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what's up guys my name is Brandon and
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welcome back to Apple weekly in this
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episode we're going to discuss the
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latest on iOS 18.2 and 18.3 beta we're
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going to talk about what happened to
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carplay 2.0 updates on iOS 19 Apple's
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fix for one of their most controversial
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products the iPhone se4 might not be
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called the iPhone se4 a crazy air tag
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story and more and as always if you want
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to stay updated with everything going on
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in the world of Apple be sure to hit
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that subscribe button down below okay so
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first off happy New Year happy 2025 this
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is the first video of 2025 and you know
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this week has been slow for Apple we
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didn't see anything released as usual so
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we are going to see new updates and
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apple get back into the swing of things
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starting next week and we'll talk more
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about that later on in this video but as
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of right now the latest public iOS
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release is IOS 18.2 which was a big
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update where we got a lot of new Apple
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intelligence features and just a lot of
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big features in general I did make a
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video on that here the channel now as
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far as the latest beta goes that is IOS
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18.3 beta 1 and that's a relatively
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minor update we didn't really see much
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included in beta 1 aside from if you go
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into your settings accessibility and
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then go down here you will see a new
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glyph icon here for the camera control
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but other than that really minor changes
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in 18.3 beta 1 however we did see an
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update from shrimp Apple Pro over on X
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he did post this about something that's
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been updated with apple intelligence the
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Apple intelligence model so he says that
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the model responsible for these sketch
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features is now working as is skin tone
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for Gen emoji and also updates for
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notification summaries however you can
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see in the replies here it looks like
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these sketch changes and the Jin Emoji
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changes were actually added previously
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so really the only thing new here
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appears to be updates to the
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notification summaries if you remember a
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few weeks ago I talked about how that
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was a big deal because the BBC even put
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out an article basically ridiculing
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Apple for the notification summaries and
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how it can be kind of misleading for
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people to see a summarized version of
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their notification where it might not be
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entirely the truth so maybe Apple
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started changing and kind of tweaking
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the model to make it a little bit better
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and maybe less misleading for specific
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scenarios especially when it comes to
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news applications and news you know
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reports so if you're somebody who has
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not been the biggest fan of the
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notification summaries you might be
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seeing an improvement with with 18.3 and
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I am starting to test this on my main
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device I did just recently upgrade or
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update my main device to iOS 18.3 beta 1
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after being on 18.2 for quite some time
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so I am going to test to see if there's
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any change in the notification summaries
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but as far as anything else goes in
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terms of features in 18.3 beta 1 we
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don't really have much but again we are
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expecting a pretty minor update for 18.3
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because iOS 18.4 is going to be the big
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update with the big Siri changes and
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some other Apple intelligence changes as
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well but in the meantime we are most
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likely going to see an 18.2.1 so this
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was reported by Mac Rumors this was
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showing up in their analytics so it
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looks like an 18.2.1 is coming as is of
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course iOS 18.3 beta 2 we should be
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seeing that again next week and we'll
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talk about that in a moment so those are
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highly anticipated but something else
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that was highly anticipated but did not
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end up coming at all is carplay 2.0 so
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Apple said that carplay the next
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generation of carplay is coming in 2024
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but it's now 2025 and there's not one
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vehicle that supports it now of course
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this is not entirely Apple's fault Apple
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most likely has the software pretty much
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done I mean it didn't really take much
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on apples and it doesn't seem like but
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there's of course a big you know laundry
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list of I'm sure you know regulations
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and different people to go through to
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get this approved so I'm sure this Falls
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more on the automakers than it does on
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app
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however that makes me wonder why Apple
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even published a date to begin with so
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it's really interesting to see that and
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you know Porsche and ask the Martin were
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the first two uh car makers to actually
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say they are going to support carplay
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2.0 however we have not seen anything
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and we did see recently within the past
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few months that Porsche you know
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basically commented and said they're
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sticking with regular carplay for the
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foreseeable future so we're not sure if
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carplay 2.0 has been completely
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cancelled or what but you know it's kind
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of you know it's kind of turning into
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air power at this point not really the
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same because it's not Apple's core
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product it's really on the automakers as
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well but you know what I mean it's it's
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it's pretty interesting that we're not
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really hearing anything about it for the
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second year in a row and speaking of
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cars we might be seeing more States at
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the Apple driver's license feature the
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state ID feature pretty soon so if you
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go into your wallet and go to the plus
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right here and go to driver's license or
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state ID you can see these are the
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current supported States for the
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driver's license or state ID where it
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can just be on your iPhone and can
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present that to TSA agents however we're
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seeing now that this will be coming to
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seven states pretty soon so this is put
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together by you know Mac rumors and
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hopefully this happens in 2025 but
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there's not a definitive date for this
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but you can see here what those states
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are so it's Montana West Virginia
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Connecticut Kentucky Mississippi
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Oklahoma and Utah and then here's a list
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of the TSA checkpoints within the US
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where this is accepted and you can see
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that that number is growing as well so I
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can't wait to try this of course we
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don't have Florida just yet but if
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you're on here or if you're one of those
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states where it's coming soon
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congratulations this feature seems
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pretty awesome especially if you travel
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often now we also recently heard that
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iOS 19 could potentially support all
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devices that were supported with iOS 18
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which wouldn't be a big surprise
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especially if it turns out to be a more
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you know bug fix you know stability type
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update which we hear about that all the
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time who knows if that'll actually
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happen but we are hearing that all
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devices will be supported once again so
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that's going to be pretty good news if
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you are on an older device on iOS 18 but
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of course it's too early to tell just
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yet these rumors are really just guesses
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at this point now if you have some free
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time this weekend you will definitely
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want to take advantage of the free
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weekend for Apple TV plus yes for the
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first time ever Apple TV plus will be
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free from January 3rd through January
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5th and the cool thing about this is
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that it's completely free without any
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type of limits you can watch any movie
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any TV show as many times as you want
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this weekend which is awesome and if
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you've not watched any Apple TV Plus
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shows I have some recommendations number
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one would be shrinking number two would
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be Silo and number three is my favorite
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right here which is Severance season 2
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is coming out on January 17th but
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Severance is a phenomenal show so I
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really like those three Severance
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shrinking and Silo all great and those
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are just for you know TV shows we also
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have movies in here you can watch as
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well but enjoy that free weekend if if
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you have not you know already subscribed
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to Apple TV plus anyways back to iOS
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18.3 beta 1 here I did want to talk
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about the performance in the battery
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life so I did run a fresh geekbench test
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here so you can see we scored a 3576 on
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the single core 8903 on the multicore so
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this is on iOS 18.3 beta 1 and you can
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see quite a bit of time between the last
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test on December 20th through January
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3rd right here so we did have a higher
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score for single core and much higher
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for multicore there for beta 1 which is
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a good sign 18.3 beta 1 feels fine again
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I did install it on my main device as
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well and I can confirm that it feels
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pretty much the same as 18.2 for me
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which is great and as far as battery
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life goes battery life is not as good as
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it was on iOS 18.2 the final you know
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public release which is expected I'm not
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really you know too surprised by that
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but battery life is just not great here
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on this first beta so I do hope to see
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that get improved with time and
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hopefully with beta 2 as well so you can
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see what this is looking like on my main
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device so I actually installed iOS
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18.3 beta 1 on my main device right here
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on Tuesday now as far as what to expect
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next from Apple the next public release
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like I mentioned earlier will most
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likely be iOS
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18.2.1 and I would expect that as early
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as next week I think as early as Monday
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January 6th we could see iOS 18.2.1 get
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released now those 0.1 or those double
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Point updates like0 2.1 those are always
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just going to be bug fix updates
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security patch updates you're not going
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to see any new features in that update
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now as far as the betas we should see
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iOS 18.3 beta 2 come next week as well
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the week of January 6th we could even
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see it on January 6th or on the 7th
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right there so those are the two we're
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expecting and as far as 18.3 the final
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release we should see that in the end of
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January or potentially even early
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February Ary all right so now let's move
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on to the latest Apple news and let's
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start with Apple's potential fix for
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their most controversial SL criticized
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product in recent times and that is the
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Magic Mouse more specifically the
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charging port on the Magic Mouse so we
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might be seeing a fix for that because
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according to a new report apple is
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working on a redesigned Magic Mouse that
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will address some long-standing
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complaints including the location of the
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charging port and a separate report says
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that a prototype of this new Mouse has
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already been designed and it adds a
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mixture of touch voice controls and hand
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gestures so voice control on a mouse
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would be awesome especially for today's
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workflows with AI and you know
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transcription and dictation and things
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like that it would be awesome just be
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able to press down on your mouse and you
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know speak without having to touch your
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keyboard so that sounds awesome and Mark
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Gman appears to think so as well so he
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chimed in on this on X by saying Voice
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Control in the new Magic Mouse I wrote
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about this month makes sense in light of
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AI and the fact that apple is on a
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decade plus cycle from what I've heard
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big focus is ergonomics and gestures
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relocated USBC 2 I'd expect a new
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keyboard too but that might not be
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coming in 2025 because this report does
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say that this will be released alongside
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the upcoming M6 OLED MacBook Pro in 2026
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I don't know why a mouse and a keyboard
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would be released alongside a Macbook
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that doesn't make sense unless there's
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other products as well so really you
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know who knows at this point when it's
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going to come but hopefully it does come
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within the next 24 months okay so now
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let's talk about the iPhone se4 because
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most likely we are just a couple of
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months away from seeing the release of
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Apple's next generation iPhone SE model
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however it might not actually be called
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the iPhone se4 and that's because
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according to a source which magin Buu
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reported on here he says that it seems
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that the new iPhone that Apple will
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unveil in 2025 will not be called iPhone
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sc4 but iPhone
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16e it should feature a design similar
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to the iPhone 14 with an OLED display
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and an action button the available
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colors will be white and black and he
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shares that alongside what appears to be
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a design file for a case for this iPhone
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16e and later on he did post a clear
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case here showing the iPhone se4 16e in
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this you know short little video here
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but as far as the naming scheme overall
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goes I think that 16e makes a lot more
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sense than se4 I mean especially if it's
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going to have a similar design to the
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iPhone 16 I say similar you know cuz the
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iPhone 14 and iPhone 16 do look pretty
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similar so it's going to have a similar
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design to the 16 also if it's going to
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be priced a little bit more than
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previous iPhone SE models which which we
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are hearing that as well then 16e makes
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more sense it's going to make people
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feel like they're getting a newer phone
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and not the little cheap SE phone you
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know what I mean I think 16e makes it
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sound more premium and makes it sound
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more upto-date than the se4 guys so I
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don't know that's just my take on it and
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we'll have to wait and see if this
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actually does end up coming true because
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you know mag and Buu does have a mixed
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track record at least his sources have a
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mixed track record and it's it's pretty
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hard to predict something that's you
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know a marketing name as well since
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that's not necessarily always going on
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in the factory leaks but as far as the
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iPhone coming later this year the iPhone
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17 we also got another report that says
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that the base model iPhone 17 will have
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a higher refresh rate than 60 hurts so
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this comes from digital chat solution
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over on weo and they said that supply
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chain materials corroborate rumors about
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a higher refresh rate display on the 17
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and 17 plus but it did not say
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specifically if it's going to be 120
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Herz or something lower and I say 17
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plus but this year we might be seeing
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the 17 air so we don't know what Apple's
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going to call it yet whether they're
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going to ditch the 17 plus in favor of
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the air we really don't know this year
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there's really a lot more unknown than
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usual when it comes to the iPhones at
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least this far in advance we don't
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usually know much but this year seems a
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little bit more you know confusing than
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previous years and by the way I do also
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want to mention alongside the iPhone se4
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or iPhone 16e we should also be seeing a
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new Macbook how would expect them both
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to be released around the same time we
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don't know for sure but a new M4 MacBook
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Air is also expected in the spring so
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within the next couple of months we
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should also be seeing an M4 MacBook Air
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we're not hearing about any major read
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designs but it should start at 16 gigs
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of RAM also this week we heard some
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pretty interesting news that Tim Cook
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plans to donate $1 million to Donald
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Trump's inauguration fund and this looks
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like it's going to be a personal
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donation directly from Tim Cook rather
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than a donation from Apple as a company
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which is quite interesting and axio says
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that Tim Cook is donating to the
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inauguration in the spirit of unity and
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that Apple itself as a company is not
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expected to make a donation and this
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right here might be the reason that the
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iPhone 17s can remain at the same price
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as the iPhone 16s but who knows I don't
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want to get too political here on
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YouTube but I just found this pretty
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interesting and then finally we have
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another crazy air tag story so this time
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a 20-year-old food delivery driver was
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taking the red line train in Chicago one
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morning just before Christmas when two
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men started attacking him randomly one
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of them put him in a choke hold and the
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other threatened him with a knife they
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then punched him several times in the
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face and body and stole his electric
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bike and his headphones but what the two
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suspects didn't know was that the bike
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had an air tag attached to it so of
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course the 20-year-old called police and
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they were able to use its location data
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along with CTA surveillance footage to
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track them down within 35 minutes I did
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not expect that especially in a city
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like Chicago but anyways you know the
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two suspects who were aged 44 and 19
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were arrested and charged with one
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felony count of aggravated battery and
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aggravated robbery but without the air
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tag and the find my application those
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police would probably not have found
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those people within a day let alone 35
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minutes it may have even taken weeks so
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got to love that for the air tag and I
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hope that 20-year-old recovers anyways
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that's it for this week hope you guys
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enjoyed it if you did be sure to give it
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a thumbs up also make sure to subscribe
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I do have a lot of interesting videos
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coming for the year 2025 so I can't wait
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to share those with you over the next
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several months but anyways guys thanks
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again for watching and I'll see you soon
