iOS 27 changes visualized for the first time, new Apple Watch details, AirDrop reliability
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🗓️ 28 May 2026
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Benjamin and Chance discuss the illustrations Bloomberg published depicting iOS 27 and the new Siri interface. Also, we talk about rumors of a revamped AirPods settings UI, phone snatching detection in iOS 26.6 code, and Digitimes says the Apple Watch Ultra 4 will feature a significant redesign. Also, has AirDrop got worse?
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Benjamin Mayo
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- iOS 27 leak reveals new Siri design, Camera app, more
- Report: iOS 27 to revamp the AirPods settings UI
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- Apple Intelligence image models to boast 'major' visual upgrades in iOS 27: report
- Apple Watch Ultra 4 getting two major new upgrades, per report
- Apple Watch could soon gain new high blood pressure feature
- iOS 26.6 adds new alert when you try blocking too many contacts
- Apple working on iPhone anti-snatching feature that locks the device automatically
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| 0:00.0 | So, Mayo, throughout all of the iOS 27 leaks that we've had, particularly from Mark |
| 0:05.4 | German at Bloomberg, I've been wondering where exactly he gets his information from, especially |
| 0:11.6 | as specific information that he gets. And I had seen a lot of people speculate that he had literally |
| 0:16.6 | seen and or maybe even used a build of iOS 27. And up until today, I was skeptical of that. |
| 0:23.6 | I didn't think that was the case. |
| 0:25.0 | I thought he was getting his information from like a code dump that he got from somebody |
| 0:28.8 | paired with human corroboration from his sources inside Apple. |
| 0:33.2 | Like he was looking at the code then saying, |
| 0:35.9 | okay, from this code, from these feature flags, |
| 0:38.1 | I can tell X, Y, and Z. Let me go corroborate this with Craig Federigi or whoever he talks |
| 0:43.2 | to you inside Apple. And then today, however, he posted something that I think is surefire confirmation |
| 0:51.4 | that he has indeed seen, probably not used, but definitely seen |
| 0:55.5 | iOS 27 in action. Definitely seen some videos, right? Hands on videos kind of daily. Because what he |
| 1:01.9 | posted is basically a breakdown rehashing much of the reporting and many of the details that |
| 1:08.4 | he's talked about before. But this time he's got some |
| 1:10.8 | snazzy illustrations of what all of this looks like. And he says these illustrations were |
| 1:16.0 | created by Bloomberg based on information they saw and people with knowledge of the company's |
| 1:20.8 | plans who blah, blah, blah, ass not to be identified, whatever. But these pictures are not |
| 1:26.2 | screenshots of iOS 27, the recreations based on that information. |
| 1:30.3 | And throughout all of it, you can basically see the previous design details and features that Mark's been reporting on for the last six months. |
| 1:39.3 | Yeah, now visualized. |
| 1:40.3 | So what here kind of stands out to you? |
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