254: A New Lease on the iPhone 🤳 Demanding Nice Soap 🧼 and Pre-Indexing Your Update

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In the News blog post for July 31, 2026
https://www.iphonejd.com/iphone_jd/2026/07/in-the-news839.html

00:00 Love it. Lease it. Upgrade it.
27:19 We Want the NICE Soap, Apple!
35:26 Where Y’at? Finding Our Daughters
43:12 Pre-Indexing Your iPhone
48:12 Faster Charging Valet
51:28 A Cool, No Joke Accessory
56:10 Feel Good Lasso
58:26 Brett’s iTip: Digital Crown Orientation on the Apple Watch
1:06:49 Jeff’s iTip: Hold Digital Crown for Siri

Juli Clover | MacRumors: Apple Upgrade: 20 Things to Know Before Leasing an iPhone, iPad, or Mac

John Gruber | Daring Fireball: John Ternus Should Reverse Apple’s Slide Down the Advertising Slippery Slope

Jason Snell | Six Colors: Always choose the good soap

John Gruber | Daring Fireball: Ads in Software Are Like Stickers on Laptops

William Gallagher | AppleInsider: Daughters overjoyed as Apple Watch gift saves their father's life

Zac Hall | 9to5Mac: iOS 26.6 now available for iPhone with these changes

Andrew O’Hara | AppleInsider: Twelve South Valet mini review: A luxe MagSafe catch-all with new, faster speeds

Ed Hardy | Cult of Mac: I got this iPhone accessory as a joke. Now I love it.

Brett’s iTip: Change the Digital Crown orientation on your Apple Watch
https://support.apple.com/en-sg/guide/watch/apd0bf18f46b/watchos 

Jeff’s iTip: Hold Digital Crown to use Siri
https://support.apple.com/en-us/105063 

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