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More Siri delays, imminent new hardware, and Apple’s upcoming 50th birthday

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4.4924 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Benjamin and Chance react to the disappointing news shared by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman that the new Siri features are facing even more delays, but in happier news, a bunch of iPhones, iPads and Macs are due for an imminent refresh. Meanwhile, Tim Cook reminisces ahead of Apple’s 50th birthday.  

And in Happy Hour Plus, thoughts on the design of the Ferrari Luce and Jony Ive’s sniping comments about his former employer.

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Chance Miller

Benjamin Mayo

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0:00.0

I like how in our note,

0:01.0

Mayor, you've kind of broken this first segment up into the good and the bad, because there's good news and bad news. And there's also what I think is just like neutral news. So there's good, neutral and bad. We'll start with the neutral. And that is that iOS 26.3 is now available. First beta came out in like December, I think. So this has been a long beta cycle for an update that is not very exciting.

0:21.5

But just the headlines of what's new in 26.3, there's the transfer to Android feature.

0:26.7

So this is the wireless transfer. You can bring an Android device, put it next to an iPhone,

0:31.3

then transfer like your photos, your messages, your notes and your apps all at once,

0:35.9

developed in partnership with Google.

0:38.0

Then there's the limit location data sharing that we talked about a couple weeks ago.

0:42.2

So this is the thing where if you have a device with a C1 modem and you have a supported carrier,

0:48.5

you can go into the privacy section of the settings app.

0:51.9

Toggle on limit precise location.

0:55.8

Then your carrier can only see broader information about your location rather than specific things. So can use your information

1:01.3

to determine the neighborhood where your device is located, but not the specific address.

1:06.0

There's a few other EU things, like some upgrades to proximity pairing for third-party accessories

1:10.7

and a couple

1:11.4

NFC things.

1:12.9

The one interesting wrinkle to this, and the main reason I wanted to bring this up on

1:16.3

the episode is that notification forwarding was in the betas of iOS 26.3.

1:22.4

This is a thing that lets you send iPhone notifications to a third-party smartwatch or glasses or other wearable

1:29.4

form factor in the European Union.

1:31.3

That feature is actually not in what has shipped.

1:34.9

Oh, really?

1:35.5

It was just meant for developers to beta test throughout the beta process.

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