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Hands-On Tech (Audio)

HOT 182: Replacing a Fusion Drive - Raise to Wake, Reminders, Apple TV 4k

Hands-On Tech (Audio)

Leo Laporte

Reviews, Technology, Product Reviews, Tech, Gadgets, Twit

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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On Hands-On Tech: Why is my iPhone randomly making calls? Why are the reminders I am making on my iPhone being placed in a completely different list? And why am I losing the signal from my Apple TV 4k device when connected to my 4k TV?

Host: Mikah Sargent

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0:00.0

Coming up on Hands on Tech, we kick off the show talking about butt dialing.

0:05.0

Then we get into some questions about iOS, how to use the reminders app in a way that it gives you expected results.

0:13.0

Plus, replacing an old drive with a newer one,

0:17.0

and so much more coming up on Hands on Tech.

0:20.0

This is Twit. and welcome to Hands on Tech, the show where sometimes I review products and sometimes I answer your questions.

0:36.5

What's going to happen today? Well, you know if you listen to the tease, but if you've got one of those

0:40.2

podcast apps that skips the intro of the show then you have no idea what's about to happen but this

0:46.7

week I will be answering some questions for you we may have a review episode coming up just around the river bend as they say

0:54.9

But let's kick things off with a question that comes in from Joseph

0:59.5

Joseph writes in and says I was woken up this morning at 4 a.m. in St. Louis by my iPhone making an

1:07.6

outbound call to my brother in Los Angeles at 2 a.m. He called me back and said I had called him four times. Long story short, I just

1:16.6

retired a pair of Bluetooth headphones that I had used for five plus years. The power

1:20.9

button had a feature where if you pressed it just right, it would call back the last person you were talking to.

1:27.0

I had never figured out exactly how that feature worked.

1:30.0

This week, the headphones malfunctioned and started repeatedly power cycling and refused to turn off.

1:37.0

I quickly realized at 4 a.m. that the headphones were butt dialing and unpaired the headphone.

1:42.0

My suggestion to your listener is take an audit of your connected

1:46.2

Bluetooth devices and unpair old devices. My question is, once or twice a month my iPhone SE 2020 randomly butt dials or I will receive a butt dial from a friend.

1:58.1

I had previously turned off raised to wake as per Micah on this podcast.

2:02.4

I am stumped at what causes butt dialing. Any suggestions.

2:06.3

So first and foremost, I don't know that butt dialing is a universal term. So I did want to kind of start there by explaining that what Joseph is talking about

2:17.7

is the idea that your phone is making a call without your you are taking action to make a call. So that means that you know

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