New Apple Intelligence features in iOS 18.2, iPad mini reviews, Apple gaming app
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🗓️ 24 October 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Benjamin and Chance discuss all the new Apple Intelligence features available in the first iOS 18.2 beta, including Genmoji, Image Playground, and ChatGPT integration. Also, the new iPad mini receives mixed reviews and there are signs Apple is planning a dedicated Games app for iOS.
And in Happy Hour Plus, Chance fills Mayo in on his failed iPhone 15 trade-in horror story. Subscribe at 9to5mac.com/join.
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Benjamin Mayo
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Links
- iOS 18.2 beta now available with Genmoji, Image Playground, ChatGPT, iPhone 16 Visual Intelligence, and more
- Craig Federighi's Wall Street Journal interview
- iOS 18.2 beta 1: Every new feature and change
- New AirPods Pro hearing health features launching next week, here's a first look
- Apple working on new App Store-like app dedicated to games
- New iPad mini reviews: Jelly scrolling is fixed (probably)
- Here’s the first Severance season 2 trailer for Apple TV+
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Mayo I think some congratulations are in order for you this Thursday. Is that right? |
| 0:05.0 | Oh, shucks, I mean. |
| 0:07.0 | Oh, shucks. You got your driver's license, finally. |
| 0:09.0 | You're legal to drive in the United Kingdom on the wrong side of the road? |
| 0:13.4 | I mean I said I was trying to do it before I was 30 and I've come in about five months early so |
| 0:19.0 | ahead of schedule. |
| 0:19.8 | Ahead of schedule. |
| 0:20.8 | Success. |
| 0:21.8 | It only took you what you scheduled the test like seven months ago. |
| 0:25.3 | Yeah it was like February. Jesus. If you're in America you probably don't understand but like over here |
| 0:31.5 | the backlog of tests is ridiculous so you have to |
| 0:35.0 | schedule like months and months in advance and the the driving test in England is |
| 0:38.8 | like one of the it's not the hardest in the world but it's more more difficult |
| 0:41.8 | than the US there's more stuff you've got to do it's more more difficult than the US. There's more |
| 0:42.8 | stuff you've got to do, it's more complicated. But yeah, just getting the |
| 0:46.4 | test is an ordeal unto itself because you've got to like wake up a 5m and |
| 0:49.4 | fight over like five tests are available because they've still got a huge backlog |
| 0:52.1 | from like COVID and stuff. |
| 0:53.7 | So if like they say I failed on Friday the next test I would have been able to get was like |
| 0:58.0 | March or February or whatever and then you can sometimes like fight for cancellations and all that |
| 1:02.0 | nonsense but it's a lot less stressful if you can sometimes like |
| 1:05.0 | in the old times and all that nonsense but it's a lot less stressful if you can just pass them for a verse attempt because you don't worry about all of that like in the old times when it was fine it was like okay if you failed you could, you know, have a couple more lessons and |
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