More on iOS 27, iPhone Duo

0:00Welcome to 9.5 Mac daily for Friday, September 18, 2026. I'm your host Chance Miller. We are sponsored this week by Stuff, the Clean and Powerful to Do List application. Leading off today, iPhone Duo pre-orders open next month and a new analyst report today indicates that the device could be an even shorter supply at launch than we expected. In a research note seen by 9.5 Mac, reliable analyst Jeff Poo says that the iPhone Duo units shipped in 2026 are now expected to be only 6 million down from the previous target of 7 million. The reason isn't a lack of demand, but rather constraints around the hinge of the iPhone Duo. The production of that hinge as well as the resulting yield rates from that production are constraining Apple's supply chain ramp for the iPhone Duo. For context, Poo estimates that the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Macs will ship 72

1:02million units by the end of the year, about 12 times the iPhone Duo estimate. So if you're hoping to get an iPhone Duo at launch, it might be quite challenging, despite being a first-generation product with several major compromises and of course the highest-ever $2000 starting price for an iPhone. As a reminder, the device goes up for pre-order on October 16th with the first orders slated to arrive on October 23rd. Next up today iOS 27 introduces a new security feature called impersonation risk detection that helps protect you against scams. Every day around the world people get tricked into sharing sensitive information like bank details and other financial info with bad actors. This commonly happens via text messages, emails or phone calls to iPhone and Android devices. And while iOS has built-in tools like call and message screening, these tools can't prevent

2:02a scam if you choose to take action on it. This new impersonation risk detection feature in iOS 27 is a new level of scam prevention. Apple says that impersonation risk detection helps protect against active social engineering scams. These are scams where an attacker might pose as a bank, a government agency or someone you trust to pressure or guide you into making a payment or changing your account details. Apple explains that traditional security measures like two-factor authentication can't always detect this kind of scam. That's because you're taking the action even though you've been tricked or pressured. This new feature analyzes information about your device and your Apple account to help detect signs of an active scam. Based on this analysis, it returns a risk level to the application. The app only receives the risk level, not the underlying information used to generate it.

3:03The app then decides what to do next. For example, it might ask you to verify your identity, add a security delay or show a warning. This is a feature that developers will need to implement and Apple hasn't yet published a list of supported applications. But once the developer adopts the feature, Apple will present three different risk levels. There's unknown where no evidence of suspicious activity was detected, medium where some signs of suspicious activity were detected, and high, which is when significant signs of suspicious activity were detected. You can find more details on how this feature works at the link in the show notes, as well as how to head to the settings app on your iPhone to enable it. We are sponsored this week by Stuff, the clean and powerful to-do list application that makes organizing long lists effortless and checking off tasks satisfying. Stuff is made by one person who cares deeply about your experience with your to-do list,

4:04and there is a specific feeling to an app built by someone who made it for themselves. The animations are right, the widgets are functional, it just feels like magic. Stuff works on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, you can create tasks by typing, talking, or using your camera with shared lists, drag and drop dependencies, and more. It's simple enough for your grandma, but powerful enough for someone like you. And you might have caught that stuff was even featured by Apple during last week's iPhone 18 Pro event. So when you finish this episode, search Stuff on the app store and get more stuff done with stuff. My thanks to Stuff for sponsoring. Running up today we've talked a lot about iOS 27 features, including a lot of the new Siri AI and Apple intelligence capabilities. But the update also includes plenty of non-AI features as well. In the music app, Apple has updated Auto Mix with new transitions. I was a big fan of the initial version of Auto Mix that launched in iOS 26, and the

5:07new transitions in iOS 27 are noticeably better and more immersive. In the Photos app, iCloud shared albums now offer full resolution sharing. This is a big upgrade that makes it significantly easier to share photos and videos with others without compromising image quality. You can now set an independent volume for alarms in the clock app. This new option is in the settings app under Sounds and haptics. This means your alarms and timers no longer have to match your ringtone volume. iOS 27 adds an all new extra large widget size for your home screen, so you can now get full screen widgets for apps like music, photos, weather, and calendar. You can now swipe away the now playing widget from the lock screen of your iPhone. Also on the lock screen you can now move the clock to the top widget row so it no longer gets in the way of your wallpaper. In the Photos app you can now save a specific video frame as a photo.

6:07So this means you no longer have to manually take a screenshot of a video you've already taken to get a specific frame as a separate photo. The Apple Pay checkout flow has been significantly overhauled, making it a lot easier to switch between payment cards. iOS 27 adds landscape support to more apps like music, reminders, and weather. The Find My App has a new design in iOS 27 plus more flexible sharing options, including the ability to hide your location from a person without that other person getting a notification. When you copy something to your iPhone's clipboard in iOS 27, you'll see a built-in paste shortcut above the keyboard next to the text field when you go to it. And finally in CarPlay there's now an audio scrubber that lets you skip to different parts of a song or a podcast right on your car's display. That wraps up another episode and another week of 9-5 Mac Daily. As always if you like the show it is very helpful to us if you head to Apple Podcasts and leave

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