WEBVTT - iOS 18 & Apple Intelligence 0:00:01.040 --> 0:00:04.520 Apple adds AI to the iPhone. I'll explain how they're 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:09.200 doing it differently and which phones will get it. Microsoft 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:15.920 recalls it's recall feature the international E SIM that's completely free. 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:20.160 Plus your tech questions answered. What's going on on rich 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:23.680 Demiro And this is Rich on Tech. This is the 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:25.520 show where I talk about the tech stuff I think 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:27.760 you should know about. It's also the place where I 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:31.639 answer your questions about technology. I believe that tech should 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:36.000 be interesting, useful and fun. Let's fire up those phone 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:39.240 lines at triple A rich one oh one. 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Smith will 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:25.319 join us to talk about what to look for in 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:27.080 a new computer monitor. 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:29.240 Well, you just heard Luke Combs. 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:32.080 We went to his concert last night where the Wild 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:34.000 Things Are Great concert. 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:36.760 Just want to say thank you to everyone who came 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:37.120 up to me. 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:39.760 Who would ever think that people would come up to 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:42.720 a tech guy to say, rich, I love your stuff, 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:44.840 I love what you do. I learn a lot from you. 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:47.720 I mean, after a while, my wife was actually getting embarrassed. 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:52.080 She thinks it's funny, and you know, it's just it 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:55.440 really it's it means so much to me because it 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:58.200 means that what I'm doing here and what I'm doing 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:03.960 at KTLA just really resonates with folks, and it's just 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:06.720 so amazing to me. I mean, anyway, I want to 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:08.799 say thank you. And it was a lot of fun. 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:11.440 We had a blast at the concert. Luke Combs was great. 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:13.040 If I got any country fans out there, you know 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:15.960 what I'm talking about, great, great artists. Second time I've 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:19.000 seen them. Actually, all right, let's get to the tech 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:22.120 news of the week. I was in Cooper Tino for 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:25.839 Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference twenty twenty four. This is where 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:29.520 Apple tells you all about the stuff that's coming soon 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:32.359 to their various products. They've got the iPhone, they've got 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:36.240 the iPad, they've got Apple Vision Pro, they've got Mac computers, 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:39.079 they've got the Apple Watch. What am I leaving out? 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:41.560 I think that's about it. They've got a lot of stuff. 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:43.240 So this is where they go through, and this was 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:47.840 super fast, I mean, super super charged. They just blasted 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:50.079 through all these new features because there's so many of them. 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:53.720 No new hardware, but a lot of new features, including 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:57.440 iOS eighteen and Apple Intelligence. I'm going to focus on 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:00.720 those two right now, but throughout the show, fairwarning, going 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:02.960 to talk a lot about Apple because they're in the 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:04.919 news this week. They had their big event. We talked 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:07.440 about Google a couple weeks ago, we talked about Microsoft, 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:09.680 we talked about Open AI. 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:11.600 Now it is Apple's turn. 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:15.120 So iOS eighteen this is the new software that's launching 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:17.160 in the fall. It's going to work on the iPhone 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:21.800 ten R and later, and also the iPhone S two 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:25.640 and later. So from what I've seen, as long as 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:28.480 your phone is running iOS seventeen right now, it should 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:30.320 get the upgrade to iOS eighteen. 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:32.840 That doesn't mean it's getting the AI upgrade. 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:35.120 More on that in a moment, but first let's talk 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:39.800 about iOS eighteen getting much more customizable. So I'm really 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:42.720 taking a page from Android here and making the iPhone 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:46.440 pretty much as customizable as you can imagine. Icons can 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:48.800 now be placed anywhere on the home screen. I know 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:51.160 that sounds silly if you're an Android user because you've 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.680 had that since day one, but the iPhone has not, 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:55.800 So no, I can place your icons anywhere you want. 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:56.880 You can change their color. 0:03:57.480 --> 0:04:00.800 The control center is getting much more useful with multiple pages. 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:03.160 That's the portion of your phone where you sort of 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:05.280 swipe down from the upper right hand corner to bring 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:09.920 up things like the volume control and the Wi Fi 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:12.080 toggles and all that stuff. You're gonna be able to 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:15.680 make multiple pages there, and third party apps can finally 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:18.160 put their controls in there as well, so if you 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:20.680 have a favorite app and you want toggle something very quickly, 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:23.320 you'll be able to do it. Even the lock screen 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:26.679 shortcuts can now be customized, so instead of just having 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:29.960 access to the camera and the flashlight, you can now 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:32.520 put whatever you want there as long as developers make 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:35.880 a widget for the lock screen. Another new feature, This 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:39.240 one is kind of interesting and or controversial and or helpful. 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:43.160 You can now lock down apps behind a passcode or 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:45.080 face ID. So if you have an app that you 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:46.840 don't want people when they get your phone in their 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:50.120 hands opening up, you can lock it down with a 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:52.360 passcode or your face ID. They will not be able 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:56.400 to open that app without unlocking your phone. Even with 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:58.640 the phone unlocked, they'll still need to do a secondary 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:02.400 passcode or face ID. Now, another level of this is 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:04.120 a hidden apps folder. 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:05.560 This is a folder where you. 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:08.240 Can put apps inside, and nobody using your phone can 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:13.760 even see what those apps are without unlocking with face ID. So, yeah, 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:15.640 that's going to be an interesting one because people can 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:18.720 hide apps from just about anyone inside that folder and 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:21.640 nobody will know. I message getting a lot of upgrades. 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:25.000 You can use any emoji to react to a message. 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:27.960 You can schedule text messages to go out later. You 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:31.200 can format the text in text messages with various effects 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:35.359 in styling. You can send messages via satellite if you 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:37.560 don't have a cellular or Wi Fi signal. If you 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:40.640 have an iPhone fourteen or fifteen or later, you'll be 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:44.279 able to send messages over satellite no extra cost. Right now, 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:46.800 Apple has still not said how much they're going to 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:50.000 charge for any of these satellite features, but people have 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:52.840 enjoyed them now for over a year or two now 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:55.920 for free. One of the big things they didn't really 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:58.560 go into very much but arecs. They are now going 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:04.160 to support rich communication services. This means that messages exchanged 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:08.280 between iPhone and Android, if they include a picture or 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:13.000 a video, will finally look their best. Yes, this is 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:15.880 a long time coming. It will finally cut down on 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:19.599 that whole iPhone versus Android debate with messages because you 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:23.359 can finally send people photos and videos that are high resolution. 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:27.560 iOS eighteen is also getting a dedicated passwords app, so 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:30.280 all these third party password managers you'll be able to 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:34.599 use just the one that's inside iOS eighteen. And let's 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:39.799 talk about Apple Intelligence. This is Apple's personal brand of AI. 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:42.800 So of course, leave it to Apple to rename an 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:45.000 entire genre of technology. 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:46.440 They can't call it AI. 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:49.680 They have to rename it instead of artificial intelligence. It 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:54.400 is Apple Intelligence. So Siri is now getting reprogrammed to 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:59.719 become a powerful AI chatbot programmed with knowledge about you. 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:03.400 That means that it will have access to your email, 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:07.920 your text messages, your photos, anything that you have on 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:10.920 your phone, Siri will be able to tap into to 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:14.440 understand the emails that you're sending, and you can ask 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:17.160 questions like, Hey, when's my flight tomorrow? Or do I 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:19.640 have lunch plans next week? Who am I having lunch with? 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:22.560 Show me that picture of me in Montana diving into 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:25.200 a pool, and not only will it find that video, 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:29.040 it theoretically will fast forward right to you diving in 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:33.840 that pool in Montana. Yes, powerful stuff. Powerful stuff requires 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:38.080 a powerful iPhone. Apple Intelligence is only coming to the 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:42.560 iPhone fifteen Pro models and up. Apple says they need 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:45.440 this processing power and the older phones just don't give 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:48.000 it to them. So if you have an iPhone fourteen, 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:50.560 you're not getting these AI features. Now, to some of 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:52.520 you you might like that, but to the rest of 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:55.480 you you might say wow. Or even an iPhone fifteen 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:58.920 you will not get the AI stuff. Apple also build 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:02.880 what's called a private cloud compute, so they have kind 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:06.200 of a trifold method of doing AI on the iPhones. 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:08.360 They're going to try to handle it on the phone itself. 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:10.960 If that's not enough, they're going to hand it off 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:15.200 to this private cloud compute, and that is built with 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:19.880 Apple products and Apple processors, and it's all very private. 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:22.320 So it will take your question, it might take some 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:24.800 of your data, but when it's done answering your question 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:26.360 and setting it back to your phone, it's going to 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:29.520 delete all that data. So they have said that privacy 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:32.120 is paramount, and I do believe Apple because I sat 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:34.679 through a lot of briefings where they talked about how 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:37.960 much privacy they built into these new AI systems, and 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:41.000 it is private. Now Chat GBT is also going to 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:44.560 be built into the iPhone that is also not as private, 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:47.000 but a little bit more private. So they did a 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:48.880 deal with open ai where they said, look, you can 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:52.120 have access to all of our iPhone users, but you're 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:54.560 not going to get just carte blanche access. When they 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:57.360 have a question, We're going to ask them every single time, 0:08:57.720 --> 0:08:59.920 do you want us to flip this question over to CHATCHI? 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:02.720 And if they do, we're still not going to share 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:05.320 any personal identifiable information with them. 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:06.520 You're going to answer their. 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:08.680 Question, and as soon as you do, you've got to 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:12.720 delete their data and you cannot train your GPTs on 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:15.840 their data. Now, why did open ai agree to this? 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:19.040 Because it's Apple, they get to tap into millions and 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:21.680 millions of iPhone users. That's a big new audience for them, 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:26.080 and it's a lot of exposure. The big catch to 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:28.839 all of this stuff you have to be fully immersed 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:33.280 in the Apple ecosystem. Now they say eventually third party 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:35.480 apps you can have your information in there and it 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:37.800 may be able to tap into this Apple Intelligence. But 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:40.000 right now, let's be honest, a lot of it's going 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:43.439 to be through Apple Mail, Apple messages, Apple Photos. 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:46.240 They want you to use Apple services. 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:49.440 A couple other interesting things come in with these, Apple 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:53.160 Intelligence and image Eraser. This will remove unwanted people and 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:56.679 things from your photos, the ability to create AI images 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:58.280 from your photo library. 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:00.120 A built in phone call. 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:02.679 Recorder, so now you can have your iPhone record all 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:06.959 of your calls, transcribe and summarize them. Jen Moji these 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:09.520 are custom emojis you can create, so if you want 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:11.960 to send someone a picture of a donut in coffee, 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:15.160 you can just say create a custom emoji. And of 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:19.920 course the system wide tools for rewriting, proofreading, and summarizing text. 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:20.920 It is a lot. 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:24.000 I've outlined every one of these features in my newsletter 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:26.640 this week. Go to Rich on tech dot tv to 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:29.520 read it. We will talk about more of this throughout 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:32.960 the show, but yes, Apple is putting a big dose 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:36.160 of AI into their iPhones. It's going to be exciting, 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:38.120 it's going to be interesting. We will see how it 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:40.920 all plays out. Let's hope it's half as good as 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:41.640 they promised. 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:42.600 All right. 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:47.680 Coming up on today's show, Microsoft already recalling their AI feature. 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:49.640 We're going to talk about that, but first it is 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:52.200 your turn. Give me a call. Your call's coming up 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:55.120 at eight eight eight Rich one oh one. That's eight 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:58.360 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:00.839 Give me a call if you have a question technology. 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:04.200 My name is Richdmiro and you are listening to Rich 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:12.120 on tech. Steve from Pittsburgh writes in what are your 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:16.199 recommendations for buying e sims for data for foreign travel? 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:19.400 I travel a lot on cruises, and my additional free 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:22.439 data via T mobile is not fast enough for me. 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:25.360 Thanks well, Steve, Thanks for writing. 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:25.960 In on the website. 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:32.440 The answer I typically give is errol ai r alo ai, 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:37.160 r alo errolo. They've got all kinds of sims that 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:42.280 I've personally used in various countries. I've used this in Japan, 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:46.160 I've used this in Germany. I've used this in Italy 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:50.120 and some other places sprinkled throughout so you can get 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:53.960 local sims. You can get one that's just for a country, 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:57.160 you can get one that's regional, or you can get 0:11:57.160 --> 0:12:00.160 one that's global. Obviously, the more global you can go, 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:02.720 the more expensive it's going to get. The more local 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:06.000 you go, the typically the cheaper it is. And these 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:08.520 work very very well. I will tell you my mom, 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:12.040 who is not a techie, I was able to purchase 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:15.240 this for her over the internet, have her install it 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:18.760 on her phone, and when she landed in the foreign 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:21.000 country that she went to, I said, just go into 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:25.000 your settings, toggle on the eSIM and you will be 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:27.679 able to connect to that network. And she was able 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:31.200 to and her friends were marveling at her because they 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:33.679 couldn't believe that their phones were not working and hers were. 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:37.400 My other advice before you buy an eSIM is to 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:40.080 check with your cell phone company. So I know Steve 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:43.959 said that his data was too slow. But if you're 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:48.760 with like an AT and T or a Verizon, sometimes 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.440 depending on your plan, they will give you a certain 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:55.480 number of days included of their day pass. Typically they 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:58.000 charge about ten dollars a day for a day pass 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:01.280 and sometimes to ending. On your plan, you may get 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:04.400 one of those every month, or you may stalk those up. 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:06.679 So for instance, on my plan, I have like ten 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:09.640 of these stockpiled, so if I travel somewhere for a week, 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:12.920 I'm pretty much covered for the week with those. 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:14.240 Stockpiled day passes. 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:19.080 I still prefer Aerlow better because it's just easier, it's simpler. 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:21.520 I can turn off my regular cell phone service, but 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:24.440 also check into Wi Fi calling and texting, because you 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:26.800 should be able to get your texts and your calls 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:30.880 internationally through your Wi Fi connection as long as your 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:35.120 provider does not charge for that service. Most of them don't. Also, 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:37.520 by the way, I ran this entire radio show. We 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:40.960 did a remote show in Germany off an Aerlo simcard, 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:43.400 so I know it's pretty good. I couldn't believe it, 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:45.920 and it did not use much data at all. Now 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:48.480 some other options. There's a new one. I was not 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:52.760 familiar with this one, but it's called gig Sky gigsky 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.520 dot com. I have not tested this, but I was 0:13:55.640 --> 0:14:00.760 very surprised because you can actually get a free INTERNATIONALESIM 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:04.640 from them. So they offer a free one hundred megabyte 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:07.440 eSIM data plan that you can use in over one 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:09.600 hundred and ninety countries. You don't even need a credit 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:14.360 card to try it out. So my recommendation is if 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:18.280 you are traveling anywhere internationally, the best you can do 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:21.480 for yourself is to just go to gigsky dot com 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:24.560 download this eSIM, even if you don't need it, just 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:26.800 to try it out and get the hang of it. 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:29.640 Let's say you have Verizon and you get those free days, 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:31.800 but just go ahead and go through the motions of 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:34.240 setting up this eSIM, just so you're familiar with it. 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:39.560 Because eSIMs have really revolutionized data internationally because it's so 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:44.360 easy and most of the modern smartphones support them. In fact, 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:46.560 if you have an iPhone I think it's fourteen, they 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.840 switched over completely to an eSIM, so you can't even 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:54.320 pop a physical SIM into the latest iPhones. So gigsky 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:58.400 g I g Sky dot com. That's another option and 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:00.880 another option. Again I have not to tested, but this 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:02.640 is what I do. I will mention these, but I 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:07.680 will test them eventually. Is called Sally sail Y, maybe 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:10.920 it's called Sale. I would think it's Sally, but they 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:12.640 also have and what's good about all of these e 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:14.040 sims is they kind of work the same. 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:16.120 You just search for the country you're going to. 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:18.280 You type it into the website, it will tell you 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:21.760 how much it costs, and then you can download the 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:24.080 SIM to your the e SIM to your phone. It's 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:26.320 very simple, and then you just activate it when you 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:28.840 land in that country. So if you want links to 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:31.040 any of those, just go to the website. Rich on 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:34.000 tech dot TV hit the light bulb. I'll put that 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:37.120 in there. Thanks for the question. If you have one 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:39.520 eight eight eight rich one O one eight eight eight 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:44.160 seven four to two four one zero one. The news 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:48.680 this week Microsoft is actually delaying its recall feature for 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:51.560 those Copilot Plus PCs. We talked about this so much 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:55.280 a couple of weeks ago. Microsoft was so excited about 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:58.240 this new recall feature that remembers everything on your screen 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:00.440 and lets you search for it. And then the next 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:02.280 week they said, oh, you know what, because of all 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:04.120 the privacy concerns, we're not going to turn it on 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:07.520 by default, and we're going to require the face ID 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:11.080 login Microsoft hellow. And now this week they're just coming 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:12.720 out and saying, you know what, we're actually not even 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:15.800 gonna include it on those computers that are available on 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:18.600 June eighteenth. We're just going to make this for our 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:22.720 Windows Insider program. Those are like the real techy nerdy 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:25.440 folks that download the software before everyone else. We're gonna 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:28.239 let them try it out first, give us their feedback, 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:31.560 and then maybe we'll activate this as an option on 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:35.600 those Copilot plus PCs. So Microsoft doing a full one 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:38.600 to eighty on this new AI powered recall feature. 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:40.840 Pretty wild stuff eighty eight. 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:43.280 Rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:46.080 two four one zero one. My name is Rich dmiro. 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:53.760 You are listening to Rich on tech Tony in Los Angeles. 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:54.560 You're on with Rich. 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:55.160 What's up? 0:16:57.080 --> 0:16:57.320 Hello? 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:05.159 I recently noticed a feature or a voicemail on my 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:11.480 iPhone where you can send it to a voicemail, but 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:16.359 it starts texting you a live I guess text of 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:19.320 the voicemail and if you want, you can answer it, 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:23.320 sort of like an answering machine. Are you aware of that? 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:25.120 And do you know anything about it? 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:26.800 Have you noticed it? 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:27.760 Yes? 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:30.600 I've noticed it, and so has everyone else. Because here's 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:34.600 the deal. It is annoying. It hijacked everyone's voicemail on 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:37.280 the iPhone, and Apple didn't even tell anyone they were 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:39.600 doing this, so yes, they announced it. 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:42.040 It is called live voicemail. 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:45.280 This is a feature that was introduced with iOS seventeen 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:49.600 and this was turned on by default, and people all 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:52.360 of a sudden started noticing their phones were acting strange, 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:56.320 their voicemail was acting different, and it was just turned on. 0:17:56.920 --> 0:18:01.320 So live voicemail basically shows you what the caller is 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:04.159 saying as they leave a voicemail message. It displays the 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:07.280 message in real time on your screen, sort of like 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:10.679 an old school voicemail or not voicemail, sort of like 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:13.760 an old school answering machine. The caller cannot hear you 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:16.280 unless you decide to answer the call. Now, this is 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:19.200 obviously good for like cutting down on spam and things 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:21.480 like that, but I think it surprised a lot of 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:24.160 people because they just said, wait, what's going on here. 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:26.160 I'm not really sure what my phone is doing at 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:29.400 this point. And so you have the option to turn 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:32.280 this on or off. If you want to turn it off, 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:34.440 you can go into the settings app on your iPhone, 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:38.960 tap phone and then tap live voicemail, and that will 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:42.520 turn the feature on or off. So if you want 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:45.439 to see what people said in the live voicemails, you 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:48.720 can look in the voicemail tab. iPhone won't delete these, 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:52.800 And it's just one of these things where I'm fine 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:55.640 with it. I mean, I don't use voicemail in general, 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:58.520 Like I don't even answer for a while. My phone 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:01.040 just would not even have voicemail until I think they 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:04.600 toggled this on. I just recently turned voicemail on on 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:07.120 my phone. But the thing is, I don't need voicemail, 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:09.120 like if someone if I see a missed call from 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:11.159 a number, I know, I'm gonna call it back. Uh, 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:14.880 and usually that person's gonna text me too. So that's 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:18.879 the explanation for this live voicemail feature. I think it's 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:21.040 a little odd that Apple turned it on for everyone, 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:24.200 and it is a little confusing, So if you want 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:26.320 it off, you can go into settings and turn it off. 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:29.199 But I mean, I guess it's quite useful if you 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:32.520 like to screen your calls, and this is something you 0:19:32.640 --> 0:19:36.879 are not able to easily do with your traditional voicemail carrier. 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:39.480 But if you just want the regular voicemail experience where 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:42.439 it goes to voicemail, person leaves a message and you 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:45.160 can check it later, you can you can just turn 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:50.280 this feature off in the settings. Tony, thanks for the question, Tony, 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:51.359 good question today. 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:51.960 Appreciate it. 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:56.200 Eighty eight rich one one eight eight eight seven four 0:19:56.280 --> 0:20:00.520 to two four one zero one. Let's see, let's go 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:03.119 to do we have time. Let's go to Sue in 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:05.000 Pacific Palisades, California. 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:06.120 Sue, you're on with Rich. 0:20:06.280 --> 0:20:07.119 Yeah, good morning. 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:07.760 How are you doing? 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:10.600 I am doing fantastic. What can I help you with? Yeah? 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:14.639 I'm calling because we bought an Apple Watch for my 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:20.119 husbands because it has the all detection feature. And for 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:24.840 the first several times that he fell, it worked, and 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:28.560 then I noticed it didn't work another time, another time, 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:31.280 and another time, including one time when he broke his arm. 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:32.520 So it's quite a hard fall. 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:33.119 Wow. 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:37.000 So I well, finally went down to the I made 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:40.280 phone calls. They said, oh, it's sometimes they work, sometimes 0:20:40.320 --> 0:20:42.199 they don't, just a function of the feature. 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:43.680 Oh that's a great answer. 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:44.880 Well it gets worse. 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:45.960 Okay, it's worse. 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:49.600 So finally go to the Apple store and they tried 0:20:49.720 --> 0:20:52.040 to say, well, you have to take your phone to 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:55.959 Watch in to be repaired, and I pressed further. They 0:20:56.000 --> 0:20:58.520 finally got an engineer on the phone after a long 0:20:59.080 --> 0:21:03.560 call who says that they know they have a problem 0:21:03.600 --> 0:21:07.400 with the fall feature and they're waiting on an update 0:21:07.800 --> 0:21:09.760 for the PHM. I mean, excuse me for the watch 0:21:09.800 --> 0:21:13.959 to do it. But the problem is in the meantime, 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:18.000 they know about this, but they're not letting people who 0:21:18.040 --> 0:21:22.040 depend upon the feature know that some of watches have 0:21:22.280 --> 0:21:23.200 this problem. 0:21:23.520 --> 0:21:25.560 Well, what do you mean some watches have this problem? 0:21:25.560 --> 0:21:27.960 What I mean? Number one, I'm always a little. 0:21:27.680 --> 0:21:32.480 Bit hesitant when some random, unnamed engineer says we know 0:21:32.520 --> 0:21:35.040 there's a problem, because I don't think Apple would admit that. 0:21:35.080 --> 0:21:36.560 I don't I've not heard. 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:41.000 Of a major issue with this fall detection, but I 0:21:41.040 --> 0:21:43.800 will tell you I agree with you. It is definitely 0:21:43.840 --> 0:21:45.879 all over the place and you cannot rely on it. 0:21:45.920 --> 0:21:46.560 And that's the thing. 0:21:47.760 --> 0:21:50.119 I'm playing football out in the street with my kid 0:21:50.400 --> 0:21:52.960 wearing my Apple Watch, and I'm not kidding. On the 0:21:52.960 --> 0:21:55.200 second throw, it says, hey do you take a hard fall? 0:21:55.600 --> 0:21:58.840 And it happens quite often, and I'm like, how does 0:21:58.840 --> 0:22:01.240 this algorithm not know so when a football is being 0:22:01.280 --> 0:22:05.359 catched versus me taking a hard fall? But you know, 0:22:05.440 --> 0:22:08.879 these features are experimental, they are new, and it definitely 0:22:09.320 --> 0:22:11.440 is one of these things where Apple is not making 0:22:11.480 --> 0:22:13.520 any guarantees. If you look in the fine print of 0:22:13.560 --> 0:22:15.760 any of their medical features, it's like, oh, and by 0:22:15.800 --> 0:22:18.280 the way, you can't really rely on these things in 0:22:18.320 --> 0:22:20.240 a real, you know, situation, so you have to be 0:22:20.320 --> 0:22:23.800 very careful with that. What did the engineer say is 0:22:23.840 --> 0:22:26.880 the problem with the feature? 0:22:26.680 --> 0:22:29.800 They said, And first of all, the fact that it 0:22:29.880 --> 0:22:33.640 worked even on the slightest provocation early on and now 0:22:33.680 --> 0:22:35.960 it doesn't work at all, even in a very difficult 0:22:36.000 --> 0:22:41.159 situation led us to explore, and the manager of the 0:22:41.200 --> 0:22:44.040 Apple store got on the phone with a lot of 0:22:44.080 --> 0:22:46.680 different people, finally ended up with someone in their tech 0:22:46.720 --> 0:22:50.880 department who said, yes, we know, we have a problem 0:22:51.400 --> 0:22:56.560 that didn't basically didn't exist before. Something has happened that 0:22:56.640 --> 0:23:01.479 some of the watches need a software up date and 0:23:01.520 --> 0:23:04.560 in order to start working again for fall detection. And 0:23:04.600 --> 0:23:07.280 I'm just telling you what the person on the phone 0:23:07.320 --> 0:23:09.240 said to the Apple store manager. 0:23:10.520 --> 0:23:12.639 Okay, well, what I would do, I would do a 0:23:12.640 --> 0:23:15.960 couple of things. Number one, I would go into your 0:23:16.000 --> 0:23:18.080 Apple Watch. I would reset the Apple Watch. So I 0:23:18.080 --> 0:23:22.359 would do a complete factory reset, okay, and that would 0:23:22.440 --> 0:23:26.080 take everything back to the factory system. Then I would 0:23:26.119 --> 0:23:28.480 make sure go into the Apple Watch app and make 0:23:28.520 --> 0:23:31.200 sure that there are no updates pending for your Apple Watch. 0:23:31.359 --> 0:23:33.680 There are you know, from time to time, there's a 0:23:33.680 --> 0:23:35.439 lot of updates for these things, so I would make 0:23:35.480 --> 0:23:38.320 sure that all of those updates have been installed on 0:23:38.359 --> 0:23:41.560 this device. After you do the want, I want you 0:23:41.680 --> 0:23:44.760 to start fresh, and then once you start fresh, do 0:23:44.840 --> 0:23:47.439 all the software updates. Then go into the settings on 0:23:47.480 --> 0:23:51.400 your Apple Watch, go into SOS and fall detection and 0:23:51.440 --> 0:23:55.640 make sure it's turned on. And then also you need 0:23:55.680 --> 0:23:58.280 to kind of look at when this thing is activating 0:23:58.600 --> 0:24:01.919 because there's an always on feature, which means fall detection 0:24:02.119 --> 0:24:05.159 is always checking to see if you've fallen, and then 0:24:05.200 --> 0:24:08.720 there's one that's only on during workouts, so that means 0:24:08.800 --> 0:24:11.439 it's only going to detect if you've taken a fall 0:24:11.760 --> 0:24:14.320 while you've started a workout. Now, I do know that 0:24:14.359 --> 0:24:18.080 Apple has you know, they've been improving this and they've 0:24:18.119 --> 0:24:25.000 been doing better with this stuff. I'm reading something interesting here. Okay, See, 0:24:25.080 --> 0:24:28.040 if you're between the ages of eighteen and fifty five, 0:24:28.200 --> 0:24:31.720 setting up a new Apple Watch fall detection during workouts 0:24:31.800 --> 0:24:35.080 is oh wow, Okay, that's interesting. So it could be 0:24:35.680 --> 0:24:38.040 that this is set up that this is only turned 0:24:38.080 --> 0:24:42.600 on during workouts if you're between eighteen and fifty five. 0:24:42.680 --> 0:24:46.440 So definitely check that setting and make sure and then 0:24:46.520 --> 0:24:49.399 if you notice, here's the fine print I was talking about. 0:24:49.680 --> 0:24:52.960 It says Noe Apple Watch cannot detect all falls. The 0:24:53.000 --> 0:24:56.080 more physically active you are, the more likely you are 0:24:56.200 --> 0:24:59.919 to trigger fall detection due to high impact activity that 0:25:00.080 --> 0:25:00.760 can appear. 0:25:00.520 --> 0:25:02.000 To be a fall. 0:25:02.119 --> 0:25:05.280 So with all of this said, I know, Sue that 0:25:05.480 --> 0:25:07.520 it's it's not what you want to hear because it's 0:25:07.520 --> 0:25:10.600 not a perfect system, and I get that, but the 0:25:10.600 --> 0:25:14.199 fact that you've got your husband clearly seems to be 0:25:15.000 --> 0:25:18.199 at risk of falling, you need to be sure that 0:25:18.440 --> 0:25:21.400 whatever system he has in place to get help if 0:25:21.400 --> 0:25:24.720 that happens if he's alone, that is working. So I 0:25:24.760 --> 0:25:27.000 would look into this, and I would look into maybe 0:25:27.720 --> 0:25:31.640 there are some more, you know, hardier solutions out there 0:25:32.040 --> 0:25:33.439 that are more dedicated to this. 0:25:34.040 --> 0:25:34.920 I'm not aware of those. 0:25:34.960 --> 0:25:36.679 I often go to some of these events with like 0:25:36.720 --> 0:25:39.920 medical devices and things like that, but you may want 0:25:39.920 --> 0:25:42.399 to look into, you know, maybe something like you know, 0:25:42.840 --> 0:25:44.760 one of those like life alert kind of things or 0:25:44.800 --> 0:25:47.160 something like that where he can manually trigger it as well. 0:25:47.760 --> 0:25:48.399 Good question. 0:25:48.760 --> 0:25:51.359 Please do those software updates, Please check the settings, and 0:25:51.840 --> 0:25:54.479 hopefully you don't have to use this feature, but if 0:25:54.520 --> 0:25:56.560 you do, it could really be life saving. And I 0:25:56.600 --> 0:25:58.800 know this has helped a lot of people. The pixel 0:25:58.840 --> 0:26:01.719 Watch has it, the Apple Watch has it, and it 0:26:01.840 --> 0:26:05.400 really does help. But again it's just not perfect. Eight 0:26:05.400 --> 0:26:08.320 A eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven 0:26:08.440 --> 0:26:11.399 four to two four one zero one. The website is 0:26:11.760 --> 0:26:14.000 rich on tech dot TV. 0:26:14.560 --> 0:26:15.120 If you have a. 0:26:15.080 --> 0:26:17.639 Question, give me a call, or you can send an 0:26:17.680 --> 0:26:19.040 email through the website. 0:26:19.160 --> 0:26:20.359 Just hit the contact button. 0:26:20.440 --> 0:26:24.119 Coming up, Speaking of watches, I'll tell you about Samsung's 0:26:24.160 --> 0:26:28.040 affordable new Galaxy Watch that's coming up right here on 0:26:28.359 --> 0:26:37.399 rich on Tech. Let's go to Brett in Lamar, Colorado. Brett, 0:26:37.400 --> 0:26:38.280 you're on with rich. 0:26:39.920 --> 0:26:41.400 Rich Hullo. 0:26:42.560 --> 0:26:46.439 My wife and I share an Apple Idy and have 0:26:46.680 --> 0:26:51.240 for years, and somewhere around maybe the first of the year, 0:26:52.680 --> 0:27:00.520 our phones started sharing voicemails and call logs. Yep, so 0:27:00.880 --> 0:27:04.080 her phone don't actually come to her phone, calls don't 0:27:04.080 --> 0:27:05.840 come to my phone, but her voicemails do. 0:27:07.560 --> 0:27:07.879 Yes. 0:27:08.280 --> 0:27:13.720 This was a change in iOS seventeen where I got 0:27:13.760 --> 0:27:17.280 a lot of calls about this early on about people saying, 0:27:17.320 --> 0:27:19.120 what's going on here? All of a sudden, I'm seeing 0:27:19.160 --> 0:27:22.480 all the phone calls from my partner and I said, well, 0:27:22.600 --> 0:27:25.760 what's happening. Do you share an Apple ID? Well, yeah, 0:27:25.800 --> 0:27:29.600 well that's why it's happening. So the only way around 0:27:29.680 --> 0:27:35.040 this is to set up a secondary Apple ID, and 0:27:35.400 --> 0:27:38.520 that way your wife will have you know, will have 0:27:38.600 --> 0:27:42.399 their voicemails and things, and you'll have your voicemails. And 0:27:42.440 --> 0:27:44.600 that's really the only way to get around it. Because 0:27:45.080 --> 0:27:48.000 they made some sort of key change in iOS seventeen. 0:27:48.480 --> 0:27:51.879 I think what they did was they linked the call 0:27:51.960 --> 0:27:55.719 logs with iCloud, which maybe they didn't do in the past, 0:27:57.119 --> 0:28:00.479 and so I think that's what triggered this change. And 0:28:00.560 --> 0:28:05.120 so I'm trying to see if there's a let's see, 0:28:05.240 --> 0:28:07.600 is there a Okay, so there is now there is 0:28:07.640 --> 0:28:09.960 one more option you can try. I've not tried this, 0:28:10.440 --> 0:28:13.520 but Brett, just in general, my general recommendation is that 0:28:13.600 --> 0:28:16.439 people do not share their Apple ID, and that's for 0:28:16.480 --> 0:28:19.719 a lot of reasons. Number one, it's confusing because you're 0:28:19.800 --> 0:28:22.760 using the same Apple ID to log into different devices 0:28:23.280 --> 0:28:26.720 and two different people are using them, and that could 0:28:26.760 --> 0:28:30.000 have some security implications if one of the devices gets lost, 0:28:30.359 --> 0:28:33.879 that could be a problem, but also just for confusion 0:28:34.000 --> 0:28:36.879 and things like this. An Apple has a system for this. 0:28:36.960 --> 0:28:39.440 It's called family sharing. So all you have to do 0:28:39.480 --> 0:28:42.320 is set up a secondary Apple ID. Everything is shared 0:28:42.800 --> 0:28:45.360 across the Apple ID. So if you purchased an app 0:28:45.440 --> 0:28:48.680 and paid a subscription for it, you know your partner 0:28:48.680 --> 0:28:50.840 would be able to download that app to their phone 0:28:50.920 --> 0:28:52.120 and still have that subscription. 0:28:52.160 --> 0:28:53.320 This happened the other day with my wife. 0:28:53.360 --> 0:28:55.800 I told her about this great app I downloaded and 0:28:55.840 --> 0:28:57.479 she's like, ah, it's like twelve bucks for the year. 0:28:57.520 --> 0:28:59.080 I said, no, no, you should just be able to log 0:28:59.120 --> 0:29:02.880 in and use my subscription because we're sharing that family plan. Now, 0:29:02.920 --> 0:29:05.160 it might depend on how the app developer sets it up, 0:29:05.200 --> 0:29:07.280 but in this case, yeah, she downloaded it and said, 0:29:07.280 --> 0:29:10.320 oh you have premium, you're good. And so I think 0:29:10.320 --> 0:29:12.800 there's a lot of a lot of parents as well 0:29:12.840 --> 0:29:15.120 do this. They give their kids their iPad and they 0:29:15.160 --> 0:29:17.640 sign in with their Apple ID, and next thing you know, 0:29:18.080 --> 0:29:20.560 the kid is getting all of the parents text messages 0:29:20.640 --> 0:29:23.880 on their iPad. That's because you're sharing the same Apple ID. 0:29:24.120 --> 0:29:26.200 So I don't recommend this for a lot of reasons, 0:29:26.480 --> 0:29:32.240 mostly privacy, mostly organization and security. So the only other thing, Brett, 0:29:32.240 --> 0:29:33.520 that I could recommend it, And like I said, I 0:29:33.560 --> 0:29:35.920 have not tried this myself. But if you go into 0:29:36.360 --> 0:29:42.040 iCloud on the devices, okay, So go into settings, okay, 0:29:42.080 --> 0:29:44.320 tap your name at the top where it says your name, 0:29:44.400 --> 0:29:47.160 that's your iCloud. It gets your Apple ID account, and 0:29:47.200 --> 0:29:50.880 then you tap iCloud okay, and then there will say 0:29:50.920 --> 0:29:56.560 apps using iCloud, tap show all and there is an 0:29:56.600 --> 0:30:00.320 option where it says phone and FaceTime. So I would 0:30:00.400 --> 0:30:05.280 assume if you turn that off, you should stop sharing 0:30:05.480 --> 0:30:08.160 the call logs and the voicemails because now it's not 0:30:08.320 --> 0:30:11.240 uploading those to iCloud and it's not re downloading them 0:30:11.280 --> 0:30:14.640 to your partner's phone. So you can try that if 0:30:14.720 --> 0:30:18.320 you want to continue sharing this Apple ID. Again, I 0:30:18.320 --> 0:30:21.280 don't typically recommend sharing the Apple ID, but if you must, 0:30:21.440 --> 0:30:23.800 that might be the way around it. I'll put those 0:30:24.280 --> 0:30:27.240 instructions on the website. Rich on tech dot tv hit 0:30:27.240 --> 0:30:29.840 the light bulb. Thanks for the call today, Brett in 0:30:29.880 --> 0:30:33.240 Colorado eighty eight rich one oh one eight eight eight 0:30:33.400 --> 0:30:37.560 seven four to two four to one zero one. Samsung 0:30:37.640 --> 0:30:40.560 has a new smart watch that is an affordable new 0:30:40.600 --> 0:30:44.720 smart watch. It's called the Galaxy Watch FE. FE used 0:30:44.760 --> 0:30:47.520 to stand for Fan Edition. This is kind of their 0:30:48.640 --> 0:30:52.080 more budget line of their devices. So they come out 0:30:52.120 --> 0:30:54.160 with their main devices and then they come out with 0:30:54.200 --> 0:30:57.360 these FE version of the devices. They come out with 0:30:57.360 --> 0:30:59.800 them for the phone and now the watch and the earbuds, 0:31:00.160 --> 0:31:02.440 and it's kind of like a more basic budget version. 0:31:02.440 --> 0:31:04.800 They still have a lot of great features for the price. 0:31:05.480 --> 0:31:09.320 So this watch is two hundred dollars and it is. 0:31:09.680 --> 0:31:12.640 It's got all the health monitoring features, sleep tracking, heart 0:31:12.680 --> 0:31:17.680 rate tracking, exercise tracking. It's got forty millimeters size, so 0:31:17.760 --> 0:31:20.280 it's not the biggest out there, and especially with the 0:31:20.320 --> 0:31:22.280 bezel if you see it in person, the bezel is 0:31:22.360 --> 0:31:24.360 kind of thick on this one, so the screen's not 0:31:24.480 --> 0:31:27.680 the biggest. But again, this is a very reasonably priced 0:31:27.720 --> 0:31:32.720 smart watch. It's got durable sapphire crystal glass. Comes in 0:31:32.760 --> 0:31:36.840 three colors, black, pink, gold, and silver, and pink gold 0:31:36.880 --> 0:31:40.960 goes together, not black, pink gold and silver, black pink 0:31:41.000 --> 0:31:44.720 gold and silver. Obviously, it's going to work with all 0:31:44.720 --> 0:31:47.600 of the Samsung devices. You know, you can control the camera, 0:31:47.960 --> 0:31:50.280 use it for payments, tap to pay all that good stuff. 0:31:50.720 --> 0:31:52.680 This is going to be available in the US starting 0:31:52.720 --> 0:31:56.000 on June twenty fourth, and again it's one hundred and 0:31:56.080 --> 0:31:59.720 ninety nine dollars for the Galaxy Watch FE. The LTE 0:32:00.720 --> 0:32:03.960 will be available in October for two hundred and forty 0:32:04.040 --> 0:32:06.960 nine dollars. These are both fantastic prices. They kind of 0:32:07.080 --> 0:32:10.360 undercut the Apple Watch and some of the other pixel 0:32:10.400 --> 0:32:12.840 watches and things by a couple of bucks. And so 0:32:13.760 --> 0:32:16.080 I think this is a very smart move because you 0:32:16.160 --> 0:32:19.040 pretty much get everything you need. You're not really missing 0:32:19.080 --> 0:32:21.560 a lot with this device. But you might be thinking, rich, 0:32:22.080 --> 0:32:24.240 well what am I missing? What am I not getting 0:32:24.600 --> 0:32:27.720 by not spending all the pricey money on a Galaxy 0:32:27.800 --> 0:32:28.760 Watch six series. 0:32:28.800 --> 0:32:29.920 Well, here's what you don't get. 0:32:30.880 --> 0:32:34.640 You get a slightly slower processor, and it's not by much, 0:32:34.840 --> 0:32:38.640 it's just it's just a slightly slower processor. You're gonna 0:32:38.640 --> 0:32:43.040 get a slightly smaller battery, You're gonna get a little 0:32:43.040 --> 0:32:44.400 bit less Bluetooth. 0:32:44.720 --> 0:32:45.600 What does that mean? 0:32:46.080 --> 0:32:49.720 It means that the FE is supporting Bluetooth five point zero, 0:32:49.760 --> 0:32:52.920 while the Galaxy Watch six series is supporting Bluetooth five 0:32:52.960 --> 0:32:53.520 point three. 0:32:53.920 --> 0:32:55.880 That just means that Bluetooth is going to be a. 0:32:55.800 --> 0:33:00.160 Little bit more evolved on the higher end models, but 0:33:00.280 --> 0:33:02.440 I think you're gonna be just fine here. And the 0:33:02.480 --> 0:33:05.959 main sensor that you do not get is the temperature sensor. 0:33:06.280 --> 0:33:09.240 So if you're really interested in that temperature censor tracking, 0:33:09.240 --> 0:33:12.280 which I will admit is getting much more popular among 0:33:12.320 --> 0:33:15.240 these watches because people are relying on that to tell 0:33:15.280 --> 0:33:18.040 them if they're getting sick. So if you notice that 0:33:18.080 --> 0:33:22.320 your temperature is deviating from its norm, that's an indicator 0:33:22.320 --> 0:33:23.520 that you might be getting sick. 0:33:23.600 --> 0:33:24.400 I'm not a doctor. 0:33:24.640 --> 0:33:27.120 This is not medical advice, but I'm just saying that's 0:33:27.120 --> 0:33:30.200 what people are using as that telltale sign that they 0:33:30.280 --> 0:33:32.560 might be coming down with a cold or something else. 0:33:32.920 --> 0:33:35.000 Is that temperature sensor. You do not get that in 0:33:35.080 --> 0:33:38.800 the Galaxy Watch fe But otherwise not a bad deal. 0:33:39.120 --> 0:33:41.680 Coming up June twenty fourth, one hundred and ninety nine bucks. 0:33:41.680 --> 0:33:43.920 If you're in that Samsung World, might not be a 0:33:43.920 --> 0:33:47.040 bad addition to your wrist eighty eight rich one O 0:33:47.160 --> 0:33:49.960 one eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:33:50.040 --> 0:33:53.920 zero one the website rich on tech dot TV. Coming 0:33:54.000 --> 0:33:56.720 up much more show I'm gonna tell you the apps 0:33:57.240 --> 0:34:02.480 that Apple is overshadowing with iOS eighteen coming up right 0:34:02.480 --> 0:34:08.560 here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 0:34:08.719 --> 0:34:12.040 Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at 0:34:12.160 --> 0:34:15.880 Triple A. Rich one oh one eight eight eight seven 0:34:16.000 --> 0:34:19.920 four to two four one zero one. Hope you're having 0:34:19.960 --> 0:34:23.320 a fantastic day. I know I am. You can follow 0:34:23.360 --> 0:34:26.839 me on social media at rich on Tech. I'm on Instagram, 0:34:26.880 --> 0:34:31.800 I'm on Facebook, I'm on x Although Facebook told me 0:34:32.760 --> 0:34:35.520 your posts are no longer resonating with your followers, here's 0:34:35.560 --> 0:34:38.319 some things you can do to make sure they see them. 0:34:38.680 --> 0:34:39.400 So what. 0:34:41.000 --> 0:34:44.520 All these social media platforms they want you to interact 0:34:44.600 --> 0:34:48.399 as much as humanly possible with the people that are 0:34:48.440 --> 0:34:50.960 commenting and with the posts and all that kind of stuff. 0:34:51.000 --> 0:34:54.000 They want you to post on other people's stuff. And 0:34:54.360 --> 0:34:56.640 it's a problem because I don't have time for that. 0:34:56.760 --> 0:34:59.240 You know, I've got three social networks, plus a newsletter 0:34:59.280 --> 0:35:02.680 that I'm trying to keep up, plus this show, plus 0:35:02.840 --> 0:35:06.120 the TV segments. I can't sit there and comment on 0:35:06.200 --> 0:35:09.080 every single comment that someone comments on my Facebook page. 0:35:09.520 --> 0:35:12.680 So sorry, Facebook, I will keep putting my stuff on there, 0:35:12.880 --> 0:35:15.479 But yeah, they don't show it to as many people 0:35:15.560 --> 0:35:17.480 as they should because they want it to be a 0:35:17.520 --> 0:35:20.080 two way street. That's why I really kind of doubled 0:35:20.120 --> 0:35:25.080 down on my newsletter, which I send out to everyone 0:35:25.239 --> 0:35:30.839 basically on Fridays or Saturday mornings. So that's I know 0:35:31.239 --> 0:35:33.239 that I know is going to reach your inbox. So 0:35:33.280 --> 0:35:34.719 if you want to sign up for that Rich on 0:35:34.800 --> 0:35:38.080 tech dot tv, just hit sign up. It is free 0:35:38.360 --> 0:35:41.560 and it's pretty cool. It's pretty much everything I think 0:35:41.600 --> 0:35:43.760 you should know in the week, all in one place. 0:35:44.160 --> 0:35:48.320 All right, So WWDC happened this week Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. 0:35:48.440 --> 0:35:50.360 Let me just tell you a couple more things that 0:35:50.520 --> 0:35:55.200 happened there. So let's talk about let's see, let's do 0:35:55.280 --> 0:35:58.719 the Watch. So watch OS eleven. This is for the 0:35:58.760 --> 0:36:02.560 Apple Watch New Things here, they've got this new vitals app. 0:36:02.960 --> 0:36:06.800 So this vitals app is going to monitor your vital signs, 0:36:07.480 --> 0:36:10.239 so different things that are happening, like your body temperature, 0:36:10.360 --> 0:36:15.279 your heart rate, your vitals basically and your breathing, and 0:36:15.360 --> 0:36:17.840 it's going to let you know if there's any change 0:36:17.920 --> 0:36:20.560 in those vitals. And again I was talking about this 0:36:20.600 --> 0:36:24.080 earlier with the temperature sensor. This it might tell you 0:36:24.120 --> 0:36:27.200 in the morning, hey, you had an elevated heart rate 0:36:27.320 --> 0:36:30.000 last night. That could either mean that this is happening 0:36:30.120 --> 0:36:32.200 or maybe you drink alcohol or something like that. Like 0:36:32.520 --> 0:36:35.720 it'll show you these different little insights on your watch. 0:36:36.200 --> 0:36:39.399 Activity rings are getting more customizable. You're able to pause them. 0:36:39.840 --> 0:36:41.799 I could care less about the activity rings. I like 0:36:41.840 --> 0:36:44.400 to close them, but I don't really give much thought 0:36:44.400 --> 0:36:45.960 to them. But I guess a lot of people do 0:36:46.480 --> 0:36:49.960 and make sure that they always close their rings every day, 0:36:50.000 --> 0:36:52.080 And I think that's great if that's motivation for you. 0:36:52.920 --> 0:36:55.279 When the Apple Watch first came out, yes, I looked 0:36:55.280 --> 0:36:57.399 at my rings all the time. But now I kind 0:36:57.400 --> 0:36:59.120 of know when I do a workout. Right, if I 0:36:59.120 --> 0:37:01.680 go running on the tread for half an hour, I 0:37:01.719 --> 0:37:03.160 know I got a workout, so I don't need to 0:37:03.200 --> 0:37:04.520 look at the rings to let me know that I 0:37:04.520 --> 0:37:06.479 got that workout. But I know a lot of people 0:37:06.560 --> 0:37:08.680 maybe if you're just doing steps or something like that. 0:37:09.120 --> 0:37:11.440 But people get into these streaks, all of these apps. 0:37:11.440 --> 0:37:14.440 They love these streaks because it keeps you engaged. So 0:37:14.480 --> 0:37:16.640 you can pause your rings. Like let's say you get 0:37:16.640 --> 0:37:19.080 a broken leg, you can pause your rings that you 0:37:19.120 --> 0:37:22.920 don't lose your streak. Okay, the smart Stack that's the 0:37:22.960 --> 0:37:26.319 thing if you roll up the little scrolly dial on 0:37:26.320 --> 0:37:29.319 the Apple Watch, that's the stuff that comes up. Developers 0:37:29.320 --> 0:37:32.240 can now develop specifically for that, so that'll get smarter, 0:37:32.400 --> 0:37:36.279 maybe more useful. Also, the translate app. This is kind 0:37:36.280 --> 0:37:39.960 of cool because the translate app is something that's very 0:37:40.000 --> 0:37:41.919 handy if you are out and about in a foreign 0:37:42.000 --> 0:37:45.440 country need stuff translated. That is now on the Apple 0:37:45.520 --> 0:37:50.080 Watch with watchOS eleven. And you can also download the 0:37:50.200 --> 0:37:53.440 languages offline. So let's say you're in Italy you need 0:37:53.480 --> 0:37:55.680 to ask someone direction somewhere, you can do it all 0:37:55.680 --> 0:37:58.360 through your Apple Watch. And the check in feature is 0:37:58.360 --> 0:38:00.759 coming to the Apple Watch. The check in feed is 0:38:00.800 --> 0:38:03.600 the feature that says, hey, I'm going out for a run, 0:38:03.960 --> 0:38:06.520 make sure I come back home. If I don't, email 0:38:06.760 --> 0:38:09.319 or text a loved one and tell them, hey, we're 0:38:09.480 --> 0:38:11.960 you know, check on me. So that's the Apple Watch. 0:38:12.000 --> 0:38:16.080 Then we've got iPad OS eighteen. The main thing that's 0:38:16.120 --> 0:38:18.880 coming to the iPad os is this thing called math 0:38:18.920 --> 0:38:21.920 notes and a calculator. So it's been a long running 0:38:22.000 --> 0:38:25.480 joke that there's no calculator app for the iPad. Finally, 0:38:25.520 --> 0:38:29.279 the iPad is getting an official calculator app. But the 0:38:29.440 --> 0:38:33.440 neat feature is called math notes. What is math notes? 0:38:33.520 --> 0:38:37.160 It's pretty much a I don't know how to explain it. 0:38:37.160 --> 0:38:38.719 It's a piece, you know. It's a place where you 0:38:38.800 --> 0:38:42.799 do math equations, but it solves them in your own handwriting. 0:38:43.080 --> 0:38:45.440 So you can write down two plus two equals and 0:38:45.480 --> 0:38:47.600 it will give you the number four, but it writes 0:38:47.640 --> 0:38:51.720 it in your handwriting. Yeah, it's super wild and weird, 0:38:52.080 --> 0:38:55.360 but it's gonna be great for kids learning math, I guess, 0:38:55.440 --> 0:38:57.440 or cheating on math however you want to look at it. 0:38:58.560 --> 0:39:01.920 But overall, it can handle really complex equations and again 0:39:02.320 --> 0:39:05.680 it answers them in your handwriting. Only Apple would come 0:39:05.719 --> 0:39:07.719 up with something like that. It is so wild. I've 0:39:07.760 --> 0:39:09.640 seen it in person and it works. 0:39:09.760 --> 0:39:12.920 It's cool, and it's gonna be a neat feature. 0:39:13.120 --> 0:39:15.239 They also have one more feature which I personally can't 0:39:15.239 --> 0:39:18.640 wait to try. You can write on the page in 0:39:18.680 --> 0:39:21.880 your own handwriting, and the iPad will clean up your handwriting. 0:39:22.000 --> 0:39:24.680 It will make you a better writer, so it's actually 0:39:24.680 --> 0:39:27.920 more legible. Because my handwriting is horrible. You can't read it, 0:39:28.239 --> 0:39:30.960 so iPads supposedly will just clean it up and it 0:39:31.040 --> 0:39:34.000 learns your handwriting over time. I mean it literally learns 0:39:34.040 --> 0:39:36.600 how to write just like you. You can copy and 0:39:36.640 --> 0:39:39.600 paste text onto a page and it will write that 0:39:39.760 --> 0:39:42.160 down in your own handwriting. I mean, come on, this 0:39:42.280 --> 0:39:48.839 is just wild, wild stuff Mac os Sequoia. The main 0:39:48.960 --> 0:39:52.560 new feature there, this is for you know, desktops and laptops, 0:39:53.000 --> 0:39:55.800 is iPhone mirroring. You will now be able to see 0:39:55.920 --> 0:39:59.520 your iPhone screen on your computer desktop, and not only 0:39:59.560 --> 0:40:01.960 see it, but manipulate it. So whatever you need to 0:40:01.960 --> 0:40:04.040 do on your iPhone, you'll be able to do right 0:40:04.040 --> 0:40:07.160 from your computer screen. So if you are on your 0:40:07.160 --> 0:40:10.120 computer all day long at work and your iPhone is 0:40:10.160 --> 0:40:13.200 next to your computer, instead of glancing down and unlocking 0:40:13.239 --> 0:40:15.200 your iPhone and doing all these things to like check 0:40:15.200 --> 0:40:18.080 notifications and stuff, all of that will come straight through 0:40:18.480 --> 0:40:22.560 to your Mac computer and you can actually manipulate anything 0:40:22.600 --> 0:40:25.239 on your iPhone screen that you would typically pick up 0:40:25.239 --> 0:40:27.320 your phone to do. So that's gonna be kind of 0:40:27.360 --> 0:40:30.520 a neat thing for the Mac computers. Now let's get 0:40:30.520 --> 0:40:34.319 to the most important one, the Apple Vision pro. Okay, 0:40:34.360 --> 0:40:35.960 I'm kind of kidding because I know this has not 0:40:36.160 --> 0:40:38.920 sold a ton, but I still do have high hopes 0:40:38.960 --> 0:40:41.520 for the Apple Vision Pro when they can make it smaller, lighter, 0:40:42.080 --> 0:40:44.160 and I don't think it needs to be better, because 0:40:44.160 --> 0:40:46.120 I think it's already incredible. I think it just needs 0:40:46.160 --> 0:40:48.239 to be smaller and lighter, and that's basically it, and 0:40:48.239 --> 0:40:52.280 get rid of that battery pack. But the Apple Vision OS, 0:40:52.320 --> 0:40:54.399 it's called Vision OS, that's what it runs on there. 0:40:54.480 --> 0:40:57.520 This is a major new update. It's called Vision OS two. 0:40:58.680 --> 0:41:01.080 One of the main things you can do create spatial 0:41:01.120 --> 0:41:05.840 photos from any existing photo. It uses advanced machine learning 0:41:06.120 --> 0:41:08.600 to kind of separate the image from the background, and 0:41:08.719 --> 0:41:10.919 your photos look like they're in three D. Of course, 0:41:10.960 --> 0:41:13.440 Apple does not use the term three D. They use 0:41:13.480 --> 0:41:17.520 spatial because three D is standard. Spatial little more unique. 0:41:17.960 --> 0:41:21.239 There's new hand gestures so you can I forget what 0:41:21.280 --> 0:41:23.000 they are, but there's a bunch of new hand gestures 0:41:23.000 --> 0:41:24.520 that make it easier to navigate. 0:41:25.760 --> 0:41:26.680 This is kind of cool. 0:41:27.120 --> 0:41:30.719 You can make your Mac in your screen, in your 0:41:30.800 --> 0:41:34.000 virtual VR screen. You can make your Mac display huge, 0:41:34.440 --> 0:41:36.880 so you can make it giant in front of you. 0:41:36.880 --> 0:41:39.000 You can make it really giant or like one of 0:41:39.080 --> 0:41:43.520 those giant, giant, giant curve screens. And that is really cool. 0:41:43.560 --> 0:41:44.960 I can't wait to try that out. So if you 0:41:45.000 --> 0:41:47.480 just have a regular small computer screen, if you have 0:41:47.520 --> 0:41:50.239 a Mac computer, you can see that computer screen in 0:41:50.280 --> 0:41:54.279 the vision os like in this headset the Apple Vision Pro. 0:41:54.560 --> 0:41:57.520 But now you can make that screen huge, like one 0:41:57.560 --> 0:41:59.800 of those big wrap around screens that everyone loves to 0:41:59.840 --> 0:42:00.640 have at work. 0:42:01.120 --> 0:42:03.239 That's cool, let's see. 0:42:03.239 --> 0:42:05.799 The other thing is that they now have I talked 0:42:05.800 --> 0:42:07.680 about this on this show, how annoying it is to 0:42:07.719 --> 0:42:10.319 have a guest try out your Vision Pro because they 0:42:10.320 --> 0:42:12.520 have to go through this whole process of setting it up, 0:42:12.560 --> 0:42:13.799 and then as soon as they take it off their 0:42:13.840 --> 0:42:16.840 head all that information goes away they have to reset it. Well, 0:42:17.239 --> 0:42:20.319 Apple said, oh okay, we will save your hand and 0:42:20.400 --> 0:42:22.600 I data for thirty days now, so if you want 0:42:22.640 --> 0:42:24.960 a family member or a friend to try it out, 0:42:25.120 --> 0:42:28.400 their information will be saved in the vision Pro headset 0:42:28.400 --> 0:42:30.960 for thirty days. It's interesting that they didn't go as 0:42:30.960 --> 0:42:35.359 far as adding guest users, like multiple users, but this, 0:42:35.520 --> 0:42:38.000 I guess is like a little tiptoe step towards that, 0:42:38.440 --> 0:42:40.359 because they're really trying to make the Apple Vision Pro 0:42:40.719 --> 0:42:42.200 a one on one kind of device. 0:42:42.320 --> 0:42:45.760 Okay, So with all that said, Apple at. 0:42:45.640 --> 0:42:49.160 WWDC twenty twenty four rendered a lot of third party 0:42:49.200 --> 0:42:54.200 apps useless or redundant. This is something called sherlocking. So 0:42:54.360 --> 0:42:57.120 back in the day, Apple came out with an app 0:42:57.160 --> 0:42:58.880 that replaced an app called Shurelock. 0:42:59.600 --> 0:43:00.680 I don't want to get this wrong. 0:43:01.360 --> 0:43:03.600 I don't exactly know the history on this, but basically, 0:43:03.880 --> 0:43:06.200 sherlocking is when Apple comes out with one of their 0:43:06.239 --> 0:43:09.640 own apps that replaces a third party app. So, for instance, 0:43:10.200 --> 0:43:15.200 I use an app on my Mac computer called Rectangle, 0:43:15.680 --> 0:43:18.680 and that app is now redundant because Apple has built 0:43:18.719 --> 0:43:22.560 this feature into the Mac operating system. So tech Crunch 0:43:22.600 --> 0:43:24.560 went through and came up with a list of all 0:43:24.600 --> 0:43:27.359 the different apps. So number one, their password app now 0:43:27.400 --> 0:43:31.920 competes with one password, last Pass, Bitwarden and proton Pass. 0:43:32.360 --> 0:43:35.560 The native call recording and transcription in the iPhone now 0:43:35.640 --> 0:43:40.080 challenges tape a Call and True Caller Voice transcription in 0:43:40.120 --> 0:43:43.719 the Notes app that replaces Otter Audio pen and Voice 0:43:43.760 --> 0:43:47.920 nototes dot Com. The iPhone mirroring on the Mac overshadows 0:43:47.960 --> 0:43:51.360 the Bezel app. Then that Windows tiling feature I just 0:43:51.400 --> 0:43:55.480 talked about replaces the functionality of Magnet and Rectangle. The 0:43:55.520 --> 0:44:00.560 custom emoji creation competes with the nugipp I don't know 0:44:00.600 --> 0:44:04.080 that one. Oh yeah, you can also create custom trails 0:44:04.360 --> 0:44:07.759 in Apple Maps that challenges the all Trails app. And 0:44:07.800 --> 0:44:10.279 then of course you've got the writing tools powered by 0:44:10.280 --> 0:44:15.480 AI that impacts grammarly, which I absolutely love on my computer. 0:44:15.560 --> 0:44:17.400 But now I might not need it anymore. 0:44:17.400 --> 0:44:19.279 So all of these apps that Apple comes out with 0:44:19.600 --> 0:44:22.719 first party it kind of puts these third party developers 0:44:22.719 --> 0:44:24.960 in a tough place because it's much easier to use 0:44:25.000 --> 0:44:27.160 the app that's built into the iPhone or the iPad 0:44:27.480 --> 0:44:31.359 or the Mac computer instead of downloading and potentially. 0:44:30.800 --> 0:44:34.359 Paying for a third party app. They do it all 0:44:34.360 --> 0:44:34.640 the time. 0:44:34.719 --> 0:44:37.080 Eighty to eight rich one oh one eight eight eight 0:44:37.239 --> 0:44:39.720 seven four to two four one zero one. 0:44:39.840 --> 0:44:42.240 We'll get back to the phone lines in just a moment. 0:44:42.400 --> 0:44:47.400 Right after the break the website Richontech dot TV. 0:44:47.560 --> 0:44:48.480 My name is rich Damio. 0:44:48.640 --> 0:44:55.480 You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to 0:44:55.760 --> 0:44:59.320 rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here talking technology at triple 0:44:59.360 --> 0:45:01.839 eight Rich one on one. That's eight eight eight seven 0:45:02.000 --> 0:45:04.560 four two four one zero one. Get to the phone 0:45:04.560 --> 0:45:06.960 lines in just a second. I see you hanging on there. 0:45:07.200 --> 0:45:09.000 I just want to explain. I kind of. 0:45:10.480 --> 0:45:13.000 Quickly went over the apps that Apple was replacing, and 0:45:13.080 --> 0:45:15.279 I mentioned the sherlocking thing, and I didn't really know 0:45:15.440 --> 0:45:19.000 exactly what that meant because I wasn't describing it very well. 0:45:19.040 --> 0:45:22.520 So sherlocking is when Apple releases a new feature or 0:45:22.560 --> 0:45:25.640 app that sort of replicates the functionality of an existing 0:45:25.719 --> 0:45:30.239 third party app, essentially making the latter redundant. So this 0:45:30.440 --> 0:45:34.200 term was coined after Apple's shrlock search app came out 0:45:34.200 --> 0:45:35.759 in the late nineties. See that's why I didn't know, 0:45:35.800 --> 0:45:39.120 because that was kind of before my time rendered this. 0:45:39.280 --> 0:45:43.120 Other software companies they they made a very similar app 0:45:43.160 --> 0:45:46.440 called Watson, and when Apple came out was shrlock, it 0:45:46.560 --> 0:45:50.080 made the Watson app obsolete, and so that's why people 0:45:50.120 --> 0:45:54.040 called it shrlocking. So now you know, let's go to 0:45:54.440 --> 0:45:57.160 Alan and Santa Clarita. Alan, you're on with Rich. 0:45:57.880 --> 0:46:01.719 Hey, Hey, Rich, love your shows, Thank you. I have 0:46:01.800 --> 0:46:04.000 an issue my one of my family members back. He 0:46:04.080 --> 0:46:08.080 suddenly has anointed us as a a friendly group of 0:46:08.120 --> 0:46:11.839 the family and has sent this Marie photo they've ever 0:46:11.920 --> 0:46:16.120 taken up their children, and I went to jump them 0:46:16.600 --> 0:46:20.759 because they're clogging my iPhoto in their clog in my 0:46:20.840 --> 0:46:24.359 cloud and it tells me I can't delete them. 0:46:25.040 --> 0:46:28.080 Yeah, you can't delete the uh the album or what? 0:46:29.040 --> 0:46:30.160 I can't delete the album? 0:46:30.280 --> 0:46:30.480 Another? 0:46:30.680 --> 0:46:31.600 Let me back up here. 0:46:31.920 --> 0:46:36.200 So this was shared with you, Yeah, albums shared with me. 0:46:36.840 --> 0:46:38.640 And when I go to let me try to dump it. 0:46:38.600 --> 0:46:41.560 Here, it'll work because you're on the phone with me. 0:46:41.680 --> 0:46:44.879 Now of course, Well I drug it, drugged the entire 0:46:44.920 --> 0:46:48.440 album to the trash. Yeah, and it's just staring at me. 0:46:49.200 --> 0:46:50.560 Okay, illuminated. 0:46:50.920 --> 0:46:53.160 I can't even no, I can't even move it around, 0:46:53.400 --> 0:46:54.400 let's say, on the page. 0:46:54.480 --> 0:46:56.920 So are you doing this from your Mac computer, your iPhone? 0:46:57.719 --> 0:46:58.480 My mac computer? 0:46:58.520 --> 0:46:58.840 Okay? 0:46:59.120 --> 0:47:02.720 So first off, as far as I understand, the shared 0:47:02.760 --> 0:47:05.600 albums shouldn't take up storage in your I cloud. It 0:47:05.600 --> 0:47:08.520 should only take up the storage in the sharer's iCloud 0:47:08.760 --> 0:47:11.760 unless you Yeah, that's that's number one. So it should 0:47:11.760 --> 0:47:15.959 not really affect your iCloud storage. And that makes sense 0:47:16.080 --> 0:47:19.200 because you know Apple. Like, let's say I'm sharing my 0:47:19.200 --> 0:47:21.200 photos with you, right, so I make this album, I 0:47:21.200 --> 0:47:24.080 put all these photos in there. That's gonna They're stored 0:47:24.200 --> 0:47:28.160 in my iCloud, right, That's where they are first and foremost. 0:47:28.200 --> 0:47:30.520 And so when I share that link to you, it's 0:47:30.600 --> 0:47:32.759 just a link to those albums. Yes, it might show 0:47:32.840 --> 0:47:35.920 up in your shared you know albums, but it's not 0:47:36.080 --> 0:47:39.480 taking up any memory on your iCloud because where those 0:47:39.480 --> 0:47:42.880 photos physically live is on my iCloud storage. That's number one. 0:47:42.880 --> 0:47:44.680 If it makes you feel any better, that's the way 0:47:44.680 --> 0:47:48.520 that should work. Now, if you're doing a shared library, 0:47:48.680 --> 0:47:52.360 that's a different scenario. A shared library is where a 0:47:52.400 --> 0:47:55.920 spouse or a partner whoever, wants to share all of 0:47:55.960 --> 0:47:59.960 their pictures in their library, and they it uses up 0:48:00.080 --> 0:48:02.839 storage on both of their I clouds because it's kind 0:48:02.840 --> 0:48:06.040 of not not necessarily duplicating those pictures, but it kind 0:48:06.080 --> 0:48:08.680 of is in a in a you know, in a way. 0:48:09.520 --> 0:48:11.080 So that's number one. 0:48:11.160 --> 0:48:13.440 Number two, if you want to delete this, I'm I 0:48:13.520 --> 0:48:17.719 have a shared album right here, and I'm looking at it, 0:48:18.040 --> 0:48:21.359 and it shows me my shared album details, which has 0:48:21.400 --> 0:48:23.319 the owner and all the other people that can see it. 0:48:23.680 --> 0:48:26.480 And then there's an option to unsubscribe, so you can 0:48:26.560 --> 0:48:30.319 try that and see if that helps by unsubscribing to 0:48:30.400 --> 0:48:33.359 that album. But if it's just the storage that you're 0:48:33.360 --> 0:48:36.080 worried about, you know that that shouldn't be too much 0:48:36.080 --> 0:48:38.000 of an issue because it, as far as I know, 0:48:38.120 --> 0:48:41.239 that does not take up storage on your iCloud unless 0:48:42.000 --> 0:48:44.960 you take a picture from that album and you save 0:48:45.040 --> 0:48:47.480 it to yours. So if you press the share icon 0:48:47.640 --> 0:48:52.000 on the album and then say save to my you 0:48:52.040 --> 0:48:54.879 know iCloud, which is you know, you press that share icon, 0:48:54.960 --> 0:48:58.560 it says save image. That will save that image permanently 0:48:58.719 --> 0:49:02.560 into your iCloud life library. So that reminds me I 0:49:02.560 --> 0:49:04.719 should probably do that on these images because I'm looking 0:49:04.719 --> 0:49:06.640 at this shared album and't I don't think I saved 0:49:06.640 --> 0:49:09.520 those to my library. But Alan, I hope that helps 0:49:09.520 --> 0:49:13.880 clear things up there in Santa Clarita. I mean, look, 0:49:14.040 --> 0:49:17.120 we are in the sharing economy and sometimes people like 0:49:17.160 --> 0:49:20.360 to share a lot of stuff, and that's what sounds 0:49:20.400 --> 0:49:23.719 like is happening with you. So try those things and 0:49:23.800 --> 0:49:25.880 see if it helps. And if you can't unsubscribe on 0:49:25.920 --> 0:49:29.359 your computer, maybe try it on the iPhone and hit 0:49:29.400 --> 0:49:33.319 that unsubscribe in the menu and that should delete it 0:49:33.400 --> 0:49:37.640 that shared album from your phone and from your iCloud library. 0:49:38.960 --> 0:49:42.560 Let's see here. Let's go to Mike and Corona, California. Mike, 0:49:42.560 --> 0:49:44.880 you're on with Rich Hi. 0:49:45.040 --> 0:49:51.120 Rich, Hi, My question is Apple. I have an iPhone 0:49:51.160 --> 0:49:56.680 Apple fifteen, right, and I'm getting like updates, If not 0:49:56.880 --> 0:50:00.960 every week, probably every other week is the latest, and 0:50:01.000 --> 0:50:02.800 that was seventeen points something. 0:50:03.040 --> 0:50:03.320 Yeah. 0:50:03.400 --> 0:50:09.719 Now my question to you Rich the apps that I 0:50:10.280 --> 0:50:14.600 myself count on just to make a living, do they 0:50:14.640 --> 0:50:19.280 get affected by these by these updates? For example, the 0:50:19.360 --> 0:50:24.560 sound notification, it's stopped sending sound notification. We count on 0:50:24.640 --> 0:50:27.120 it because in the middle of the night, a job 0:50:27.320 --> 0:50:30.839 comes up, right, and if there's no sound, there's no 0:50:30.880 --> 0:50:32.680 way for me to know that there's a job. 0:50:32.920 --> 0:50:33.120 Yeah. 0:50:33.200 --> 0:50:36.480 Now, again the question is those updates would they affect 0:50:36.520 --> 0:50:37.120 these apps? 0:50:37.480 --> 0:50:40.840 Yeah, they can for sure, and in fact, specifically with 0:50:40.880 --> 0:50:43.279 a sound I know Apple in a recent update did 0:50:43.320 --> 0:50:46.200 tweak the sound because so many people are having issues 0:50:46.239 --> 0:50:49.520 with not being able to set their own notification sounds 0:50:49.520 --> 0:50:52.320 and the notification sound that was the default was too silent. 0:50:52.880 --> 0:50:56.040 So yes, I know recently they did change the notification 0:50:56.239 --> 0:50:58.520 sounds and they tweaked it a little bit, so that 0:50:58.600 --> 0:51:02.120 could be what you're experiencing. But yes, in general, any 0:51:02.160 --> 0:51:05.680 software update can change any functionality at any time, So 0:51:05.800 --> 0:51:08.040 if there's an app that's very important to you that 0:51:08.120 --> 0:51:12.800 you rely on, be sure to check those that functionality 0:51:13.000 --> 0:51:16.080 After a major software update of either the app or 0:51:16.239 --> 0:51:19.040 the operating system every time. Great question, Mike. 0:51:19.080 --> 0:51:19.480 Coming out. 0:51:19.520 --> 0:51:22.640 We'll talk more WWDC right here on rich on Tech. 0:51:27.280 --> 0:51:29.000 Welcome back to rich on Tech. 0:51:29.080 --> 0:51:32.480 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at 0:51:32.600 --> 0:51:36.080 triple eight Rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight 0:51:36.280 --> 0:51:39.560 seven four to two four one zero one. We'll get 0:51:39.560 --> 0:51:41.680 back to the phone lines in just a moment, but 0:51:41.840 --> 0:51:45.960 first I want to talk more about Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. 0:51:46.400 --> 0:51:50.000 This is where Apple showed off Apple Intelligence and also 0:51:50.280 --> 0:51:53.360 iOS eighteen some of the new features coming to the iPhone. 0:51:53.719 --> 0:51:55.959 So I talked to a bunch of journalists up there 0:51:56.280 --> 0:51:58.920 and I got their take on some of the biggest announcements. 0:51:59.000 --> 0:52:02.160 Let's start with Zach. He's the editor at large for 0:52:02.280 --> 0:52:05.479 nine to five Mac, and he talks about Apple's own 0:52:05.600 --> 0:52:06.800 brand of AI. 0:52:07.600 --> 0:52:09.840 I think for a lot of people these software updates 0:52:09.880 --> 0:52:13.279 will be the first introduction to AI in general. They're 0:52:13.400 --> 0:52:17.360 using that phrase Apple Intelligence rather than saying AI. I 0:52:17.360 --> 0:52:18.960 think it makes it a little more friendly or a little 0:52:19.000 --> 0:52:22.480 less scary than the connotation AI taking over may have. 0:52:23.440 --> 0:52:25.960 I think they get a very good job of narrowing 0:52:26.000 --> 0:52:28.600 down what the AI does, what Apple Intelligence can do, 0:52:28.760 --> 0:52:30.960 in terms of this will help you be a better writer, 0:52:31.400 --> 0:52:34.920 It will help you communicate better with image generation in 0:52:35.000 --> 0:52:38.200 playful ways, ways that people already use, generating your own 0:52:38.239 --> 0:52:41.320 emojis that have waiting for them to finally make whatever 0:52:41.360 --> 0:52:44.040 emoji you want to see one day, and those are 0:52:44.080 --> 0:52:45.600 the things that people will actually do. 0:52:46.640 --> 0:52:50.239 And there's things like integrating with chat GPN. 0:52:50.320 --> 0:52:50.480 See. 0:52:50.800 --> 0:52:51.439 So if you're a. 0:52:51.360 --> 0:52:55.040 Power AI user already, you can look at Apple Intelligence 0:52:55.120 --> 0:52:58.480 and say, okay, those are some system integrated things, but 0:52:58.520 --> 0:53:01.880 you can also continue using AI that you've already learned 0:53:01.920 --> 0:53:06.120 and sort of mastered for free anonymously, which is the 0:53:06.120 --> 0:53:09.480 Apple privacy angle. And that's that's a big difference in 0:53:09.520 --> 0:53:13.239 Apple Intelligence and what they're doing versus other companies. But 0:53:13.280 --> 0:53:16.200 they're also working with those companies making them more private. 0:53:16.520 --> 0:53:18.759 There's even a feature to let you pay for chat 0:53:18.800 --> 0:53:21.160 to BT and get more out of those features with 0:53:21.280 --> 0:53:25.080 your mac, iPhone and iPad, and that's I think the 0:53:25.080 --> 0:53:28.440 best anyone can ask for in terms of getting Apple's 0:53:28.520 --> 0:53:31.320 version of AI as well as the existing stuff out there. 0:53:31.680 --> 0:53:33.880 I think it's a very exciting update this year for 0:53:34.080 --> 0:53:37.840 all the hardware. I think that where companies like open 0:53:37.880 --> 0:53:41.480 Ai need to sell their AI as a service. Apple 0:53:41.560 --> 0:53:44.719 is using AI to sell their devices, their hardware, and 0:53:44.760 --> 0:53:47.279 their services sure, and I also think it's only the 0:53:47.280 --> 0:53:50.080 first year that AI will deeply influence what the software 0:53:50.160 --> 0:53:54.080 bits do because they're doing modern AI right now. But 0:53:54.120 --> 0:53:55.960 over the next year it will change, and each year 0:53:56.000 --> 0:53:57.760 in the next few years, I think it'll change quickly 0:53:58.120 --> 0:54:01.040 so that iOS nineteen and iOS twenty be just as 0:54:01.120 --> 0:54:03.120 AI specific as I was eighteen today. 0:54:03.880 --> 0:54:08.000 Next up Carolina Milansy. She is the president and principal 0:54:08.040 --> 0:54:11.319 analyst at Creative Strategies, and she talks a lot about 0:54:11.360 --> 0:54:15.040 how Apple has full control over their hardware and software, 0:54:15.320 --> 0:54:18.520 which allows them to integrate AI throughout their devices, but 0:54:19.160 --> 0:54:21.400 maintain that all important privacy. 0:54:21.760 --> 0:54:25.239 I think obviously, for Apple, privacy is paramount, and I 0:54:25.280 --> 0:54:28.880 think they did a good job in explaining that everything 0:54:29.000 --> 0:54:33.279 that is Apple Intelligence, that is homegrown by Apple is 0:54:33.880 --> 0:54:37.399 private both on device and in the cloud. So they're 0:54:37.520 --> 0:54:41.279 using their servers with their silicon to make sure that 0:54:41.480 --> 0:54:44.520 whenever the model on the device is not enough and 0:54:44.560 --> 0:54:48.440 they need to go to the cloud, everything remains private 0:54:48.560 --> 0:54:49.120 and secure. 0:54:49.719 --> 0:54:50.160 I think the. 0:54:50.120 --> 0:54:53.279 Difference that Apple has is that they control everything right, 0:54:53.320 --> 0:54:56.880 They control the operating system. They control the hardware and 0:54:56.920 --> 0:54:59.319 then some of the services they have on it, and 0:54:59.360 --> 0:55:03.560 that gives you the ability to really bring AI throughout 0:55:03.640 --> 0:55:06.319 the system, throughout the device, and so the phone in 0:55:06.360 --> 0:55:11.759 this case for others like Samsong is a bit more 0:55:11.800 --> 0:55:14.759 complicated because they don't control all the pieces, and so 0:55:14.800 --> 0:55:17.479 they're still value, but you're going to have to pick 0:55:17.480 --> 0:55:19.879 and choose where you want that value to show up. 0:55:20.280 --> 0:55:24.000 Mark Spoonauer, global editor in chief at Tom's Guide, talks 0:55:24.040 --> 0:55:27.040 about how iOS eighteen will bring some useful features to 0:55:27.160 --> 0:55:30.880 everyday users, but Apple Intelligence will be limited to the 0:55:30.960 --> 0:55:34.439 latest iPhone fifteen Pro models and later, which might leave 0:55:34.520 --> 0:55:35.600 some users behind. 0:55:36.040 --> 0:55:38.560 I would say that AI was everywhere, but in a 0:55:38.600 --> 0:55:40.080 good way, in the sense that it's going to be 0:55:40.120 --> 0:55:42.640 coming to the devices that we already use. But there's 0:55:42.680 --> 0:55:45.440 a catch, I think with the Apple Intelligence in particular, 0:55:45.520 --> 0:55:48.520 because it's nice that they're thinking about like the personal 0:55:48.560 --> 0:55:51.439 and contextual awareness and things like that, but the fact 0:55:51.480 --> 0:55:54.479 that it's limited to the latest model iPhone fifteen Pro 0:55:54.600 --> 0:55:56.520 and iPhone fifteen Pro macs, I think it's going to 0:55:56.600 --> 0:55:58.480 leave millions out in the cold. Like if you have 0:55:58.480 --> 0:56:02.200 an iPhone fifteen from this year, you still can't participate, 0:56:02.560 --> 0:56:05.400 So I think it goes to show that Apple Silicon 0:56:05.560 --> 0:56:08.080 you need something really powerful under the hood in order 0:56:08.120 --> 0:56:08.879 to enjoy all. 0:56:08.800 --> 0:56:09.520 Of these new features. 0:56:09.560 --> 0:56:10.719 So I think there's a lot of people who are 0:56:10.719 --> 0:56:14.640 gonna have upgrade envy. I think there's always been conspiracy 0:56:14.640 --> 0:56:17.760 theories around new iOS updates in terms of like forcing 0:56:17.760 --> 0:56:19.880 people to upgrade to the latest model iPhone. But in 0:56:19.880 --> 0:56:23.440 the past it's been about like slowing down performance or 0:56:23.520 --> 0:56:26.560 less battery life than before. But here is a tangible 0:56:26.640 --> 0:56:30.399 reason to potentially upgrade, no conspiracy theories required. Yeah, there's 0:56:30.400 --> 0:56:32.359 a lot of features that don't have nothing to do 0:56:32.600 --> 0:56:35.000 with Apple Intelligence that I actually think are useful for 0:56:35.080 --> 0:56:38.080 everyday users. One is the fact that you can customize 0:56:38.080 --> 0:56:40.439 your control center, for example, the fact that you could 0:56:40.440 --> 0:56:42.840 swipe down and then you decide what shortcuts are and 0:56:42.840 --> 0:56:46.360 which orders or whenever you're actually unlocking your iPhone. Up 0:56:46.440 --> 0:56:48.799 until now it's been flashlight and camera. Now you can 0:56:48.880 --> 0:56:51.800 choose what those are as well, so people aren't locked 0:56:51.840 --> 0:56:53.840 out of new features. When it comes to iOS eighteen, 0:56:54.000 --> 0:56:56.440 it's just the AI stuff that is only reserved for 0:56:56.480 --> 0:56:59.040 the most powerful iPhones. I think to a certain degree 0:56:59.040 --> 0:57:02.120 with Samsung's phone and the Galaxy AI, it feels bolted 0:57:02.160 --> 0:57:05.120 on after the fact, where I think with the iPhone 0:57:05.120 --> 0:57:08.280 and iOS eighteen in particular, it feels very much woven 0:57:08.320 --> 0:57:11.439 into the system, especially with Siri, and I think that's 0:57:11.520 --> 0:57:14.759 one area where both Google and Samsung in a weird way, 0:57:14.960 --> 0:57:16.120 are going to be catching. 0:57:15.880 --> 0:57:16.480 Up to Apple. 0:57:17.080 --> 0:57:20.200 Jason Heiner, editor in chief at zd net, talks about 0:57:20.240 --> 0:57:23.040 how Apple's new features will save time for users. 0:57:23.600 --> 0:57:26.160 Apple's taking a lot of the things that they could do, 0:57:26.400 --> 0:57:29.440 the ways they can automate things in life, and bringing 0:57:29.440 --> 0:57:31.800 them into the iPhone in ways that are going to 0:57:31.840 --> 0:57:34.800 be really meaningful, I think, to a lot more people 0:57:35.520 --> 0:57:38.440 going forward and so doing things like the demo in 0:57:38.560 --> 0:57:44.240 the in the keynote was talking about somebody going and 0:57:44.280 --> 0:57:46.120 asking what time is my mom's flight? 0:57:47.160 --> 0:57:47.960 Is it delayed? 0:57:48.120 --> 0:57:50.520 You know, and it would instead of having to go 0:57:50.560 --> 0:57:53.680 into a bunch of different apps, Siri then can pull 0:57:53.720 --> 0:57:56.680 that data based on a text message, based on an email, 0:57:57.080 --> 0:58:00.800 based on a flight an app that has the flight. 0:58:00.640 --> 0:58:01.280 Data in it. 0:58:01.360 --> 0:58:03.160 So doing a lot of things. 0:58:03.000 --> 0:58:05.440 That are going to make so much of the stuff 0:58:05.440 --> 0:58:07.240 that we do on our phones all the time, for 0:58:07.280 --> 0:58:13.640 everybody a lot smoother, a lot more intuitive, and frankly, 0:58:13.760 --> 0:58:19.480 just saving people time and also headaches and saving phone calls, 0:58:19.600 --> 0:58:22.880 saving sorting through messages, all of those things. Anything that 0:58:23.280 --> 0:58:25.919 this tech can do to do that save people time 0:58:25.960 --> 0:58:28.640 and effort and make things easier is going to be 0:58:28.640 --> 0:58:30.440 a win. And I think there's potentially. 0:58:30.080 --> 0:58:31.240 A lot of those kinds of things. 0:58:31.640 --> 0:58:37.160 Yeah, I think that the opportunity to search through your 0:58:37.200 --> 0:58:43.040 photo library is something that is so simple but really powerful. 0:58:43.600 --> 0:58:47.560 We all have photos that are hard to find. The 0:58:47.640 --> 0:58:50.520 idea of just being able to essentially ask questions of 0:58:50.600 --> 0:58:53.080 your photo library and say, find that time that I 0:58:53.120 --> 0:58:59.560 went on vacation, you know, with my aunt to London 0:58:59.840 --> 0:59:01.560 or something like that, and let it just pull all 0:59:01.600 --> 0:59:04.280 of those photos for you, rather than you know, swiping 0:59:04.360 --> 0:59:06.840 around and do it is super powerful. And then even 0:59:06.840 --> 0:59:09.000 the idea of being able to search through a video 0:59:09.120 --> 0:59:12.640 and find a certain point in a video that could 0:59:12.680 --> 0:59:15.120 be really cool too. And again, I think just for 0:59:15.240 --> 0:59:16.560 everyday uses. 0:59:16.240 --> 0:59:18.200 And for all of us, I think it will be 0:59:18.240 --> 0:59:18.960 really powerful. 0:59:19.280 --> 0:59:22.680 And finally, Jacqueline Dallas, a YouTuber with the channel nothing 0:59:22.760 --> 0:59:26.640 but Tech, says she's impressed with the new customization options 0:59:26.680 --> 0:59:27.720 in iOS. 0:59:28.200 --> 0:59:31.240 I think the interesting part of iOS is that it's 0:59:31.280 --> 0:59:34.080 more customizable now, and that's small, but I think that 0:59:34.160 --> 0:59:36.600 a lot of people that use Android often say that 0:59:37.160 --> 0:59:39.400 iOS is not customizable. So it's nice to see the 0:59:39.440 --> 0:59:42.280 ability to move icons. You can also have the icons 0:59:42.440 --> 0:59:44.600 that color matched. All those small things. Oh and then 0:59:44.600 --> 0:59:47.440 also the tap back notifications are cool. You can now 0:59:47.520 --> 0:59:50.920 customize them, so any emoji. So RCS means a rich 0:59:50.960 --> 0:59:53.880 communication service and it's a more secure version of SMS 0:59:53.920 --> 0:59:57.600 that Google developed, meaning that your images will be encrypted. 0:59:57.600 --> 1:00:00.320 You can send like high resolution ones. And previously Apple 1:00:00.360 --> 1:00:02.880 did not adopt it, so if you had an Android phone, 1:00:03.000 --> 1:00:06.000 everything would suck when you're messaging an iPhone. RCS will 1:00:06.000 --> 1:00:07.760 make it suck a little bit less. I don't think 1:00:07.760 --> 1:00:10.080 it's going to change the cultural stigma though. I think 1:00:10.080 --> 1:00:12.920 what Apple does really well is extreme the fundamentals, and 1:00:12.920 --> 1:00:14.760 so I think if we were like, look at what's 1:00:14.800 --> 1:00:17.200 going to happen with AI and I phone, it will 1:00:17.240 --> 1:00:19.120 just become part of the phone and we won't be like, oh, 1:00:19.120 --> 1:00:21.720 it's AI iPhone, just like the phone does things really well. 1:00:22.160 --> 1:00:25.040 Isn't that the dream of all computers and mobile devices? 1:00:25.120 --> 1:00:27.120 We want them to do what we need them to do, 1:00:27.400 --> 1:00:29.000 and we want to be able to ask them in 1:00:29.040 --> 1:00:32.320 a very natural language. It sounds like Apple has taken 1:00:32.320 --> 1:00:34.800 a big step towards that once again. The phone number 1:00:34.840 --> 1:00:38.000 triple a Rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight 1:00:38.320 --> 1:00:41.240 seven four to two four one zero one. If you 1:00:41.280 --> 1:00:43.600 have a question about technology, give me a call. My 1:00:43.720 --> 1:00:46.680 name is Rich Demiro and you are listening to Rich 1:00:46.720 --> 1:00:56.360 on tech. Jerry's in Rancho, Santa Margarita, California. Jerry, you're 1:00:56.400 --> 1:00:56.919 on with Rich. 1:00:57.720 --> 1:01:02.520 Hey, uh, great to hear you again. And I've called 1:01:02.560 --> 1:01:04.040 you before many kinds. 1:01:04.360 --> 1:01:06.280 Oh, okay, We've got to repeat call. 1:01:06.480 --> 1:01:06.840 Here we go. 1:01:07.560 --> 1:01:14.080 Yeah, I've got a weird question. I've been doing some research. 1:01:15.680 --> 1:01:20.280 Back in December, I just got my iPhone fifteen promacs. 1:01:20.080 --> 1:01:23.200 It's been a great phone. But I've been seeing some 1:01:23.480 --> 1:01:32.280 articles about I message and just not loading or crashing constantly. 1:01:34.760 --> 1:01:37.760 And they said that there's a way to turn off 1:01:37.840 --> 1:01:44.160 FaceTime and messages, but sometimes it's even locked where I 1:01:44.200 --> 1:01:48.960 can't even turn off FaceTime or as a fix. Have 1:01:49.120 --> 1:01:55.160 you read or seen any information on the updated iOS 1:01:56.400 --> 1:02:01.360 where the I messages are I just get a blank screen, 1:02:02.200 --> 1:02:06.080 then it crashes and I have to restart the phone 1:02:06.160 --> 1:02:10.560 a couple times. Any info that you might have in 1:02:10.600 --> 1:02:12.760 your bag of tricks. 1:02:12.400 --> 1:02:16.000 I know that there was an issue with I Message 1:02:16.000 --> 1:02:18.600 when iOS seventeen first came out. It was like a 1:02:18.600 --> 1:02:22.200 little bit wonky, but I've not heard anything since. And 1:02:23.120 --> 1:02:26.520 just doing a quick search of the web for I 1:02:26.600 --> 1:02:30.720 Message crashing, I'm not getting any articles that are actually legitimate, 1:02:30.880 --> 1:02:35.280 like articles. I'm getting a lot of you know, forum 1:02:35.400 --> 1:02:39.720 posts and Apple discussions and all that kind of stuff 1:02:39.720 --> 1:02:43.520 that's not really anything that's I mean, look, and this 1:02:43.560 --> 1:02:45.480 happens a lot on this show and in general. When 1:02:45.520 --> 1:02:47.680 I get emails from people, they say, hey, Rich, I'm 1:02:47.680 --> 1:02:49.520 having this problem with my phone and a lot of 1:02:49.520 --> 1:02:52.360 other people are having the same problem. And I say, 1:02:52.400 --> 1:02:53.560 what do you mean a lot of other people? And 1:02:53.600 --> 1:02:56.080 they say, well, I looked up online and I found 1:02:56.120 --> 1:02:59.360 this forum where everyone's complaining about this problem. Well, yes, 1:02:59.400 --> 1:03:02.880 because everyone searching Google going to that form that's having 1:03:02.880 --> 1:03:06.120 that situation and they are posting in that same exact post. Now, 1:03:06.120 --> 1:03:08.520 that doesn't mean that it's not happening. In fact, a 1:03:08.560 --> 1:03:12.760 lot of times when things I call it bubbling up, right, like, 1:03:12.880 --> 1:03:15.680 these issues will happen and they start on Reddit posts, 1:03:15.720 --> 1:03:18.800 and they start in forums, and then all of a sudden, 1:03:19.040 --> 1:03:21.560 it is, you know, a software update or something will 1:03:21.560 --> 1:03:24.600 address it later on. So I'm not saying that it's 1:03:24.640 --> 1:03:27.800 not happening, but I guarantee you if you search this 1:03:28.400 --> 1:03:32.080 you know this issue online, you'll find a million documents 1:03:32.120 --> 1:03:34.880 that purport to help you figure out how to stop 1:03:34.880 --> 1:03:38.720 this from happening, when realistically, there's not a way that 1:03:38.800 --> 1:03:42.240 I know of to just like reset I message altogether. 1:03:42.920 --> 1:03:46.480 So my best advice, Jerry, would be to do this. 1:03:48.160 --> 1:03:50.560 If you're having issues, I would go through your I 1:03:50.720 --> 1:03:55.000 message and I would delete a couple of messages that maybe, 1:03:55.040 --> 1:03:56.720 you know, maybe just go through and clean up your 1:03:56.720 --> 1:03:59.560 messages and get rid of some of the either the 1:03:59.640 --> 1:04:02.360 larger files or you know, I don't know some of 1:04:02.360 --> 1:04:06.000 the older messages I've got. I've got like thousands of 1:04:06.040 --> 1:04:09.560 messages in my I message and I don't have any issues. 1:04:09.560 --> 1:04:12.160 I've never never had a crash in that. So it 1:04:12.160 --> 1:04:14.000 could be that there's something that was sent to you 1:04:14.440 --> 1:04:16.760 that could be triggering this. There could be one of 1:04:16.800 --> 1:04:18.880 the messages in the list that just has some weird 1:04:18.960 --> 1:04:21.960 characters that maybe are causing this. But I'm not really 1:04:22.040 --> 1:04:27.160 sure on a method to just get this fixed, like instantly, 1:04:27.240 --> 1:04:29.360 because there's not really a way I know of doing that. 1:04:30.280 --> 1:04:32.040 You can go through and delete all your messages and 1:04:32.040 --> 1:04:34.440 start over and restart your phone and see if that helps. 1:04:34.960 --> 1:04:39.240 But that's the best case scenario I can think of. 1:04:39.640 --> 1:04:41.960 What is when you're looking online, like, what is the 1:04:42.000 --> 1:04:45.280 main kind of theme that everyone's saying causes. 1:04:44.920 --> 1:04:49.280 This of replies? And oh, yeah, I had, but it's 1:04:49.320 --> 1:04:53.920 like older articles or older forums. And you're right, but 1:04:54.120 --> 1:04:57.640 I have done what you suggested. When you clicked on 1:04:57.800 --> 1:05:02.400 the top left corner, you can actually get that pop 1:05:02.520 --> 1:05:07.360 up to select messages you wanted to lead. And I've 1:05:07.400 --> 1:05:11.800 done that often on stuff that you know, like blocked 1:05:12.960 --> 1:05:16.240 spam and stuff like that that I have to get 1:05:16.320 --> 1:05:20.560 rid of constantly. But you're right, I think maybe there's 1:05:20.640 --> 1:05:26.080 a couple of extra large text messages that may have 1:05:26.240 --> 1:05:28.720 triggered something like that. And I think that's what I 1:05:28.760 --> 1:05:33.560 saw in an article that sometimes that can happen, and 1:05:34.320 --> 1:05:39.840 you know, and I'm probably it's not a real bad thing, 1:05:39.960 --> 1:05:44.600 but sometimes it's just frustrating when it shows the number 1:05:44.640 --> 1:05:49.480 of unread messages and it says four and it won't load, 1:05:49.560 --> 1:05:51.640 and I get that blank screen and I have to 1:05:51.880 --> 1:05:56.120 just power off and restart the phone about two or 1:05:56.160 --> 1:05:58.760 three times in a row, and then it's fine. 1:05:59.320 --> 1:06:03.360 That is very frustrating. So I guess what I would 1:06:03.400 --> 1:06:05.320 do in this case. I'd probably if if I was 1:06:05.360 --> 1:06:07.480 having like major issues where I had to restart my 1:06:07.520 --> 1:06:10.320 phone two or three times, I'd probably do two things. 1:06:10.400 --> 1:06:12.480 Number One, I'd go through and I would just blast. 1:06:12.520 --> 1:06:14.160 I would just get rid of every message in my 1:06:14.200 --> 1:06:18.320 I message list. To me, text messages are fleeting, they're ephemeral. 1:06:18.800 --> 1:06:20.880 You don't need them, like I know some people they're 1:06:20.880 --> 1:06:22.479 obsessed with keeping their messages forever. 1:06:22.520 --> 1:06:23.960 I don't care if someone's texting me. 1:06:24.320 --> 1:06:26.080 I mean they're telling me what time of flight lands, 1:06:26.120 --> 1:06:28.280 they're saying, hey, i'll see there in five minutes. I 1:06:28.280 --> 1:06:30.920 don't need a record of anything in my text. Like, 1:06:31.120 --> 1:06:32.959 if it's something that I need to keep, I'm gonna 1:06:33.040 --> 1:06:34.800 keep it. I'm gonna copy it, i'm gonna paste it, 1:06:35.040 --> 1:06:37.040 I'm gonna get an email. So that's what I would 1:06:37.080 --> 1:06:39.320 do first off, is just delete everything in my messages, 1:06:39.440 --> 1:06:41.560 if you're okay with that, and then I would go 1:06:41.640 --> 1:06:44.520 through and I would restart my phone, make sure everything 1:06:44.560 --> 1:06:46.160 is up to date on the software up page, which 1:06:46.200 --> 1:06:48.640 I'm sure you've already done, and then I would see 1:06:48.640 --> 1:06:52.000 if it keeps happening. If it keeps happening, then I 1:06:52.040 --> 1:06:55.360 would probably personally, I would format my phone completely. I 1:06:55.400 --> 1:06:57.600 know this sounds wild, but if you're trying to you know, 1:06:57.640 --> 1:06:59.320 if you're telling me you're restarting your phone two or 1:06:59.360 --> 1:07:01.600 three times in a row, that should not happen with 1:07:01.600 --> 1:07:04.640 an iPhone, and iPhone is just not that buggy. 1:07:04.720 --> 1:07:05.400 It just isn't. 1:07:05.480 --> 1:07:08.240 Now, maybe if you're running beta software, that could happen. 1:07:08.520 --> 1:07:12.440 I assume you're not right, No, okay, So I mean 1:07:12.600 --> 1:07:14.440 you know that would be the next case. Thing that 1:07:14.480 --> 1:07:16.960 I would do is personally, I would just wipe my 1:07:17.160 --> 1:07:21.440 entire phone and reset and and kind of put everything 1:07:21.480 --> 1:07:24.120 back on there one by one instead of restoring it 1:07:24.160 --> 1:07:27.240 from an iCloud backup. And I'm just looking real quick, 1:07:27.280 --> 1:07:30.120 I'm gonna look into General and there's a there's a 1:07:30.200 --> 1:07:34.360 reset iPhone functionality, and I'm gonna see if there's something 1:07:34.400 --> 1:07:35.160 that we can do here. 1:07:35.240 --> 1:07:38.880 Let's see reset all settings. Yeah, there's not like one that. 1:07:40.040 --> 1:07:42.080 Yeah, there's not one that like says reset all my 1:07:42.120 --> 1:07:45.880 messages you could try reset all settings or reset network 1:07:45.880 --> 1:07:48.200 settings and see if that helps. Maybe it's a network thing. 1:07:48.600 --> 1:07:50.720 But yeah, Jerry, those are the two things I would 1:07:50.760 --> 1:07:53.920 do to see if maybe one of those works. I 1:07:53.960 --> 1:07:56.520 think if you if you did the nuclear thing where 1:07:56.520 --> 1:07:59.240 you deleted all your messages, that would probably fix it. 1:07:59.320 --> 1:08:01.840 And then restart your phone and start fresh, that would 1:08:01.840 --> 1:08:04.120 definitely fix it. I think, as long as you're not 1:08:04.160 --> 1:08:06.320 restoring it from an iCloud backup. But I feel you, 1:08:06.560 --> 1:08:09.760 I hear you, and you know, if there's something like 1:08:09.800 --> 1:08:12.080 that happening on your phone, it is very frustrating. It's 1:08:12.160 --> 1:08:14.240 just it's not the way it's supposed to be, and 1:08:14.320 --> 1:08:17.800 so hopefully one of those things works. The other thing 1:08:17.800 --> 1:08:19.559 I would do, just real quick, is go into your 1:08:19.600 --> 1:08:23.479 messages and at the upper left hand corner. I'm sure 1:08:23.520 --> 1:08:26.000 you've done this, but there's a thing called filters, and 1:08:26.080 --> 1:08:29.519 you can see you've got all messages known senders, unknown 1:08:29.520 --> 1:08:32.640 senders on read and then recently deleted. You can go 1:08:32.680 --> 1:08:35.200 into your recently deleted. It will delete these up to 1:08:36.439 --> 1:08:38.639 forty days later after you delete them, but you can 1:08:38.680 --> 1:08:42.200 go through and manually delete them by just tapping delete all. 1:08:42.760 --> 1:08:44.800 And I've got I just found four hundred and thirty 1:08:44.800 --> 1:08:46.799 one messages in there. I'm gonna go ahead and delete 1:08:46.840 --> 1:08:49.080 that now. I've got a bunch of that stuff that's 1:08:49.080 --> 1:08:51.320 not taking up storage on my phone anymore. Or an 1:08:51.520 --> 1:08:54.800 iCloud and I would restart my phone, maybe start there 1:08:54.840 --> 1:08:56.879 and see if that helps. Maybe there's something that deleted 1:08:56.880 --> 1:08:59.519 folder that you've gotten rid of, but it's still just 1:08:59.560 --> 1:09:02.679 causing some sort of issue on there. Great call, Jerry, 1:09:02.960 --> 1:09:05.400 thanks for trusting me to call me again. 1:09:05.640 --> 1:09:09.120 I do appreciate that. So thanks for listening to the show. 1:09:09.479 --> 1:09:12.400 Eighty eight Rich one O one eight eight eight seven 1:09:12.560 --> 1:09:16.000 four to two four one zero one. Un Like all 1:09:16.000 --> 1:09:18.559 the parents on Instagram that can't believe that their kid 1:09:18.600 --> 1:09:20.320 is turning another age, I. 1:09:20.280 --> 1:09:22.320 Can't believe my kid is turning nine. I can't believe 1:09:22.320 --> 1:09:24.439 my kid's turning ten. We're surprised every year. 1:09:24.840 --> 1:09:27.880 I'm always surprised that another hour of this show is 1:09:27.920 --> 1:09:30.400 in the can. We've got another hour coming up right 1:09:30.439 --> 1:09:32.720 after this. My name is Rich Dmiro. You are doing 1:09:32.760 --> 1:09:38.320 something smart. You're listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome back 1:09:38.360 --> 1:09:40.840 to Rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with 1:09:40.880 --> 1:09:45.360 you talking technology at Triple eight. Rich one oh one. 1:09:45.400 --> 1:09:48.479 That's eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one. 1:09:48.560 --> 1:09:51.080 Still coming up on the show, I'll talk about Yahoo 1:09:51.120 --> 1:09:55.920 mal getting a modern makeover, how you can renew your 1:09:56.000 --> 1:10:00.479 passport online. And uh, it is Father's Day week, so 1:10:01.040 --> 1:10:04.679 Happy Father's Day to all of the incredible fathers out there, 1:10:04.800 --> 1:10:08.240 father figures. I also know that this weekend can be 1:10:08.280 --> 1:10:12.439 difficult for some, so I totally understand that, and I'm 1:10:12.439 --> 1:10:15.760 thinking of you out there as well. I am a dad, 1:10:15.840 --> 1:10:18.960 I have two kids, and best thing that ever happened 1:10:18.960 --> 1:10:19.160 to me. 1:10:19.640 --> 1:10:21.000 My kids are incredible. 1:10:21.560 --> 1:10:24.720 They are challenging, probably just as challenging as I was 1:10:24.760 --> 1:10:27.960 as a kid, and they keep me on my toes 1:10:28.160 --> 1:10:31.439 and they're probably a lot smarter than me too. The 1:10:31.560 --> 1:10:34.800 access to information that my children have compared to what 1:10:34.840 --> 1:10:38.760 I had when I was a kid, is just truly incredible. 1:10:39.439 --> 1:10:41.720 When I was a kid, if you didn't have the 1:10:41.800 --> 1:10:44.680 answer to a question, where did you go? I mean 1:10:44.720 --> 1:10:45.759 other than the library? 1:10:45.880 --> 1:10:46.080 Right? 1:10:46.479 --> 1:10:50.559 You asked someone and that person maybe told you what 1:10:50.680 --> 1:10:54.360 they knew about that topic. And sometimes it was right, 1:10:54.760 --> 1:10:57.880 sometimes it was wrong. There's a lot of misinformation going 1:10:57.920 --> 1:11:02.320 on around there. These kids ask Google. Now, they ask 1:11:02.360 --> 1:11:06.439 Ai and Hopefully they're not asking TikTok because that is 1:11:06.560 --> 1:11:08.519 just filled with a lot of stuff that they should 1:11:08.600 --> 1:11:12.800 not be listening to. But hope you get some time 1:11:12.800 --> 1:11:14.879 to celebrate with your loved ones this weekend. 1:11:16.000 --> 1:11:19.040 I know I will be doing that and yeah, enjoy. 1:11:19.840 --> 1:11:22.479 Let me tell you about this website that's speaking of dads, 1:11:22.960 --> 1:11:25.599 So if you want to keep your kids busy during 1:11:25.880 --> 1:11:30.280 your celebrations, this is a website called dad Can't Draw. 1:11:31.120 --> 1:11:34.519 This is a website that creates custom coloring book pages 1:11:34.520 --> 1:11:37.880 for kids based on whatever you type in. It uses 1:11:37.960 --> 1:11:42.920 AI to generate unique black and white illustrations instantly. This 1:11:43.080 --> 1:11:46.200 was created by a dad named Josh. He is a 1:11:46.280 --> 1:11:49.840 self taught developer who initially made this tool for his 1:11:49.880 --> 1:11:54.120 own kids, but then he has expanded it to everyone. 1:11:54.840 --> 1:11:57.599 So you get ten free coloring pages that you can 1:11:57.680 --> 1:12:00.120 generate to try out the service and you can do 1:12:00.160 --> 1:12:02.479 whatever you want. You can type in. I tried this 1:12:02.520 --> 1:12:04.480 with all kinds of stuff and it's just fantastic. 1:12:05.000 --> 1:12:05.240 Again. 1:12:05.280 --> 1:12:09.680 The website is dad Can't Draw dot com and it 1:12:09.800 --> 1:12:13.280 is a fantastic website that helps you create custom coloring 1:12:13.280 --> 1:12:16.120 book pages instantly. So if you're hanging out with the 1:12:16.160 --> 1:12:17.800 kids this weekend and you want them to make you 1:12:17.840 --> 1:12:21.360 a picture, Just say whatever you want and the AI 1:12:21.439 --> 1:12:24.519 will create that illustration. You print it out, the kids 1:12:24.520 --> 1:12:26.439 can color it in and you can get as creative 1:12:26.560 --> 1:12:30.280 as you want. This is a game changer. So again 1:12:30.360 --> 1:12:35.240 the website, Dad can't draw dot com. And by the way, 1:12:36.400 --> 1:12:39.920 grown up in New Jersey, a draw draw. That's what 1:12:39.960 --> 1:12:42.760 you pulled out of a chest. That I literally grew 1:12:42.880 --> 1:12:46.439 up my entire childhood thinking what you pulled out of 1:12:46.520 --> 1:12:49.120 a chest was called a draw And it was only 1:12:49.160 --> 1:12:51.600 when I came to California that I learned it was 1:12:51.640 --> 1:12:54.840 called a drawer. There are some extra letters in there, 1:12:55.320 --> 1:12:57.800 so I have come a long way. I know I 1:12:57.840 --> 1:13:00.479 say things a little weird. I know I pronounced button 1:13:00.600 --> 1:13:01.160 and a lot of. 1:13:01.080 --> 1:13:02.240 Things very strangely. 1:13:02.720 --> 1:13:05.960 But if you heard me before I went to college, 1:13:06.520 --> 1:13:10.599 I you, yeah, I said some things really really weird, 1:13:11.120 --> 1:13:15.240 like Oregon that thank you? Oregon was Oregon? 1:13:16.000 --> 1:13:16.960 Yeah? 1:13:16.640 --> 1:13:16.760 Uh? 1:13:17.040 --> 1:13:20.559 Coffee was coffee? Water was uh water? 1:13:21.840 --> 1:13:22.080 Uh? 1:13:22.200 --> 1:13:22.479 Yeah? 1:13:22.560 --> 1:13:24.880 It goes on and on one. All right, let's go 1:13:25.000 --> 1:13:28.880 to Olivia in Huntington Beach, California. 1:13:28.920 --> 1:13:30.479 Olivia. You're on with Rich? 1:13:31.720 --> 1:13:32.280 Hi Rich? 1:13:32.320 --> 1:13:32.720 How are you? 1:13:33.080 --> 1:13:35.599 I am doing fantastic, Welcome to the show. 1:13:36.360 --> 1:13:36.800 Thank you. 1:13:37.040 --> 1:13:42.040 So my question is I have two work from home jobs. 1:13:41.479 --> 1:13:45.320 So each job requires two monitors, So I have four 1:13:45.400 --> 1:13:49.559 monitors total with two keyboards and two mouths. How do 1:13:49.680 --> 1:13:54.280 I seamlessly transition to just using one keyboard and a 1:13:54.360 --> 1:13:55.639 mouse for all. 1:13:55.479 --> 1:13:57.920 Four What kind of job are you doing? Are you 1:13:58.000 --> 1:14:00.479 like mission controler you're landing stuff on the or what? 1:14:02.280 --> 1:14:04.720 No, just a one full time gig and like a 1:14:04.800 --> 1:14:07.679 freelancer on call kind of thing for the second launch. 1:14:07.840 --> 1:14:11.160 But sometimes it kind of overlaps my hours. Okay, I'm 1:14:11.200 --> 1:14:13.400 always going back and forth between the two keyboards and 1:14:13.560 --> 1:14:15.360 sometimes I'm like, oh, shoot, this is not the like. 1:14:15.400 --> 1:14:16.320 One and all that. 1:14:16.720 --> 1:14:18.800 Okay, So a couple of ways you can do this. 1:14:19.680 --> 1:14:22.320 There is a device called a KVM switch. 1:14:22.400 --> 1:14:22.960 Have you heard of that? 1:14:24.439 --> 1:14:24.639 No? 1:14:24.720 --> 1:14:28.439 Okay, keyboard video mouse, that's what it stands for. KVM switch, 1:14:28.960 --> 1:14:31.920 So you can you can get one of those. That's 1:14:31.920 --> 1:14:35.640 a physical switch that you would connect one mouse and 1:14:35.720 --> 1:14:37.080 keyboard to multiple computers. 1:14:37.080 --> 1:14:37.920 So look it up. 1:14:38.560 --> 1:14:41.040 There's a lot of articles on picking the best one, 1:14:41.479 --> 1:14:44.000 but that's one way of handling it. It's a switch 1:14:44.080 --> 1:14:46.160 that you know, it's kind of like anything else. It's 1:14:46.200 --> 1:14:48.320 just a switch. You put a bunch of the stuff 1:14:48.320 --> 1:14:50.840 into the back of it and then it streamlines it 1:14:50.880 --> 1:14:53.720 into the rest of it. So that is one way 1:14:53.720 --> 1:14:56.160 of doing it. There's also some software programs that you 1:14:56.200 --> 1:14:59.800 can use. So now I've not tested this, but it 1:15:00.000 --> 1:15:05.360 there's one for Microsoft Garage called Mouse without Borders and uh, 1:15:05.920 --> 1:15:08.920 and that's one that you can download and try. And 1:15:09.240 --> 1:15:12.439 this is this is quite old, but you know, I 1:15:12.479 --> 1:15:14.680 don't think mice really have a lot of updates over 1:15:14.720 --> 1:15:17.000 the years, so it probably still works. Are these Windows 1:15:17.080 --> 1:15:18.280 or mac computers? 1:15:18.720 --> 1:15:18.840 Uh? 1:15:19.000 --> 1:15:19.960 Both Windows? 1:15:19.960 --> 1:15:23.799 Okay, so this one will probably work Mouse without Borders. 1:15:24.200 --> 1:15:26.759 That's probably only going to take care of the mouse though, 1:15:26.960 --> 1:15:30.040 So I think that you want to uh that you 1:15:30.120 --> 1:15:32.479 probably want something a little more powerful. So there is 1:15:32.520 --> 1:15:38.719 a shareware app called sharemouse dot com share mouse dot 1:15:38.760 --> 1:15:42.160 com and this software lets you control multiple computers from 1:15:42.160 --> 1:15:45.960 a single mouse and keyboard. So pretty pretty simple. And 1:15:46.040 --> 1:15:49.120 it kind of is like a KVM, except it is 1:15:49.240 --> 1:15:50.559 more software based. 1:15:51.080 --> 1:15:52.120 So those are. 1:15:52.000 --> 1:15:54.760 The recommendations I have for you, Olivia. I will link 1:15:54.800 --> 1:15:57.120 them up on the website. Rich on tech dot tv 1:15:57.760 --> 1:16:01.360 just hit the light bulb icon. But two review if 1:16:01.400 --> 1:16:04.760 you want to connect you know, a couple different computers 1:16:04.800 --> 1:16:07.960 to one keyboard and mouse, you can use what's called 1:16:08.000 --> 1:16:11.360 a KVM so that is a KVM switch. 1:16:11.400 --> 1:16:11.960 You can do that. 1:16:12.520 --> 1:16:16.439 You can try the app called Microsoft Garage Mouse without Borders, 1:16:16.439 --> 1:16:19.680 but that's just for the mouse. Or there is a 1:16:19.720 --> 1:16:22.280 shareware called share mouse or right. 1:16:22.320 --> 1:16:23.839 I don't know if it's shareware. I think you actually 1:16:24.040 --> 1:16:24.960 you might have to pay for this. 1:16:25.080 --> 1:16:29.080 Let's see demo version allows you to try all features 1:16:29.120 --> 1:16:32.840 for thirty minutes, and then you'll have to pay. And 1:16:33.280 --> 1:16:35.559 let's see how much is the license. I don't see 1:16:35.560 --> 1:16:39.120 the price, but I'm sure it's reasonable. So and if 1:16:39.160 --> 1:16:40.840 you've got a couple jobs, you should be able to 1:16:40.880 --> 1:16:43.280 afford it. Olivia, you're killing it. You're doing you're doing 1:16:43.320 --> 1:16:47.600 great lots of jobs managing all those computers that that 1:16:47.680 --> 1:16:48.280 takes a lot. 1:16:48.360 --> 1:16:50.920 So thanks for doing that. Appreciate it all, right. 1:16:50.920 --> 1:16:53.799 Eighty eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven 1:16:53.920 --> 1:16:57.320 four two four to one zero one. Let's go to 1:16:57.400 --> 1:17:00.240 hol and see me Valley. I'm sorry I can't do that. 1:17:00.280 --> 1:17:01.000 How what's up? 1:17:01.880 --> 1:17:08.200 Hello, Hi, Hi there, I'm so happy to speak with you. 1:17:08.479 --> 1:17:13.200 Here's the problem. For years, I've utilized information from a 1:17:13.479 --> 1:17:19.840 California governmental entity website. The site includes public access detailed information. 1:17:21.439 --> 1:17:23.880 When I was able to use Internet Explorer, I was 1:17:23.880 --> 1:17:27.000 able to copy the information and paste into a word 1:17:27.080 --> 1:17:32.080 document while retaining the information format. Then Internet Explorer was 1:17:32.120 --> 1:17:35.679 replaced by Microsoft Edge after the end of use state 1:17:35.800 --> 1:17:38.599 for Explorer. When I copied and pasted, I would lose 1:17:38.640 --> 1:17:42.240 the right twenty five percent of the formatted information. Still 1:17:42.240 --> 1:17:44.559 able to copy and paste text only and keep all 1:17:44.600 --> 1:17:45.360 the info. 1:17:45.720 --> 1:17:47.080 I'm sorry say that last part. 1:17:47.080 --> 1:17:50.760 Again, I was still able to copy and paste the 1:17:50.800 --> 1:17:54.519 text only and keep all of the information. I couldn't 1:17:54.560 --> 1:17:58.920 do that with the formatted text. And I tried using 1:17:59.000 --> 1:18:02.280 Chrome as a default browser or Edge is a default browser. 1:18:02.360 --> 1:18:05.960 Didn't make any difference. Multiple times I've tried to contact 1:18:06.160 --> 1:18:09.640 to buy email the governmental entity to determine of a 1:18:09.720 --> 1:18:12.080 problem was at their end, and I've never received the 1:18:12.160 --> 1:18:13.080 respond What. 1:18:13.200 --> 1:18:15.960 You've never received a response from a government organization. 1:18:18.479 --> 1:18:22.840 Believe me, it's it's not unusual with this governmentality at all. 1:18:22.920 --> 1:18:24.200 I believe them namelessly. 1:18:24.400 --> 1:18:28.920 Okay, song story short, you are trying to copy and 1:18:28.960 --> 1:18:31.800 paste this information. It used to copying format in a 1:18:31.840 --> 1:18:35.360 correct format that that was. You know, whether you pasted it, 1:18:35.360 --> 1:18:36.880 it would it would just look the same as it 1:18:36.880 --> 1:18:39.200 did on the website. Now it no longer looks that way. 1:18:39.520 --> 1:18:42.439 Also edited, and this went on for years until Internet 1:18:42.479 --> 1:18:43.800 Explorer disappeared. 1:18:44.479 --> 1:18:46.360 Okay, so a couple of things. 1:18:46.360 --> 1:18:48.800 So are you're trying to preserve Let's say the font 1:18:48.840 --> 1:18:50.760 is in bold, you're trying to keep that bold. And 1:18:50.800 --> 1:18:53.439 maybe it's in bullet point format, you're trying to keep 1:18:53.439 --> 1:18:53.960 all that right. 1:18:54.840 --> 1:19:00.280 It was essentially rows and columns, wow information, and I 1:19:00.320 --> 1:19:04.000 could completely edit it. Oh, I can choose part of it, 1:19:04.160 --> 1:19:07.320 just like any any text in any word doctor. 1:19:08.240 --> 1:19:08.880 And the trouble. 1:19:08.920 --> 1:19:13.120 The trouble is I do reports and recommendations to third parties, 1:19:13.200 --> 1:19:17.920 and they preferred the formatted information rather than the straight text, 1:19:18.160 --> 1:19:20.519 of course, and I met a loss to figure it out. 1:19:20.840 --> 1:19:24.799 I tried copying and pasting as a PDF, which retains 1:19:24.840 --> 1:19:27.479 all the format and information. But then I was the 1:19:27.520 --> 1:19:31.160 capacity to simply edit and incorporate into my reports. 1:19:31.240 --> 1:19:37.600 Yeah, yep, okay, So hmmm, uh, I'm sure there is 1:19:37.640 --> 1:19:39.880 a solution to this. Off the top of my head, 1:19:39.960 --> 1:19:44.240 I don't have one, but there is something you might 1:19:44.280 --> 1:19:47.960 be able to do. So what what web browser are 1:19:48.000 --> 1:19:48.840 you using right now? 1:19:50.000 --> 1:19:51.240 Right now? Chrum? 1:19:52.040 --> 1:19:52.760 I tried. 1:19:52.840 --> 1:19:56.160 I tried microceft edge, figuring it was proprietary, but it 1:19:56.200 --> 1:19:57.280 didn't make any difference. 1:19:57.439 --> 1:20:00.880 Yeah, I'm wondering if if this. I'm wondering if this 1:20:01.040 --> 1:20:03.760 is like in like a markdown format or some interesting 1:20:04.000 --> 1:20:07.840 because there might be there's a Okay, what if you 1:20:07.920 --> 1:20:12.720 go into a document like a Google doc and you 1:20:12.760 --> 1:20:14.880 try pasting it into their same thing happened? Like does 1:20:14.880 --> 1:20:16.519 it happen no matter where you paste it into. 1:20:17.080 --> 1:20:24.640 Yeah, no matter what I do, you cannot paste with 1:20:24.800 --> 1:20:30.280 the with the formatting of information without losing the right 1:20:30.400 --> 1:20:32.680 approximate twenty five percent of it. 1:20:32.840 --> 1:20:34.720 Okay, all right, So here's I'm gonna do. 1:20:34.800 --> 1:20:36.160 I want you to email me because I want to 1:20:36.240 --> 1:20:38.320 check this out, Like, email me the exact website that 1:20:38.360 --> 1:20:39.960 you're trying to copy from. I'm going to take a 1:20:40.000 --> 1:20:42.800 look and see the only thing I can think of 1:20:42.840 --> 1:20:45.160 the there's a couple like solutions. There might be a 1:20:45.240 --> 1:20:48.840 Chrome extension that would that you can install that would 1:20:49.000 --> 1:20:52.040 preserve the formatting. So I would start with just searching 1:20:52.120 --> 1:20:56.240 like Chrome extension preserve formatting and maybe even throw in 1:20:56.280 --> 1:20:59.120 the term table in there. Right, so that you might 1:20:59.120 --> 1:21:02.479 get for a Chrome extension that can help you preserve 1:21:02.560 --> 1:21:04.519 that formatting across a copy and paste. 1:21:04.560 --> 1:21:07.360 That's the number one thing I would do. Number two. 1:21:08.640 --> 1:21:11.360 You might, I mean, obviously there's like that whole you know, 1:21:12.160 --> 1:21:16.040 copy and paste, preserve formatting inside the document. There may 1:21:16.080 --> 1:21:18.599 be some options to preserve the formatting. I know there 1:21:18.680 --> 1:21:22.720 is on Google Docs where it will preserve some of 1:21:22.840 --> 1:21:25.400 like the modes that like I just had it the 1:21:25.439 --> 1:21:29.000 other day and I'm trying to find it again. Yeah, 1:21:29.080 --> 1:21:33.879 see this, it's under preferences automatically detect markdown, automatically detect links, 1:21:34.360 --> 1:21:36.679 so it might do. That might be an option too. 1:21:36.720 --> 1:21:38.679 In word, there might be a thing you could toggle there. 1:21:39.160 --> 1:21:40.640 The other thing you could do is you might just 1:21:40.720 --> 1:21:43.160 use AI. So you might just throw this data into 1:21:43.240 --> 1:21:47.800 chat GBT and say, here's the columns I have. Can 1:21:47.840 --> 1:21:50.240 you format this into a table and then copy and 1:21:50.280 --> 1:21:54.640 paste it from there? So those are a couple of options, 1:21:54.840 --> 1:21:57.880 how but I don't have a standard solution off the 1:21:57.880 --> 1:22:00.439 top of my head, like I said, but hopefully maybe 1:22:00.760 --> 1:22:03.599 just by mentioning it on this show, we'll get someone 1:22:03.680 --> 1:22:05.519 that's listening that says, oh, I know exactly, how to 1:22:05.560 --> 1:22:07.559 do that, and they will email me that information. But 1:22:07.600 --> 1:22:10.000 I also want you to email me the website and 1:22:10.120 --> 1:22:13.280 the issue so that I can test myself and see 1:22:13.280 --> 1:22:15.640 what's going on here, because copying paste is not a 1:22:16.600 --> 1:22:20.000 it's not necessarily a standardized thing, especially with mark down, 1:22:20.080 --> 1:22:23.160 especially with formatting, especially with different programs out there, they 1:22:23.160 --> 1:22:26.559 all do things slightly differently. Thanks for the call, do 1:22:26.640 --> 1:22:29.639 appreciate it. 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You can watch my TV segments. 1:23:26.439 --> 1:23:28.920 Just a great way to keep up with me, especially 1:23:28.920 --> 1:23:31.200 if you don't necessarily go on social media a lot. 1:23:31.280 --> 1:23:32.880 It's just an easy way to get all this stuff 1:23:32.920 --> 1:23:35.200 I talk about direct to your inbox. 1:23:35.520 --> 1:23:37.639 Just go to Rich on tech dot TV hit sign 1:23:37.760 --> 1:23:38.720 up to get that. 1:23:39.640 --> 1:23:44.760 Looks like Jay in Lancaster has a solution for our 1:23:44.840 --> 1:23:48.000 friend Olivia who needed to connect to multiple computers to 1:23:48.000 --> 1:23:49.000 one mouse and keyboard. 1:23:49.040 --> 1:23:52.920 Jay, welcome to the show. Yeah right, Rich, Hi, what 1:23:53.920 --> 1:23:54.719 do you have to add? 1:23:55.520 --> 1:23:59.200 So I'm running five monitors off of three different computers, 1:23:59.360 --> 1:24:01.200 what do you do? And one keyboard? 1:24:01.560 --> 1:24:04.240 Are you sending people to Mars? What's happening there at 1:24:04.240 --> 1:24:05.160 the Jay household? 1:24:05.160 --> 1:24:09.599 Its flight to MARSK. They have running cat on one monitor, okay, 1:24:09.760 --> 1:24:13.879 and then I'm running airport to manage software on the 1:24:13.920 --> 1:24:16.400 second computer and then the rest of myself on the 1:24:16.400 --> 1:24:16.880 third one. 1:24:17.120 --> 1:24:18.000 Nice Okay. 1:24:19.840 --> 1:24:23.040 Yeah, it's a separate solution and I've had it running 1:24:23.080 --> 1:24:24.639 for about three years now. 1:24:25.080 --> 1:24:27.240 So what I have is a Logitech. 1:24:27.000 --> 1:24:31.479 M seven twenty mouse, okay, and it has a unifying receiver. 1:24:31.960 --> 1:24:33.640 So you buy the mouse, it comes with one of 1:24:33.640 --> 1:24:36.240 those receivers, just the USB dog that goes in the 1:24:36.320 --> 1:24:38.760 port right, and then you can buy a second, one third, 1:24:38.800 --> 1:24:41.400 one fourth one and put them in a different computers 1:24:41.880 --> 1:24:44.599 and uh, you know the backing. So I just get 1:24:44.680 --> 1:24:46.960 keyboard and you can run your mouse across INDU screen 1:24:47.160 --> 1:24:50.000 up and down across. Because I am stacked. I've got 1:24:50.280 --> 1:24:52.120 two by two and one on the end, so I 1:24:52.160 --> 1:24:54.720 can run them across uptown on the NU screen, I 1:24:54.760 --> 1:24:56.679 just pull them out across and that becomes active. 1:24:56.880 --> 1:24:58.120 Oh nice, that's that's the. 1:24:58.760 --> 1:24:59.479 And keyboard with it. 1:24:59.520 --> 1:25:01.040 It's the se So okay. 1:25:01.040 --> 1:25:05.479 The mouse is like I know, thirty five different receivers. 1:25:05.520 --> 1:25:08.000 I think are can or twelve or something like that. 1:25:08.160 --> 1:25:10.400 Okay. I believed that. 1:25:10.439 --> 1:25:13.920 They have any even newer mouse like mindspare four years old, 1:25:13.960 --> 1:25:17.200 so I think they have an NX Master. Is there 1:25:17.280 --> 1:25:18.960 maybe more advanced newer one? 1:25:20.160 --> 1:25:22.519 Okay, I'm looking at them seven twenty. They call it 1:25:22.520 --> 1:25:25.759 the Triathlon because I guess it can control three. It's interesting. 1:25:25.840 --> 1:25:28.879 I so a couple of things. I bought a Logitech 1:25:28.960 --> 1:25:31.000 mouse couple of weeks ago. One of those stand up 1:25:31.040 --> 1:25:33.800 mice that like you know, helps with like ergonomics, and 1:25:33.840 --> 1:25:36.000 it does have the ability to connect to three different 1:25:36.040 --> 1:25:39.080 computers on the bottom, but on mine, I don't know 1:25:39.120 --> 1:25:42.040 what the deal is, but every time, every so often, 1:25:42.040 --> 1:25:44.240 it just disconnects from my computer, like I have to 1:25:44.280 --> 1:25:47.519 read Bluetooth it. So I got the kind without the dongle. 1:25:47.600 --> 1:25:50.679 I know, the dedicated dongle definitely makes the connection more 1:25:50.720 --> 1:25:54.840 stable over Bluetooth, but anyway, that's one side note. But 1:25:54.840 --> 1:25:56.760 the other thing is that Logitech ended up sending me 1:25:56.800 --> 1:25:58.400 a whole bunch of stuff to test out all of 1:25:58.439 --> 1:26:01.080 their latest stuff, so I guess I'll have more knowledge 1:26:01.120 --> 1:26:04.959 about this stuff very soon. But Jay, thanks for the suggestion. 1:26:05.040 --> 1:26:06.840 I'll put it in the show notes. That seems like 1:26:06.880 --> 1:26:10.320 an easy suggestion. And I'm looking at the bottom and 1:26:10.800 --> 1:26:14.040 again it's got the bottom of the page on the 1:26:14.120 --> 1:26:17.639 Triathlon mouse has the K seven to eighty multi device 1:26:17.720 --> 1:26:21.800 wireless keyboard as well, one keyboard fully equipped for computer, phone, 1:26:21.800 --> 1:26:24.640 and tablet. That's interesting, so I think I don't know 1:26:24.680 --> 1:26:27.439 if they sent that one, but yeah, lots of solutions, 1:26:27.439 --> 1:26:29.320 and I guess our next guest will actually have some 1:26:29.320 --> 1:26:30.120 solutions too. 1:26:30.680 --> 1:26:32.479 Matthew S Smith is coming up. 1:26:32.520 --> 1:26:35.240 He's going to talk about what to look for when 1:26:35.320 --> 1:26:38.640 buying a computer monitor. You won't want to miss that 1:26:38.720 --> 1:26:41.519 conversation that's coming up right here on rich on Tech. 1:26:48.120 --> 1:26:50.760 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging 1:26:50.800 --> 1:26:54.000 out with you, talking technology. The website for the show 1:26:54.520 --> 1:26:59.519 richontech dot TV. Joining me now is Matthew S. Smith, 1:26:59.560 --> 1:27:03.599 a free lance tech journalist who has written about consumer 1:27:03.680 --> 1:27:08.120 tech for PC World, Reviewed, PC Mag, and many other places. 1:27:08.200 --> 1:27:11.719 And this is my favorite part. We share a similar 1:27:12.040 --> 1:27:17.760 naming identity his website Matt on tech dot me. I 1:27:17.840 --> 1:27:21.160 love it, Matt on tech dot me. Matt, Welcome to 1:27:21.200 --> 1:27:21.519 the show. 1:27:21.680 --> 1:27:23.080 Thanks very much for having me on. 1:27:23.640 --> 1:27:26.280 I love that we both use the same naming mind. 1:27:26.360 --> 1:27:29.160 Yeah, it's nice to meet a fellow on tech person. 1:27:29.400 --> 1:27:29.960 There you go. 1:27:30.000 --> 1:27:32.880 Maybe we'll start a trend. So let's talk about that. 1:27:32.960 --> 1:27:35.840 You wrote a great article for Advisorator, one of my 1:27:35.880 --> 1:27:39.479 favorite newsletters that I subscribe to. You talked about how 1:27:39.520 --> 1:27:42.440 to buy a monitor. And I know during the pandemic 1:27:42.880 --> 1:27:45.280 probably a lot of people set up their offices and 1:27:45.320 --> 1:27:47.760 things like that, but this is still something that you know, 1:27:47.800 --> 1:27:50.439 with work from home, people are still doing, and there's 1:27:50.439 --> 1:27:52.920 a lot of monitors out there, So let's let's start 1:27:52.920 --> 1:27:55.800 with kind of just give me the the overall kind 1:27:55.800 --> 1:27:58.600 of like when you're looking for a monitor, you know, 1:27:58.640 --> 1:27:59.280 what are you looking for? 1:27:59.400 --> 1:27:59.519 Do you? 1:27:59.600 --> 1:28:03.960 Let's start with screen size. I guess okay, starting. 1:28:03.600 --> 1:28:06.880 With screen size, my general recommendation is to do a 1:28:06.920 --> 1:28:10.479 twenty seven inch monitor because it is a very common 1:28:11.080 --> 1:28:15.600 size and it is a readily available it'll fit on 1:28:15.680 --> 1:28:19.000 most desks. Also, if you want to upgrade in the 1:28:19.000 --> 1:28:23.479 future and do say a dual monitor setup to twenty 1:28:23.479 --> 1:28:26.639 seven inch, monitors will still be a reasonable size. Or 1:28:26.720 --> 1:28:29.559 if you decide to add a larger monitor in the future, 1:28:29.600 --> 1:28:31.559 like a thirty two inch or something like that, you 1:28:31.600 --> 1:28:34.240 can also do that twenty seven inch monitor next to it, 1:28:34.400 --> 1:28:36.840 or even in a portrait orientation where you flip it 1:28:37.040 --> 1:28:40.719 ninety degrees and kind of have a sort of more 1:28:41.439 --> 1:28:45.160 vertical space by your larger monitor. So it's just very 1:28:45.280 --> 1:28:50.640 versatile and again also very common, so they're typically not 1:28:50.800 --> 1:28:51.520 too expensive. 1:28:51.720 --> 1:28:54.280 Okay, And then you say thirty two for gaming, and 1:28:54.320 --> 1:28:57.080 then avoid twenty four inches unless your space is limited. 1:28:57.280 --> 1:29:00.080 What about the resolution, let's talk about resolution. 1:29:01.479 --> 1:29:05.080 Yeah, I recommend for most people to go four K resolution. 1:29:06.520 --> 1:29:07.400 It is more. 1:29:07.200 --> 1:29:12.160 Expensive than the basic ten ADP monitors, but four K 1:29:12.360 --> 1:29:16.640 is a very noticeable boost in sharpness, especially on a 1:29:16.720 --> 1:29:19.800 twenty seven inch or larger monitor, And it also sort 1:29:19.800 --> 1:29:21.559 of gives you a little future proofing. And I figure 1:29:21.840 --> 1:29:24.120 most monitors are going to be lasting a pretty long time. 1:29:24.280 --> 1:29:26.639 I don't think people tend to replace them very often, 1:29:27.000 --> 1:29:28.800 So it's best to try and get sort of at 1:29:28.840 --> 1:29:32.400 the top of the curve on features. And four K 1:29:32.520 --> 1:29:33.720 is definitely. 1:29:33.240 --> 1:29:36.280 That TENADP that's just going to look that's not going 1:29:36.320 --> 1:29:37.000 to look very good. 1:29:37.080 --> 1:29:40.800 Huh. And you're still noticing all day oh on. 1:29:40.800 --> 1:29:43.439 A twenty seven inch monitor, and if you go twenty 1:29:43.479 --> 1:29:46.320 four inches, even more passable, but you are going to 1:29:46.400 --> 1:29:49.519 notice a difference with four K it looks much sharper. 1:29:49.880 --> 1:29:50.200 Okay. 1:29:51.080 --> 1:29:53.720 Now, the panel type, so, I mean probably a lot 1:29:53.720 --> 1:29:57.559 of people think, you know LED, that's like an LED screen, right, 1:29:57.640 --> 1:30:01.479 So but what types of panels should we be looking for? 1:30:02.720 --> 1:30:05.400 Yeah, that's where it gets really interesting because up until 1:30:05.400 --> 1:30:08.599 recently you didn't have a whole lot of meaningful choice, 1:30:08.960 --> 1:30:12.720 but now there are new O LED panels that are 1:30:12.720 --> 1:30:15.640 a premium panel type which have really good contrast and 1:30:15.720 --> 1:30:18.840 really good color. They are, however, quite expensive, but if 1:30:18.840 --> 1:30:22.000 you want a premium monitor or a really really nice 1:30:22.040 --> 1:30:25.000 image quality, that is one way to go. Another alternative 1:30:25.040 --> 1:30:28.280 is Mini LED, which is technically a backlight more than 1:30:28.280 --> 1:30:31.640 a panel type, but it provides really good HDR in 1:30:31.680 --> 1:30:35.599 most cases and tends to have a very clear, crisp image. 1:30:36.400 --> 1:30:38.680 Now that again is a premium option, So if you're 1:30:38.720 --> 1:30:41.080 looking for more affordable stuff, you're going to want to 1:30:41.120 --> 1:30:44.519 go with an IPS panel, which tends to have really 1:30:44.520 --> 1:30:47.120 good color performance. The contrast is not as good as 1:30:47.160 --> 1:30:49.400 some of those more premium options, but still tends to 1:30:49.439 --> 1:30:52.640 look quite good. And then another one of the VA panel, 1:30:52.800 --> 1:30:56.080 which tends to also have pretty decent contrast in color, 1:30:56.560 --> 1:30:59.559 but if you're doing gaming high end gaming, the motion 1:30:59.680 --> 1:31:04.040 clear sometimes not quite as good as similar IPS panels. 1:31:04.439 --> 1:31:07.600 Now, I know, the ultra wide screens are kind of 1:31:07.600 --> 1:31:09.880 like the new trend I see Mat Worsk. You know, 1:31:09.960 --> 1:31:12.000 we just talked about the Apple Vision Pro. They added 1:31:12.040 --> 1:31:14.920 an option for like a really cool like ultra wide 1:31:14.960 --> 1:31:17.600 screen and virtual reality, which is really neat. What do 1:31:17.640 --> 1:31:21.000 you recommend when it comes to the wide versus ultra wide? 1:31:22.240 --> 1:31:25.240 I'm a big fan of ultra wide monitors, and thirty 1:31:25.240 --> 1:31:30.040 four inch ultra wide monitors are not really that expensive. 1:31:30.120 --> 1:31:32.679 You can find decent ones at three the four hundred 1:31:32.680 --> 1:31:35.400 bucks on Amazon, and what you're going to get from 1:31:35.400 --> 1:31:37.560 that is basically I've run the numbers on it. I 1:31:37.560 --> 1:31:40.040 think it's about a twenty five to thirty percent increase 1:31:40.160 --> 1:31:43.360 in the amount of display real estate versus a twenty 1:31:43.400 --> 1:31:46.240 seven inch wide screen monitor, So you basically just get 1:31:46.280 --> 1:31:50.120 some more room bumped out to the side to multitask 1:31:50.200 --> 1:31:53.160 to put different windows up on your desktop, or if 1:31:53.200 --> 1:31:56.200 you want to play games, it's going to look more immersive. 1:31:56.560 --> 1:31:58.920 If you want to watch movies and they're in that 1:31:58.960 --> 1:32:01.639 twenty one by nine ass ratio or something similar, you're 1:32:01.640 --> 1:32:04.120 not going to have black bars at the bottom or 1:32:04.120 --> 1:32:07.080 on the sides. So there are a lot of advantages 1:32:07.520 --> 1:32:10.760 to that format and I really do recommend it. You 1:32:10.760 --> 1:32:12.519 can also if you want to spend some more money, 1:32:12.560 --> 1:32:15.280 you can go with a forty nine inch super ultra 1:32:15.320 --> 1:32:17.040 wide or something of that nature where you have a 1:32:17.040 --> 1:32:18.680 whole and in fact, I have one of those in 1:32:18.720 --> 1:32:20.320 front of you right now because I do to review 1:32:20.320 --> 1:32:24.000 a bit and you just to have this gigantic expanse 1:32:24.120 --> 1:32:27.360 of display in front of you, and that's a really 1:32:27.439 --> 1:32:29.960 nice option. They do tend to be expensive, expect to 1:32:29.960 --> 1:32:32.880 pay around one thousand dollars or more. However, for the 1:32:32.920 --> 1:32:35.840 amount of display space you get, it's not necessarily a 1:32:35.880 --> 1:32:39.080 bad value. You can compare it to say, two twenty 1:32:39.160 --> 1:32:41.479 seven inch monitors of similar quality. 1:32:41.760 --> 1:32:44.240 Well, now, taking the newfound knowledge you just taught me, 1:32:44.439 --> 1:32:47.879 I'm looking at Google thirty four inch ultra wide monitor 1:32:48.640 --> 1:32:52.000 LG two hundred and forty bucks with that IPS, which 1:32:52.000 --> 1:32:54.719 you just recommended, So that doesn't sound like a bad deal. 1:32:55.280 --> 1:33:00.559 I'm so embarrassed because I have a thirteen inch MacBook screen. 1:33:00.880 --> 1:33:03.040 I went from the sixteen inch, and I'm telling you 1:33:03.240 --> 1:33:06.479 is just that three inch difference makes a huge difference 1:33:06.479 --> 1:33:08.240 because I used to have stuff on the side, kind 1:33:08.280 --> 1:33:10.559 of like a messaging app on the side panel, like 1:33:10.560 --> 1:33:12.760 on you know, on the side of my screen, and 1:33:12.800 --> 1:33:15.040 now I miss like all like Kim is our call 1:33:15.080 --> 1:33:17.640 screener and she's been texting me the whole show, and 1:33:17.680 --> 1:33:19.680 I miss all of that because it's like behind all 1:33:19.680 --> 1:33:20.640 my windows. 1:33:20.960 --> 1:33:22.479 So I say, the benefit of. 1:33:22.840 --> 1:33:25.040 The more screen real estate that you can tuck little 1:33:25.080 --> 1:33:27.679 things into the corners like your music and your texting 1:33:27.720 --> 1:33:32.200 and all that stuff. So anyway, let's see what other 1:33:32.280 --> 1:33:35.360 considerations should we be thinking about when it comes to monitors. 1:33:36.560 --> 1:33:38.920 Well, one thing that I especially if you're looking at 1:33:38.960 --> 1:33:41.519 a more budget minded monitor, is to make sure that 1:33:41.640 --> 1:33:46.360 you get a ergonomic stand with the monitor. This is 1:33:46.400 --> 1:33:48.120 pretty common. You don't have to spend a lot of 1:33:48.120 --> 1:33:50.280 money to get it. But what I mean is you 1:33:50.320 --> 1:33:54.839 want to have height adjustment, tilt adjustment, and swibbl adjustment, 1:33:54.840 --> 1:33:57.160 and the height adjustment in particular is the thing that 1:33:57.200 --> 1:34:02.559 the really cheap, inexpensive monitors are going to not have, 1:34:03.320 --> 1:34:06.160 and that tends to be a problem because then when 1:34:06.200 --> 1:34:09.799 you put on your desk, unless you are just naturally 1:34:09.840 --> 1:34:13.479 the ideal hype for that monitor, that's where you get 1:34:13.520 --> 1:34:15.599 to the situation where you have to like start stacking 1:34:15.680 --> 1:34:18.920 up books or you need to go buy one of 1:34:18.960 --> 1:34:22.639 those fifty dollars sort of desk cutch things that sort 1:34:22.680 --> 1:34:26.719 of elevate your monitor. It's usually not ideal, and again 1:34:26.840 --> 1:34:29.360 you don't have to spend much more to get the stand. 1:34:29.400 --> 1:34:31.439 It's usually one hundred and fifty dollars. On up, you 1:34:31.479 --> 1:34:33.840 can start to find monitors that have it, so I 1:34:33.920 --> 1:34:37.599 really recommend looking for that. Another thing to lug out 1:34:37.600 --> 1:34:40.840 for is USB connectivity. Okay, a lot of monitors have 1:34:40.960 --> 1:34:45.240 USB connectivity. Some of them even now have USBC connectivity 1:34:45.240 --> 1:34:48.320 where you can plug in a laptop, which I think 1:34:48.360 --> 1:34:49.880 is what most people use these days. And if your 1:34:49.960 --> 1:34:54.000 laptop has USBC and that monitor has USBC and has 1:34:54.040 --> 1:34:58.599 something called power delivery, the monitor can charge the laptop, 1:34:58.720 --> 1:35:01.559 so you may not even need to plug it in 1:35:01.600 --> 1:35:06.519 to another external power source. Really cleans up on the wire, 1:35:06.600 --> 1:35:09.519 cut the wire clutter on your desk, right, It really 1:35:09.560 --> 1:35:12.360 makes everything a lot more seamless. Also just makes it 1:35:12.400 --> 1:35:15.200 easier to sit down and connect your laptop whenever you 1:35:15.240 --> 1:35:18.120 want to. And so that's definitely something to look out 1:35:18.160 --> 1:35:20.400 for if you know, if you're someone who doesn't like 1:35:20.439 --> 1:35:22.400 to have a lot of wires around your desk. 1:35:22.520 --> 1:35:22.960 I love it. 1:35:23.320 --> 1:35:26.920 Okay, you've got some specific recommendations. I'll link those up 1:35:27.000 --> 1:35:33.280 through the article Dell Asus, Phillips alienware. But just real quick, 1:35:33.280 --> 1:35:36.920 we've got about a minute left. External speakers and the webcam. 1:35:36.960 --> 1:35:38.960 Do I look for one that has the speakers in 1:35:39.040 --> 1:35:40.200 webcam built in or what? 1:35:41.600 --> 1:35:44.880 Right? I recommend skipping on that and the main reason. 1:35:44.960 --> 1:35:47.320 There's two reasons. One is I have reviewed some monitors 1:35:47.360 --> 1:35:50.080 that have these features. In general, I find they are 1:35:50.120 --> 1:35:53.840 not as good as when they are external, So it's 1:35:54.040 --> 1:35:56.720 kind of you'll probably have a webcam that's not as 1:35:56.720 --> 1:35:59.599 good as it could be, speakers that are not as 1:35:59.600 --> 1:36:02.919 good as it could be. And then also the price difference. 1:36:02.960 --> 1:36:05.479 I find that for the amount that you spend extra 1:36:05.560 --> 1:36:08.800 on the monitor to get those features, you could easily 1:36:08.840 --> 1:36:12.519 buy a better set of external speakers in webcam. So 1:36:13.080 --> 1:36:15.720 generally it's better to keep them separate. Also, if when 1:36:15.800 --> 1:36:17.760 goes bad for some reason, you can just replace it. 1:36:18.120 --> 1:36:21.000 Only reason I would recommend doing that having them integrate 1:36:21.080 --> 1:36:24.280 is again, if you just really hate wire clutter on 1:36:24.320 --> 1:36:27.120 your desk and you want the most seamless setup possible, 1:36:27.760 --> 1:36:30.040 then maybe it could make sense, But otherwise I probably 1:36:30.040 --> 1:36:31.040 wouldn't go that direction. 1:36:31.560 --> 1:36:34.280 All right, we're gonna leave it there. Matthew S. Smith, 1:36:34.320 --> 1:36:39.519 freelance tech journalist. The website matt on tech dot me 1:36:39.880 --> 1:36:41.720 dot me matt on tech dot me. 1:36:42.560 --> 1:36:43.120 Thanks so much. 1:36:43.160 --> 1:36:45.599 I learned a lot, so I'm sure someone else did 1:36:45.640 --> 1:36:46.000 as well. 1:36:46.840 --> 1:36:48.960 Yeah, I hope everyone is ready to go buy their 1:36:49.040 --> 1:36:49.559 monitor now. 1:36:49.680 --> 1:36:51.360 I know you got me excited. Thanks so much for 1:36:51.439 --> 1:36:53.720 joining me on the show today. Really appreciate it. Now 1:36:53.760 --> 1:36:57.679 I need that ultra wide thirty four inch IPS monitor. 1:36:58.040 --> 1:37:00.280 I can't wait. I will never miss a message Trump 1:37:00.320 --> 1:37:02.679 Kim again, I mark my words. All right? 1:37:03.080 --> 1:37:06.240 Coming up, we are going to do the feedback segment. 1:37:06.320 --> 1:37:08.680 That is where we will talk about your comments and 1:37:08.720 --> 1:37:11.760 your questions email to me right here on the show. 1:37:11.800 --> 1:37:15.160 My name is richdmiro. You are listening to Rich on Tech. 1:37:20.360 --> 1:37:22.320 Let's talk a few more stories before we get to 1:37:22.360 --> 1:37:26.240 the feedback segment. First off, Yahoo email is getting a 1:37:26.400 --> 1:37:31.240 modern makeover with you guessed it AI powered features. Everything 1:37:31.320 --> 1:37:32.439 is getting a dose of AI. 1:37:33.160 --> 1:37:34.400 This actually looks pretty good. 1:37:34.400 --> 1:37:38.519 This is their most significant update to their email on 1:37:38.600 --> 1:37:41.760 the desktop in nearly a decade. Why did it take 1:37:41.840 --> 1:37:45.120 you so long? Yahoo Email? I think this company's bounced 1:37:45.120 --> 1:37:47.599 around a little bit. But the new design is clean, 1:37:47.680 --> 1:37:51.080 it's more intuitive. It's got this new priority inbox tab 1:37:51.120 --> 1:37:55.080 which automatically highlights your most important messages, and it's kind 1:37:55.120 --> 1:37:58.120 of neat. It provides AI generated summaries of your messages. 1:37:58.160 --> 1:38:00.479 So if someone sends you a super long message and 1:38:00.560 --> 1:38:02.599 it's got like ten questions in there, that you're supposed 1:38:02.640 --> 1:38:04.839 to answer, but they're all kind of mixed in between things. 1:38:05.360 --> 1:38:07.439 It will pull those out and say like, here's the 1:38:07.439 --> 1:38:09.720 things you need to answer from this email, So that's 1:38:09.800 --> 1:38:12.800 really smart. They've also got these things where you can 1:38:12.840 --> 1:38:15.439 take action on your email. So if there's like a 1:38:15.560 --> 1:38:18.479 packaged tracking number that's in there, or something you can 1:38:18.520 --> 1:38:21.360 add to your calendar, it creates a button that you 1:38:21.400 --> 1:38:23.360 can just press and put that in your calendar or 1:38:23.400 --> 1:38:27.560 track that package. There is a starred view. This is 1:38:27.600 --> 1:38:29.920 something that Gmail has had forever. But now you can 1:38:29.960 --> 1:38:33.240 start your most important emails and you can look at 1:38:33.240 --> 1:38:36.560 them later, and you can link other email accounts. So 1:38:36.600 --> 1:38:39.599 I guess Yahoo thinks their system is so good now 1:38:39.640 --> 1:38:41.720 you might want to use it for other email accounts 1:38:41.760 --> 1:38:44.400 like an Outlook account or a Gmail account. You can 1:38:44.400 --> 1:38:47.200 put those in there as well, and I think that 1:38:47.240 --> 1:38:50.439 means you can have multiple emails in one place as well. 1:38:51.200 --> 1:38:55.520 The new desktop experience coming to all new US users instantly. 1:38:56.040 --> 1:38:58.360 Existing users will be able to opt in over the 1:38:58.400 --> 1:39:02.519 coming months. Interesting move there, but there you go. And 1:39:02.560 --> 1:39:04.800 then if you need to renew your passport, you can 1:39:04.840 --> 1:39:09.320 do it online. The State Department has relaunched their online 1:39:09.360 --> 1:39:13.640 passport renewal service. This is limited, it's in beta, but 1:39:13.880 --> 1:39:16.200 you can do this so a limited number of travelers 1:39:16.240 --> 1:39:20.800 who meet certain criteria can renew or submit their passport 1:39:20.840 --> 1:39:21.880 for renewal daily. 1:39:22.439 --> 1:39:23.920 The system opens. 1:39:23.680 --> 1:39:26.280 Up at ten am Eastern, which I think is one 1:39:26.400 --> 1:39:29.840 pm Pacific every day for a couple of people to 1:39:30.000 --> 1:39:33.799 be able to submit their information. It's open to residents 1:39:33.840 --> 1:39:36.759 twenty five and older who already have a passport that's 1:39:37.400 --> 1:39:40.160 been a ten year passport. You cannot change any of 1:39:40.200 --> 1:39:43.360 your personal information, you can't be traveling internationally for at 1:39:43.439 --> 1:39:45.559 least at least eight weeks, and you can only apply 1:39:45.640 --> 1:39:46.880 for a regular passport. 1:39:47.439 --> 1:39:49.280 This was first announced in twenty twenty one. 1:39:49.360 --> 1:39:52.639 It was paused in twenty twenty three for improvements, and 1:39:53.080 --> 1:39:55.400 it sounds like the state Department has gotten back from 1:39:55.400 --> 1:39:59.519 their backlog from the pandemic. So routine applications now take 1:39:59.560 --> 1:40:02.439 six to eight weeks. Expedited services take two to three weeks. 1:40:02.439 --> 1:40:05.080 I know we got our kids passports renewed. It did 1:40:05.120 --> 1:40:08.240 take about the peak time of like eight weeks, but 1:40:08.520 --> 1:40:11.400 it did work all right. Let's get to the feedback. 1:40:11.560 --> 1:40:14.479 That's your feedback plus the mail bag. These are the emails, 1:40:14.520 --> 1:40:16.800 the comments, and the questions I get from you. 1:40:17.400 --> 1:40:19.599 If you want to submit yours, just go to the website. 1:40:19.720 --> 1:40:26.000 Rich on tech dot tv hit contact got an email 1:40:26.080 --> 1:40:30.680 that's asking about this DJI drone ban, and this was 1:40:30.760 --> 1:40:32.439 news to me. I didn't realize that there was a 1:40:32.479 --> 1:40:37.640 bill percolating about these drones. Inside this bill, there's a 1:40:37.680 --> 1:40:42.040 small part that stops the drone company out of China 1:40:42.439 --> 1:40:45.800 from using certain radio frequencies. This would make it hard 1:40:45.800 --> 1:40:47.960 for DGI to sell new drones in the US, and 1:40:47.960 --> 1:40:50.360 could even stop people from using the DJI drones they 1:40:50.400 --> 1:40:53.479 already own. Nothing has changed as of right now, so 1:40:53.520 --> 1:40:56.360 don't be alarmed. You can still use your DGI drone, 1:40:56.360 --> 1:40:58.160 which is all I mean. They're noticed some of the 1:40:58.160 --> 1:41:01.160 best drones out there. The bill needs to pass the 1:41:01.200 --> 1:41:03.240 Senate and then be signed by the President before it 1:41:03.280 --> 1:41:07.000 becomes law. If it does become a law, DJI and 1:41:07.280 --> 1:41:09.400 even the public might try to challenge it in court 1:41:09.479 --> 1:41:13.519 because those drones are very popular, and it's surprising to 1:41:13.560 --> 1:41:15.120 me that they are trying to ban those. 1:41:15.200 --> 1:41:19.080 But we've seen that happen before. Let's see. 1:41:19.120 --> 1:41:21.839 Mary writes in Rich, would you be able to research 1:41:21.920 --> 1:41:24.680 watches that monitor blood sugar. I would really appreciate it. It 1:41:24.680 --> 1:41:27.080 would help a lot of folks with diabetes. Thank you, Mary, 1:41:27.120 --> 1:41:31.120 one of your fans. Mary, there is no smart watch 1:41:31.160 --> 1:41:34.280 that can directly monitor blood sugar levels. The FDA has 1:41:34.320 --> 1:41:39.559 issued a safety communication advising against using any smart watch 1:41:39.720 --> 1:41:44.759 or smart wing, smart ring to measure blood glucose levels. However, 1:41:45.640 --> 1:41:48.880 if you get that dex Com G seven last week, 1:41:48.920 --> 1:41:51.559 I mentioned that it does directly connect to the Apple Watch, 1:41:51.560 --> 1:41:55.639 so that's your best bet right now. But there's an 1:41:55.720 --> 1:41:58.760 FDA warning that says do not buy a watch or 1:41:59.080 --> 1:42:02.360 ring that says it can monitor your blood glue close directly. 1:42:02.400 --> 1:42:03.200 It cannot do that. 1:42:03.240 --> 1:42:05.960 There is no technology right now that's been approved in 1:42:06.000 --> 1:42:08.240 a big way that can do that. It might exist, 1:42:08.600 --> 1:42:10.120 but right now I know a lot of companies are 1:42:10.120 --> 1:42:11.800 working on that because that's kind of the holy grail 1:42:12.240 --> 1:42:16.040 for people living with diabetes. Thanks for the question, Mary 1:42:16.400 --> 1:42:18.599 Nora writes in I've been watching you on Channel five 1:42:18.640 --> 1:42:19.320 for a long time. 1:42:19.360 --> 1:42:20.559 I appreciate the information. 1:42:20.760 --> 1:42:23.160 Not too long ago you mentioned a kid smart watch 1:42:23.240 --> 1:42:25.800 that doesn't need an iPhone for it to work. 1:42:26.120 --> 1:42:28.080 I want to get one for my grandson. He's only ten. 1:42:28.120 --> 1:42:30.160 He doesn't need a phone, it'd be nice for us 1:42:30.160 --> 1:42:33.360 to communicate with him. Thanks for your response. Yes you 1:42:33.479 --> 1:42:37.519 want the fitbit ace lte. My kid has been testing it. 1:42:37.640 --> 1:42:41.280 We absolutely love this. I think Google nailed it. The 1:42:41.360 --> 1:42:43.120 thing to know is that it does not get assigned 1:42:43.160 --> 1:42:46.080 a traditional phone number. Anyone who wants to communicate with 1:42:46.200 --> 1:42:48.280 this device you can add up to twenty people. I 1:42:48.320 --> 1:42:52.120 believe has to communicate through an app, but it does 1:42:52.160 --> 1:42:55.240 have its own cellular connection and it works really well. 1:42:55.280 --> 1:42:59.320 My kid absolutely loves it. So fitbit ace lte. It's 1:42:59.360 --> 1:43:02.240 two hundred thirty dollars. 1:43:02.880 --> 1:43:05.400 David from Chicago rights in. Hey, Rich, I enjoy your show. 1:43:05.439 --> 1:43:06.280 You're doing a great job. 1:43:06.320 --> 1:43:08.880 I listened to get the latest tech vibe for my 1:43:09.000 --> 1:43:10.920 podcast in Touch with iOS. 1:43:11.000 --> 1:43:12.320 Oh there you go. You just got a plug for 1:43:12.360 --> 1:43:12.919 your podcast. 1:43:13.200 --> 1:43:15.960 I've been using Credit Karma to monitor my credit report 1:43:16.000 --> 1:43:19.560 for years. It's free. It includes TransUnion and Equifax. I 1:43:19.600 --> 1:43:21.720 also use the Experience app, which lets you check that 1:43:21.800 --> 1:43:25.280 report for free. Both services send emails with any updates. Yes, 1:43:25.320 --> 1:43:29.559 Credit Karma, that's what Mint is, that's what's replacing Mint. 1:43:30.600 --> 1:43:32.360 I think they sell you. They try to sell you 1:43:32.360 --> 1:43:34.080 a lot of stuff, so just be careful with that one. 1:43:34.160 --> 1:43:36.960 I like my wallet hub. I don't think they try 1:43:37.000 --> 1:43:41.120 to sell you as much. Let's see here we got 1:43:41.120 --> 1:43:45.080 two more. These are compliments. Howard from Westlake Village rights in. 1:43:45.200 --> 1:43:47.679 I do appreciate your radio program and find you present 1:43:47.760 --> 1:43:50.519 a great deal of practical info. My wife had a 1:43:50.520 --> 1:43:52.760 problem with her computer and one of your callers had 1:43:52.800 --> 1:43:57.400 the same problem, which you solved. I took his solution 1:43:57.560 --> 1:44:01.600 and became in quotes King four a day. Thank you 1:44:01.640 --> 1:44:04.120 for what you do, Howard Howard, that makes my day. 1:44:04.520 --> 1:44:07.479 Frank from Hemmett writes in just a little thought, it's 1:44:07.560 --> 1:44:09.880 so ironic how I watch you. I started to watch 1:44:09.920 --> 1:44:12.240 you on KTLA five on TV. I'm watching on TV 1:44:12.320 --> 1:44:14.840 from an antenna. Now I find myself listening to your 1:44:14.920 --> 1:44:18.000 radio show on six forty I and AM radio station. 1:44:18.520 --> 1:44:20.720 Both of these are ancient tech and I'm learning about 1:44:20.720 --> 1:44:23.479 the latest tech through them. It goes to show that 1:44:23.560 --> 1:44:26.080 although there are better ways of doing things, you don't 1:44:26.120 --> 1:44:29.639 disregard the rest. Thank you for the entertainment and information 1:44:29.720 --> 1:44:32.920 your passion for tech shines through double made my day. 1:44:32.960 --> 1:44:35.920 Frank from Hemmett, thanks for that comment. That's gonna do 1:44:35.920 --> 1:44:37.599 it for this episode. You can find everything I talk 1:44:37.640 --> 1:44:41.439 about on the website Rich on tech dot TV. Thanks 1:44:41.520 --> 1:44:43.479 for listening. There are so many ways you can spend 1:44:43.520 --> 1:44:45.840 your time. I really do appreciate you spending it right 1:44:45.880 --> 1:44:47.960 here with me. Thanks to Adam for filling in today 1:44:48.000 --> 1:44:49.479 for Bobo Kim on phones. 1:44:49.800 --> 1:44:52.880 My name is rich Demiro. I'll talk to you real soon.