Siri, I Want My T Back!
Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Discover how to add your name or custom text to your iPhone’s lock screen using a clever Focus mode trick. Pete, Adam, and Dave dive into a variety of Quick Tips, including running multiple Terminal commands at once and exploring the powerful SIPS command for image processing. They also discuss the new iPhone 16e, weighing its pros and cons against its pricier siblings.
The episode covers troubleshooting network share issues with Synology drives, debates the merits of Advanced Data Protection for iCloud, and shares insights on parental controls using Screen Time. Don’t miss the accidental Cool Stuff Found segment featuring YT-DLP, a versatile command-line tool for downloading videos. Remember, don’t get caught without these handy tech tips and tricks!
Ready to geek out and learn at least five new things? Click play now and join the Mac Geek Gab crew for episode 1078!
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1078 for Monday, February 24th, 2025
February 24th: National Tortilla Chip Day
Police Code 10-78 – Need assistance / Send ambulance
MGG Monthly Giveaway – Win a copy of CCC Backup from Bombich Software!
Special Promo: Factor is running a special this month at FactorMeals.com with promo code FACTORPODCAST.
Quick Tips
00:00:01 Eliot-QT-Customize Bottom of Lock Screen iOS
00:04:00 Mark-QT-You can now manually select your Preferred Home Hub
00:06:01 Pilot Pete-QT-Run more than 1 Command at a time in Terminal
sips – Scriptable Image Processing System
00:12:24 pbcopy – put the output into the clipboard
Setapp
00:16:40 ADD Tod-1077-QT-Dock Shortcut for accessing AppleCare Status on Mac
00:17:55 Ahkeens-QT-Clean up your iCloud Storage every year
00:20:37 Andrew-QT-Use your Beats Pill 2 as a USB Speaker for your Mac
00:23:35 Geek Challenge: Sync Alexa To–Do List with iCloud (or anything that gets to BusyCal)
00:28:11 Matt-QT-Turn off icons in iOS Mail
00:29:39 Todd-QT-Swipe right (and left) in Reminders on Mac for quick(ie) options
Don’t Get Caught
00:31:43 Dan-DGC-If You Migrate – Migrate ALL Devices!
00:34:11 John-DGC-Know what your Mail dock count means
00:34:54 You CAN get logs on iOS
00:38:17 Bart-DGC-Multiple account woes
Sponsor
00:39:55 SPONSOR: OWC’s new Thunderbolt 5 hub is available and is compatible with Macs, PCs, and iPads Pro
Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!
00:41:42 New iPhone 16e vs. iPhone(s) 16 and Pro
00:47:47 Gary-Do you use or recommend Advanced Data Protection?
Apple pulls data protection in UK
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Mac Geekab and listener Elliott brings us our quick tip of the week with, |
| 0:06.7 | do you want your name or any other custom text at the bottom of the lock screen on your iPhone? |
| 0:12.0 | Just set up a new focus mode without any settings changes in it, but give the focus mode your name. |
| 0:18.5 | Choose an icon and then turn on that focus mode and the text will be there. |
| 0:23.3 | More tips like this, plus your questions answered today on MacGeekad number 1078 for Monday, |
| 0:30.0 | February 24th, 2025. Greetings, folks, and welcome to Mac Geekab, the show where we share. Your quick tips like that. |
| 0:54.6 | Sometimes our quick tips like that. |
| 0:56.0 | Your cool stuff found. |
| 0:57.2 | Sometimes ours. |
| 0:58.3 | And your questions with sometimes, hopefully many of the times, our answers. |
| 1:04.6 | Because the goal is for each of us to learn at least five new things every single time we get together. |
| 1:12.3 | Our sponsor for this episode is Otherworld Computing at maxsales.com with their new |
| 1:17.7 | Thunderbolt 5 hub. |
| 1:19.7 | And while we're talking about sponsors, which we'll talk about in a little bit, while we're |
| 1:23.7 | talking about sponsors, I wanted to share that a longtime sponsor factor is running a special this month that we're all taking part in and really trying to kind of push things for them. |
| 1:35.1 | Factor Meals.com. That's where you go. |
| 1:37.4 | Promocode Factor Podcast. |
| 1:39.3 | You'll probably hear this on other shows too. |
| 1:41.3 | Make sure you use that. |
| 1:42.4 | And that'll help us all out in the grand scheme of things. |
| 1:46.4 | So we will certainly all do that. |
| 1:50.2 | For now, here on National Tortilla Chip Day, I'm Dave Hamilton and Durham, New Hampshire. |
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