iOS 18 would possibly make your iPhone bizarre [The CultCast]

This week on Cult of Mac’s podcast: Within the close to future, your iPhone would possibly look as wild and distinctive as you need it to. Residence Display customization choices, rumored to reach in iOS 18, may convey a brand new stage of persona to iPhones. After which there’s the AI-generated emoji we’ve been listening to about.

Maintain onto your hats, iPhone house owners. Issues are about to get bizarre!

Additionally on The CultCast:

• No joke: Siri would possibly get the mind transplant it wants to stay related within the ChatGPT period.
• Fascinating new movies present how rigorously Apple assessments iPhones. We’re speaking firehoses, an iPhone-flinging robotic and a significantly superior shake desk.
• Erfon desires to get his fingers 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 straightforward it’s to present 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 stay 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 below are the tales we’re speaking about on this week’s present:

iOS 18 may convey new Residence Display personalization choices
iOS 18 reportedly will let iPhone customers change app icon colours on the Residence Display. Plus, they may have the ability to put the icons wherever they need.

iOS 18 may characteristic generative AI-powered customized emoji device
Apple would possibly use generative AI in iOS 18 to permit iPhone customers to create customized emojis, letting them specific 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 can assist you hold tabs in your pockets, purse or different valuables.

Give your Mac a makeover with customized icons
A good way to personalize your Mac is with customized Mac folder icons. In reality, you’ll be able to change any icon in your Mac to customise it to your style.

Soaked! Take a peek at how Apple assessments iPhone water resistance.
Marques Brownlee not too long ago visited Apple product sturdiness testing labs that be sure merchandise like iPhone can resist water ingress and take a couple of bumps and shakes, amongst different gentle 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 wonderful stay performances. Additionally: “La Regola Dell’amico,” a weird and extremely catchy Italian pop track 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 operating 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 imagine the viral clips on TikTok.