Don’t Get Caught: iCloud, VPNs, and the Future of AI
Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2025
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
This week, you’re loaded with Quick Tips to streamline your Apple life. You’ll learn how to nest Notes folders, edit Siri Reminders from your Lock Screen, and why your iPhone needs to stay locked for Continuity Camera magic. Discover how to whip up Wi-Fi QR codes with ease, subscribe to ICS calendars instead of juggling downloads, and harness your Apple Watch’s crown like a pro. Adam and Dave help you stay ahead of Plex Pass price hikes and unlock unsigned apps in macOS 15 Sequoia. Just Don’t Get Caught by iCloud’s aggressive junk filter or Tailscale’s Terminal-only Lock requirement—they could trip you up.
Your questions kept things rolling, from backing up iCloud Drive with Backblaze to finding the right VPN—whether it’s PIA, ExpressVPN, or Tailscale exit nodes. Photo Exifer tricks help you sync titles and captions in your iCloud Photo Library, and Cool Stuff Found delivers: pop your public IP into your menu bar, snag a MoFT Snap Flow Note for your iPhone, and hear why Claude Code tops the LLM game for developers.
What’s that about the future of AI? Yeah, we’re going there. It’s national cocktail day, after all! Press play and enjoy.
- 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1082 for Monday, March 24th, 2025
- March 24th: National Cocktail Day
- Police Code 10-82 – Reserve Lodging
- MGG Monthly Giveaway – Unite 6 from BZG Apps!
- Quick Tips
- 00:00:01 Andrew-QT-You can put Notes folders into Subfolders
- 00:04:50 Todd-QT-Edit Siri Reminders Entries on Lock Screen
- 00:06:15 Josh-QT-IPhone needs to be locked for Continuity Camera to work
- 00:09:56 Terri-QT-Create WiFi QR Codes with the Passwords app
- 00:12:08 DLH-QT-Subscribe to ICS files in Calendar instead of Downloading them once
- 00:14:03 Bern-QT-Remember to use Apple Watch’s Crown
- 00:17:54 WillRun4Fun-QT-Plex Pass pricing increases coming in April
- 00:20:56 PorthosJon-QT-Run Unsigned Apps in macOS 15 Sequoia
- 00:23:11 SPONSOR: OWC’s Envoy Ultra The first and fastest Thunderbolt 5 portable SSD. Fanless, bus-powered, and over 6,000 MB/s.
- Don’t Get Caught
- 00:24:33 Russell-DGC-iCloud’s Junk Mail Filtering Keeps Messages from Forwarding
- 00:34:46 Ed-DGC-Tailscale Lock requires a Terminal-based device to work
- Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!
- 00:38:32 Ron-1081-Does using iCloud Drive and BackBlaze cause problems?
- 00:40:31 Kirschen-Is there a monthly VPN I could sign up for?
- 00:53:39 Charles-Sync Titles and Captions with iCloud Photo library
- Show Business
- 01:00:40 MGG Premium Listener Contribution Appreciation Moment
- Cool Stuff Found
- 01:04:59 Russell-CSF-Public IP for your menu bar from Zenwheel
- 01:07:23 CSF-MoFT Snap Flow Note Stand-A MagSafe notepad for your iPhone (found at SXSW!)
- 01:12:45 Bill-CSF-Claude Code is the best LLM for coding
- 01:15:00 What’s the future of humanity with AI in the mix?
- 01:27:02 MGG 1082 Outtro
- MGG Monthly Giveaway – Unite 6 from BZG Apps!
- Bandwidth Provided by CacheFly
- Pilot Pete’s Aviation Podcast: So There I Was (for Aviation Enthusiasts)
- The Debut Film Podcast – Adam’s new podcast!
- Dave’s Business Brain (for Entrepreneurs) and Gig Gab (for Working Musicians) Podcasts
- MGG Merch is Available!
- Mac Geek Gab YouTube Page
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- This Week’s MGG Premium Contributors
- MGG Apple Podcasts Reviews
- feedback@macgeekgab.com
- 224-888-GEEK
- Active MGG Sponsors and Coupon Codes List
- BackBeat Media Podcast Network
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Mac Geekab and listener Andrew brings us our quick tip of the week. |
| 0:06.8 | He says, a few weeks ago I shared about the ability in Apple reminders to group lists into categories or folders with names of your choosing. |
| 0:16.5 | Apple notes with lots of notes can be pretty unwieldly. |
| 0:20.0 | Yes, you can have folders for notes, but lots of different topics or folders, too, can become a jungle. |
| 0:25.8 | Did you know? |
| 0:27.3 | You can also group folders of notes into categories or folders with a name of your choosing. |
| 0:35.9 | Just create a new folder and give it a name and then |
| 0:39.9 | drag other existing folders into it and they will become subfolders. Better still, call |
| 0:46.9 | these top level folders with the same names as the folders for your lists that you have in |
| 0:51.7 | reminders. So your brain has to do less work ongoing when organizing both notes and reminders. |
| 0:58.5 | That's a really good idea. |
| 1:00.4 | More tips, thank you, Andrew. |
| 1:01.7 | More tips like this, plus your questions answered today on MacGeekab 1082 for Monday, March 24th, National Cocktail Day, 2025. |
| 1:33.3 | Greetings, folks, and welcome to MattKeeKab, the show, where you send in tips like that. |
| 1:35.1 | You send in cool stuff found. |
| 1:36.3 | You send in questions. |
| 1:37.5 | We share it all. |
| 1:41.8 | We try to provide answers to the questions, or at least a troubleshooting path. And we organize it all into an agenda that generally is built to help each of us learn at least five new things every single time we get together. |
| 1:52.9 | Sponsor for this episode is OWC with their new Thunderbolt 5 portable SSD, the Envoy Ultra, over 6,000 megabytes a second. |
| 2:03.2 | We'll talk more about that in a little bit. |
| 2:04.6 | For now, here in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton. |
| 2:09.2 | And here in South Dakota, I'm Adam Christensen. |
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