672: Wi Hyphen Fi
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2026
⏱️ 120 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show: Comply TrueGrip MAX for AirPods Pro 3
- Follow-up:
- Contacts
- Contact lists are a thing (via Dayton Lowell)
- Some non-obvious complications (via Paul)
- Face ID & Touch ID
- Older folks really do struggle with Touch ID (via Harrison Krebs & Kurt Schwind)
- Strictness (via Rob Sayre)
- John’s Liquid Glass bug in macOS 26.2 (via Gui Rambo)
- Some more about Podcasts.app and background execution (also from Gui)
- RAM shortage
- Data portability
- Git
- Github will still sink its talons into you (via Simon Jodet)
- Xcode 🤝 Git (via Tom Hartnett)
- Android ↔ iOS
- Git
- Display flicker in Tahoe
- What does this even mean? (via Daniel)
- One theory (via Sean Santry)
- Some corroboration (via Philip Hofstetter)
- Contacts
- Wi-Fi 7 is a bust
- Ask ATP:
- What’s the difference between minimizing and hiding windows on macOS? (via Michael Krewson)
- Post-show: What the heck is the deal with Thread/Matter
- Home Assistant
- Nanoleaf Smart String Lights
- Lutron Caséta (former sponsor)
- YoLink
- Members-only ATP Overtime: iMac Pro… phoenix?
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| 0:00.0 | So on the eve, right before the Eve, where I go to the fish concert, I decided to revisit |
| 0:07.0 | my AirPods Pro 3s, which I have really not been wearing much because even though I found that |
| 0:15.5 | when I, originally my comfort level with them was awful compared to the pro twos. |
| 0:21.7 | A lot of people have had similar issues. |
| 0:24.3 | A lot of people, they fit great. |
| 0:26.0 | The moral stories, they fit differently from the twos. |
| 0:28.8 | And so you're kind of rolling the dice and they might be better on you. |
| 0:31.3 | They might be worse. |
| 0:31.9 | They might be no different. |
| 0:33.1 | And I had found, and I mentioned on the show, based on a listener's tip, that if you actually wear |
| 0:38.7 | larger ear tips than you think you should, it makes them more comfortable. Well, as is always |
| 0:46.3 | the case, if you mention, you know, web browsers in the early 2000s and some feature, you would inevitably hear from the two people who use opera. |
| 0:57.4 | And they'd be like, you know, opera does this really well. |
| 1:01.1 | Or opera's had this feature forever. |
| 1:02.9 | Right. |
| 1:03.1 | What is the opera of noise cancelling earbuds? |
| 1:06.0 | Yeah, right? |
| 1:07.0 | The opera of noise cancelling earbuds. |
| 1:09.0 | And in particular, how they fit is people who use the comply foam tips. |
| 1:15.5 | I think they are way more popular than opera. |
| 1:18.3 | Probably. |
| 1:20.1 | But whenever you mention however AirPods fit you, you will always hear from two or three people saying, |
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