M2 MacBook Pro reviews, iPhone 15 design, Apple AR headset software details
9to5Mac Happy Hour
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4.4 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2023
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Benjamin and Zac discuss a change to Low Power Mode on the Apple Watch, Apple’s newest TV+ ad, and reviewers have gotten a chance to go hands-on with the new M2 MacBook Pro and Mac mini. Plus, there’s new rumors about the iPhone 15 Pro chassis redesign and insights into exactly how Apple’s upcoming AR headset will work from a software perspective.
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| 0:00.0 | One of my favorite things about the Apple Watch Ultra and also Watchoise 9 is that I keep learning new things about both, |
| 0:07.0 | like months after their release. |
| 0:11.2 | Which is normal for a lot of folks I imagine but for us like it's hard jobs to kind of know as much as you can |
| 0:17.6 | Everything yeah and I and I and probably are listeners as well. I really enjoy digging through the settings app |
| 0:24.1 | for everything, preferences, |
| 0:25.6 | and finding out everything I can change |
| 0:28.2 | and how things work. |
| 0:29.0 | So to learn a couple of things |
| 0:31.1 | about Appwatch Ultra and Watcho has 9 since early since September is fun. |
| 0:35.4 | The first thing I learned was a few weeks ago. I think we probably discussed on the show, maybe, but |
| 0:39.7 | it's that when you do a workout with the Epwatch Ultra and you have your iPhone with you it will use |
| 0:46.3 | your Apple Watch Ultra's GPS even if your phones with you for the for workout tracking. |
| 0:51.8 | Yeah we never actually got to this on the show actually oh cool yeah and |
| 0:55.2 | and this is this applies to the Apple watch series 8 as well really nice yeah |
| 1:01.8 | so series 8 and Ultra, they now use the GPS always, whereas before if the phone was nearby, it would use the phone's GPS. |
| 1:09.2 | Yeah. But for the, for whatever reason now, they are fully independent in the sense that they always use their internal GPS instead |
| 1:15.7 | And that's useful because your phone could be in your pocket or somewhere that isn't on your wrist open to the sky |
| 1:22.2 | So it's a little bit better, not the optimization for having a good signal. |
| 1:26.7 | And then also for the altar, they've got the two different bands of GPS. |
| 1:29.7 | So that's more precise. less interference and and then if I didn't I didn't realize |
| 1:38.0 | this but the iPhone 14 pro and pro max have the the dual band GPS as well. |
| 1:43.0 | The dual band GPS. |
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