Thanks for Teaching Us to Fish
Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2023
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
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!
Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1000 for Monday, September 18th, 2023
The MGG Discord Server is Live!
The MGG Merch Store is Live!
Quick Tips
00:00:01 QT-Download Offline Apple Maps as soon as you get iOS 17
00:03:21 QT Kent – iOS / iPadOS text suggestion phrase
00:06:25 Stephen-QT-Long-Press Shazam in Control Center for Music History
00:07:47 JT Ray-998-Can I link Shazam to Spotify instead of Apple Music?
00:09:19 QT – Clif – Quick Flight Info in Messages
00:11:37 QT-iOS 17 Settings > Control Center > Add “Ping My Watch”
00:12:13 JT Ray-QT-iOS 17 Shortcuts lets you control Cellular Data
00:14:36 QT-iOS 17 Spotlight can bring you to specific Settings panes
00:18:23 QT-Enable iOS 17 Advanced Tracking and Fingerprint Protection for ALL Browsing in Settings > Safari > Advanced
00:19:35 QT-In iOS 17, You can tap the AA button in Safari and Listen To Webpage. Pause with Now Playing widget in Control Center
00:21:57 Siri Gets Better!
00:24:05 iOS 17 – Deep Links in Spotlight
00:25:02 QT-Split Screen View in CarPlay (not new) (and iOS 17’s “layered” view for CarPlay where you can still see what’s behind)
Sponsor
00:27:43 SPONSOR: LinkedIn Jobs. Go to LinkedIn.com/MGG and post your first job for free!
MGG Hits Quadruple Digits
00:29:31 MGG Ep1 wasn’t MGG: TMOToGo Intro
Rich-Thank You For Teaching Us To Fish
Kent-The Value of Bullheaded Persistence
Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!
00:47:52 Joe-Should I setup my new iPhone wirelessly or from a local backup?
00:54:38 Gary – Does Photos App need to be open to find duplicates?
Remove Duplicate Photos in Photos on Mac
00:57:13 Brian-Best advice for conditioning an old battery?
Cool Stuff Found
01:00:33 CSFR-AlDente
01:02:51 JFB-CSF-MenuMeters … from MGG Ep1 (and a fork that works up to at least Big Sur)
iStat Menus
01:04:55 Saurabh-CSF-DotFiles to Automate a Clean Mac Setup
01:06:05 PorthosJon-CSF-
Transcript
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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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