Welcome to In the News for July 17, 2026. I am Brett Burney from appsinlaw.com.

And this is Jeff Richardson from iPhone JD. Hey, Brett.

Good morning, Jeff. It has now been what about about I want to say I'm almost a week,

maybe just a few days since the public beta has been available of iOS 27. The developer beta or

maybe some of the other kind of non-public betas have been available.

The point that I'm getting to is your post today was chock full of reports from folks,

and I would almost say normal folks, although it's mostly journalists and stuff like that,

that now finally have their hands on iOS 27 without the overlord of Apple kind of watching over their shoulder, right?

In other words, they're able to do what they exactly want to do.

And I'm interested in this, and I got to tell you, I'm pretty excited to see that most people are just as excited with mostly the Siri improvements that are coming out already.

And we're starting – you had some great links today, and I'm just – I'm very thrilled to see that it looks like it's positive so far.

I really like the cycle that Apple's had for the last couple of years where they have the WWDC conference in June, and they announce what's going to come out in the fall.

And at that point in time, Apple highlights the key features of the iPhone, iPad, Mac,

you name it, that they think are significant.

And of course, they know what the important features are.

And then they release the developer beta.

Of course, it's released to developers so that they can start to get their apps ready.

But it also means that a lot of people will download the developer beta just to start to

look at it.

And so you start to get about four to six weeks of people kicking the tires on it and

seeing what they think.

And then in mid-July, and now, like you say, it was this week, we have the public beta,

which is significant because first of all, it means that Apple, I mean, it is still a beta

and I would not put this on a device that you need to work done because the battery life's

going to be slow. It's going to crash, things like that. But at least Apple feels confident enough

that it's like, okay, we're okay with releasing this to anyone in the public who wants to be on

the cutting edge, maybe put it on a phone that you, you know, that's just you use for fun,

like a secondary phone or, you know, you don't use your iPad for work. So you're okay with trying

it out. And so Apple gives it a little bit of a seal of approval, not as much as the final version

is. But the other point is that because it's been out in the wild for weeks, a lot of authors,

like there's a bunch from Six Colors we're going to talk about today, they have had this last six

weeks to see what do they think is significant. And they're going to be careful to not say,

this is not working because a lot of things are not working. We know that. But we have enough

experience with people hands-on with the features that they can offer a lot more intelligent things

to say than way back in June when we were all just sort of speculating based upon an announcement

of what was going to be significant. So even if you don't install the public betas, and again,

I don't with the one asterisk that I have my developer beta on my Vision Pro because I don't

use it for work. But this is an important milestone. I mean, this is a good time for people to take a

look at stuff. And so now we're in mid-July. Presumably, the system's going to be about in,

I would probably say, mid-September. So we're about two months away from everybody being able

to download this, but we're about, you know, almost two months, six weeks into people talking

about it. So it's a perfect time to sort of look at what works and what raises questions.

I feel like most of these reviews and even some of the videos that I've seen, I think this video

at this first story that you linked to down here at the bottom, this iOS 27 public beta, the 200

changes, the lead story has been Siri. Like I'm watching people interact with the new Siri component.

And when I say that, of course, all my devices are going off now, but the main thing that I'm talking about there is just the difference that it makes.

It's not just how we typically would think of the Sally for all these years, but now we have the specialized app that's involved.

Now we have the ability to interact with Siri as if we were interacting what most of us today have been doing with like chat GPT or with Claude.

And if you had those apps, and a lot of people do, I see a lot of people interact or Google Gemini, and you can ask questions and ask about a band.

Hey, is there any tours coming up where they're going to be close to me?

And what was their best song from two years ago?

You can continue to almost have that conversation.

And we can do that now, even with Siri and just watching this.

I thought this was a great video, even if you just watched maybe the first 10 minutes.

That's all he's doing is just interacting with the new Siri.

And that's very impressive, Jeff.

Yeah, I mean, the big picture of iOS 27 is one big thing and then a whole bunch of small things.

Yeah, right.

Good way to put it, yeah.

Just to focus on that.

They're nice because they're small incremental improvements, but Apple has obviously, and they've said this, spent a lot of time focused on taking iOS 26 and just fixing things in it, getting it better.

So if you, if you know, if you, for those, for those of us that are like, you know, don't

change it, it's fine.

You know, I don't like change in my life.

Then you'll like the other parts of iOS 27, because it just takes the current system and

just makes it better.

It just curves the edges.

But then you have the one marquee feature, which is Siri.

And like you say, people, not only does it have the abilities that you referenced of

ChatGPT, because you can just talk to it and stuff like that.

So it's much more helpful than Siri has ever been.

But also because it has access to everything on your device, messages, calendars, you know, text message, you know, emails, it can give you these personalized responses, all completely safe because this is all being done on device that are so helpful.

I mean, a good example, I really enjoyed the example that Dan Morin had in his article for Six Colors, because he was talking about how somebody had recommended to him a podcast.

I think it was a show called The Rest is History.

But it was a podcast episode that had come out like years ago that was talking about, I think it was maybe the American Revolution or something like that.

But his point was like, we all know that like if you're trying to find an older episode of a podcast and some of these shows have, you know, our show is like a news podcast.

So ours, you probably wouldn't go back and listen to old episodes of this podcast.

But for the ones that are, you know, other types of podcasts, you can listen to them in any order or whatever.

So going back to find an old episode of a podcast manually is a pain in the butt.

Oh, yeah.

Find the podcast, scroll down.

Especially if you're driving.

Especially if you're driving.

The titles are cheeky sometimes.

And so, like, you have to look at the description to see, is this the one that you want?

And so, but what he said is, you know, while he was driving, he's like, you know, what is that podcast that somebody mentioned to me?

It was this podcast.

It had to do with the American Revolution.

And so it was powerful enough, the AI, to, number one, go through his chat history.

It doesn't matter when that message was.

It could have been weeks ago.

Find the message.

Figure out what podcast it was talking about.

And then understand the podcast enough to go through old episodes.

Figure out the one that he wants and play it.

And as Dan was pointing out in the article, he would have never, never attempted that with the old version of suit.

But this is exactly what you want.

You want to just be able to ask somebody, oh, like, what's that thing?

Can you just do that?

And then they're like, oh, yeah, I got you.

You know, I got you covered.

I'm going to do that.

This is that helpful little assistant, this little buddy.

This is the dream, right?

And the new version this fall is going to start to have it.

And I've seen example after example of people who have been trying it out for the last six weeks saying the same thing, that they just throw this somewhat obscure question of can you do this thing based upon something that it's somewhere and it figures it out.

And this is what this is the dream.

It's from what I've read, it's going to be really useful for all of us this fall.

And then the idea that this is just the beginning and then it's going to get better as you know.

Absolutely.

There's millions of people are using it.

Apple is going to tune it even more.

And then, of course, eventually we'll have even more sophisticated.

Since a lot of it's being run on device, you know, now there's going to be a time where,

you know, maybe getting the new iPhone, maybe you don't get it this year, maybe get it next

year.

But when you get that next generation phone with more powerful chips that can crunch the

numbers, that can do that, that sophisticated AI algorithm, even more powerful.

You know, it reminds me, and somebody said this in another podcast, like a couple of

years ago, Apple was talking about how it was revising, you know, because Apple makes its own

chips, right? Which is famously one of the things that's really great for them. They can optimize

the chips. And years ago, they were talking about how they had these neural engines and their chips

to sort of process AI. And at the time, it was just like machine learning that was used for a

couple of things in the phone. And, you know, some people may have been wondering, why is Apple

spending all this time on like these neural engines that, yeah, it makes the iPhone a little bit

better. But now we know why, because Apple has learned for years that this is what they were

getting at. And so now they're going to have these processors that are not only are they tuned to have

a really good iPhone that's very power efficient, which we always know we want, but they're also

tuned to run these models on device, maybe not quite as fast as one that runs in the cloud,

but with all the privacy. So it's just like, it's going to be great this fall with all this AI stuff.

And then it's going to only get better for years after that.

The other points quickly on this is that that conversation that Dan Morin had can now be accessed.

It's not like it goes anywhere, right?

We didn't have the ability to go back and look at any conversations or requests that we made to Siri before.

But in a similar way, if you have the ChatGPT app or the Claude app that you have been interacting with on your iPhone, you could always go back and you could look at the history.

I want to go back and see an old chat that I have.

Now you can open up the Siri app and you can see, in fact, there's some of these videos and stuff that do a good job of kind of showing it because it's a nice little kind of, at least right now, it's a tiled version.

So it's instead of just like a list, it's kind of nice that you can see it.

And apparently it keeps basically anything.

I mean, I think you can delete them if you don't want them.

But let's say, in fact, in this other video here that they were showing, they were pointing the camera at like a water bottle.

And, you know, the Siri app was able to recognize it, obviously, just like if I was using ChatGPT, they were able to tell you what it was.

And then the next question is, well, where can I buy it?

What's the expense?

They can go out and they can find that information.

And it tracks that.

It keeps that in the Siri app as well.

Now, again, if you've been using the ChatGPT app or the Cloud app, this is nothing new.

You've been doing this for a while.

But just the fact that it's embedded into the extra layer, you know, frosting on top, Jeff, as you were talking about, is that you can also access some of your personal information.

Because theoretically, Apple has put these secured guardrails around everything so that it can get access to all of the web and the large language model, which I'm presuming is Gemini right now.

But it can also access even your text messages and your calendar and your contacts.

And so it can interact with that as well, which that is it's just getting to the point of being mind blowing.

I mean, I think we mentioned this a couple of weeks ago, but this is basically Apple's AI personal device.

It's just you already have it in your phone. It's already in your pocket because it's your iPhone.

But it's becoming now your interactive AI personal device wherever you go, which is pretty amazing.

Yeah. And you talked about the history and you said that history is useful if you want to go back to find something in the past. And don't get me wrong, I completely agree with you. And in fact, I've had a chance to see that because since just last week, you and I were talking about how I'm playing around with the Vision OS beta on my Vision Pro. And it has the new Siri on there. And I've seen that app and it's the Vision Pro version of the app, but it's obviously a close cousin to what's going to be on the iPhone and the iPad that I've seen those little tiles of prior conversations that I can go to it.

So that's useful for history purposes, but it's even better, Brett, because one of the things, I mean, we use a lot of AI tools at my law firm.

And when I talk to my partners and the associates at our firm about how to like better use AI technology, I always remind them that AIs get better when they have more context.

And so it's one thing to say, here's a bunch of documents and here's my questions about those documents.

But when you have follow-up questions, you end up getting richer, more helpful feedback because it's got the context of now I know the documents.

I know what was important to you in the past in the documents.

And so it's like you get better.

It's like a fine wine that ages with time.

You get better results over time.

And so back to what you were talking about, by having the history, it means that when you have a follow-up conversation the next day, the next week, the next month, that's part of your contextual data on your advice.

And so the Siri AI will know, not only do I know what Jeff's text messages are, but I even know that like 10 days ago, he was asking me about this particular back and forth with his wife and some upcoming trip that they're taking.

And that means it's going to have an even better chance of giving me a helpful response to that follow-up question.

Even if I don't tell it, go back to that previous chat.

You know, I don't have to do it.

It's just part of the corpus of knowledge.

So that's what's really good.

And then the last thing that you mentioned about, you know, it's going to be this little personal advice.

One thing that I've been and I've just started to see the articles on this.

But, of course, the iPhone is is the I mean, that's the center.

That's the hub.

That that's that's the key to this entire puzzle.

But let's not forget the Apple Watch because the Apple Watch is going to have tools as well.

Yes. And as long as your iPhone and your Apple Watch are in the same room or on the same Wi-Fi network.

So like you're at home and maybe your phone's charging, but you've got your watch with you.

You will be able to just talk with that watch and get the same rich responses that it's going back to the iPhone, but that happens quickly.

And I think that's going to be useful because this is like, you know, for years we've been talking about these companies that have been making AI devices.

There was the Pebble, which is a failure, but like the idea of it was interesting.

And then other companies that say like, well, this is going to be something you wear on your head and you're going to talk to it.

And there's even a rumor in the news this week, I didn't link to it, but that it was a leak to Bloomberg that Mark Gurman reported that OpenAI, which of course is now in this battle with Apple, you know, OpenAI has hundreds of former Apple engineers that are now working there on a hardware device.

And the rumor is that the hardware device is going to be a speaker, sort of like a HomePod.

But instead of being a HomePod that stays in one place, it'll be portable and it will have some degree of movement so it can follow you around, which is interesting because Apple had something like that in the labs years ago that we talked about.

And then they said that you would sort of take that you could take this, lug this thing around from room to room.

I don't know about the form factor of it, but it's the idea of something that's with you wherever you are, whether you're in your living room or your kitchen or you go outside, something that you take with you.

But who knows if Mark Gurman even has it right?

Those details might be incorrect because it's just rumors.

But, you know, to the extent that there's any truth in it, you know, OpenAI is working on something that you would lug from room to room to have your AI with you.

And I guess that's fine, but like better than lugging something from room to room.

It's just the fact that your watch is already on your wrist.

So if you do wear an Apple watch, you, I'm not lugging anything.

I've got that AI with me that can hear me, that can talk to me, that can give me information.

It's just really cool.

I don't normally interact with Siri at all on my watch other than I raised you.

You and I talked about this tip, you know, raise your wrist and I usually do a timer.

And that's about that's the number one thing. Timers. What I do. Absolutely. But we'll get to the Apple Watch in just a moment, because that's exactly what I was taking away from from some of the videos that were showing in there as well.

But last couple of things quickly, I just wanted to address in this video, which I think is great. This is the video that was embedded in this nine to five Mac story that that using.

But to me, seeing it in action is so much more powerful than just kind of reading it.

But one of the things that he mentioned is that, first of all, the Siri icon now, like when you engage Siri, I feel like it's been moving all over the screen.

I mean, first it was like a long thing at the very bottom.

Then it was like a circle at the bottom.

And then in iOS 26 or maybe two years ago, it was like the screen outline.

Right, right.

It was colorful.

And now apparently this interacts when you engage it, it interacts with the public island or the island.

Dynamic island.

Dynamic island.

Thank you.

And it's like, so it's at the top.

And it's like, would you please stop moving her around?

Anyway, the thing is, is that you can see I've got on the screen here right now.

In this video, he was showing, I think this is, I want to say it's Jeff Benjamin.

Thank you, Jeff Benjamin.

I want to give credit where credit's due here.

He did an excellent job on this video.

But when you engage it, you can see that at the very top of here in this dynamic island, it shows like the very beginning of whatever that response is when they were asking.

In this case, he's asking about making a pizza at home.

But if I just go a couple of, you know, one or two little frames later, you can pull that down.

Right.

And it'll give you an extend.

And then it jumps into the app.

Right.

Yes.

I just I love that.

I don't know why.

That's just a tiny little cosmetic thing, Jeff.

But it's little things like that, to your point earlier, that there are so many tiny improvements that we're not even going to have time to go through with iOS 27.

Now, this is the new marquee feature, as you were talking about with Siri.

But just being able to have that interaction there, as opposed to going, I don't have to go into an app.

I can just pull that down and I can interact with it there and then go into the app as well.

And I just wanted to point out a few little things like that that I just thought were cool.

And then the last thing quickly, in this video, he does it very quickly.

But something that I just thought was really interesting, I'm assuming, and you correct me if I'm wrong, that the large language model on the back end of this, right?

Because this is what Apple announced, is now Google Gemini.

They've got this interaction there.

Well, if you go into the Siri app, and I don't know if I can find exactly where he's doing this, but it's basically called, they don't mention Gemini anywhere, at least that I haven't seen yet.

But it's the Siri, basically the Siri chat.

But if you tap and hold, it's kind of hidden in here, but he shows it in this video.

You can choose to switch that to a chat GPT backend, which first and foremost is interesting

because that's what Apple was originally kind of partnering with.

Secondly, it's interesting because now there's this whole battle going on in the legal world

about what they're doing.

But the fact that they even still have that in there, I'm assuming it's some whatever

holdovers from the agreements that they had before.

But I just thought that was really interesting on this.

And there are some ways that you can customize sort of the interaction that you have with Siri.

And I feel like it's those kind of things that are just going to even get tweaked to be a little bit better by the time we get around to September or so when the actual iOS 27 gets released.

Yeah.

You know, I've seen a number of videos of the iOS 27 public beta, but I had not seen this video that you're talking about that you've referenced a few times.

I read the article that I was attached to, but I hadn't read the video.

But now that obviously you're highlighting a bunch of things that I hadn't seen yet.

So I'm going to go back and watch this.

It's a long video, right?

Is it?

Yeah, it is.

It's like an hour and a half.

Now, I've been skipping around and I put it.

But I mean, it's like it's literally maybe the first.

What is it here?

Almost 15 minutes that he just really focuses on.

To me, it's worth watching.

And I would say he does an excellent job of just showing the different options.

And then he does go on.

I mean, there's so many other things.

We've really just been focusing on that.

But he does a good job.

Like there's the changes actually inside here to the, uh, the lock screen that he was, that

he was highlighting on here.

Um, what was this one other app?

Yeah, here it is.

This other one from Chance Miller, iOS 27.

He's got all kinds of favorite features.

We can talk about the music app in just a moment.

The photos app, there's the differences in the clock app.

Um, you've just talked, there's a whole, just a smattering of the, of the tweaks.

I call them the tweaks, the small tweaks and improvements, even to liquid glass that, you

know, I think was in response to a lot of people talking. I remember at the WWDC, they had those

screens where it was just impossible to read, but it's just text everywhere with these little tiny

changes and modifications and edits that they were doing in here as well. There's a whole lot more in

here. And I know we've just been focusing on the, on the Siri, but a whole lot more great stuff.

If we wanted to just highlight quickly the photos thing, this was a post by

um david poge which i just thought was great can ai fix the portrait versus landscape problem now

first and foremost there's going to be some improvements in the photos app just as i talked

about but you i saw this david poge article earlier and you were referencing it at the

very beginning here as well uh what are your what are your thoughts on this because i know david has

some thoughts you've had some thoughts on this as well so the the what we're getting to here

is the new feature in the photos app and i was 27 and i was 27 that is going to have something

extend, that you can extend pictures out. What I liked about this POG article is he begins by

talking about sort of the, he provides a really good background of the vertical versus horizontal

video. You know, he says, you know, traditionally video has always been horizontal, which makes

sense because we have two eyes. And so you want something to be wider. But then when the iPhone

came along, we started to have all these vertical videos and he talks about, you know, and we've all

seen this on the local news where somebody takes a vertical video of some newsworthy event and they

wanted to show it on TV, but it only fills up the very center of the screen because it's film video.

It's like, what do you do on the sides? And so he provides a good tech, you know,

you know, there's issues about how, you know, is it better to be vertical? Is it better to be

horizontal? He even says, I had not heard of this, that apparently there's an app on your iPhone

that if you use it, it can record both vertical and horizontal at the same time using two different

cameras. And so then, yeah, so then you could go back and forth. But of course, the problem is that

your videos take up twice as much space because it's recording basically two things at once.

But I didn't even know that that was a possibility. So with all of that context, he then turns to,

you know, but there are times where you take a picture, maybe it's because it's vertical versus

horizontal, or maybe it's just because you took it too close and you want to zoom it out a little

bit for whatever reason you want to, you know, it's always useful to zoom in. We know that how

to crop a picture, but what if you want to like reverse crop, go in reverse, do things out. And,

And then the problem is you just don't you don't want to have like black bars on the two sides when you do it. So this new extend feature is going to use AI to make guesses as to what would have been on the sides and make it bigger. And the example that you're just showing on the screen, you go up with the cows. I think this is a good example because here he has a picture of cows. And if you want to sort of branch out a little bit, you know, we can all see that there's grass around the cows.

And so a very, in my mind, non-controversial way to extend this picture is just put more

grass on the left and put more grass on the right.

And I mean, do we know for sure that that's what it was in real life?

No.

I mean, maybe there was a second cow over there.

We don't know.

But for the purposes of if you're just trying to get something to fill your screen as like

a screensaver or a lock screen or something like that, it's good enough because the point

of the picture is the cow and the stuff on the side is just ancillary anyway.

And so for me, this is useful, ethical, as far as I'm concerned.

I mean, it's not like you're going to give this picture to the Pulitzer committee and say that I'm verifying that this is absolutely the truth of the fact of what happened.

It's just like a little nonsense thing.

Or maybe you just want it to be the cover of a card that you're making for your grandmother, and you just want some more grass on the side.

I think that's totally fine, and I think it's going to be useful.

What gets difficult, and he has this other example where he was taking a picture of two people at a table, and then he says, they'll extend it out.

And because they're both sitting at a table dining, when you extend it out, what the AI is guessing is that there are other people to the side of them.

And that might be inaccurate because it might have been that this was a very small table.

There may be nothing next to them.

It could just be more of the restaurant or more of the house next to them.

But the AI has guessed, well, it would make sense to have a guy next to this woman right

here.

So it totally made up, fabricated out of whole cloth, a person who was not at all there.

And if you shared this picture, the extended version of the picture with someone else,

there'd be like, oh, who's that guy that you were sitting next to?

And the person would say, I wasn't sitting next to anybody.

Like, it's like a ghost.

I mean, what are you talking about?

And this is where I do think it crosses the line into being a little wicky.

You know, there was another example.

I didn't link to it, but our buddy David Sparks out in California had had a picture where he and his wife were at Disney World because he goes to Disney World, I think, pretty much every day.

All the time, yeah.

I say Disney World, Disneyland, excuse me.

Thank you, yes.

But then when he expanded out the picture, one of the things it did, like his hand was not originally in the picture.

And so when he expanded it, it added his hand.

And he sort of joked that like the hand that it put on there, he's like, yeah, it is a hand that's the same skin tone of my hand or the else.

He's like, but like that hand doesn't look like my hand.

It's bigger.

And then moreover, it added a watch to his hand.

And he's like, anyone who knows me knows that I wear an Apple watch.

And it added a generic watch to him.

He's like, so that definitely wasn't my watch.

You know, that one is not quite as, you know, morally questionable.

But it just goes to show you that, you know, whenever you are generating things with AI, and again, we've known this for years because we are constantly seeing this AI, you know, dreck, you know, in advertisements of stupid ads that there's these, you know, obviously fake AI images that just make you roll your eyes.

And so it's a tough thing.

It's a tough balance for Apple.

They want to be useful, but they don't want to be disgusting.

And this extend feature, you know, this one's going to get close to the edge.

And the simple fact that within a single post, David Pogue has shown off examples that I think are not just fine, but useful and examples that just make me totally roll my eyes.

And it just goes to show that when this is in the wild this fall, I think we're going to see so many people talking about, you know, is this appropriate?

Is this right? And, you know, we already live in a world where, you know, things are at the very beginning of his post.

One last thing he had a very I had never seen this, but he refers to putting Oprah on Ann Margaret's body.

I don't remember this, but apparently there was a TV guide issue in the 1980s.

This is before Photoshop was even a thing where he had, yeah, if you click on the link that, you know, this has happened in the real world.

There was a TV guide issue in 1988, 89, where just for they wanted to have a picture of Oprah sitting on top of some money.

But instead of using her body, you could tell because they found the original photograph.

They found like the old 1950s, 1960s actress Margaret.

And they took her body, they changed her from white to black, and then put Oprah's face on it.

And like, when you look at him side by side, you're like, oh, this is just wrong.

But like, at the time of the 1980s, none of us knew what shopping was in the 80s.

I'm sure people saw this.

Everybody in their supermarket checkout counter would have assumed that this was real.

And again, this was using the limited technology of the 80s.

Nowadays, you know, AI can do this stuff without batting an eye.

You know, we're just going to have more and more of these questionable issues.

It's going to be interesting.

Well, I'm taking away that you're okay extending grass, but when you add an actual person, that's when you feel icky.

I think that's the term of our thing.

They used it today.

Unless it was just a crowd behind you.

And then maybe it was just like background.

You know, it's just me.

I know.

I know.

It's subjective.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I post from David Pogue.

I'll make sure the show notes because it's just worth reading.

I mean, like you said, even from the beginning with all the sort of the history on how it goes.

And, you know, some of these we just have I feel like we've just grown accustomed to the expectation of having these, you know, what he calls them pillars.

Right. Whether it's at the top or whether it's at the bottom or the sides.

I mean, it's just like this is what we've just taken for granted now is the way that it's going to be in today's society.

But, yeah, we'll see, because I feel, you know, this is photos.

But what if it gets to the point of videos, right?

I mean, we are there to.

Yeah.

This is the generative AI that can already do some of this stuff.

And yeah, anyway, just interesting on that.

Okay, well, we've been talking mostly about the iPhone and iOS 27.

Why don't we switch over to the watch just quickly there?

You had a couple of links today in the Apple Watch.

So this is watchOS 27 that is coming out.

I mean, again, just tons of small little things.

This is from Malcolm Owen in Apple Insider.

A time for change, 50 Apple Watch updates coming in WatchOS 27.

There's an embedded video on this one too, which is also neat because you can kind of see the visual component of it.

But they're just showing off.

And first and foremost, again, what most of this first video does is that it focuses on the Siri capabilities that are now built into Apple Watch.

which Jeff, if even half of those components

that he was showing off are gonna be working,

that's gonna be where how I'm gonna interact,

I think mostly with it.

And like you said, and I don't know to the extent

if I have a cellular enabled phone,

if that can do it on its own,

I'd probably still wanna do it with the phone app

because then I have access to the Siri app.

Just don't know exactly how that's gonna play out yet,

but everything that I've seen so far, I'm excited for.

I hadn't thought about that.

If you have a cellular Apple Watch,

will it be more capable

because it can reach out to like,

maybe if you're away from your phone,

if you're, you know, you leave your phone at home

and you're out jogging,

will it use cellular to reach out to your phone

or for that matter,

to reach out to like the Apple world knowledge source?

I don't know.

I haven't seen anybody talk about that.

That's interesting.

But as we discussed before,

I do think the watch is going to be a useful interface

because it's with you all the time.

This article also talks about some other small features.

Some of them we mentioned

when Apple first announced this stuff.

One is the idea that there's the new app grid,

what is it called? There's a dynamic app grid that when you press in the digital crown at the top

right of your Apple Watch, right now I see a list of apps, or if you have the honeycomb feature,

you see the honeycomb. That's going to change into, it's just going to basically show your top

apps there. And with the Siri icon right in the very middle, I actually think this is going to be

fine because the apps that I use regularly on my Apple Watch are just a few, right? You know,

the timer app, a couple of maybe weather app. And so for me, having the most used apps right there,

and then on the very rare time where I actually want to dig deeper, then I can do that. I actually

think that's a good change. So I like that. Another change that Malcolm noted, Malcolm Owen noted in

this article that I had not heard anyone talk about yet is, you know how, I think this has been a

previous tip of the week for us. On your current Apple watch, if you don't press once on the digital

crown. If you double click on the digital crown, it brings up tiles of your most recent used apps.

And it allows you to go to back forth to one of those recent apps. Now I can understand that that

might not, that might be unnecessary because as I just described, the new dynamic app grid

automatically shows you your most recent apps, right? So maybe you don't need it, but he noted

in watchOS 27, that's gone. So clicking twice on a digital crown does the exact same thing

as clicking the button once in because it brings up the same thing.

Now he says that this is still a beta.

Maybe this will change.

You know, I understand why you wouldn't need that feature as much anymore.

But it's just interesting.

You know, something I haven't thought about.

I just I did not know that either.

And I do hope that that changes because, you know what, I think I don't think about that

as double clicking to see my recently used apps, Jeff.

I think of it as the same as if I swipe up into the side on my iPhone.

It is whatever apps that are open and running at the time.

Like a command tab or a control tab on a computer.

Exactly.

That's exactly right.

Like when I run, when I'm out running with my watch and I go into workout mode, then typically what's on the face is the workout app.

And so it shows me like, but I'm like, I don't need to see that.

What I really want is my Siri app on my Apple watch, because that's how I control what songs that I'm doing if I'm going to go to the next one.

So what I'll do is I'll start the workout.

I'll double click the crown, and then I will select the Siri app that's already running on my Apple watch from there so that it shows that.

interesting and i do like having that because again you can when you double click into that

digital crown you'll see a list and you can swipe to the left on each one of those and close the app

if it's still running and in some cases i don't do that hardly ever but i'm just saying you could

just like today i don't close out a lot of my iphone apps unless i'm maybe rebooting or something like

that but oh interesting i'm glad you pointed that out because i hadn't heard that um uh either on

there, but I am very excited. Yeah, go ahead. Yeah. I was just going to say a workout buddy.

I like the new workout buddy feature for about a year now that when I'm like doing like the

treadmill or something like that, I get more information at, you know, at the beginning

and the middle and at the end of my workout, I like the additional, like having a little voice

talk to me and give me encouragement and stuff like that. And, and, and tell me some of the

statistics that, I mean, again, do any of them change my life? No, but it's nice to know, you

know, that was your fastest, you know, run that you've had this month or whatever, you know,

it's just little tidbits of information and I like getting that info.

And so in watchOS 27, that feature will be even better.

First of all, you no longer need to have your iPhone in the same room,

like on the same network.

So if you do like there have been times where I will leave my house and I will

go take a run,

leaving my iPhone at home because I have my watch on me and I don't need

anything else. And my, my, my watch is cellular.

So if somebody needs to call me, they can even get me.

And so a workout buddy will work on those situations as well.

Plus, he points out in this article that we'll have some additional statistics that it will have access to.

So you'll just get a little bit more richer experience.

So it's a minor thing, but it's something that I use every week.

So I'm happy to see improved.

Do you know if the dynamic app, I'm sorry, what do they call it again?

The dynamic app grid.

Is that going to be customizable or is it just going to be based on your currently used or the most frequently used apps or something like that?

This is another review you link to in Mac Stories, which is always great.

Jonathan Reed. And I don't maybe, I mean, regardless of what it does right now, it may

change obviously by the time we actually get the release in September. So I know that as well,

but you know, to your point, you were saying like, I have a list when I click my digital crown,

it goes into the list of all of the apps that I have on the Apple watch. And I got to tell you,

I don't normally have to go into that grid because for the most part, first of all, I use the,

the, the modular watch face that I can put on most of the frequently used apps anyway,

Or I go into the smart stack and find it that way on there.

But there's a couple of apps that I do have to go to every once in a while.

And one of them is like alarms.

And every time I go into it, I click my digital crown.

And I'm always thankful that the word alarm starts with A because that alarm app is at the very top.

If I have to scroll down, the other one that I go to often is like settings, Jeff.

And if I click the digital crown, I have to scroll, scroll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll the digital crown to get to settings in the alphabetical order.

and it's like, I don't want to have to go all that.

And I'd really like to have a customizable interface

that I can just say this dynamic app grid.

And again, maybe that would change.

I just was wondering if you knew

or if anybody had maybe commented on that yet.

It just, it does, yeah.

I have been wondering this since the future was announced.

Oh, okay, good, good.

Let me tell you what I think it is.

This is what I think it is, but don't hold me to this.

Plus it might change anyway.

I think what it is, is, so there's the Siri app in the middle

and there's six apps around it, or really five, because the one at the bottom brings up your

entire list of apps. And of those five that are around it, my understanding is that four of them

are your most commonly used apps. And the fifth one, the ones at the bottom right, in fact,

you're seeing it in the picture that you happen to be on right now. You see how in the bottom right,

I think the fifth one is the most recent app you've used. That's not one of those other

Oh, that's exactly what he says.

I think that it's a combination.

It's a combination of commonly used apps

and your one most recent app

if it's different from those commonly used apps.

What I don't think it is, Brett,

is something that you can control.

Like I don't care about my common apps.

I'm just telling you,

I want the bottom left to always be my Find My app

because that's important to me and my iPhone.

I don't think it's that.

And I don't know if there's any customization features

in settings.

Again, I don't have the beta on my watch,

so I haven't tried it.

But if I am correct, and based on that picture that you think, I think I'm correct, that's actually a pretty good compromise.

Because if it covers your common apps, plus if you recently used an app that's not one of your common apps, you might want to go back to something that you used recently.

That's going to probably cover 95% of my use cases for going to my list of apps, right?

And then the very rare time that I want something else that's not a common app and is not a recent app, well, then that's when you tap the one on the bottom where you get the full list.

So I think it works, but I think that's what they're doing.

The last thing quickly in this Jonathan Reed review, this gets me very excited.

He goes, I've got to admit, whatever Apple has been refining behind the scenes has worked from the very first beta.

Apps open dramatically faster.

The same goes for general interactions like screen refreshes and button taps.

Because I got to say, you and I both have like the most recent version of Apple Watch.

And I find that, you know, throughout my life in the techie nerdy world, you know, whatever

the newest thing I get starts, it's blazingly fast as soon as I get it.

And I don't think that it changes much from its standpoint.

I think we change, right?

It's like over the time that you use a product, you're like, okay, come on, like I have to

wait for this to launch.

Nothing has changed on the device, whether it's an iPhone or an Apple Watch.

It's just we've gotten used to that, that we want it to be faster because, you know, even a second now feels like five seconds when it's really not changed at all.

The point that I'm getting to is just like you.

Yay.

I'm thrilled to see that that that sentence there.

And if that's going to help improve some of the speed and response time, that's fantastic.

And it's not just the watch.

My understanding is that the phone, the iPad, the Mac, because, you know, besides the big new feature that, you know, the A.I. feature,

because the rest of the updates were just basically improving what's already there.

You know, we talked about some people call this the snow leopard type feature because

it's just making things better.

It does mean that your current hardware will seem snappier and more responsive, which, you

know, amen, that's fantastic.

Especially when you're talking about something like the Apple Watch, that's going to be probably

one of the slowest Apple devices you own in the first place.

So, you know, we'll probably notice it on the Apple Watch even more than the iPhone, but

I am definitely excited about that.

Well, let's switch gears just a little bit now.

We've been talking about iOS 27,

and I don't know this is necessarily going to come in 27,

but we've talked about improvements to Apple Maps,

or maybe some people would say putting ads into Apple Maps

is not necessarily an improvement,

depends on which side of the fence you go into.

I think controversial in a mostly positive, quasi-negative way

is maybe the best way to approach it.

I was heartened a little bit, though,

to see that Apple is going to put some restrictions on what kind of ads that

they're going to be put into the maps, into the Apple maps out.

I'm not a fan of seeing the end, the ads in Apple maps.

I like go to Apple maps because I don't want to see the ads in like Google

maps, for example.

But at least now Apple has released the idea that they are only going to allow

certain kinds of apps in the Apple maps app.

Yeah.

I have mixed emotions about having ads in the app.

We've talked about that.

So I won't revisit that.

But the article that Sarah Perez wrote for TechCrunch was interesting because she was digging into some of the Apple documentation on these ads.

And she noticed that there's a description of the types of ads that won't be allowed.

And some of them are things that you may expect, things that are just totally sketchy and stuff.

That makes total sense.

But I was surprised by the thing that she focused is it says that home services businesses, like a plumber, a nutrition, pest control, roofing.

That was sort of interesting to me because you and I have talked about way back when there was something called the yellow pages and to young people in the audience, ask your parents about what the yellow pages were.

But it would be useful when you were trying to hire a plumber and you would look in the yellow pages under plumber and you would look through which plumbers had the full page ads.

Not that the fact that somebody paid for a full page ad means that they're a better plumber than the other guy, but it would be something that you would look at and get a sense of that.

And so, you know, I home service companies are something that I could almost understand.

But maybe Apple.

So why would Apple ban this category?

Maybe the idea is because I think this is what Sarah speculates on that, you know, Apple

wants the ads to have something to do with like travel and using a map.

And, you know, you wouldn't necessarily travel to a plumber.

The plumber would come to you.

You wouldn't travel to a locksmith.

And so for whatever reason, Apple has decided that that category will not be allowed.

It's curious, but like I said, maybe I've just explained what Apple's thinking is.

I don't know.

It wasn't something that I expected.

That would not have been a category that I would have thought was added.

And then the other article that was in Cult of Mac noted that other categories that are being banned are things like bail bonds and bond services, cryptocurrency, ATM operators.

That one, you know, maybe just because crypto stuff is a little bit more, you know, sketchy.

But it's just interesting where Apple is drawing the lines.

And of course, this may change over time, you know, who knows.

But it will be interesting to see.

I mean, I presume that means that something like restaurants, like if I have a restaurant

and I wanted to have an ad because people might use maps to look for restaurants, maybe

I could run, you know, if you're searching through, you know, Metairie, Louisiana, you

know, here is a restaurant that's in Metairie, Louisiana that I'm going to advertise.

for you. It'll be curious to see. Again, this whole concept, I don't know, we've had ads in

Google Maps for a long time, but junking up the Apple Maps, I have mixed emotions about it.

Hopefully they're doing it. I don't know. To your point, Sarah Perez talks about in this article

here, she goes, this sets Apple apart from Google where local services ads are one of the company's

largest local advertising categories. Now, often when I do a search in Google Maps, I try to skip

over sponsored or I just try to sort it where I don't have to see some of those things. But

to a lot of people, I know that that is important. So, you know, Apple is not going that way. They're

not doing this from like, you know, get your Google business presence, right? So that you can show up

in the Google app. So that'll be interesting to see. Like, I feel like this specifically is kind

of a wait and see. We want to see exactly how it's going to be implemented and whether or not we can

make a full decision on that. Now, I said we were going to go away from iOS 27, but we almost left

out the most important change that's coming to iOS 27. A sneak peek at the nine new newish newy

kind of emoji is on the way. There are some interesting ones. We always talk about this.

I always like how you say, you know, normally for the non large updates in iOS, like, you know,

26.2 or something like that.

In order to get people to update,

they put in the new emojis, right?

So that people have an incentive to do the updates.

And in this one, it's just kind of rolling in to what it is.

But I didn't know there was this much controversy

over some of the new emojis that are coming out.

Apple, of course, does not come up with the emoji.

There's a consortium that Apple's a part of,

the Unicode consortium,

that every year they come up with emoji.

And so they have now,

I don't know that they've officially announced it,

but at least they have a preview of the new emoji that they're adopting.

And so then it will get rolled out to iPhones, Android, Facebook Messenger.

Everybody that uses emojis will then come up with the way that they draw the emojis and everything else.

But in this article, one of the folks on the consortium has previewed to Ben Lovejoy of 9to5Mac what some of the emoji will be.

And again, the pictures that we're showing, to be clear, these are not Apple's pictures.

These are just like the generic pictures that somebody drew.

Apple could have different versions of them.

But one that's interesting is, you know, we have a lot of hand emojis right now, but they're going to have a hand emoji that's got like a thumb to the left and a thumb to the right.

And, you know, you can see a picture on the screen.

The idea is you would put like a face in the middle and the two thumbs on the left and right.

It's like this guy right here.

You know, that's sort of a, you know, a meme type of thing.

There's also going to be a one that's interesting is that I think I have this correctly.

At the top right, you see one of a meteor, right?

And she points out in the article that I'm reading the story that there is a current emoji for a blue ball of the comet.

A sparkling blue ball, Jeff.

A sparkling blue ball of ice.

Apparently, some people draw the comet different ways.

And some people make it like more of a friendly comet.

And some people make it seem like here's the end of the world because the meteor coming to hit the Earth and make the Earth go back to the dinosaur age.

And so they're going to separate those into like there's going to be a separate comet one from the meteor one, which is sort of interesting.

And then, of course, there's going to be the cucumber and butterfly and the lighthouse.

I could almost say the lighthouse, you know, that could be one that people might use in a conversation, like I'm searching for something.

And so I have the lighthouse emoji to sort of indicate that I'm trying to find something.

You know, people are always very clever and sometimes people come up with established uses for emoji that's very different from what the original intent was.

I think of the poor peach emoji and the what's the what's the other one that people use?

So, you know, it'll be interesting to see what people come up with for these emoji.

But I'm always excited. So like these will be fun.

You know, iOS 27 will come out this fall.

And then by the time they get around to like 27.2, 27.3, you know, let's just say spring of 2027.

Sometime around spring of 2027, I presume that we will see the Apple versions of these emoji and they will be part of an update.

So something to look forward to.

So if you want to use the pickle today, I'm sorry, you have to wait.

No, no, no.

So here's the thing.

As Jennifer says, a cucumber is crisp, hydrated and best served at the spa.

but a pickle has seen things.

It has undergone a chemical transformation.

So apparently we already have

We have a cucumber.

I'm sorry.

We have a cucumber now.

Excuse me, yes.

And it's the pickle that's coming so that now,

now the cucumber, she says,

gets to stay as a cucumber across all platforms,

but the pickle is officially moving out

and getting its own space to ferment.

So I'm just saying,

it's like now you could have a choice

between the pickle or to keep with the cucumber.

Very important distinction.

I apologize that I said the cucumber

Fending cucumbers everywhere, which is used for many purposes.

And now we will have the pickle.

Okay, a quick in the show.

We haven't done this in a while, but you had a couple of leaks today, which I thought was good.

First was this new Apple TV show called Lucky.

That looks really good.

In fact, I think I was just seeing scenes from The Gorge because wasn't she in The Gorge and Anya Taylor-Joy?

Yeah, okay.

And then, you know, she was famously in The Queen's Gambit.

The Queen's Gambit, which was great.

That was when most of us got to know her.

And then she was in The Gorge, which was an okay show.

And so this is going to be, it's not a TV show.

It's a limited series.

I don't know.

It's sort of between a TV show and a movie.

So it's going to have however many episodes, you know, eight episodes, ten episodes, and

it'll be one and done.

It's called Lucky.

She plays a skilled con artist trying to escape her criminal life.

She is a great actress.

She is, yeah.

I haven't actually seen any of the initial reviews of this, but I think it's now out.

I think it came out.

Yeah, it came out on Wednesday.

So I haven't read the reviews, but it's something that I'm probably going to start to watch because, you know, I like, you know, con artists.

Those are sort of funny, sort of, you know, interesting stories.

I like her as an actress.

I have, you know, a trust for things on Apple TV tend to be pretty good.

So I'm looking forward to checking it out this weekend.

My goodness.

And Benning is in this.

Timothy.

Oh, that's right.

Yeah, I should have said.

Yeah.

I like Timothy.

Yeah.

Great.

Timothy Olyphant was amazing.

And that show that was on, was it on HBO years ago?

Deadwood.

He was just so good in that.

Deadwood.

I mean, no, that's that's a little bit of a hardcore show if you're not ready.

But I thought that he did an excellent job of kind of showing what life was probably as rough as it was back then.

But, you know, Justified was his other one. Right. For a long, long time. That was so good.

And then the last one here, I had seen these mentions of this. It's a movie, right?

It's called Maykay. Yeah, it's a movie. Ryan Reynolds is in it.

And I was like, OK, you know, this I didn't think too much of it.

but you put the trailer link in today and I watched it and I'm like,

I can't wait for this now.

You know, you either like Ryan Reynolds and you don't like Ryan Reynolds,

you know, he's the actor.

He's going to be goofy.

He's going to look at the camera, you know, break the fourth wall.

That's just who he is.

You know, some people love those daredevil movies.

Some people hate them.

He's done a million other things too.

I personally think that Ryan Reynolds is funny.

And so I, and the premise of this, it's a,

it's a typical fish out of water movie.

I think the idea is that he's a fighter pilot who's plane crashes in Russia.

And so suddenly he's in Russia.

And, you know, people, you know, all of the hijinks that ensue from there in a comedy because somebody finds him who apparently is a big fan of America who lives out in the middle of America.

It looks to me like it's going to be funny and cute.

The trailer made me chuckle.

It was out September 4th.

So hopefully it's funny.

Apple's success rate on movies has not been – they haven't had as many hits as they have for their TV shows, which have been very good.

But so we'll see if this is a good one or if this is one that we roll our eyes.

I'm just going to choose to look at the glass half full and hope that the movie is as funny

as I think the trailer makes it look like it could be.

And so it's a fun trailer to watch.

Very good.

Every year, I don't know exactly who makes this distinction, but we have iPhone Photography

Awards.

And this is on Petapixel.com.

It just I look forward to this every year, but I also don't look forward to it because

I'm like, how in the world are they doing that?

And why can't my photos look half as good as some of these?

It's just amazing that these photos are coming out from an iPhone of all things.

And it's not always the most recent iPhone.

This first one here, this, which is amazing.

Where is this from the Cayman Islands?

It was an iPhone 15 Pro just using the main camera.

Yeah.

Somebody, I love photography.

Like it's one of the things, anytime there's an art exhibit that's got photography and it

pause on that one for a second as I'm talking.

Anytime that there's an art photography, you know, I'm always like, oh, these are amazing.

And I tried, like you say, I give myself solace by saying, well, I don't have the fancy equipment

that this guy had.

So of course, I am not going to take the same picture that Ansel Adams took of, you know,

because I don't have that camera.

But when it comes to the iPhone, like I said, technically, I could take these pictures.

And like the one that you're showing right now, it's just two kids on the ground.

It's in black and white.

And I guess it's got like a tennis racket shot.

I don't know what it is.

Apparently badminton.

This is, isn't that the shuttlecock there, right?

Okay, so I would guess it's badminton, but it could be tennis.

But like this picture, it's like, this is just an interesting, and I guess in theory,

I could have taken this picture, but I would never have thought to compose it this way,

to do it.

And so I guess, instead of being jealous, I should say I'm inspired.

These are inspirational for me because so many of them are just such cool pictures,

and I could have done it, and maybe it would inspire me to take a cool picture one day

you know that's as good as this um just this one pictures in here this one they say was shot on an

iphone x jeff oh my god they're talking about that win yeah you don't need the latest and greatest

iphone just like i said a gold prize winner here gelbert gone by used an iphone x for their winning

shot the phone came out in 2017 that's almost that's nine years ago for crying out loud and he

still came out with that anyway just just amazing there's some great shots in here you know i mean

some of it putting i thought this was amazing right here this one what is this it's like ice on a on a

car windshield of some kind seriously seriously yeah i mean first of all it just inspires me

i know that that's a great shot right there like coming out okay i'll make sure the link is in the

show notes so you all can go through and look at some of these but again they're just it's

fascinating. It's inspiring. And I always enjoy these. So I'm glad that you linked to it today.

One thing about cool pictures like this years and years ago, when my mom was still alive at the jazz

fest in New Orleans, there was, I have a picture of her and my son back when he was young and cute,

you know, not like you today. And so it's the two of them together. And I took it with my iPhone

and it's actually a blurry picture that's got bad lighting on it. And so the picture itself,

The quality of the picture is not good because it's blurry, but the pose and the looks on

their face is amazing.

And one of the things I did years ago is I used, you know, you know how the photos app

has got like some filters in it and stuff like that, or maybe I used Photoshop for it.

I forget what it was, but I used one of those filters that gave it sort of a cartoon effect.

You know how you take a regular photo and you make it look like it was a cartoony thing.

And so when you turned it, when I turned it into a cartoony effect, it didn't matter that

was blurry because it's like now it's more like a pop art Andy Warhol type picture anyway.

And it's one of my favorite, I guess you call it a picture.

It's almost art because it's inspired by.

But like I took what would have been a bad photo that I would delete because it was out

of focus.

And when I put the filter on it, it turned it into something that every once in a while

I have it saved on my photo reel.

It'll show up on like my iPad and my widget that's got photos that show up.

And it's just stunning.

And it just goes to show that like art, I mean, again, I came across that accidentally.

I'm certainly not a sophisticated photographer, but you never know where a really cool picture

is going to come from.

So I just throw that out there.

In the know.

In the know.

Okay, Jeff, I am so pleased to finally announce that after all what I say, it's all these years,

it's maybe just maybe a year and a half, but I put in my Ohio driver's license into my

Apple wallet as soon as that was available. I remember this, this came available. This, this,

this feature was maybe what two or three years ago. And it started off with maybe four or five

States, right. And Ohio was not one of them. And I remember it wasn't too long after that,

maybe a year or so that, that Ohio was added as one of the places where you could take your

physical driver's license and you add it into the Apple wallet. Now it sounds like it's an easy thing.

It takes a little bit of time because that has to be set up with like your Department of Motor Vehicles or whatever it is in your state because you sit there, you go through this whole process.

I don't know if Louisiana has it quite yet, Jeff.

I know you talk about another app that you use on here.

But in fact, here is the support article from Apple in here to where you have to go in, you add a card, you tap your driver's license, you have to put in whether you want your license or ID to add to the phone.

And then there's a whole slew of on-screen instructions.

You have to actually take a picture of yourself that gets sent to your Bureau of Motor Vehicles so that they can verify that you are who you really are.

You confirm it.

I mean, there's a whole slew of things, and that's just in Ohio.

I think in some of the other states maybe you have to even do a little bit more.

But I did this, and looking forward to the day, Jeff, that one day at a place I could actually use that license at the only place I could really think of.

Because it's like I didn't have a dream that I would get pulled over for a speeding violation.

Because the officer is probably going to be like, whatever, dude, give me your license, your actual physical license.

So I'm thinking to myself, the only place I can really use this is when I'm going through an airport and at a TSA checkpoint that they would say, can you please show your identification?

And I would whip out my phone instead of reaching into my pocket to fill out my driver's license.

And I would say, can I just tap this?

And I have been foiled time and time again, Jeff.

The Cleveland Hopkins Airport.

I've even gone to large airports.

There was one time in Chicago that the person, the TSA officer actually knew what I was talking about.

But they looked at me and said, I'm sorry, my machine is down right now.

So it's like I'm halfway there.

I got close.

Well, this weekend, Jeff, I am thrilled this week.

I think it was two or three days ago.

I finally was flying out of all places, Albany, New York.

So it's not the metropolis.

list going through Albany, New York. They didn't have a clear lane, which is a lot of times what

I'll use, you know, so I have to show my identification. But in this case, they didn't

have a clear lane. TSA pre I get up there. I need to see your ID. And I had my iPhone and I'm like,

okay, surely I'm going to try it, but it's not going to work. And it did. Jeff, I was so thrilled.

I was they were looking at me weird because it's like, well, yeah, just tap it. Why wouldn't you?

So I wanted to share just quickly what that looks like after I tapped it.

So I just like in any tap to pay anywhere else, I just whipped out my phone.

I did the double click on the side button on my to bring up Apple Wallet and it brought up my license.

Now, it doesn't have any information on the license itself, right?

You can it's embedded. You can go in if you need to.

But just like in any credit card or anything else, I just tapped my license now from Apple Wallet onto the TSA machine.

And she was like, okay, you're good.

And that was it.

Like, I didn't have to show anything else.

I didn't have to, you know, you don't have to show your boarding pass or anything, because normally you just show your identification anyway.

But here's what the screen looked like after I passed through.

And I just wanted to share in case anybody else has not done this yet, that it literally pulled up and it said you went through the TSA.

Now, this was in Loudonville.

I assume that's it was the Albany Airport, but I'm sure that's exactly where it is.

You can see I entered it on July 13th at 928.

And I said, it presented your Ohio driver's license.

And it said, here's the information that it presented, but it did not store it.

It just presented it.

So you can see it's got my name, my date of birth, my sex, my ID number, my issue date,

all that kind of stuff.

I just thought that that was interesting.

Like it tracks all of that.

In fact, here's the next image.

When I went back screen to show my actual license, because again, it doesn't show the

information.

It just shows a little image there.

It has the latest activity.

Much like if you went into a credit card and Apple wallet, it would show you that, you

know, here are the last few charges made on that credit card. In this case, it just shows that I

went through the TSA in Loudounville, New York on Monday. By the way, I don't know how many other

licenses, digital IDs will do this. But if you take this, this is like a security thing. And you,

you just gently twist or turn your iPhone, the image of your, of your license will change

slightly and for whatever reason in Ohio it goes from the seal of the state of Ohio into uh the

NASA I mean out of Cleveland we have a we have a NASA um uh establishment or headquarters there

around the airport but it's just interesting when you have that ID in the Apple wallet you know this

is similar to like if you have a credit card sometimes it'll show one one image you know then

if you twist it a little slightly it'll show a different image because it's hard to reproduce

easily. So they do that. I don't know why they needed a digital wallet app, but I just thought

that that was interesting that if you twisted it a little bit, it shows a different image.

So that was my tip. I just wanted to show folks what it looks like. If you actually find an

airport and a TSA agent and a working TSA machine, this is what it looks like. And it was so seamless.

I got to tell you, it was so neat to just be able to tap that and go on. I'm sure I could have done

it for my Apple Watch as well. I just typically don't do that because I feel like sometimes it's

harder to get into the right place with the Apple Watch. But I just did it from the iPhone. And I

like the fact that it tracks that. So it shows me exactly when I go through a TSA alley, which was

good. So that's my tip, just to show people how it looks like. Finally being able to use it now.

Thank you for sharing it. I've never, if I haven't used it, I must not have been able to use it. I

know I've tried in the past and they said, oh, the machine's down. Because everything that you've

just described and shown, if you're watching the video version of this, I have never seen this

before. So that's very interesting. And it's sort of, it's nice to have a log because if you ever

needed to do, you know, what time did I go through TSA? If you're just trying to figure something

out, you can actually go back and see precisely. So I'm glad that you shared that. Here in New

Orleans, we have a new thing where a couple of cities in the country have this, where I think

it's called touchless TSA. I mean, you basically walk up to the line and you just look and it sees

who you are and you go and you don't have to show anything at all. You don't have to show your

license. You don't have to show your boarding pass. And that's even nicer to show nothing.

Absolutely. But it doesn't always work. And the other day I went to the airport and it was that wasn't on.

And I went through the other TSA line and I had to do it. Anyway, that's very cool. I'm glad that you showed that.

Good. So you're talking about domestic travel.

I have a tip that came out of a different travel experience, which is I had a review on my website yesterday of the app that you can use to pay for the streetcar in New Orleans.

And the reason I've been using that app is because my daughter is, before she goes to college this fall, she has a summer job and she doesn't have her own car.

And so she's been sharing my car, which is fine because my house is very easy to get to from my office.

I can take the streetcar.

And I like taking the streetcar because it's historic and it's sort of fun.

So I did a review yesterday of the app that you use for taking the streetcar in New Orleans, which is nice if you're a tourist.

But I mentioned that because this morning our schedules don't normally conside.

But the time that I was coming into my office was going to work for my daughter and she was ready early.

So she was going to take me to the office before she went to her summer job.

So I got a ride with her and she said I'm taking the streetcar today, which was nice.

And so since I was talking to my daughter in the morning, I mentioned to her that I'm doing a podcast and I always share a tip of the week.

And I sort of in jest, you know, asked whether or not she had a tip for my tip of the week.

And, you know, she my daughter, the teenager, will often let me know that she would never listen to my podcast.

She hears my voice more than enough at home and does not need to hear my voice coming out of her iPhone.

But to my surprise, she immediately had a tip.

She's like, oh, I have a great tip.

She's like, because I sort of said like anything that you would tell your friends, oh, I absolutely have a good tip.

I'm like, well, let's hear it.

And actually, it is a good tip because I've actually used it, too.

Reminders have been on the iPhone since the beginning, and it's so useful to have a reminder.

You know, don't forget you got to pick up your laundry, your cleaning on the way home.

Don't forget it's time to take out the trash.

Don't forget it's time to do this or that.

But sometimes, as my daughter said, she'll set a reminder for herself, but then it'll show up on her screen and she doesn't even notice it.

And next thing you know, two days have passed and you haven't done it.

There is a feature that was added in, and we talked about it when it came out.

I think it was added in iOS 26.2.

If you scroll down on this page or if you just do a find for the word, or there you just found it, a reminder.

The tip is create a reminder, not just a regular reminder, but an urgent reminder.

When you have a reminder that you set, you can tap on the info button and mark it as urgent.

And what that does is it turns it into a hybrid of a reminder and an alarm.

And in the old days, I've done this.

There have been times where I'm like, I need to remember, before I leave my house in the morning, set an alarm at 7 o'clock because I need to catch my attention and say, don't forget to grab that one thing and bring it to the office.

Because like my daughter, I might miss a reminder.

but I've actually used this feature.

So something it's,

it's not just that you want a reminder of it,

but you want it to be urgent in your face right there.

You know, something that's going to really grab your attention.

Your iPhone's going to shake and everything else.

Take a reminder and turn it into an urgent reminder.

And then it will, you know, it will, it will,

it will get your attention.

It will use the alarm.

If you've got sound turned on,

it will get your attention more urgently.

And so this is, I was like, that's it.

That's actually a great tip.

And I'm going to share it today.

So I give full tips to my daughter.

And again, it's not something that even existed.

until iOS 26.2.

And I forget, I'd have to look back

and see when 26.2 came out,

but I'm going to guess it was last November,

you know, December, something like that.

So it hasn't even been around.

It's certainly been around for less than a year,

but this was a useful addition

to the always useful reminders feature.

So great tip that I think my daughter heard the tip

and I share it with the rest of you.

Thank you, Jeff's daughter.

Now, and this works,

we're talking about Apple Reminders app, right?

We're talking about the app.

I mean, I guess you could use that

even with with siri if you if you do that and sure enough when i go into a apple reminder and i look

at a reminder there i can set there's a toggle for date and time and time so you can set the date and

second set the time and then the sure enough the third little toggle there is urgent i can mark it

as urgent oh and it even you know goes through and it'll tell you if this is the first time because

i've never typically done that i use microsoft to do well i mostly use microsoft to do for a lot of

that and i don't know that i can mark something urgent on here what does it say in the screen

since it's the first time it says yeah it says allow alarms for urgent reminders to get alarms

for reminders you mark you mark as urgent allow reminders to schedule alarms so it's using that

alarm component just like you were saying you'll not you'll only get alarms on this device which

find my users as your location and then it allows you to continue on that so yeah that's that's kind

of neat on there yeah very good i like that thank you for that yeah good okay a lot of ios 27 watch

iOS 27, all the 27s happening this week.

I feel like we're going to, as normally,

since we've been doing this for several years now,

we'll be touching a base on a lot of the 27 iOS 27,

what's going to be coming out until it comes out in the fall.

Then we'll be talking about how we're actually using some of that on there.

So with that in mind, good stuff again, as always, Jeff,

and we'll talk with you next week.

Thanks, Brett. Bye-bye, everybody.