MBW 888: It's Not a Sport, It's a State - Portrait Mode, Action Button, macOS Sonoma
MacBreak Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
3.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2023
⏱️ 136 minutes
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Summary
Mikah Sargent is in for Leo Laporte, as Leo is out this week. Mikah and Jason Snell got the new iPhone 15 and share their experiences with the device. Are the reports of the iPhone 15 overheating accurate? And what's up with Apple's FineWoven cases?
- Apple's updated portrait mode.
- Widespread iPhone 15 overheating reports, with temperatures as high as 116F.
- iPhone 15 Pro overheating problems caused by design compromises, Kuo says.
- The Action Button is the most significant new iPhone feature in years.
- John Gruber's Action Button shortcut.
- Unweaving the mystery: Apple's FineWoven case under the microscope.
- macOS Sonoma is available today.
- macOS Sonoma review.
- Inside Apple's spectacular failure to build a key part for its new iPhones.
- "Craptacular is more like it."
Picks of the Week - Alex's Pick: Apple Keynote with USDZ Support
- Andy's Pick: Google's HTML5 Games Collection - Gamesnacks
- Jason's Pick: Actions & AI Actions
- Mikah's Pick: iMazing
Hosts: Mikah Sargent, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Mac break weekly. Leo Laporte is out. I am subbing in for him today. Micah Sargent to talk to Andy and not co Alex Lindsay and Jason |
| 0:09.2 | Snell about this the new iPhone 15. At least one iPhone 15 and at least two people's hands and we are looking forward to having a conversation about the cameras the new action button and well Mac OS |
| 0:26.3 | Sonoma is also out. And Jason Snell just published his review. We talk a lot about the new features you can expect there. What you may or may not like about the new iPhone 15 and let's talk about this case that has some people |
| 0:43.0 | all bothered by the way that it feels all of that and more is coming up on Mac break weekly. |
| 0:51.4 | Podcasts you love front people you trust. |
| 0:55.4 | This is Troy. |
| 1:00.4 | This is Mac break weekly episode eight hundred eighty eight with Micah Sargent Jason Snell and Ian Otco and Alex Lindsay recorded Tuesday, September 26th, 2023. |
| 1:12.1 | It's not a sport. It's a state. |
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| 2:12.6 | It's time for Mac break weekly this week with Micah Sargent. That's me because Leo Laporte is in Green Bay where you put cheese on your head and throw around a pig skin. |
| 2:23.8 | That's what you do in Wisconsin. Is that where Green Bay is? |
| 2:27.2 | Wisconsin. Wisconsin. I got it sports. We are joined as always first and foremost by somebody who knows a little bit more about sports than I do and was able to say Wisconsin. |
| 2:37.0 | It's Jason for iPhones now. Just just to be clear Wisconsin is not a sport. It is a state. Micah. Oh, oh, well, yes, Green Bay is in Wisconsin. They have football team there and you as you referenced. I I has all of the. |
| 2:55.6 | All the iPhones. All of them. |
| 2:59.2 | Some of them have three cameras. Some of them have two and we'll have to that's how you can tell them apart. That's the only way and we'll talk about them in just a moment. |
| 3:08.2 | But let me introduce our other guests joining us with a beautiful new lighting setup. Although I don't know was that last week as well. It's Andy and not go. |
| 3:19.4 | I wish I wish he hadn't like to use tease like that because I just I haven't figured out like how the power thing works on these because it just cut out. |
| 3:26.4 | Oh, no. And so so I think so. I don't know. Well, let's just this is the news. I love these lights. These are quite lovely. They worked great last week. But then like I had them on for like five minutes and now they just turned off and I don't know. |
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