iPhone Air 2 rumors, more
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🗓️ 6 November 2025
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Stories discussed in this episode:
- Second-gen iPhone Air may get two cameras
- Apple nears $1 billion Google deal for custom Gemini model to power Siri
- iOS 26.2 brings a small but great Apple Music upgrade
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Notify Back Daily for Thursday, November 6th, 2025. I'm your host, Chance Miller. We are |
| 0:09.5 | sponsored this week by Backblaze. While there's evidence to suggest that the iPhone Air has proven |
| 0:15.2 | less popular than Apple had hoped, it seems the company hasn't given up on it altogether. A leaker with a decent |
| 0:22.2 | track record says that Apple is currently exploring a second generation iPhone Air that has two |
| 0:27.1 | cameras instead of one. The current iPhone Air has a single 48 megapixel main sensor with a 1X |
| 0:34.0 | lens that can also be digitally cropped into a 2x. This rumor says that the iPhone Air second generation will add a 1x lens that can also be digitally cropped into a 2x. |
| 0:38.0 | This rumor says that the iPhone Air second generation will add a 48 megapixel ultra wide lens. |
| 0:44.2 | So you'd have a 48 megapixel main camera and a 48 megapixel ultra wide camera. |
| 0:49.4 | Apple apparently thinks that users are happy enough with that 2x telephoto digital crop and would rather have |
| 0:55.2 | the main camera paired with an ultra-wide lens rather than the main camera paired with a telephoto |
| 1:00.4 | lens. It's the same setup that's currently on the base iPhone 17. Whether or not the addition |
| 1:05.7 | of an ultra-wide lens is enough to really change the buying calculus for iPhone shoppers, |
| 1:11.8 | considering the iPhone Air is unclear. |
| 1:13.6 | But nonetheless, it's reassuring to iPhone Air fans that Apple isn't giving up on the product |
| 1:18.4 | line, despite the first generation maybe not being quite as big of a hit as Apple had hoped. |
| 1:23.9 | Next up today, we talked about iOS 26.2 and all of its new features yesterday, like changes |
| 1:29.1 | to Apple News, Apple Podcasts, and more. And as it turns out, iOS 26.2 also brings a big |
| 1:35.1 | improvement to Apple Music, support for offline lyrics. Apple first added lyrics support to Apple |
| 1:41.5 | music way back in 2016. The feature has gotten significantly better |
| 1:45.8 | since then, with support for search, live lyrics, karaoke mode, and lyric translations. |
| 1:52.7 | Support for accessing lyrics, however, has always required a data connection, whether that be |
| 1:57.6 | Wi-Fi or cellular. iOS 26.2 finally changes that. |
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