More Apple executive drama
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🗓️ 5 December 2025
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Stories discussed in this episode:
- Apple announces departure of two more top executives
- Gruber: Apple employees 'giddy' about Alan Dye’s departure
- iPhone 17 Pro lost key Camera app feature that iPhone 16 Pro had
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to 9 to 9 to 5 Mac Daily for Friday, December 5th, 2025. I'm your host, Chance Miller. We are sponsored this week by Narwal. |
| 0:12.3 | Leading off today, iPhone 17 Pro offers a much improved camera experience over prior models, but a new Apple support document confirms that one previous camera app feature has |
| 0:22.6 | been removed. Every year, Apple upgrades the iPhone camera offerings in multiple ways, such as a new |
| 0:28.4 | center stage front camera this year, a trio of 48 megapixel fusion cameras on the back, and |
| 0:34.4 | plenty of new software features, too, like dual capture. |
| 0:38.3 | But now users have discovered that one software feature is missing. |
| 0:42.7 | Night mode can no longer be used while shooting in portrait mode. |
| 0:46.9 | Portrait mode is one of the most popular camera app features, and it puts the subject |
| 0:51.6 | of the image in focus while adding a depth effect to the background. |
| 0:56.5 | And until the iPhone 17 Pro, the feature also integrated with night mode for gray low-light portrait images. |
| 1:04.2 | But an Apple support document confirms that this feature is no longer available on the iPhone 17 Pro. |
| 1:10.5 | Instead, it's supported on the iPhone 12 Pro on the iPhone 17 Pro. Instead, it's supported on the iPhone 12 |
| 1:12.6 | pro through the iPhone 16 Pro. It's highly unusual that a camera feature available on every |
| 1:18.8 | pro iPhone since 2020 would all of a sudden be dropped from this year's flagship phone. |
| 1:24.9 | Both portrait mode and night mode are still features on the iPhone 17 Pro. They just |
| 1:30.1 | no longer can work together. As of right now, Apple hasn't said anything publicly about why this |
| 1:36.1 | feature was removed, so it's unclear if it was because of a hardware change or a software |
| 1:41.2 | limitation that could be addressed in the future. |
| 1:47.3 | Next up today, Apple's leadership shakeup continues. |
| 1:51.3 | Apple has announced that two more executives are departing the company. |
| 1:55.3 | Catherine Adams, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, |
| 2:03.4 | and Lisa Jackson, Vice President of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives. Apple announced the news in a press release saying that Lisa Jackson is set to retire in late January 26, while Catherine Adams will retire in late |
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