iOS 26 tidbits, new Apple Music features, updated Vision Pro Personas, and more
9to5Mac Happy Hour
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4.4 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Benjamin and Chance catch up on all the stuff they didn’t get time to cover, still reeling in the haze of the WWDC hangover, discussing a bunch of cool new things across iOS, watchOS, and visionOS.
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Chance Miller
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Benjamin Mayo
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Links
- Video: Here's a first look at using Apple Vision Pro with PlayStation VR controllers
- iOS 26 makes Apple Music Replay fully native inside the app
- iOS 26 adds incredible new AutoMix feature to Apple Music
- Apple will let third party music apps show animated artwork on the iPhone lock screen, not just Apple Music
- iOS 26 beta reveals there's another Apple app that will work via satellite
- iOS 26 tells you how long it will take for your iPhone battery to finish charging
- Apple’s killer one-time code autofill feature gets even better in iOS 26
- watchOS 26 update removes five faces from Apple Watch
- watchOS 26: More Apple Watch faces using Series 10’s upgraded display
- Vision Pro's first third-party Apple Immersive Video brings MotoGP racing via Blackmagic
- Spoiler: The Beard Is Still a Problem
- CarPlay in iOS 26 adds new 'Smart Display Zoom' feature [Gallery]
- CarPlay in iOS 26 enables AirPlay 'video in the car' feature for apps
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So kind of a hodgepodge week, Mayo, this episode, kind of, we got some follow-up on the iOS 26 stuff, some new details, some couple corrections to issue, I suppose, about things we got wrong. |
| 0:10.4 | It's all follow-up from the event. I mean, we did a, what, three-hour video, three-hour podcast last week, and we missed out on loads of stuff because it just wasn't covered in the keynote. Like, if they didn't have a |
| 0:21.3 | liquid glass redesign ready to go, a lot more of those bento box feature slides they would have |
| 0:26.5 | just talked about in more detail, right? Yeah. There's been, there's pretty good stuff hidden |
| 0:29.6 | away that they just didn't even get a second mention in the video, but obviously we'd be using |
| 0:33.7 | the baiters for a week now and stuff has come up all over the shop. So a couple of the things |
| 0:39.2 | that we said weren't in the first betas are actually there. So there's visited places in Apple Maps. |
| 0:46.8 | This is the feature that's meant to work in the background and keep a log basically of all the |
| 0:52.2 | places you go. With the example use case being you go somewhere, you have lunch. |
| 0:58.0 | A couple months later, you're back in that city, and you can't remember where you have lunch. |
| 1:02.3 | Okay, great, I'll open Apple Maps, go to visited places, and see it right there. |
| 1:06.8 | This is in iOS 26, Beta 1. |
| 1:09.8 | It's in library. |
| 1:11.8 | Then you tap on visits, and it discloses right off the bat that it's a beta because it very much is a beta. |
| 1:18.8 | In my testing, it is impressive the number of things that it gets right. |
| 1:25.6 | So I had a very busy weekend. Emily's parents were in |
| 1:28.8 | town. So we were popping all over Baltimore, going to restaurants, going to the park, going |
| 1:33.3 | shopping. It got some of the locations right, but it also put some random things, some random |
| 1:39.4 | places where we didn't go. So it says we went to a place called Duda's Tavern. We did not go to Dutus Tavern. |
| 1:45.4 | And I'd never heard of Dutus Tavern until I checked my library. |
| 1:51.2 | But then I look at the map and Dutus Tavern is right next to where we parked when we went to another spot in that area of the city. |
| 1:59.5 | So I don't know what like the algorithm is for how it's trying to keep track of where you go. |
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