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

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. 

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.

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Links

• Apple releases iOS 26.1 for iPhone with these changes
• iOS 26.1: Here are Apple's official release notes
• Everything new in iOS 26.2 beta 1
• AirPods Live Translation feature coming to the EU next month
• iOS 26.2 will remove a key iPhone and Apple Watch feature in EU, per report
• iOS 26.2 includes three helpful upgrades to Apple Podcasts app
• iOS 26.2’s Apple News app has a new and improved design
• iOS 26.2 brings a small but great Apple Music upgrade
• watchOS 26.2 makes a big change to Sleep Score, here’s what’s different
• Apple launches rich new web interface for the App Store
• Apple's new Siri will secretly use Google Gemini models behind the scenes
• Apple nears $1 billion Google deal for custom Gemini model to power Siri
• Apple reports Q4 2025 earnings, here are the numbers [charts]
• Apple says holiday quarter will be biggest ever in company history