iOS 775: Utility Apps - Essential Digital Tools Every iPhone User Needs
iOS Today (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.1 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Wondering how to turn your iPhone into the ultimate utility tool? This episode reveals under-the-radar apps and clever tricks that transform everyday tasks, from scanning bizarre-shaped books to hijacking your iPhone camera as a pro-level Mac webcam.
- Using iPhone as a webcam for Mac with Camo and Continuity Camera
- Simple Scan app for digitizing documents and OCR on iOS
- Quick note-taking and text automation using Drafts app
- Network device discovery with the Discovery app for iOS and Mac
- Transloader app for remote Mac downloads from your iPhone
- News: Apple sunsets Clips social video app, replacement options suggested
- Feedback: Apple Watch Ultra size and user preferences
- Shortcuts Corner: Apple Intelligence shortcut fails on Apple Watch, troubleshooting advice
- App Caps: Theraview ADHD medication tracker and Terraforming Mars digital board game
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on iOS today, Rosemary Orchard and I, Micah Sargent, help you find the apps for your utility belt. |
| 0:07.8 | And by that, I mean, the utility apps for your phone. |
| 0:10.3 | Stay tuned for this episode of iOS today. |
| 0:15.4 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:17.0 | From people you trust. |
| 0:19.5 | This is Twitter. This is Twitter. |
| 0:23.2 | This is iOS today, episode 775, recorded Tuesday, October 14th, 2025 for Thursday, October 23rd, 2025. |
| 0:35.9 | Utility apps. |
| 0:37.6 | Hello and welcome to this spooky episode of iOS today. |
| 0:44.7 | I say that because it's October and we're approaching the spooky season. |
| 0:50.1 | This is not necessarily itself a spooky episode, but you don't know who I am, and that's scary, so I have to tell you who I am. |
| 0:58.7 | My name is Micah Sargent. |
| 1:00.1 | I am one of the hosts who haunts this podcast. |
| 1:04.4 | And another host haunting this podcast, or maybe I'm possessing this podcast. |
| 1:09.1 | I haven't decided yet. |
| 1:10.7 | You know, I could be animating things. I could be doing all sorts of things, but I'm possessing this podcast. I haven't decided yet. You know, I could be animating things. |
| 1:12.8 | I could be doing all sorts of things, but I'm Rosemary Ochid. |
| 1:15.1 | And I'm very happy to be with you, even if we're not going to scare you away just yet. |
| 1:20.9 | Yes, please stick around. |
| 1:22.9 | We won't get too scary until the end. |
| 1:26.3 | This is our episode where we're going to talk a little bit about utility apps. |
| 1:30.7 | So these are apps that in many cases make other things possible, right? |
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