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iOS 27 bill splitting, new hardware waiting on new Siri, final WWDC expectations

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4.4924 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Benjamin and Chance talk about the late-breaking iOS 27 rumors, including a new bill splitting feature for the Wallet app, as well as give their final expectations for next week’s WWDC announcements. Apple fixes Mayo’s iPhone Air battery glitch, and new Apple TV and HomePod models are apparently in the final testing stage. Also, code references reignite ideas about new cheaper (or free) tiers of Apple Music. 

And in Happy Hour Plus, on the eve of iOS 27, we give our 1 year retrospective on how iOS 26 has fared in the wild. Subscribe at 9to5mac.com/join.

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Chance Miller

Benjamin Mayo

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0:00.0

Mayo, do you want to take a victory lap for prompting Apple to release an update for the iPhone?

0:05.2

Single-handedly or story?

0:07.5

I thought I've asked single-handedly.

0:09.0

Well, single-handedly, you aggregated everybody's complaints.

0:13.1

Put it in one story, and Apple saw it, and they fixed it.

0:18.4

So this is your problem you talked about on the show a couple

0:21.4

weeks ago where your iPhone air, what, it completely died, and then you couldn't get it to turn

0:27.0

back on using wire charging. You had to put it on a MagSafe charger. Is that, that's an accurate

0:32.1

retelling? Yeah, because normally when an iPhone battery runs out for a good while,

0:40.7

like it's quote unquote dead in that it can't boot the operating system,

0:43.2

but you see the zero battery screen, right?

0:45.9

You get the little battery indicator and more modern,

0:47.7

recent iPhones have a little thing that say,

0:51.3

you know, iPhone is findable and express card keys available, right?

0:55.1

Because it does this like, you know, dead but not completely dead state where there's like a smidge of battery left.

0:56.2

So it has like this extended time where it will keep pinging Bluetooth, like an air tag for

1:01.0

Find My Updates.

1:02.4

It will still do your express transit Apple Pay cards.

1:05.8

And in the top left hand corner, it even puts the clock, right?

1:08.4

You get a little time read out on newer phones. But whatever happened in this bug situation, the phone just completely dies entirely. It won't turn the screen on at all. The screen, the display is completely off. And if you plug the wire back in, normally with an iPhone, the battery runs out. You plug a wire in. It turns back on in seconds, right? Like, it starts rebooting. When it was in this bug state, nothing. Nothing, nothing.

1:31.0

Eventually, it turns out if you do a Chi wireless charger and leave it for about 10 minutes,

1:35.4

it will turn on, and maybe if you did wide charging, left it for like a day it would turn on.

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