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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Geek Therapy

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

🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 82 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

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You get dropped right into geek therapy this week as you bounce from cult-favorite movies to Pixar shorts, then straight into practical Mac and iOS wins. You learn how to use the twenty-minute rule to bail on bad movies guilt-free, long-press your iPhone’s brightness to reveal Dark Mode and other hidden controls, and turn Live Listen into your stealth superpower for staying connected in noisy rooms. You also tighten up your iOS workflow by wrangling multiple photos, files, and links at once, and even rethink how often you actually need to say “Hey” to your devices. Don’t Get Caught missing the little system tweaks that make your Apple gear feel brand new again.

From there, you dig into real-world listener problems and come away with a cleaner network, a smarter Mac, and a more resilient data setup. You troubleshoot eerie eero behavior and learn how to coax stubborn 2.4 GHz-only devices onto your Wi-Fi, then set your Mac to auto-launch apps on wake with tools like Keyboard Maestro and Advanced SleepWatcher. You untangle VPN weirdness, then go full NAS-ty with guidance on migrating to a new Synology and choosing the right model using MGG’s comparison as your roadmap.

You wrap it all with Cool Stuff Found: Setapp’s new plans, rock-solid MailBackupX, US Mobile for nerdy cellular control, ForeverNotes for wrangling your brain, Titanium Software utilities, AppleCare+ plus Apple One savings, and TP-Link’s Wi-Fi Toolkit turning your iPhone or iPad into a pocket network analyzer.

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's time for Matt Geekab and listener,

0:03.0

SIE brings us our quick tip of the week.

0:06.6

He says,

0:07.4

I have a tip for anyone who needs to quickly toggle dark mode on iPhone.

0:12.7

For example, when a website or email isn't designed to support it properly,

0:17.5

swipe down to open control centers,

0:19.5

so swiping down from the upper right of your screen, then long press the brightness slider.

0:26.6

This brings up a dark mode toggle right there so you can flip it on or off without digging through your settings.

0:33.5

And of course, you can also add, he says as a bonus tip, a dedicated dark mode toggle in control center, which is even quicker.

0:41.2

But yes, you can turn dark mode on and off, night shift on and off, and true tone on and off just in by hold by long pressing on the brightness.

0:51.7

It brings up an extra little widget.

0:53.6

I love that. Thank you,

0:55.1

Sye. More quick tips like this, plus your questions answered today on MacKeekeb, 1133 for Monday,

1:02.4

March 16th, Robert Goddard today, 2026.

1:07.9

Rocket Bean.

1:13.6

Why did you put that song in my head, Pete?

1:14.3

Sorry, dude.

1:28.3

Greetings, folks, and welcome to Matt Geekab, the show where we share quick tips like that.

1:29.3

We share cool stuff found.

1:30.0

We share questions.

1:31.5

We share answers to the questions. We share whatever we can to serve the purpose of each and every one of us learning at least five new things every single time we get together.

1:45.1

Our sponsors for today include tempo meals.com slash MGG,

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