Leaked! New intel on iPhone 16 colors + how to get Apple Intelligence right now (CultCast #658)

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🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This week, Apple Intelligence is out! What features are in? Also, leaked colors for the iPhone 16 and 16 Pro, the first Apple silicon 5G chip coming next year and the first thought-controlled Vision Pro!

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This week’s stories:

How to get Apple Intelligence features early

You can get the Apple Intelligence beta right now on your iPhone, iPad or Mac. Not all features are available yet, but you can try out the new Siri, writing tools, Mail features and more by requesting early access.
How to stop Siri from randomly activating all the damn time

iPhone 16 could come in these 5 colors

Alleged iPhone 16 dummy units showing off the rear panel’s design and color options leaked in all their glory.

iPhone 16 Pro Max looks stealthy in leaked black titanium shade

Apple will apparently offer its upcoming Pro iPhones in at least three shades: white, black, and titanium. Unlike in the past, it appears the company will finally adopt a deep black shade for the iPhone 16 Pro Max, giving it a stealthy look.

Apple’s in-house 5G modem could finally debut on next year’s iPhones

Ming-Chi Kuo claims that Apple will debut its 5G chip on two iPhone models in 2025. The chip will launch with the iPhone SE 4 in the spring of 2025, followed by the iPhone 17 Slim later in the year.

Brain implant lets ALS patient control Vision Pro via thoughts

In a groundbreaking development, a brain-computer interface (BCI) company called Synchron successfully demonstrated the first-ever use of Apple’s Vision Pro controlled directly by thought.

Listen to new Apple history podcast by two Cult of Mac alumni

A new Apple history podcast from two Cult of Mac contributors launched this month. In each episode of Apple Core, hosts Graham Bower and Charlie Sorrel explore the history of a different Apple product, focusing on what we can learn from Apple’s past, and what this tells us about the company’s future plans.

Speed up Haptic Touch with this hidden iPhone setting [Pro Tip]

A hidden setting in iOS 17 will speed up Haptic Touch, the fantastic feature that lets you preview links and bring up option menus on your iPhone. If you use Haptic Touch all the time like I do, changing this setting will make your iPhone feel supercharged.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Where is Newton? Newton's in small towns and amlets.
0:04.0	Newton's in the urban jungle.
0:05.0	Newton can get you from the urban jungle to the nearest hamlet.
0:08.0	Newton goes wherever people need to communicate.
0:11.0	Newton can send a letter or a memo and can be reached by a satellite.
0:15.0	Newton faxes from places where there's no fax machine.
0:18.3	Yo, you got a fax machine? Newton is everywhere. Well, that's not a bad place to be.
0:23.0	Where's Newton in relation to what? The universe or Des Moines?
0:27.0	Good evening and welcome to the cult cast the best 30 plus minute apple conversation
0:36.3	you're going to hear all week long.
0:38.7	I will be your host today, DeGraffin Jones.
0:41.0	Joining me today, some say he's adopted the Beatles diet of coffee, toast, and cigarettes.
0:47.0	Others say he powers his house entirely from the solar flare reflected off his shiny gleaming head. All we know is he's
0:55.2	cultimax managing editor Louis Wallace. Yeah I like toasted cigarettes
1:00.0	actually. That's the best. Apparently this is the month where all three of us have taken a week off, three weeks in a row.
1:08.0	We literally didn't plan this. It just happened to work this way.
1:12.0	Look, Lewis got back as soon as I left for my vacation a day later,
1:15.4	and when I get back, Airfon says he'll be out.
1:18.4	Weird how that works.
1:19.2	It's almost European, the lack of work that's getting done.
1:22.4	One more point of order before we begin on another sad note.
1:26.0	My cult of Mac Apple Financial Earnings call Livestreamathon was sadly cancelled.
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