn't he do? |
| 1:43.6 | Isn't he one of the writers? |
| 1:44.7 | Yeah. And I'll tell you what, Brad Pitt from the F-Y movie. He definitely has, definitely his attributes that he carried across with Moneyball. It's not too dissimilar. But yeah, Moneyball is a good film. But anyway, this week is the trade deadline for Major League Baseball. |
| 2:18.1 | So the last week that teams can make trades to either buy for their roster, so get |
| 2:22.6 | players to help them make the playoffs in the fall or sell. |
| 2:25.1 | So they're not in contention for the playoffs and they can trade expensive contracts or |
| 2:30.7 | expiring contracts to other teams to prepare for future seasons and get a return |
| 2:35.2 | on the valuable players that they don't need this year because they're already out of the race. |
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