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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Long-Press, Click, Recover: iPhone Tricks You'll Actually Use

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

Tech News, Technology, How To, News, Education

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 85 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Long-Press, Click, Recover: iPhone Tricks You'll Actually Use – Mac Geek Gab 1140 episode image

Pilot Pete and Dave open Episode 1140 with a rapid-fire round of quick tips you’ll wish you’d known sooner: long-press the App Store icon to jump straight to Updates, long-press a folder to break down its notifications, push iOS updates to your iPhone through your Mac, and delete apps before they auto-update. You’ll also discover that iPad status bar elements respond to mouse clicks, that not every airline demands a passport scan for TSA Touchless, and where to grab a free customizable QR code generator. Then Javier drops by the Don’t Get Caught segment with a warning: run a beta macOS on your daily driver only with your eyes wide open to what could break.

In the mailbag, you’ll troubleshoot a Notes folder that keeps un-deleting itself, get walked through iCloud Data Recovery, plan a Fastmail migration and a clean EarthLink exit, weigh OneNote and Apple Notes as Evernote alternatives, decode why your copyright date is stuck in the past, and figure out how much life remains in a 2019 MacBook Pro. Angel cues up the question everyone’s asking: what is an MCP server? And Cool Stuff Found delivers right on cue with the new Fastmail MCP Connector, a Keyword Navigation extension for Chromium browsers, and the I Love a Piano app that turns your iPhone into a pocket keyboard.

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's time for Matt Geekab and listener Will Run for Fun brings us our quick tip of the week with

0:06.7

with them moving the updates deeper and deeper into menus, I remembered Long Press is still a thing.

0:13.0

Updates are easily and directly accessed this way.

0:17.0

Long Press, the App Store icon, and one of the pop-up items is updates.

0:22.3

Tapping that will show you the apps that have updates available, and you can also tap

0:26.3

Update All.

0:28.0

More quick tips like this, plus your questions answered today on MacGeekab number 1140 for May

0:36.7

the 4th be with you no may the fourth 2026

0:40.4

greetings folks Greetings, folks, and welcome to Matt Geekab, the show where you send in quick tips just like that.

1:03.6

We share them.

1:04.1

You send in cool stuff found.

1:05.5

We share it.

1:06.0

You send in your questions.

1:07.1

We share them.

1:07.5

We talk about them.

1:08.1

We answer them.

1:08.8

We try and learn five new things every

1:12.4

single time we get together here our sponsor for this episode is one skin dot co slash m g where

1:20.0

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1:26.6

visible signs of aging they went deep on the science

1:29.1

we'll talk more about that in a little bit uh yeah oh and our giveaway this month is uh for the

1:35.9

month of may function 101 is giving away five Apple TV button remotes for uh for five of you lucky listeners.

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