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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

How To, Technology, Education, News, Tech News

4.8 • 977 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

iOS 16 Includes a new “Block Sender” shortcut along with a bunch of stuff added to the Lock Screen, and you can use Siri to control your Apple TV. That’s just a sampling of the Quick Tips your two favorite geeks share to start the show.
Listen as John and Dave then dig into your questions about managing your iCloud Keychain passwords, using your Apple TV with HomePods as your speakers, extracting Blu-Ray content, and streaming audio from your phone to your stereo!
It’s a veritable cornucopia of tips, tricks, and answers to your questions. Press play and you’re guaranteed to learn five new things!
Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 968 for Monday, February 13, 2023

Sylvain-QT-Long Press in iOS 16 Mail Now has Block Sender Option
The MGG Discord Server is Live!
The MGG Merch Store is Live!

Quick Tips

00:03:26 Tony-QT-Bypass Auto-Capitalizing Form Fields
00:05:15 Fix 1Password on Safari for iOS
00:06:58 PorthosJon-QT-HomeKit Automations Can be Converted to Shortcuts

Join The MGG Discord Server

00:08:51 Tony-QTR-Lock Screen Camera (and more) Access (recently also from Henry on MGG 949)

Access Additional Features from iPhone Lock Screen

00:11:37 Dominic-QT-Force sending as SMS instead of iMessage

Change your number from iMessage to SMS

00:14:48 AndrewWoodward in Discord-QT-949-Hey, Siri: Turn on Apple TV (and pause/play, and “Hey Sonos” to do the same thing)

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Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!

00:18:56 QT-Additional Apple TV “Hey, Siri” Tips: “Go back 2 minutes” or “What did they say” (for 10-15 seconds back)
00:20:12 John’s Apple TV Remote Upgrade

Identify Your Apple TV Model

Even with Apple TV 4K (1st generation) (A1842) whose remote I messed up, it works just fine with the newer Apple TV Siri Remote (2nd Generation)
00:24:03 David-CSF-Function101 Apple Remote now has Bluetooth
00:27:15 Patrick-Moving to TV’s HDMI ARC Port Helped Increase Dialog Clarity
00:31:44 Gary-Playing or Extracting Blu-Ray Content

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Transcript

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0:00.0	It's time for Mac Geek Cab and listener Sylvain brings us our quick tip of the week saying,
0:07.0	maybe you already know, but I just discovered that in Apple Mail on iOS 16,
0:12.0	when we long press on an email message a pop-up
0:15.8	window appears and at the bottom of that list it's possible to directly
0:20.4	block the sender right from there.
0:23.0	First time, Sylvain says, he saw this option,
0:26.0	and it also continues by saying
0:28.0	this neat loodle feature will definitely make his life easier.
0:32.0	I couldn't agree more. Tips like this plus your questions
0:36.4	answered all today on Mac Geek Cab 968 for Monday, February 13th, 2023. Geechab,
0:53.4	the gee, the
0:54.0	and the
0:55.0	the
0:58.0	Greetings folks and indeed to Mac Geek Cab the show where you send in
1:06.4	tips like that you send in questions you send in your cool stuff found we
1:11.0	answer your questions or we do our level best to answer your questions or we least do our level best to answer your
1:14.9	question we share your tips we share your cool stuff found we take it all we
1:18.4	loosely organize it into an agenda serving a one prime directive and that is, say it with us, that we each learn at least five new things every single time we get together.
1:32.0	Sponsors for this episode include
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