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Chapter 1: What new features did Apple announce at WWDC 2026?
I don't remember seeing your office in a video call like this, Stephen.
Well, that's where I normally sit there, right? That's my desk there. But this is my little podcast. This is the podcast corner. This is where the roadcast is set up. I've got an iMac here, dedicated little section of the office for recording. And that's where all the hard work happens. That's the workbench over there.
I'm not sure any hard work's happening there in the tech gold office.
Yeah, mate.
It's a pretty breezy job. Cruisy job we lead.
Yeah. Early mark for me, mate. You were up in your normal time zone. I was up at three in the morning, so yeah.
Yes. How did you cope with that, mate?
No problem. Not the first time I've done it.
Yeah, not your first radio, but it's been a long day here. But that's the way we go. How was your flight home from London? Yeah, great.
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Chapter 2: How is Apple integrating AI into Siri's functionality?
they kind of just lumped them all into one. Did you find that? Because usually they go, okay, iOS 27, boom, and then they go iPad OS. Watch OS. Yes. No singular coverage. It was all one lumped into one. And, of course, a lot of them, I think that was sort of part of what he said at the intro, them sort of becoming more alike and merging together a little bit so the features were across the board.
But you know what it felt like? It felt likeā¦ And let's just rewind quickly. Our listeners know this, right? But two years ago, they announced fundamental changes with artificial intelligence, Apple intelligence, and some amazing things, which a year ago had not been delivered. A lot of cool things had been, but a lot of cool stuff hadn't. And so last year was a mea culpa.
They wheeled out some executives to apologize and talk about how they wanted to get it right, yada, yada, yada.
Yeah.
And so it feels like 12 months ago, they went, you're going to make me stand up here and tell people we didn't deliver. Here's what's happening. All your cool ideas for the next operating system, put them all on the back burner and you're going to work on three things. You're going to make it better, faster, more nimble.
Yeah, that's interesting too. Yeah, good point. They did focus on how ā and I thought ā remember, I think I sent you a message saying, oh, faster search, a breakthrough. Like I was sort of being a bit sarcastic, thinking, oh, wow, is that all you've got to tell us?
But it genuinely felt like they went, you know what? I know you've got a million ideas and we love all your ideas, but we are not going to do that. We are going to focus on delivering the thing we promised. Yeah. And I guess the parental controls is a new feature, but it's also politically important and performance. So anyone that couldn't contribute to the AI stuff was put on performance.
And we'll talk about that later.
But let's talk about AI. that, and you're right. I reckon it probably cost the development of the new features of the individual iOSes. So I reckon you could easily call this iOS 26.7. 26.1. You know, we're up to .5 or whatever it is now, but it's to fully go up to the next one. Of course, they have to because it's that time of year, but... Yeah, you're right.
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Chapter 3: What are the significant changes in parental controls introduced by Apple?
It has to happen in real time. Siri, the voice of Siri is on-device. So those things require the additional processor, but I don't think things like the image generation, image cleanup, and image reframe is particularly device-dependent.
I did find, interestingly, what Apple did, like with the image playground now, how you can do photorealistic images now. But generated images, they're going to have a hidden watermark to identify they've been generated with AI.
Same thing with not only the ā so if you edit, say, the spatial reframing and all the other things you do to an image afterwards, it will say that it was edited with AI and then the other image playground will say it was created with AI. And that's like a watermark that's hidden that you can't get rid of. It's not like a little thing in the corner you can get rid of.
It's a hidden watermark, which I think is really important to identify the fact that, no, this is an AI photo, just to put it out there and make it known. Yeah.
I think most AI companies are talking about or doing that kind of thing. What I think is most fascinating about this is that we are genuinely talking about how Apple is delivering on the promises of two years ago. It's legitimately.
It's deja vu, right? Just on that, let me ask you this. Do you think that Apple has now caught up with everyone else, taken over slightly, or what do you think? Are they sort of now shoulder to shoulder with everyone else? Have they caught everyone or have they slightly gone nose ahead?
The question here is who's everyone else?
Well, I'm talking Galaxy AI, Google Gemini.
I think this is way better than Galaxy AI. Right? Because think about it. In reality, Galaxy AI started with Circle to Search, which is a Google product, which is just visual search. Pretty much every device can do that now. Rewriting letters, emails, text messages, all that kind of stuff, that's been in Apple Intelligence for some time.
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Chapter 4: How does Apple's new AI impact user privacy and data security?
I don't know why. Even though I am in her contacts, I know that.
I was going to say, mate, I don't want to break it to you. That's because you're not in her contacts. No, I'm there, mate. I'm there. The other thing that is worth noting here is that because this is essentially iOS 26.7 or whatever we've agreed. The legacy support for this is the best they've ever had. It goes back to the iPhone 11.
So 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and we can assume the 18 will be the name. That's eight years worth of devices that will support this latest.
Like you just alluded in, it mustn't be a massive upgrade in terms of the compute required for it. So that's why they've kept it.
Just think about it, actually. The stuff that we've just described is tidying up, right? So that makes sense that it would go back to the same place. The stuff that we just spent 20 minutes talking about, Siri, only works on iPhone 15 Pro and onward. So any changes to the iOS for iPhone 11 doesn't involve that.
And so, yeah, it basically makes sense that it would be this far legacy, which is fantastic. And there is a bit of connectivity smarts as well, which I think is really cool. So basically it's smarter for it switching between Wi-Fi and cellular so that you avoid those kind of dead zones that happen when your phone's going, no, no, I'll connect to the Wi-Fi. No, I want to be on the 4G.
Yes, that's cool.
It happens outside my house waiting for my Uber to arrive. It's still on the home Wi-Fi just clinging on. I'm thinking, no, I don't want that. I have to turn Wi-Fi off.
So they've made that a lot smarter, which is sensational.
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Chapter 5: What performance improvements were highlighted in the keynote?
It's interesting how it is working. The timing of it couldn't have been better. Yeah. And I think what ā even though a lot of these features are brand new, I think what it emphasized, though, it just seems that Apple have nailed it in their ecosystem. I think it's a bit easier.
Of all the parental controls available, theirs appears to be ā and I've never had to use it, thank God, because my kids are older now, but ā It appears to me to be easier to manage. Would that be right?
There's no question. There's no question. Apple has the gold standard for parental controls. And that starts, by the way, you've got to remember, that starts with the Apple Watch and the now called Apple Watch for Kids. which is also now available through Telstra, which is not available five years, six years ago when this launched. So you can buy an Apple Watch for your kids.
You can set it up on your phone as their device and limit certain things like who they can contact, but you can track them with Find My and all that kind of stuff. And so for $20 a month on our Telstra plan, You can now add a Telstra SIM plan to that watch, which is awesome. And then they progress. So they're part of your family. Then they progress to a phone or a tablet and they progress.
So they keep getting devices and you keep upgrading their access to things. And as they age, they automatically get new privileges. But as a parent, you can manipulate that and say, no, no, I'm, you know what, this kid is 14 and I'm okay with him seeing this, that and the other, right? So you can determine their age group that way.
So is Jacko now free and clear, mate, or what? Is he on his own now or what's the game?
So it's fascinating, right? Jackson is now absolutely an adult, so has no restrictions on his access, but he's still absolutely part of our family.
Right.
So, you know, Apple family, he's still listed there because the smart thing there is anything I buy, he owns, you know, because you're in the family, right?
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