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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Thanks for Teaching Us to Fish

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

🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Thanks for Teaching Us to Fish — Mac Geek Gab 1000 episode image

In this, the 1000th episode of Mac Geek Gab, Pilot Pete and Dave Hamilton dive into the realm of iOS 17, shedding light on offline map downloads, storage optimization, and Apple’s music recognition. They tackle a barrage of listener questions, discussing solutions for Spotify users with Shazam’s Apple Music default and quick tips for text shortcuts.

As your two favorite geeks venture deeper, they uncover iOS 17 and CarPlay intricacies, Siri’s limitations, and valuable electronics maintenance hacks. With a keen eye on innovation, they spotlight apps like Al Dente and iStat Menus and share discoveries such as Zoom’s new AI summarization feature and a fun smart wifi lamp.

As they always say, “Don’t Get Caught” missing out on the latest tips from your fellow audience members.  Hitting quadruple digits is no small feat, and this is all thanks to you for listening, engaging, and staying involved. Thank you for 1,000! Here’s to even more to come!

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0:00.0

It's time for Mac Geek Cabin. I will bring us our quick tip of the week with

0:05.4

iOS 17's offline maps. This is going to be something that will save your

0:11.8

bacon someday so do it now.

0:15.0

Once you've got iOS 17 installed on your iPhone,

0:18.0

launch maps, tap your picture in the lower right,

0:22.0

choose offline maps, and download a new map or maps if you

0:26.2

go into different areas and then this way and you can even set it while you're in there to

0:31.6

only do downloads on Wi-Fi to do automatic

0:34.3

updates to optimize storage all of these things that are going to save your bacon someday

0:39.2

when you are out and about and either are in an area with no coverage or you're out of

0:45.0

either are in an area with no coverage or you're out of data or whatever

0:46.4

and you've got offline maps I actually wound up using this last week

0:50.4

because I had set it up just to test the feature when I had the beta running and I was so

0:55.8

happy that I had done it so you can do it to more quick tips like this plus your

1:01.6

questions answered today on Mac Geek Cab 1,000 for Monday, September

1:08.7

18th, 2023. 23. Greetings folks and welcome to Mac Geek, the show where we share quick tips like that from us and from you cool stuff found we also

1:35.5

share questions from you and from us we try to answer your questions and you know

1:41.1

we string this all together in a way that gives us all the best possible opportunity

1:47.8

to learn at least five new things every single time we get together. Sponsors for this episode include

1:55.9

linked in.com slash MGG where you can go and post your first job for free. I have

2:02.1

used this. It's fantastic. We'll talk more about it in depth in the episode for now.

2:08.0

I was going to say for the thousandth time but I haven't done a thousand episodes here in Durham, New Hampshire.

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