iOS 781: What & Where to Watch - Track Your Shows, Film Ratings, & What's Next
iOS Today (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.1 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Tired of losing track of shows or playing hide-and-seek with your next binge-watch? Discover unexpected tricks, overlooked apps, and candid talk about making sense of the ever-messy world of streaming from the comfort of your Apple device.
- Tracking what you watch using Apple TV's Up Next queue
- Apple TV integration tips, Netflix limitations, and notification quirks
- iPhone vs. iPad vs. Mac Apple TV app differences and channel management
- Using JustWatch to find where content is streaming
- Sharing watch lists and managing subscriptions in JustWatch
- Pros and cons of digital media purchases versus streaming
- The rise of Letterboxd for movie tracking, reviews, and social sharing
- Trakt for custom watchlists, Plex integration, and episode calendars
- Apple TV "Insight" feature compared to Amazon X-Ray for cast and music info
- Tips for finding movies across services as content moves
- Feedback segment: Transloader app utility for Mac downloads
- App Caps: SwitchBot candle warmer and Festivitas Mac/iOS decoration app
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on iOS today, Rosemary Orchard and I, Micah Sargent, talk about some apps and services you can use to keep track of what you want to watch and what you have watched. |
| 0:11.5 | Stay tuned for this episode of iOS today. |
| 0:16.4 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:18.0 | From people you trust. |
| 0:20.6 | This is Twit. |
| 0:24.3 | This is iOS Today, episode 781, with Rosemary Orchard and me, Micah Sargent, recorded Tuesday, November 25th, 2025. |
| 0:35.4 | For Thursday, December 11th, 2025. What and where to watch. Hello and welcome to iOS today. |
| 0:46.6 | This is, of course, the show where we talk about things iOS, iPad OS, iPad, OS, watchOS, HomeBot, OS, and all the OSs that Apple has available to you. |
| 0:56.8 | Our goal here is to tell you about the wonderful apps and services, gizmos, gadgets, and everything |
| 1:03.7 | in between that you can use to help you make the most of your devices. |
| 1:08.6 | I am but one of your humble hosts. My name is Micah Sargent. |
| 1:14.5 | And my name is Rosemeyer-Rouchard, and I'm really looking forward to helping people get a frame |
| 1:21.0 | on what they can watch this holiday season. Indeed. So this is often, I hear people talk about this a lot. Sometimes it's a matter of knowing what you want to watch, but forgetting over time what you want to watch. Sometimes it's a matter of just kind of trying to remember. I remember watching this one film that I really enjoyed, and now I'm having trouble finding it. |
| 1:49.0 | And there are just so many different ways to go about this. |
| 1:52.0 | And, you know, for me, I would say that in this household, both I, my partner, like to use the Apple TV and it's built-in kind of |
| 2:06.7 | tracking for most of the stuff that we watch together. |
| 2:12.4 | So there are shows that independently we watch, and we'll talk about some other ways of keeping |
| 2:15.9 | track of those. |
| 2:16.9 | But when we're watching shows together, the great thing is if you use Apple's, the Apple TV's |
| 2:24.5 | built-in sort of what-to-watch section, then when new shows are available, when new episodes |
| 2:32.3 | are available, you can actually get notifications for those. |
| 2:35.8 | And so what will often happen is I'll be in the middle of a show or, you know, at my desk doing |
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