If you want to get a full look at the vastly improved Persona feature of visionOS 26, you’ll want to watch at least some of the video version of this week’s episode of the In the News podcast because I did the entire podcast using Zoom on my Vision Pro running the developer beta version of visionOS 26. What was most interesting to me and Brett is that after just a few “gee wiz” minutes, it actually just felt totally normal. Which is exactly what Apple wants. In this week’s episode, we also talk about some of the other new features in visionOS 26 such as the ability to pin your virtual widgets to a wall, some of the less obvious new features in the upcoming iPadOS 26, the 20th anniversary of Apple’s support of podcasts, preparing for the after life, and more.
In our Where Y’at segment, we discuss using the satellite SOS feature of an iPhone to call for help when you are lost in the woods in Canada.
In our In the Show segment, we discuss some of the new shows coming to Apple TV+ in July.
In our In the Know segment, we talk about books. Brett shares a tip for using the Kindle app for reading books that you download from your local library in the Libby app. I discuss the helpful bookmark feature of the Audible app—plus, I recommend a great book about Apple that I’m currently reading called Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company by Patrick McGee.
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