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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

That Sweet 2.4GHz Gold

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

Tech News, Technology, News, How To, Education

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

That Sweet 2.4GHz Gold — Mac Geek Gab 997 episode image

In the latest Mac Geek Gab episode, Pilot Pete and Dave Hamilton share nifty Quick Tips like how to quickly check your iPhone storage when apps act up, and the trick to tweak Weather app’s Location settings for widgets. They tackle listener questions head-on, offering solutions for cleaning up the Photos library, understanding Siri’s mysterious search history, navigating old versions of Pages with newer Apple IDs, and choosing the perfect Apple Watch.

Your two favorite geeks also navigate the ins and outs of Apple’s watchOS 10 user experience and compare live TV options, breaking down costs and features of major providers. Wrapping things up with a “Cool Stuff Found” segment, they highlight the multifunctional Flighty app and a new eSIM compatibility tool. Press play, enjoy, and Don’t Get Caught!

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0:00.0

It's time for Mac Geek Cab and listener Ben brings us our quick tip of the week with

0:04.9

something he just discovered another efficiency when interacting with tapbacks

0:10.0

in the messages app on both Mac and iPhone and of course iPad to see who has

0:16.6

reacted to a message via tap back you know if you especially if you're in a group

0:21.1

right and you see you know the little thumbs up or the thumbs down

0:24.8

or the heart sign or whatever,

0:26.2

but you don't, it doesn't show you which person.

0:28.9

It just shows you that there are reactions.

0:31.4

You tap or click, if on the Mac the tap backs stacked in the

0:35.8

corner of the message. You don't need to click and hold you don't need to long

0:38.7

press you don't need to double tap the message itself just tap once on or click once on the actual

0:46.8

little reaction in the upper left corner of the message and it will expand the

0:52.2

tap backs themselves and show you what which person

0:57.0

responded in which way which is awesome I've I've been driving myself crazy to do this

1:02.1

for a long time so I really appreciate this tip.

1:05.2

More quick tips like this plus.

1:08.0

Your questions answered today on Mac Geek Cab 997 for Monday, August 28th, 2023. Greetings folks and indeed welcome to Mac Geeky up the show where you send in your

1:38.0

tips your cool stuff found your questions and we share your tips like we just did we will share your

1:44.7

cool stuff found I don't know if we'll have time for that today but you know we

1:47.5

always try to squeeze a couple in and then we answer your questions

1:52.0

sometimes we even have questions of our own which we answer together.

1:55.0

The goal being that each of us learns at least five new things.

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