iPhone 14 satellite mode launches, Always-On display changes, MLS Season Pass
9to5Mac Happy Hour
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4.4 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Benjamin and Zac break down everything new in the world of Apple this week, including changes to AirDrop in China, the launch of Emergency SOS via satellite in the US, new Always-On display features in iOS 16.2, and the announcement of MLS Season Pass for Apple TV.
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| 0:00.0 | I put the Christmas tree up last night. |
| 0:07.0 | Oh yeah, in the old America, the old holiday start a bit sooner because you have |
| 0:15.8 | Thanksgiving then you next week yeah that's usually the barrier between |
| 0:21.0 | Halloween and Christmas like us or like Christmas begins or like the day after Thanksgiving or that weekend. |
| 0:27.0 | And that's what I did last year was that, but this year, we've got like some family in town this week and both of the kids are here and so it's like I just go get the tree out you know put it up and so we threw on some Charlie Brown Christmas? You know, the peanuts. |
| 0:45.0 | The... |
| 0:47.0 | Were you streaming it on Apple? |
| 0:49.0 | I was. |
| 0:51.0 | Well, not the show, no, just the oh okay yeah yeah so put that on |
| 0:57.6 | put the tree up had a little little train below that was cool cool. I felt nice. |
| 1:03.2 | Yeah, Phillips, you announced on like... |
| 1:05.6 | Yeah, they've got a Christmas lights. Home kit, like, like we've, you know, I've always |
| 1:11.9 | had a tree on a smart switch. This year I don't have anything home kit set up, |
| 1:15.8 | but this is my Apple TV and Home Pod, but I've always done the tree on a smart switch, so it's like |
| 1:21.5 | the timer, you know, it goes on and off and you can you can tell it you can sell it to turn on and off and |
| 1:26.3 | years ago I would put a little sonos play one speaker below the tree and you hear |
| 1:31.4 | Christmas music or whatever but you wouldn't quite |
| 1:33.5 | know where it was coming from and it was really neat. Now we've got home pots for that and |
| 1:38.0 | and then even Hawaii would be kind of key like a little snowman or a little snowball. |
| 1:43.4 | But yeah, the trees, the hudelite, I think it's pretty expensive for ways. |
| 1:47.4 | Yeah, but you've got, I assume you've got commands of, you know, brightness and and color maybe different effects yeah I think you get most of the |
| 1:57.3 | value from just a smart switch kind of situation because we know we put our tree just on a on a you know you put a plug in home kit plug thing and it's good enough for turn on and turn off |
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