 The Mac Observers, Mac Geekgab Episode 885 from Monday, August 16th, 2021. Folks, and welcome to the Mac Observers, Mac Geekgab, the show where you send in your tips, your questions, your cool stuff found. We mash them all together. Then we try to string them together into something that loosely resembles an agenda so that we can answer your questions and share your tips and share our tips and share your cool stuff found sometimes even ask questions of our own because the goal is for each and every one of us to learn at least five new things every single time we get together. Sponsors for this episode. Easy for me to say. Sponsors for this episode include LinkedIn jobs at linkedin.com slash MGG where you can post your first job for free and BB edit 14 from the folks at bare bones. We'll talk more about some of the some of the new features they've got going in there for now back here in Durham, New Hampshire. I'm Dave Hamilton. And here in sweltering, it's 91 degrees Fairfield, Connecticut. This is Jonathan Braun. Yeah, man, it's hot in New England. It's hot in a lot of places right now. I mean, it's summer in the well in the northern northern hemisphere here. But yeah, I kind of like the heat. Our little we bought one of those those little inflatable pools. It's like a 15 foot thing last summer because we were, you know, all stuck at home and we set it up again this summer. And so I do my I do my triathlon most many days, not every day. But my triathlon consists of me going for a bike ride around the neighborhood. We actually have a great little path that I can take and that's good. So, you know, obviously that works up a sweat. And then then I run across. I put on my bathing suit for my bike ride and then I run across the yard and then I take a dip in our little pool. So that's my triathlon every day or most days, some days. As often as I am able and it's been nice because the pools been like 84 degrees or something ridiculous. But we have we have Mac questions, Apple questions, Apple tips, all kinds of technology related issues to discuss Tom and Gary. This was really bizarre. I got we got two emails. They came in about nine hours apart. And the first one was titled Mac mini strange restart behavior. The second one was I've got the restart blues. And both of these described exactly the same issue. And the issue, as Gary explains, he says, wonder if you might have any idea. I've tried everything I can think of. I have a 2010 Mac mini lying around and decided to revive it by replacing the hard disk with an SSD. It seems to be working great, apart from the fact that it will not restart properly. Powering off and on by holding the power button for 10 seconds to power it off results in a proper startup all as well that way. But if I attempt to restart the normal way, I get the circle with the diagonal line through it, the prohibited sign. I have tried an NVRAM reset, a PRAM reset on plugging it. SMC booting into recovery mode, running disk first aid, all of that good stuff, nothing fixed it. Tom's email almost read the same verbatim, including the steps that he had tried to fix it and including the only way that it would work properly was to hold that button in for 10 seconds to power it off and power it on. John, you and I both took a look at this and you and I both had the same thought, the thought, my friend. Well, I didn't have that thought. You did. You said battery. You just didn't you then you looked and didn't see that it has a replaceable battery. But I from your email trail, I thought that you I thought that you had a I thought that you jumped the battery. I did a search and it came up with a model earlier than the ones that these guys have. Yeah. And so I concluded that it didn't have a battery and took another path, which turned out to be probably not correct. It does have a battery and there is a link to the to the I fix it article. We'll put it in the show notes at MacGeekUp.com, which if you go to MacGeekUp.com, you can sign up for the email newsletter and we will send you the show notes so you don't even have to worry about it. But it's got a 2032 battery in there, the little button battery. And and I fix it. I'll show you how to replace it. This is classic symptoms of a bad PRAM battery, whatever you want to call it. They used to call them BIOS batteries on windows machines, whatever you want to call it. There's a little battery inside the computer that holds on to some very important settings. And if that battery is unable to power the little chip that holds on to those settings, you have a problem. And so do Gary and Tom. So hopefully fixable by simply replacing the battery. And I fix it shows us how to do it. So yeah, thank you. Gary was the one that they found the article that I fix it. So I think it was one of them. And so I sent it to the other. Yeah, actually, I just looked in Mac Tracker and it does, in fact, indicate that that model does have a battery. Oh, what a great place to look. Right. I love Mac Tracker. Yeah, that's great. Ah, good stuff. All right, cool. So hopefully that just remember those symptoms. It almost always means battery. If you're having weird restart issues, it just it can't remember what it's supposed to do. And so it gets often what happens is the the the effective net result is that the contents of what it reads from that are corrupted. And you get full stop. That's generally speaking, what's happening. So yeah, I remember having the same problem with I think it was my 2012 MacBook Pro. They have a battery in there that's actually kind of hard to get at. And yeah, symptom was that when the machine when I started it up, it would be like, oh, it's 1970. Like, no, it's not. Yeah, that's a good sign, right? That that that's part of the issue right there. Yeah. All right, you want to take us to Paul? Yes. So Paul says on my late 2013 retina MacBook Pro running Catalina while entering text in an application, I can type the first few letters of a word and then hit option escape. Then get a drop down list of possibilities. What is this feature called? I want to know so that a Google search would get information about it. Similarly, searching for option escape keyboard shortcut does not return any useful information. What is the keyboard shortcut of where is the keyboard shortcut of option escape located so that I could change it and make it and make it the same at all my max. And so I invoked my Google foo and I found what it is called, Dave. It's something that you have an iOS as well. It's called autocomplete. And I found a nice little article over at stack exchange. Dot com that describes this feature. And so apparently this has been in Mac OS for quite a while. The article says since 10.6. But basically, if an app is using Apple's text routines. You can do this. And I don't think I've ever invoked this because I didn't know it was there because it's not really documented too well, as he pointed out. You can also use F5. I did verify that. So F5 also invokes this feature. Interesting. Huh, cool. It looks like Apple. I don't think Apple calls this autocomplete. I think Apple considers this part of spelling correction, which is system preferences, keyboard, text. Then there's a checkbox there. Correct spelling automatically. I think if you turn that off, I think the feature you're talking about here goes away. So the search that I did that also came up with a match, I'll call it predictive text. OK. OK. Yeah. So like I typed in, for example, TH and then you hit this key combination and like the first word that came up was THANK. So it tries to guess what word you want there. Oh, yeah. Yeah. OK. Just like an iOS. Yeah. All right. So let me see. Let me try it while we're while we're at it. So I've turned off correct spelling automatically. I type TH, I hit F5. No, I still get it up. So it is not related to that. OK. I stand, I sit corrected. That's interesting. Yeah. And you got the same list. I did. Yeah. I got a list. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. Yeah. That's pretty good. Huh. Cool. Fun stuff. Yeah. So so it's F5 is one of the keys. Say the other one again. Option escape is the other option escape. How come that didn't work for me? Option escape. Yeah. Oh, there it is. OK. It was weird. I had to hit it twice. But but it did work now that I've done it twice. Now it works every time. That's weird, but your mileage may vary or it may be very consistent with mine. So you might have to hit it twice the first time. Cool. Awesome. Awesome. Thank you for that, sir. Oh, I'm going to get that out of the way. All right. Now let's move on to the leaf. Who makes this? Look within. Leaf says last week, a question popped up when you talked about SSDs and backups. I have a related question regarding backup strategy. Can I now skip bootable backups and concentrate on backing up just user files only in this new world of our split volume APFS? And then regarding SSDs as a backup, shall I have one large SSD, say four terabytes or separate smaller one terabyte ones to backup photos and maybe not any longer bootable Mac OS presently says I have several hard drives with different frequencies and also accounting for the risk of any one of them stopping working. So yeah, you know, I have as as with many of us, I have been in the habit of bootable backups for, you know, let's say a decade, but it's probably many of them because that's what you did. However, this new world, certainly Apple is pushing us down a path where bootable backups are becoming more and more difficult to do. Yes, third party developers like the the folks that, you know, SuperDuper and Carbon Copy Cloner have been able to get it to work, but not without a lot of sort of sleuthing and also waiting for the tools from Apple to be updated to do it. But it seems like Apple's priority is not on bootable backups anymore. And it's at least in part because our systems are our volumes are our boot disks are effectively split into two different volumes. There's the system volume, which contains the bootable part of the system. And then there's the user volume, which contains all the stuff that we do to the system. And only one of those, the latter one is writable. So there's very little chance that something could get corrupted on the system volume, especially because updates are done with snapshots so you can always roll back. Of course, if the drive itself dies, then you don't have a way to boot your Mac unless you have a bootable backup. So that there still is a relatively realistic use case for arguing to need one. But I'm not convinced that we're going to have the ability to make them for very long going into the future. So, yeah, I'm I'm leaving. I'm taking the the momentum path on this to answer your question. I still am creating bootable backups because I can. However, I am emotionally preparing myself for a world where that is not necessarily going to be part of my strategy anymore, if that makes sense. How about it? How about you, John? I like making bootable backups. Yeah. And are you still like now that now that you can again? Yeah. OK. Because for a period of time, we couldn't write. We had to live in a world without bootable backups. So. Yeah. And I also upgraded a carbon copy cloner. Right. Right. That's the that's the way to do it. Right. That's that in SuperDuper now. I guess SuperDuper was first of that right on this particular thing. But yeah. Now, as far as your SSDs as backups, I think the best way to answer that question for me is to remember that we don't want to rely on any one thing. And there is, you know, the the conventional wisdom that you want things backed up or you want your data to exist in three places. Right. You want it to exist in its main place in a local backup and in an offsite backup. And if your data is too large to make an offsite backup feasible or economically realistic or bandwidth usage realistic, then having a second local backup would be sort of the next best thing. It's it is a second best because it's still on location and could, you know, suffer from theft or fire or any of those, you know, sort of localized hazards. But you you want to have. You know, I like to have things backed up twice. So I do I have a four terabyte SSD on my main Mac downstairs, and that's what I backup everything to. It is my bootable backup. It is also my archive for things. And then it is it is where I store my photos and my music library. I do not keep those on the internal drive in that in that Mac. I keep them on this external. So that is the only place they exist on that computer. But then I backup my photos to iCloud photo library. So there's my offsite. And then also I make I keep a copy that I put on my Synology. So you just want to have multiple copies of things. If economically it makes sense to get a four terabyte SSD versus four one terabyte SSDs, then then I would say do that. It doesn't really matter as long as you've got another copy of it somewhere. That's my thought. Well, how do you with does that match what you're doing these days, John? I have one terabyte SSDs in both my machines. And I backup to a one terabyte SSD with carbon copy cloner. OK, and then do you also do you also do like time machine or whatever to your NAS? Yeah, OK, so you've got yeah, you've got lots of copies of things. Yeah, it's good. Cool. Larry has a question. Larry has it. Larry wants to take us down a path, perhaps a mini dive of the of tweaking the Apple TV experience on John. Yes. All right. So. So here's what Larry has to say. Call us weird, but we actually like to watch the credits and we like to read them. On Apple TV and most of the apps, the up next bar appears and gives you like 10 second countdown to reach for your remote and flip around and try to prevent it from auto playing the next video. How do I just get rid of that altogether? I did some searching and found that there was a setting and accessibility, but that didn't work for me. So then I fast forwarded through a show when it was quick on the draw and just skipped ahead a couple of up next video frames and at least got it to stop doing the countdown. But the bar does not go away. I just don't want it to be there. I'm very capable of figuring out what I want to play next. Also, isn't there a faster fast forward that scrubs through really quickly rather than just the standard two times? If I push down on the Apple TV remote, it will fast forward, but at VHS speeds. I can't seem to do it on the Apple TV remote app on my phone. Is there a solution for this? I don't know if I have an answer on the up next thing. I don't know how to get rid of that. But as for fast forward, Dave, I did found a trick and it was in a and I think I've actually done this and just didn't realize it. Yep. And I found a support article over at Apple. Is there a way to fast forward really fast? And the answer is yes. OK. Here we are. So there are three modes using the Apple remote. So there's the 10 second rewrite and fast forward. When if you just click in one direction or the other, if you tap and hold, that's what he's experiencing. But then here's a way to go super fast is you pause playback and then drag your finger left and right over the touchpad area and it scrubs as fast as you can scrub forward or back. Right. So your finger is the is the limiting factor there in the speed. Yeah, the scrubbing is is the key. Yeah, I like that. Yeah, that's that's one of the best things about the Apple remote. Arguably, maybe the only great thing about it. I don't know. I've never really integrated the Apple room to my life. But when I need to scrub, I reach for the Apple remote. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. Cool. He had another question, though. You you you had something else right about the credits that you followed up with. Yeah, about about dealing with the minimized credits window that happens with the up next thing. Yeah, John. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, you can. Well, I think he's doing this, too. But yeah, if you get the minimized window, you can basically scroll up and then highlight it and then click on the remote and it'll make that window bigger again. OK, so when it minimizes you. OK, I see what you're saying. You you sort of swipe up on the on the Apple remote and and until it it highlights the little minimized thing and then you hit it and then it goes full screen. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, yeah, yeah. OK. Yeah, cool. Very cool. But I like doing that, too. You usually I like to see in the credits if and just or like magic or Skywalker sound had anything to do with it. Sure. And actually, the film that I was watching at that time, even though it was a Sony Pictures, they use Skywalker sound. Skywalker sound is a very popular audio processing house. Yeah, sure, you know. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got to have a tour of ILM a few years ago. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'd love to get a tour of Skywalker sound. So I'll so I'll throw that out there. If anybody wants to give me a tour of Skywalker sound, let me know feedback at Mackie Kev.com feedback at Mackie Kev.com. It's worth saying again feedback at Mackie Kev.com for sure. But we will continue helping Larry because he had a second sort of related question with the Apple TV. He said, for the most part, things have been going well. But there was a time maybe three or four years ago when I noticed audio problems, but that seemed to go away. Suddenly and recently I'm watching my Apple TV and the actors lips are moving and then I hear what they are saying. It's out of sync. My receiver amplifier that I'm using is not super old, but it is a couple generations back, but it still works great. So I don't want to replace it. This seems to only happen when I'm watching on Apple TV, not anything else, any suggestions. And yeah, absolutely. Apple TV will allow you to calibrate the audio and video so that essentially what it will do is delay the video so that it appears at the moment that whatever your audio path is creates the audio, right? And that could be because you're doing wireless speakers, which adds some latency or it just could be the way that your system works. And it just has some latency built into it. It's very, very normal. And a lot of TVs and a lot of streaming boxes have the ability to do this. I'll put a link in the show notes to Apple's article about it. But the way you do it is you go on your Apple TV, you go to settings, audio and video calibration, and then you'll do a few steps to get things in sync and then things will be in sync and you'll be good to go. So yeah, it's a normal issue. It doesn't mean that your hardware is too old, Larry. It just means that you need to you need to have a little bit of delay built in that that often this is so common that it's it's often put in as a predictive measure. And the more your setup knows about the rest of your setup, the better it can predict in your case for whatever reason. It's just it just can't see what it needs to see to be able to predict it. Well, but it's totally normal and does not mean you need to replace gear. You might get brand new gear that also has this issue. So. All right. People in the chat room, PJ asked, can people stop complaining about the Apple remote and just use their iPhone or iPad? Yes, for sure. Paul Frans asks, can you use an iPhone that uses a different iCloud account than the Apple TV as the remote? And DWY answers, they just have to be on the same network. My wife uses her iPhone, grandkids, etc. all with different iCloud accounts on the same Apple TV in the living room. So you just have to be on the same Wi-Fi network. And you can you can control the Apple TV. You do have to do the the authentication thing. But, you know, with the here's the code on the screen. All that good stuff. Yeah, it's good. So thanks for that. That was in our chat at live.mackycup.com. If you want to know when we are going to be recording live, go to Mackycup.com slash calendar. And you can subscribe to the same calendar that John and I use. All right. One last question about traveling, which some of us are getting to do more and more. And then and then actually we have a bunch of quick tips, including some quick tips that I learned while traveling. And and some cool stuff found. But we'll do this question. Maybe we'll talk about our sponsors and then and then we'll get to our quick tips. Elliot asks very timely, says, I recall a discussion in an MGG a few years ago about getting an international calling plan on my eSIM of my iPhone. I'm traveling to Croatia for 10 days and using my iPhone 12 Pro, the bulk of my time will be in Montenegro, which because it is not part of the EU, may be less well served by cellular carriers. My carrier is Verizon. Should I just go with them and get some kind of international plan for those 10 days or would the free trial offer that T-Mobile has? The T-Mobile test drive helped me in any way. Or should I get a physical SIM card from a Montenegro carrier being accessible by my usual cellular number for those 10 days is not of high importance or should I just rely on Wi-Fi calling? That wouldn't solve the question of GPS for driving in the mountain roads. Yeah, so this was MaciCab 760, which I will put a link to in the show notes. Of course, if it were me, which is how I generally have to approach answering all of these questions, I would try using the T-Mobile test drive first because you get 30 days and 30 gigs for free every six months that you can you can re up every six months. You can redo the test every six months, at least as their current policies. So I would try that, but I would also look to see if the places I was going were served by T-Mobile and that particular plan. If not, then I, in fact, before I left, I would certainly get that rolling if it looked like that was going to work for wherever I was going. But I would also download the apps for gig sky, true phone, the T-Mobile thing, the My Verizon thing, right? All of those so that when you are in the moment, you can use those apps to add service to your eSIM. If you don't have the apps ahead of time, it gets a little more tricky to do it. So just make sure you have those apps on your phone and make sure that they are actually on your phone and not in, you know, some sort of we offloaded them because you didn't use them in a while mode, but make sure you've got them and then and then you should be you should be good to go. So, yeah, that's it's a that eSIM makes things powerful, but you're right. You might be in a scenario where you have to use, you know, if you're in a country where that is not served by any of those, you know, sort of eSIM related services that I mentioned and and like I said, we link to all of them. The then you might have to get a local physical sim. And if you wind up in that scenario a lot, then you could switch your main service to your eSIM and then leave your physical sim open for whenever you travel. Of course, having to get a physical sim when you land or arrive in some other country is not really the most fun thing to do. The moment you step off the plane, having done it, I can attest to this, but it's also not terrible. It's just sort of a, you know, it's like mayhem at the sim store in the airport terminal. But, you know, it's fine. You figured out it's not there. There are worse problems to have to deal with as as we've all learned. So, yeah, yeah, but great question, Elliott. Thanks for thanks for asking. All right. 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Dave shares a tip about air tags and and and what he wrote on Twitter was that Apple support says to touch an air tag to the top of your iPhone to read the NFC tag, which is like. So there's data in the tag in addition to to the tag itself, in addition to the location features of the tag. Is that right, John? Absolutely. And, you know, as you notice, let's go to the video. It's going to demonstrate this feature for us. And I verified this. So I put my air tag up to the phone. Yeah. And it says, oh, yeah, you want to you want to know more about this? Interesting. Yeah. So let's in. So, like, what what data does it have on the air tag? Like, can you program it like you could a regular NFC tag? No. OK. No, I tried that and it didn't work. So, yeah. So if you look at the video, they're going to show you what happens. But we need to tell everyone what happens since 99.2 percent of our audience is you put the tag up and it will say open found apple.com in Safari. You then get a screen saying about this air tag and it will give the serial number and the phone number that you have associated with your Apple ID. Whoa. Oh, that's pretty good. Now, it only shows part of the phone number. If you indicate that tag is lost, then I think it will show your entire phone number so that somebody can call you and say, hey, I found your tag. That makes sense. Oh, that's pretty good. Real. OK. All right. Oh, I like that. OK. Cool. And I wonder, like, is that I got to say they did not document all they didn't document this feature. I had to go. Yeah. That's why it surprised me when, you know, I saw this post from Dave. I'm like, huh, I didn't know it had NFC in it, but it does have NFC in it. That's pretty cool. Yeah, I'm going to need to mess with this now. We wound up using. We put air tags in our three suitcases that we checked as baggage, you know, for our trip when we went to Nashville for podcast movement and a couple of things last week. And it like I've done that with tile over the years as well. Apple, this is not going to come as a surprise to anybody that that actually has stopped and thought about this for a second. But Apple's network is so much more so much denser than tiles network ever was. You know, I would put it on and I would see that. Yeah, it was like located somewhere at an airport or whatever. With with air tags, it's constantly being updated because so many people have iPhones, right? And you don't need a separate app on your phone. You just need to be running iOS 14 and then, boom, it's finding it and, you know, reporting it to the system. So it was so easy to just look and be like, oh, yeah, great. You know, it definitely made it here as soon as the plane landed. It would be like, oh, yep, it's found here. I never with tile I could walk like if I walked to the bathroom on the plane, I could almost always pick up my my tile at some point walking. I did not have that experience this time with air tags, but that doesn't necessarily mean that you can't. It just means that I did not have that experience this time. But but it's, you know, it's always peace of mind to be like in midair and be like, oh, yep, there it is. Found it with Bluetooth. Cool. Yeah, yeah, cool. I am. I have a couple of quick tips that I learned while traveling, John. The first is that, you know, I traveled with my wife and my daughter. And so that means that I'm traveling with with someone who is very keen on using social media and on all the tricks of using social media, AKA my daughter. And one of the things I learned about creating a boomerang video or a looping video one night, she was like, oh, we should toast our glasses. Or as, you know, people have done by turning the word cheers into a verb. We should do a cheers with our glasses or cheers our glass. I don't know. I'm still trying to figure out how to use that word as a verb. But anyway, she said, oh, no, the best way to do it is to start to do it backwards. So we started with our glasses together and then we just brought them down. And that way you get the pivotal moment of this in your boomerang video. If you start with the pivotal moment of it and then you just loop it and it doesn't matter that you were backwards or forwards because the boomerang is going to go backwards and forwards all the time. So you've got this whole thing of people moving their glasses in and out and you get the clink moment because you literally have started with that. And you can perfectly arrange it. And it's like, OK, once the clink moment is set up, you start filming and then you just pull away. So so that's my trick for you. That's my quick tip passed along by my daughter. The other one was that, you know, traveling, obviously, we're using our phones all the time. You want to preserve your battery life. So I would put my battery in low power mode. That was great until I charged my phone because as anyone who uses low power mode on a regular basis knows when you charge your phone and it hits 80 percent well, then you then it turns off low power mode. You know, your iPhone says, oh, you're charged up enough. It's fine. And and so low power mode is, you know, it's good to is good to go. You don't need it anymore. I want it. I want it to be on the entire time I was traveling, no matter what. So what I did was I went into the shortcuts app, John, and I created an automation and this automation is a two step automation. Number one, the when when low power mode is turned off. The do set low power mode to on. So I would charge the phone. It would hit 80 percent. Low power mode would be turned off. The automation would kick in because it's told to do that. And of course, the step in the automation is turning low power mode back on. And the nice part is now that I am home, I can just turn that shortcut off, but it's still there on my phone. So whenever I want it to remain in low power mode, I can just go turn that shortcut on and boom and also turn low power mode on. You got to start in low power mode for this tour and then it works. So those are my two travel related tips. So pretty good, right? It's fun. I can for those of you in the in the video mode, I can show my screen here so that you can see it's just a very simple automation, turn low power mode on when it is turned off. It's a pretty good little thing. I like it. OK, yeah, I have a I have a button for it on my control center. Same. But when you charge your phone, it turns off low power mode. So you have to remember to turn it back on. I didn't want to have to remember the shortcut. Take care of it. So yeah, I would use the the low power mode button on my control center to turn it on. But then this keeps it on because otherwise my phone will turn it off when I charge as will yours. Another thing this was from listener Gary that sort of related to travel is he found a site from it's from the go get dock people. And it is a way of creating a vaccine passport to put in your Apple wallet. There's so many places now and more announced every day that are requiring, you know, either a negative test or a proof of vaccination or something like that. And the website is is go get Vax dot com slash Vax. Yes, we'll put a link to all this in the show notes, of course. It is what you do is upload your ID and a picture of your ID and a picture of your your Vax card to the to this service. And then they validate it and send you a thing that you can add to your wallet. Now you're sending your ID, you're sending your vaccine to these people. Who are they? They are they they are a San Francisco startup that's been in place for a couple of years called Go Get Dock. And they they are the ones behind well pay. So they are very much steeped in the HIPAA compliance world. They have been managing medical records and things like that for, I think, millions of people for a while here. So bear that in mind as you make your decision as to whether or not you choose to upload that particular information to them. But but they do make it easy. Quite frankly, the I think the best way to do this right now is to just take a picture of your Vax card and either store it in a note or store it in your in your photos, but make it a favorite so that you can pull it up quickly. In addition to that, the clear app, you know, the clearme.com, which I think I think if you go to clear me, they aren't currently a sponsor, but but I think if you go to clearme.com slash MGG, no, OK, that they wiped that out. They had like an extra super long trial or something that you got. But if you go to clearme.com, you can get their app and you can create the same sort of thing. But it doesn't create a wallet version of it. You have to use the app. But they do put a way of storing and showing your vaccine credentials in in their app as well. So more and more places are requiring them. So there you go. Yeah, makes it easy. Yeah, it kind of irks me because I mean, it's not really a passport. But what I'm saying, it's no more or less of a valid document than your driver's license, right? It's issued by someone that is not there to validate it. So it's literally exactly the same. I'm saying the the Vax card. Yeah, I know you have some problem with with the Vax card like not being more. I don't know what do you want it to be? This is the wrong place for this conversation. But yeah, I don't I'm not I'm not quite sure what something ver verifiable. It's not your driver's license is not verifiable. Like that's the thing to remember. No, like when you go to a bar, my because my daughter was carded in Nashville lots and lots last week. And so was I, in fact, they have no way of verifying that. They the bar doesn't have an ability to check with the state to see if that idea is valid. Right. So all they can do is use copy. All they can do is use the fraud protection that has been built in over the years to my driver's license to look at it. And yeah, like the like the UV, for example, exactly, do it the airport. Correct. But but but they're not checking it with any any database. Goodness, I would hate it if bars could check my ID with a database. That'd be terrible. People can do that, but not bars, but not bars. Right. And and not concerts for entry and not, you know, so it like it the Vax card is literally no different than that. With the exception of the Vax card is less than a year old and the driver's license is decades old, right? So the fraud protection has increased on the driver's license over time because it has evolved. That has not happened with the Vax card yet. So yeah, but it's otherwise. It's really no different than your driver's license in that regard. Yeah. You want to take us to Andrew, my friend? I will. Yeah, I was looking for I have an app on my phone that that'll read the barcode on the license until he would date is in it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it is cool. Yeah, exactly. OK, Andrew says, I was going to ask out of you, full email headers on my iPhone, but it seems like you can't. I want this so that I can see which of my email addresses was typed by the sender. The simple solution is to forward the email and it will be shown in the header that appears at the top of the message that is forwarded. And we'll link to an article that talks about this, too. Yeah, he's right. I couldn't find a way in iOS or iPadOS to to view the full email headers. Interesting. Yeah. Yeah. The thing is, I usually have, I mean, I have the same pretty much the same email on all my devices. So, you know, so this is a solution if it's an email account that's only on your phone. Right. Your Mac and you can see it, too. I forget, is it view? Yeah, it's in the view menu somewhere in Mac mail. Yeah, if you go to Mac mail and go to the view menu and go to where is it? Why am I not seeing? Oh, view message. And then it's either all headers, which is Command Shift H or raw source, which is Option Shift U. Command Shift H sort of tries to format them a little bit while still leaving the message intact. If you want to see the raw horse, I don't know about raw horse. I don't think that's good for any of us. If you go to see the raw source, then you see the HTML of the message and all that good stuff. So, yeah. And I'll give you a mini tip. I'll give the under a mini tip here. So if you go to an email, so for example, here, I got an email and it says who it's from. And then it says to John Braun, if you tap on that, it'll go to your contact card and show you which email address. Right, right. Yeah, if you have that email address in your contact card, that's right. Yeah, it'll right. But it doesn't all it does is put the recent tag by it, right? So you tap on your name and the email. You're right. It brings up your contact card and the one that says recent by it. That's the address to which that email was sent. Yeah, I wish there was an easier way to see that on iOS or I wish it was clearer, but but you're you're totally right. Yeah, that's a good. I like every now and then. Yeah, the need to see a header is sometimes mostly spammers will obfuscate the destination address or they'll forge it. Yeah. But if you look at the headers, you can see which of your addresses was the target. So right. Right. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, John, not you, although maybe you knew this, but listener John has a quick tip for us. And he says, I have a 2018 11 inch iPad Pro that I am selling and have a developer's account. And because of that, I was running the iOS 15 beta and wanted to downgrade before selling it smart. Every time I went into recovery and started the recovery process, I would get a 1305 error and the iPad would only boot back into recovery. I then tried it on another Mac and the same thing. I was starting to get frustrated. Google food was no help. And then Reddit came to my rescue because both my M1 Macs are running the Monterey Beta. I had to disable private relay. Then I tried again and the recovery ran fine. So you need to disable private relay on your Mac in order to do recovery on an iPhone. That's interesting. I I wonder if it's because Apple wants to have the actual IP address of the device that forced it into recovery for the authentication. Like, I'm not I'm not sure why those two things are mutually exclusive. They are. And thank you for the quick tip, John. I'm just, you know, sort of processing, like, why would that be the case? No, what do you think, Mr. Braun? I don't know. Yeah. Yeah, it's weird, but good to know, because all of us will be running private relay by default very soon. So bear that in mind that there there might be some operations that that involve the network that get a little wonky. And if you turn off private relay, they might just work. All right, a couple more quick tips before we can go to cool stuff found. Ben shares in dictation mode on iOS. There's a keyboard icon at the bottom right, and you might assume that's the only way to return to typing. I sure did. However, you can actually tap anywhere on the waveform to dismiss the dictation view and get back to the keyboard view and a bonus tip. If you have multiple language keyboard set up, tap the globe icon while dictating to switch and dictate in a different language. So I like that. It's pretty good. Yeah, I know. I love these. This is this is what I love about quick tips. That's why often why we start the show with them, because I just love them. But I figured we'd mix it up a little bit today. Do them in the middle of the show. We can once we're in our groove a little bit, you know. All right. And the final quick tip we've got for today, John, is from Kenny, who said I recently upgraded my home heroes to use the series six, the Wi-Fi six devices. Unfortunately, a problem I had with the first series routers that were being replaced arose again with the new ones. Specifically, although the house and property is blanketed with strong Wi-Fi signal, I noticed that my third gen iPad Air would randomly disconnect from the Internet. The same thing would happen with my MacBook Pro from time to time. I would shut off Wi-Fi and the iPad system preferences, turn it back on, and I was back on the Internet. Sadly, sometimes the iPad would say, you can't join name of network, even though my credentials were obviously correct. The simple fix go into the Euro settings and shut off the WPA three option. Rolling everything back to max out at WPA to resolve the problem on all of my devices. My guess is that euros WPA three flavor isn't the same as apples. And that is true. Well, I've had lots of WPA three problems, not just with Euro. I had it with Synology. I think it's Apple's implementation of WPA three isn't quite ready for prime time because I've tried it with I think I've tried it with every router that supports it and very quickly was like, oh, yep, no, got to turn that off. No fun. I think you saw the same thing, right, John? When you first tried WPA three. Yeah, something about Apple and WPA three is no bueno. So the quick tip is turn it off, turn it off. It'd be better if Apple just didn't try to negotiate WPA three if it was going to fail. Or if it fails, fall back to WPA two, right? Like, that would be better. All right, time for some cool stuff found. Yeah, let's wear and never mind. OK, I want to see where it was. I think it's an advanced features or the beta. Yeah, I think it's on the Euro app. I think it's in the beta features or something like that. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, Plex, which I'm a big fan of, just released an update to their music features in Plex called Super Sonic. And what it does is it analyzes your music locally, right? So the Plex server, your Plex server does this, analyzes your music and then lets you play music that is sonically similar. So in instead of just looking at like metadata to say, oh, we'll play more rock and roll from the 90s or something like that, it would listen to the music and analyze and see, you know, again, the music that's sonically similar will pull things together that sort of fit in in that realm. They have a blog post that talks all about it. It you have to use the Plex amp app on your iPhone to to leverage this. So you have the server set up and then or anybody's Plex server, really, if you're connected to mine, for example, then you get this because I turned it on in my Plex server. But yeah, pretty cool. So that's why we put it in there because, you know, cool stuff that we found. Sort of how it works. All right. Grant shares his thoughts on our conversation about universal remotes with the cool stuff found. He says, I am a budget minded consumer and have found the into set four in one universal backlit IR learning remote to be a solid, reliable universal remote. It's twenty six bucks on Amazon and so far it works great with my Samsung TV, my Apple TV, third gen and fourth gen old receivers from Ankyo and Yamaha and LG Blu-ray player says I have to look up the codes online for my various devices, but once set up, it's worked great. And again, under 30 bucks. So yeah, it's not not a bad path to head down. And and that's it, you know, the nice part about the harmony stuff is it it builds it all for you. You don't have to do all the work, but of course you're paying for that and and maybe not enough people wanted to pay for that. And maybe that's why the harmony line is is being sunsetted. But and no one else really is competing with them. So maybe this is the future of those of us that need universal remotes. All right. Oh, what did I do here? John, can you still see me? Yeah. Interesting. I can't see me. Something happened to Chrome, which is what we use to do the live stream. And so I don't get to see me. There it is. Oh, it moved to the bottom of the screen. Oh, there I am. OK, great. All right. And the last cool stuff found that I have is. I'll call it a heads up. LibreOffice is coming to Apple Silicon. So if those of you that have been running LibreOffice have been on on M1 Macs have been running it in Rosetta two mode, which of course runs great and you probably don't even notice an issue. I certainly haven't. But they are adding in compilation options for Apple Silicon this week. So keep your eyes peeled for that. Or, you know, maybe look at the Mackie Keb show notes. I don't know. That's where we have links to lots of different things. Mackie Keb dot com. So it is soon to be available. I just want to give everybody the heads up. All right, where are we here? John, I traveled. I have a question because. I got caught. I broke the rules, John. I broke our card and I committed the cardinal sin. I got caught. It seems that I have become extremely reliant on the technology I have at home, specifically with regards to maintaining a reasonable speed when there is a speed limit on the road, which is most of the time. And I learned this driving in rural Tennessee as we were going to a tour of the Jack Daniels distillery, which was fascinating, by the way, really, really fascinating. I use I use three things in my car at home that help me. One is carplay, which I had in my rental car, and it does show the speed limit there. The other is my car actually knows the speed limit of most roads. And it would show me that. I didn't have that in the rental car, but the big one. And it, you know, I've said this before. I'm sure people didn't believe me. The big one is my radar detector. I use it far more for telling me when I am going 10 miles an hour over the speed limit than I do for actually detecting any radar signals. It warns me it knows the speed limit to it has GPS in it. And and when I am going 10 miles and over 10 miles an hour over the limit, it warns me and I know to slow down. And this is super helpful here in New England, but also would have been helpful in Tennessee because. We have what I like to call revenue enhancement zones. As you are on these rural roads, you come into a town that doesn't really look like you're in a town yet, but they start lowering the speed limit well ahead of the town. And and certainly here in New Hampshire and Vermont, we we we have these created very specifically as revenue enhancement zones for the towns that that need extra revenue from people that are driving through. And so I was one of those people in Tennessee. The officer was very nice to me and all that good stuff. But but what I really found interesting, John, was he did not put the amount of the citation on the ticket. And I have a feeling it's because the amount will vary, depending on whether I want to go and talk about it with them in person or if as an out of state person, maybe I would just choose to call them up and pay it. So if anybody knows anything about, you know, addressing a speeding ticket in Tennessee, let me know feedback at MackieCub.com. I would love I have a couple of months to figure this out. So I figure I might as well gather information because I got caught, John. Yeah, I haven't gotten one in ages. Same. Same. Two things. One, Waze will also show you the speed limit where you're at. Sure. And the the indicator will turn red. Right. If you're going over the speed limit. That's true. Mine is constantly red. Well, you can set that in Waze, though, right? I think in Waze, you can set it to only go red if you're 10 over or something. Or maybe I'm maybe I'm conflating that with the with the escort radar detector app, because it's a super handy feature to be able to say warn me when I'm five or warn me when I'm 10 over. Evidently, I don't evidently I don't look at speed limit signs anymore. Like, that's what I learned out of this, you know, is that technology has taken that over that that that job for me while I'm driving. I always know what the speed limit is, and I always know if I'm within the realm. But it's because of technology. It's not because of something I'm doing as a driver, which is which is, you know, again, a lesson I learned last week. Yeah. Yeah. And as far as getting a ticket, you could contest it and they may. You did the last time I got a ticket, which was probably like 25 years ago. You can go to court, you can contest it and. The prosecutor may cut you a deal. Right. Oh, yeah. Make a make a donation to, you know, United Way or something like that. And we'll we won't, you know, put any points on your license. That that's sort of the trick. And they also mentioned something about traffic school, which I, of course, because I haven't had a ticket in decades, I haven't done. I don't think I've ever done traffic school. So, you know, that that's an option. But I but every state's different. And of course, me not being in Tennessee does not help my my my scenario. So hopefully some way hopefully somebody listening has some some Tennessee specific advice and we'll go from there. Yeah. But yeah, the last time I got caught. There were two two lines for talking to the state's attorney. I think it's the state's attorney. Sure. One line. Everybody who was done talking to the person walked away with a smile on their face and the other person, everybody looked very unhappy. I got unhappy guy. Oh, that sucks. Oh, well, pay the fine. Plop, plop. All right. Let's go back to some of the things we talked about in our sort of deep dive experiment episode feedback from y'all has been overwhelmingly positive on that. There were a few nitpicks, which obviously we have, you know, very much taken to heart and hopefully even in this episode with the video that we've incorporated, we've we've begun to address some of those things like making sure that we're talking about what we're seeing in the videos as opposed to just showing a video and saying you should watch this. But but by and large, I was really blown away with, you know, usually when you when you ask for feedback, you anticipate having far more negative feedback than positive feedback. And you sort of have to factor that into your thought process. You were all either too kind or you really liked what we did. Seriously, though, we still want feedback on that. So if you have yet to send in anything and have thoughts about our our experiment into incorporating more video content, especially if you are an audio only listener, which is most of you, let us know because we really want to preserve the audio experience. So please let us know. Yeah, awesome. But we did get a couple of questions related to that. And JP starts us off with one of them, JP. I was listening to your deep dive just now and the I'm glad to hear you love YouTube TV. It's pretty cool. I have a question for you. You don't have to answer that, you know, unless you have time, but you're using the LG TV app of YouTube TV, which I don't. I don't use smart TV apps because I don't like the Android. Sure. Some of it all. My question to you is when you pull up the live grid, if you change the order of your live grid using a web browser in your set in your settings, which you can do, does it translate to the app on the television set, the smart TV? Got it. All right. Well, I will I will leave the question at that because I don't want to subject everyone to all that road noise. Sometimes I can EQ it out today. I was not successful. The answer is, yeah, for sure, the YouTube TV interface. So what he's talking about is you have three different tabs. And for those of you that watched the video last week, you saw them, but you have three different tabs. You have live recordings and like a recommended or something tab. And the when you go to live, you get a grid of all the things that are on live, a channel grid. What's cool is you can customize that grid and either move things around or even omit channels from it that you know you'll never watch. And so you can put your favorites at the top and all that good stuff. That grid follows you from device to device. It doesn't matter or at least it follows me. It doesn't matter, you know, where I am. It's the grid is not customized per device. It is customized per account. So, for example, in our Airbnb last week, there was a Samsung TV. I downloaded the YouTube TV app onto it. I logged into my YouTube TV account and boom, all of our stuff was there. It was actually really, I mean, again, not a surprise, but super smooth, really great experience to just have that there, especially on one crazy rainy night that we had where we were in. So so, yeah, it works really well. A quick tip for everyone, though, for traveling, you know, when when we go to Airbnbs, I log into, I don't know, four or five different things on the TV. I log into now YouTube TV. I logged into Fubo since we're testing that to also log into my Plex. I log into Apple TV Plus. I probably log into Netflix. I create a note and I share the note amongst everyone that is staying in the Airbnb with me called things to do before we check out. And I make it a checklist. And every time I log into a new account, I put that there. And every time we move, we had to move a plant off of like the bedside table in the room my daughter was staying in so that she could like, you know, put her phone and things there. So we moved the plant to like the dresser. I was like, all right, move the plant back to this. All those things that, you know, can just make a make you a good guest, but B, keep you from getting on the plane and thinking, oh, crap, I forgot to log out of Apple TV or, you know, forgot to do any of those things. So making that things to do when we check out list, huge. I would even do it in hotel rooms, especially if you're if you take a cord and like plug it in behind the bed or something that becomes part of the room to you after a day or two, right? You just you're using it. You don't think about it and you might just leave it behind. So a little quick tip. Thoughts on any of that, John, before we move on to Ed's related tip. All right, Ed had a tip again, related to that same segment. It says, I loved your deep dive. I wanted to expound on your discussion of Plex. I, too, signed up for their Lifetime Plex pass. But I also added an HD home run receiver from Silicon Dust. This converts over the air signals from local TV stations to digital streams that feed my Plex server. Then the Plex servers DVR functions records all my shows in series just like Tivo. If the shows in the middle of being recorded, it offers to watch it live or start from the beginning while continuing to record the rest of the show. My HD home run has four received channels so I can record up to four shows simultaneously. In addition, when a show is done recording, Plex will post process it and remove all the commercials if you like. It can also mark them without removing them so you can click a skip button if you don't completely trust their algorithm. He said, we don't really watch sports much, but my wife likes Hallmark and Jersey Shore. So I have been trying out the Philo app, P-H-I-L-O, which a few of you have recommended as their live TV service. So they're streaming TV service. So we'll put a link to both of those things in the show. Yeah, when we talked about HD home run a few years ago and they actually sent them on the test, but I never bothered to test it because it didn't look like we had great over the air reception here at my house. I looked after getting Ed's email and it seems like things might be better. So I think I might have to dig that out or get a new one that's more up to date and test that because obviously if you can get over the air TV and you feed that into your Plex, well, now you have your own DVR that you run and you're not paying anything for your streaming TV because it's streaming over the air. So, yeah, I'll have to check this out. Thank you, Ed, for the reminder and good news for everybody. If you go to I believe it's HD home run dot no, it's silicon dust dot com. They have a link to let you check and see what the strengths are in your region and really at your specific address. So you can really see if like, is this even something worth considering? Do I get enough signal to my, you know, to my house in order for that kind of intended to work? So, yeah, check it out. Sean, you had some comments on the battery stuff that you talked about. Oh, Jeremy wrote in and he says, I, too, have gotten one of the new MagSafe battery packs from my iPhone mini since the battery in the phone doesn't last all day. There are a couple of things I want to mention. John, you said that you can charge the battery while it is connected to the phone and it gives it an extra boost. But did you know that you can charge the phone with the battery connected and both will charge? No, I didn't know that. Pretty neat and possibly a feature for the next AirPods charging from your phone. Just don't get caught. I almost did yesterday. I attached the battery of my phone when it had around 23% battery left. Surprisingly, the battery in the phone kept dropping even though the indicator showed it was charging. The indicator for the battery pack did not show it was dropping though. At 18%, I started getting nervous and removed and reattached the battery pack to see if that would help. I had to do that again at 15% because it obviously didn't. But at that point, the iPhone started to recharge from the pack. Seems there are still some kinks to work out. Very cool. And initially, I was going to fist shake Apple because kind of like that NFC feature that we talked about. Yeah. My issue was they didn't document this. I was wrong though, and we're going to link to an article. But Apple actually does mention this feature. It would have been nice if they put like the documentation the documentation that comes with it is not very good. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Right. They could have just put a card with a graphic showing like, you know, plug into the battery and, you know, it'll charge the phone or plug it to the phone and it'll also charge the battery. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah. It's a it's I yeah. That's it. Cheat charging is I'm actually curious how many people out there rely on Cheat charging all the time. I find it to be most of us in the house here. I think of the of the four of us in the family. I think my son is the only one who routinely uses Cheat charging as like the only way he charges his phone. It's what he relies on. It just works. And of course, he was the one of the four of us whose iPhone stopped accepting a Cheat charge. He had to get it replaced by Apple. But maybe maybe there's something to this. But I don't know. It just always seems a little bit, you know, it works and then one time you go pick up your phone and it didn't charge. It's like, OK, you know, this is a drag. So I don't know. Do you rely on Cheat with your phone on any regular basis, John? Sometimes. Sometimes. OK. Yeah. All right. Cool. But if I want to charge it fast, I'll plug it in because that's the fastest method of charging the phone. Yeah. And get yourself a power delivery plug with a USB C to lightning cable. That's the fastest way, right? So yeah. All right. Will we get I think we got room for two more. Will asked, is there an app or a way to restart an app if it is detected as not running? I have an issue that the OneDrive app from Microsoft. Imagine that, he says, randomly stops if I don't notice it. Days may go by before I catch it and then I'm out of sync. I'm looking for an app that could check for that situation and open and reopen the OneDrive app if it detects it isn't running because I'm trying not to get caught. Yes, Will. So, honestly, that's something that I would use a custom launch agent for. We did a segment at about the 23 minute mark in Mac Geekab 882, which I'll link to about how you can create a custom launch agent. But that's one of the things that a launch agent can do is to just keep an app running at all times. So that I that's how I would, again, you know, I answer these questions as what would it do if it were me? Or what would I do if I were there? So that's how I would start down this path. You could also I think you could do this with Keyboard Maestro too. But I would use like Lingon to to create a custom launch agent and just that should do it. That's certainly how I would start. So hopefully that helps. John, you want to take our last one, our last quick one here with Larry? Yes. Larry says I've had a problem with this on Facebook, but now it's also happening on eBay. I started this auction on my iPad earlier today. And in the title, now I get an I get OBJ. This is when I'm using Siri. The same thing happens when I post using my iPad on Facebook. What gives? It doesn't show up like that on my iPad. So it's like the letters OBJ inside of a dotted box. Like it looks like an icon of some sort, like an emoji, but it's clearly not an emoji, right? So. And so using my mad search skills, I found a D&D little article called What is OBJ on Facebook posts? All you need to know about this weird symbol. Basically, it's telling you that it can't render one of the characters you entered. Oh, so it's an unknown character is essentially what that's what that's saying. That's what this article seems to indicate. That makes sense. Especially with Facebook, because like Facebook renders their own versions of emojis, they don't just tell your computer to render an emoji. They have their own weird, you know, interpretations of what emojis might be. So yeah, I could see. Yeah, that makes sense. OK, so if they don't have it in their database, then they just say, you know, here you go, that's cool. Awesome. Well, it's amazing time flies when we're having fun, but the time flew and we had fun. So success. You know what? We we get we get reviews from you folks. And we would love to have you review the show. If you go to MacGeekUp.com slash reviews, that's the closest we can get you to being able to review us on on Apple Podcasts. We can't we can't like we can't get you right to the review form. You've got to click a little bit, but we can get you close. So MacGeekUp.com slash reviews will get you there. I want to read three reviews that we got. The first is from Speed Ono from the Netherlands this week, who says two stars out of five. The show is getting worse. It's a rich people only Mac show. We do talk about things that are expensive here. We have been told that we are expensive people to know. So we take that and thanks for sharing it, Speed Ono. The second is from Harapow's and stars from Romania. And I definitely bungled that five out of five knowledge nuggets. The Q&A approach coupled with the chapter is system is the ideal way to get geeky Mac OS and iOS tips and tricks started listening to this podcast as a power user, but learned so much more than I expected. So I recommend this show to all serious Mac users willing to dig deep into the ecosystem. Thank you so much for that. That's great. I'm glad we love hearing these things. I mean, it truly helps us to know are the things that we're doing helping? Are they not helping? Are they too expensive? Finally, Giles GTD from the UK, five out of five, the best podcast for all things Apple. I'm a longtime listener of MacGeekUp. To me, it is the best podcast for all things Apple. If you have left a review in the past, you can update it. If it's been more than six months and we would kindly request that you do so because it really does help us as these reviews come in to chart and bring in more listeners and all that good stuff. So thank you for that, everyone. Good stuff. That's all I got today. 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