Welcome to In the News for February the 13th, 2026.

It's also Friday, by the way, so I'm trying not to put Friday and the number 13 together, Jeff.

I am Brett Burney from AppsinLaw.com.

And this is Jeff Richardson from iPhoneJD.

And I don't care that it's Friday the 13th because here in New Orleans, we are about to start our big Mardi Gras weekend.

I got friends and family in town, so it's an exciting weekend for me.

In fact, as I'm talking to you right now, Brett, on the other side of my office, this is totally cheesy,

but like i have these sort of string lights that are programmable and like you press the button and

they're like purple green and gold so like i'm looking for mardi gras in here of course and then

when mardi gras is over i can press another button on the lights and i can make them i don't know

saint patrick's day or something else we'll see so okay so just real quick this weekend is like

the big weekend right like after this you're probably going down to the parade you're going

to the quarter oh my goodness it's so fun yeah our office downtown is going to be closed on the

tuesday and really monday too so yeah the whole sort of shitty shuts down i know the rest of the

world it's just like maybe valentine's day is the most exciting thing but or president's day but no

yeah for you in fact because president's day is on monday a lot of people have a holiday and even

more people are coming to new orleans this year so anyway oh my goodness let the good times roll

say it for us i always forget to lazy le bon ton roulette before you head out to the parades folks

make sure that you upgrade your iOS devices. How's that for a crazy segue? I actually finished all

of mine. I think I still have my Apple watch to do. This is iOS 26.3. So I just, I got my iPhone.

It wasn't that big of a deal. My iPad even upgraded my Mac. Of course, all the things with like Apple

TV and everything else that gets upgraded on this, not a huge upgrade, but there were a few things

that you pointed out from a couple of folks today,

I think Julie Clover and things,

that there was a few interesting tidbits here.

Yeah, a few little things.

I mean, if you want to transfer from an iPhone to an Android,

you know, they've got, look, a little app for that.

And, you know, hopefully you don't leave in the iPhone fold.

But maybe you decide that you want to get an Android device

so you can have one of each just to sort of, you know, have full.

And maybe that's a good angle sort of synced up.

So anyway, it's minor things.

I think security and bug fixes is really the biggest part of this versus anything.

um so not not too much in this update but you know it's always good to stay updated um weather

wallpaper yeah limit precise you got to really some eu only things in here too yeah you gotta

you gotta really stretch to look for something big in here besides security updates um the big

thing i mean as we're going to segue into is that you know i've been waiting for 26.3 to be out

because 26.4 was the one that was supposed to include some of those initial siri improvements

And, you know, let me say this. I have a beef with people who say, oh, something is, quote unquote, delayed when it's something that Apple never announced in the first place.

You know, for example, there's a rumor that later on this year, Apple is going to come out with a folding iPhone.

But if they don't announce it this year, you know, invariably, the media folks will be like, oh, it's been delayed.

No, it hasn't been delayed because it's never been announced in the first place.

But this Siri stuff, this is an exception for me because we all remember that back in 2024, if you can think back that long, you know, where were we in 2024?

But in the summer of 2024, Apple said, hey, we got this great new Siri coming out and they announced all these things.

And then, of course, none of it happened.

And then it was going to be 2025 and none of it happened.

And now it's 2026.

And, you know, the rumors had been that it was going to come out like at least the first ones would be, like I said, in 26.4.

And then we have this report this week from Mark Berman, the person that has all the leaks at Bloomberg, saying, you know what?

I don't know.

You know, what I'm hearing is that it's not working.

You know, there's so many problems with it that I don't think Apple is going to be able to do it in 26.4, which means maybe 26.5 or maybe all the way until iOS 27.

And, you know, because this has been such a black eye for Apple, I mean, they promised an under delivered, which is usually Apple is just the opposite, right?

They usually announce things when they're ready to go.

This is an issue.

And Apple, I think, really needs to have an improved Siri.

I mean, some of these things that Gurman said are just bizarre.

He's like, according to what he was hearing in like December and January, so pretty recently,

people were like doing a test where you'd ask something to Siri.

And instead of using that new Gemini, you know, Google Gemini AI engine,

they'd still be using the old ChatGPT engine, which is like, what are you doing?

I mean, that just shows that Siri is so many layers deep that like they think they're doing

one thing on one side and it's not working the other side.

So again, hopefully this is all worked out, but I'm excited.

I mean, I want to have smarter personal assistance.

And so I'm excited for this.

Apple told us two years ago, almost, we were going to have this and here we are still waiting.

I mean, I thought it was interesting that Apple's stock dropped this week.

You know, that just shows what a big report this was.

That German comes out with this report.

They have a stock drop, so much so that Apple has to leak something to CNBC saying, oh, no, we're still on track for 2026.

Of course, 2026 could be December 31st.

So I don't know.

I know I'm impatient, but I think it's a justified impatience because Apple told us this was coming a long time ago.

So this stock drop happened just a few days after their incredible report, right, from their earnings report.

I mean, it's just crazy to see the ups and downs on some of that.

Now, so, okay, Jeff, I'm still a little confused on this

because I see what German is saying

and a couple of the other articles that you link to.

But when we talk about now the Siri getting delayed,

are we talking about AI in Siri that Apple was working on?

Are we talking now about their new agreement

that they announced with Google to have Gemini?

Or is it all wrapped up in the same thing?

That's where I'm just kind of getting a little befuddled

on all of this.

I believe it's all wrapped up in the same thing

because originally Apple was going to do all of this in-house.

You know, for example, the one that they had the commercial pull off, which is, you know, Siri would know about things on your device, like your calendar and other information that's private to you.

This would all be private.

It wouldn't go into the cloud.

But Apple would, you know, your iPhone would, quote unquote, know things about you so that it could offer helpful tips.

I mean, the commercial that they had was, you know, oh, that is Joe.

Remember, he's the one that y'all went to lunch together six months ago.

Right.

About such and such.

And you're like, oh, wow, thank you for reminding me of that.

You know, that's the sort of stuff that I think would be really helpful.

Apple tried to do it with its own technology, couldn't get there.

They announced the agreement with Google Gemini, although I think that was actually done last

year.

It's just that they didn't announce it until more recently.

Right.

And so we were supposed to be seeing some of this stuff.

You know, again, 26.4 was what everybody was sort of saying.

I know Apple didn't promise that.

Apple just promised 2026, although originally they promised it back in 2024.

But that's what we want to see.

And, you know, and I've seen reports that some reports say it's going to be a big, you know,

a big AI push.

And some reports say, no, Apple's going to do it one at a time.

And don't get me wrong.

I don't want Apple to release something that's half-baked.

That's worse.

So I applaud pausing when things are not quite there yet.

But we have been pausing for a long time now.

So hopefully they are getting their act together soon.

And then I didn't even mention this, but this is also wrapped up with their current agreement with OpenAI.

Because if you ask Siri a question and they can't answer it with whatever is built in right now on the device, it says, do you want me to go ask ChatGPT for that?

And you have to give.

I don't know how that's going to work.

I know there's that thing happening, too, at the same time.

And it's just it's just getting a little confusing.

But, you know, quickly back to a comment that you made, like, I mean, it almost can't come soon enough, although I don't want it sooner than when it's really going to be ready on there.

But Jeff, I find myself more and more, and even people that I know, utilizing the apps

of ChatGPT or Google Gemini or Claude on your phone today.

Like I have it on my lock screen.

I have a widget on my lock screen to immediately open up ChatGPT, not to where I just sit there

and I type something in.

I start having a conversation with it.

Now, obviously, that's something more generic.

Like I wanted to know, you know, hey, I've just got a rental car that is, you know, that's

electric and I'm not too familiar with the different plugs and what do I do? And I was able to find out

within five minutes because it was like my Star Trek moment where I just opened up ChatGPT and I

said, computer, tell me all of this that I need to know. And just having that interaction is great.

And then, of course, to me, the additional benefit is going to be when I can say something along the

lines of, can you tell me this? And oh, by the way, what's in my calendar on my schedule? Like,

when can I go to a charging station and sit there for 20 minutes? Something along those

those lines, right, that it can take not just that AI kind of information, but then it can also look

at some of my personal information that I want to be very secured and private. And I would trust

Apple, I think, still at this point, to make sure that that stays secure. But just when you made

that comment, it made me think about that. Like already today, we are already interacting with

different services now. And I just really hope that Apple catches up. Yeah. I mean, I know this

is not easy because the thing about AI, part of the beauty of AI is also the downfall, which is

that it's got sort of this random nature to it, that things are not always coming out the same

way, which means that sometimes you get results that are wrong with the hallucinations. You know,

I practice law in Louisiana primarily, but I'm also licensed in Florida. And just this week,

some of the, some of my partners in our Florida offices and like Tampa, we're sharing some of

these court orders. And I know this is nothing new. We've got like a hundred of these around the

country. But there's a bunch of Florida courts this week that have these new standing orders

that if you're brief that you file in court, if in any way, shape or form you used AI to get to

that result, you need to have a certification. And we know why they're doing this because every day

in the news, we see reports of people filing a brief and it cites a jurisprudence, some case law

that was just made up. It says Smith versus Doe, but there is no Smith versus Doe. And I understand

this is really troubling. We just had a big one here in New Orleans last week in a federal court.

I mean, it happens all the time.

So I know where they're coming from.

But at the same time, these AI tools, you know, whether I'm using like a legal research tool like Westlaw, they're so useful there for helping me to find cases.

And again, absolutely.

I'm still reading the case.

It's not like I'm making it's not like I'm just, you know, just copy paste and I'm done.

I mean, that would be regardless of AI, that would be negligent as a lawyer.

That would be malpractice to do it.

So I don't really understand why you need to have a certification because, of course, you need to be a good lawyer.

But but but they do they do have problems, right?

The tools, you can't 100% rely upon them.

Use them as an aid and then do it.

And yet the things that they can come up with, I mean, this is a very isolated example, Brett.

You and I have talked offline about I had a problem years ago.

I moved my website from TypePad, which I had been in for years, to WordPress.

And in the transition, I had a problem.

I think you and I dealt it just a week or two ago when you were putting together links for our podcast that like something that I would link to, the link didn't work.

And the reason for it is because something behind the scenes was like, if the URL had a dash PI on it, it was changing the URL.

It was like, how do I fix this?

And I have been researching this for six months.

This week, Brett, it occurred to me, you know what?

ChatGPT can be good with this stuff.

And so I just launched ChatGPT.

And I don't even pay for ChatGPT anymore.

It's just the free version.

And I just had this conversation to describe what I was seeing.

and it asked me questions about, well, is it, is it, are you seeing it here? Are you seeing it there?

And I had this discussion with, with the bot and he's like, you know what? It could be one of these

two things. And the first one, it wasn't, but the second one was some file with C, I don't even know

what the heck it was telling me, but I went and I looked into the, into the, the engine as if I know

what I'm doing about as a web developer. And I found it and I'm like, oh my, there it is. Like I

totally found it. And so I changed it and I fixed it. I'm like, Oh my goodness. And so like,

of these conversations, like, you know, and whether you're maybe trying to figure out like,

how do I fix a toaster or whatever, you know, these things, you can have these conversations.

You've done them before. I know where absolutely. This is really useful. These LLMs, they take this

vast bit of knowledge, like who knows where they get it from, you know, chat boards. And I know

there's all sorts of IP issues there, but whether it's appropriate scraping things, but the bottom

The same line is it's useful.

And whether it's an assistant that's helping me remind, you know, that's the guy that you

had dinner with on this other thing, or whether it's helping me fix something, there is just

such promise here or when I'm doing legal research.

And I know there's hallucinations.

And I know that's why Apple is having problems and why it's not doing what they wanted to

do.

But there's also so much promise.

And as we get better with this stuff, it's just going to be so amazing.

You know, last week on the podcast, we talked about that fun app on my Vision Pro called

where I could actually see like a full,

you know, as if I'm playing Pac-Man and stuff,

which is fun.

And I just discovered this week,

there's like a little hidden gem in it

that if you press some button,

you go into a secret door in the game

and you have like an old PC from the early,

whatever it was, 80s,

that's got the Russian version of Tetris,

like the original Tetris,

which is all text-based and stuff like that.

But it just reminded me,

and it was fun to play from nostalgia reasons,

but it reminds me how far technology has come

from the 80s when I was a teenager

and this was sparking my interest,

which is so far beyond that.

And that's one set of technology.

The AI stuff is improving so quickly

that I know that we have things

that AI is making mistakes on today,

but the promise is so incredible

and it's improving so much

that 10 years from now,

we're going to look back and say,

can you imagine what infant stages we were at?

So this all gets back to Apple.

Apple needs to be doing this well.

They need to be a part of this

because it's going to be the future of technology.

So that's why I have this, you know, I'm a little, you know, I wish it was happening faster, but I'm also very excited about the future.

So anyway.

Last week, we talked about the new AirTags or the next generation of AirTags, the AirTags 2, if you will, or we sort of, I mean, Apple doesn't officially call them AirTags 2.

In fact, that's one of the reasons that I thought Glenn Fleischman's article here was really good, because when we talked about the new AirTags, I'm excited about it.

You had an excellent review where you compared, you know, the current ones or the older ones with the new ones.

And it's louder. It's better in many circumstances.

I didn't even think about the idea of is this backwards compatible with limited number of phones until I read Glenn's article here.

And I'm like, what? I mean, it's not it's not that bad.

It's not as bad as making it out to sound.

But still, I wish Apple would have been a little more transparent about this.

Yeah, I mean, they will work in terms of other phones being able to find them.

But the key thing is we're just talking about iOS upgrades.

Why do you upgrade your iOS?

Well, one reason you upgrade is security updates.

And another reason is to get new features.

But like if you just walk into an Apple store, you know, maybe not you, Brett, but like somebody

who's just not paying attention to this stuff, I could totally see someone buying an AirTag,

not even realizing it's the new second generation AirTag.

But maybe they haven't yet updated their iPhone.

They may not even be running iOS 26, you know, right?

They might be running last year's release because they just don't update all the time.

And then they may find that, wait, how come it's not working?

And this is why.

So Glenn is just listening.

You know, you have to have a relatively new device to get all the fancy new Find My features

and stuff like that.

And you need to be updated.

So, you know, just an interesting reminder here that I'm sure somebody out there is going

to run into this problem, not realizing, oh, I need to actually, you know, update it. And of

course, if they have an incredibly old iPhone, maybe it won't work at all, you know, but you

need to have the new iOS's and you need to have an iPhone or other device that's, you know, within

the last couple of years. I mean, that just makes sense. Things always come out that they don't work

with the older stuff, you know, but yeah, that's better than I was trying to make it out here.

The main thing is you have to have the at least iOS 26.2.1, right?

And so you may make sure that your phone can run that.

And I think he says, like you said, the original AirTag from 2021 works with phones all the way back to the iPhone 6S, right?

So that goes back pretty far.

But did he say in here, in order to run iOS 26.2.1, you have to have at least an iPhone 11?

Is that correct on that?

Yeah, I guess so.

I think that's what he's saying.

It's a little confusing.

I mean, I'm glad that Glenn did the research to say this and this and this and this.

I mean, I can't just bluntly say anything since next year is going to work.

But suffice it to say, I mean, my guess is if you have a loved one that comes up to you,

because if you're listening to this podcast, you're probably a little bit more of a tech

person, and someone says, hey, these new hair tags don't work, this Glenn article, you could

look at it and say, oh, this is right.

you're using an X. And as Glenn explains, you actually need to be a little ahead of that.

Maybe it's a software upgrade. Maybe your device is just simply too old.

I almost like even more so towards the bottom of his article here. He links to a nine to five Mac

article to help you understand how you can tell the difference between an AirTag one and an AirTag

two. It basically you have to have, I mean, for me today, I have to have a magnifying glass because

there's little etched uh wording on the actual air tag and then it'll tell you you know he says

if it says this it's going to be air tag one if it has this on there it's going to be air tag two

and that's just important i mean because i don't think there's there's any other uh indication like

i know you had your box a week or two ago when you showed the ones that you bought and it's like if

you don't really know any better or be that informed you're not going to know which version

that you're getting uh on there yeah the easiest way to remember it is don't think about the words

just look at the capitalization.

If it's got a whole bunch of words in capital letters,

it's the new one.

And if it doesn't have a whole bunch of words

in capital letters-

That's true, I see that.

That's a silly thing,

but like it's the easiest one to remember.

Yeah, and in the post that I did last week,

I actually had a big picture of the back of an AirTag

just so you could see what I was talking about,

that if it's got all those capital letters,

it's the new one.

So anyway, and again,

eventually six months from now, a year from now,

this will all be in the rear view mirror,

We've talked several times about how people can, I think of it as temporarily disable face ID or touch ID.

For example, I know we've talked about this, Jeff, when people coming back into the country, for example, and you want to maybe have your phone a little bit more secure, you can temporarily disable face ID.

hey, I hadn't really thought about it from the context of being involved in a protest.

But this article at Six Colors from Philip Michaels was like, oh, yeah, I mean, because we've talked about this.

And I will do this from time to time with the idea that this is all getting into some of the legal weeds of it aspects.

But, you know, a law enforcement officer can hold up your phone to your face and basically unlock it with face ID.

That's not protected under, again, various legal rules and issues.

But they cannot, at least under most law, they cannot force you to give your password.

In other words, it's something that you have in your brain.

They can't do that.

But if it's something on the outside like your face or used to be your fingerprint, I'm not doing the best job of explaining that.

But I thought that this was good.

This is good here.

It has to do with the I mean, again, it gets complicated legally, but it's the privilege against self-incrimination, right?

Some nobody. This is part of the Constitution. Yes.

Thank you. You have you have the right that nobody can force you to testify, which is why you have the right to take the Fifth Amendment.

You know, everybody knows that and TVs, you know, take the fifth. You don't have to talk.

Yes, of course. Right. Part of you can't force someone to say something in Louisiana, in America, at least currently, is that you can't.

Of course, you can't say, where were you in the night of such and such?

You can't force them to answer, but you also can't say, tell me your passcode.

OK, because that's test that's that's testifying.

However, what you could do is something that doesn't require them to reveal something, which means you could take their fingerprint.

You could take a blood sample from them.

You could take their DNA.

You could put an iPhone up to their face.

And, you know, this is something that as a lawyer, I think about because, you know, you mentioned the big example, which is coming back into the United States, customs and borders, patrol.

They have incredible, you know, authority.

And if they really don't care because it's not their job to care that you're an attorney, you have confidential attorney client privileged information that you are duty bound under the law to not disclose.

And so you have the competing interest of they just want to get all the information because that's their job.

And you need to protect your clients because that's your job.

And Philip Michaels mentions another one, you know, not to get political, but we have a lot more protests going on for legitimate reasons nowadays.

And sometimes, you know, you know, ICE agents don't have the training and they may just assume they can get everything.

And so they may just seize devices.

So if you want to protect it, you know, the trick that we've always told people was that if you have your iPhone and if you get into that mode where you lock it down and the easiest way to do it is if you hold down the button that is on the right side, like you turn it off and you also hold down the volume up button.

If you just hold those two buttons down for a second and you can do that when it's in your pocket, it will bring up this screen that's like, do you want to turn it off?

But even if you don't do anything on that screen, the simple fact that you brought that screen up disables face ID.

And so at that point, if somebody was to, you know, whether it's a bad guy or whether it's an officer or whether that's ambiguous as to which they are, if somebody was to take your device, they can't get into it without putting your code in.

And as long as your code is not one, two, three, four or something stupid like that, then they're not going to be able to get into your device using most methods.

Right.

What Philip Michaels mentioned in his article is something that, frankly, I had never thought about.

Instead of doing that little trick, what you could do is you could just say, you know what?

For the next 24 hours, I'm just turning off Face ID because I'm crossing a border, because I'm going to a protest, because I'm whatever.

And then I was like, wow, that makes sense because that way you don't have to worry about like, did I do the little trick with my hands?

And then did I log in after that?

So now I've disabled it.

Just turn it off.

And that way, the only way to get into your phone is with the code.

And at that point, you have a lot of protection. I didn't link to it today, but like there was an article that was in a publication called The Information I saw this week where it was a reporter, I think maybe for The Washington Post.

But they were talking about how there's also this super secret mode on the iPhone that you can lock everything down and make it like incredible mode.

And for most people shouldn't do it because it's very cumbersome. But like there are ways that you can really lock things down if you find that for this period of time, I need to do it.

And so like, I think people should know these. I mean, you have a right to know it under the law in the United States, maybe not in other countries, but I think it's good to know this stuff. The tip on the holding on the buttons is a good one, but the one that Philip Michael shares of just turn off Face ID for 24 hours. I think it's good to know this stuff.

Absolutely. One other trick that I just tested, so it still works because I remember this from beginning from several years ago. If you rapidly click the side button like five times, sometimes that'll bring up your wallet ID. But if you click it or sometimes I don't even count the times. If I know that I'm grabbing in my pocket for it, I'll just click, click, click, click, click. Instead of trying to figure out, you know, the both buttons that will do the same thing, too. That will lock it down. I think it has to be five times.

that so five yeah and it goes in yeah and it goes into emergency mode in other words hey that's even

better thank you i i forgot about that one yeah that's much well i just that holy yeah well you

know for me it's like i tell myself mentally like if i'm ever in a situation like that you know and

i've got to like reach for my phone but i want to make sure it's locked then i know i can probably

much quicker click that side button five times or more however and it'll lock it down in the same way

And so in other words, once that's happened, the only way you can get it back into it is you have to actually put in your passcode.

Because I remember we've talked about this from the beginning.

You know, a lot of people got confused thinking, well, I have Face ID.

I don't need a passcode.

And that, of course, is so far from the truth, right?

In order to have Face ID, you have to still have a passcode.

I just always like to make sure that I confirm that because so often since we do just use Face ID, people forget sometimes about that passcode.

And it is still extremely important to make sure that you remember that passcode.

Now, turning off Face ID.

One quick thing on the passcode.

As a reminder, it used to be the default was four numbers on an iPhone.

And then now it's got to be six fingers.

But you can make it more.

Like I have my passcode is more than six.

I'm not going to tell you what that number is.

And I will tell you, it's a little bit of a pain, but I totally get used to it and it's fine.

And you don't even have to do just numbers.

If you say, I want alpha and numeric, I want my iPhone unlock key to be, you know, the first word of the Gettysburg address, you know, first phrase of the Gettysburg address.

You can do whatever you want.

It's up to you.

And, you know, the more complicated it is, the more cumbersome it is.

But, you know, just keep that in mind.

And the more complicated it is, the more impossible it becomes for conventional hacking techniques.

And, again, the bad guys are always coming up with new ways.

And sometimes even the good guys, some nation states, are coming up with ways to get past it.

But a strong passcode that's actually in effect because you did the press the five button, five things, that is really going to stop under current technology.

That's going to stop just about all the ways that somebody can get into your device.

And then they're reading your emails and your text messages and, you know, everything else and your contacts.

Exactly.

You know, and everything.

Exactly.

Philip at the bottom here makes a little bit of an argument to say that Apple should make getting access to those settings a little bit easier or maybe even just kind of offer some additional setting on there.

I would be okay with that.

Like, I think that would be great if we could just do because, you know, here we're talking about having to click it five times or hold down the side buttons and stuff.

If there's an easier way maybe to get to that.

Or frankly, you know, I think he says turn it off 24 hours, but I don't think there's a setting for like a timer, right?

You'd have to go back and manually turn face ID back on.

Right, exactly.

So maybe something like that would be kind of a cool thing.

Anyway, we'll see.

Just interesting discussion on that.

We've talked a lot about Apple Health and Fitness Plus.

And when you posted this story, this is from Hilliard, right?

Was it Wesley?

Yeah, Wesley Hilliard.

It's like, I hadn't thought about this as much,

but what if we combine all of this together

so that it's fitness and health.

And what does he call it?

I think he says,

I don't think health plus would be good,

but maybe he said Apple wellness plus

where we can combine all of these things.

Yeah.

I think that's a pretty cool idea.

Yeah.

You know, Wes Hilliard, by the way,

he writes for Apple Insider,

but he has his own blog

and he started writing on it more frequently

just on things he wants to talk about.

And there's been a lot of discussions

because again, you talk about the rumors.

There have been rumors recently

that Apple was going to have

a new subscription service called health plus.

And then the latest rumor is that

He took over that division and he said, you know what, we're not going to do this.

But regardless, Apple, I don't care whether it's a subscription.

I mean, I do care.

It'd be nice if it's free.

But whether it's a subscription or whatever it is, Apple has this.

This goes back to the AI discussion we had before.

Yes.

When I say Apple, I mean, your iPhone has all of this information about yourself, about your health, about, you know, your how much you move.

If you have an Apple watch, it's got all that information that Apple can act on this.

And I would love and so would Wesley.

I would love it to be more proactive.

You know, he has some good suggestions in this article as of maybe it could reach out to you and say, you know, I've noticed these things.

You might want to do X, Y, Z.

And we have some right now.

Like we have the sleep score, you know, for whatever that's worth.

And, you know, of course, Apple will tell you if it thinks that you've fallen down and need you to call help and needs to call help for you.

And, you know, if it thinks that you've got a regular heartbeat, you know, heart issues.

So it already does some of these things in extreme circumstances.

But it would be nice to have it much more.

And I know the technology can only do what it can do, but the technology is getting better

over time.

I suspect it could currently do more than it does.

And so I think he has some good ideas in here.

And some of them are go a little, like he says, you know, every day it could remind you to

brush your teeth.

I don't, I don't need my, my watch or my phone.

You know, I, that, that's what I have a handle on, but whatever.

I mean, the idea is a good one.

Like, what are some things that it could give you alerts on, help you on?

I think that there's more there.

And I would love to see more.

I would love to see more.

The one that started me thinking here is caloric data.

I mean, there's been like MyFitness Plus, right?

And there's several other apps that allow you to track your food consumption.

I don't really know if you could improve on that very much.

He says log meals via visual intelligence.

That would be cool.

I haven't used some of these apps in a while.

So I don't know.

Can you take a picture of the plate of food that you're going to look at?

because I found the pain for me was a couple of years ago when I used these was like typing

everything in. And then I had to say, no, I had this much or this portion. I only had two cups of

oatmeal here. And so that equals, you know, it's like, that was too much work for me. But if I could

just maybe use some kind of an AI tool to interact with that, I mean, having that tracking and in

addition to, you know, heartbeat and, uh, you know, fitness and exercise along with sleep. I mean,

all of that stuff together. You could put all of that together in one place. I mean, I don't want

to pay more for that because I'm already paying for Fitness Plus, but I could see this. I just

hadn't really thought about that angle on there, but I think that could be a good possibility.

Yeah. And I've been criticizing Apple in today's podcast on like how slow they are in Siri,

but look, let's also sing some praises. One of the things that Apple has historically done

incredibly well is they take something that's really sort of complicated and geeky from a tech

standpoint, and they find a way to reduce it to make it accessible, right? Whether they're making

the user interface that's easy to use or whether they're presenting it in a way, and this is what

Apple often really shines on. And so to take all this disparate information that's related to health

and wellness and present it to you in a way that's perhaps even better than some of the current

third-party apps can do and make it actionable, Apple, that's in their DNA. And so I would love

to see them do more. We just talked about a story from Philip Michaels at Six Colors, but the second

story that you link to, I completely related to, my wife gets upset if we're watching a show

and somebody makes a comment about a phone or that it got locked or something, and I will scream at

the TV, like, all you got to do is go into that setting. You got to do that. And like Philip

Michaels, I feel like I could sit down and watch a show with him. He's specifically talking about,

I forget what the show was here, Animal Control.

Whereas like he's struggling,

Joe McHale is struggling with how to recover deleted photos.

And Philip is yelling at the TV,

like all you got to do is go into your photos app

and find recently deleted.

I hope that everybody listening to us right now knows this,

but you know what?

When you quote unquote delete a photo or video,

it's not actually deleted.

It's there for 30 days.

You just need to go into like the little utility things

and recover it.

In fact, I literally just did it yesterday.

deleted a photo and I'm like, actually, I want that photo. And you go back in there. And, uh,

and by the way, when you go into that portion, if you haven't done it a while of your photos app,

um, you actually need to authenticate yourself using face ID, or if you turned off face ID,

using your code. So like if for some reason you handed your phone to somebody, um, that's actually

nice. Like if I have some really cool pictures and I hand you my phone, Brett, and the next thing I

know you're going through my deleted photos, I'm like, Whoa, Whoa, Brett, that's too far. So you

could not do that, but I could because of my face ID. And then I could, I could undelete something.

And it only lasts 30 days.

And so after that, it's gone forever.

But again, this is how many times have we seen something on TV that we're like, that's not the way it works in real life.

But, you know, if you or one of your loved ones don't realize this, you do have some time after you delete a photo to undelete it.

This reminds me of any time that we watch like old movies, maybe from the 80s.

And, you know, there's a computer and they're typing in certain commands and stuff.

And we're like, excuse me, I don't think that that's the right command.

If you have to put a comma there, you have to put a second line.

I'm like, boy, I just I'm sure I'm very boring to a lot of people.

Thankfully, my wife allows me to yell at the television screen when I see those things.

Driver's license.

More states are coming on board with a digital ID.

Now, I say digital ID.

Digital ID to me, I feel like is separate because I have a digital ID, which is I think of it more as the equivalent of my passport.

In addition, I have my digital driver's license. So Ohio has been on board for a while. And we've talked about several states. And you have a separate app in Louisiana that you've been using, Jeff, on some of this. But I'm thrilled. I'm always thrilled that we get to report there are more states that are coming on board. I mean, we've got a hefty, what, 14, 12 or 14 right now, or 13 states that are available, including Ohio.

And then we have another what another eight coming on board for future states, including Kentucky, Connecticut, Oklahoma.

This is just great.

I almost did not link to this report because and the reason is I wasn't sure if it was new news, because oftentimes when there's a story like this, I go to Apple's website and I look in their press releases and I can see, oh, OK, so this is something new that Apple is announcing.

And when I first saw the story, I'm like, I think I know that some of these states were announced last year that they were coming, although they didn't give us a due date yet.

But then after I decided not to link to the story, I then actually saw a whole bunch of other independent sources.

And so sometimes what Apple does is sometimes their PR department will reach out to publications and they're not going to actually put a press release on their website, but they just sort of talk to people.

And so I don't know whether this actually is new news for every single one of these states.

But regardless, it at least puts it all together in one place.

So if you happen to live in one of these states, Connecticut, Kentucky, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Utah, Arkansas, and Virginia, it has been at some point, maybe a while ago, either Apple or the state itself have announced that they're going to be bringing this to the Apple Wallet app.

So does it mean it's going to be this year?

Does it mean it's going to be before Apple improves Siri or after Apple improves?

Who knows?

But at some point, at least you know that you are coming.

And then on the other hand, if you're not listed in one of those seven states and you

don't currently have it, then, you know, maybe it's not on the horizon.

So again, it's not the most useful feature in the world, but it is nice.

I mean, again, as we discussed, the Louisiana version is different because it's in an app.

But literally just last night, I had to go jump in my car to move my car around because

of parades.

and it's the parking near my house is crazy right now

because of Mardi Gras.

But I didn't have my wallet with me

and I'm like, oh, well, that's okay.

I've got my iPhone in my pocket

and my iPhone has my state license on it.

So if for some reason,

somebody rear ends me or something like that

and I need to show that I have my license with me,

I have it on my phone.

So it actually, it's useful.

I like having a digital version of my driver's license.

And so if you don't currently have this capability

wherever you live and if it comes out,

it's totally worth doing. I love having it on my wallet as well, Jeff, except I'm so frustrated.

I don't think I've been able to use it even once from the phone. I mean, like what would be some

of the situations? I hate to think that's what would happen if you were in a wreck, but I think

my next thought was that you can tap those little three dots at the very top of that,

and it will give like all of the information. Like, cause right now, if you just pull it up

wallet it's just got a picture of there right and it has your name on it but to get access to like

your birth date and you know uh the license number you have to go into like the information of that

so yes it would be great to be able to reference that i'm talking about the idea like you can see

at the bottom of this story here the participating airports every time i've gone to an airport

and you know usually have like tsa pre-check or clear so i don't normally have to pull out

my driver's license, but there's always those times where, you know, you got to have it just

in case that the GSA agent, you know, thinks that they want to see it. And I think two or three times

so far, this has happened. I get very excited because I am stopped and they say, we need to

see your ID. And I'm like, Oh, Oh, I got it right here on my phone. I'm sorry, sir. We don't,

we either, we don't do that at this airport or the machine that usually does that is broken right

now. That's been my experience. And I'm just so frustrated because it's like, that means I have

into my pocket, I still have to carry my physical driver's license. And I don't know other places

that you would see it. Cause if I go to like a CVS pharmacy or something and buy, you know,

cold medicine and you have to show your ID or whatever it is, I don't have a lot of confidence

that the person behind the counter is going to look at my app, my iPhone and be like, Oh, well,

yeah, you're good to go. It's like, no, they have to look at it. The actual physical ID. Okay. That

was just my little soapbox rant there, but I mean, you travel so much bread. I know that

you're on the road right now today that, you know, you have so much more experience with

airports than I do. So I trust you. Anyone out there, no matter where you're listening to me,

there's a decent chance that Brett Burney might be somewhere close to you because he's always

flying around the country. He's either in your hometown or flying over you right now. You never

know. I would actually just, I'll say, you know, if anyone out there listening, if you've had an

experience where you could, you successfully used your digital driver's license in your Apple

wallet please let us know either text us through the thing or email well what's your situation

in the in the new orleans airport i i used my digital you did to log in through tsa and you

want to list i mean look i will i will tell you there it's not listed there but actually i don't

know they say that that's not a comprehensive list in this post but the new orleans airport

that's right that's right and again yeah i will be honest with you brett did i actually save that

much time by going into the app and doing that versus just handing out my license. I don't know,

but I did it because I'm like, well, I got to try it. And it worked. Having said that,

I've also had a time just like you that it did not work. Uh, so, you know, cause they say,

cause they say the system wasn't working. So, and then you can't depend upon it because if the

system's not working and you never know beforehand, if it's going to work, then you have to have,

make sure you have your driver's license. Of course, nowadays, the last time I went through,

but they now have this thing where TSA, and I don't know if this is a pre-check, but like

they just took a picture of my face and from my face, they knew who I was.

So it's always, I don't keep up with all the airport stuff.

It's always changing.

Which they say, by the way, that that photo immediately gets deleted.

It's just, they're, they're using it from a comparison sake.

And it takes everything for me to like, not, you know,

peek around the corner because I want to see what they're doing.

And they, they don't like that, by the way, just FYI.

Okay. In the vision, let's do a quick in the vision story.

I like this because I am so happy for you, Mr. Jeff.

Apple Vision Pro finally gets a YouTube app.

I remember you've used several different options and trying to get access to YouTube videos,

but now you have a native YouTube app.

Yeah.

I mean, it was a little strange that there wasn't a YouTube app on day one, two years

ago of the Vision Pro, but, you know, I guess better late than never.

And I was trying it out last night, by the way, and it does work.

Yes.

It works really nice.

I mean, it's a nice interface.

I enjoyed it.

Um, it not only is for regular YouTube videos, cause I watched some of those last night.

Um, I was doing dishes last night and I used the YouTube app to put like this huge screen

in my kitchen with like this band I was listening to, um, uh, AJ Lee and, and, uh, like that

was basically a music video.

So I had like this big music video on the side as I was listening and sort of dancing

around as I was doing dishes, but you know, it was silly.

Now, again, was I a total dork doing dishes, wearing a vision pro of course, but that was

my next question.

That's okay.

Nobody was looking at me and I was enjoying myself and I wasn't bothering anybody.

and I got the dishes done.

And, you know, so everything was good.

But so it's a nice app.

Plus, YouTube is more and more having like,

YouTube will have like 3D videos on YouTube

and 180 degree immersive things.

And the quality, it's not as good

as the Apple immersive stuff.

So it's a little bit more fuzzy,

but it is there and it is cool and it does work.

So I'm glad that we have this.

I saw something, somebody posted this week,

I think on Reddit.

They're like, you know what?

I wonder if when Apple made the agreement

with Google to use Gemini for AI.

They said, okay, we're going to do this.

But by the way, you got to finally make that YouTube app available.

So it finally is.

So we still don't have a Netflix app, by the way, on the Vision Pro.

And I watch Netflix shows on my Vision Pro.

I have to do it within the Safari browser, which just works.

I mean, once you're watching the movie, I don't really care

because the screen jumps out of the browser.

I mean, it might as well be a native app.

Yeah, but it could be better though.

But it could be better if it was a native app.

I don't know why it's taking this long, but eventually.

eventually. So yeah, thank goodness we finally have YouTube. So speaking of shows, we'll do a

quick in the show segment because it's possible that severance is now officially coming back or

there was more information. I didn't really get it. Although I'm just, you know, if I can see

more Mr. Milchak, I'm going to be happy. Yeah. So a lot of the shows on Apple are actually done

by their in-house studio, but they have a whole bunch of shows that it's another studio that

produces and makes it and apple just has an exclusive arrangement with them to to get it okay

and this is all inside hollywood behind the scenes blah blah blah but the story here is interesting

that the um the studio called fifth season which actually does a number of shows for um apple tv

that um they according to this they were actually having some financial troubles because severance

is a very expensive show to produce and like they were not making money off of the first two seasons

and they figured they would make it up on the back end but it's just in my mind like it's the number

one show on it's getting it got all these awards and stuff like that well of course this is the one

that they're doing great but apparently not and so apple has decided you know what we're just going

to purchase the rights to it they paid a whole bunch of money and so now they own all the ip

all the rights and it also means that apple itself doesn't have to be giving loans to a third party

to make the show they can they spend the money apple's got all the money we just talked about

that you know last week with our financial reports so you know let them just spend all the money that

they need to make the, and now they have all the rights to it. So again, and from my standpoint,

I really don't care who produces a show. I just want to watch it. And I like watching it on Apple

TV because Apple TV has got good quality shows. But this is an incredibly long article, which got

all sorts of behind the scenes of, I mean, I don't work in Hollywood. If anyone out there does,

they may know all this stuff, but I didn't really know all this stuff about how things work and

you know, where it's filmed. And they said that for financial reasons, the folks that were making

severance considered not making it in the New York area, but actually going to Canada where it's a

little bit cheaper. But now that Apple is doing it, they'll be able to afford to do it in New York,

which has some other advantages. It's just all these interesting behind the scenes stuff that

I didn't know about. And some of it, by the way, could be wrong. A lot of this is rumors.

And as I noted today, I noticed that Ben Stiller, who's the showrunner and the creator,

the co-creator, he said, hey, some of this is just hearsay and don't believe everything you read and

who knows what he's referring to. But regardless, I'm sure there's a whole lot in here about just

how the industry works that I didn't know. So if this is the sort of thing that's of interest to

you, this is a very long article in Deadline that I learned a lot reading it. There's Tim Cook in a

severance promo video. He looks so serious. And who knows if it's innie or outie, we'll never know.

Your video at the bottom of your post today, group selfies.

We talked about this, which was a big deal when the iPhone 17 came out and iOS 26 came out.

Because most of the time, people have to tilt their iPhone into landscape mode in order to get a widescreen selfie.

But not anymore.

You can keep it in portrait mode up and down and still get a lot of people in the picture.

And I thought this was a cute little video that they used.

They just kept adding people on every one of these little pictures.

Like, just keep adding people because you can get them all now.

Yeah.

I don't take a ton of selfies because I'm not a teenager.

And I certainly don't take a ton of selfies with a big group in it.

But, you know, I might be doing it for Mardi Gras this weekend.

And this was a good reminder that, you know, in the old days, you had to turn it sideways, like you say, which is a little awkward.

But now I can just keep it in my hand in portrait orientation, which is easier to hold.

And as more people gather around me for the picture, it will automatically adjust it.

And I think this is a great feature.

I really like that Apple added this to the iPhone 17 and 17 Pro.

So if you have a newer iPhone, just let the iPhone do its thing.

It's a nice feature.

It works.

I've definitely used it.

It definitely works.

In the know, we cheated a little bit because today you had a fantastic post from Julie Clover

and Mac rumors, 10 iPhone tips and tricks you probably didn't know about. You talked about one,

but I thought, well, let me, I'm going to pick one from this as well that I think I kind of knew,

but I didn't realize you could switch. So we're going to pick one of these and I'll tell you,

I mean, and all of them are fantastic. So make sure you have the link to the entire list on here,

but I'm going to point out the very last one, number 10 in the past, when I took screenshots

on the iPhone. And I do this pretty often, whether I'm capturing, you know, a website or some,

or some information or a receipt or something like that. I'm just, I'm doing a lot of screenshots

in the past before I think it was before I was 26, I would take the screenshot and the screenshot

would go into like a mini picture in the bottom left corner. And most of the time, many are often

Jeff, I would find, I would take a screenshot and then I wouldn't want to take another screenshot

and maybe two or three other screenshots. Cause sometimes I'm scrolling through maybe chat

or something like that.

And so I loved it when that little mini picture

went to the bottom left corner

because I just flicked it away to the left.

In other words, and it saved automatically to my photos.

Well, when, I guess it was, I don't know if it was 26.2

or maybe with 26, then you would create a screenshot

and it would go into this full on editing.

I call it the editing screen.

You could like draw something on it

or you could use your finger to swirl around words

recognize it and it took me like two or three extra taps in the very top to hit the check mark

and then i could say save the photos or copy and delete that kind of a thing and it was just like

i'm so used to just quickly flicking it away and going to the next screenshot and i was disappointed

that that went away but it didn't i can now go into settings and this is what and there's a video

that goes along with this as well it's not julie clover but um i forget the gentleman's name dan

Yeah, Dan, okay.

Give him credit because Dan came up with this.

Absolutely.

Just reporting on them, yeah.

Gotcha, gotcha.

Yeah, the video is definitely well worth watching

because he goes through,

he even does like bonus tips as he goes through here.

But thank you, Dan and Julie for reporting this,

that I can now go in and turn off that setting

so that it goes back to like the screenshots

the way they were.

And the reason I like that, Jeff,

is because there are times when I do want to do

like a highlight or I want to like, you know,

use a pen tool to circle something

or, you know, draw an arrow or something, you can always tap that little mini picture in the bottom

left corner before it goes away to go into that editing mode, right? So you can still do that.

So not losing that, it's just I gained back sort of that efficiency standpoint that I was so used

to on there. So that's my pick here is that if you don't want, they call them full screen previews

for screenshots. I like having the option to go into full screen preview, but most of the time I

just want a screenshot and then I'm going to save it into my photos and I like just flicking it

so that it goes right in there

and I can go on with whatever else I need to do.

Yeah, you know, this is a great tip

that my guess is far more people

would prefer to have what you just described

to turn this feature off.

Because I think most people are just,

you take a screenshot, you want a screenshot,

you just want the picture, that's it.

I mean, I do sometimes use these for geeky things

like looking at text and pulling text off of stuff.

But I mean, I have to admit more often than not,

I just want to have a picture and I suspect for,

And I'm the person that uses some of the geeky stuff in it.

So I think I'm going to keep it on for now.

But this one caught my eye too.

I almost feel like Apple might have the defaults reversed.

Like maybe the default should be the old version.

And then the new one you'd have to turn on.

You have to go.

It's called screen capture.

We call them screenshots.

But Apple in the settings calls it screen capture.

And right now by default to your point, it has turned on full screen previews.

display screenshots in full view instead of showing a temporary thumbnail in the lower left

corner. So I'm tapping that off because I don't want that. And then he also goes into like a couple

of bonus tips in there. You know, if you if you if you take a screenshot while you're in CarPlay mode,

it'll take a picture of the screenshot on your phone as well as whatever's showing on the CarPlay.

So you can turn that off, too, if you don't want to have access on there. So screen capture in the

settings is where you want to go if you want to go back to the old way, the better way, in my opinion,

to do screenshots there. Yeah, it's a good tip. The one that I'm going to emphasize is the first

one on this list. And I didn't know this and I'm so happy that I do know it. So let me describe it.

You know, we've talked about Siri, you know, and the problems and how it should get better. But one

thing that I really do love it for is for reminding me of something, you know, so many times throughout

the day, I'd be like, you know what, gosh, tomorrow or today, for example, I wanted to remind myself

yesterday that on my way into work this morning, I wanted to stop in Walgreens to grab something.

And so I told my, you know, iPhone and said, hey, you know who remind me at a certain time tomorrow morning, go to Walgreens just to make sure that I didn't forget about it in the morning.

Sometimes what happens, so that works really well.

The only part of it that doesn't work is sometimes it doesn't hear me correctly.

You know, it's the, you know, instead of saying beat up Bart, it's eat up Martha.

That's an old Simpsons reference.

But, you know, it's sometimes Siri gets the words wrong, but it works well enough for me.

But every once in a while, it will happen that like I'm going about my day, do, do, do, do, do.

And I look at the front of my iPhone and I see, oh, remind me at 7 a.m. this morning to do something.

And I'm like, oh, I totally missed that this morning.

And like if I had just looked at my iPhone, I would have seen it, but I just didn't see it.

And I'm like, oh, so here's – so if you have one of those situations, not only do you want me to remind me to pick up the dry cleaning at a certain time, but like I really want you to think about it.

What you can do is after you tell your iPhone to put the reminder in, if you go in the Reminders app and if you go to that little item and you tap the little I button, the info button, you can go in there.

And one of the options is to call – I think it's set urgent.

I'm going to look at it real quick right now.

So if I tap and then tap I, yeah, there's the alert and then there's the date.

There's the time.

The third option is called urgent.

This is new.

And if you turn on urgent, what it will do is if it's like a time alert, if I say at seven o'clock, remind me to go to the grocery store, it will actually, it'll be like an alarm.

Like if you're wearing an Apple watch, it'll tap your wrist and it will also make noise.

I mean, like a wake up alarm.

So keep that in mind.

You might be in the middle of a meeting and you don't want to use this feature.

But if you're okay, like, gosh, I really need to remember to do this at a certain time.

It will be like an alarm.

And it won't just be, I mean, again, I could just set an alarm, right?

I could say, you know, at seven o'clock tomorrow morning, turning an alarm off, but it won't

have a message with it.

This is a reminder.

It will actually tell you, you need to do this and you need to check it off your list.

And so I did not know.

I don't know.

I guess this is a new iOS 26 feature.

I don't even know.

But if I didn't know about it, I forgot.

But I'm certainly remembering it now because there are certainly times where I not just

remind me something, but like I need to really put this in my brain in the future.

And I love this feature about it because like my brain's got too much stuff in there, the legal stuff I'm working on, family stuff.

You know, there are some things in life.

It's like, just let my iPhone remind me.

I don't want to waste brain space thinking about it.

But when my iPhone tells me if it's urgent, I love that I now have the feature to get an alarm with the reminder by setting it as urgent.

So this is a great feature.

It might be pretty new because I don't use Reminders app very often, Jeff.

But when I went and when I opened up reminders app, you know, it has typically it has those.

Here's what's new in this app, right?

Yeah, great.

And sure enough, it said urgent reminder.

And now at the top where I say of reminders, it says add an alarm, mark a reminder as urgent to get an alarm.

There you go.

Device.

Let's do so.

It is bubbling it up.

So it must be fairly new in the sense that you can do that.

Or at least Apple is trying to make sure that you know that you can do that now.

But that is a great that is a great thing, because a lot of times I will just throw something in, you know,

or capture it maybe even in notes.

I mean, I could use reminders for this as well,

which I think is great because it works with Siri,

but I can just throw something in there,

but I want to make sure that I don't forget it, right?

To your point, coming back.

So that's a great tip as well.

And sometimes it'd be something in the future.

Like, I have like this battery in the trunk of my car

that if I ever need to jumpstart my car

and it's a rechargeable thing.

I've reviewed it a long time ago when I'm with JD,

but like I need to, like every six months,

you need to recharge it.

Cause the last thing you want to do

is have it dead when you want to recharge.

So like, I'm not going to remember like in mid July, 2026, we charged this thing.

I'm not.

So what I will do is I will just make a reminder now to let me know.

Now that one may or may not be urgent.

Maybe I don't need an alarm, but then again, maybe so I might, if I said it like on a Saturday

when I'm unlikely to be like doing like a client meeting, I don't care if my iPhone makes a

noise.

Maybe I'll say like, remind me at 10 o'clock on this Saturday, six months from now.

Right.

Don't forget to do this over the weekend.

It's just great.

And then I don't have to think about it.

And then when it reminds me, I'm like, oh, thank you, you know, past Jeff for telling me six months ago to do this because I would have totally forgot about it.

These are there's all great tips in here.

I'll make sure that we have the link here.

You should you should watch the video.

Just I mean, you can they've done a great job of putting in the little chapters as well.

So you can skip ahead if you need to or jump around.

But Dan Barbera does a really good job here on Mac Rumors.

OK, lots of good stuff.

Make sure, folks, you get out there and upgrade your iPhone and your iPad again.

as we've been mentioning, security updates, right?

Anytime that we have a small update like this,

it's just good to make sure that you're up to date

just from any kind of security improvements

that they make on that.

Always great talking with you, Jeff,

and we'll talk with you next week.

Thanks, Brett. Bye-bye, everybody.