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228: Immersive Hoops 🏀 Gemini-Assisted Siri 📲 and Sliding Negotations 🤝
00:00 The Future Future of Live Sports 12:34 Siri and Gemini, Sittin’ In A Tree 26:16 2.09 Carat Siri 27:52 Subscribing to the Creative Apples 40:50 Stopping the Spammers and Scammers 45:46 Retrocade 48:36 Sliding Negotiations 49:23 Brett’s Gadget: Nuwave Smart Mug 53:54 Jeff’s Gadget Category: Dash Cams
00:00 It's 2026! 🥳 00:36 Belkin Brilliance and Anker Awesomeness from CES 15:16 Folding Up the iPhone 23:14 Fast-Fi Wi-Fi 26:13 Chasing the Apple Card 34:35 Tenacious Ternus 40:53 In the Vision! Visionary Basketball 48:32 Quit Quitting 53:00 Troll or Teacher? 54:38 Brett’s iTip: Auto Detecting an Outdoor Walk 59:27 Jeff’s iTip: Working with Notifications on the Lock Screen
00:00 Happy 800 Post! 00:51 M5 > M4 17:55 Apple TV is Nonplussed 23:23 Coining History 27:28 16,000 Selfies Every Second 38:45 Missing CarPlay 42:53 Cha-Ching Exploits! 46:25 In the Show! F1 Royale 54:51 Design Deluxe 55:27 Brett’s Watch Tip: Adjust brightness on Apple Watch flashlight 1:01:23 Jeff’s Gadget: DODOcase for iPad
00:00 Watching All the Legal Drama 10:53 How to Hack an iPhone 15;59 Jason’s Favorites 20:06 Apple Pay for Plywood 24:32 AI @ Apple 31:09 SuperCarPlay 34:32 iPad Wishes 37:48 Where Y’at? Segment: Satellite Game Changer 43:08 Sci-Fi Done Right 46:31 Power Plug Lament 47:08 Brett’s Security Tips: TunnelBear VPN and 1Password 50:49 Jeff’s Security Tip: ALWAYS Protect Your iPhone Passcode!
Brett’s Sites: Your Technology Security Resolutions for 2024 should be to use a VPN such as TunnelBear https://www.tunnelbear.com and a password manager such as 1Password https://www.1password.com. Both of these services have deals right now, and you can get $30 back by signing up through Rakuten (you can use my link https://www.rakuten.com/r/BBURNE17?eeid=28187), searching for TunnelBear or 1Password and making the purchase that way - you’ll get $30 back!
Brett’s iTip: You can quickly open a webpage from your iPhone on your Mac through Continuity by either clicking in your Mac’s Dock or I like to use the Command + Tab option to switch through apps where one of the options will be the Safari app on your iPhone.
Jeff’s watchOS Tip: With watchOS 10.2 you can now turn off confirmation alert to end workout. Go to Settings - Workout - End Workout Confirmation and toggle off. You can turn off or on the “Start Workout Reminder” and the “End Workout Reminder.”
Brett’s iTip: Quick Action menu on the Settings App. Quick Action menus have been around for a long time and I use them for Notes and Camera, but never really thought about using it on the Settings App. Nice shortcuts to Battery, Wifi and Bluetooth. You can also adjust the speed of the your “Touch Duration”
Jeff’s iTip: Presentation Tip - Video background. And Teams now offers different “layouts” for presentations.
Brett’s Apple Watch Tip: Absolutely enjoy using the wake-up alarms on my Apple Watch, but of course there are some days when I don’t want the schedule to go off so I can easily “skip” the alarm for one day. Skip a wake-up alarm Update Next Wake-up Only
Jeff’s iTip: Make those paste alerts go away. If an app keeps asking you whether you want to allow something to be pasted into the app every single time, you can often can set the app to always allow. But you have to do it through iPhone settings, not the pop up. Go to settings, then find the app you want to always allow paste to, and select to allow for pasting from other apps. (Works with the Parcel app!)
Jeff’s Overcast Tip: Playlists that I use in Overcast: New (Include all episodes, Sort newest to Oldest, Exclude episodic shows, Select Priority podcasts), Episodic podcast list, In Progress [built-in], and Queue [built-in]
Brett’s Overcast Tip: An Overcast gaming Easter Egg! Found this little gem when I was recently downloading podcast episode to my watch:
Brett’s iTip: Earn your Limited Edition Veteran’s Day Challenge Badge in Apple Fitness by working out for at least 11 minutes tomorrow, Saturday, November 11 on Veteran’s Day. You can see your Limited Edition Challenge Badges by going to the Fitness app on your iPhone - Summary - Scroll down to Awards, tap Show More, then scroll down to “Limited Edition Challenges.”
Brett’s Mac App: Bartender 5 for complete control over your Mac’s upper right menu bar. Here’s a great review from MacStories. You can purchase it for $16 directly from the developer, or get it as part of a Setapp subscriptions (my link - also try Paste and AirBuddy!).
Brett’s TranscriptPad Tip: Search across one transcript or ALL transcripts - TranscriptPad will search from the folder location in which you are currently located. If you’re in a specific transcript, your searches will be limited to that transcript. If you’re in a higher folder with multiple transcripts, you will see search results from each transcript.
00:00 Mindful Awareness 5:03 Thank you LIT SOFTWARE for sponsoring this episode! 5:25 Sliding Back to the iPad 18:25 Orange Foofaraw 19:32 Air to the Throne 25:40 Where Y’at? Segment - 86 Decibels 29:44 Scoring Your Sleep 35:21 Power Wariness 39:17 Thank you LIT SOFTWARE for sponsoring this episode! 45:41 In the Vision! Immersive Courtside 50:02 We’re Blue! Da Ba Dee Da Ba Di… 54:19 Brett’s Watch Tip: Reset the Control Center on your Apple Watch 56:26 Jeff’s iPad Tip: Get Unstuck From Universal Control
Jeff’s iPad Tip: Get Unstuck From Universal Control - Put the iPad to sleep or use the keyboard combo Control-Option-Command-Delete https://support.apple.com/en-us/102459
Brett’s iTip: Share a “Wubble” on your iPhone (NameDrop on iOS 17). Both devices must have Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and AirDrop enabled. And make sure Settings - General - AirDrop and “Bringing Devices Together” is toggled on.
Jeff’s iTip: People & Pets in Photos! Need to wait for full scan in order for this work and it seems to require a clear picture of a face. You can also change tap and hold to change the “Key Photo” for a recognized person.
Brett’s iTip: Set a default card for Apple Pay by going to Settings - Wallet & Apple Pay and tapping “Default Card.” You can also re-arrange the cards in my Apple Wallet by tapping and dragging them.
Jeff’s iTip: Blow your mind with 4K HDR with the following ingredients: 1. Apple TV 4K, released April 20, 2021 2. TV that supports 4K HDR. HDR part is essential; even my Apple Studio Display 5K is not good enough. 3. The YouTube app for Apple TV (free) 4. Visit a 4K (or higher) HDR channel on YouTube, such as 8K Vision
Brett’s iTip: Once you share a note in the Notes app, you can tap the options button to a variety of things including see “participant cursors,” Show All Activity, Show Highlights, and more.
Jeff’s Games: All the Wordle clones! Worldle (from NYT) Quordle (from Merriam Webster) Octordle (from Britannica.com)
Brett’s iTip: You can preserve settings in Camera mode by going to Settings - Camera and toggle on which settings you would like have preserved every time you open the
Jeff’s iTip: Find attachments from an iMessages conversation by tapping on a conversation and then tapping the face or circle at the top. Then you can scroll down to see shared photos, links, locations, etc.
Brett’s iTip: Be aware of “Offload Unused Apps” which was introduced in iOS 11 to conserve space on your iPhone by “off-loadnig” apps you haven’t used in a while. All your documents and data are saved, but the app is “off-loaded” until you tap it to re-download it. You can toggle off this feature by going to Settings - App Store - and toggling off “Offload Unused Apps.”
Jeff’s iTip: Don’t Fear the Shortcuts App! You can visit Apple’s Shortcuts User Guide to find out more about this powerful option built into your iPhone and iPad, including many free Shortcuts that you can enable from Apple.
Thank you to Sanebox for sponsoring today’s episode! Visit www.sandbox.com/inthenews to find out more.
00:00 Foundational Intelligence 13:42 Thank you LIT SOFTWARE for sponsoring this episode! 13:58 26 Ways iOS Keeps on Giving 24:12 Bug Squashing 26:26 Air-Inspiring 31:34 Lux-urious Cameras 36:02 Apple’s Other Earbuds 38:56 Watching Satellites 45:53 M5 Possibilities 49:34 Thank you LIT SOFTWARE for sponsoring this episode! 57:40 Goodnotes Gets Gooder 1:00:33 In the Vision! Exiting the Uncanny Valley 1:04:26 In the Show! Streaming for Peanuts 1:08:56 Brett’s iTip: Watch Apple TV+ on United Flights! 1:10:17 Jeff’s iTip: Double-Tap to React with a Tapback
Brett’s iTip: Quickly filter messages in the Mail app by tapping the filter button in the bottom left corner, than tapping “Filtered by: Unread.” There you’ll see additional options for what messages to include in your “filter” such as Flagged, who it was addressed to, only messages with attachments, etc.
Jeff’s iTip: Use Remind Me to come back to emails later by tapping the “Reply” arrow and then “Remind Me” where you can have the Mail app remind you about the message in “1 Hour,” or “Tonight” or “Tomorrow” or a custom date & time.
Brett’s Gadget: Weber iGrill - use Bluetooth to track the temperature of your grill with the iGrill app! I use the iGrill Mini but there is also the iGrill 3.
Jeff’s iTip: There are many news sources, newspapers and magazines that you can read in Apple News+ for $10/month including The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Wired, and many more. Or even better subscribe to AppleOne Premier for $33/month and adds News+ and Fitness+ to Music, TV+, Arcade, iCloud+.
Brett’s iTip: Avoiding Tolls in Google Maps and Apple Maps. Especially helpful when you’re in a rental car driving from airport and you want to avoid the incredulous tolls charges.
Jeff’s iTip: Travel in the Future Using Maps. Choose a future departure or arrival time: Tap Now (below the Directions list), select a time or date for departure or arrival, then tap Done. The estimated travel time may change based on predicted traffic.
Brett’s iTip: Quote highlighted text when sharing a link in Messages.
Jeff’s iTip: If you copy a web address and paste into the Mail app on the iPhone or iPad, the link quickly changes to a graphical preview of the website. That looks pretty, but sometimes you just want the plain text link. Tap the preview once and then an arrow will appear to the right of it near the top. Click that arrow and tap Convert to Plain Link. Especially important as more folks learn about the dangers of clicking on links in emails that could be phishing attempts.
Brett’s iTip: Use Your Apple Watch to get insight into your sleep habits. In order to best track your sleep, you’ll need to wear your Apple Watch overnight while you sleep, and the Watch must be in Sleep Mode. And this works in conjunction with the Health App on your iPhone where you set up your Sleep Schedule.
Jeff’s iTip: A few tips on how to organize your home screens. You can hide and show Home Screen Pages. You can also move multiple apps at the same time and use both hands to independently move between screens. One trick to create a “blank” screen on your iPad you can use the Widgetsmith app.
Brett’s iTip: Spoken Content and “Speak Screen.” Go to Settings - Accessibility - Spoken Content so you can swipe down from top of screen to have it read the text, and a small control box appears as well. Very useful!
Jeff’s iTip: Turn off auto-play of videos. Go to Settings - Accessibility - Motion and toggle off “Auto-Play Video Previews.” This will stop apps like the App Store from automatically playing video previews.
Brett’s Sites: Apple has “Preview” pages on its website - simply visit www.apple.com and hover over the tabs at top, and look for the “Preview” link to more of what they are planning.
Brett’s iTip: Show battery percentage for the power anxious by going to Settings - Battery and toggle on “Battery Percentage.” Some people like this, and it makes other very anxious.
Jeff’s iTip: Recover a specific text message or an entire thread, but it only for the last 30 days. In the Messages list, tap Edit in the top left corner, then tap Show “Recently Deleted.” You will see deleted messages, and on the right it will tell you how many days you have left before the message is gone forever. Tap on a message or group of messages and tap “Recover.”
00:00 Pod-Tastic! 32:51 Vapor Pro 46:16 Air Quality 51:12 Land Rover On My Wrist 54:58 Obviously Hidden 57:40 In the Vision! Vision De Force 1:01:35 In the Show! Hold Your Horses 1:06:16 Brett’s iOS 26 Tip: Trippy Photos with Spatial Scenes 1:09:58 Jeff’s Apple TV Tip: Listen with Two Headphones
Brett’s iTip: When I search for a restaurant in either Google Maps or Apple Maps, I usually select “Sort by Distance” so I can see what’s closest (default is “sort by relevance”). Wish I could set this as default, but haven’t found that setting. Also in Google Maps, I use the “Measure Distance” tool that lets me drop multiple points to get an accurate measurement of the total distance from point to point.
Jeff’s iTip: Words to the Wise: Displaying Siri text on the Apple Watch. In the Apple Watch app on your iPhone, go to Siri - Siri Responses. Or on the Apple Watch: Settings app - Siri - Siri Responses. You can “Always Show Siri Captions” ON / OFF (Show what Siri says on the screen) or “Always Show Speech” ON / OFF (Show a transcription of your speech on screen).
Brett’s iTip: Control how Siri announces text messages by going to Settings - Notifications - Announce Notifications and un-toggle the announcement for specific apps. But I also add “Announce Notifications” in the Control Center so I can temporarily mute them.
Jeff’s iTip: For apps where you can send a reply, like the Messages app , Siri repeats what you said, then asks for confirmation before sending your reply. But to send replies without waiting for confirmation, do any of the following: On iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch: Go to Settings - Notifications - Announce Notifications, then turn on Reply Without Confirmation. On Apple Watch: Go to Settings - Siri - Announce Notifications, then turn on Reply Without Confirmation.
Brett’s iTip: Temporarily Disable FaceID on iPad. I know an easy tip for making my iPhone temporarily disable FaceID and require a passcode is either quickly click the side button 5 times or click and hold the side button + volume button (either one) for 2 seconds. That second method also works on the iPad.
Jeff’s iTip: Perform a Safety Check on your iPhone (this is a new iOS 16 feature). Go to Settings - Privacy & Security - Safety Check. Then you can determine who can access your Find My, and which apps can access Location, Bluetooth, Microphone, etc. There’s also a handy “Quick Exit” button in the upper right.
Brett’s iTip: Use the Flashlight on Your Apple Watch - Swipe up to the Control Center and tap the flashlight button. The watch face will light up with a white light - it’s kind of bright, but when you turn the watch face to yourself it will dim a bit. Gives off plenty of light to see around your surroundings. You can swipe to the left for a flashing white light (good for runs or bike rides at night) and swipe again for a red light.
Jeff’s iTip: On the mend? For me, cast on the leg, but could be any illness or COVID quarantine. Use an Apple Watch. It’s always with you so you can text or call someone within your house from your Apple Watch; you can control lights if you have a smart home; manage medications; set alarms; and even use the Mindfulness app to stop and breathe.
Brett’s iTip: The iPhone will update it’s time to whatever time zone you’re in but you can change this setting in Settings - General - Date & Time. Even if the iPhone’s time keeps updated, you can choose to have your Calendar stay on a specific time zone by going to Settings - Calendar and toggle on Time Zone Override. I personally leave this off so that my calendar updates to the local time zone, but some folks may want to force their Calendar to stay in a specific time zone.
Jeff’s iTip: A preview of Siri to come: the S-GPT Shortcut by Federico Viticci, based on OpenAI’s ChatCPT
Brett’s iTip: Turn on “Optimize iPhone Storage” so full-resolution photos and videos are then transferred up to iCloud, while smaller, lower-resolution versions are kept on your device which take up less space. Go to Settings - iCloud (your picture) - iCloud - Photos and make sure “iCloud Photos” is toggled on and then make sure “Optimize iPhone Storage” is selected. If you want to access your higher-resolution photos and videos, you can go into the Photos app and download any file that's being optimized, but this requires a decent internet connection. Your more recently taken photos and videos may exist in full-resolution, so you won't need to download every photo or video.
Jeff’s App: One of my favorite apps for the iPad that I use all the time is Goodnotes for taking notes. In a recent update, they added the ability to add quick-access buttons for pen widths and colors right at your fingertips.
Brett’s iTip: The iPhone actually has two different volume controls that can be confusing, especially when you don’t want to miss your alarm! There’s the media volume which controls sound from apps, games, videos, music, and phone calls. There’s the ringer & alert volume which controls sounds for your ringer, notifications, system alerts, and alarms. By default, the media volume is controlled by the side buttons. And by default, the ringer & alert volume is controlled by going to Settings - Sounds & Haptics and changing the slider under “Ringer and Alert Volume.” But this gets confusing because under that slider there is a “Change with Buttons” toggle. If that’s turned on (and probably is) then the side buttons will change both volumes.
Jeff’s iTip: Here’s a trick for faster scrolling on the iPhone or iPad. Start to scroll a list like normal and you will see the scroll bar appear on the right. Tap and hold the scroll bar until you feel the haptic feedback on the iPhone. On the iPad, you just have to hope that you have held it long enough. Move that finger pressing the scroll bar up and down to scroll much more quickly
Brett’s iTip: Apple’s True Tone technology adjusts the white colors on your screen to keep your eyes from getting tired, and Night Shift makes your screen more orange and warmer towards the evening before your bedtime. This is probably turned on by default, but go to Settings - Display & Brightness - Night Shift if you’d like to change your Night Shift schedule. You can also adjust the color temperature of Night Shift from “less warm” to “more warm.”
Brett’s iTip: If you enjoy a podcast (like ours … thank you!) then consider sharing the podcast-love with someone else. Overcast has 3 excellent ways to share: 1. You can simply share a link to the podcast that opens in a web browser. 2. You can share a link to the “current time” of the podcast at which you want someone to listen. 3. You can also share a clip of a podcast so you can send just the part you want someone to hear. The Overcast app has this nice interface where you can listen to the audio and set an start and end time on a clip, and then it generates an audio clip or “video” .mov file that can be sent via text message, email, or shared in social channels.
Jeff’s iTip: If you pay for the Overcast podcast app ($10/year), you can use the Overcast.fm website to upload an audio file, or provide the URL for an online audio file. The website will convert the audio and automatically download it to the Overcast app on your iPhone, where you can listen to it just like any podcast. This means: easy 15 seconds forward / backward controls, Voice Boost to improve sound, Smart Speed to shorten silences, speed up playback, easily scrub through the recording, etc.
Brett’s iTip: I’m at a conference where there are lots of QR codes that people want me to scan. In recent versions of iOS you can simply open the Camera app, make sure you’re in “Photo” mode and point it at the QR code. You should see a yellow link button appear that you can tap to visit the link. You can also tap the little “code scanner button” in the bottom right corner. There’s also a dedicated “Code Scanner” that you can add to your Control Center. Go to Settings - Control Center - and add “Code Scanner.” Now you can launch that from Control Center and it will give you 4 corners in which to place the QR code (along with a flashlight if you need it). Be warned that when you hover over the QR code it will immediately open the link in Safari or your your email app.
Jeff’s iTip: There are a couple of ways to switch between open apps on your iPad: 1. Swipe left or right with four or five fingers. 2. Swipe left or right with one finger along the bottom edge of the screen. (On an iPad with a Home button, perform this gesture with a slight arc.)
00:00 Why Order One iPhone When You Can Have Two? 11:04 Calling in Air 20:05 Entry-Level Value 25:23 iWhich One? 26:21 Mann Those Are Pretty Pictures! 26:02 Watery Glass 48:03 Hypertensive Watch 54:51 Pod Finder 1:07:35 Live Widgets in the Car 1:09:37 20-26 Vision 1:12:09 Mud-Splattered Pro 1:13:25 Brett’s Favorite iOS 26 Tip: Estimated Charging Time! 1:14:27 Jeff’s Favorite iPadOS 26 Tip: Windows Apps Mode vs. Full Screen Apps Mode
Jeff’s iTip: In iOS 16, you can display a random image from your photo library on your lock screen. The iPhone picks 16 images to rotate, so I recommend that you select to have the image change every hour or daily instead of on lock or on tap; those last two options make it too easy to quickly shuffle between the 16 images.
But what if a picture comes up that I haven’t seen in a long time and I want to see that image in my photo library? In iOS 16.3, hold a finger down on your lock screen and tap Customize at the bottom. Tap Lock Screen (on the left). Tap on the image to cycle between the 16 currently in rotation until you find the picture that you want. Tap the circle with three dots at the bottom right. Tap Show Photo in Library.
What if a picture comes up that I don’t want on my home screen: Tap Don’t Feature Photo.
Brett’s iTip: Installing Fonts on your iPhone & iPad. I typically only need a custom font when I’m creating a presentation on my iPad and in the past, it was quite a pain to go through and create a “Profile” to install a font. You can still do this, but in iOS 13, Apple provided a much easier way to use fonts on your iPhone and iPad through the Settings app. One of the easiest ways to get some custom fonts is through a free app called Font Diner which will provide you with a free set of 20 fonts. You install the app, tap the free fonts, and now you can go to Settings - General - Fonts and turn them off or on. And now these fonts should be available in apps like Microsoft Word, Keynote, Pages, etc. You can NOT use these to change the system font like names of apps, etc. Here’s some additional information about installing fonts: https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/best-font-apps-for-iphone-and-ipad/
Jeff’s iTip: HomeKit Cameras – see live streams and recordings by going to Home app (on iPhone) - Top right icon, circle with three dots - Home Settings - People - select a person. For the Cameras you can set them to “Stream Only” and “Stream & View Recordings.” While you’re there, you can also go to Music & Podcasts - Update Listening History - turn individual HomePods / HomePods pairs on or off.