CultCast #340 - iOS 12’s best hidden features

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🗓️ 15 June 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This week: the hidden iOS 12 features you need to know about! Plus, in an all-new Under Review, we’ll tell you about one hecka good portable mouse, a pair of earphones that give you supersonic hearing, the king of all power banks, and a beautiful new wireless charger you’ll be proud to set your phone upon.

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On the show this week

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iOS 12 UI tweaks let you interact with apps as they’re opening - buster

https://www.cultofmac.com/554711/ios-12-ui-tweaks-let-you/

Your phone is always available to answer to your input. No more waiting for animations to finish.
You can launch an app and start scrolling within the app even before it fills the screen.
You can launch an app and then dismiss it even before the app has fully opened.
You can close and app and instantly open another app from the home screen before the closing animation has finished,

The best iOS 12 features Apple didn’t mention

https://www.cultofmac.com/553125/all-the-ios-12-features-apple-didnt-mention/

Police across the country are purchasing a tool called GrayKey. When hooked to an iPhone’s Lightning port, this swiftly enters thousands of passcodes until the correct one is reached.
But just-released beta of iOS 12 can be set to partially deactivate the Lightning port after an iPhone hasn’t been used for an hour.

iOS 12 makes iPhones immune to ‘brute force’ unlocking

https://www.cultofmac.com/552919/iphone-unlocking-blocked-ios-12/

Under Review

Logitech MX Anywhere 2S wireless mouse

https://amzn.to/2lcKtOs

Spigen Essential F306W

https://www.spigen.com/products/essential-f301w-iphone-wireless-charger

Anker Powerhouse

https://amzn.to/2leoxlP

Nuheara IQ Buds Boost

https://www.nuheara.com

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0:00.0	When Andrea Barber grows up, she's going to publish a newspaper.
0:05.5	But then that's what she's doing right now.
0:08.5	The kids are going to freak when they see this.
0:10.5	Chris Dahl wants to pilot a jet plane. In fact, he's already flying one. And when
0:18.2	Hakin grows up, he's going to be a record producer.
0:22.6	A child with an Apple-Till computer quickly learns,
0:26.1	there's no use putting off until tomorrow what you can do today.
0:32.2	Hello! And welcome to the whole Eat Best 30 plus minute album
0:35.1	competition you're going to hear all week long I'm your host Air Finalizer
0:39.2	joining me today by this time next week he'll be on a beach in Portugal oil from head to toe and wearing his standard issue cult cast speedo
0:48.3	Louis Wallace is here
0:49.9	Yeah
0:51.8	I can't wait to see those picks.
0:54.0	Me too.
0:55.0	Also with us, he's got the sexiest legs of any apple journalist I've ever met.
1:00.0	Buster, Chiny is here.
1:02.0	Oh, talking about my thunder thighs?
1:04.0	I only thought I was going his direction.
1:06.0	That's what I did.
1:07.0	I was like to jump in that.
1:08.0	Whoa.
1:10.0	Also joining us, you'll find his many apple books at a Barnes and Noble near you
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