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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Don’t Mess With The Sacred Timeline

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

Tech News, Technology, How To, News, Education

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Don’t Mess With The Sacred Timeline — Mac Geek Gab 1107

This week’s Mac Geek Gab kicks off with quick tips you’ll actually use: from setting custom backgrounds in iOS 26 Messages to automating iPhone restarts with Shortcuts, spotting hidden savings on AppleTV+, and even using freezer bags to tame cable chaos. You’ll also learn the power of politeness, how Adaptive Power Mode can stretch your battery, why Spotlight Cmd-1 is your new macOS shortcut, and how to scroll CarPlay garages with a simple swipe. The crew dives into running Apple betas—developer vs. public—and the gotcha lurking in Apple’s (relatively) new cloud sync rules. Don’t Get Caught moving your home folder or syncing Dropbox without knowing the risks.

Then it’s all about gear and listener wisdom. Discover stress-relief spirals and right-angle cables that save your chargers, a sleeper hold travel pillow that kills the head-bobble, and eero’s signal upgrades coming in 2026. Adam shares how his Jackery solar generator kept him connected, plus the team breaks down backup internet options. Questions cover the smart way to prep your iPhone before trade-in, managing iMessage when moving to Android, and choosing a mesh system that won’t break the bank. From tri-band Deco deals to stubborn deleted files, you’ll walk away with practical fixes and clever finds ready to put to use today.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's time for Mac Geekab and listener Frank brings us our quick tip of the week.

0:05.6

He says using iOS 26 beta, I just discovered that if you long press an image in I message and choose set as background from the pop-up menu, it does not set your iPhone wallpaper, as I assumed.

0:20.5

Instead, it sets that picture as the

0:23.2

background for that specific I message conversation. Yes, you can personalize chats in

0:30.0

messages in iOS 26, Mac OS 20, all the 26s. More quick tips like this, including tips about your 26es today on MacGeekab 1107 for Monday, September 15th National Online Learning Day.

0:48.8

It seemed appropriate.

0:49.9

2025.

0:50.5

Thank you.

1:11.5

Greetings, folks, and welcome to Mac geekab, the show where we share tips like that.

1:16.0

We share cool stuff found that you send in.

1:20.0

We share questions that you send in, and sometimes that we have of our own.

1:25.8

And we also hopefully share answers or at least a path down the troubleshooting process for us all to follow.

1:29.1

With the goal being that each and every one of us learns at least five new things every single time we get together.

1:34.8

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1:39.1

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1:49.7

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1:57.5

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1:58.5

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2:00.5

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2:02.6

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