New Apple accessibility features, Apple Watch rumors
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🗓️ 20 May 2026
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Stories discussed in this episode:
- Apple announces AI-powered accessibility features and eye-control of wheelchairs
- Apple announces return of popular MagSafe iPhone stand and grip
- Apple Watch Ultra 4 getting two major new upgrades, per report
- Apple Watch could soon gain new high blood pressure feature
- Apple might replace aluminum with titanium in future iPhones again, per leak
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to 95 Mac Daily for Wednesday, May 20th, 2026. I'm your host, Chance Miller. We are sponsored this week by Bitwarden. |
| 0:12.3 | Leading off today, a new rumor sheds light on what to expect from the Apple Watch Ultra 4 set to launch later this year. |
| 0:19.4 | Last summer, Digitimes reported the first details regarding what's coming for the Ultra4. |
| 0:24.6 | At the time, it said there would be design updates, double the number of sensors, and much better power efficiency. |
| 0:31.9 | Since then, however, there's been surprisingly little reported on the new model. |
| 0:36.9 | Digitimes, however, is back this week with a new report highlighting two changes. |
| 0:41.6 | Digitimes says we can expect, quote-unquote, a major redesign, or also referred to as a, quote-unquote, |
| 0:47.2 | full redesign, as well as significant upgrades to the sensing functionality. |
| 0:53.1 | The report says that analysts expect this redesign to the Apple Watch |
| 0:56.2 | Ultra 4 to increase shipments by between 20 and 30% year over year. It's not explicitly clear what sort |
| 1:04.3 | of design changes Apple might make to the Ultra 4, but the design of the Apple Watch Ultra |
| 1:09.2 | has been largely the same since it first launched |
| 1:11.9 | several years ago. The report also says that Apple is working on an upgraded version of the |
| 1:17.8 | hypertension detection feature that came to the watch last year. The report isn't entirely clear on how |
| 1:24.3 | this new feature differs from the existing hypertension notifications feature that |
| 1:28.6 | arrived with watchOS 26. But it says that Apple has submitted the new functionality to the U.S. |
| 1:34.6 | Food and Drug Administration for approval. It's possible that the new sensors referenced by |
| 1:40.2 | Digitimes contribute to the upgraded hypertension features coming to the Apple Watch. |
| 1:45.6 | Apple is set to announce the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra4 later this fall, alongside the iPhone 18 lineup. |
| 1:53.2 | Next up today, last year, the iPhone 17 Pro switched from titanium to an aluminum-based design instead. |
| 2:00.1 | A new leak this week on Wayaibo says that Apple is now |
| 2:02.7 | exploring an upgraded, improved version of titanium that could make its way to future iPhone |
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