Welcome to 95 Mac Daily for Tuesday, September 16th, 2025.

I'm your host, Chance Miller.

We are sponsored this week by IMAISING.

Leading off today, after three months of beta testing, iOS 26 is now available to iPhone users everywhere.

It's a massive update for the iPhone, bringing in all-new

Liquid Glass design, updates to your favorite apps and features, and so much more. As a quick

refresher, Apple says Liquid Glass is designed to bring more focus to content and add a new level

of vitality while maintaining the familiarity of Apple software. Liquid glass is a

translucent material that reflects and refracts its surroundings while dynamically transforming

to help bring greater focus to that content. The lock screen has been revamped with a more dynamic

clock design that automatically scales to stay in view alongside notifications, photos on your

lock screen can transform into spatial scenes with subtle 3D depth as you move your device.

Virtually all of Apple's stock apps, including music, camera, photos, Safari, and FaceTime have

been redesigned with the same liquid glass foundation. Safari, for example, introduces a new floating tab design, while FaceTime gains a refreshed landing page that highlights recent contacts with animated posters and video previews.

There's also what Apple calls the biggest update ever to the phone app.

There's a unified layout that combines favorites, recents, and voicemails into a single interface. There's a unified layout that combines favorites,

recents, and voicemails into a single interface. There's a call screening feature that asks

people calling you to give their name and details on why they're calling so you can decide if you

want to answer or ignore that call. There's also hold assist that kicks in when you're placed on hold and detects when a

human has picked up the call on the other end, so you don't have to sit there and awkwardly listen

to hold music. The messages app has gotten a huge refresh. You can now choose backgrounds for each

of your conversations. You can also now create polls in the messages app. So for things like picking a

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