Siri AI with Riley Hill (iPad Pros - 0254)

The Apple Pencil Pro is a sealed unit with a lithium-ion battery soldered to the logic board—essentially unrepairable. But rumors suggest Apple is working on a version with a user-replaceable battery, likely a custom cell accessed through a magnetic cap rather than a coin battery. Riley Hill and Tim Chen debate whether this is even necessary, given that the Pencil charges quickly and lives on the iPad’s magnetic connector. Hill acknowledges the e-waste benefit but doubts he’d upgrade just for a replaceable battery.

That’s one of several tangents in this episode of iPad Pros, which centers on the public beta of Apple Intelligence and the new Siri AI. The hosts spend most of their time describing how the LLM-powered Siri changes their daily workflows—often in surprising ways—and what still needs fixing before the final release.

Siri AI as a daily driver