Speaker 1: What's the deal with is sim Google Photos becomes your
Speaker 1: own personal TikTok for memories? My thoughts of Apple's new
Speaker 1: iPhones after a week plus your tech questions answered? What's
Speaker 1: going on? I'm Rich Tamiro and this is Rich on
Speaker 1: Tech the podcast h I talk about the tech stuff
Speaker 1: I think you should know about. It's also the place
Speaker 1: where I answer the questions you send me. I'm a
Speaker 1: tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. What
Speaker 1: a week it has been? All because of something named
Speaker 1: after a fruit apple. They launched a whole bunch of stuff.
Speaker 1: I know it doesn't seem maybe too significant to you listening,
Speaker 1: but to me someone who has to go through every
Speaker 1: one of these products and figure out what's new, what's different,
Speaker 1: what's unique. So I mean, yeah, they launched new iPhones
Speaker 1: on the surface, but they launched not just new iPhones,
Speaker 1: but four iPhones, two different sizes, so really two. Then
Speaker 1: they had the Series eight Watch, then they had the Ultra,
Speaker 1: then they had the se Then they also had the AirPods.
Speaker 1: Did I miss anything? So that's a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: to go through. And I've been using some of the
Speaker 1: products more so than others, but general consensus is pretty solid. Updates,
Speaker 1: I mean, nothing groundbreaking. It's not like you're, you know,
Speaker 1: have to rush out and upgrade to one of these devices.
Speaker 1: But you know, the way Apple works is when you're
Speaker 1: in the store and you're you know, kind of ready
Speaker 1: for an upgrade, it's like, okay, well what does the
Speaker 1: new one have? And so that's really what it comes
Speaker 1: down to is what do the new ones have? So
Speaker 1: when it comes to the iPhone fourteen, you know, minimal
Speaker 1: use on that. I didn't really need to do much
Speaker 1: with that because you know, even though it's the phone
Speaker 1: that most people are gonna buy, it's just it's a
Speaker 1: basic iPhone. I mean it's it's a standard iPhone. So
Speaker 1: this is the phone that people you know, what happens
Speaker 1: is Apple lures you in with the iPhone fourteen Pro
Speaker 1: and then you get in there and you're like, wait,
Speaker 1: it's how much. Oh, I'll just take that one for
Speaker 1: eight hundred, so instead of paying twelve hundred or you know,
Speaker 1: the thousand whatever. You know, the bigger one is. But
Speaker 1: the iPhone fourteen, I mean realistically, you know, it's got
Speaker 1: the same process or very similar processor as last year.
Speaker 1: The camera's you know, slight improvements, so I think, you know,
Speaker 1: the selfie camera having the new auto focus. I mean,
Speaker 1: I didn't even realize that it didn't have auto focus
Speaker 1: in the past. It's not like it's ever really been
Speaker 1: an issue. So that's fine if you need it. You know. Really,
Speaker 1: the crash detection and the SOS over satellite are going
Speaker 1: to be the two new things. I was not able
Speaker 1: to test the crash detection clearly, SOS satellite I got
Speaker 1: a demo of at Apple, but I can't really test that.
Speaker 1: That doesn't come out until November. Gosh, what I should
Speaker 1: do is just answer. I got so many questions on
Speaker 1: my Instagram because I asked people, you know, what do
Speaker 1: you want to know about these phones? I should just
Speaker 1: go through those for like the first five minutes of
Speaker 1: the show and let me just say, you know, if
Speaker 1: you don't like Apple or you don't care about Apple,
Speaker 1: I understand that this week is kind of a rough
Speaker 1: week for you because so much of the news in
Speaker 1: the tech world is consumed by Apple. And that's just natural.
Speaker 1: When you know, when a company comes out with this
Speaker 1: much stuff, a company of this much prominence, that's just
Speaker 1: kind of how it is. So yeah, I'm just looking
Speaker 1: at some of these responses, and a lot of people
Speaker 1: are saying, you know, is it worth the upgrade from
Speaker 1: a thirteen to a fourteen? So I think it really
Speaker 1: comes down to, you know, what your situation is. You know,
Speaker 1: if you're just if you're okay with you know, spending
Speaker 1: a couple hundred bucks when you really look at the
Speaker 1: way the phone works. You know, Let's say you spend
Speaker 1: one thousand dollars on the iPhone fourteen pro this year, okay,
Speaker 1: and then you go to trade it in next year.
Speaker 1: So I think when I looked at Apple's website, they
Speaker 1: were given about seven hundred let's just say, seven hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: So for the use of that phone for the last year,
Speaker 1: it was roughly three hundred dollars, I mean plus tax
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. But I mean, so if you
Speaker 1: don't mind paying three to four hundred to you know,
Speaker 1: maybe five hundred dollars depending on how much you get
Speaker 1: for storage a year for this device that you carry
Speaker 1: every day and use every day, and want a better
Speaker 1: camera and you want the latest, you want the greatest.
Speaker 1: Do you want the emergency stuff? Sure, go ahead, upgrade,
Speaker 1: But do you need to upgrade? Probably not. Now, there
Speaker 1: are specific use case scenarios where if you want the
Speaker 1: best camera because you're an instagrammer, or you want the
Speaker 1: best camera because you have a newborn, and you want
Speaker 1: you know, the best video because you know, want the
Speaker 1: action cam feature because you've been carrying a go pro around.
Speaker 1: So yeah, these are all reasons why you might want
Speaker 1: to go with these new phones. But you know, I'm
Speaker 1: not sitting here telling you you have to upgrade. You know,
Speaker 1: if there was a feature that was groundbreaking on one
Speaker 1: of these phones, and you know, the craft detection or
Speaker 1: the SOS emergency might be consider that for safety. But
Speaker 1: if there is a feature, you know, hardware feature, software feature,
Speaker 1: you know that was super groundbreaking, then yeah, I'd mention it.
Speaker 1: But you know, we're getting nice incremental upgrades in the
Speaker 1: cameras and the hardware is a very similar new processor
Speaker 1: in the iPhone fourteen Pro. But the iPhone fourteen thirteen
Speaker 1: wasn't even that slow towards the end, so it's not
Speaker 1: like you needed it. In fact, they're using a very
Speaker 1: similar processor in the iPhone fourteen this year. It's also
Speaker 1: really confusing for the average person that there's iPhone fourteen
Speaker 1: is sort of a blanket term for the new phones.
Speaker 1: But then you also have iPhone fourteen like the regular one,
Speaker 1: and then the pro. So I'm trying to think of
Speaker 1: some of my other thoughts. I mean, you know, my
Speaker 1: the always on display really really, I think it's just fantastic.
Speaker 1: It's like it's funny because that's been on the Android
Speaker 1: phones forever. Of course I love it. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: that's like a standard thing I've been wanting on the
Speaker 1: iPhone for so long, just to see the time most
Speaker 1: of the time. But then they went and they won
Speaker 1: uped it and they put these widgets on the lock screen,
Speaker 1: which you know right now they're not that handy. I've
Speaker 1: got a calendar widget, which I do love. I think
Speaker 1: that's the best thing. Ever, then I have a weather
Speaker 1: and the sun sunset, sunrise. Do I need those other two? Know?
Speaker 1: But it's also only like day three, so, I mean
Speaker 1: since iOS sixteen came out, so once these developers and
Speaker 1: I'm checking my apps every day right now, and I
Speaker 1: would suggest you do the same, update your apps every
Speaker 1: day because they're adding new functionality to these widgets every
Speaker 1: single day, and so you know there will be widgets
Speaker 1: on there that I haven't thought of that I would
Speaker 1: really like to have on there. And so right now
Speaker 1: I'm looking, I mean, out of all the apps on
Speaker 1: my phone, there are literally one two, three, four, five
Speaker 1: six extra widgets that are not included in the operating system.
Speaker 1: And I probably have you know, one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: two hundred apps on my phone. So that just goes
Speaker 1: to show you that we're at the just the beginning
Speaker 1: of what those widgets do. They always on display is
Speaker 1: really unique in that it looks like your phone is
Speaker 1: on all the time. Compared to Android, you could definitely
Speaker 1: tell when it's always on and when it's on the
Speaker 1: actual screen. On this half the time I'm looking at it,
Speaker 1: I'm like, wait, is a phone on? What's going on there?
Speaker 1: Let's see what else? The search on the homepage, which
Speaker 1: you get, you know, if you have a iOS sixteen device,
Speaker 1: that's really cool, even though you know, I just wish
Speaker 1: it was a little bit better with the search. It's
Speaker 1: not like real Google search. I mean, it sort of is,
Speaker 1: but it's not. I don't know if they're surfacing like
Speaker 1: Google results as a suggest yeah, says serious suggestions, So
Speaker 1: those are not really necessarily Google suggestions. But I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe they'll get better. Let's see what else do The
Speaker 1: Digital Dynamic Island, I mean, you could keep it. I
Speaker 1: don't really need it. It's not I haven't really seen
Speaker 1: the usefulness of that. And you know, there's still a
Speaker 1: lot of little things on iPhone that are just kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, just kind of been stagnant for us. Is
Speaker 1: it stagnant just stale for a while, like some of
Speaker 1: the you know, like just arranging your home screen. You know,
Speaker 1: it's still this like really really complicated, Like you move
Speaker 1: one icon, it pushes all the other ones out of
Speaker 1: the way. Like it's just so odd that in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two we can't just like have icons the way
Speaker 1: we want them on our screen, or little things like
Speaker 1: you know, do apps stop working in the background after
Speaker 1: you know a little bit. Just just stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So anyway, overall, the camera is good. The action mode
Speaker 1: I think is really fun. I'll probably use that. The
Speaker 1: raw mode, the forty eight I'll never use. I don't
Speaker 1: really need that. I can't think of a reason why
Speaker 1: i'd need that. And you know, the camera is fine.
Speaker 1: I think that the camera actually took a little tiny
Speaker 1: step back in sort of the overall look of your pictures.
Speaker 1: I think that Apple needs to tweak the algorithm for this.
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe because it's a new lens that
Speaker 1: they need to kind of tweak things just a little
Speaker 1: bit because it's the pictures are looking great as usual,
Speaker 1: but they're not looking as good as I remember with
Speaker 1: like the older iPhone. So I mean, yes, they're good,
Speaker 1: but they're I think that Apple will continue to tweak
Speaker 1: and make things better on this device. So anyway, that's it.
Speaker 1: I mean, And one thing I do want to explain
Speaker 1: because I did get some questions about this, and I
Speaker 1: was at the Apple store yesterday doing some interviews, and
Speaker 1: I was really curious because you know, most people buy
Speaker 1: the iPhone on some sort of installment plan. It used
Speaker 1: to be Apple's upgrade plan, but now the carriers have
Speaker 1: sort of swooped in and taken over with these giant
Speaker 1: trade in amounts, so like up to one thousand dollars
Speaker 1: up to eight hundred dollars, you know, if you switch
Speaker 1: or you change a line whatever, and so the big difference.
Speaker 1: I was trying to, you know, get this information from
Speaker 1: the Apple folks. But the main thing is that if
Speaker 1: you trade your phone into Apple directly. Right. Let's say
Speaker 1: you buy the iPhone last year for one thousand bucks,
Speaker 1: then you go and you trade it into Apple. They
Speaker 1: will give you the seven hundred dollars towards your new
Speaker 1: phone immediately. So your new phone, let's say the price
Speaker 1: tag is a thousand, you're out the door. Costs is
Speaker 1: three hundred. The way the carriers do it, and this
Speaker 1: is why they're really dangling one thousand dollars eight hundred
Speaker 1: dollars no matter what, even if your phone is old, whatever.
Speaker 1: What they're doing is they're not really giving you one
Speaker 1: thousand dollars all at once. They're taking that money and
Speaker 1: they're dividing it up by anywhere from twenty four months
Speaker 1: to thirty six months, and so you basically have to
Speaker 1: stay with them during that time to get the maximum
Speaker 1: out of that trade and deal, which is sort of
Speaker 1: a quasi contract. And so it's you know, you're gonna
Speaker 1: get more money. And if you're sticking with AT and
Speaker 1: T or Verizon or T Mobile, fine, then it's gonna
Speaker 1: work out for you. But if you're not, if you
Speaker 1: ever want to switch to like one of these low
Speaker 1: cost carriers or these cheaper you know carriers or a
Speaker 1: better plan. You're really gonna be stuck because you will
Speaker 1: have to pay some sort of buyout on that price
Speaker 1: of the phone. So you know, maybe you're just offsetting
Speaker 1: a problem that's gonna happen later. But anyway, lots of
Speaker 1: thoughts on the iPhone, and you know, it's just one
Speaker 1: of these things that it's so it it consumes so
Speaker 1: much of the attention in the tech world, and for
Speaker 1: good reason. I mean, the iPhone was think about this
Speaker 1: the other day. It's become so many things in our lives.
Speaker 1: Like I was thinking of all the things it's just
Speaker 1: kind of like taken out. Maybe I mentioned this last week,
Speaker 1: but it's just you know, it's like if you don't
Speaker 1: bring your phone with you soon, you're not gonna have
Speaker 1: your car keys. Like for me, it's my car key,
Speaker 1: you know, it's my wallet, it's you know, minus my
Speaker 1: ID and some cash. But it's it's really you know,
Speaker 1: it's your music player, it's your notepad, it's your gym tracker,
Speaker 1: it's your activity tracker. It's just everything. And so there
Speaker 1: is a reason. I mean, it's not just like oh,
Speaker 1: the camera on the iPhone. There's so many aspects to
Speaker 1: what the iPhone does in general. And you know, I
Speaker 1: think that these competitors out there are trying, but it's
Speaker 1: really tough to compete with Apple because they've built such
Speaker 1: a sticky ecosystem. Like for me, for instance, like if
Speaker 1: I want to switch out of iPhone, it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I can't I message my kid. That really sucks. Oh
Speaker 1: I lose my air tags. That's not fun. Let's see
Speaker 1: what else I lose my you know, the best best
Speaker 1: in class video that I take on here for TV.
Speaker 1: You know, if I'm ever out on a story anywhere
Speaker 1: in the world and I shoot a little video with
Speaker 1: my iPhone, I know that I can run that video
Speaker 1: on TV because it's gonna look perfect. And so I
Speaker 1: lose that. You know, I lose all these random little
Speaker 1: apps that are that are so well designed for the
Speaker 1: iPhone that these developers have spent their entire lives creating.
Speaker 1: And so you know, there is a reason why I
Speaker 1: lose all the accessories, all the mag safe stuff you
Speaker 1: know that works so nicely. You go into any store
Speaker 1: in the world, you could buy a new case for
Speaker 1: this phone. I mean, really, there are so many considerations,
Speaker 1: and yeah, go ahead, call me an Apple fanboy. I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm really not at all, and I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: defend myself. But the reality is, you know, I really
Speaker 1: like Android, but I need to also be served in
Speaker 1: a way that you know, I get what I need
Speaker 1: out of a phone. And so with the pixel for instance,
Speaker 1: Pixel six pro. Love that phone, but it's just not
Speaker 1: as powerful as i'd like when it comes to like
Speaker 1: the video stuff that I need for my job. And
Speaker 1: you know, so then you say, oh, okay, what about
Speaker 1: the this S twenty two Ultra great? But it's a
Speaker 1: giant phone and it never really feels comfortable in my
Speaker 1: hand and I can't really get used to it, and
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily need the pen on it, and so
Speaker 1: it's like it's great, but you know, also the software
Speaker 1: is like a little bit stumbly for me. You know,
Speaker 1: it's good, but it's not like really really good like
Speaker 1: the iPhone. When you go back to it, you're just like, oh, wow,
Speaker 1: I could find anything on this phone in like one second.
Speaker 1: And then I go to Samsung and I'm like, I
Speaker 1: go to bring up the finder and it's like you know,
Speaker 1: the search the phone, it's it takes literally a couple
Speaker 1: seconds to bring up my app that I'm searching for.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just not acceptable. And face ID is
Speaker 1: also another thing. So anyway, you know, I just try
Speaker 1: to look at all these things and see what they're worth.
Speaker 1: And I think that, you know, most people don't use
Speaker 1: like ninety nine percent of what the iPhone does anyway,
Speaker 1: so it's all good. Anyway, keep those questions coming. Let's
Speaker 1: get to the first question of the podcast, which is
Speaker 1: where is it's here? It is, Oh, look at this?
Speaker 1: Oh great? More iPhone talk, Michael says, is the extra
Speaker 1: two hundred dollars for the iPhone pro worth it over
Speaker 1: the Plus fourteen? I take photos, but I'm not anywhere
Speaker 1: close to someone that really values higher quality. So the
Speaker 1: only difference between the two I think would be the
Speaker 1: New Island. But your video says it still needs work.
Speaker 1: So my thought here is that the fourteen plus should
Speaker 1: be just fine. But I value your suggestion. Thanks in advance, Mike. Mike,
Speaker 1: I agree. If you do not care about your pictures. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying you're not gonna get good pictures out
Speaker 1: of the fourteen plus. You're gonna get great pictures. Are
Speaker 1: they gonna be as good in every situation as the
Speaker 1: fourteen pro. No, but you then again it's you know,
Speaker 1: is it worth the extra two hundred not if you
Speaker 1: don't care about that feature. Dynamic island is not worth
Speaker 1: two hundred dollars always on display. I would make an
Speaker 1: argument for that because that is one of my favorite
Speaker 1: features to see the time and the date in my
Speaker 1: widgets that are you know, coming soon, So that to
Speaker 1: me might be worth it. But you know, again, it
Speaker 1: really comes down to what you want out of your phone.
Speaker 1: So if you don't really care about your pictures that much,
Speaker 1: I think you'll be just fine with a fourteen plus.
Speaker 1: That's coming out, by the way, October seventh. So kind
Speaker 1: of odd that Apple had three models come out the
Speaker 1: same day, but they couldn't somehow get the iPhone fourteen
Speaker 1: plus on the same day, So that's delayed by about
Speaker 1: I guess a three month three weeks came out in
Speaker 1: the sixteenth and then you've got October seventh. That sounds
Speaker 1: like it's about three weeks. So good question, Mike, And
Speaker 1: you know, look to each his own. Everyone has different,
Speaker 1: you know, wants with their phone, and so it just
Speaker 1: comes down to, like I've always said, it just comes
Speaker 1: down to what you need out of your device. All right,
Speaker 1: let's talk about eSIMs, because this is another new thing
Speaker 1: on the iPhone. Now. eSIMs have been around for a
Speaker 1: long time now, nobody has really needed to use them
Speaker 1: until now because they did away with a physical simcard
Speaker 1: on the iPhone. So now people are sort of discovering
Speaker 1: for the first time that wait a second, I don't
Speaker 1: need a simcard on my phone. That's kind of weird.
Speaker 1: And you know, quite honestly, I never used an eSIM
Speaker 1: until my trip to Rome and I activated an eSIM
Speaker 1: for international and it was so easy, it was so amazing,
Speaker 1: and it was the greatest experience, and I was like, wow,
Speaker 1: this is really really cool. Now, if you talk to Apple,
Speaker 1: they've actually secretly, not secretly, but they've they haven't advertised this,
Speaker 1: but they've been activating eSIMs on all of the iPhones
Speaker 1: sold at their stores for the past year, you know,
Speaker 1: without people really knowing that, like, oh you didn't, I
Speaker 1: didn't notice you pop in a SIM card. But they
Speaker 1: didn't need to because they've been activating them. Probably has
Speaker 1: like a beta test, you know, for this big launch,
Speaker 1: and so people are already out there using eSIMs. And
Speaker 1: I think eSIM is is quite amazing actually, because at
Speaker 1: first I was like, oh, that's kind of annoying, like
Speaker 1: you can't just swap SIM cards or whatever. And yeah,
Speaker 1: there will be some uses where that's that is kind
Speaker 1: of annoying because you're always so sort of going through
Speaker 1: the carrier to switch your SIM to a new phone,
Speaker 1: and so you know, there's just a level of like
Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta work with either the phones or
Speaker 1: the carrier or you know, like if you go from
Speaker 1: let's say you went from and this is where I
Speaker 1: think Apple kind of did this on purpose. But let's
Speaker 1: say you do you decide to switch from Android to
Speaker 1: iOS and you activate. You know, you had a physical
Speaker 1: SIM on your Android, and now you go to iOS
Speaker 1: and it's it's eSIM. Well, guess what, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a big barrier to get back to that physical SIM,
Speaker 1: to go back to an Android. Now androids do support eSIMs,
Speaker 1: but again it's just one. You know, iPhone. They sort
Speaker 1: of made the system work really well. But you know,
Speaker 1: with and I don't know what it's like to go
Speaker 1: from eSIM on iPhone to eSIM on Android. You probably
Speaker 1: have to like contact your carrier, like not the easiest situation.
Speaker 1: But what I like about the eSIM is that you
Speaker 1: can literally set up your cellular plan right from your phone.
Speaker 1: You don't need to go to a store. You know.
Speaker 1: A picture and I posted it the other day of
Speaker 1: the the simcard section at Target, and I said, ah,
Speaker 1: this is going the way of news stands and you know,
Speaker 1: mailboxes and postage stamps and magazines and newspapers. It's like
Speaker 1: stuff that like used to be really important but now
Speaker 1: is all just digital. And that's kind of like the simcard.
Speaker 1: You just don't need it. But on the plus side,
Speaker 1: what I think is cool is that all of these
Speaker 1: little carriers now have an option to sort of get
Speaker 1: you in. I mean, you could see a commercial on
Speaker 1: TV for a really good cell phone plan and switch
Speaker 1: to it immediately on your phone. That is pretty powerful
Speaker 1: and really cool. In fact, I was looking at some
Speaker 1: you know, plans online and I found this one from
Speaker 1: US Mobile that I've tested US Mobile in the past.
Speaker 1: It was really good. They run on like either Verizon
Speaker 1: or T Mobile, and they are unlimited plans like forty
Speaker 1: five bucks a month. And I'm like, Okay, that's pretty good,
Speaker 1: so what's the catch. And not only that, but you
Speaker 1: can go on their website and they'll give you let's
Speaker 1: see what's their offer. It's like, you know, they'll they'll
Speaker 1: activate your e SIM immediately to give you a test run,
Speaker 1: just like T mobiles doing as well. So this US mobile,
Speaker 1: let's see what's what's happening here. Let's see. So free
Speaker 1: trial ten days with unlimited talk, text and premium data
Speaker 1: ten days. That's pretty good. So, I mean, that's really
Speaker 1: cool that you could just do that right from your
Speaker 1: from your phone and just activate you know, ten days
Speaker 1: of free service on the iPhone. You can store eight sims.
Speaker 1: Two can be active, six can be sort of dormant.
Speaker 1: And what that means because I know this is kind
Speaker 1: of odd because it's all new, but let's say you
Speaker 1: go to Italy all the time and you wanted to
Speaker 1: keep your Rome SIM cards, you know, with that phone
Speaker 1: number that only works over there. You can keep it,
Speaker 1: you know, dormant but not active on your phone, or
Speaker 1: you can tap it and activate it when you get
Speaker 1: over there. So or you can have you know, one
Speaker 1: SIM for your home number, one SIM for your work number.
Speaker 1: You know, you can do a lot with that. The
Speaker 1: other thing that's kind of neat is that no one
Speaker 1: now is wondering about this the other day. No one
Speaker 1: can just pop the SIM out of your phone and
Speaker 1: put it into another phone. So you know, you have
Speaker 1: this thing called sim swapping or simjacking. So it seems
Speaker 1: like that's kind of a big hole in the whole
Speaker 1: like phone thing. So let's say I take Let's say
Speaker 1: I was evil and I have a phone that's you know,
Speaker 1: I can open and unlocked. And let's say I found
Speaker 1: your phone. Instead of unlocking your phone, I could just
Speaker 1: literally pop that SIM card into my phone, start doing
Speaker 1: some password resets with the one time authorization codes, and
Speaker 1: all those codes would come to my phone because now this, uh,
Speaker 1: this SIM card is in my phone that I can unlock.
Speaker 1: So it kind of defeats the purpose of having a
Speaker 1: phone that locks, so that AGAINESIM, someone can't take it out.
Speaker 1: International roaming is gonna be is gonna be very very
Speaker 1: bumpy road for a lot of people, especially the first year.
Speaker 1: So some carriers lock the e sims to their network. Yeah,
Speaker 1: even the SIM so A T and T for instance,
Speaker 1: as far as I know, their eSIM will be locked.
Speaker 1: If you buy that phone on a financing plan, they
Speaker 1: will lock that eSIM to their network, which means as
Speaker 1: long as you're paying off that phone, you can't use
Speaker 1: that phone on another network, which you know, when you
Speaker 1: go to a go for an international trip, you're gonna
Speaker 1: be like, oh, let me go activate this cool eSIM
Speaker 1: that's cheap for my trip to you know, grease, and
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, no, dice because it's locked. And so
Speaker 1: you know, as far as I know, I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if T Mobile does. I don't think for eyes and
Speaker 1: locks them. So it's interesting. But the point is, no
Speaker 1: matter what carrier you have, you're gonna find out if
Speaker 1: it's locked when you go to get that secondary plan.
Speaker 1: So that's another thing that people are gonna kind of
Speaker 1: get tripped up on. But otherwise I think it's a
Speaker 1: good thing. I did switch my physical SIM to the eSIM,
Speaker 1: and I had a little hiccup, so im my advice
Speaker 1: to you if you're having a hiccup with activating the
Speaker 1: eSIM from from a physical is in my account, I
Speaker 1: had something turned on that was like basically account protection
Speaker 1: where you can't hijack the SIM and take it to
Speaker 1: a different device. And so once I turned that off,
Speaker 1: my simcard activated. I don't know if that was it
Speaker 1: or not, but that was the toggle that I changed,
Speaker 1: and everything seemed to work all right. Next question of
Speaker 1: the show, Dana says, good morning Rich Yesterday I tried
Speaker 1: sending you an email for my computer. It did not send,
Speaker 1: and this message keeps coming up on my screen. I
Speaker 1: later tried sending the same message. It looks like it
Speaker 1: sent for my phone. I can send emails from my
Speaker 1: computer to others. This screen keeps coming up. Every minute
Speaker 1: I've hit the cancel button, it still keeps coming up.
Speaker 1: Any suggestions to get rid of that email and message,
Speaker 1: and she included a little screen shot that says can't
Speaker 1: connect to the account and her Gmail account Dana, Okay, So, Dana,
Speaker 1: what I think happened here is that you either change
Speaker 1: your password for Gmail or you signed out of Gmail
Speaker 1: on your different devices, and that's what's triggering this message.
Speaker 1: So my advice just go ahead delete the account completely
Speaker 1: from your computer. Go into your settings on the mac.
Speaker 1: This yeah, this screenshot looks like a Mac and so
Speaker 1: if you go to Internet accounts, just go ahead and
Speaker 1: tap on the one that you're using and just delete it,
Speaker 1: like press the little minus arrow at the bottom of
Speaker 1: the or the I guess the bottom middle of the screen.
Speaker 1: In that box, there's a plus sign and a minus sign.
Speaker 1: You want to hit the minus sign. Hit the minus
Speaker 1: sign and it will go away, and then you can
Speaker 1: just readd the account. So the way that the Gmail
Speaker 1: accounts work, when you delete them off your computer, you're
Speaker 1: not deleting your email, so you'll be just fine. But
Speaker 1: usually if you're having some sort of like login problem
Speaker 1: like this actually happened to me, and I had, you know,
Speaker 1: switched phones, and so my out Look account on the
Speaker 1: new phone was really giving me trouble, like it wouldn't
Speaker 1: log in even though I kept putting my password in
Speaker 1: and my two factor, it just wouldn't like populate. And
Speaker 1: so finally I just deleted the entire app and account,
Speaker 1: because I first tried deleting the account still wouldn't work.
Speaker 1: So I deleted the app. And when you delete the
Speaker 1: app on the iPhone, it sort of resets the data,
Speaker 1: and so that was a much easier way to fix
Speaker 1: it than to try to keep, you know, putting in
Speaker 1: this code like a thousand times and be like, what's
Speaker 1: happening here, So sometimes you just have to delete and
Speaker 1: start over. It's the oldest fix in the book, but
Speaker 1: sometimes it is the best fix in the book. Good question, Dana,
Speaker 1: thanks for emailing in. All right, what else should we
Speaker 1: talk about? Let's talk about the Amazon Ghost Store. So
Speaker 1: I keep thinking it sounds like Amazon Ghost that would
Speaker 1: be very appropriate for Halloween. But one thing that I
Speaker 1: like to do at my job is get access to
Speaker 1: things before a lot of other people. And this was
Speaker 1: an example of that. Amazon called me up and they said, hey,
Speaker 1: do you want to take a tour of our new
Speaker 1: Amazon Ghost store and Wittier And I'm like absolutely. And
Speaker 1: here's the thing. You know, sometimes I don't really know
Speaker 1: what the story is, but you just know that some
Speaker 1: things just need to be covered. And I get it.
Speaker 1: Amazon has a bunch of fresh stores, you know, the
Speaker 1: grocery stores everywhere. But when a company like Amazon is
Speaker 1: opening up something that's like a new concept like this
Speaker 1: convenience store, you know, yeah, they have a bunch of
Speaker 1: locations and other places, not not a bunch, but like
Speaker 1: twenty seven I think they said, but you know, in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, it's new to people. And I primarily cover
Speaker 1: my tech news from Los Angeles, and so there's a
Speaker 1: lot of people in LA and so they don't know
Speaker 1: what an Amazon Go is. Now. I went into one
Speaker 1: in New York City and I did a little video
Speaker 1: on it, like just for social media, and it was
Speaker 1: still really cool. And so to get access where I
Speaker 1: can actually go in there and like shoot it with
Speaker 1: you know, a good camera and have some time and
Speaker 1: talk to like you know, the people that kind of
Speaker 1: run the store, that's that's really fun. And so this
Speaker 1: is what I did in Whittier. It opened up this
Speaker 1: week in Whittier, California, which is probably about an hour
Speaker 1: outside La I'd say, I mean it's probably by by
Speaker 1: mileage wise, it's probably like twenty miles or twenty five miles,
Speaker 1: but like by driving it, it took me a solid hour,
Speaker 1: so it's kind of kind of wild. It kind of
Speaker 1: took a long time anyway. So Amazon Go is their
Speaker 1: answer to seven to eleven. But it's got this just
Speaker 1: walk out technology. Now, I will tell you the just
Speaker 1: walk out technology is pretty slick. It really is. It's
Speaker 1: these cameras in the ceiling that somehow, when you walk in,
Speaker 1: you become a virtual shopping cart, which is kind of funny.
Speaker 1: That's the way they described it to me. So when
Speaker 1: you walk in, they don't use face recognition, but they
Speaker 1: they basically identify you with enough attributes where it says, okay,
Speaker 1: this guy that looks like this is shopping cart number seven.
Speaker 1: And when I walk through the store and pick something up,
Speaker 1: it says, okay, I'm shopping cart number seven. Just pick
Speaker 1: that up. Oh he's holding it. Okay, Now we'll assign
Speaker 1: that to his virtual car. And then you know, if
Speaker 1: you put something back, it'll take it off your bill.
Speaker 1: But if you walk out, that's it. It says, okay,
Speaker 1: number seven just walked out. What did he finally choose? Okay,
Speaker 1: let's charge him, and then they charge your Amazon account,
Speaker 1: your credit card, or you can sign up with your
Speaker 1: Palm as well with the Amazon one and it will
Speaker 1: you know, just charge your credit card too. That way,
Speaker 1: don't need to be an Amazon Prime member anyway. So
Speaker 1: this looked like a nice, shiny new kind of seven
Speaker 1: to eleven, but with this high tech stuff. And they've
Speaker 1: got a kitchen in there where they're making breakfast stuff
Speaker 1: and lunch stuff. I tried some avocado toasts. They also
Speaker 1: have coffee on demand, like it's one of those machines
Speaker 1: that like grinds the coffee like fresh for you, which
Speaker 1: I don't think is going to work in this situation
Speaker 1: because you know, when you're going into a car. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's great for when you're in there at like two PM,
Speaker 1: right you just want a nice fresh coffee, But when
Speaker 1: you're on your way to work, like you just want
Speaker 1: to dump coffee from a big pitcher or jar or
Speaker 1: you know, dispenser into your cup and be on your way.
Speaker 1: You don't want to wait for this thing to like
Speaker 1: grind beans and make a cup for you. Like that
Speaker 1: just not gonna fly. But they have like a beer
Speaker 1: and wine section. By the way, did you know that
Speaker 1: Amazon has their own wine brand? And this is again
Speaker 1: what I love about going to these things, and like
Speaker 1: you know, talking to these people that run these things,
Speaker 1: is that it's called Cursive brand wine and so that's
Speaker 1: from Amazon. Just kind of cool. I mean it's like
Speaker 1: eight bucks a bottle. I didn't try any, I didn't
Speaker 1: I didn't buy any, so I can't tell you how
Speaker 1: good it is. But I think I should do a
Speaker 1: segment on it, or not a segment, but I should
Speaker 1: do a taste test because so many people wrote me
Speaker 1: about it. I posted to my Instagram. They're like gonna
Speaker 1: how was it, how was it? Okay, what else you've got?
Speaker 1: Let's see what else? So you've got local vendors. So
Speaker 1: this is what they were kind of like pushing, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of like making it seem like they're you're, you know,
Speaker 1: they're one with the community, which you know, maybe they're trying.
Speaker 1: But they had a bunch of local vendors. So a
Speaker 1: bunch of like area bakeries made some of the goods,
Speaker 1: like in the bread and the beers. Most of it
Speaker 1: is like the snacks, of course, but you know, like
Speaker 1: some of the you know, the beers and stuff. California
Speaker 1: is a big beer and wine so clearly that's pretty
Speaker 1: easy to source. I mean, you can say that any
Speaker 1: grocery store sources a lot of local California brands if
Speaker 1: you look down the beer and wine aisle, because so
Speaker 1: many wines and beers are made in California. There's also
Speaker 1: a place to return your packages. There was also a
Speaker 1: Blue Rhino propane exchange outside, which was self service, which
Speaker 1: I had never seen before. I posted that to my
Speaker 1: social media. Apparently that's the thing. I didn't know that
Speaker 1: that would be so convenient in my neighborhood because I've
Speaker 1: been known to drive around to like four or five
Speaker 1: of those places to before I found one that had
Speaker 1: propane back in the pandemic days. They also have self
Speaker 1: service Pinkberry, froio, what else. I mean, it's just cool,
Speaker 1: it's nice. I really have grown to love to just
Speaker 1: walk out technology because it's so easy, it's so fast.
Speaker 1: It's right most of the time. But I would say
Speaker 1: out of I would say maybe one item out of
Speaker 1: every trip is not something that we picked up, and
Speaker 1: so I would, you know, have to just go into
Speaker 1: the app and you say I didn't, I didn't pick
Speaker 1: up that, you know whatever, you know whatever said you got.
Speaker 1: Actually one story for my wife. She she someone in
Speaker 1: the store asked her. She was at an Amazon store
Speaker 1: and someone asked her to pick something off the shelf
Speaker 1: for her, and so she did. It was like on
Speaker 1: a high shelf and my wife could reach it and
Speaker 1: the other person couldn't. She picked this off the shelf
Speaker 1: and she gave it to this person. And then we
Speaker 1: got home and I said, hey, did you buy this whatever?
Speaker 1: It was some random things? She's like no, She's like,
Speaker 1: I took that off the shelf for someone else. And
Speaker 1: I said, ah, that's so funny. That's a little a
Speaker 1: little bug in their system. And so I told that
Speaker 1: to the Amazon people and they were like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: guess yeah, that would be So now they've got to
Speaker 1: figure out how you can, you know, be kind to
Speaker 1: people in their stores and still not get charged for it.
Speaker 1: Or on the flip side, if you just want free
Speaker 1: stuff when you go into an Amazon store, you just
Speaker 1: just ask someone else to grab it for you. Be like,
Speaker 1: I can't reach that shelf. Can you can you grab
Speaker 1: that for me? And they're like, Rich, that's on the himself.
Speaker 1: What's the problem. And you'd be like, ah, I'm just
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not feeling it today, all right, So
Speaker 1: Amazon go, uh kind of a cool idea. I don't
Speaker 1: think they're going to take over seven to eleven anytime soon.
Speaker 1: In fact, I will tell you this, as good as
Speaker 1: the just walk out technology is. Uh. It was installed
Speaker 1: in the Newark Airport when I was flying out a
Speaker 1: couple of months ago. It was like one of those
Speaker 1: little like you know, like a little Hudson stand or
Speaker 1: whatever they you know, the little place where you buy
Speaker 1: waters and stuff. And I thought it was pretty cool,
Speaker 1: but I guess not other people thought it was cool
Speaker 1: because it was gone. The next time it went it
Speaker 1: went back to a regular checkout, and so I asked
Speaker 1: the woman that was working. I said, what happened to
Speaker 1: the Amazon just walk out? She goes, ah, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh no, no one liked it.
Speaker 1: She's like no, It's like, oh interesting. So I don't
Speaker 1: think it works everywhere, but it definitely is a new
Speaker 1: way to shop that is pretty unique and pretty efficient.
Speaker 1: So and in a convenience store, you want to be
Speaker 1: in out very fast and you don't want to wait
Speaker 1: in line. So that is kind of cool. We'll see
Speaker 1: how it works next. Next area othern California to get
Speaker 1: it is going to be Torrance, California. All right, uh?
Speaker 1: Roy Roy with the next question for the show. He says, Hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: does it hurt the MacBook Pro laptop by turning it
Speaker 1: off every evening before going to bed? Or should you
Speaker 1: just close the lid? Thank you, Roy, great question, Roy.
Speaker 1: I would just close the lid. And I don't know
Speaker 1: if this is still a thing because most hard drives
Speaker 1: these days are solid state, So but I will say
Speaker 1: that I think a lot of issues happen during startup
Speaker 1: right the startup, and you know, maybe not so much shutdown,
Speaker 1: but definitely start up. And so you know, when you're
Speaker 1: when you're starting up your computer every day, I feel
Speaker 1: like you're putting it at risk. Now I may be wrong,
Speaker 1: I may not really. Yeah, that may not be a
Speaker 1: thing anymore, but I would argue, what's the point of
Speaker 1: turning it off every day? I mean, I've had my
Speaker 1: laptop now for Let's see how old this thing is.
Speaker 1: It's almost time. I'm waiting for the new M two
Speaker 1: chip on the MacBook Pro sixteen inch, but I don't
Speaker 1: know if we'll see it, hopefully soon. This is from
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, so this is three years old. So the
Speaker 1: thing is, like, I've had this computer for three years.
Speaker 1: I could probably tell you specifically. I might have shut
Speaker 1: it down twice in three years now. Restarting sure, a
Speaker 1: couple of times when you install some software updates stuff
Speaker 1: like that, but like physically saying I'm going to shut
Speaker 1: my computer down now, Like I can't tell you. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think the last time I did it was when
Speaker 1: I went to Rome and I was out of the
Speaker 1: house for a week, and so that was a reason
Speaker 1: to shut it down like completely, because I was like, well,
Speaker 1: the battery's going to probably drip to death anyway, so
Speaker 1: you know, drip drain, and when I come back, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be dead. So I'd rather shut it down properly
Speaker 1: than have it have to go through that thing, right,
Speaker 1: So I would say, don't don't shut it off every night. Now.
Speaker 1: If you want to shut it off once a month, fine,
Speaker 1: I mean, if it's a power thing, you know, the
Speaker 1: computers are pretty good at managing their own power. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's really gonna be sapping a lot of
Speaker 1: power when it's in sleep mode. Yeah, some power is
Speaker 1: gonna be consumed, obviously, but I think I just think
Speaker 1: it's better to just leave it on. I know, if
Speaker 1: you look on Android phones, they've got in the menu
Speaker 1: you can see sort of the uptime of that phone,
Speaker 1: and so I know androids are a little more finicky sometimes,
Speaker 1: especially in the past with how you know, when I
Speaker 1: was robbing them and stuff like that. But you know,
Speaker 1: you would you'd pride yourself on how long you could
Speaker 1: keep that uptime, you know, where you hadn't restarted your phone,
Speaker 1: and sometimes it would be a challenge. Now with the iPhone,
Speaker 1: it's like game over. You don't need to restart that
Speaker 1: or shut it down ever. I mean, the thing just
Speaker 1: like works. It just it's like a warhorse. It just
Speaker 1: goes and goes and goes and goes. So, you know,
Speaker 1: but the computer, I don't think you need to shut
Speaker 1: it down. I think you just just keep it going
Speaker 1: and I think you'll be a okay there, Roy, thanks
Speaker 1: for the question. I know, Roy send sends me a
Speaker 1: lot of questions, so I don't get to all of them,
Speaker 1: but I do try. All right, let's talk about Google Photos.
Speaker 1: This is one of my favorite apps. If not, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to think what is my favorite app? It might
Speaker 1: be Google Photos. And I have some beef with Google
Speaker 1: Photos because the number one thing that is really obnoxious
Speaker 1: about Google Photos is that it does not give you
Speaker 1: a way to back up your photos. Now, yes, you
Speaker 1: can argue that Google takeout handles that, but Google takeout
Speaker 1: is way too complicated. I'm not gonna sit there and
Speaker 1: download thirty five files at five fifty terabytes each or
Speaker 1: whatever the not terabytes, fifty gigabytes each or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: I tried to do the takeout thing once with my giant,
Speaker 1: you know, two point five terabyte collection of photos, and
Speaker 1: there's just no way. I have to spend all day
Speaker 1: trying to download that, and it's just it's just ridiculous.
Speaker 1: So otherwise, I love Google Photos. And I was talking
Speaker 1: about this actually on my Instagram because someone emailed me.
Speaker 1: I think it was last week on the show where
Speaker 1: they said, you know I deleted a picture from or
Speaker 1: where is it? Do I have that in this show?
Speaker 1: I might actually have this question in this show. I
Speaker 1: think I might. Yep, I do. Yeah. So a person
Speaker 1: basically deleted their iCloud pictures or pictures off their phone.
Speaker 1: It deleted from my cloud. And I said, look, this
Speaker 1: is why I like Google Photos, because it's sort of
Speaker 1: a one way sync. The photos go up and they
Speaker 1: stay there. Think about like this giant net right up
Speaker 1: in the sky, and you throw a ball, it goes
Speaker 1: through the net and it comes back down. It's going
Speaker 1: to hit the net on the way down because it's
Speaker 1: only a one way net, right It like kind of
Speaker 1: burst through the net on the way up and then
Speaker 1: it collects it there. That's the way I think of
Speaker 1: Google Photos. It's like your pictures go up into the
Speaker 1: cloud and they don't come back down unless you want
Speaker 1: to download them at some point. But The way that
Speaker 1: iCloud works is everything on your phone is linked like
Speaker 1: you're when you look through your phone at that iCloud,
Speaker 1: it's like looking at the cloud, but also on your phone,
Speaker 1: and it's the delineation between the two can be very
Speaker 1: tricky for people, especially a novice user who's not really thinking, like, oh,
Speaker 1: if I delete this picture, it's deleting out of iCloud.
Speaker 1: Like no, yeah, it's it's deleting it everywhere. So keep
Speaker 1: that in mind. Anyway, I don't know what my point was.
Speaker 1: I'll get to that back the iCloud stuff in a second.
Speaker 1: But so one of my favorite apps is Google Photos.
Speaker 1: I just wish they would give me. Here's what I want.
Speaker 1: I want a hard drive, like a standalone hard drive
Speaker 1: that I can plug into the wall with Wi Fi
Speaker 1: and it I just literally scan a QR code on
Speaker 1: it with my phone. It links it up to my WiFi,
Speaker 1: It links it up to my Google account, and next
Speaker 1: thing you know, that is just twenty four seven sinking
Speaker 1: my Google Photos account. That's it. Every picture, every video
Speaker 1: that I upload, it just sinks to that hard drive.
Speaker 1: I never need to go onto that hard drive ever,
Speaker 1: unless I wake up one day and Google is gone,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, glad I have this little hard
Speaker 1: drive plugged in that's always sinking, because I don't think
Speaker 1: that's gonna happen. But Google, for some reason, does not
Speaker 1: give us an easy way to, you know, make sure
Speaker 1: we're protected in case something happens to them. And I'll
Speaker 1: be honest, I'm at risk and I need to, you know,
Speaker 1: make sure that that's not a thing, because that's really bad.
Speaker 1: And anyway, so the point is, Google, just please make
Speaker 1: that if anyone from Google is listening, just just tell
Speaker 1: your colleagues like hard drive, Wi Fi, plug it in,
Speaker 1: scan QR code with the Google Photos app, links it up,
Speaker 1: sinks everything. You can buy them in a terabyte, five terabytes,
Speaker 1: ten terabytes, you know whatever. It's like a mini server,
Speaker 1: but just for Google Photos. And it's just super simple.
Speaker 1: And you know, I don't think it's going to ruin
Speaker 1: your Google Photos business. Like I'll still pay the twenty
Speaker 1: five bucks a month I pay to keep my stuff
Speaker 1: in there, but I just would I would feel better
Speaker 1: knowing I had a physical copy of my pictures in
Speaker 1: my house. Okay. Anyway, all this to say that they're
Speaker 1: making memories memories is really like one of the best
Speaker 1: ways to experience your pictures on the uh on Google Photos,
Speaker 1: because you know, a lot of times you don't look
Speaker 1: at your pictures. You know, you're not going to scroll
Speaker 1: to a random date and look at your pictures. But
Speaker 1: it does this thing at the top where it sort
Speaker 1: of makes a feed of you know, like right now,
Speaker 1: I've got similar shots, I've got spotlight on my wife,
Speaker 1: I've got my kids, Cooper, Tino, my niece and nephew,
Speaker 1: similar shots, cooking shots, recent highlights, and then one year ago,
Speaker 1: two years ago, three four, five, sixty seven, all the
Speaker 1: way into sixteen years ago, and then something called in
Speaker 1: the woods, so you can flip through all these. Now
Speaker 1: Google says they are improving this. So number one, apparently
Speaker 1: you're going to be able to scroll through your photos
Speaker 1: up and down, which is more like TikTok. So that's
Speaker 1: why I call it your own personal memories TikTok, which
Speaker 1: is really cool because you're on TikTok half the day,
Speaker 1: well some people are, and so why not take the
Speaker 1: you know, the five six seven minutes each day to
Speaker 1: scroll through your Google Photos? Now the one little I
Speaker 1: know I said only had one problem Google Photos, but
Speaker 1: I do have another problem when I am looking at
Speaker 1: a memory on Google Photos. Okay, my options when I
Speaker 1: bring them up are view day, order photo, hide, and
Speaker 1: add to album. Where is the delete button? I just
Speaker 1: need a simple way. When I see a picture in
Speaker 1: the Memories and I'm like, what the heck kind of
Speaker 1: picture is this? Just delete it. I just want to
Speaker 1: be able to delete that right from the memory. I
Speaker 1: don't want to have to like go to that day
Speaker 1: and look at all those pictures from that day. I
Speaker 1: just want to be able to delete that picture. So please, please, Google,
Speaker 1: just add a delete button to the memories when you're
Speaker 1: looking at a photo on a memory. Okay, what else
Speaker 1: are they gonna do? They're gonna do more of those
Speaker 1: cinematic photos, which kind of bring your pictures to life
Speaker 1: in a three D effect. I personally despise as a
Speaker 1: really strong word. I personally really don't like those pictures.
Speaker 1: I think they look weird and creepy. But I'm reading
Speaker 1: the blog here and Google says three D cinematic photos
Speaker 1: have quickly become one of our most saved visual effects
Speaker 1: since they launched in twenty two. I really can't believe that. Okay,
Speaker 1: but soon they say, Uh, they're gonna do full cinematic
Speaker 1: memories that transform multiple still photos into an end to
Speaker 1: end cinematic experience taking you back to that moment in time.
Speaker 1: There's also gonna be music. Okay, that could be kind
Speaker 1: of fun. Uh. They're also doing more styles in the
Speaker 1: uh when you make like a collage of your pictures,
Speaker 1: so that's kind of cool. Uh, and more stylistic pictures
Speaker 1: in general, like sometimes if you notice some of the
Speaker 1: pictures have like a style to them, they'll do that
Speaker 1: as well. What else, what's there other things they're doing.
Speaker 1: Let's see, I should have highlighted this stuff. I didn't.
Speaker 1: Now now you just hear me reading a blog post.
Speaker 1: How much fun is that? Uh? Okay? Anyway, so that's it.
Speaker 1: So I don't see where where the scrolling up and
Speaker 1: down came from. I thought I thought that was on
Speaker 1: this blog post, but I don't see it. Hmm interesting,
Speaker 1: oh uh weird? Okay, Well, I don't know. I thought
Speaker 1: I saw that on this blog post and I I
Speaker 1: let me see. Yeah, I don't even see the word
Speaker 1: down at all. Huh. Okay, Well, I don't know if
Speaker 1: I made that up, but I'm still calling it a
Speaker 1: TikTok for your memories. Okay, it's still it's still a
Speaker 1: TikTok for your memories, even if they don't let you
Speaker 1: scroll up and down. But I thought I could have
Speaker 1: sworn someone said that you can do that, like one
Speaker 1: of the blogs that wrote about this. But I guess
Speaker 1: that's what I get for not double checking before I
Speaker 1: talked about that. Anyway, Uh, Google Photos memories, if you
Speaker 1: haven't looked at them, it's the strip of pictures at
Speaker 1: the top of your Google Photos collection. And if you're
Speaker 1: not using Google Photos, you know, I'm not gonna tell
Speaker 1: you what you have to use. But it's it's really
Speaker 1: phenomenal to me. Like I can search for anything in
Speaker 1: my photo collection and find it in about less than
Speaker 1: a minute. I mean most of the time, it's like
Speaker 1: one or you know, five seconds. I mean, it's uncanny
Speaker 1: how good the search is. It's like a Google search,
Speaker 1: but for your personal photo collection and especially even like
Speaker 1: photo like people that are in videos, like old videos
Speaker 1: that you digitize, you can go through and like find
Speaker 1: like your grandfather, your great grandfather or a relative and
Speaker 1: like see them, like it will identify them in those videos.
Speaker 1: So even if you're at like a family party and
Speaker 1: you you know, you you got a video digitized from
Speaker 1: like your fourth birthday party, and you know Aunt Edna
Speaker 1: was there. You can see her in that video, like
Speaker 1: you know. It's just it's such a magical thing that
Speaker 1: I just can't speak highly enough of it. So Google,
Speaker 1: really really nice job. But please do the suggestions. I asked.
Speaker 1: That's that's what I need. All right, let's talk about
Speaker 1: what this person was was referring to. Let's see here,
Speaker 1: where is it? Okay? No, no oh? Jim said, Hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: I hope you can help. I offloaded all my photos
Speaker 1: to iCloud, then proceeded to delete them from my iPhone seven.
Speaker 1: I know, I know now they're gone from my iCloud
Speaker 1: accounts or any way I can recover these priceless picks.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Jim. So not really, Jim, because it's there.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. A couple ways to look for these.
Speaker 1: Number One, I would look in your recently deleted album
Speaker 1: So if you go into photos albums and then recently
Speaker 1: deleted because you deleted them, they should be in there.
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe they went away out of there,
Speaker 1: but that that would be the first place I look.
Speaker 1: And you might be pleasantly surprised that they're still in
Speaker 1: there because they're supposed to stay in there for about
Speaker 1: I think thirty to forty days, So definitely check there.
Speaker 1: Go into your photos app, open up the albums, and
Speaker 1: then scroll all the way to the bottom, and in
Speaker 1: iOS sixteen, the recently deleted folder is now password protected,
Speaker 1: so you'll have to use face ID or some other
Speaker 1: authorization to get into that folder. For good reason. You know,
Speaker 1: you might have deleted something that you don't want other
Speaker 1: people to see. Alternatively, maybe you made a backup of
Speaker 1: your phone to your computer. You might be one of
Speaker 1: those people that still plugs their computer or their phone
Speaker 1: into their computer to make a full backup. So if
Speaker 1: you have that, you can restore your phone using that backup.
Speaker 1: But that would only work if you backed up your
Speaker 1: phone before you before you wiped it, and then you
Speaker 1: had and you didn't do a new backup since, so
Speaker 1: that's a little trickier. But yes, the lesson learned here
Speaker 1: is that again the option that you want to use
Speaker 1: in on the iPhone is under iCloud under photo Library,
Speaker 1: and it's called Optimize iPhone Storage or something to that effect.
Speaker 1: You want to turn that on, because downloading keep originals
Speaker 1: means that your phone storage is going to fill up.
Speaker 1: No matter how much iCloud you have. You might be
Speaker 1: chasing iCloud storage saying Rich, I'm I have a terabyte
Speaker 1: of iCloud storage, and my iPhone keeps running out of storage. Well,
Speaker 1: that's because you don't have this optimized photo or phone
Speaker 1: storage turned on. And what optimized phone storage does is
Speaker 1: instead of keeping every picture from your iCloud account on
Speaker 1: your phone physically, it keeps representations of them, little thumbnails
Speaker 1: of them, and if you ever need one, it just
Speaker 1: downloads it on the fly from the cloud. So in
Speaker 1: this case, you can really have unlimited storage on your
Speaker 1: iPhone because your iPhone is really just mirroring what's in
Speaker 1: the cloud, and the cloud could be potentially unlimited storage.
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, you're limited by how much Apple will
Speaker 1: give you its storage, but the thing is you can
Speaker 1: really have more on your phone than the storage. And
Speaker 1: a lot of people just they put their hands up,
Speaker 1: they don't get it, they don't really understand. But your
Speaker 1: phone is sort of a window into iCloud. And that's
Speaker 1: what I don't like about it, because it's way too
Speaker 1: like one to one that's why like third party cloud
Speaker 1: services that, like I said, Google Photos, one Edrive, I
Speaker 1: really don't care, Amazon Photos, Iedrive, whatever you want to use,
Speaker 1: you know, just use something that's more cloud based than
Speaker 1: just linked iCloud is just too complicated. It's gotten way
Speaker 1: too complicated for the average person to use it. And
Speaker 1: it's just I don't know. Okay, let's talk about some
Speaker 1: thing else. Sorry you lost those pictures. I really hope
Speaker 1: you didn't. That's really hope you didn't. Okay. iOS sixteen
Speaker 1: couple of tips and tricks since it's brand new. So
Speaker 1: I just talked about the recently deleted photos folder that
Speaker 1: has been around forever or I don't know, it's been
Speaker 1: around for a while. But now iOS sixteen has added
Speaker 1: a recently deleted folder to messages, and so you can
Speaker 1: you know, you may not realize that your messages when
Speaker 1: you're deleting them are still on your phone. So now
Speaker 1: if you go into messages and you tap edit in
Speaker 1: the upper left hand corner, there is an option for
Speaker 1: recently deleted and I can look in here, and I've
Speaker 1: got all kinds of messages in here. Wow, And so
Speaker 1: you can see your recently deleted messages and you can
Speaker 1: delete them all or you can recover them all and
Speaker 1: they go away after about anywhere from thirty to forty days.
Speaker 1: And so if you're looking for something that you deleted again,
Speaker 1: just open up your messages upper left hand corner, tap
Speaker 1: edit and then it says show recently deleted. That is
Speaker 1: new and iOS sixteen, So if you're not running iOS sixteen,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to run that to get that new feature.
Speaker 1: Another new feature that a lot of people are liking
Speaker 1: is haptic typing, and this is again new and iOS sixteen.
Speaker 1: And so if you want your phone to sort of
Speaker 1: vibrate a little bit when you press the keyboard keys,
Speaker 1: you can turn this on. This has been an Android
Speaker 1: feature forever and it's just coming to iPhone now, and
Speaker 1: it's in iOS sixteen, so it will work on various
Speaker 1: older phones. But it just uses the same thing when
Speaker 1: you know, when you feel like some sort of vibration
Speaker 1: from your phone, same thing, except now it's for the keyboard.
Speaker 1: And so if we go into settings, okay, let me
Speaker 1: see exactly where this is settings, and we go into
Speaker 1: sound and haptics. It's not under the keyboard. You would
Speaker 1: think it's the keyboard settings, but no, it sounds and haptics,
Speaker 1: which is under notifications, and then you scroll up it
Speaker 1: says keyboard feedback and you have sound haptic or both.
Speaker 1: And so back in the day when the iPhone first
Speaker 1: came out, I thought that the clickity click sound on
Speaker 1: the iPhone keyboard was so cool. I mean, it was
Speaker 1: so The keyboard on the iPhone was just so great.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if you remember this, but the
Speaker 1: keys when you press them, they used to get bigger.
Speaker 1: It was almost like one of those old school typewriters
Speaker 1: where the letter would like come up. I don't know
Speaker 1: what you call it, like a rotary typewriter. I have
Speaker 1: no idea, but it's like the letter was like a
Speaker 1: big I don't know, like it was like hit the paper.
Speaker 1: It would like come up. It was like but it
Speaker 1: would like it would you know, it was like every
Speaker 1: letter was on like some sort of little metal rod
Speaker 1: that would like pop up and hit the paper. And
Speaker 1: so when you first had the iPhone, that's what it
Speaker 1: reminded me of. The keyboard. The letter used to look
Speaker 1: like that, like it was like a It almost looked
Speaker 1: like an old school, you know, keyboard on a typewriter
Speaker 1: that you know, you'd press and it would like come
Speaker 1: up bigger, and then it would go back down and
Speaker 1: it would make that cool clickety clackity sound. And now
Speaker 1: my phone's always on silence, so I never hear the
Speaker 1: clickity clackity. But I do like having the feedback, the
Speaker 1: haptic feedback. So turn it on if you want to
Speaker 1: try it out and see what it's all about. You
Speaker 1: can always turn it off if you don't like it.
Speaker 1: But it is kind of fun. I think it's it's
Speaker 1: good and it's bad. You might be so used to
Speaker 1: typing without it, it might make you a slower typer, or
Speaker 1: you might end up loving it. So try it out.
Speaker 1: It's good to have options, right, Okay, let's see, I
Speaker 1: think we skipped a couple questions here. Oh, Bobby says rich.
Speaker 1: What's your thoughts? Have you had a chance to review
Speaker 1: the Aura ring? What features can you use if you
Speaker 1: don't sign up for the membership? Oh? Good question, Bobby.
Speaker 1: So I did get an or a ring for my
Speaker 1: wife for my birthday, and so I you know, I
Speaker 1: told her, I said, look, don't buy me tackle come on,
Speaker 1: like I I will get tech that I need, like
Speaker 1: I don't need you to buy me tech, like I
Speaker 1: will choose the tech that I need like you you
Speaker 1: you concentrat. She's a very good gift giver, but I,
Speaker 1: you know, I kind of seek out the tech that
Speaker 1: I want and I'll get it. And so it's, you know,
Speaker 1: she heard me talking about the ore ring and how
Speaker 1: I wanted it, and so she just went out and
Speaker 1: got it, which is fine. It's a really cool thing.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a three hundred dollars ring and it
Speaker 1: looks like a regular ring, but it has a it
Speaker 1: has like a whole bunch of sensors inside. So let's see,
Speaker 1: can I tell you what sensors it has? So it
Speaker 1: has activity and fitness tracking, it's got sleep tracking. It's
Speaker 1: got activity tracking. I think I said that, it's got
Speaker 1: audio meditations. Oh the other it's got temperature sensing, it's
Speaker 1: got oxygen. I mean, it's got a lot of sensors on.
Speaker 1: I wish I could find like a oh okay, here's
Speaker 1: it's got oh yeah, yeah, oxygen sensing, twenty four to
Speaker 1: seven heart rate trends, and so really they're big thing
Speaker 1: is this thing called like your readiness score. And so
Speaker 1: it kind of looks at your whole body like everything
Speaker 1: that it's measuring, and it comes up with a score
Speaker 1: of when you wake up. It's like how ready are
Speaker 1: you to take on the day. And so in the
Speaker 1: three days I wore it before I realized I got
Speaker 1: too small of a size. That readiness score really was
Speaker 1: interesting because the two days I got like a ninety something,
Speaker 1: but another day I got like a seventy or eighty,
Speaker 1: and I could definitely tell my mood and energy was
Speaker 1: not as good on that day. So I never really
Speaker 1: thought about the correlation between having a rough day the
Speaker 1: day before and how you feel the next day, right
Speaker 1: like if you went to the gym, or you did
Speaker 1: a big workout, or you didn't get much sleep or
Speaker 1: all the above combined or jet lag or alcohol or anything.
Speaker 1: And so this ring is sort of more kind of
Speaker 1: a holistic approach. It's not as much as like the
Speaker 1: Apple Watch, where it's like I want to track a
Speaker 1: workout right now and see my heart rate and see
Speaker 1: my you know whatever. This is more of like a
Speaker 1: whole body kind of experience, like you want to see
Speaker 1: how are you doing as a as an individual? Rich
Speaker 1: DeMuro and so, you know, I thought it was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: So I'm still not sold on whether I'm gonna keep it.
Speaker 1: I think my time is ticking down on my return window,
Speaker 1: but it is. It is really interesting. I think that
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of a little redundant with having an
Speaker 1: Apple Watch. That kind of annoys me. But I also
Speaker 1: like the fact that it's I don't need an Apple Watch,
Speaker 1: but I kind of love my Apple Watch. So I
Speaker 1: don't know. So we'll see. So the answer your question,
Speaker 1: I don't have a I don't have a decision just
Speaker 1: yet on the Aura ring, but and when it comes
Speaker 1: to the the membership, right, so I need to I
Speaker 1: need to see. I know it's six dollars a month,
Speaker 1: so let's see. What does the membership do? Detailed sleep analysis,
Speaker 1: twenty four to seven heart rate tracking, third party apps, integration,
Speaker 1: temperature monitoring, blood oxygen so interesting. Without membership, you cannot
Speaker 1: access the Aura API, but you can still download your
Speaker 1: data through the web. Uh yeek, that's not good. That's see.
Speaker 1: That's kind of weird. They don't even put like a
Speaker 1: you know, the membership fee on their like homepage like
Speaker 1: it's a little bit anyway, So interesting, Can I use
Speaker 1: my Aura without a membership. Oh wow. The Gen two
Speaker 1: ring does not require membership, but Gen three does. You'll
Speaker 1: have limited functionality, so yeah, you do. You do kind
Speaker 1: of need the membership, which is six bucks a month.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a lot to just know you're already
Speaker 1: paying for this thing, and I gotta pay forever. So anyway,
Speaker 1: good question. I will have a full review. I'm gonna,
Speaker 1: you know, get the new size in hopefully soon, and
Speaker 1: then I will I will, you know, Once I do that,
Speaker 1: I'll figure it out and put it on TV and
Speaker 1: all that good stuff. All right, good question? All right?
Speaker 1: Do I have anything else to talk about that I
Speaker 1: didn't mention the Kindle? Did I mention the Kindle? New
Speaker 1: Kindle and Kindle Kids? So what do you need to
Speaker 1: know about the new Kindle? Not much. If you need
Speaker 1: a new Kindle, you go on the website, you buy it.
Speaker 1: Kindles last forever for the most part, so it's not
Speaker 1: like people are buying these things. But the one nice
Speaker 1: thing is that the standard Kindle, the basic bottom of
Speaker 1: the line, bottom of the line entry level, I should say,
Speaker 1: that's a nicer way of saying it right now has
Speaker 1: USBC charging, So that's a win. Finally, one less cable
Speaker 1: to carry around. My Kindle still has the micro USB,
Speaker 1: so that's the one cable when I travel I need
Speaker 1: to carry still is micro USB, lightning and USBC. I
Speaker 1: can't wait for the day when it's all USBC. That
Speaker 1: is going to be such a great day. So the
Speaker 1: new Kindle ninety nine ninety nine. My advice, never ever,
Speaker 1: ever pay full price for a Amazon device. They go
Speaker 1: on sale quite regularly. Amazon is more in the data
Speaker 1: business and the added sales business of selling you books
Speaker 1: on this thing. So do not pay full price for
Speaker 1: an Amazon product. Wait for it to go on sale.
Speaker 1: You can use an app like Honey to track the price.
Speaker 1: You can use something like Camel Camel Camel, but just
Speaker 1: set a price alert when that price drops, that's when
Speaker 1: you buy it, or buy it during the holidays, buy
Speaker 1: it during Prime Day, buy it during a sale. Do
Speaker 1: not pay full price for Amazon products. It's just not
Speaker 1: worth it. They go on sale regularly. Let's see, so
Speaker 1: the bottom of the entry level has the you know,
Speaker 1: three hundred resolution, so that's like a higher resolution display,
Speaker 1: three hundred ppi, so three times more than before, three
Speaker 1: times more pixels. I should say, I don't think it's three.
Speaker 1: I don't think the old was one hundred PPI, two
Speaker 1: times of storage with sixteen gigs now six weeks of
Speaker 1: battery life USBC charging dark Mode. It's got the front
Speaker 1: light which is adjustable. And there's also a new Kindle
Speaker 1: Kids for one hundred and twenty dollars. Don't forget the
Speaker 1: price of these Kindles at one and one hundred and twenty. Well,
Speaker 1: not for the kids, but one hundred dollars is the
Speaker 1: ads supported version of that Kindle, So that means when
Speaker 1: you on your lock screen you're gonna have ads. If
Speaker 1: you don't want ads, you can pay twenty bucks to
Speaker 1: get rid of them, which I highly recommend because then
Speaker 1: you can show the cover of the book that you're
Speaker 1: reading on your home screen, which I think is a
Speaker 1: much better use of the Kindle home screen than seeing
Speaker 1: random ads every time it's just sitting there. The other
Speaker 1: thing is that you can get four months of Kindle
Speaker 1: Unlimited membership included, so that's like basically a forty dollars
Speaker 1: value if you use books that are on Kindle Unlimited.
Speaker 1: But there you go, all right, oh my gosh, I
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