Home App Updates and Siri Strategy

Welcome to Nightife I Back Daily for Friday, june twelfth, twenty twenty six. I'm your host, Chance Miller. Sponsored this week by Card Pointers Leading us today, we haven't talked yet about what's new in Apple Maps in IiOS twenty seven. Apple maps won't look drastically different when you open it in IOS twenty seven for the first time, but Apple has a variety of big and small improvements in this latest update. One of the tent poole features is an upgraded fly overver experience Apple explains that Apple Maps' new flyover experience combines aerial imagery with AI to enable users to view imagery in stunning detail for select cities around the world like never before Apple also highlights a new local list feature in the United States With this feature, Apple says maps users in the United States can find the perfect spot for meeting friends, dining, and more It uses intelligent insights from what's trending and surfaces locally relevant collections of places make it easier to find what you're looking for Other Apple Maps updates in IOS twenty seven include more suggested places. So you'll see more options in the new suggested pllaces section added in IOS twenty six point five a new trending restaurant section. a language search for routing Your parked car information will now show up in Smart Stack on Apple Watch And finally, there are updates to offline support and Apple Maps to make it more reliable Next up today, the home app in IiOS twenty seven is full of new features for Homekit users Homekit Secure Video is Apple's secure cloud based service included with iCloud pllus for compatible video cameras. It lets you record footage, view it from anywhere, and set up activity automations In IOS twenty seven, Apple Intelligence is powering three new features for Homekit seecure video First, there are generated video descriptions so users can quickly understand what happened across a sequence of video clips, even without watching them Search and Cips allows users to easily find what they're looking for by searching for something like a package delivery There's also a new noteworthy clips feature that appears at the top of the search page where the homeome app will intelligently elevate what it thinks are the most important clips that you want to review. HomeKit Secure Video is also adding support for four K video. Apple says that supported home kid secure video cameras can now stream and record in four K. Previously, ten thousand eightyP was the maximum resolution Furthermore, the H home app in IiOS twenty seven is also tapping into Apple Intelligence to understand related notifications as a single activity So essentially homeome app notifications now update in real time so you won't see outdated alerts when you glance at your iPhone This is managed by a new reduced notifications toggle in the settings of the homeome app which says, quote Combine related activities such as someone arriving and unlocking the door into one notification that updates in real time So instead of seeing multiple different notifications, you'll see one alert that updates in real time explaining what's happening. such as one notification saying somebody arrived home, unlocked the door, and closed the garage. 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A members only hotel booking tool that helps you find lower hotel rates Just hit the link in the show notes to get started today Next up today, following the WWDC keynote on Monday, Apple also held a tech talk at Apple Park for members of the press During this tech talk, Apple's Craig Federigi explained why Apple decided to launch a chatbot style app after previously saying a chat bot wasn't part of Apple's strategy In an interview with Joanna Stern last year, Federigi, along with Greg Joswak, explained that Apple's strategy with Apple intntelligence was to create an experience that's integrated into everything you do Not a bolt on chatbot on the side Federi was directly asked about those comments in the Q and A this week at Apple Park. He explained that Apple wanted to create a place where people can go back and reference their previous chats with Siri Apple ultimately determined that a dedicated app on the home screen made the most sense for this. He explained, quote, We see Siri not as a separate chat bot, just an unintegrated place where you go and chit chat, but rather as an integral conversational tool that you use in the moment that's deeply integrated into your experience We went back and forth on what's the best way. if you want to get back to a chat that you had because you want to continue it or you want to reference it And in our platform, the most natural affordance for any user to go find something like that is to have an app that they can manage on their home screen, launch, and get back to And so we have a Siri app and that Siri app just reembodies those capabilities of that core system experience. End quote During the same tech talk, Federigi also touched on Apple's partnership with Google to help power the new Si AI features Federigi specifically focused on explaining how much of Google's technology Apple is actually using in the new IOS twenty seven features He said, quote We don't have the Gemini app as our app In fact, none of that client code is part of how we run on IOS. For these models, we use none of the models that Google deploys to their customers nor do we use the infrastructure and means by which they deploy models to their customers. And then when it comes to the knowledge base, we don't use Google seearch or anything like that as the foundation for our system The amount of the Google assistant that we use is none That wraps up another episode and another week of ninetiney to five Mac Daily As always, if you like the show, please be sure to check us out on Apple Podcasts where you can leave a rating and a review. You can find an ad free version of the show at nine to fiveMac. com slash join for five dollars a month or fifty dollars a year You can follow along with me on threads at Chance H Miller And we'll be back on Monday for a new week of Apple News