This week on Cult of Mac’s podcast: iOS 16.4 doesn’t look earth-shattering or anything, but there are some cool new features coming.

Also on The CultCast:

• You need to toggle this switch on your iPhone ASAP so thieves don’t ruin your life.
• Working for Apple’s secret Exploratory Design Group sounds like a dream job.
• We’re giving away a very fancy backpack from Harber London.
• Erfon put his new HomePod stereo pair to the test in a head-to-head audio smackdown with the originals. The results are … disappointing.
• Windows users get a little taste of iMessage goodness. But just a taste!

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Few outside of Apple have ever heard of the company’s secretive Exploratory Design Group. However, the team includes many of Apple’s brightest minds — and is developing some of its most innovative products.

Despite the secrecy, the XDG made headlines recently when its project to add blood glucose monitoring to Apple Watch leaked out. Now more details on the group and its moonshot projects have come to light.