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iOS 26.2 new features, App Store on web, Gemini Siri deal confirmed

<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/02/9to5mac-happy-hour-lead1.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1600)</div><p>Benjamin and Chance discuss all the new features in iOS 26.2, including some fancy Podcast AI updates and a puzzling decision to remove Apple Watch Wi-Fi syncing in the EU. Also, Apple launches a browsable App Store on the web, and is set to pay $1bn annually to Google to use Gemini models as the underpinning of new Siri. </p>



<p>And in Happy Hour Plus, the pair react to the new Apple TV intro, and get hyped for the premiere of Vince Gilligan’s new series, Pluribus.</p>



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