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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

This One Goes To The Eleventh Dimension — Mac Geek Gab 1111

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

🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

This One Goes To The Eleventh Dimension — Mac Geek Gab 1111 episode image

You’ll come out smarter — and maybe even safer — after this week’s Mac Geek Gab with Pilot Pete, Adam Christianson, Dave Hamilton, and a triumphant return from John F. Braun. From unlocking hidden gems in iOS 26’s Health app and securing your Mint Mobile account with Number Lock to setting up ChatGPT Tasks like it’s your own personal Knowledge Navigator, you’ll pick up tricks to stay ahead. Printer drivers got you down? John’s got fixes. Want to finally make your Apple TV remote work right or unlock secret iOS 18 controls? Done. And yes, migrating to Apple Silicon? Don’t Get Caught without Go64.

For the gearheads, you’ll find Cool Stuff Found like the FIXD car scanner (a modern Automatic replacement), QuickLook folder previews, AirBattery to track your mouse’s juice, and Parachute Backup to wrangle your iCloud data. Got a Brother printer? Scan straight to USB — no computer needed. Oh, and HomePods as stereo TV speakers? Surprisingly great even though you’re skipping the center channel. With AirTags, shortcuts, OBD2 adapters, and even blood oxygen data hacks, this episode’s got something for every geek in your galaxy.

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0:00.0

It's time for Matt KeeKab and listener Brian brings us our quick tip of the week by sharing that in iOS 26 in the health app, if you want to get to your health categories, there is no longer an obvious way or at least no longer the previous way of getting to the sidebar where you can see those

0:23.5

categories. The trick, tap the search magnifying glass, which is generally in the lower right

0:29.4

hand corner. And as soon as you tap that, the list of categories also appears while you could

0:35.6

also then type your search.

0:37.8

More quick tips like this.

0:39.8

Plus, your questions answered, cool stuff found, and more, including a surprise.

0:46.3

Today, on MacGeekab 1111, 1111.

0:50.7

I know.

0:51.6

It's like four ones.

0:53.2

Whatever are we going to do about this? For Monday, October 13th, to Matt Geekab, the show where we do.

1:24.0

We share your quick tips like that.

1:25.6

We share your cool stuff found.

1:26.9

We share your questions, hopefully with some answers. Sometimes we share our own quick tips and cool stuff found and questions. And hopefully with some answers to those to the goal being that each and every one of us, every single time we get together gets to learn at least five new things.

1:42.8

Sponsors for this episode include our friends at MacPaw with Clean My Mac's new cloud

1:49.4

cleanup.

1:50.6

And you can try it for seven days free by using our code Mac Geek, which also gets you 20% off

1:56.5

at clean, CLNMY.com slash MacGeekab and our friends at zapier.com slash macgeekab where you can

2:04.6

transform how you work and automate things and even use AI to create zaps and you can use AI

2:10.8

inside your zaps and it's it's like i've been using zapier for years and i'm blown away with all the new things that I can do with it.

2:20.1

We'll talk more about that in a little bit.

2:22.0

For now, here in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton.

2:26.5

And here in South Dakota, I am Adam Christensen.

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