Hello and welcome to another episode of App Stories.

I'm John Voorhees.

And with me is Federico Vitici coming hot and live from an iPad in Rome, Italy, hot and live. That's where you're coming from.

Yeah, okay. Hi. Hi. It's warm there. It's warm there. It's warm here, I know.

Yes, it's warm. It is hot and live. So this is the kind of describes the vibe of this

episode. This episode is going to be all of our experiments

with the current set of betas, developer betas,

for the 26 series of operating systems.

And as part of that, for the first time,

I am trying to record this very podcast using my iPad Pro,

which you don't see, it's right here,

but I'm using my usual camera. I'm using my usual microphone with which you don't see. It's right here, but I'm using my usual camera.

I'm using my usual microphone with my audio interface. And I'm taking advantage of the local

capture mode in iPadOS 26. I have warned Federico not to touch anything because we did have a

little experiment on an NPC that was unrelated. that caused a little bit of a glitch,

but yeah, we're doing fine. It seems to be working really well.

So let's talk about that immediately, right? So this is a new feature in iPadOS 26 that allows podcasters like me to finally record a podcast while being on a Zoom call because you just

see the episode, but John and I right now, we are live on a Zoom call.

We're talking to each other and we're seeing each other.

And it used to be in iPad OS before that if I try to record myself

while also being on a Zoom call, everything would just stop

because the iPad couldn't record the local audio and the video

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