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In the News

In the News

By: Brett Burney Jeff Richardson
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The tech news you need to know from the past week covering iPhones, iPads, and related mobile technology. Brought to you by Jeff Richardson of iPhone J.D. and Brett Burney of Apps in Law.© 2026 Brett Burney and Jeffrey Richardson Politics & Government
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  • 250: Not Welcome News 📰 Incoming Apple Apps, and Surfing for Watches 🏄‍♀️
    Jun 26 2026

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    In the News blog post for June 26, 2026
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    00:00 Hello from Colorado Spring, Italy!
    01:48 This is NOT Welcome News!
    18:12 New Apps in iOS 27!
    24:29 Subtle Changes on Golden Gate
    27:31 Privacy is Baked into Siri AI
    31:18 Significant Security Settings
    33:30 Dare To Go Where No Maps Exist
    36:06 In the Show! Fire and Ash and Ultra HD
    40:54 Keep Flying the Colors Jason!
    43:50 Underrated Watch Tips
    44:31 Surfing for Watches
    47:09 Brett’s Site: Splitting Virtual Logs
    48:58 Jeff’s iTip: Apple Watch Raise to Speak for Workouts

    Hartley Charlton | MacRumors: Apple Just Increased Prices on MacBooks, iPads, and More

    David Sparks | MacSparky: Where Apple’s Price Increases Landed

    Jay Peters | The Verge: It’s a bad time to want a new computer

    Oliver Haslam | Apple Insider: Why the MacBook Neo got a price hike, and why it really shouldn't have

    Harley Charlton | MacRumors: Apple Unveiled These Five New Apps Last Week

    Dan Moren | Six Colors: Apple’s updated icons in Golden Gate

    Stephen Embry | Above the Law: Apple Intelligence: A New Sheriff In Town For Legal AI?

    Max Eddy | Wirecutter: The 4 iPhone Security Settings You Should Turn On Right Now

    Glenn Fleishman | Six Colors: Where we’re going, there are no Maps

    Hamster-Humble | Reddit: All Apple TV releases from January till June 2026

    Jason Snell | Macworld: As Apple starts a new era, mine comes to an end

    Will Shanklin | Engadget: 10 underrated Apple Watch features you can set up in minutes

    Brett’s Site: Splitting Wood on an iPad
    https://screen.toys/firewood/

    Jeff’s iTip: Thanks to Jim Nieset - Raise to Speak on your Apple Watch and ask Siri to start a run or begin a workout.

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    52 mins
  • 249: A More Serious Siri, an Angry Potato Chip 🥔 and a Soarin’ Good Link! 🚁
    Jun 19 2026

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    In the News blog post for June 19, 2026
    https://www.iphonejd.com/iphone_jd/2026/06/in-the-news833.html

    00:00 A More Serious Siri?
    19:13 Angry Potato Chip
    21:49 Search My Happy!
    24:09 Pausing My Location
    28:07 Reframing My Expectations
    30:56 An Improved One
    33:54 Dynamic Grid & Wearable Siri
    38:29 iPad Glass
    40:39 All the Tiny Details
    43:26 Squeezing More Juice from the Apple
    47:25 Jan’s Soaring Cool Link!
    52:08 Brett’s iTip: Vehicle Motion Cues on your iPhone
    56:58 Jeff’s iTip: Spill? Just wait.

    David Sparks | MacSparky: The New Siri Doesn’t Suck

    Harry McCracken | Fast Company: Amazingly, Apple may emerge unscathed from its AI mess

    Mark Robles: The Siri Demo Apple Didn’t Show

    Joanna Stern: The New Siri Knows A LOT About You

    Ed Hardy | Cult of Mac: Shocker! Image Playground in iOS 27 is actually useful

    Anurag Chawake | Cult of Mac: Apple is fixing the Mail app’s broken search in iOS 27

    Joe Rossignol | MacRumors: iOS 27 Adds These New Features to Find My, Including 'Hide Location'

    Ryan Christoffel | 9to5Mac: Here’s everything new for Apple Photos in iOS 27

    Ryan Christoffel | 9to5Mac: Apple One is getting better in iOS 27, here’s what’s new

    Juli Clover | MacRumors: Hands-On With watchOS 27: Every New Apple Watch Feature

    Zac Hall | 9to5Mac: Siri AI will make the Apple Watch a fully-fledged AI wearable in watchOS 27

    Juli Clover | MacRumors: iPadOS 27 Hands-On: Everything New for iPad

    Adam Engst | TidBITS: All 264 Items on Apple’s WWDC26 “Sweating the Details” Slide

    Rolfe Winkler | The Wall Street Journal: Apple to Raise Prices Due to Memory Chip Crunch, Tim Cook Says

    How Disney Created the NEW Soarin’ Across America | Disney Unscripted

    Brett’s iTip: Apple’s weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness
    https://www.theverge.com/tech/942854/apple-vehicle-motion-cues-review-really-work

    Jeff’s iTip: Spill? Just wait.

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • 248: WWDC-licious! Improvements, Refinements, and a Souped-Up Siri!
    Jun 10 2026

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    00:00 WWDC 2026 Keynote!
    01:28 Platform Improvements
    20:40 Trust and Safety
    29:21 Apple Intelligence and Siri
    1:01:58 Meet the Music Bro!

    Jeff Richardson: Why lawyers will love iOS 27
    https://www.iphonejd.com/iphone_jd/2026/06/ios27-preview.html

    Conner Richardson from WWDC26: Meet the Music Understanding Framework
    Discover Music Understanding, a new framework that lets your app analyze audio across six dimensions, on device: key, rhythm, structure, pace, instrument activity, and loudness. And use the Music Understanding Lab sample app to visualize each result.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7ylGu1vFdc

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    1 hr and 10 mins
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