What Madness Is This?!? (aka macOS Ventura's System Settings)

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

How To, Technology, Education, News, Tech News

4.8 • 977 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

macOS Ventura changed the way we manage preferences with its System Settings app…and lots of things aren’t where we’d expect to find them! Listen as John tries to help Dave make sense of some of these…and maybe that helps us all! There’s more: your two favorite geeks dig into your questions about Wi-Fi speeds, travel chargers, and the security of Photos on your iPhone. That plus some great Cool Stuff Found submissions from the MGG Family make for a completely spooky episode for this year’s Halloween. Don’t get caught!
Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 953 for Monday, October 31, 2022

ericdsa-QT-Swipe from Lower-Left to Upper-Right to Take Screenshot on iPadOS
The MGG Discord Server is Live!
The MGG Merch Store is Live!

Quick Tips

00:02:37 Dave-QT-Merging PDF Files
00:04:35 David-QT-iCloud BETA Photos website allows uploading from iPad External Drives
00:06:37 Neil-QT-952-Going Directly to Red Flashlight on Apple Watch
00:08:33 Greg-QT-Create Shortcut to Auto-Brightness to Preserve Battery Life on iPhone 14 Pro
URL: prefs:root=ACCESSIBILITY&path=DISPLAY_AND_TEXT/AUTO-BRIGHTNESS

00:10:39 SPONSOR: Hello Fresh. Skip trips to the grocery store and count on HelloFresh to make home cooking easy, fun, and affordable. Visit HelloFresh.com/MGG65 and use code MGG65 for 65% off plus free shipping.
Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!

00:12:41 David-Why am I not getting full speed from my ISP?

Test Your Local Network with iperf3
Isolate test – Use Ethernet and not WiFi
iPerf3
NetSpot
Eufy X8 Vacuum (for mapping?)
iSumbler Replacements Thread
WiFi Explorer
AirRadar from Koingo

00:26:05 George-941-Travel Charger Tip
00:29:44 Terri-949-iPhone Lock Screen Camera Security

00:33:47 SPONSOR: Coda, the one Doc to rule them all. Bring your text and tables together! Sign up at Coda.io/mgg for FREE.
Ventura Systems Settings Woes

00:35:05 Ventura after a week

Continuity Camera (and mounts!)
Stage Manager feedback

00:40:20 What Madness Is This?!? (aka Networking in macOS Ventura)
00:42:00 Nick-Finding New Ventura Settings and Time Machine
00:44:11 macOS Ventura Sleep Settings have Moved
00:48:24 Tony-Simplified Ventura Settings

00:50:17 PODCAST: This Week In Tech: Every week, This Week in Tech gives you a no-holds-barred, deep dive into how big tech influences our culture and our lives.
John Gets an Apple Watch!

00:50:53 Apple Watch New User Tips

John’s Stretchy Watch Band/Bracelet<...

Transcript

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0:00.0	All right, hey, welcome to Mac Geek Cab for today's opening quick tip.
0:06.3	It comes from Eric DSA in our discord channel and he says, not sure if this is new to iPad OS 16.
0:14.0	Eric, it is. But if you slide up or swipe from the lower left corner of your iPad
0:21.0	towards the upper right corner, it takes a screenshot.
0:25.0	Amazing, I love it.
0:27.0	Thank you for that.
0:28.0	More tips like that,
0:30.0	plus your questions answered today on Mac Geekout 953 for Monday
0:36.4	October 31st Happy Halloween 2022 22! Greetings folks and welcome to Mac Geek Cab the show where you send in your tips like that your questions your cool stuff found we answer your questions we share your tips we share your cool stuff found we share some cool stuff found of our own the being, we put it together into an agenda and then the goal
1:15.8	is for each of us, you, me, John, Pete when he's, for all of us to learn at least.
1:27.0	Five new things every single time we get together.
1:30.5	Sponsors for this episode include Coda. I.O slash MGG. Go there sign up for free
1:36.8	it's this cool tool that brings everything together into one document for all
1:40.9	your projects that's shareable we'll talk more about that a little bit later.
1:44.0	And Hello Fresh at hello fresh.com slash MGG 65 where you can use code MGG 65% off plus free shipping.
1:56.0	It is, hell of fresh is amazing.
1:57.8	We'll talk more about that in detail later too.
2:00.8	For now, here in getting chillier Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton.
2:06.0	And here in the Fairfield, Connecticut, this is John F. Braun.
2:10.0	How goes it, Mr. John F. Braun?
2:12.0	Ah, staying warm.
2:14.0	Staying alive.
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