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Steven Bartlett’s big bet beyond ‘The Diary of a CEO’

There are other daily habits and rituals too. Bartlett walks in the sunshine every morning, goes to the gym daily, takes electrolytes, Omega-3s and creatine, and is trying to meditate but “struggling with it”. Mental and physical well-being are part of his “first foundation”—the core elements that support everything else in life—as he wrote in his 2023 bestselling book, The Diary of a CEO: The 33 Laws of Business & Life.

Bartlett is full of anecdotal learnings that have influenced his life too, from the likes of Virgin founder Richard Branson, who taught him to always think through the lens of delegation; Google X’s former chief business officer Mo Gawdat, who reframed happiness as meeting your expectations; and Canadian entrepreneur Kevin O’Leary, who observed that the people who are most successful in a particular pursuit are eclectic people, or as Bartlett has observed, those with a broad “skill stack”, citing Steve Jobs’s range of interests from typography and design to meditation.

Branson, Gawdat and O’Leary are just a few of the many influential people Bartlett has interviewed for The Diary of a CEO, which he expected to achieve around 50 million downloads and gain half a million followers in the month of July alone—when we speak—making it the fastest growing podcast in the world.

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August 2, 2025
Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan’s bond gets stronger after ‘Freaky Friday’

Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan’s bond gets stronger after ‘Freaky Friday’

Jamie Lee Curtis had been a mother figure to Lindsay Lohan for most of her life.

The actresses first came together in the 2003 comedy Freaky Friday where Lindsay played Anna Coleman who swapped lives with her mom Tess Coleman played by Curtis.

That on‑screen partnership turned into a lasting bond that Lindsay described as a true friendship which she said was hard to find in Hollywood.

The two recently reunited for Disney’s sequel Freakier Friday yet Lindsay said their friendship had stayed strong for more than twenty years.

Speaking to Italian magazine IO Donna she shared “We are great friends. She’s always been a mother figure even off set. We laugh a lot together. She called me when I was pregnant and from there we started talking about the sequel.”

Lindsay, 39, has a two year old son named Luai with her husband Bader Shammas who works in finance. However, she explained that becoming a mother changed her life and helped her return to the role of Anna as a grown woman with a family of her own.

“Motherhood opened up a new world for me full of emotions and responsibilities” Lindsay said. “It allowed me to portray Anna Coleman in a deeper and more empathetic light. She’s a woman trying to do everything to the best of her ability like millions of other women torn between home and work.”

Lindsay decided not to bring Luai to the set because she wanted a clear line between her work and home life. “I try to keep family and work separate” she said.

Even after the struggles she faced while growing up in the public eye including rehab stays and legal issues, Lindsay said that she would not stop her son if he chose to become an actor one day.

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August 2, 2025
Frozen organic particles mapped in stunning new imaging method

Cryo-transmission electron microscopy (cryo-TEM) has transformed the way scientists study biological and organic materials.

Flash-freezing samples preserves their structure in a state close to how they exist in nature.

Researchers have used this technique for years to study the size, shape, and dispersion of biological matter at high resolution.

But cryo-TEM has one major blind spot: it struggles to reveal elemental composition, an essential factor for understanding material function.

Current solutions like energy-filtered TEM (EF-TEM) and electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) can detect elemental signals, but they come with drawbacks.

They often cause sample damage, suffer from image drift, and have mostly been used for metals or bulk materials.

Imaging beyond the structure

A team at Tohoku University has now solved that limitation. They developed a new cryo-EELS/EF-TEM technique that captures both the structure and elemental makeup of samples in frozen solvents.

The method allows researchers to study delicate organic nanomaterials without compromising image clarity or damaging the sample.

The problem with conventional EELS imaging is two-fold: ice within the sample increases unwanted background signals, and drift during scanning causes blurred images.

These issues make it hard to resolve the actual material under investigation, especially in biological or soft organic samples.

To address this, the Tohoku team refined the “3-window method,” a known EELS background correction approach, tailoring it for frozen conditions.

This improved background subtraction helps remove interference from the ice, making the elemental signals from the target material stand out clearly.

Drift remained a challenge during long EELS scans. To counter this, the team introduced a drift compensation system that stabilizes the image throughout data collection.

They also developed a software extension for the ParallEM microscope control system. This tool automates energy shift adjustments during elemental mapping, streamlining the process.

With the new method in place, the researchers successfully visualized silicon distribution in silica nanoparticles as small as 10 nanometers.

The particles were suspended in frozen solvent, closely mimicking real-world biological conditions.

They also tested the technique on hydroxyapatite particles, a calcium phosphate material found in bones and teeth.

The method clearly revealed the distribution of calcium and phosphorus, two biologically significant elements, alongside the particles’ structure.

Cryo-EELS imaging reveals the size, shape, and dispersion of hydroxyapatite particles, along with clear calcium and phosphorus mapping. Credit – Daisuke Unabara et al.

The ability to map both structure and composition at such fine resolution opens up major possibilities.

This technique can now support research into biomaterials, medical implants, food technology, catalysts, and even functional inks.

The findings were published in Analytical Chemistry on July 31, 2025.

By overcoming the core limitations of cryo-EELS and EF-TEM, namely drift, damage, and background noise, the Tohoku University team has pushed the boundaries of what cryo-TEM can do.

Researchers across disciplines now have a powerful new tool to explore nanoscale materials’ hidden chemistry without losing the detail or integrity of their samples.

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August 2, 2025
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August 2, 2025
India Aghast at Donald Trump’s ‘Dead’ Economy Jibe, 25% Tariffs

Shock, dismay and angst swept across India as businesses, policymakers and citizens digested US President Donald Trump’s sharp remarks and a surprise 25% tariff rate earlier this week.

While Indian government officials weighed a response and business groups tallied the cost of the trade barrier, the local social media flared up with users protesting Trump’s comments and criticizing Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not speaking up.

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August 2, 2025
Going to waste: two years after REDcycle’s collapse, Australia’s soft plastics are hitting the environment hard | Environment

Two years on from REDcycle’s collapse, 94% of Australia’s soft plastics are still headed for landfill. Collection has restarted at supermarkets, and 42 warehouses of plastics have been cleared, but experts say the packaging industry must take responsibility for the mess.

By July, supermarkets had mostly cleared the stockpiles, which by November 2022 reached 11,000 tonnes of soft plastics at 44 sites across the country, hoards accumulated as collections outstripped available recycling capacity and export restrictions increased the amount of plastic waste in Australia.

The remainder – 3,500 tonnes at two sites, in Victoria and in South Australia – is due to be processed in the first half of 2026, according to the supermarket members of the Soft Plastics Taskforce.

But as more than 100 new collection points have been rolled out since June in selected Woolworths, Coles and Aldi stores across New South Wales and Victoria, taskforce members have been careful not to collect more than can be processed.

There is simply not enough soft plastic recycling capacity in Australia to support full, nationwide collections

Soft Plastics Taskforce spokesperson

“The biggest challenge still remains that there is simply not enough soft plastic recycling capacity in Australia to support full, nationwide collections,” a spokesperson for the taskforce told the Guardian.

Soft plastic is defined by its ability to be scrunched into a ball, unlike “rigid” plastics, which are moulded to hold their shape. Even at the peak of its operations in 2022, REDcycle was collecting about 7,500 tonnes – less than 2% of the 538,000 tonnes of plastic bags, food wrappers, bubble wrap and other “flexible” plastic waste produced in Australia each year.

“We still have a real problem in that we consume too much [soft plastics], we discard too much and we don’t buy back anywhere near enough,” says Gayle Sloan, the chief executive of the Waste Management and Resource Recovery Association of Australia.

While recyclers are increasing their capacity to process the material, Sloan says other problems remain: the vast quantities produced, design packaging that is too complex to recover and the lack of demand from packaging companies and other consumers for Australian-made recycled plastic.

She says the onus should be on plastic manufacturers to invest in facilities to take back their own material. “We’ve got to stop putting it on consumers to solve the problem.”

Despite national packaging targets set by governments in 2018 for 70% of plastic packaging to be recycled by 2025, only about 6% of used and discarded soft plastics were being baled, sorted, shredded, washed, melted – or chemically processed – and turned into new products, according to data published in December by Soft Plastics Stewardship Australia. The rest has headed to landfill.

Consumer plastics collected by households, while the most visible, are only one part of the story.

Soft plastics are embedded in so many aspects of modern life, says David Hodge, the managing director of recycling company Plastic Forests. The material is widely used, for example, in sectors such as agriculture for storing grain and preventing weeds, and in transport for wrapping pallets.

Consumer materials, particularly those used for foods – frozen produce bags, cereal liners or bread bags – are “tremendously hard to recycle, some of them impossible”, he says. They are often “super technical”, comprising different types of plastic, and contaminated by inks used for advertising, or food residues.

While there is value for recyclers in processing plastics, such as PET (or polyethylene terephthalate) in drink bottles collected in container deposit schemes, Hodge says “the economics is broken in soft plastics” because the energy, labor and transport required to collect, process and recycle them costs more than importing new materials.

Soft plastics are often ‘tremendously hard to recycle’. Photograph: Tim Gainey/Alamy

The lack of incentives or mandates for products made from recycled content – such as fence posts and garden edging, electrical cable cover and plastic sheeting – mean they often struggled to compete with non-recycled products.

“There has to be support for the purchase of products. That will create the pull through,” Hodge says.

“Bunnings needs to be given a federal government mandate to support Australian made recycled products,” he says as an example.

Jennifer Macklin, a researcher at Monash University’s Sustainable Development Institute, says the solutions to the soft plastics problem are similar to other material and waste challenges.

They include designing plastic packaging so it can be more easily recycled (while retaining its function, such as keeping food fresh), developing recycling infrastructure capable of turning large volumes of soft plastic waste into a usable material and – crucially – reinforcing demand for the recovered material.

We’ve got to stop putting it on consumers to solve the problem

Gayle Sloan, Waste Management and Resource Recovery Association of Australia

“That’s the big chicken and egg that we have with recycling,” Macklin says. “We’re quite good at collecting and reprocessing but not very good at buying it to turn it into new things.”

Consumers have a role to play, she says, but as a general principle producers and importers of plastics should be responsible for the material’s entire lifecycle.

In late 2024, the federal government consulted on options for reforming plastic packaging. According to its summary, 80% of stakeholders supported regulation, and 65% supported an extended responsibility scheme that would make plastics producers responsible for the entire product lifecycle.

The government is now “working with industry and state and territory governments to deliver fit-for-purpose packaging regulations as part of Australia’s transition to a circular economy”, a departmental spokesperson said.

Sloan says voluntary approaches have failed.

“We need to have clear design standards and they need to be enforceable, and we actually need those who make this to be held accountable and invest in facilities to take it back,” she says.

“We’ve got to stop putting products out on the market that have no home and can’t be recovered.”

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August 2, 2025
Excelling in … Excel? Inside the high-stakes, secretive world of competitive spreadsheeting | Documentary films

Six years ago, Melbourne-based film-maker Kristina Kraskov read an article about an international Microsoft Excel competition and had two thoughts. The first: “What the hell, that can’t be real.” The second: “There’s got to be a film about this – I want to watch it so badly.”

There wasn’t a film about competitive spreadsheeting, so Kraskov decided to make it herself. The subject appealed to the director, whose work captures “different inner worlds that are a bit unusual on the outside”, including a short film titled Party in the Back, about a mullet festival.

Spreadsheet Champions, which will screen at the Melbourne international film festival, follows six young competitors from around the world as they head to Florida for the 2023 Microsoft Office Specialist world championship to showcase their skills. It might sound silly, but Excel is an incredibly sophisticated application – according to the documentary, the average person uses only 10-15% of its capabilities, but would-be competitors are required to understand closer to 70% of what it can do.

The competition is built and run by Certiport, a performance-based examination provider, and officially endorsed by Microsoft. It’s a two-parter: the first half tests proficiency in formulas, functions and features through a series of complex questions, graded on both accuracy and speed. The second section is a more creative application of this knowledge – as Kraskov puts it, “understanding the story of the data, or the soul of what it is actually telling you”.

‘It helped me a lot’ … Carmina, the teenage competitor from Guatemala, in Spreadsheet Champions. Photograph: Supplied by Melbourne international film festival

The championship has run since 2002 and is open to students between the ages of 13 and 22. Each competitor first has to qualify as the best in their home country. For such an esoteric endeavour, the stakes are oddly high – the MOS championship only allows competitors to enter once in their lives.

“In most sporting competitions, you have your main players that come back every year and your very set rivalries – but for this competition, they can only compete once, so everyone that’s coming through can never come back,” Kraskov says.

“They qualify in their home countries at vastly different times around the world, so it made it really challenging for us – but as soon as anyone qualified in a country that we could go to, we would talk to them on Zoom, and work our way down from there.”

The six competitors in Spreadsheet Champions are Alkimini, 20, from Greece; Braydon, 16, from Australia; Carmina, 16, from Guatemala; De La Paix, 19, from Cameroon (who doesn’t have a laptop or wifi, so had to study at school); Mason, 15, from the US; and Nam, 21, from Vietnam. Each contestant has personality quirks which shine through in the film – from the camera-shy and stereotypically “nerdy” to the charismatic and boisterous. “Our intention is really about how amazing this competition is – we’re not here to make fun of or disparage anyone,” Kraskov says.

De La Paix, right, from Cameroon, doesn’t have a laptop or wifi, so had to prepare for the competition at school. Photograph: Supplied by Melbourne international film festival

Kraskov and the film’s producer, Anna Charalambous, spent about a week with each competitor in their home country, observing their day-to-day lives, from home to school, and spending time with their family and friends.

“People reveal themselves a lot if you just pay attention to how they live their lives,” Kraskov says. “Teenagers are not quite fully formed adults yet, so they don’t really connect things about themselves or their personalities – they just live their lives. The parents were so insightful and knowledgable about their kids – it gave us a lot of information about how they would potentially thrive or struggle, and who they really were.”

Many of the contest’s specifics are shrouded in secrecy, which posed another challenge for the film-makers. The competition is overseen by a man named – in a wonderful example of nominative determinism – Bing.

“It’s so high-level security,” Kraskov says. “Bing eventually trusted us and gave us questions that would be retired … At the end of the day, he has to deliver a hardcore, secure, world-expert level exam the next year, and our priority is to show the complexity of what it is and what they’re doing.”

Participating in the MOS Championship can set these kids up for adult life. Carmina, the Guatemalan competitor, is now 18 and studying mechatronics engineering at university. In the film, she is shown as a bubbly, bright teenager who loves One Direction (she still does) and excels at, well, Excel.

Watching the documentary transported Carmina back to the competition and her younger self – and made her realise what she took from the experience. “I knew the results already, but watching it again [I felt] a little bit of suspense,” she says. “I tend to doubt a little bit of myself and with that experience [of competing] I learned to just go into it and try things out … It helped me a lot.”

Spreadsheet Champions had its world premiere at SXSW in Texas earlier this year and five of the six students will be in Melbourne to attend Miff. Kraskov is proud to shine a light on them – everyday people doing something a little different with their lives.

“Celebrities, musicians and models get plenty of attention,” she says. “But people that dedicate their lives to things that a lot of people don’t care about – I find that so much more fascinating.”

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August 2, 2025
Musk’s X must face claim of negligence over child abuse images, judge rules | X

A federal appeals court on Friday revived part of a lawsuit accusing Elon Musk’s X of becoming a haven for child exploitation, though the court said the platform deserves broad immunity from claims over objectionable content.

While rejecting some claims, the ninth US circuit court of appeals in San Francisco said X, formerly Twitter, must face a claim it was negligent by failing to promptly report a video containing explicit images of two underage boys to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).

The case predated Musk’s 2022 purchase of Twitter. A trial judge had dismissed the case in December 2023. X’s lawyers did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Musk was not a defendant.

One plaintiff, John Doe 1, said he was 13 when he and a friend, John Doe 2, were lured, on Snapchat, into providing nude photos of themselves to someone John Doe 1 thought was a 16-year-old girl at his school.

The Snapchat user was actually a child abuse images trafficker who blackmailed the plaintiffs into providing additional photos. Those images were later compiled into a video that was posted on Twitter.

According to court papers, Twitter took nine days after learning about the content to take it down and report it to NCMEC, following more than 167,000 views, court papers showed.

Circuit judge Danielle Forrest said section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act, which protects online platforms from liability over user content, did not shield X from the negligence claim once it learned about the images.

“The facts alleged here, coupled with the statutory ‘actual knowledge’ requirement, separates the duty to report child pornography to NCMEC from Twitter’s role as a publisher,” she wrote for a three-judge panel.

X must also face a claim its infrastructure made it too difficult to report child abuse images.

It was found immune from claims it knowingly benefited from sex trafficking, and created search features that “amplify” child abuse images posts.

Dani Pinter, a lawyer at the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, which represented the plaintiffs, said in a statement: “We look forward to discovery and ultimately trial against X to get justice and accountability.”

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August 1, 2025
Low-Dose Atropine Drops: Safe Treatment for Floaters

The off-label use of 0.01% atropine drops is a safe and noninvasive way to treat symptomatic vitreous floaters, according to a study done by Mohsin H. Ali, M.D., who presented his findings today at the 43^rd annual meeting of the American Academy of Retina Specialists.

Floaters are small spots or lines that float across the field of vision caused by the clumping of vitreous strands, the shadows of which cast a shadow on the retina. They are classified as symptomatic vitreous floaters when symptoms become so severe a patient seeks treatment. Existing treatments include pars plana vitrectomy (PPV), in which a surgeon removes the vitreous gel and replaces it with saline, and YAG laser vitreolysis, which uses a laser to dissolve floaters. However, these measures can lead to potential vision complications.

In Ali’s study, 44 patients with an average age of 60 were instructed to take 0.01% atropine drops. Patients were given a National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire (NEI-VFQ) before and after using the drops for one week.

Half (22) of the patients completed at least 7 days of consecutive use and returned questionnaires. Of those, 13 out of 22 (59%) were “satisfied” or “very satisfied” with the drops and said they would continue use and half said they would continue use.

Overall, 13 out of 44 (30%) were “satisfied” or “very satisfied” with the drops and said they would continue use and 11/44 (25%) just said they would continue use.

“The efficacy is low, but despite this, I think it is a good therapeutic option to have in your pocket, given that the other options carry the risk of vision-threatening complications,” Ali said during his presentation.

Different iris colors, phakic status or PVD status did not seem to meaningfully affect satisfaction rates.

Adverse events included worsened near vision (18%), worsened distance vision (18%) and light sensitivity (18%).

Ali personally prescribes this treatment for patients for long-term use or as needed, but not for patients with acute posterior vitreous detachment.

During the Q&A portion of the session, audience member Wei-Chi Wu, MD, PhD, professor and Chairman of Ophthalmology at Chang Gung University, asked Ali whether he considered using higher amounts of atropine to treat patients. Wu pointed out that patients may not be getting the full benefit of just a 0.01% dose.

“In my anecdotal experience, I’ve had other patients come back and say, ‘I refuse to use this drop any further because of the light sensitivity that it caused,’” Ali said. “In adults with various other pathologies and different colored irises, you might find that there is still pupillary dilation even at this low dose.”

Ali continued by saying that while they did not measure pupil size before and after drop administration, some individuals did send iPhone pictures that showed “significant pupil dilation.”

Ron Adelman, M.D., Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at the Mayo Clinic in Florida, asked about the mechanism of action of low-dose atropine.

Ali replied that while he doesn’t fully understand the mechanism of action, it seems to have to do with pupillary dilation.

“A lot of you probably have anecdotal experience when patients come to you in the office with a chief complaint of floaters, and then when they are dilated, they look around the room and say, ‘I don’t really notice my floaters.’ Part of that may be because you are talking to them when they have had a full pupillary dilation.”

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August 1, 2025
iOS 26: 10+ Features Coming to the Phone App

The Phone app doesn’t often get a lot of attention with iOS updates, but that’s changing in iOS 26. There are multiple new features to prevent unwanted calls and to save you time.

Unified Design

The Phone app has a new unified design, but there is an option to use the original iOS 18 layout as well. The unified design puts recent calls, missed calls, and voicemails on a single screen.

Favorite contacts remain at the top of the interface, and there’s still a tab for swapping over to contacts and the keypad. You can turn the unified view on or off by tapping on the icon with three lines in the upper right corner of the display.

Call Screening

Apple has expanded call screening functionality in ‌iOS 26‌. There is an option to ask unknown callers (aka people who you don’t have saved in your Contacts list) for their name and reason for calling. When enabled, this is an automated process.

The iPhone intercepts an incoming call, and requests the person’s name and a short reason for calling. The information is transcribed to text and relayed to you, and you can decide whether to ask for more information, accept the call, or decline the call.

The person on the other end of the call receives an automated response similar to a voicemail asking for more information, and they are placed on hold while you make a decision on accepting or declining the call.

To use this feature, toggle on “Ask Reason for Calling” in the Phone section of the Settings app.

Silence Unknown Callers

Rather than asking for more information from unknown callers, there is still a silence unknown caller option that can be turned on instead. As in ‌iOS 18‌, toggling this on silences calls from unsaved numbers, sending them to voicemail automatically. Calls that are silenced will show up on the Recents list, and you will also see the voicemail for information about why someone was calling.

If you don’t want to use silence unknown callers or the ask reason for calling feature, you can set the Screen Unknown Callers option to “Never.” With this setting, calls from unsaved numbers ring as normal, and missed calls are shown on the Recents list.

Call Filtering

In addition to improved call screening, ‌iOS 26‌ has new call filtering features. There is an option to move missed calls and voicemails from unsaved numbers to a dedicated Unknown Callers list, hiding them from the main view.

There’s also a toggle to automatically silence calls that are marked as spam by a carrier. If you have Verizon, for example, Verizon automatically marks some numbers as spam, and the ‌iPhone‌ can automatically send those calls to voicemail and move the calls to the Spam list. This setting will vary by carrier.

With these options turned on, you can tap on the icon in the upper right of the phone app to see calls that have been moved to the Unknown Caller section or marked as spam.

Spam Voicemails

When you tap into a voicemail from an unknown number, there’s now a “Report Spam” button. Tapping on it sends the voicemail to Apple, and you can either report the message as spam and keep it, or report it and delete it. Deleting a voicemail from an unknown number also brings up the option to report it as spam, and there is an option to report spam right when listening to an incoming voicemail as well.

Reporting a voicemail as spam does not block the caller, and that needs to be done with a separate step. Tap on the “i” button, scroll down on the contact card, and tap on Block Contact to block a spammer.

Hold Assist

If you make a call and are placed on hold, there’s a feature in ‌iOS 26‌ that will wait for you so you can do other things. It listens for hold music playing, and then alerts you when a person comes on the line so you can pick up the call.

You can turn on Hold Assist on any call by placing the call, then tapping on the “…” button once the call has connected. Your phone will ring and you will be alerted to pick up when a person is on the line. If the ‌iPhone‌ detects hold music, it may also automatically prompt you to turn on Hold Assist.

Since the feature works by detecting hold music, it can be imperfect when a number has a voice-based automation reminding you to stay on the line, or if there’s music with distinct lyrics. You will see a transcript of any spoken words, so you can determine when a person is actually on the line.

Live Translation

Live Translation is a feature that can translate incoming phone calls from one language to another. When a call is in progress, tap on the “…” button and then tap on Live Translation to use the feature.

You can then select the language that you want to translate from (the language spoken by the person you’re talking to) and the language that you want to translate to (your language). As of now, Live Translation for the Phone app supports English, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish.

When a translation is in progress, you’ll see a small notice at the bottom of the phone app that says “Translating [Language]” and there will be a live transcript of the call. An AI voiceover will audibly translate what’s said from one language to another, with a slight delay while this is happening.

Live Translation works on the ‌iPhone‌ to translate what you’re hearing and what you’re saying, so the person on the other end does not need to have an ‌iPhone‌ or even a smartphone at all.

Call History

There is an extended call history available for each of your contacts in ‌iOS 26‌. In the Phone app, tap on the “i” next to any name or number, and then tap on the “Call History” option. From there, you can see every time you’ve spoken with that person, dating years back.

Type to Siri

While on a phone call, you can now use the Type to Siri feature to ask ‌Siri‌ questions or to complete a task.

Screen Sharing and SharePlay

Apple added SharePlay and screen sharing support to the Phone app in ‌iOS 26‌. When on a call with a person that has a compatible device, tap on the “…” button and then choose either SharePlay or Screen Sharing to access the features.

When using SharePlay, you’re able to select an app to use with the feature, such as Apple TV or Apple Music.

With screen sharing, you can ask for remote access to a device, which is useful for helping troubleshoot tech problems.

Both participants need to be using a device with ‌iOS 26‌, iPadOS 26, or macOS Tahoe to use screen sharing and SharePlay with the Phone app.

eSIM Improvements

If you need to transfer an eSIM to Android or an Android eSIM to an ‌iPhone‌, the process has been streamlined in ‌iOS 26‌. In the ‌iPhone‌’s cellular settings, there is a “Transfer to Android” option for an existing SIM, as well as an option to “Transfer From Android” when adding a new SIM to an ‌iPhone‌.

Phone App for iPad and Mac

The Phone app has expanded to the iPad in ‌iPadOS 26‌ and the Mac in macOS Tahoe. All of the features like Call Screening, Hold Assist, and Live Translation also work on the ‌iPad‌ and the Mac.

To use the Phone app on ‌iPad‌ or Mac, you do need an ‌iPhone‌ on the same Apple Account, and you need to activate Wi-Fi Calling so that calls can be accepted on other devices.

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More on the features that are available in ‌iOS 26‌ can be found in our iOS 26 roundup.

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August 1, 2025