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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

We Don't Personality Shame

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

🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

We Don't Personality Shame — Mac Geek Gab 1110 episode image

This week on Mac Geek Gab, you’re climbing to new heights—literally and geekily—with Pilot Pete, Adam Christianson, and Dave Hamilton. With big, 6,000-foot energy, you’ll inhale knowledge (not bear spray!) with Quick Tips like disabling auto-return to apps, blazing through iPhone setup using a wired Phone-to-Phone connection, and printing photo books via third-party tools. You’ll also learn how to save iPhone pics directly to an SD card and how macOS 26’s Notes app now exports Markdown—yes, really. And don’t forget to check those “Notify When Left Behind” settings in Find My, unless you want to get caught.

Dig deeper with listener questions about upgrading to iOS/macOS 26, tracking down mystery image libraries, and setting up lossless audio with Spotify Premium. There’s also a nod to the new “Carrot, the Musical,” and a reminder that on this show, We Don’t Personality Shame. Need to help your family remotely? You’ve got Tailscale, Jump Desktop, and even Messages’ built-in screen sharing. This episode is packed with practical answers, absurd moments, and the classic Mac Geek Gab motto: Don’t Get Caught.

 

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0:00.0

it's time for mac geek cabin i've got a quick tip of the week because i was out hiking this

0:06.8

weekend and had the all trails app up on my phone and of course my watch and then also the

0:13.3

workout app offered to track things and every time we look down at our watches my son and i

0:18.9

both had this problem uh it would show the workout app and not the All Trails app.

0:23.6

And I was like, no, I kind of want to see the map that we have for the trail to make sure we know that we're supposed to turn right here.

0:29.2

And we just dealt with it for the whole hike, which was fine, of course, first world problems.

0:35.5

But there is a solution to this one.

0:40.8

If you go into the settings for your watch in the watch app on your phone and go to the app specific settings there is a

0:50.5

when in session return to app toggle.

1:03.0

And if you turn that off for in our situation, say the workout app, it would not keep returning to the workout app. It would have left it on, in our case, all trails.

1:06.7

More quick tips like this.

1:09.7

And your questions answered. And cool stuff found today on MacGeekab 1110 for Monday, October 6th, zero inbox day.

1:20.7

Good luck with that.

1:21.7

2025.

1:22.5

Woo-hoo. Greetings, folks, and welcome to Mac Geekab, the show where we share your quick tips like that.

1:45.9

We share your cool stuff found.

1:47.8

We share your questions.

1:49.3

We share answers to those questions or at least possible solutions to the problems.

1:54.6

All in the interest of each and every one of us learning at least five new things every single time we get together.

2:03.1

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2:08.3

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2:12.3

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