iPhone’s satellite features, more
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🗓️ 20 February 2026
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Stories discussed in this episode:
- macOS 26.3 references two new Studio Display models, per report
- iPhone satellite features helped Lake Tahoe avalanche survivors get rescued
- Apple is making it easier to customize how subtitles look on iPhone
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to 95 Mac Daily for Friday, February 20th, 2026. I'm your host, Chance Miller. We're sponsored this week by Stuff, the clean and powerful to-do list application. leading off today, the usage of subtitles and captions in TV shows and movies is ever increasing, both due to the popularity |
| 0:21.9 | of foreign language content and Hollywood's inability to produce an audio track where you can |
| 0:27.0 | actually hear the person talking. With that in mind, in iOS 26.4, Apple is improving the |
| 0:33.4 | subtitles experience in the native video player on iPhone and iPad, as well as on Apple TV |
| 0:39.1 | with TVOS 26.4. With these updates, it's now possible to change the look of subtitles while |
| 0:45.5 | in the midst of watching your favorite TV show or movie. This is because Apple has redesigned |
| 0:51.1 | the subtitles menu and the native video player to include new controls for picking |
| 0:56.0 | your style. Previously, this menu just allowed you to toggle subtitles on or off and pick |
| 1:01.9 | the desired language, but now it includes a separate section for style. Default options include |
| 1:08.3 | classic, large text, outline text, and transparent background. |
| 1:12.6 | But users can also make their own custom styles, choosing design options like font, size, and color. |
| 1:18.6 | All of these style settings were previously available by digging into the accessibility section of the Settings app, |
| 1:24.6 | but now you can find them right where you need them when you're |
| 1:28.0 | actually watching a TV show or movie. The new functionality is available as part of the system's |
| 1:33.5 | native video player, so it's available in apps, including Apple TV, and when watching videos in Safari. |
| 1:40.5 | Any third-party app that uses the native player will also have this option, but if an app has used its own custom video player, it will not get these new options. |
| 1:51.2 | Next up today, according to a new report from the New York Times, survivors of the catastrophic avalanche near Lake Tahoe this week used emergency SOS via satellite on their iPhone to stay in |
| 2:03.0 | contact with first responders. Don O'Keefe, the chief of law enforcement for the California |
| 2:08.9 | Office of Emergency Services, says that the six survivors of the avalanche used emergency |
| 2:14.7 | sOS via satellite to communicate with the Nevada County Sheriff's Office. |
| 2:20.2 | O'Keefe said that one of his personnel was communicating with one of the guides over a four-hour |
| 2:24.7 | period, giving information back to the Sheriff's Office and coordinating what rescues could be |
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