This week on Cult of Mac’s podcast: Within the close to future, your iPhone may look as wild and distinctive as you need it to. Dwelling Display customization choices, rumored to reach in iOS 18, might carry a brand new stage of character to iPhones. After which there’s the AI-generated emoji we’ve been listening to about.
Maintain onto your hats, iPhone homeowners. Issues are about to get bizarre!
Additionally on The CultCast:
- No joke: Siri may get the mind transplant it wants to stay related within the ChatGPT period.
- Fascinating new movies present how rigorously Apple checks iPhones. We’re speaking firehoses, an iPhone-flinging robotic and a significantly superior shake desk.
- Erfon desires to get his arms on Nomad’s new monitoring card, which works with Apple’s Discover My community, matches in a pockets, and recharges through MagSafe.
- Griffin explains how simple it’s to offer your Mac a makeover with customized icons, folders and extra.
- And we wrap it up with a brand new version of What We’re Into!
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The CultCast dwell stream archive: iOS 18’s AI emoji and extra
This week’s prime Apple information
On the present this week: Your host Erfon Elijah (@erfon), Cult of Mac managing editor Lewis Wallace (@lewiswallace) and Cult of Mac author D. Griffin Jones (@dgriffinjones).
Listed here are the tales we’re speaking about on this week’s present:
iOS 18 might carry new Dwelling Display personalization choices
iOS 18 reportedly will let iPhone customers change app icon colours on the Dwelling Display. Plus, they are going to be capable of put the icons anyplace they need.
iOS 18 might function generative AI-powered customized emoji software
Apple may use generative AI in iOS 18 to permit iPhone customers to create customized emojis, letting them categorical themselves simply the way in which they need.
Slim new Discover My monitoring card recharges through MagSafe
The slim new Nomad Monitoring Card works with Apple’s Discover My app in your gadgets and recharges through MagSafe that will help you maintain tabs in your pockets, purse or different valuables.
Give your Mac a makeover with customized icons
An effective way to personalize your Mac is with customized Mac folder icons. In truth, you may change any icon in your Mac to customise it to your style.
Soaked! Take a peek at how Apple checks iPhone water resistance.
Marques Brownlee just lately visited Apple product sturdiness testing labs that be certain merchandise like iPhone can resist water ingress and take a number of bumps and shakes, amongst different delicate types of torture.
What We’re Into
- Griffin: Alice Merton (on Apple Music and Spotify). She’s a comparatively unknown musician with a particular fashion and glorious dwell performances. Additionally: “La Regola Dell’amico,” a weird and extremely catchy Italian pop music from, like, 20 years in the past.
- Lewis: The Righteous Gems, a crass comedy starring Danny McBride and John Goodman in regards to the despicable televangelists working a megachurch.
- Erfon: Toast of London and What We Do within the Shadows, a pair of comedies starring Matt Berry, look actually humorous, if you happen to can consider the viral clips on TikTok.