Smart Home Features and Final Thoughts

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That's how they stack That's technology at Capital One Welcome back to another episode of the Macam Mmer Show. And of course it's that time of the year where we are actually at Apple Park in the studio, except much more lonely on my end. Hartley is not here this year, but we have them via Riverside, which is what we use. so cool to know that Apple's using the same thing. But we have so much to get to and not a lot of time. So we're going to just jump right into it, but real quick, Hartley, I usually say what good afternoon to you, but ood mor Good morning. Sould we stay with that? What is morning now for me? morning the next day. How are you still functioning Barely Well barely, but it has been good to spend my entire evening digging into all of these features. and there has been a lot. I think this is going to keep us busy for weeks. Apple was super efficient with the keynote. It was actually much shorter than usual, so we will be just as efficient. So we'll jump right into it We'll start with you know just kind of going through and recapping the events. It was broken up into three sections this year. So the platform improvements, which is kind of like the rumors that we talked about for months about how this was going to be kind of that snow Leopard style release where there's just a lot of focus on you know, tiding things up a bit, making stuff just a you know, a lot more efficient. and then trust and safety, which I thought was going to go in a different direction, but I'm kind of glad this is kind of one of my like under the radar personal favorites. due to being a parent who has kids that uses a lot of this stuff And then Apple Intelligence and Syria. And we'll just go through. let's start with platform improvements And liiquid glass was kind of the main star here where we knew this was coming where we kind of adjust things and things are being kind of tailored to make it easier to read, you know, if you want to go full clear liquid glass, you can, if you want to tint things back up, you can also do that. So what were your thoughts on some of just aside from liiquid gllass too, just a lot of the improvements that we saw from more of the efficiency standpoint and just responsiveness and how things are going to run on these devices Well withith liquid glass in particular, I think this goes a little bit further than I was expecting because this isn't just a liquid glass slider. By all means you do now get that where you can really customize the appearance based on what you want. But the actual appearance of liquid glass throughout the system has been improved across all platforms This is really visible in particular with app icons, which now use more layers of liquid glass And it's just clear that there's a lot more consideration that's gone into finish and even just the level of contrast seems dramatically better. It really seems like liiquid gllass has stepped up and just become that bit more refined now. And I think a lot more people are going to be very happy with the look and feel of this throughout the systems. But there's so much here Well, jumping on the icons for a second. did you get the beta on your phone Yes, I did. Yeah. So my whole plan was to not put it on my main phone. and well, here I am, it's on my main phone. It didn't work out that way, or the way I wanted it to. But I'm just looking at these icons. like that was the first thing I noticed. a lot of these icons so much nicer than what they were before. It's such a subtle change, but it's a welcome change. And there's a lot of that throughout here, especially I don't know if you've kind of had a chance to go through a lot of the smoother system animations, launching apps. A lot of things are just so much faster now. I believe it's thirty percent faster for launching the apps. New photos appear seventy percent faster when you capture them. Haven't done that one yet. It's been literally two hours. And then obviously you can airdrop photos be a transfer speed of up to eighty percent faster. Ag, something I haven't tested yet, but a lot of these things are going to be welcomed by a lot of people who kind of find this to be a bottleneck sometimes with platforms It's clear to me that this is a pretty dramatic change. It really does feel like there has been a level of iteration across the board. everything just feels substantially smoother and more considered, both in terms of the design and the responsiveness across the system And we have these Gorgeous one hundred and twenty Htz displays on a lot of our devices now. And somehow it feels just like everything's just that little bit faster which is of course, really nice to see because last year we got that big upgrade to liquid glass which was such a dramatic change, but it feels like This is kind of taking everything to the next level And you know, it's inevitable. Whenever there's a big change, there's a lot that needs to be figured out right out of the gates But I think with a whole year of working on this and listening to feedback, just like Apple said during his keynote address, I think they've got things just right this time around A couple other things that I want to touch on with mail and messages specifically, the indexing has been apparently just rebuilt from the ground up here. So the search index, rearchchitected, it's more stable, againg, more efficient, I'm probably going to say that a bunch. and more comprehensive and it just incorporates oldld content but also new content instantly as it's coming in, it's able to feed those results of what you're looking for to the top a lot faster. It's something again, I haven't had a chance to test, but that has been one of my main struggles with mail especially we've talked about this. So I'm super happy that this is something that Apple really focused on Particularly with spotlight as well is where you should notice a dramatic difference because I think many of us rely on spotlight to get to our apps, especially where we have so many apps installed on our devices nowadays, but we've all had those experiences of spotlight just indexing that little bit too slow lacking behind or even if you're searching for something like a recent message, it not being able to service that as effectively as you might like Now that should all be completely different And this is actually related some of these changes that we're seeing underpin Apple intntelligence, because of course, They kind of go hand in hand. if you need Apple intntelligence to be able to access all of that information across your system be able to access it both quickly and also make sure that that is up to date, you need that indexing to be incredibly fast. This is kind of a a tangential benefit of needing to build that technology for Apple Intelligence One other thing to mention and you know a lot of this efficiency is going to help older devices And I believe this is one rumor that I'm glad is wrong, especially for a lot of people out there who own an iPhone eleven Somewhere in that lineup and the iPhone SE two, that was I believe a rumor that said those devices would be dropped for IOS twenty seven specifically. Now, I'm not sure if you're going to get everything, especially you know a lot of devices aren't going to get a lot of the series stuff, which we'll get to in a little bit. But when it comes to IOS twenty seven, apparently every device that was able to run IOS twenty six will get IOS twenty seven. So that does include the entire iPhone eleven lineup and the second generation SE and then just all the newer devices from there. So that's pretty cool. We do need to move on though. Let's touch on trust and safety quickly, and then we'll get to the main thing that everybody wants to talk about, which is Siri and of course, all the Apple intelligence features. I'm sccreen time was something that And I didn't think I'd care about as much, but now that I have three kids and they all have iPads and every day, it's a constant struggle with how much screen time they should get just the horror stories of things that I hear that I don't want them finding out. at some point they will, like I did as a kid, you know, but I just never really told my parents the type of things that you know, but I'm glad they're really open and I didn't also have to deal with an iPad, but they do. And so I'm glad that Apple is taking a next step on like how to help not only for the kids to not see a lot of the things that they shouldn't see or have access to a lot of things until they theirre age appropriate, but making it easier for the parents. So sccreen timee got a huge overhaul. and then there's just a lot more features that Apple added. And I know that you do not have kids yet, but this is great that this is something that you will have available and it's just getting better and better. So what were your thoughts on some of the overhauled trust and safety measures that are going to be for there's so much granular control here You know, sometimes on some devices, Parental controls can feel a little bit static and a little bit limited where you can just, I don't know, control what kids see in browsers or whatever it may be. But we're seeing extensions of features here that we've seen in the past such as preventing what kids might see in Faceetime calls or in messages that they may receive. This is using incredibly powerful algorithms that don't require anything to be sent to the cloud, It's just all on device right there. You don't need to go out of your way to set anything up. It's just pretty simple questions for parents to engage with and making it as easy as possible. And yet they do seem pretty powerful and expansive. Yeah. You can even schedule things out, which is kind of cool. And like I love that you know now it's summertime the school year, we were pretty limiting on how much screen time you get throughout the week. It's usually like an hour or two of like personal devices. and That's it. like during the school day, like they've got stuff to they barely even get to that because it's just there's not enough time in the day. Weekends are a different story, but now it's summertime. They're still busy with other stuff, but they're going urally you, especially on bad weather days, they're going to have some time where they're going to want to do their iPad a little more We let them. And so it's nice that you can fine tune Taylor, whether it's, you know communication or watching content, whatever. You can give a little bit of extra. you can schedule out what you want because no day is going to be the same. and so that stuff's kind of cool Um That's really all I have about that, but I like that Apple focus on that for a little bit. Hey guys, just want to take a quick break to tell you more about today's sponsor, Shopify. Starting a YouTube channel is honestly pretty intimidating. It's basically like starting a business these days. When I first started making videos, there were a lot of what ifs running through my head. What if nobody watches? What if I spent all this time making content? it just goes nowhere Looking back, taking the leap was a great decision and it got me to where I am today, making these videos and of course, these podcasts for you all If you're thinking about starting a business, Shopify can help make that leap a whole lot easier. 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It's called Chat Concierge, and it's simplifying car shopping. Using self reflection and layered reasoning with live API checks, it doesn't just help buyers find a car they love, it helps schedule a test drive, get pre approved for financing and estimate trade in value. Advanced, intuitive and deployed. That's how they stack That's technology at Capital One U All right, let's lead us into Siri. I've done a lot of talking. They want to hear your smooth voice. U well Siri, of course is the star of the show here. everver since this was unveiled back in twenty twenty four, I think this is what we have really been anticipating most keenly. And I think what's so significant is that this isn't just what we saw unveiled back in twenty twenty four. It's that a whole lot more. Even just the appearance seems so much more considered. I love this Look that Siri now has up in the Dynamic Island. It's unlike anything else we've seen in the Dynamic Island before, kind of half, opaque and dark at the top toward the island, so you don't really notice it, of course, and then going transparent at the bottom. veryy unique Very distinctive. And even on the Mac, that is now what spotlight looks like when it uses series. So there are some visual changes here and of course, just the capabilities reach pretty much everywhere across the system with access to the whatever you're looking at on the screen. so you have that on screen awareness. you've got world knowledge to be able to conduct search about events that are taking place in real time or pretty much anything that you want to look at. And then you've got actions and controls within apps, leveraging things like app intents to be able to actually get things done So there's an enormous amount of power and capability here I mean, it's pretty much everything that we've been talking about for months. Obviously, we did know some of these things because Apple showed us two years ago. but I like that we've got We've got new examples. It wasn't the same recycled stuff. like it was new examples of how you can use this in your everyday life. Why this would be useful, why you'd want to use it if you decide to enable it, which by the way, if you guys do decide to do the beta, you do need to request accessed and joined the waitlist for the like for new Siries. So which by the way, we didn't talk about. it's Siri AI. We have to talk about the rebranding. What are your thoughts on the new name here? I think it's helpful. I think it's helpful to kind of draw a line underneath user experiences of Syria in the past and make it very clear that this is something new. I mean is This is completely different really from anythingy that we would have been able to do with Syria in the past. I mean, it's not even close. The ability to stack requests conversations that actually go somewhere taking actions every step of the way across apps It's something totally different and it just makes it really easy for ordinary users to understand. We've had Siri before. now we have Siri AI kind of brings Siri up to date so I really like it. I also think the other thing that really stood out to me watching the keynote. is the actual demos, which felt a lot more raw and a lot more, I know they're prereorded, but it felt a lot more like a real time demo than what we've seen in the past. They didn't simulate it. They didn't like it unless they did but I don't know how it seemed because it was a long time in between so much so that they timed it up perfectly. They had enough time to like finish their thought and show you that in real time. Like this is how long it takes which takes a little bit, but it wasn't that bad And they were comfortable to leave a beat if that's what Siria required. I like the split screen edit. but kind of where I'm going to with this point is that I feel Apple did very well with the keynote today is it kind of conveyed what makes Siri AI and Apple's direction with AI here different to its competitors. becausecause there are a lot of these AI services around right now, many of which are adopted into people's workflows already And I think what Apple showed off so convincingly is the fact that this is all integrated. It has that personal context. There's no way that you can use any of these other tools from third party services today to access your messages and Apple music and to be able to kind of work across all of these apps so conveniently without needing to plug anything in or set anything up U And it's all just there on your device and it has that that sort of background picture of what you may want or need at any given time And if you do need to be able to dive into more kind of conventional chatbot style work. you can do that too. Apple showed us that with its demo on the Mac, where it showed a much more conventional chatbot style conversation, looking at some PDF's. But then if you want to be on the go, you're asking questions, I think the demo they gave us was for concert tickets and then jump over to Apple Music to listen to that song, you can do that too which seems like a far more kind of diverse vision of how we can actually integrate AI in our day to day lives than a lot of what we're seeing from competitors, which just involve opening an app every single time Yeah, I was just going to say like walking through some of the examples for those who haven't been able to see the demos, we can kind of describe it to you. And I still think it's pretty cool. Like you just mentioned, I believe it was Suki Waterhouse, right? was the Um example that we use for the artists where he was able to ask You know, when's the next show? Turns out, it's like exclusive show that you're going to need to enter a lottery for. Okay. Well, I don't have time to be monitoring my phone the whole time won that lot you know, So go ahead and set a reminder as soon as that lottery becomes available and let me know so that I can get tickets. And it was able to do that. And then of course you mentioned that it's able to just show me the newest single. and so it was able to pull that up in Apple Music, which is great. I liked the ones that do reference messages because I think that's what I'm going to be using a whole lot. There are so many times where You know, even if I'm like even if they fix the search index, which we just talked about in the improvements part where you're trying to find something, right now it's really tough to find certain messages. And even if that gets fixed, just the ability to ask Siri to pull back something that you know someone sent you a while ago. and they can go do it. So the demo that we had, I believe was a dessert dish or recipe that somebody sent you and it was able to pull that up, and then you He was able to create an entire theme menu based around this watch party that they were going to do. it gave the menu, watch party suggestions and then send that into a group chat and include everything in there. And it's just so much more that you can do that Ill, you know, I'll admit other people, other OEMs and platforms out there can do this, but like you said, not a lot can pull from what you have you know, especially iPhone users. We haven't had this It's a convenience factor really so that personal context because if you're talking about on screen awareness, in theory you can get that kind of thing with a third party service if you screenshot it and then take it over to another app, but you don't really want to be doing that It would be so convenient. You've got Siri up there in the dynamic island. you could just hold down on the side button on your iPhone and the awareness is right there straight away. And that's really all you need a lot of the time Yeah, I mean, I know this is a developer conference, so I don't want to say that we don't need third party applications. We absolutely do. But I think at times if a lot of people like myself included, if there's a first party solution for it, I would much rather have that. So it's really nice that we have this built in now And also, you, third party developers are able to leverage exactly Siri AI through through app intense. Yeah. It's only going to be their app which have become so powerful in recent years across shortcuts and spotlights. And if we see more third party developers integrating A intense I think that that is going to go hand in hand with SiriAI so perfectly that reallyally, I think that you actually have a lot less reason to open a lot of these apps a lot of the time, especially for quick actions, which is the direction I would really like to go in. Yeah. Speaking of visual intelligence, speaking of pointing things and like Kning what's on your screen. If you use visual intelligence now, it's been we got the Siri mode.s so that's in your in the camera app. But now you can do a couple of different things. I believe we've mentioned, but it's official. You can point it at a play to food and you get like What was the example? So it was like a bowl of ramen, I believe, and it was saying, you know, it's pretty highly processed, but there's good protein in it. L it gave you a breakdown of like the nutrients that you're getting and what's in it. I didn't see a calorie thing. I wonder if in the future, we've talked about how we wanted it to like you know, kind of tr like for fitness tracking or for food tracking what level it's going to get to, but right now that's kind of gives you a basic rundown of what it is that you're going to eat. And then the bill split, which is kind of cool too. You can split up Uh, you know, and then have app and then Keep going with the actions there, have Apple Pay then send a request to somebody based on, okay, item X, Y, and Z belongs to this person. so I'm going to ask for Apple Pay there and that's always nice to see And this is accessible directly from the camera app now, which makes sense. You don't need to remember that visual intelligence is tuckgged somewhere else. This is a Siri mode directly in the camera app. suuper straightforward. If you need to use the camera, where do you go? the camera app I mean, do we still I mean, visual intelligence is kind of the basis of it. So we probably could still use that term, but I would imagine at this point it's just still going to be Siri too because it's Siri mode. I don't know There's like two different namings, I feel like, for some of these things I feel like it's Siri mode within the camera app that we were howered by visual visual intelligence. That's a good way to put it. Good job. And then you can write with Siri anywhere. This is probably a little bit better for those on the Mac. So how did you catch how you get into it? Just right clicking and then you immediately get into like your Siri menus to be able to like draft a document for work or describe what you need in kind of that natural language I did not catch how you actually the rightic But I know those features are available now anywhere across all platforms where you may input text. and there are even these features now like proofreading is just there. You don't actually need to invoke it. There is AI proofreading across the system, which is fantastic. Yeah. And speaking of all the other platforms, so Apple Watch will have this available. you'll have Siri and be able to do stuff off of there. but did the vision OS one, I have to that one's so cool. The fact that Siri' just just a little little bubble in the bottom that you can move around resize, he just places it on his desk there in the example and then what did you drop there He good Yeah, I'm good. And then you just in order to talk to Siri, you don't have to like say anything. You can just look at it. and start talking in your environment at Siri. and I don't know, I just thought that was really cool It always cool. I think it's great to actually see a kind of specific vision for how to use these tools on Vision OS. So even just the little things that you can only do on Vision OS like You invoke Siri just by looking at the bubble And I also really like the demo they gave. I think it was where u It kind of was playing on on screen awareness, but of course in a spatial context, that's everywhere So you just look at what you want So that seems very powerful. There's a very passionate group of Vision Pro users that I'm sure are really going to enjoy using that Um with Siri and the voice So That has been changed and you can kind of customize it. There's like a little slider, we can change the expressiveness and the pace at which Siri would talk to you, which is kind of cool. It definitely sounds far more natural. It's not robotic at all uh has a lot of exp as we said, we can just customize. I don't know. It was cool during the demo of what you can do with it, which is always nice. And then obviously privacy is a huge thing. I think the clarification, even I was kind of confused from January when Google and Apple kind of did the joint statement on how this was going to be used. And you've clarified a little bit, but it's even more clear now that like yes, this the foundations and the models are built off of are leveraging U Gemini, but it is not Gemini in people think it is. And I've seen already some kind of misinformation online. so do you want to like touch on that a little bit Sure, So the way that Apple articulated it today was that Apple previously had its foundation models and it has licensed Geminize models and then combined these and then has customized these to run on its hardware, whether that's it's cloud hardware or it's on device hardware. So the actual experience of the product at the user end is pretty different to just like a pretty much what you can get from Gemin I. and of course ' all of these capabilities are distinctive to Apple platforms and Apple devices. So it's kind of using the power of Gemini and Google's experience in AI, which is outstanding. It's a leader in the field But then also it's kind of Apple putting its own spin on that and using its own custom technologies. be able to get those integrations across platforms. Capital One's tech team isn't just talking about multi agentic AI, they already deployed one. It's called Chat Ccierge, and it's simplifying car shopping. Using self reflection and layered reasoning with live API checks, it doesn't just help buyers find a car they love, it helps schedule a test drive, get pre approved for financing estimate trade in value. Avanced, intuitive and deployed. That's how they stack That's technology at Capital One And it seems like a lot of what we just talked about is very much on device. We had a tech talk that we went to right after the keynote. Craig and a few others were talking on stage. And I believe this will get released, so you'll be able to see some of it, I don't know how much of it, but a lot of people have been posting about it. And I think Apple will do something. donon't quote me on that It was very, very technical, like how much detail they were going in on how this works and there was diagrams showing you exactly how much is Google and leveraging Gemini and how much is Apple stuff? And it was a lot of Apple stuff in very little amounts of Google. Now that's not to downplay it. like they definitely need it, obviously. But it wasn't as much as people think. And the notion that this is like oh, it's just Gemini on your phone, like what's the point It's not at all the case. So Apple's foundation models are still very much a part of this. Apple Foundation models are really good too, and I think people just don't really realize that. So Um Yeah, that's Siri. I mean, we have to move into Apple Intelligence. but there anything else you want to touch on real quick, Siri I don't think so. I think the one thing I would say that I'm really excited for, just the one feature is the Siri app on the Apple Watch. yeah where it strikes me that you know sometimes if you want to have a conversation with a chatot, you have to go and pull out your iPhone. Well I definitely will be using my Apple Watch a lot more to conduct those kinds of conversations now when you're on the go when your phone is tucked away and you want to get access to something I think that was a really nice feature that I actually don't think I expected. Yeah. And just to reiterate, like it's on the Apple Watch. Of course, you can have it on your iPad, your Mac. your iPhone, et cetera. Like the app is synced across all of your devices via iCloud. So, you know, just the convenience, the ecosystem that keeps tiny into everything Now speaking of All of that we have to dive in Apple intntelligence inside of these apps because this is huge. There's a lot of really good updates. Let's start with Safari. I like this one a lot because I think you're like me, you're just kind of a Massive row of Tabs guy. So How many times do you just want to try to group them but don't really have the time or you're lazy. I'm lazy. So now you can have it analyze each page and it'll just do this on its own things by category for you, so it's easier to find the tabs that you might have open, which is really nice Yeah, I really like that feature. It's another great sort of background quality of life feature. I feel like it's almost the kind of thing that we're going to forget is there pretty quickly, but will immediately be very useful if you're a Safari power user. Speaking of really useful, notify me. Love this, especially I go to a lot of concerts, so It's hard to remember when like artist pres sale goes on. So you could just have the web page be monitored buy Safari and it'll just like you could set a notification, Hey, when something changes here, which would be basically when the tickets are ready to go on sale, so that you're not left in you'll get a notification and then you can jump in and pick up tickets if you need to or whatever the case may be. I think they used it for like when camps open up, which I've gotten burned. I tried to get my son into golf camp and I didn't know when it opened because it was, I don't know, long story short. He didn't get in right away and we did get it was a whole mess. if I had this feature, it would have been really nice to be able to do this And you can use natural language to do a lot of these things now. So this leads us kind of into extensions. If there's an extension that you want that doesn't exist Guess what? You can make one yourself. It'll use AI. you describe it And I don't know what I'm going to use this for, but do you have any ideas on what you would descri? Not Not off the top of my head. but it's I mean, this is effectively where we're seeing Apple kind of lean into the vibe coding phrase where if there is a tool that you want, you don't necessarily have to go to an app store to pick up an app from a developer With something like an extension as well that's a very small utility, you don't necessarily need to be doing that can customize it in any way you may like. So I'm very excited to try this feature out Especially, I know we're kind of jumping out of order, but it's very much the same thing. Shortcuts. We kind of heard this for years that this was going to be a thing. and it is officially a thing so you can describe what kind of shortcut you would like and it would essentially just make it for you. And I believe the demo, one that they used was Whenever you leave work It would notify your let's just say in my case it would notify my wife that I'm leaving work, this is the ETA, and you can even have it throw on a podcast like the moment you get into your car. that stuff' super useful. You don't have to do anything anymore. It would just immediately send the notification, the ETA, so you don't forget because I would often forget And then you can throw on your favorite podcast or playlist or whatever you might want, which is really nice Yeah, I think this is a huge feature I mean, I've always enjoyed using shortcuts ever since Apple acquired workflow, which ultimately became shortcuts But there is a learning curve to it and it does require a level of technical understanding and ability to troubleshoot, especially if're getting is something more complicated. You know if you're having once set up a timer or something like that, that's easy enough. But you can go pretty far with shortcuts, I think that this will now open up to a lot more casual users who have an idea about the automation they want to create, but may be intimidated by kind of dragging in each of those particular actions step by step, especially where it involves effectively an understanding of programming So I think that is a very good feature. All right, we're going to jump back into Safari real quick. This one this one's huge. So How many times have you opened up, even with the passwords app, how many times have you opened that up and seen that you have six hundred compromised passwords and you should probably go and change it, but you're looking at it like I am not going to go through every website and change it. Well now agentically is able to go in and change the passwords for you automatically inside a Safari, which is reallyally helpful, I would imagine for not only just the sake of time, but Um alsoso sanity. I don't know, I would go insane if I had to go and change all of those. And so that is something I think I've said really nice after every single category. But it is a really nice feature to have. I don't know. I don't know what further than really nice. Thank you. helpelp me out here. This is probably my favorite feature that was unveilailed. Really? Do you how many passwords are compromised for you Oh I don't know, probably like six hundred or something stupid like that. A lot of them anyway, I did actually check after check right now today. And this is so powerful because does it in the background. So you don't even like you can't see Safari doing this. It's not like you open the Safari app and see it navigating through the pages Because you don't need to. Safari just does it in the background and you see it as a live activity. Perfect So you can just see it processing each one of these passwords one by one, no matter how many of them you have to do. It will do all of them step by step One by one, update it in the passwords app Um It's perfect. It is absolutely perfect. It makes a task that would ordinarily be very tedious. completely easy and just in the background I completely love it. I would love to see more features like this in the future. So I have twenty nine that can be fixed right now. So I'm also curious what parameters need to be set because it's not everything right now. There are two hundred and eighty five recommendations. I guess we'll start with twenty nine. and I'll probably hit that button here and let it do its thing. But at some point, hopefully it's able to like get more websites to be able to do this. I don't again, don't know the parameters of it,. I love this feature too. That's It's really nice. Moving on to messages, looking in I've actually seen this already. so you get some recommendations based off of the context of your conversation. So I can give you my own example. Someone said something and it offered to add it to reminders or add it to notes. and it was like we should remember to do this and that was the So that's kind of nice to I gott to stop saying it. I can't stop now. I can't stop Um In calendar, I was a little nervous for Fantastical because now you can What is it? You could naturally just write the changes that you want to Natural language. Yeah, natural language, Thankk you. In your events that you're creating, or if you need to make changes, maybe you have something that's said to every day and you're like, I just I need this to be every other you know Thursday or whatever the case may be, you can change that What other features have you noticed with Apple intntelligence that have been a big, you know quality of life improvement that we've seen One of the more interesting ones that I would single out is the fact that Um Home app notifications as single notifications rather than layering in as multiple notifications, which is not something I actually probably would have ever thought I needed It actually makes perfect sense. so you know I've got various sensors and cameras and things that tell me when I arrive back or when someone arrives at home, whatever it may be. And these just layer in. Yeah. And while you can get like an Apple intelligence summary of that, the way that it will work in IOS twenty seven is that that single notification will update as the home. changes which just makes perfect sense because once that status has changed, you don't need to know what it was before. R I need this to is this something that you think third party developers would be able to leverage becausecause I use the Alow cameras And I get seven thousand notifications if my kids are outside playing And like I don't need all of that. so maybe it could do something like this where it's able to be like, okay, The door was open, now there's people outside, they're playing. I don't need a status update unless something else changes, you know, Keep it in that one singular notification. I really like that. and I hope other developers can do the same thing. third party apps that are very much doing this kind of thing with the AI summaries and stuff but like this is a genius uh little twist to it I think I agree and there's also some powerful Apple intelligence stuff going on with video cameras. So in the smart home, if you have multiple cameras, Apple will now be able to cut between those cameras around specific events just based on what it's seeing and it will actually show you timestamps. So if you've got like a package delivery You can actually now just see a stamp that says, Ohh, here's where the package delivery was and it will show you multiple camera angles cut together of that event Um making it so easy. I mean, we've all had these experiences with these smart home cameras are kind of scrubbing along hours of video to try and get to the event that we want. You know, some third party apps kind of try to to provide you with markers, but nothing that seems quite as dynamic or seamless as this. I found that change to be interesting too. I mean, I'm not I have a room full of Apple people here. I don't want to shoe to be thrown at me, but like maybe that hints at something else in the future that seems like it would be really useful if there was a first party camera per se or like a smart home display like a home hub? I don't know. That just seems like that would fit really nicely in there, don't you think You might very well think that, but I just couldn't listen, I'm allowed to I'm allowed to you're allowed to speculate you're allowed it is literally our jobs to do so. But you know, just it's a nice feature for existing third party cameras that can record and take advantage of Apple's home app with that Um, We did see a lot of things about that and we did get the photorealistic images. Now there's a bunch of new styles, including that one. and you can also use image playlayground with existing images, which is kind of cool. kindind of circle the area. If you want to edit certain images or certain parts, you circle, I think there was like a cake or whatever and they just kept making changes just to that specific portion. so you no longer have to keep regenerating N new types if you want to make changes to it Um Th thoughts on that before we jump into photos or Well, I've never found Iage playlayground very useful. We've talked about this before. I think the only time I've ever actually used it is in Apple invvites where it's integrated right there and it's good to have some kind of custom artwork and eents I could actually see myself using it a lot more now, especially where there are photo realalistic options. Iree. There's a lot more different styles available at your disposal And it seems like you can iterate on ideas in a much more organic way. And you can even kind of it understands who people are based on the phhotos app and create things with people, which is the exact kind of thing that you know, I want to do with AI image generation is I just kind of want to mess around with images of people that I know and just create goofy stuff, which now you can do with image playgrounds. Yeah, now you can do those things. I still don't know how much I would use that, but it's definitely much more enticing now with a lot of these changes But in terms of editing photos with AI and being more artistically friendly I feel like, and Apple did kind of stress this a lot. you know not ruining an image with AI slot basically. There's a lot of new controls and features inside of the Photo app to kind of help you image that you tried to get it, but maybe you couldn't So the biggest one was the We call it reframe, but I think it's called spatial reframing now, right? So kind of gives you that spial photos, vibe that you got and you can basically alter the perspective if you if you knowre like, oh, I just needed it to like couple degrees to the left. like when you see to shift that perspective and I didn't do that, I wish I could go back and take the picture. Well, you can just go ahead and reframe and it'll just fix all of that for you, which is crazy. And there was a couple of other features too in there extend kind of generating the fill of the image. If you need to expand your frame a little bit, maybe to just make it perfect. You can do those things. Cleanup is a little bit better at removing objects and has the infills a little bit more realistic.ave kind of had a chance to play with those yet or at least no thought onet. I know that these are going to become pretty essential for. popular, ye. I think the thing that's great about the Extend tool is unlike other AI, image generation or image editing tools available today, which effectively recreate the whole image if you want an edit from scratch, Extend doesn't do that. Extend only generates specifically what you need and leaves the rest of the image intact and reframe I leverages all of Apple's experience with spatial photos, which has just gone from strength to strength since the debut of the Vision Pro. I mean, even if you're not a Vision Pro user The fact that you can use spatial photos on the iPhone and get it, say with your wallpaper is incredibly powerful. It's a lot of fun. I do find myself using that from time to time. actuallyctually rather a lot more on my iPad on a bigger display where it's more noticeable is where I like it So if I can now use that technology, which is so impressive to just slightly adjust the perspective of photos, I definitely will be doing that. Yeah, absolutely So those are some of the and there's probably a bunch I haven't had a chance to dive into a lot of the smaller changes. One thing I do want to bring up just remembered, they this was in the improvements section, I think, that I just forgot about until right now Custom EQ for the airPods, just casually dropping that. I thought that was really huge and it took two seconds of that. Did you have any thoughts on that one? I mean, I I think that It's not a feature that I personally would use but I think it is something that people have been wanting for a very long time. I was Glad to see it. Yeah. I how many times have we talked about it? And I said, that's it's never going to happen. Like it's just never and then it just does and Apple spent literally thirty seconds talking, not even s The feature that stood out to me, which again, was it was so quick in the keynote. There was so much here and so many tiny features. I actually feel like more than usual. So we've been writing so many articles of Mac rumers covering all of these different things today. The one that stood out to me is the new grid layouts for the Apple Watch which is something that I've been complaining about for years is I don't like haaving to scroll through so many different apps on my Apple Watch to find what I want But now you get by default this dynamic view of I think it's Five No, it's seven apps. Okay. You can see or I think one of them takes you to your default list of apps. One of them's a Siri app And that will update based on your context, based on what you need at that time of day in much larger icons that are much easier to access. So I love that. Yeah definitely very appreciative for that. Yeah, and you were going to say it's very nice, weren't you? Yeah, I mean, all of the features today were very nice. They were very That is our main takeaway. That is that is the the only phrase that I can really come up with today. But real quick, we have a couple of minutes. It is available today. If you do want to try it, you have a developer account. you can public beta, I'm guessing will be next month Um, There is a waitlist for Siri, as I mentioned, so you do need to add have to ask to join the waitist SiriAI is not coming to the EU at launch because of the Digital Markets Act, not in China either because of regulatory issues, and it is English only to start, but they did say that there will be other languages added as soon as they can. Siri AI is also free, but some features will have daily limits like generating images and some other things that require a lot more horsepower under the hood You know, it costs a lot of money and power from the data centers. so you know stuff's expensive. And so I guess they mentioned something about an iCloud plus plan that would give you certain amounts and maybe you can buy your own more later. I don't know. I did kind of find out that you can right now during the beta period, there are no limits. They want you to test, obviously. So try it out for yourself for sure. Yeah, I mean, I I really enjoyed everything. We pretty much got everything that we were hoping for. Any final thoughts on your end I think what stood out to me more than anything else is just the structure of this keynote. It's unlike anythinga covered before WWDC. You know Normally what we've been used to is platform by platform we go through. and as the platforms have got better and better at having feature parity over recent years, what Apple has chosen to often do is kind of show