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🗓️ 11 April 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Benjamin and Chance delve into the latest rounds of iOS 18 rumors, including a curious discovery of a new ‘Safari browser assistant’ in development. Apple has also changed the rules surrounding game emulators in the App Store, with somewhat unclear implications. Apple News+ adds a new Quartile word puzzle, and the wait for the new iPad Pro continues.
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Chance Miller
Benjamin Mayo
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0:00.0 | So we have some iOS 18 rumors that we haven't really talked about much in the past few weeks |
0:05.4 | we just had so much other news. The first one actually came out yesterday and it says something |
0:10.4 | about a new safari browser assistant feature coming in iOS 18. |
0:17.1 | That's pretty much all the rumor says is some feature called safari browsing assistant. |
0:21.4 | Yeah because this was found in like a, you know, code reference basically that just had the name of the feature and nothing, nothing surrounding it. |
0:29.0 | My first interpretation of it was basically like a co-pilot style feature built right into safari where it can help you |
0:35.8 | like summarize web pages you can ask questions and it'll scan the web page for the answer. |
0:41.0 | Was that your read on it too? |
0:42.0 | Yeah I mean it's so funny because we're only thinking that because of the other rumors that IOS 18 is AI infused, right? |
0:49.7 | Like you go back three years and you say safari is going to have a browsing assistant. |
0:53.5 | You might think of like tab groups or something. |
0:55.0 | Do you know what I mean? |
0:55.6 | It's just like a completely different context. |
0:57.5 | But these days, if you think about an assistant in the context of browsing, |
1:00.8 | you do kind of feel like the you know like what Microsoft |
1:04.0 | do in Edge now where you can have the bin co-pilot thing pop up on the side you can |
1:08.0 | ask to summarize the webpage you're looking at you can get some more |
1:10.9 | information about it you know like contextual Siri but for |
1:14.0 | browsing and with no other shreds of evidence to go on that has to be the default |
1:19.8 | suggestion here right I mean maybe mean, maybe you could, maybe it could be more like what the, I'm blank in the name, |
1:29.9 | arc, what the arc browser search thing does, where it like summarizes summarizes like you do a search term then it like |
1:34.4 | summarizes from a bunch of tabs. That's also a kind of browsing assistant right in a |
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