MBW 1011: Oy and Whoop! - iPhones to the Moon!
MacBreak Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
3.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2026
⏱️ 137 minutes
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Summary
Apple is scaling back its plans for its AI-based health coach service. Could Apple's next AirPods Pro come with cameras in them? The iPhone 17 Pro Max has the best battery life out of a plethora of other smartphones! And Apple's Lockdown Mode helped prevent the FBI from accessing a WaPo reporter's iPhone.
- Apple is scaling back plans for new AI-based health coach service.
- Apple's next AirPods Pro will come with cameras, says leaker.
- Leak suggests Apple's M5 Pro and M5 Max may be the same chip.
- NASA changes its mind, will allow Artemis astronauts to take iPhones to the Moon.
- Google & Apple CEOs offer seemingly contradictory statements regarding AI partnership.
- New Alexa's issues are already making some users return to old Siri.
- New Apple-backed AI model can generate sound and speech from silent videos.
- iPhone 17 Pro Max has the best battery life of 35 smartphones tested.
- Last week on my Mac: Why E cores make Apple silicon fast.
- FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because it had Lockdown Mode enabled.
- Oura's FDA lobbying benefits Apple Watch, if everyone's smart about the risks.
- Apple Music Replay 2026 now live, here's how to find it.
- Ferrari's new Jony Ive–designed EV is swathed in glass and aluminum.
- Applications are now open for the 2026 Swift Student Challenge -- but hurry.
- Apple Arcade's 'Civilization VII' is good, but falls short of greatness
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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Mac Break Weekly. Andy Anacos here, Jason Snell, filling in Dan Moran. |
| 0:05.0 | We're going to talk about those new AirPods that might have cameras in them. I don't know about that. |
| 0:10.5 | Here come the new MacBooks. Watch out. iPhones are going to the moon and, well, you might want to turn into on lockdown mode. |
| 0:18.0 | All that and more. Coming up, a Mac Break Weekly. |
| 0:22.9 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:24.6 | From people you trust. |
| 0:27.1 | This is Twit. |
| 0:31.6 | This is Mac Break Weekly, episode 10011, recorded Tuesday, February 10th, 2026. |
| 0:39.3 | Oi and whoop. |
| 0:41.8 | It's time for Mac Break Weekly, the show we cover the latest Apple News. |
| 0:46.1 | Jason Snell is back from his visits to, I don't know, Cooper Tino. |
| 0:51.6 | I don't know. |
| 0:52.1 | I just sat on a beach for a week. |
| 0:55.2 | It was great in Hawaii. |
| 0:57.2 | Having a good time. |
| 1:02.9 | And now I'm back and I'm wearing my hoodie because it's just cold here in California. |
| 1:04.9 | It's only 55 degrees. |
| 1:07.0 | Hawaii, it is. |
| 1:07.6 | So, yeah. |
| 1:09.0 | But it's good to be back. |
| 1:28.0 | The blue sands, the yellow sky. The blue sands of Iraqis. Welcome back, Jason. We missed you, but we didn't miss your six colors. No, sirree. I saw the thumbnail of the YouTube version of the show last week, and one of my charts was on it. And I just nodded. And I'm like, |
| 1:31.1 | Jason, I always have to use your charts whenever we talk about using charts. |
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