Welcome to In the News for June 19th, 2026. I am Brett Burney from AppsinLaw.com.

And this is Jeff Richardson from iPhone JD. Happy Juneteenth, Brent.

It is Juneteenth. I know a lot of people that I know are not even working today,

but we still wanted to make sure that we took some time to talk about lots of stuff coming out. I mean,

I call it the fallout, but that sounds negative. It's just the amazing. We knew that a couple of

weeks now after the keynote presentation at WWDC, a lot of developers, a lot of journalists would

have hands-on with the new betas of iOS 27. And so we fully anticipated that by this time, two weeks

later we would have a lot of people giving us a rundown of how it's working what we're what we

can expect and uh i i would say we have not been disappointed your uh post today is chock full

of people talking about the things that they have already encountered that they say are improvements

why don't we start off with the big one of them all i think siri or we can call it siri ai i don't

even know and i have to keep turning my phone off because it keeps uh keeps uh coming on there but

this to me is the main thing that i have seen people talking about even you know the people

that don't care about this stuff as much these are the things that people are asking me about

is it better now because almost everybody even if they don't care so much about the technology

they they have encountered and talked to siri at one point in their life whether it's just to do a

timer or you know to ask for somebody's name or something but wow this is looking good almost to

the point where it's like this is getting serious now this is what we were hoping to have even two

years ago i don't want to i don't want to over speak that point but i'm just saying everything

i've seen so far in two weeks now a few days after wwdc is looking really good for siri

it is i am blown away because this is the first beta and this is for the most part this is just

the developer beta. This isn't even the public beta, right? So this is really early days.

And I am just so excited about, if it's at this stage in these first few weeks,

I can only imagine. And not only am I amazed at how good the reports are, and we'll talk about

specifics in a second, because it's so early in the beta cycle, but it's also just because

of the logistics of it. The way that, as I understand it, if you download the developer

version of any of the new operating systems, you don't immediately get access to the new Siri.

You have to go onto a waiting list because Apple is trying to sort of slowly ramp up.

And in fact, I will mention that I, last weekend, the only device that I plan to put the beta on

is my Vision Pro because my Vision Pro is sort of a beta of the future anyway.

And so I have it on there and I'll talk later on today about some of the specifics of that.

But what I don't have yet is the Siri AI.

I just checked it again last night.

Every night I check it and it says you're on the waiting list, you're on the waiting list.

So I've been waiting almost a week to get on it.

Oh, on your Vision OS, okay.

On my vision, just my Vision Pro.

But then even after you have the beta, in order to really see how it works, what the AI needs to do is it needs to index your entire device.

So for example, if you have it on your iPhone, it's going to index every item, your messages, your mail, your calendar, your notes, your everything.

And then that is what builds up that corpus of personal knowledge to you, all securely on device.

It's not being shared with Apple in the cloud or anything like that or Google or anybody like that.

And you don't have to wait until the very end.

You can start to do searches before, like the video that I linked to from Joanna Stern says that her index had not quite finished yet, but it still gave her good answers.

But this is what's amazing to me is that, you know, it's an early stage of Siri.

People are just, you know, people are not getting it on day one.

They're just slowly getting access to it.

And they're not even getting the real Siri, the full Siri, because it's still in the process of indexing their devices.

Like somebody I follow on Mastodon, he posted like just last night.

He's like, it literally Thursday night.

How long has it been since WWDC?

It finally finished its index.

And so now I can really get to the races.

And yet, even though we are on such early days of this new Siri, I mean, as David Spark said in his thing this week, the new Siri doesn't suck.

I mean, everyone is saying this.

It's the real deal.

This is the promise that Apple previewed two years ago and then could not deliver because their Siri just wasn't up to snuff.

The AI wasn't up to snuff.

And we are now there.

And so we have this Siri that is going to understand everything about my life because my life is on my iPhone and offers so much.

You and me, you go first.

I want to underscore that just real quick because I feel like that that's a good way for people to understand some of the things we're going to be talking about here in just a moment.

That's a key word of indexing index, right?

Because we're going to be talking about some of the things that we are impressed about is the fact that just like David is talking about here.

Can you check the weather for where I'm going to be next weekend?

That was his question to Siri, right?

He's going on vacation.

He didn't tell Siri where he was going.

Siri had to look at his calendar to understand how to answer that.

And he said that Siri figured it out.

The point that I'm getting to here is that indexing is a key word.

Like most people think of this as like, that's magic, or this is a black box.

I don't know how Siri does it.

It's just like, it just knows my calendar.

Well, there's a way that it actually quote knows your calendar.

And I just wanted to emphasize that for all the folks out there, like indexing is such

a key component, by the way, that's how your Siri or the spotlight search works on a phone

or on a Mac, or even your windows computer.

Like the way that it can find a file, for example, or an application is because it is

actually literally indexing and it creates an index of all of the documents or the files or

everything else. Now that's as about as deep as I understand that, but I'm just saying that is a core

concept that I just want people to make sure that when we talk about some of these things that Siri

does and frankly, any, anything on the AI side, whether it's just Apple or anything else that

indexing is a core aspect of it. And so when we're talking about this and not only did you link to

the Joanna Stern video, but also this from Steven Robles, which is another great video as well.

He shows that it has screenshot of the fact that it is still indexing.

So it is literally indexing your calendar, your contacts, your text messages, your emails.

It is going through all of that.

That's how search works.

When we talk about searching in mail is because it's indexed that.

Okay.

I just wanted to beat that dead horse a little bit more because that is an important concept

for people to understand.

This is the way it works.

It's not just a black box.

And that's why it's important for this step.

Yeah.

And there are, you know, the indexing, there are professional products that I use in my

law practice.

You know, the, you know, Lexus has got one out there, you know, Thompson Reuters has the

co-counsel, there's Harvey where you give them, you know, tens of thousands of pages

of documents.

But the first thing it does is it says, let me take a look at these first.

And it's essentially doing what you described as indexing it.

And then once it understands it, then it can apply, you can run the searches and you can

ask queries and it can use that information.

Most of the stuff that I'm using in my professional law practice, it's cloud-based.

And so they have a bajillion servers in the back end.

So it's actually relatively quick.

I mean, it can sometimes take a couple of minutes, but considering the hundreds and hundreds

of documents that I often give the AI, you know, in the overall scheme of things pretty

quick here, the indexing is being done on device, just in your iPhone's processor.

It's not a parallel, you know, 10,000, you know, servers in a rack room.

And so it's going to take more time.

But again, that's what gives you the privacy, which I think is so important.

And it's the reason why we've had chatbots on the iPhone in the past.

I mean, you could run the ChatGPT app or, you know, the Google Gemini app or Cloud, but it just doesn't have access to your private stuff.

And so it's doing, you know, the app is really just a front end to all this stuff happening on the cloud.

This is, you know, at least the index is all personal.

So what it means is what I was going to say is just this week, you, me and our buddy, Stephen Embry, were sort of emailing back and forth.

and I was telling him last night

that one of the things I love about the iPhone

and I've loved this from day one is,

and I've talked about this in the podcast before,

I consider the iPhone as like my second brain

because my brain, I just only have so much capacity.

I can't remember every password.

I can't remember every bit of information

that I might stick in a note at some point,

a name or a number, my calendar,

but I don't need to because it's all there in my phone.

And so I can take that stuff

that I used to try to remember

or tie the string around your finger in the old days

and it's just, it's on the iPhone. And so we can get there when I, when I want it. And so that's

been true really since I started using an iPhone in 2008 for, you know, many, many years now.

What's different now is that getting that information out, if I wanted to get that,

that note, I would have to go find that note, do a search myself. I'd have to take the time to do it.

Whereas the AIs are so fast that once it's done that indexing and it knows where it is,

I will have this future where I can just ask this, you know, new Siri AI, you know,

what time am I picking up my mom from the airport?

And it will just find the answer

because it knows where to look.

And I don't even have to say,

was it gonna be in my calendar and my emails

and my messages and my notes?

It'll just know where it is.

But then additionally,

not only is it's more than just finding needles

and haystacks, although that's incredible.

It's acting upon the information.

It's pulling information from different sources.

And like the video that Joanna Stern shared

was interesting because she asked a question about,

like, I'm traveling, I'm here in California.

What could I get for my kid that they would like?

And the example that she used is one part of the AI knew from a text message from her uncle that her boys like to play with like reptiles and stuff like that.

And then another part of the video, another part of the AI knows her location.

You know, that's just simple location.

And then another part understands the stores around her and the types of things she could get there.

And then it puts and then another part understands like the age of her kids from somewhere, you know, and it puts it takes all this desperate information and brings it together to give her an answer of, you know, what your kids.

your kids would really like this little snake that you can get at a store.

And then she walks across the street and she buys it for them,

a little stuffed animal snake.

But that's what I'm, it's not just that it knows the information

and can find it if I ask, I'm going to ask you a specific question,

but by having access to it all, it can build upon it.

And this is what, you know, some people in life that I encounter

are just so smart and they have such photographic memories

and they can pull together things and that's fantastic.

And sometimes I'm jealous of their abilities,

But having an AI, like a little buddy assistant that can be with me at all times and it knows all my stuff and then it can surface stuff for me so that I can devote my brain space to acting upon it and bringing it to that next level and making the more sophisticated things.

This is the promise.

And again, I am blown away that these initial reports from so many different people that we've just mentioned are this good this early.

And a couple of them have said, you know, I have hit this roadblock or maybe at this point it didn't work.

I mean, this is beta.

This is what I expect.

But if this is where it is in June, where is it going to be in July when the public beta comes out?

And more importantly, where is it going to be this September when we have an R device?

I truly think that this is going to be the biggest, most revolutionary improvement to the iPhone since day one.

I mean, I know that that sounds like a big exaggeration, but I think this is this transformative.

Plus, it's going to be approachable enough that people can use it.

You know, like you said before, Brett, people are familiar with asking a Syria question,

maybe like just like, can you turn on my lights or, you know, can you, what's the time of the day?

They're already familiar with talking to it, whether it be with voice or by typing.

And so I think it's going to bring this fantastically complex technology to the masses.

It's going to be, we're on the brink of something amazing.

and this is just the beginning as we said we're only and this is just the beginning

what's gonna be next year right from the end of wdbdc because that was that was a couple weeks ago

but it just the fact that i mean it's going to get better obviously now that it's sort of out in the

wild people are using it to the extent that you've downloaded the developer which i don't recommend

to a lot of people but if you're comfortable doing that or have a product then it's something

that you do but there's enough people out there that are going to be doing it for you right let

them be the guinea pigs there's plenty of people out there that could be the guinea pigs and they're

happy to do that. So Apple is just getting all kinds of data. The other thing that strikes me

alongside of this, not just that it seems to be working, but the speed at which it's working and

the accuracy that we are seeing so far. I mean, this was to me what illustrated grab me even from

that keynote presentation is that we were watching Apple executives talk to Siri in real time and we

were sitting there waiting which felt like you know a minute or two but it was probably maybe

eight seconds 10 seconds for the response now joanna was doing a good job in her in her video

about talking about this i think i think she actually said sometimes we cut out the middle

time just because you know she says i respect your time but there was a few times she even put it on

the on the screen there said this is siri in real time i think this other video you link to steven

Robles mentioned the fact that there were lots of Apple like show people like not the executives,

but as the journalists were walking around and mingling, you know, Apple always has sort of a

showcase there where people can pick up things and play with it. They were showing people that in

real time as well. In other words, they were not trying to hide any of that. They wanted people to

see, yeah, it's going to take a few seconds. And sometimes questions may take a little bit longer

if it has to think a little bit longer. But I feel like even at this point, with the stage of a

general AI that we're in, people are getting used to that already. We know that sometimes that a

question that we have may take a little bit more, you know, computing processing power to come up

with the answer that we might be looking for. But again, it all comes down to the fact that this is

now going to be in the hands of everyday people, Jeff. And just the fact that it's going to be that

accessible to me, that's why I completely agree with you. We are on the brink now of seeing even

another evolutionary jump, if you will, in the AI world that we live in.

Just amazing.

So anything else?

This other one I thought was good here from Harry McCracken.

I mean, Harry obviously has been writing about technology for so long.

I think I say that every time that you link to one of his articles, just because we have

a lot of respect for him.

But anything quickly that you wanted to mention from Harry's article here?

I think, again, he just kind of agrees with a lot of what David Sparks and so many other

people have been saying on here that um this is interesting in the in the fact that they've taken

the time to fully incorporate with again google right i mean a lot of this is just how it works

and then the last thing maybe quickly we can i can also say i was gonna i was asking about harry

mccracken but somewhere in this in this video from steven robles is that he had pictures even of

craig federici and some of the apple executives actually showing some of the constructs like they

were explaining here it is explaining how it works there's the i mean this looks a little crazy if

you're looking at the video here there's the on device side on the left side but then there the

cloud side on the right side now they talk about private cloud compute there's a lot of acronyms

and stuff here but at some point some of this i don't even think they put the word google on the

right side here anywhere on this screen but we know that in the background apple and google have

worked together harry mccracken was talking about that and just the fact that they and apple were

showing a lot of the journalists how exactly this works gives me a ton more confidence in this as

well yeah i think that the um the joanna's turn video also does a great job of explaining this

this system orchestrator thing where she actually has a fun little graphic where it's got somebody

you know the orchestrator is pointing and the idea is like some of the things you know you just

talked five seconds a couple seconds ago about how like it may take five five to eight seconds to get

a response but when you think about what's going on it's amazing because right you know the the

orchestrator is processing your request. It's finding some information that's on your personal

device, very super private from the index that you described. And then some things it's going out to

the private cloud compute because it knows that that's a little bit more sophisticated. Running

that locally in your device would take too long. So we're going to do it over here for the most

sophisticated stuff. It's actually going to a more sophisticated version of the private cloud

compute. And this is what was described in that presentation by Craig Federici with that picture

you showed that like some of the high-end stuff is actually going to a Google server that it's

running a private Apple model and stuff like that on it that they worked on. But it's the latest,

you know, frontier models to use the bud words. It's interesting, you know, we mentioned Google,

but just to make sure we're talking about people, Google means a bunch of different things.

We're not talking about Google, like when you do a Google search. This entire AI system doesn't have

access to Google per se. So if you type something into google.com and get a search return, that has

nothing to do with this new Siri. And even if you're familiar with Gemini, if you have the Gemini app

on your phone, that is not, that's a different thing. What it is, it's the underlying core

Gemini, you know, models that Google has, that Apple is just, it used it to train its own models

and do its own thing. So yes, they couldn't have got here without Google technology.

But again, the word Google, people think of, when you say Google, people think of doing a Google search.

It has nothing to do with this.

In fact, even when you use this new Apple product to find out general information about the world, like, for example, when is this band going to have its concert coming to my hometown of New Orleans?

It's not using Google at all for that.

It's using Apple's own.

They've done their own search engine of the Internet that they've been working on for years.

So that makes it interesting.

But it's just so complicated what it's happening.

It's still just amazing.

The other thing about the Harry McCracken article is, you know, he points out, as I just said,

that in some ways this is so much of this is what Apple told us about in 2024, but couldn't

deliver on yet.

You know, I almost feel like it's, you know how when I was a little kid, I used to always

love to read like these science fiction books and stuff.

And, you know, science fiction would describe things.

I mean, I think that there were science fiction stories from people like, I don't know, Ray

Bradbury that were, or whoever it was, or Isaac Asimov, excuse me, in the, in the, like the

1970s that would describe like a tablet type product that would have all this information

on it.

And it was decades.

It was decades until we got to the point where we had an iPad in our hand that was doing

the thing that the science fiction writers were talking about.

I almost feel like, although Apple didn't intend it this way, 2024 was sort of like

the science fiction story.

You know, here's what they said we'd do.

And then we couldn't quite get it there.

And only two years later, starting this September, we're going to have this stuff in our hands

and really using it.

system orchestrator that's the term that apple uses as sort of like the layer that explains it

my hope is that apple will take joanna stern's image of the system orchestrator here like like

that's all i could think of now but it's so good because he's got like the paddles and he's like

directing traffic on there anyway that's all i'm gonna say okay that was good i knew we're gonna

spend some time on siri but there's a few what you did a great job of aggregating like a several

different topics we can run through these fairly quickly let's talk about the new or the improvements

to image playground you know something that i gotta admit i don't deal a whole lot with

but i thought this ed hardy article from cult of mac did an excellent job of showing us

some of the improvements like in the past on the old he has he asked siri to uh come up with an

image of a football um it kind of looks like a football with weird little stitching here but

Now, on the new side, this is much better.

He talked about a dragon holding a football.

The first one, I almost feel like that looks more rugby-ish.

The second one definitely is American football.

Here's potato chips playing video games.

Definitely looks better, more angry on the new side.

Anyway, I just thought this was a great little article

explaining some of the improvements in Image Playground,

which is basically, I mean, they released this, I think, a couple of years ago, right?

This to me is sort of an AI attempt that Apple had.

It was more cartoonish than some of the other image generator,

AI image generators,

but at least it was Apple-ish in the time that it came out.

Maybe it's only been around for a year, year and a half,

something like that, but good improvements.

Yeah, I haven't used Image Playground a lot

because I don't generate a lot of images,

but I do do it sometimes.

Sometimes I'll generate an image for like just a silly,

you know, birthday card I'm making for my daughter or something,

and I want like a silly picture.

And I have sort of forced myself

to use Apple's image playground sometimes

just because I want to understand

it's the Apple product

and I feel like I should understand it.

But I will tell you, it basically sucks.

I mean, the pictures it produces

are so often so unimpressive and bad.

And, you know, as this article is showing

the new version, it just works.

I mean, for the first time, it just works.

And so maybe it'll actually be something more useful.

And again, there are other products

that have been, you know,

whether it's the Nano Bananas

or even the ChatGPT image generation

that's been around for longer.

You know, other products have done a far, far, far better job of generating images.

And by the way, I should mention, I understand that when you talk about generating anything, including images, it can sometimes be a hot button topic because like, are you taking away jobs from professional artists and illustrators?

But you know what? I was never going to hire a professional artist to design my birthday card for my daughter.

And so for me, it's just doing something that I could not have done on my own and doing a better job of it.

So I'm glad that Image Playground, just like everything else in the AI portions of the operating system, is so much better.

Something you do use, as I do, is search in Mail, the Mail app.

I don't use it as much as I wish I could because I don't trust it as much, or I get frustrated because it doesn't find things that I know are there.

You link to an article from Anurag in Cult of Mac.

Apple is fixing the mail app's broken search in iOS 27.

Thank goodness.

And this is the index feature you talked about before.

In order for the AI to understand everything in your messages,

it needs to know all your messages and be able to find them.

So it needs a working index.

And, you know, I have this sense that, like, you know,

the people that worked in the mail app had an index that was sort of, you know, not great.

And then the AI people at Apple came along and said, hey, guys, you know,

we actually need something that works now because we're going to use it for the AI.

And they're like, okay, well, let's tear this down to the rafters and start all over again.

And now, so it is a side benefit, even if you're not using Siri to surface things from your messages, from your emails, even if you're just doing a traditional search using the find feature in the mail app, it's going to be considerably better based upon this report.

And that makes sense.

So, I mean, that's going to be great.

That's going to be great.

You know, I feel like just quickly on that, you know, the, when you're searching mail, are you searching the entire content of the body? Like, do you just want to find a word somewhere? Or are you looking for a specific mails from a email messages from a specific person? Or are you looking for a made for specific date? I'm just throwing it out there. Like there are some very specific indexed things that, you know, are almost like a data search that you might be looking for, right? And the pieces of the metadata versus just the generalized search of what most people think.

gov with a word um i'm just pointing that out like those are some of the ways that i would get

frustrated i felt like mail could do an excellent job if i was like i want to see all the emails

from jeff richardson it could find that pretty good right because that was sort of in the index

as it were but only pretty good it's even that's not great in my personal experience it's sort of

hit and miss it's hitting i felt more confident with something like that i guess is what that i

would say it but then now with the search index and i like that i kind of had to put those those

two things together but you're right now that they needed an improved index uh engine for a lot of

the ai stuff that they're doing maybe they could take advantage of it in other platforms which uh

sounds like that they're bringing to the mail which is great maybe also bringing to find my

although i don't know if they needed uh necessarily an index i feel like the siri ai would take

advantage of new features in find my although this is an interesting one that you highlighted

you can temporarily hide your location from somebody you know if you've got how did you say

it if you've got a surprise birthday party you want to throw you can just hide your location from

somebody for maybe a couple hours or so i have find my turned on from my family so my wife and

my kids i can i can see where they are they can see where i am and i don't do it very often but

sometimes i need to know where they are and it's nice that i can do it um but there have been

sometimes in life where i have actually turned off and the only way that you can do it currently is

you just completely turn off your find my completely so then no one can find you this new

feature will allow it that i can say i just want my wife to not know where i'm going to be between

now and the end of the day because i'm buying her birthday present or something like that in fact i

have a real world i don't know if i've shared this this is a silly story on the podcast before

but i had this many many years ago i uh i guess this wasn't i guess it was a find my story actually

um the uh the jewelry store tiffany's you know very famous store um tiffany's opened up a store

in new orleans many many years ago and so for christmas i decided that i was going to splurge

and get my wife something believe me it was not a high-end thing of tiffany's but it was a nice

little you know it's just the i it was the idea of getting her something from tiffany's account now

that they had a store in new orleans and so i uh was going over there but i didn't want her to know

that i was there and so i uh because it's you know where it is on canal street in new orleans i mean

she she might be able to put two and two together so i turned off my fine mine and i went over there

And I got something and I'm literally shopping there.

And for some reason, my wife thought it'd be funny.

She sent me a joke via text.

She's like, oh, I'm sure you're out buying me something at Tiffany's right now.

But I was like, oh my God, I literally am standing here.

And just like, I guess it's, you know, ESP or something like that.

And so I took a screenshot.

And so when I finally gave her the Christmas present many weeks later, I'm like, hey, by

the way, I can tell you the second, the actual minute I was in the store because you texted

me jokingly saying that I was a Tiffany.

But I could have used this feature to just hide my location from her, but maybe not my kids or something like that.

So it's nice that they have these little more things you can do to edit.

A few more tweaks that you can do.

And let me mention this one quickly.

This landscape mode.

Yeah.

Why would you want?

Okay, well, I guess that's nice.

I like it.

So it would be useful.

It would be useful on a current iPhone to have landscape mode.

But you know what would this really be useful?

If you had an iPhone with a wider screen.

What would that be?

The foldable iPhone.

My guess, and I mentioned this in the front of my post, is that Apple is doing a number

of subtle things that are not explicitly mentioning a foldable iPhone at all.

But like, why would you want to have a wider screen on the iPhone app for Find My?

Maybe it's not just because you could turn your iPhone, you know, side to landscape.

That's one reason you could use it.

But another reason you could use it is if you have an iPhone that unfolds.

And of course, the rumors that Apple's working on that, maybe for this year, maybe for next

year so that that's my that's my prediction as to what's really going on with this new feature

i think you you linked to was andy andako in your last friday's post we didn't talk about that

because we recorded last wednesday but i think you were mentioning that you know the i would just say

quickly the um i didn't go to the foldable iphone because i'm trying not to be on the conspiracy

side there but the reason i like this when i saw it is if you've ever used find my on the ipad

in landscape mode it's really nice how they set it up and it looks very similar to this other than

the fact that i've got a lot more screen real estate i've got it pulled up right now and i just

like that i can see on the left side that little panel here a whole list of all of my devices for

example or people that i'm following as opposed to having to scroll up and down on the iphone not

that big of a deal on the iphone but i've got a much bigger map that i can look at here on the ipad

as well so when i saw the landscape mode i like that for just just from that uh from that angle

I thought that was good.

Let's talk about photos.

Now, you and I talked about last Wednesday, the photo features that we were excited about.

I mean, there's three.

I was trying to remember exactly.

Extend, reframe, and then, of course, the improve cleanup.

That extend and the reframe.

Those two, though, I really got excited about.

And you link to a story here from Ryan Christoffel and 9to5mac.com where he's been playing around

with it and he feels like it's pretty cool. Yeah, those are those are the AI features,

which I think are going to be pretty cool. You know, even just the one that we do have right now,

the AI feature of a cleanup, if you've got like a picture and, you know, somebody photobombed you

in the background or just something you don't want in there, you can you can use the built in tools

to make it go away. That's going to be even better. So those AI features for photos will be, you know,

sort of interesting. I mean, again, extending the screen, not something I'll use a lot, but if you

want to do it. And we mentioned last week, some of these other things he talked about, like the

improvement to share you know i've always hated that when you share an album with somebody you

wouldn't get the full quality version of the picture that's now fixed and so i think i'm

going to start sharing albums more often now that i can do that um he also mentioned some new like

the you in the iphone or ipad photos app there's a little section called utilities that's got some

little things that you that have in there and he's noticed that there's some additional ones there

like for example there's one called um identify documents you know which is interesting because

I usually take use my usually I use my iPhone's camera to take pictures of like people and you

know things like that but sometimes you know I will take a picture of a document you know maybe

it's just a receipt or maybe it's a sign or maybe it's just something I was like I'm going to deal

with this later but if I just take a picture of it I can I can think about that document later and

I don't always even keep those eventually I'll delete those right but there's now going to be

a specialized part that I can just go utilities identify documents and then everything in my

camera roll that it thinks is just a document, it'll just show to me. And that way I could very

quickly say, Oh yeah, here's that thing that I scanned, you know, six weeks ago when I was at

the conference or when I was at the client's meeting, you know, office and like that. And I

can just quickly find that document. So like, I would have never thought about that. And I'm like,

yeah, I would, I would be able to use that. So it's got some little features like that.

They're pretty cool. I was trying to think like right now, I know that I can go into my photos

and I can say, show me, it'll show me all the screenshots, any screenshot, like it can identify

that i thought that it had an ability today for uh receipts yes it does so if i go in it now i can

say receipts because it can recognize that this is a receipt you know it'll look like a receipt

and so something like that i'm just glad that they're adding some additional you know utilities

like you said but it doesn't surprise me because we already have some of these capabilities already

in there that totally makes sense that they could put that in uh on there yeah even in documents okay

very good on the photos there now this next story you link to is about the apple one subscription

and i gotta tell you as soon as i saw apple one i got nervous because i'm like okay are they gonna

are they gonna increase the price again just a little bit bitter on that because i love my apple

one subscription i'm just like please like you know i'm i'm okay where it is now but don't just

keep pushing it up all the way but i don't at least they haven't mentioned that they're going

to raise the price on there they are making just a few little tweaks and improvements in the apple

Apple One subscription, which I just think it makes it better.

Yeah.

Most of these are not improvements to Apple One per se, but because Apple One is a collection

of services, as those services get better, when you have an Apple One subscription, you

get the improvements.

So for example, one of them is like iCloud.

You can pay for iCloud Plus independently if you just need more iCloud storage space.

And one of the things that Apple has said for all of its new AI stuff coming out is that

If you have either a standalone iCloud Plus subscription, or if you're an Apple One subscriber, which includes as a part of it, an iCloud Plus subscription, then you will be able to do even more of the Apple intelligence stuff.

Because one thing that many of these AI engines do is when you are using the AI for some sophisticated things like photo editing and stuff, there's a real cost in that.

And so they won't let you do unlimited edits.

It's like if you use the free chat GPT today, I think you can only do like one or two pictures.

And then it says, no, you got to pay money if you want to do more than that, this one on today.

And so Apple is going to have to do the same thing.

And so, you know, if those AI photo tools that we're just talking about, some of them you'll be able to do for free.

But then if you happen to subscribe to iCloud Plus or Apple One, which includes that, you'll get even more access.

So that's one thing.

And then another one listed here, we mentioned, in fact, I want to mention this because I made a mistake last week.

Last week, I mentioned that HomeKit Secure Video is getting higher quality, which I'm so happy about.

And what I said last week is that it's going to increase from 2K to 4K.

That's wrong.

It's actually 1080p now.

And I will tell you what we're talking about here is if you have a photo, if you have a video camera, like a camera on the outside of your house,

and if you use Apple's HomeKit Secure Video to store that video, it's a nice feature because it's basically, quote unquote, free storage.

don't pay extra for it unlike other services like Ring will make you pay your subscription and stuff

like that. But the downside is that even if your camera was a 4K camera, you can only store the

1080p image and video. And I said last week that that's why I currently use the Eufy product and

I don't even have HomeKit secure video turned on. But now that it's 4K, because it does make a

difference. I mean, if you are looking at video footage and somebody was trespassing in your

property, a 4K video is more precise than a 1080p.

Like you will see more details as to who the person was, what they were doing.

So again, this is an improvement to HomeKit secure video.

But if you have Apple One, that's a part of the subscriptions.

That's going to be better too.

So these are the sorts of things that are going to be better in Apple One.

Let's switch to the Apple Watch just real quick.

Improvements with the Apple Watch OS 27.

I got to tell you, the one thing that sticks out at me, what they call the dynamic grid.

I love this.

I hate having to go into my watch and scroll or, you know, I have the list.

I know you still have the beehive, I think, up there.

Most people do.

No, I don't actually.

I have the list too.

Oh, you have the list.

Okay, good.

I hate having to go through all that because it's like, okay, well, I want to go to Spotify,

which means I got to scroll all the way down the list.

And it's like, I just want something where I can get access to the things that I'm using

the most.

And a lot of times I'll already have it.

I can do that hot swap between the apps on there.

But there's a few other things.

First of all, this is from Julie Clover at MacRumors,

but excellent videos here from, is it Dan Barbera, I think, on here,

who does an excellent job.

Who's in Cleveland, by the way,

because I just noticed he had a Mally's chocolate card on his Apple Watch

in the video.

And I was like, hey, I know Mally's chocolate.

Anyway, just a great video here on the watchOS 27.

We knew there was going to be some good improvements on there.

But we can get to that next story in just a minute.

The biggest thing, of course, of all, is I like the way that Zach Hall on 9to5Mac in this next story kind of couches this.

It's like, this is not going to be wearable AI.

Because not only do we have Siri on the phone, we're going to have it on the watch as well.

Yeah.

So a lot of, I mean, not a ton of improvements in quantity, but the quantity is going to be good.

Just to comment a second.

So what it's going to mean is I don't launch apps on my Apple Watch very often.

But when I do do it, like you described, it's a pain to like scroll all the way down and find that one app.

And so in the future, you know, this fall, when you when you click on your digital crown, instead of bringing up either the honeycomb or the list, what it's going to instead bring up is this screen that I think there was a preview on the article from Zach Hall that in the very middle, there's going to be a Siri icon.

So you could tap that to talk to your phone.

But then around it, there's going to be six icons for the six apps that Siri thinks you're most likely to want to use, which as we know from the phone, because we have this feature now, it's a combination of which ones you use more frequently, which ones you tend to use this time of day.

So like maybe this time of day, you're more like in the morning, you're more likely to use a workout app.

And at the end of the day, you're more likely to use your music app or whatever.

And so the idea is, hopefully, you'll be able to just click that button and instantly tap on the one thing that you most likely want.

In fact, I said it's six.

It's actually five.

The last one will bring up the full index of all of your apps.

But, you know, there's a good chance that the app that you want is one of those top five.

And so you can get access to it more quickly, which I like.

And then another thing that's coming to – and I'll click the Siri one in a second.

Another thing that's coming to watchOS, which I think this is a great feature.

So you know how right now, if I'm, I think this may have been a tip of the week.

So if I'm looking at my Apple watch and if I tap on newer Apple watch models, if I tap

my finger twice, it will bring up the, what are those cards?

Like the cards or whatever, the little quick, their little widget cards, but I forget the

name it is.

Like smart stack or something.

Thank you.

Smart stack.

And so I'm looking at the first item on my smart stack.

I tap my finger twice.

Now I'm looking at the second item on my smart stack.

I tap my fingers twice.

Now I'm in the third item.

But what I can't do is act upon those.

So for example, if I'm looking at one right now and it's telling me, right, I'd have to

actually use my other hand and tap on it.

But what I'm going to be able to do in the future is instead of doing the double tap,

I will be able to single tap on an individual card.

So therefore, with just a single hand, I can more quickly get to what I want, which is

nice because my other hand might be carrying something or busy or something like that.

And so that's a simple improvement that makes perfect sense.

And like, it's like almost like, why didn't they do it this way in the first place?

That's going to make my Apple watch more usable this fall.

And I'm looking forward to that.

And then, and then finally, like you said, you know, having, um, you know, you know,

who I've been saying that word S I R I so often it's setting off people's phones.

I apologize, but you're going to have access to it on your watch so that even if your phone's

not with you, you'll be able to get all of those things.

I mean, that, that could be one of the coolest things is like, I don't have my, I'm at my

house.

I'm walking around, I'm doing something.

I don't have my phone with me, but my watch is right there.

And I can get the full access to all of this amazing, amazing AI technology just through my watch.

Like, that's really cool.

And we've seen products for the last couple of years that have been like, you know, wearable pendants and other things.

You know, why do you need that?

Why do you need that second product if your Apple Watch can do all of that?

That's going to be really cool.

Let's go to the iPad just for a brief moment.

One article you link to here from Julie Clover.

iPadOS 27, hands-on, everything for new iPad.

And another great video here from Dan Barbera going through.

If you wanted to see it, I'll make sure that we have links in there.

Again, I don't know if there's anything that is iPad only.

I'll mention one thing that I'm surprised I've read.

On the iPhone, we have this ability today that if you hold down on the camera button,

if you press it, it launches the camera.

But if you hold down on it, it will use AI to try to tell you something about the world around you.

It's called visual intelligence, right?

So that's going to be much improved this fall.

Right now, that only exists in the iPhone, and it's coming to the iPad.

And when I heard it was coming to the iPad, I thought it meant that, you know, my iPad does have a camera here, right?

So, like, I thought it meant that I could do the same thing on an iPad.

I can do it on an iPhone.

But apparently, that's not the way it's going to work.

Instead, if you take a screenshot on your iPad, it will be able to use all of the fancy visual intelligence stuff.

um which is just curious to me i mean believe me it's not like i walk around holding up my ipad

taking pictures that often because that's obnoxious but i don't understand why if there

was a rare instance where i did want to do that why doesn't that work the same way on the ipad it

does in the iphone i don't i don't know i don't know but that's the one thing that noted to me

i don't know yeah yeah i i you know i mean i i was glad that i recall i think they show the ipad

several times in at least in the keynote uh so it's not like that they're you know pushing it

off to the side certainly wasn't hot spotlighted all that much though i don't know that if there's

anything specific to the ipad there's always little tiny things here i i like how it talks about

safari supports automatically grouping tabs i know i've always liked the way that tabs work

in safari and other browsers on the ipad just because you got more screen real estate you can

get tabs on the iPhone. Anyway, just little things like that, that I think some aspects of what we

saw a couple of weeks ago are going to look better on the iPad maybe, but I don't know if there's much

else that we can say there on that. But there is a lot more that Apple did say in the form of a very

quick screenshot. I noticed this. I tried to take screenshots myself during the keynote of WWDC.

A lot of times they have what we generally reference as the bento box.

You know, they've got like a screenshot, right, Jeff, of like different things that they didn't actually go into detail on.

But it's like, here's all the stuff you're going to get when the new iPhone releases or something along those lines.

Well, apparently there was so much this time that they didn't give us a nice little visual bento box.

They literally gave us this visual.

This was the screenshot.

Apparently, Adam Enx took this.

I know a lot of other people did too, because there were several articles that did a good job of kind of taking this list because it was impossible to read it all.

I mean, you could just maybe see one or two as they threw as Apple threw it up there.

But many people have taken that now.

And I think even Adam said he used ChatGPT to kind of reference and organize all of this so that you now have a list and it's all nicely organized by different little topics on there.

I haven't taken the time to go through everything on this, Jeff.

Maybe there's a few that stood out to you.

Nothing.

I mean, many of the little features are frankly the features that you and I already talked

about today.

The main thing that I would say about this is that I think it's because it's got what

hundreds of items on here or whatever that number is.

I would recommend taking a look at this article because it is nicely organized by topic.

And, you know, as you scroll through here, you may find something that matters to you

that might not matter to me.

I'm seeing, for example, right now,

it says the tap gesture on the Apple Watch.

That's the feature we just talked about.

It's just a tiny little feature.

But for me personally,

because I definitely use the current tap feature,

I'm looking forward to that.

So I recommend scroll through here

because there's a lot, there's a lot.

And one or two features are gonna jump out at you

and be like, hey, I'm looking forward

to the bigger tech sizes on my Apple TV

or whatever the feature is that they've got cool stuff.

And a lot of this, I could see people would argue

like these aren't big, you know, jumps in features,

but I think this underscores a lot of what we talked about last week in the

sense that these are just minor improvements that are so much better.

I mean, they could make a big difference in some of this larger tech sizes and

TVOS text sizes and TVOS to your point that there could be somebody that would

just say, thank you. Like that's,

I just needed it to be a little bit bigger than what it could be from before.

And these little tiny things,

I think just underscore the fact that they really did do a good job, I think, of going into a lot of the details in this.

You kept referencing as like the snow leopard improvements, right?

It's just a lot of tiny improvements that can make a big difference, and that's good.

I don't think that Apple announced a price upgrade for Apple One subscription, but boy, I saw this story rock the world this past week.

Apple may be raising prices on their iPhones.

And really, I feel like it just comes down to the memory side.

Maybe it's a done deal already.

This was in the Wall Street Journal interview with Tim Cook.

And Tim Cook, bless his heart, bless his apple-shaped heart.

He's like, we're doing our best to keep it down.

But it's just the world that we live in today.

And really, it just comes down to price increases from RAM, from memory, which again, I'm oversimplifying it here.

But I blame AI for that.

Yeah, no, it is true.

The AI companies have been taking so much RAM that when you want to buy, whether it's the RAM for memory or whether it's the solid state drives that are used for storage, it's all the same idea, right?

And they're just so much more expensive.

And it's been amazing to me that Apple hasn't been able to, hasn't had to raise prices for the last year.

But Tim Cook, who only has a couple months left to CEO, he figured, you know, I'll take the hit.

You know, I won't like John Ternus amounts to this in the fall.

Yeah, that was nice of him.

I'm going to pre-announce it now to get people ready for it.

Now, he didn't specifically mention the iPhone.

He just said on Apple products.

But again, most of Apple's revenue is from the iPhone.

And so I'm positive it's going to be the iPhone.

And so there's another Wall Street Journal article in which the same person, Rolf Winkler, who interviewed Tim Cook,

he got together with one of their other writers to sort of speculate on how much they think it's going to cost.

And they did the math.

And again, this is just an outside company during the speculation.

but Rolf and Nicole think that it's going to probably increase the cost by about $200.

I've seen other people say even more.

I've heard other people say that Apple might only need to increase the price $100 this year,

but because prices are continuing to go up, this was John Gruber's point.

He's like, what they probably won't do is make it $100 more expensive this year

or $200 more expensive next year.

What they'll probably do is just make the new iPhone and Apple Watch and everything else more expensive.

But the new iPhone, for example, an iPhone that would have cost about $1,000 or $1,200 is going to probably instead cost $1,200 or $1,400.

And then Apple will just eat that price.

It's a shame.

I hate it.

The other thing that I wonder is once Apple raises the prices, I mean, we now know they're going to do it, right?

They've told the Wall Street Journal this is going to happen.

What happens when – I mean, we all hope that memory prices eventually and what goes up must come down, right?

So over time, as memory crisis come down again, will Apple decrease the price of the iPhone in 2027, 2028?

Or will this become the new normal?

And then, you know, hopefully, I'm sure Apple will get more price, more profit from that.

But perhaps it means that future iPhones will be able to afford to have more in them.

My guess is it will be the new normal.

I don't think they'll ever go back down.

So like whatever you're used to paying for your iPhone, for your iPad, for your Mac, for your Apple, for everything, everything's going to be a little bit more expensive this fall just because of the price of RAM.

And then I think that's just going to be the new normal for years and years and years.

Not only does this hurt for whatever the expected iPhone lineup is going to be, what is this going to do for the potential foldable iPhone?

I mean, we already have been anticipating.

That's going to be an expensive product.

that's going to be $2,500, $3,000, but is that going to be more now? I mean, that's just going

to be crazy. Even my son has already asked me, dad, you're going to get the foldable iPhone when

it comes out? I'm like, first of all, son, we don't, we don't, we don't know. We don't know

anything yet. This is more just rumors. But after last week, I feel like some of those rumors are a

little bit more confirmed, but oh my goodness, that's going to be a $3,500 phone. I mean, it's

easily that could be something like oh wow it's like either by that or by a vision pro like you

make your choice okay that was good thanks for going through down the run through because you

did a great job as i said in this post today jeff of just you know pulling in some of the things

we've seen already for our fun video i just had to highlight apparently let's see what was your post

last week you you posted something about the vision pro and then apparently a reader posted a comment

and sent you a link to a video from Disney.

Is that how it came down?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So this is a comment I posted from last week,

but I put it in the news

because I want everybody to see it

and a lot of people don't go back and read comments.

So this is actually from Disney itself,

from Disney Parks,

and they have videos.

They have a video channel.

What is it called?

Disney Unscripted,

where they sort of go behind the scenes

at Disney Parks

and show you how different rides

and things like that happen.

So in this one,

they are describing Soarin'.

soaring ride before at epcot i think i did it's a ride where you like yeah it's not it's in epcot

it's in the front it's in the front no it's not in the ball it's to the right when you walk in

and it's this ride where you sit in these seats yes and then the seats sort of raise up into the air

and you're you're watching a screen that's like a 180 degree screen and your seat actually moves

back and forth and so you have the illusion that you're hand that you're hang gliding okay yeah

the current version of it or the version that i saw and that's been around for forever was i think

soaring across California with these incredibly epic views. So they're doing a new version of it

called Soaring Across America. So they've been recording all this video in famous places in the

United States. And you'll have the illusion of flying around, flying around as if you're in a

hang glider. But as they're working on the ride, like they have the music, they have the video,

they've got a time at all. So they've got their engineers that are in the ride. And as they're

making changes and stuff, like they can see things on the screen, but they're making edits. And so

To make the edits, you need to make the edit on the computer.

So in the past, one of the people that's the engineer describes that she would actually have to have like scaffolding that was up in the air so that she could access her computer and her monitors as they're sitting up there in the ride.

But now she doesn't need to do it because she's using the Vision Pro.

And so she can see the actual screen that's part of the ride.

But she can see all these virtual monitors in her Vision Pro that she can adjust.

And so they're like, OK, we need to tweak this.

We need to cut the edit on this.

We need to make this happen before.

And she is able to do it.

It's just such a perfect use of it's the feature that I often use on my Mac, where I will be

working on a project like a work product at home.

And I just have one monitor.

It's a nice size monitor.

It's a 27 inch monitor.

But like for this particular work I'm doing, I actually want to have two or three monitors.

I don't own two or three monitors, but it doesn't matter because I put on my vision pro and

it uses the Mac screen sharing and I can make the monitors as big as I want and put them

where I want or have them really wide.

And then I can have like a window over here with Westlaw and a window over here with my Microsoft Word document.

And I'm working on things back and forth.

This is just her doing the same thing.

And it's a perfect use case of a Vision Pro.

So I thought it was a fun example.

This video.

Thank you, Jan.

Apparently that was the reader that posted this because I couldn't stop watching this video.

I mean, there's so many angles.

The technology angle is amazing.

If you're any sort of a Disney fan at all to any stretch,

just to understand the work that goes into behind the scenes of making so much

work, that blew my mind. If you just, if you like Disney a lot,

it's just, you'll see some other Disney fanatics.

That one lady, she like made a model of the soaring ride,

which was just blew my mind. Just the musicians aspect.

Oh yeah. The music orchestras.

That was amazing just to see all of that, that background.

aspects on there and then just the idea of like the they they closed out like once the park closes

that's when these engineers get to work the imagineers even and like that they they had

like a little foot rest because when you're up in the in that seat for so long it was so cool

to the point where i was watching this and somebody was mentioned mentioning like well i would cried i

cried it was so good and i'm like what's wrong with you come on by the end of this video when i

was watching people watch this because then just the actual ride itself like they show enough of

it that you kind of get a flavor of what you're doing and you know how they use the helicopters

and the drones and everything just amazing like all across in fact i've got the part of the poster

behind me here because it shows the disney artist making the poster for the ride as you're standing

in the line it was just it was just cool from so many angles so thank you jan for posting that and

glad that you highlighted it, Jeff. I thought that that was just a lot of fun. I enjoyed that.

In the know, let's finish up here. You had a story that I saw this week as well from The Verge.

Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness. I love this because I remember it was

a year and a couple of months ago in February, 2025. This was my tip. So I am so thrilled to

see that somebody else has found it so useful. This is what Apple officially calls vehicle

motion cues. Now I've liked this and I've used it now for this past year to amazing,

wonderful effects. So the, the, the situation for me a lot of times is that I would call an Uber or

a Lyft, right? And you usually get in the backseat behind the passenger side. Typically that's where

you're going to sip. And so I would do that, but I would always want to like read my email while I'm

on the, while I'm, you know, writing or read something on my phone. Well, I apparently am

prone to just get in a little bit of nausea when I'm doing that. So when you turn on these dots,

the vehicle motion cues, it, it, I like how who wrote this Thomas Ricker. I like how he talks

about it here. He's got a good little video of this. It puts these, like, just like he says,

weird dots on your screen. And if the car turns, the dots go the opposite way. Or if it stops,

the dots go down because you're stopping forward. I know that's not making a whole lot of sense

there. You kind of have to turn this on and see for yourself. I like this so much. I don't even

know in the settings where to find this. Maybe you can find it. I can tell you, I just found it. It's

accessibility and then motion. And then once you're in motion, it's called vehicle motion cues.

Gotcha. I gotcha. The reason I don't know where to find it in settings is because I use this so often that I put it in my control panel. So I just swipe down and put it in my control panel. You can do off on or you can do automatic. So in other words, if the phone feels that you're in some kind of a car situation, then it will automatically turn it on. I didn't like that because it would turn it on sometimes when I didn't really want it. So I just manually turn it off and on.

It's not just for cars. I would say, though, when I ride a transit system in a in a in a city, for example, when I go to Chicago and I'm riding the train from the from the airport, it wouldn't be as bad for me, but sometimes it would depending on where I'm sitting.

And so I would just turn those on. And within maybe 30 seconds or so, your brain just ignores the dots like I don't even see the dots really right. I'm reading whatever is on the screen.

but the dots, I think I'm confident of this subconsciously help keep me calm or whatever

it is in my brain. That's like going back and forth. And you know, my brain trying to

accommodate the fact that I'm, I'm moving while I'm trying to be reading and I should be stationary.

I don't understand all of that, but I do understand that these dots as weird as they are.

I'm so glad that he covered this because I want more people to know about it. If this is something

that you see. I mean, I almost turn it on now proactively. If I know I'm going to get in a car

or taxi or something, I'll just have it turned on. And I can tell that it really works. I'm not

going to say that it completely eliminates any kind of nauseous feeling, but it certainly will

keep it at bay for a lot longer. So in other words, I can read something a little bit longer

and get some actual work done while I'm in the car. So anyway, I'm glad that you linked to this

story today but um i'm glad that i found this a year ago in the sense that this is something that

i turn on so if you if you try it out and it is something that's that is useful for you i always

recommend go ahead and just put that into your control panel because that way you can easily

access turn it off and on i don't get motion sickness so i haven't tried this myself but my

understanding of the way it works is i think the problem is if you're staring at an iphone screen

part of your brain is seeing out the window the world around you moving and the other part of the

is seeing your iPhone screen be static. And that disconnect is what gives you motion sickness.

And so as I understand it, these dots, because the dots, like if your car turns left,

the dots will move as if they're turning with the car. And when you're staring at the screen,

because your brain is seeing the dots move, you don't have that disconnect of one thing staying

stationary while the other thing is moving. And it just helps you to, it just, it eases your brain,

which is funny because it's like a, it's, you know, it's just like a bizarre psychological

thing about how our brains work. I know. I'm feeling sick because of just what my brain is

processing. And yet this was a way to, the whole science of it is fascinating. So I'm glad that it

works for you. And it's a cool feature. And I say, I don't get it, but I mean, there certainly have

been times where I've been using my iPhone in a car for a long time and I'm like, oh, I sort of

feel a little weird. So maybe I should turn it on and see if maybe it would help me too. I don't

even know. So that's a good tip. My tip of the week is just to wait, just to wait. So I say that

because you remember a couple of weeks ago when I was at the beach and you and I recorded the podcast

and you had the beach behind me and stuff. It was very nice that I could do the podcast on the beach.

But while we were there, this had nothing to do with being at the beach. This is just my clumsiness.

But I was sitting there on the table we had at this condo we were renting and I had some iced

coffee there and I had my keyboard for my iPad magic keyboard and I happened to just knock over

the coffee glass and it spilled on the table and some of it spilled like on the left side of my

keyboard and I'm like oh lord so I let it dry out a little bit and I started to use it Brett and I

was so sad because so many of the keys on the left side of my keyboard were like mushy and they weren't

working and I'm trying to dry it and blah, blah, blah. And then I'm thinking, do I need to buy a

new magic keyboard? And I don't know if you know this, Brett, but magic keyboards are expensive.

They're like, what is it? 350 bucks. I'm like, I don't want, I don't want to have to spend an

additional $350 because of my clumsiness. But, you know, as they say with many things in life,

it gets better. And I'm happy to report that it's been a couple of weeks.

I have been very consciously, you know, at nighttime, I will often close up my iPad and

the keyboard to keep it closed. But I have been consciously keeping it open just to let it slowly

air out. And as I don't know how long it's been since I've been at the beaches and two weeks now

or something like that, but whatever it's been, I can tell you confidently that right now my

keyboard feels perfect again. It took a long time. It took so long that I literally took the time

on Amazon of how much it's going to cost me to replace this thing, but eventually it did now.

And I realized I am not a laptop person, unlike you and 90% of the world.

I usually use desktops.

So for me, you know, just the idea of having a keyboard on like a table where I also have

food and drink, I don't do that very often.

I know for most people, this happens all the time.

So many people out there said, yeah, Jeff, I have spilled water or Coke or coffee on my

computer a million times over the years.

It's just the first time it's happened to me because I normally don't have a keyboard

next to where I have drinks.

I see.

But I did this one time.

And so I'm thrilled.

And again, I went down the rabbit hole of researching all the things that people recommend that you do.

And some people like, you know, pour something else on it.

And, you know, don't use rice.

Do use rice.

All these crazy things.

All I did was just had patience.

I just had patience.

I opened it up.

So you didn't remove the keys or anything?

I didn't do anything.

And people talk about that, right?

And then some people say if you do remove the keys, don't go back on the right way again.

Right.

And I'm like, I don't want to break it.

So I guess that's, you know, I'm not saying this is going to work for everybody.

but it worked for me you didn't put like a fan on it or directed or like i i would sometimes keep it

closer to like where the air conditioner like the where the air was coming out of the ac just to like

yeah yeah you know but not directly like i didn't put like a hairdryer on it like some people talked

about i just i just gave it time and okay so when it happened did you turn it like upside down i did

and of course and the coffee came out of it and like my life went through my hips my platform

my eyes i'm like oh no there's coffee coming out of my keyboard it was horrible so anyway oh that's

just one of the words i mean i i would say like there's so many tragedies in life but i for us

nerds i'm like when something like that has happened to me in my life like i just sit there

and i just see it right and it's like all my work all go back in time away i know just go back in

time and move that glass two inches to the left none of this would have happened but oh so so

unbelievable almost you're saying it's fine like nothing you don't see you don't feel any mushiness

good you didn't mine i did i did for about a week and a half but for the last you know a couple days

it's actually finally working great and maybe you don't notice there's nothing that's like

mistyping or anything nope all good really all good so yeah that is a testament i mean that

You know it's soaked in there somewhere.

Oh, I'm sure.

I'm sure.

And did you have milk in it?

I did.

It was milk and coffee and sugar.

This is how detailed I get, Jeff.

Like, did you have milk?

Did you have coffee?

Like, that stickiness and stickiness on top of stickiness.

Incredible.

Okay, that's okay.

If anybody else has had a similar story or maybe a more tragic story, let us know.

Like, write in.

Put a post on Jeff's post.

Put a comment down at the bottom.

Thank you again, Jan, for commenting from last week.

I just thought that video was so fun.

Anyway, put a comment.

Let us know.

We'd love to talk about it.

Okay, we've talked long enough.

I feel like over the course of this summer, Jeff,

you and I are going to be continuing to talk about some of these improvements.

At some point, we'll get a public beta.

Maybe, maybe not.

One of us will install it.

We'll kind of see how that goes.

But it's just, as always, always fun to see what other people are talking about,

you know, as they've gotten their hands on it and putting everything through its paces.

I got to tell you, I'm already pretty excited about this fall.

Like I knew iOS 26 was going to be big.

It continues to be big.

I still feel like I'm getting used to some aspects of iOS 26.

Although for the most part, I'm happy with it.

And I just, just to that, the point that we talked about with that image here,

I'm just thrilled to see all of these tiny little improvements that are going to be coming in iOS 27.

And I'm looking forward to that as well.

So in that vein, we'll talk with you next week, Jeff.

Thanks, Brett. Bye-bye, everybody.