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Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
This week’s quick tips hit hard: from iPhone Mirroring on your Mac to binder clips as minimalist wallets (yes, really). We’ve got AirTags, Apple Music hacks, and a live activity trick to boost your focus. Need image compression or automation tools? Retrobatch and Lingon Pro 10 make the list. As always, Don’t Get Caught—like we did when our episodes wouldn’t even play on Apple Podcasts in some cases. From Flipper Zero hotel tricks to your iPhone’s audio quirks in the car, it’s all here.
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1095 for Monday, June 23rd, 2025
June 23rd: International Women in Engineering Day
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00:03:59 Adam’s New M4 MacBook Pro
It’s all about the nits (and ProMotion)
MacBook Air = 500nits
MacBook Pro = 1600nits
1TB/24GB RAM
00:07:33 Adam’s Migration Path to his new Mac
First, Update all backups
Then Migration Assistant from a USB Time Machine Backup
For direct computer-to-computer migrations, start handshake over Wi-Fi, then plug-in Thunderbolt
00:12:41 Gary-What’s the best Mac-to-Mac migration path while avoiding cruft
Don’t forget about Mail that’s only “On My Mac”
Or Migration Assistant then CleanMyMac
CleanMyMac gets SpaceLens back!
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Quick Tips
00:00:01 n-DLH-QT-Setup iPhone Mirroring and get all Notifications on your Mac
00:26:12 P2-QT-AirTags are Magnetic…Why?
00:30:02 QT-Use a binder clip as your wallet
High-end binder clip wallet
00:32:08 Andrew-QT-Use iCloud.com if you’re concerned about putting your iCloud account on a work device
00:33:22 Andrew-QT-Use Favorite Playlists for Apple Music
00:36:51 Michael-QT-Tap the Now Playing Live Activity on iPhone to see more detail…and focu...
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Mac Geekab and I'll bring us our quick tip of the week. |
| 0:05.0 | I noticed, actually I say I noticed. |
| 0:06.9 | My son showed me that if you set up iPhone mirroring on your Mac, and this is done simply |
| 0:15.0 | by going into applications and launching the app called iPhone mirroring, continuing through |
| 0:20.3 | the steps. |
| 0:27.5 | One of the things it asks you for is if you want to allow notifications from iPhone. |
| 0:35.8 | Even when you're not mirroring your iPhone, you still get to see notifications from everything on your phone. |
| 0:40.8 | I have found this such a focus helper. |
| 0:43.1 | I know notifications usually bad focus. |
| 0:49.0 | But in this case, when my phone is sitting on my desk, in the past, I'd hear it buzz, |
| 0:55.4 | and I would stop what I was doing, pick up my phone, look at it, only to see that it was some notification I didn't care about. Now, they show up in notification center. I can glance, realize I don't care |
| 1:00.6 | about it, and move on. More tips like this. Plus, your questions answered today on MacGeekab |
| 1:07.9 | 1095 for Monday, June 23rd, International Women in Engineering Day, 2025. |
| 1:16.1 | Mm-hmm. Greetings, folks, and welcome to Matt Geekab, the show where you send in or we share, well, we share them either way. |
| 1:41.1 | Quick tips like that. |
| 1:42.0 | Cool stuff found that you or we have found. |
| 1:44.9 | And questions that you or we have, sometimes even with answers or at least a path through the troubleshooting process to try. |
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