Flashlight Tweaks, iPad Tips, Drive Fixes, and More
Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Adam Christianson, Dave Hamilton, and Pilot Pete dive into practical tips for managing your Apple devices, like using the new flashlight features in iOS 18 and setting up a multi-user iPad for smart home control. Plus, discover how to disable those pesky monthly security reminders in macOS 15 Sequoia with a nerdy terminal trick.
Your three favorite geeks also explore listener solutions for syncing files across multiple Macs and discuss the best ways to record calls on Facebook Messenger. And don’t miss the segment where they share a lifesaving tip about loading your driver’s license into your iPhone wallet.
Don’t get caught missing out on these essential tech tips and tricks. Click play and learn at least five new things with us today!
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1058 for Monday, October 7th, 2024
October 7th: International Podcast Day
Police Code 10-58 = Direct Traffic
MGG Monthly Giveaway – Eternal Storms with Yoink AND Screenflow for October, 2024
Quick Tips
00:00:01 Mac+1984-QT-Closing all iOS Safari Tabs
00:04:12 Marty-QT-iOS 18’s Flashlight lets you control beam width and brightness
00:06:31 Michael-QT-Disable macOS 15 monthly security reminders by manually setting the reminder date in Terminal
00:08:27 Andrew-1057-Setting up an iPad for the House
00:09:59 Jeff-1057-Use iOS 18’s per-app FaceID requirement to manage the multi-use Kitchen iPad
00:13:28 Ken-1057-Control Center’s power button also disables FaceID until passcode is typed
00:15:15 You, too, can review MGG!
Don’t Get Caught
00:19:21 Todd-DGC-Digital Driver’s License worked through TSA!
00:24:34 Disney Strategies for Geeks
Use Disney’s Lightning Lane
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Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!
00:40:42 zBob-How to resize Thumbnails in photos on iOS 18?
00:44:57 What good is Apple Intelligence TODAY?
Conversational Siri
Notification Summaries
Email Summaries
Cleaning up Photos
00:49:28 Phil-My 4TB Seagate drive is clicking…what to do?
Oh no…The Click of Death
Spinrite might help
Cook a hard drive in the oven
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Mac Geek Cab and listener Mac 1984 sends in this one for those |
| 0:08.6 | of you especially who are tech support for all your family in the continuing vein of supporting relatives, one of the most common |
| 0:15.1 | maintenance issues with family iPhones is closing the sometimes 100 plus safari tabs that get left open. I look for a few tips on this but the one |
| 0:26.8 | I found at work was to hold down the done button in the Safari tab screen and |
| 0:32.4 | it will offer up an option to close tabs |
| 0:36.3 | close the number of tabs which in my wife's phone was 129. Nicely done that's a a great tip. I used it. I love it. I hope you'll get more tips like this and your questions answered today on Mac Geek Gab number 1058 for Monday, October 7, 2024. Greetings folks and welcome to Mac Geeka the show where you send in your |
| 1:17.3 | tips like that we share them you send in cool stuff found we share that and you send in your questions and not only do we share them we try to answer them all under the guys and the goal of trying to learn at least five new things every single time we get together and sometimes |
| 1:37.0 | when we learn something especially fun we play that bell sponsors for this episode include Coda.io slash MGG. It is one dock to rule |
| 1:48.1 | them all. You can bring your text and tables together and that link is where you can go to |
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| 2:06.3 | glean.com slash MDG. We'll talk more in depth about both of those in a little bit. |
| 2:12.4 | For now, back here in Durham, New Hampshire. I'm Dave |
| 2:15.4 | Hamilton. And here in South Dakota I'm Adam Christensen. |
| 2:20.1 | And here in another part of New Hampshire, it's pilot Pete. |
| 2:23.6 | Good to be with you, Jenz. |
| 2:25.1 | Glad we're all here today. |
| 2:26.3 | I'm glad we're all here. |
| 2:27.3 | Yeah, fun stuff. |
| 2:28.9 | Some of us barely made it. |
| 2:30.3 | Well, that's all it takes Adam. That's all it takes. If the minimum wasn't good enough it wouldn't be the minimum. |
| 2:41.8 | Pilot wisdom. That's I prefer much more flare but that's fine. |
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