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Thinner design Apple products, bigger screen Apple Watch rumors, more iOS 18 tidbits

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🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Benjamin and Chance are back with a review of this week’s Apple news, including thoughts on the rumored bigger watch sizes coming this fall, Apple’s plans to design thinner iPhone and MacBook Pro models, and the abrupt cancellation of Apple Pay Later. We also have unearthed even more interesting changes found in the first iOS 18 beta.

And in Happy Hour Plus, we predict what iOS 18 features will have the most impact, positive or negative, on the public at large when the software update lands on customer iPhones later this year. Subscribe at 9to5mac.com/join.

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Chance Miller

Benjamin Mayo

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0:00.0

So I think we spent what close to three hours last week talking about the new betas and all the announcements and

0:05.8

Wasn't enough time because we have more beta tidbits to talk about that we've learned in the last week

0:12.0

You gonna start with iOS 18 Mayo? Yeah there's I mean big

0:16.6

beters like a lot of announcements last week they almost could have done W. W.C.

0:21.9

without the intelligence section.

0:23.6

Yeah, no.

0:24.8

It close.

0:25.4

It was close to it, but they packed it in.

0:27.8

The focus on math is like everywhere

0:30.4

throughout the operating systems, it seems like.

0:32.1

We found last week that

0:33.2

anywhere basically that you can enter text on your iPhone or your iPad in

0:38.3

iOS 18 or iPad OS 18 you can do math functions so you type like five times five then put the equal sign and it'll

0:46.1

auto fill 25 and you can tap like in the quick type bar above the keyboard to show your

0:52.3

work so show the full equation or to just

0:55.1

show the answer. So it's kind of like a built-in calculator anywhere you need it which

0:59.6

is pretty cool I think. And you do like it does like currency conversions and like unit conversions as well.

1:05.8

It's like, pretty handy once you realize that you can do it.

1:08.8

Like that's the kind of thing where in seven months time it will go around on like social media.

1:15.0

Did you know if you type this in the keyboard or it will calculate it for you?

1:18.3

It's like yeah.

1:20.0

That's the thing that kind of just recur and occur forever more because people

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