679: An Adversarial Relationship With Myself
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 121 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show:
- Marco beach… and app… cleanup results
- We’re recording ✨from the future✨.
- Follow-up:
- Should Casey look at a used Lucid Air for ~$50k?
- Marco’s
defectionmove to Chrome (via Sarvagnan) - Window resizing in Tahoe (via Jeff Johnson)
- AirTag 2 & speaker tampering
- Cloudflare Open Access (via George Black)
- Fastmail 🤝🏻 Perl
- Another Apple purchase migration warning (via Nick)
- YouTube is on visionOS (App Store link)
- Studio Display 2 to be… 90Hz? 🤨
- New devices not on the latest-and-greatest TSMC process?
- Where are you, M5 Pro MacBook Pro?
- Ask ATP:
- What kind of battery backup should one use? (via Allen Shull)
- Why do we think Ternus is a good idea as CEO? (via Kevin B.)
- What’s the deal with
Save As…,Duplicate, etc? (via Carl Walther)- The new document model was actually introduced in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion in 2011
- More from John’s Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion review in in 2012
- Post-show: Casey’s Status Board
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Apparently everyone is stealing TV
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| 0:00.0 | So I spent all day cleaning up water damage. That was really fun. Oh, you went to the beach? |
| 0:05.1 | I did. I meant to send you that Instagram thing that I saw today. I didn't do it because I thought it would be too cruel, but now you're bringing it up. I'm going to find it and send it gone. |
| 0:12.0 | What I was saying last week about, so we're lucky that the leak at the beach house, it was worse than I expected, but it only affected like the storage basement |
| 0:22.7 | area of the house, not like the finished interior of the house. Thank God for that, because |
| 0:29.0 | that would be a very different level of damage. So, and most of the things that we store in the |
| 0:35.0 | storage area are things like bikes, which are mostly waterproof. So there's, there's, there doesn't look like there's too much loss there. Plus it's fresh water. It's actually cleaning the bicycle. It's getting the salt off. Yeah. I mean, it wasn't only bikes that were reined on for, you know, a day and a half, but it was mostly bikes. So it's not, it's not too big. It could have been a lot worse. There's a lot of |
| 0:57.6 | cleanup to do, but it was, uh, mostly bikes. So it's, it's not, it's not too big. It could have been a lot worse. There's a lot of cleanup to do, but it could have been a lot worse. But you mentioned Instagram. And that's, that actually gives me a really good, um, opportunity here to tell you a little hot tip. It's not, it didn't start during my year of efficiency. It started about December, I think. |
| 1:12.4 | I don't think I've mentioned it on the show, |
| 1:13.6 | at least not more than two seconds worth. |
| 1:16.1 | So I haven't really been on Instagram very much recently. |
| 1:19.5 | There's been a sharp drop-off in my Instagram music |
| 1:22.2 | starting in December when I made a simple change. |
| 1:24.4 | I can say I strongly recommend this. |
| 1:27.1 | So anyway, what the change was, was I moved |
| 1:30.6 | Instagram to the hidden state on my phone where it requires face ID. So here's what you do. |
| 1:37.2 | You go to any app on your phone. I added this, I think, two or three OSs ago. Any app on iOS, |
| 1:42.9 | if you, you know, you do the long hold to go to delete it. |
| 1:46.7 | And one of the options it gives you on is require face ID in that context menu. When you do that, |
| 1:55.7 | one of the options you get is to hide and require face ID. And this, what this does is this puts the app, if you go all the way to the app library, like the right most screen on your iPhone, you scroll all the way to the bottom. The bottom right icon is called hidden. And you can't see what's in it because it's hidden. And if you hide any app and require face ID for it, |
| 2:20.3 | it will go into that hidden folder. |
| 2:22.6 | The only way to get to it is to go to the app library. |
| 2:26.1 | It won't show up in search. |
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