Speaker 1: Apple adds AI to the iPhone. I'll explain how they're
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Speaker 1: recalls it's recall feature the international E SIM that's completely free.
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Speaker 1: this show, we've got some great guests. I'm gonna talk
Speaker 1: to my friends up at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. They're
Speaker 1: going to discuss the announcements that stand out most to them,
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Speaker 1: Who would ever think that people would come up to
Speaker 1: a tech guy to say, rich, I love your stuff,
Speaker 1: I love what you do. I learn a lot from you.
Speaker 1: I mean, after a while, my wife was actually getting embarrassed.
Speaker 1: She thinks it's funny, and you know, it's just it
Speaker 1: really it's it means so much to me because it
Speaker 1: means that what I'm doing here and what I'm doing
Speaker 1: at KTLA just really resonates with folks, and it's just
Speaker 1: so amazing to me. I mean, anyway, I want to
Speaker 1: say thank you. And it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: We had a blast at the concert. Luke Combs was great.
Speaker 1: If I got any country fans out there, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about, great, great artists. Second time I've
Speaker 1: seen them. Actually, all right, let's get to the tech
Speaker 1: news of the week. I was in Cooper Tino for
Speaker 1: Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference twenty twenty four. This is where
Speaker 1: Apple tells you all about the stuff that's coming soon
Speaker 1: to their various products. They've got the iPhone, they've got
Speaker 1: the iPad, they've got Apple Vision Pro, they've got Mac computers,
Speaker 1: they've got the Apple Watch. What am I leaving out?
Speaker 1: I think that's about it. They've got a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1: So this is where they go through, and this was
Speaker 1: super fast, I mean, super super charged. They just blasted
Speaker 1: through all these new features because there's so many of them.
Speaker 1: No new hardware, but a lot of new features, including
Speaker 1: iOS eighteen and Apple Intelligence. I'm going to focus on
Speaker 1: those two right now, but throughout the show, fairwarning, going
Speaker 1: to talk a lot about Apple because they're in the
Speaker 1: news this week. They had their big event. We talked
Speaker 1: about Google a couple weeks ago, we talked about Microsoft,
Speaker 1: we talked about Open AI.
Speaker 2: Now it is Apple's turn.
Speaker 1: So iOS eighteen this is the new software that's launching
Speaker 1: in the fall. It's going to work on the iPhone
Speaker 1: ten R and later, and also the iPhone S two
Speaker 1: and later. So from what I've seen, as long as
Speaker 1: your phone is running iOS seventeen right now, it should
Speaker 1: get the upgrade to iOS eighteen.
Speaker 2: That doesn't mean it's getting the AI upgrade.
Speaker 1: More on that in a moment, but first let's talk
Speaker 1: about iOS eighteen getting much more customizable. So I'm really
Speaker 1: taking a page from Android here and making the iPhone
Speaker 1: pretty much as customizable as you can imagine. Icons can
Speaker 1: now be placed anywhere on the home screen. I know
Speaker 1: that sounds silly if you're an Android user because you've
Speaker 1: had that since day one, but the iPhone has not,
Speaker 1: So no, I can place your icons anywhere you want.
Speaker 2: You can change their color.
Speaker 1: The control center is getting much more useful with multiple pages.
Speaker 1: That's the portion of your phone where you sort of
Speaker 1: swipe down from the upper right hand corner to bring
Speaker 1: up things like the volume control and the Wi Fi
Speaker 1: toggles and all that stuff. You're gonna be able to
Speaker 1: make multiple pages there, and third party apps can finally
Speaker 1: put their controls in there as well, so if you
Speaker 1: have a favorite app and you want toggle something very quickly,
Speaker 1: you'll be able to do it. Even the lock screen
Speaker 1: shortcuts can now be customized, so instead of just having
Speaker 1: access to the camera and the flashlight, you can now
Speaker 1: put whatever you want there as long as developers make
Speaker 1: a widget for the lock screen. Another new feature, This
Speaker 1: one is kind of interesting and or controversial and or helpful.
Speaker 1: You can now lock down apps behind a passcode or
Speaker 1: face ID. So if you have an app that you
Speaker 1: don't want people when they get your phone in their
Speaker 1: hands opening up, you can lock it down with a
Speaker 1: passcode or your face ID. They will not be able
Speaker 1: to open that app without unlocking your phone. Even with
Speaker 1: the phone unlocked, they'll still need to do a secondary
Speaker 1: passcode or face ID. Now, another level of this is
Speaker 1: a hidden apps folder.
Speaker 2: This is a folder where you.
Speaker 1: Can put apps inside, and nobody using your phone can
Speaker 1: even see what those apps are without unlocking with face ID. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's going to be an interesting one because people can
Speaker 1: hide apps from just about anyone inside that folder and
Speaker 1: nobody will know. I message getting a lot of upgrades.
Speaker 1: You can use any emoji to react to a message.
Speaker 1: You can schedule text messages to go out later. You
Speaker 1: can format the text in text messages with various effects
Speaker 1: in styling. You can send messages via satellite if you
Speaker 1: don't have a cellular or Wi Fi signal. If you
Speaker 1: have an iPhone fourteen or fifteen or later, you'll be
Speaker 1: able to send messages over satellite no extra cost. Right now,
Speaker 1: Apple has still not said how much they're going to
Speaker 1: charge for any of these satellite features, but people have
Speaker 1: enjoyed them now for over a year or two now
Speaker 1: for free. One of the big things they didn't really
Speaker 1: go into very much but arecs. They are now going
Speaker 1: to support rich communication services. This means that messages exchanged
Speaker 1: between iPhone and Android, if they include a picture or
Speaker 1: a video, will finally look their best. Yes, this is
Speaker 1: a long time coming. It will finally cut down on
Speaker 1: that whole iPhone versus Android debate with messages because you
Speaker 1: can finally send people photos and videos that are high resolution.
Speaker 1: iOS eighteen is also getting a dedicated passwords app, so
Speaker 1: all these third party password managers you'll be able to
Speaker 1: use just the one that's inside iOS eighteen. And let's
Speaker 1: talk about Apple Intelligence. This is Apple's personal brand of AI.
Speaker 1: So of course, leave it to Apple to rename an
Speaker 1: entire genre of technology.
Speaker 2: They can't call it AI.
Speaker 1: They have to rename it instead of artificial intelligence. It
Speaker 1: is Apple Intelligence. So Siri is now getting reprogrammed to
Speaker 1: become a powerful AI chatbot programmed with knowledge about you.
Speaker 1: That means that it will have access to your email,
Speaker 1: your text messages, your photos, anything that you have on
Speaker 1: your phone, Siri will be able to tap into to
Speaker 1: understand the emails that you're sending, and you can ask
Speaker 1: questions like, Hey, when's my flight tomorrow? Or do I
Speaker 1: have lunch plans next week? Who am I having lunch with?
Speaker 1: Show me that picture of me in Montana diving into
Speaker 1: a pool, and not only will it find that video,
Speaker 1: it theoretically will fast forward right to you diving in
Speaker 1: that pool in Montana. Yes, powerful stuff. Powerful stuff requires
Speaker 1: a powerful iPhone. Apple Intelligence is only coming to the
Speaker 1: iPhone fifteen Pro models and up. Apple says they need
Speaker 1: this processing power and the older phones just don't give
Speaker 1: it to them. So if you have an iPhone fourteen,
Speaker 1: you're not getting these AI features. Now, to some of
Speaker 1: you you might like that, but to the rest of
Speaker 1: you you might say wow. Or even an iPhone fifteen
Speaker 1: you will not get the AI stuff. Apple also build
Speaker 1: what's called a private cloud compute, so they have kind
Speaker 1: of a trifold method of doing AI on the iPhones.
Speaker 1: They're going to try to handle it on the phone itself.
Speaker 1: If that's not enough, they're going to hand it off
Speaker 1: to this private cloud compute, and that is built with
Speaker 1: Apple products and Apple processors, and it's all very private.
Speaker 1: So it will take your question, it might take some
Speaker 1: of your data, but when it's done answering your question
Speaker 1: and setting it back to your phone, it's going to
Speaker 1: delete all that data. So they have said that privacy
Speaker 1: is paramount, and I do believe Apple because I sat
Speaker 1: through a lot of briefings where they talked about how
Speaker 1: much privacy they built into these new AI systems, and
Speaker 1: it is private. Now Chat GBT is also going to
Speaker 1: be built into the iPhone that is also not as private,
Speaker 1: but a little bit more private. So they did a
Speaker 1: deal with open ai where they said, look, you can
Speaker 1: have access to all of our iPhone users, but you're
Speaker 1: not going to get just carte blanche access. When they
Speaker 1: have a question, We're going to ask them every single time,
Speaker 1: do you want us to flip this question over to CHATCHI?
Speaker 1: And if they do, we're still not going to share
Speaker 1: any personal identifiable information with them.
Speaker 2: You're going to answer their.
Speaker 1: Question, and as soon as you do, you've got to
Speaker 1: delete their data and you cannot train your GPTs on
Speaker 1: their data. Now, why did open ai agree to this?
Speaker 1: Because it's Apple, they get to tap into millions and
Speaker 1: millions of iPhone users. That's a big new audience for them,
Speaker 1: and it's a lot of exposure. The big catch to
Speaker 1: all of this stuff you have to be fully immersed
Speaker 1: in the Apple ecosystem. Now they say eventually third party
Speaker 1: apps you can have your information in there and it
Speaker 1: may be able to tap into this Apple Intelligence. But
Speaker 1: right now, let's be honest, a lot of it's going
Speaker 1: to be through Apple Mail, Apple messages, Apple Photos.
Speaker 2: They want you to use Apple services.
Speaker 1: A couple other interesting things come in with these, Apple
Speaker 1: Intelligence and image Eraser. This will remove unwanted people and
Speaker 1: things from your photos, the ability to create AI images
Speaker 1: from your photo library.
Speaker 2: A built in phone call.
Speaker 1: Recorder, so now you can have your iPhone record all
Speaker 1: of your calls, transcribe and summarize them. Jen Moji these
Speaker 1: are custom emojis you can create, so if you want
Speaker 1: to send someone a picture of a donut in coffee,
Speaker 1: you can just say create a custom emoji. And of
Speaker 1: course the system wide tools for rewriting, proofreading, and summarizing text.
Speaker 2: It is a lot.
Speaker 1: I've outlined every one of these features in my newsletter
Speaker 1: this week. Go to Rich on tech dot tv to
Speaker 1: read it. We will talk about more of this throughout
Speaker 1: the show, but yes, Apple is putting a big dose
Speaker 1: of AI into their iPhones. It's going to be exciting,
Speaker 1: it's going to be interesting. We will see how it
Speaker 1: all plays out. Let's hope it's half as good as
Speaker 1: they promised.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Coming up on today's show, Microsoft already recalling their AI feature.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about that, but first it is
Speaker 1: your turn. Give me a call. Your call's coming up
Speaker 1: at eight eight eight Rich one oh one. That's eight
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Speaker 1: Give me a call if you have a question technology.
Speaker 1: My name is Richdmiro and you are listening to Rich
Speaker 1: on tech. Steve from Pittsburgh writes in what are your
Speaker 1: recommendations for buying e sims for data for foreign travel?
Speaker 1: I travel a lot on cruises, and my additional free
Speaker 1: data via T mobile is not fast enough for me.
Speaker 1: Thanks well, Steve, Thanks for writing.
Speaker 2: In on the website.
Speaker 1: The answer I typically give is errol ai r alo ai,
Speaker 1: r alo errolo. They've got all kinds of sims that
Speaker 1: I've personally used in various countries. I've used this in Japan,
Speaker 1: I've used this in Germany. I've used this in Italy
Speaker 1: and some other places sprinkled throughout so you can get
Speaker 1: local sims. You can get one that's just for a country,
Speaker 1: you can get one that's regional, or you can get
Speaker 1: one that's global. Obviously, the more global you can go,
Speaker 1: the more expensive it's going to get. The more local
Speaker 1: you go, the typically the cheaper it is. And these
Speaker 1: work very very well. I will tell you my mom,
Speaker 1: who is not a techie, I was able to purchase
Speaker 1: this for her over the internet, have her install it
Speaker 1: on her phone, and when she landed in the foreign
Speaker 1: country that she went to, I said, just go into
Speaker 1: your settings, toggle on the eSIM and you will be
Speaker 1: able to connect to that network. And she was able
Speaker 1: to and her friends were marveling at her because they
Speaker 1: couldn't believe that their phones were not working and hers were.
Speaker 1: My other advice before you buy an eSIM is to
Speaker 1: check with your cell phone company. So I know Steve
Speaker 1: said that his data was too slow. But if you're
Speaker 1: with like an AT and T or a Verizon, sometimes
Speaker 1: depending on your plan, they will give you a certain
Speaker 1: number of days included of their day pass. Typically they
Speaker 1: charge about ten dollars a day for a day pass
Speaker 1: and sometimes to ending. On your plan, you may get
Speaker 1: one of those every month, or you may stalk those up.
Speaker 1: So for instance, on my plan, I have like ten
Speaker 1: of these stockpiled, so if I travel somewhere for a week,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty much covered for the week with those.
Speaker 2: Stockpiled day passes.
Speaker 1: I still prefer Aerlow better because it's just easier, it's simpler.
Speaker 1: I can turn off my regular cell phone service, but
Speaker 1: also check into Wi Fi calling and texting, because you
Speaker 1: should be able to get your texts and your calls
Speaker 1: internationally through your Wi Fi connection as long as your
Speaker 1: provider does not charge for that service. Most of them don't. Also,
Speaker 1: by the way, I ran this entire radio show. We
Speaker 1: did a remote show in Germany off an Aerlo simcard,
Speaker 1: so I know it's pretty good. I couldn't believe it,
Speaker 1: and it did not use much data at all. Now
Speaker 1: some other options. There's a new one. I was not
Speaker 1: familiar with this one, but it's called gig Sky gigsky
Speaker 1: dot com. I have not tested this, but I was
Speaker 1: very surprised because you can actually get a free INTERNATIONALESIM
Speaker 1: from them. So they offer a free one hundred megabyte
Speaker 1: eSIM data plan that you can use in over one
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety countries. You don't even need a credit
Speaker 1: card to try it out. So my recommendation is if
Speaker 1: you are traveling anywhere internationally, the best you can do
Speaker 1: for yourself is to just go to gigsky dot com
Speaker 1: download this eSIM, even if you don't need it, just
Speaker 1: to try it out and get the hang of it.
Speaker 1: Let's say you have Verizon and you get those free days,
Speaker 1: but just go ahead and go through the motions of
Speaker 1: setting up this eSIM, just so you're familiar with it.
Speaker 1: Because eSIMs have really revolutionized data internationally because it's so
Speaker 1: easy and most of the modern smartphones support them. In fact,
Speaker 1: if you have an iPhone I think it's fourteen, they
Speaker 1: switched over completely to an eSIM, so you can't even
Speaker 1: pop a physical SIM into the latest iPhones. So gigsky
Speaker 1: g I g Sky dot com. That's another option and
Speaker 1: another option. Again I have not to tested, but this
Speaker 1: is what I do. I will mention these, but I
Speaker 1: will test them eventually. Is called Sally sail Y, maybe
Speaker 1: it's called Sale. I would think it's Sally, but they
Speaker 1: also have and what's good about all of these e
Speaker 1: sims is they kind of work the same.
Speaker 2: You just search for the country you're going to.
Speaker 1: You type it into the website, it will tell you
Speaker 1: how much it costs, and then you can download the
Speaker 1: SIM to your the e SIM to your phone. It's
Speaker 1: very simple, and then you just activate it when you
Speaker 1: land in that country. So if you want links to
Speaker 1: any of those, just go to the website. Rich on
Speaker 1: tech dot TV hit the light bulb. I'll put that
Speaker 1: in there. Thanks for the question. If you have one
Speaker 1: eight eight eight rich one O one eight eight eight
Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one. The news
Speaker 1: this week Microsoft is actually delaying its recall feature for
Speaker 1: those Copilot Plus PCs. We talked about this so much
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. Microsoft was so excited about
Speaker 1: this new recall feature that remembers everything on your screen
Speaker 1: and lets you search for it. And then the next
Speaker 1: week they said, oh, you know what, because of all
Speaker 1: the privacy concerns, we're not going to turn it on
Speaker 1: by default, and we're going to require the face ID
Speaker 1: login Microsoft hellow. And now this week they're just coming
Speaker 1: out and saying, you know what, we're actually not even
Speaker 1: gonna include it on those computers that are available on
Speaker 1: June eighteenth. We're just going to make this for our
Speaker 1: Windows Insider program. Those are like the real techy nerdy
Speaker 1: folks that download the software before everyone else. We're gonna
Speaker 1: let them try it out first, give us their feedback,
Speaker 1: and then maybe we'll activate this as an option on
Speaker 1: those Copilot plus PCs. So Microsoft doing a full one
Speaker 1: to eighty on this new AI powered recall feature.
Speaker 2: Pretty wild stuff eighty eight.
Speaker 1: Rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to
Speaker 1: two four one zero one. My name is Rich dmiro.
Speaker 1: You are listening to Rich on tech Tony in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: You're on with Rich.
Speaker 2: What's up?
Speaker 3: Hello?
Speaker 4: I recently noticed a feature or a voicemail on my
Speaker 4: iPhone where you can send it to a voicemail, but
Speaker 4: it starts texting you a live I guess text of
Speaker 4: the voicemail and if you want, you can answer it,
Speaker 4: sort of like an answering machine. Are you aware of that?
Speaker 5: And do you know anything about it?
Speaker 6: Have you noticed it?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: I've noticed it, and so has everyone else. Because here's
Speaker 1: the deal. It is annoying. It hijacked everyone's voicemail on
Speaker 1: the iPhone, and Apple didn't even tell anyone they were
Speaker 1: doing this, so yes, they announced it.
Speaker 2: It is called live voicemail.
Speaker 1: This is a feature that was introduced with iOS seventeen
Speaker 1: and this was turned on by default, and people all
Speaker 1: of a sudden started noticing their phones were acting strange,
Speaker 1: their voicemail was acting different, and it was just turned on.
Speaker 1: So live voicemail basically shows you what the caller is
Speaker 1: saying as they leave a voicemail message. It displays the
Speaker 1: message in real time on your screen, sort of like
Speaker 1: an old school voicemail or not voicemail, sort of like
Speaker 1: an old school answering machine. The caller cannot hear you
Speaker 1: unless you decide to answer the call. Now, this is
Speaker 1: obviously good for like cutting down on spam and things
Speaker 1: like that, but I think it surprised a lot of
Speaker 1: people because they just said, wait, what's going on here.
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure what my phone is doing at
Speaker 1: this point. And so you have the option to turn
Speaker 1: this on or off. If you want to turn it off,
Speaker 1: you can go into the settings app on your iPhone,
Speaker 1: tap phone and then tap live voicemail, and that will
Speaker 1: turn the feature on or off. So if you want
Speaker 1: to see what people said in the live voicemails, you
Speaker 1: can look in the voicemail tab. iPhone won't delete these,
Speaker 1: And it's just one of these things where I'm fine
Speaker 1: with it. I mean, I don't use voicemail in general,
Speaker 1: Like I don't even answer for a while. My phone
Speaker 1: just would not even have voicemail until I think they
Speaker 1: toggled this on. I just recently turned voicemail on on
Speaker 1: my phone. But the thing is, I don't need voicemail,
Speaker 1: like if someone if I see a missed call from
Speaker 1: a number, I know, I'm gonna call it back. Uh,
Speaker 1: and usually that person's gonna text me too. So that's
Speaker 1: the explanation for this live voicemail feature. I think it's
Speaker 1: a little odd that Apple turned it on for everyone,
Speaker 1: and it is a little confusing, So if you want
Speaker 1: it off, you can go into settings and turn it off.
Speaker 1: But I mean, I guess it's quite useful if you
Speaker 1: like to screen your calls, and this is something you
Speaker 1: are not able to easily do with your traditional voicemail carrier.
Speaker 1: But if you just want the regular voicemail experience where
Speaker 1: it goes to voicemail, person leaves a message and you
Speaker 1: can check it later, you can you can just turn
Speaker 1: this feature off in the settings. Tony, thanks for the question, Tony,
Speaker 1: good question today.
Speaker 2: Appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Eighty eight rich one one eight eight eight seven four
Speaker 1: to two four one zero one. Let's see, let's go
Speaker 1: to do we have time. Let's go to Sue in
Speaker 1: Pacific Palisades, California.
Speaker 2: Sue, you're on with Rich.
Speaker 7: Yeah, good morning.
Speaker 8: How are you doing?
Speaker 2: I am doing fantastic. What can I help you with? Yeah?
Speaker 8: I'm calling because we bought an Apple Watch for my
Speaker 8: husbands because it has the all detection feature. And for
Speaker 8: the first several times that he fell, it worked, and
Speaker 8: then I noticed it didn't work another time, another time,
Speaker 8: and another time, including one time when he broke his arm.
Speaker 8: So it's quite a hard fall.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 8: So I well, finally went down to the I made
Speaker 8: phone calls. They said, oh, it's sometimes they work, sometimes
Speaker 8: they don't, just a function of the feature.
Speaker 2: Oh that's a great answer.
Speaker 8: Well it gets worse.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's worse.
Speaker 8: So finally go to the Apple store and they tried
Speaker 8: to say, well, you have to take your phone to
Speaker 8: Watch in to be repaired, and I pressed further. They
Speaker 8: finally got an engineer on the phone after a long
Speaker 8: call who says that they know they have a problem
Speaker 8: with the fall feature and they're waiting on an update
Speaker 8: for the PHM. I mean, excuse me for the watch
Speaker 8: to do it. But the problem is in the meantime,
Speaker 8: they know about this, but they're not letting people who
Speaker 8: depend upon the feature know that some of watches have
Speaker 8: this problem.
Speaker 2: Well, what do you mean some watches have this problem?
Speaker 2: What I mean? Number one, I'm always a little.
Speaker 1: Bit hesitant when some random, unnamed engineer says we know
Speaker 1: there's a problem, because I don't think Apple would admit that.
Speaker 2: I don't I've not heard.
Speaker 1: Of a major issue with this fall detection, but I
Speaker 1: will tell you I agree with you. It is definitely
Speaker 1: all over the place and you cannot rely on it.
Speaker 2: And that's the thing.
Speaker 1: I'm playing football out in the street with my kid
Speaker 1: wearing my Apple Watch, and I'm not kidding. On the
Speaker 1: second throw, it says, hey do you take a hard fall?
Speaker 1: And it happens quite often, and I'm like, how does
Speaker 1: this algorithm not know so when a football is being
Speaker 1: catched versus me taking a hard fall? But you know,
Speaker 1: these features are experimental, they are new, and it definitely
Speaker 1: is one of these things where Apple is not making
Speaker 1: any guarantees. If you look in the fine print of
Speaker 1: any of their medical features, it's like, oh, and by
Speaker 1: the way, you can't really rely on these things in
Speaker 1: a real, you know, situation, so you have to be
Speaker 1: very careful with that. What did the engineer say is
Speaker 1: the problem with the feature?
Speaker 8: They said, And first of all, the fact that it
Speaker 8: worked even on the slightest provocation early on and now
Speaker 8: it doesn't work at all, even in a very difficult
Speaker 8: situation led us to explore, and the manager of the
Speaker 8: Apple store got on the phone with a lot of
Speaker 8: different people, finally ended up with someone in their tech
Speaker 8: department who said, yes, we know, we have a problem
Speaker 8: that didn't basically didn't exist before. Something has happened that
Speaker 8: some of the watches need a software up date and
Speaker 8: in order to start working again for fall detection. And
Speaker 8: I'm just telling you what the person on the phone
Speaker 8: said to the Apple store manager.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, what I would do, I would do a
Speaker 1: couple of things. Number one, I would go into your
Speaker 1: Apple Watch. I would reset the Apple Watch. So I
Speaker 1: would do a complete factory reset, okay, and that would
Speaker 1: take everything back to the factory system. Then I would
Speaker 1: make sure go into the Apple Watch app and make
Speaker 1: sure that there are no updates pending for your Apple Watch.
Speaker 1: There are you know, from time to time, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of updates for these things, so I would make
Speaker 1: sure that all of those updates have been installed on
Speaker 1: this device. After you do the want, I want you
Speaker 1: to start fresh, and then once you start fresh, do
Speaker 1: all the software updates. Then go into the settings on
Speaker 1: your Apple Watch, go into SOS and fall detection and
Speaker 1: make sure it's turned on. And then also you need
Speaker 1: to kind of look at when this thing is activating
Speaker 1: because there's an always on feature, which means fall detection
Speaker 1: is always checking to see if you've fallen, and then
Speaker 1: there's one that's only on during workouts, so that means
Speaker 1: it's only going to detect if you've taken a fall
Speaker 1: while you've started a workout. Now, I do know that
Speaker 1: Apple has you know, they've been improving this and they've
Speaker 1: been doing better with this stuff. I'm reading something interesting here. Okay, See,
Speaker 1: if you're between the ages of eighteen and fifty five,
Speaker 1: setting up a new Apple Watch fall detection during workouts
Speaker 1: is oh wow, Okay, that's interesting. So it could be
Speaker 1: that this is set up that this is only turned
Speaker 1: on during workouts if you're between eighteen and fifty five.
Speaker 1: So definitely check that setting and make sure and then
Speaker 1: if you notice, here's the fine print I was talking about.
Speaker 1: It says Noe Apple Watch cannot detect all falls. The
Speaker 1: more physically active you are, the more likely you are
Speaker 1: to trigger fall detection due to high impact activity that
Speaker 1: can appear.
Speaker 2: To be a fall.
Speaker 1: So with all of this said, I know, Sue that
Speaker 1: it's it's not what you want to hear because it's
Speaker 1: not a perfect system, and I get that, but the
Speaker 1: fact that you've got your husband clearly seems to be
Speaker 1: at risk of falling, you need to be sure that
Speaker 1: whatever system he has in place to get help if
Speaker 1: that happens if he's alone, that is working. So I
Speaker 1: would look into this, and I would look into maybe
Speaker 1: there are some more, you know, hardier solutions out there
Speaker 1: that are more dedicated to this.
Speaker 2: I'm not aware of those.
Speaker 1: I often go to some of these events with like
Speaker 1: medical devices and things like that, but you may want
Speaker 1: to look into, you know, maybe something like you know,
Speaker 1: one of those like life alert kind of things or
Speaker 1: something like that where he can manually trigger it as well.
Speaker 2: Good question.
Speaker 1: Please do those software updates, Please check the settings, and
Speaker 1: hopefully you don't have to use this feature, but if
Speaker 1: you do, it could really be life saving. And I
Speaker 1: know this has helped a lot of people. The pixel
Speaker 1: Watch has it, the Apple Watch has it, and it
Speaker 1: really does help. But again it's just not perfect. Eight
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Speaker 1: Coming up, Speaking of watches, I'll tell you about Samsung's
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Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Let's go to Brett in Lamar, Colorado. Brett,
Speaker 1: you're on with rich.
Speaker 3: Rich Hullo.
Speaker 5: My wife and I share an Apple Idy and have
Speaker 5: for years, and somewhere around maybe the first of the year,
Speaker 5: our phones started sharing voicemails and call logs. Yep, so
Speaker 5: her phone don't actually come to her phone, calls don't
Speaker 5: come to my phone, but her voicemails do.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: This was a change in iOS seventeen where I got
Speaker 1: a lot of calls about this early on about people saying,
Speaker 1: what's going on here? All of a sudden, I'm seeing
Speaker 1: all the phone calls from my partner and I said, well,
Speaker 1: what's happening. Do you share an Apple ID? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: well that's why it's happening. So the only way around
Speaker 1: this is to set up a secondary Apple ID, and
Speaker 1: that way your wife will have you know, will have
Speaker 1: their voicemails and things, and you'll have your voicemails. And
Speaker 1: that's really the only way to get around it. Because
Speaker 1: they made some sort of key change in iOS seventeen.
Speaker 1: I think what they did was they linked the call
Speaker 1: logs with iCloud, which maybe they didn't do in the past,
Speaker 1: and so I think that's what triggered this change. And
Speaker 1: so I'm trying to see if there's a let's see,
Speaker 1: is there a Okay, so there is now there is
Speaker 1: one more option you can try. I've not tried this,
Speaker 1: but Brett, just in general, my general recommendation is that
Speaker 1: people do not share their Apple ID, and that's for
Speaker 1: a lot of reasons. Number one, it's confusing because you're
Speaker 1: using the same Apple ID to log into different devices
Speaker 1: and two different people are using them, and that could
Speaker 1: have some security implications if one of the devices gets lost,
Speaker 1: that could be a problem, but also just for confusion
Speaker 1: and things like this. An Apple has a system for this.
Speaker 1: It's called family sharing. So all you have to do
Speaker 1: is set up a secondary Apple ID. Everything is shared
Speaker 1: across the Apple ID. So if you purchased an app
Speaker 1: and paid a subscription for it, you know your partner
Speaker 1: would be able to download that app to their phone
Speaker 1: and still have that subscription.
Speaker 2: This happened the other day with my wife.
Speaker 1: I told her about this great app I downloaded and
Speaker 1: she's like, ah, it's like twelve bucks for the year.
Speaker 1: I said, no, no, you should just be able to log
Speaker 1: in and use my subscription because we're sharing that family plan. Now,
Speaker 1: it might depend on how the app developer sets it up,
Speaker 1: but in this case, yeah, she downloaded it and said,
Speaker 1: oh you have premium, you're good. And so I think
Speaker 1: there's a lot of a lot of parents as well
Speaker 1: do this. They give their kids their iPad and they
Speaker 1: sign in with their Apple ID, and next thing you know,
Speaker 1: the kid is getting all of the parents text messages
Speaker 1: on their iPad. That's because you're sharing the same Apple ID.
Speaker 1: So I don't recommend this for a lot of reasons,
Speaker 1: mostly privacy, mostly organization and security. So the only other thing, Brett,
Speaker 1: that I could recommend it, And like I said, I
Speaker 1: have not tried this myself. But if you go into
Speaker 1: iCloud on the devices, okay, So go into settings, okay,
Speaker 1: tap your name at the top where it says your name,
Speaker 1: that's your iCloud. It gets your Apple ID account, and
Speaker 1: then you tap iCloud okay, and then there will say
Speaker 1: apps using iCloud, tap show all and there is an
Speaker 1: option where it says phone and FaceTime. So I would
Speaker 1: assume if you turn that off, you should stop sharing
Speaker 1: the call logs and the voicemails because now it's not
Speaker 1: uploading those to iCloud and it's not re downloading them
Speaker 1: to your partner's phone. So you can try that if
Speaker 1: you want to continue sharing this Apple ID. Again, I
Speaker 1: don't typically recommend sharing the Apple ID, but if you must,
Speaker 1: that might be the way around it. I'll put those
Speaker 1: instructions on the website. Rich on tech dot tv hit
Speaker 1: the light bulb. Thanks for the call today, Brett in
Speaker 1: Colorado eighty eight rich one oh one eight eight eight
Speaker 1: seven four to two four to one zero one. Samsung
Speaker 1: has a new smart watch that is an affordable new
Speaker 1: smart watch. It's called the Galaxy Watch FE. FE used
Speaker 1: to stand for Fan Edition. This is kind of their
Speaker 1: more budget line of their devices. So they come out
Speaker 1: with their main devices and then they come out with
Speaker 1: these FE version of the devices. They come out with
Speaker 1: them for the phone and now the watch and the earbuds,
Speaker 1: and it's kind of like a more basic budget version.
Speaker 1: They still have a lot of great features for the price.
Speaker 1: So this watch is two hundred dollars and it is.
Speaker 1: It's got all the health monitoring features, sleep tracking, heart
Speaker 1: rate tracking, exercise tracking. It's got forty millimeters size, so
Speaker 1: it's not the biggest out there, and especially with the
Speaker 1: bezel if you see it in person, the bezel is
Speaker 1: kind of thick on this one, so the screen's not
Speaker 1: the biggest. But again, this is a very reasonably priced
Speaker 1: smart watch. It's got durable sapphire crystal glass. Comes in
Speaker 1: three colors, black, pink, gold, and silver, and pink gold
Speaker 1: goes together, not black, pink gold and silver, black pink
Speaker 1: gold and silver. Obviously, it's going to work with all
Speaker 1: of the Samsung devices. You know, you can control the camera,
Speaker 1: use it for payments, tap to pay all that good stuff.
Speaker 1: This is going to be available in the US starting
Speaker 1: on June twenty fourth, and again it's one hundred and
Speaker 1: ninety nine dollars for the Galaxy Watch FE. The LTE
Speaker 1: will be available in October for two hundred and forty
Speaker 1: nine dollars. These are both fantastic prices. They kind of
Speaker 1: undercut the Apple Watch and some of the other pixel
Speaker 1: watches and things by a couple of bucks. And so
Speaker 1: I think this is a very smart move because you
Speaker 1: pretty much get everything you need. You're not really missing
Speaker 1: a lot with this device. But you might be thinking, rich,
Speaker 1: well what am I missing? What am I not getting
Speaker 1: by not spending all the pricey money on a Galaxy
Speaker 1: Watch six series.
Speaker 2: Well, here's what you don't get.
Speaker 1: You get a slightly slower processor, and it's not by much,
Speaker 1: it's just it's just a slightly slower processor. You're gonna
Speaker 1: get a slightly smaller battery, You're gonna get a little
Speaker 1: bit less Bluetooth.
Speaker 2: What does that mean?
Speaker 1: It means that the FE is supporting Bluetooth five point zero,
Speaker 1: while the Galaxy Watch six series is supporting Bluetooth five
Speaker 1: point three.
Speaker 2: That just means that Bluetooth is going to be a.
Speaker 1: Little bit more evolved on the higher end models, but
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna be just fine here. And the
Speaker 1: main sensor that you do not get is the temperature sensor.
Speaker 1: So if you're really interested in that temperature censor tracking,
Speaker 1: which I will admit is getting much more popular among
Speaker 1: these watches because people are relying on that to tell
Speaker 1: them if they're getting sick. So if you notice that
Speaker 1: your temperature is deviating from its norm, that's an indicator
Speaker 1: that you might be getting sick.
Speaker 2: I'm not a doctor.
Speaker 1: This is not medical advice, but I'm just saying that's
Speaker 1: what people are using as that telltale sign that they
Speaker 1: might be coming down with a cold or something else.
Speaker 1: Is that temperature sensor. You do not get that in
Speaker 1: the Galaxy Watch fe But otherwise not a bad deal.
Speaker 1: Coming up June twenty fourth, one hundred and ninety nine bucks.
Speaker 1: If you're in that Samsung World, might not be a
Speaker 1: bad addition to your wrist eighty eight rich one O
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Speaker 1: All right, So WWDC happened this week Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference.
Speaker 1: Let me just tell you a couple more things that
Speaker 1: happened there. So let's talk about let's see, let's do
Speaker 1: the Watch. So watch OS eleven. This is for the
Speaker 1: Apple Watch New Things here, they've got this new vitals app.
Speaker 1: So this vitals app is going to monitor your vital signs,
Speaker 1: so different things that are happening, like your body temperature,
Speaker 1: your heart rate, your vitals basically and your breathing, and
Speaker 1: it's going to let you know if there's any change
Speaker 1: in those vitals. And again I was talking about this
Speaker 1: earlier with the temperature sensor. This it might tell you
Speaker 1: in the morning, hey, you had an elevated heart rate
Speaker 1: last night. That could either mean that this is happening
Speaker 1: or maybe you drink alcohol or something like that. Like
Speaker 1: it'll show you these different little insights on your watch.
Speaker 1: Activity rings are getting more customizable. You're able to pause them.
Speaker 1: I could care less about the activity rings. I like
Speaker 1: to close them, but I don't really give much thought
Speaker 1: to them. But I guess a lot of people do
Speaker 1: and make sure that they always close their rings every day,
Speaker 1: And I think that's great if that's motivation for you.
Speaker 1: When the Apple Watch first came out, yes, I looked
Speaker 1: at my rings all the time. But now I kind
Speaker 1: of know when I do a workout. Right, if I
Speaker 1: go running on the tread for half an hour, I
Speaker 1: know I got a workout, so I don't need to
Speaker 1: look at the rings to let me know that I
Speaker 1: got that workout. But I know a lot of people
Speaker 1: maybe if you're just doing steps or something like that.
Speaker 1: But people get into these streaks, all of these apps.
Speaker 1: They love these streaks because it keeps you engaged. So
Speaker 1: you can pause your rings. Like let's say you get
Speaker 1: a broken leg, you can pause your rings that you
Speaker 1: don't lose your streak. Okay, the smart Stack that's the
Speaker 1: thing if you roll up the little scrolly dial on
Speaker 1: the Apple Watch, that's the stuff that comes up. Developers
Speaker 1: can now develop specifically for that, so that'll get smarter,
Speaker 1: maybe more useful. Also, the translate app. This is kind
Speaker 1: of cool because the translate app is something that's very
Speaker 1: handy if you are out and about in a foreign
Speaker 1: country need stuff translated. That is now on the Apple
Speaker 1: Watch with watchOS eleven. And you can also download the
Speaker 1: languages offline. So let's say you're in Italy you need
Speaker 1: to ask someone direction somewhere, you can do it all
Speaker 1: through your Apple Watch. And the check in feature is
Speaker 1: coming to the Apple Watch. The check in feed is
Speaker 1: the feature that says, hey, I'm going out for a run,
Speaker 1: make sure I come back home. If I don't, email
Speaker 1: or text a loved one and tell them, hey, we're
Speaker 1: you know, check on me. So that's the Apple Watch.
Speaker 1: Then we've got iPad OS eighteen. The main thing that's
Speaker 1: coming to the iPad os is this thing called math
Speaker 1: notes and a calculator. So it's been a long running
Speaker 1: joke that there's no calculator app for the iPad. Finally,
Speaker 1: the iPad is getting an official calculator app. But the
Speaker 1: neat feature is called math notes. What is math notes?
Speaker 1: It's pretty much a I don't know how to explain it.
Speaker 1: It's a piece, you know. It's a place where you
Speaker 1: do math equations, but it solves them in your own handwriting.
Speaker 1: So you can write down two plus two equals and
Speaker 1: it will give you the number four, but it writes
Speaker 1: it in your handwriting. Yeah, it's super wild and weird,
Speaker 1: but it's gonna be great for kids learning math, I guess,
Speaker 1: or cheating on math however you want to look at it.
Speaker 1: But overall, it can handle really complex equations and again
Speaker 1: it answers them in your handwriting. Only Apple would come
Speaker 1: up with something like that. It is so wild. I've
Speaker 1: seen it in person and it works.
Speaker 2: It's cool, and it's gonna be a neat feature.
Speaker 1: They also have one more feature which I personally can't
Speaker 1: wait to try. You can write on the page in
Speaker 1: your own handwriting, and the iPad will clean up your handwriting.
Speaker 1: It will make you a better writer, so it's actually
Speaker 1: more legible. Because my handwriting is horrible. You can't read it,
Speaker 1: so iPads supposedly will just clean it up and it
Speaker 1: learns your handwriting over time. I mean it literally learns
Speaker 1: how to write just like you. You can copy and
Speaker 1: paste text onto a page and it will write that
Speaker 1: down in your own handwriting. I mean, come on, this
Speaker 1: is just wild, wild stuff Mac os Sequoia. The main
Speaker 1: new feature there, this is for you know, desktops and laptops,
Speaker 1: is iPhone mirroring. You will now be able to see
Speaker 1: your iPhone screen on your computer desktop, and not only
Speaker 1: see it, but manipulate it. So whatever you need to
Speaker 1: do on your iPhone, you'll be able to do right
Speaker 1: from your computer screen. So if you are on your
Speaker 1: computer all day long at work and your iPhone is
Speaker 1: next to your computer, instead of glancing down and unlocking
Speaker 1: your iPhone and doing all these things to like check
Speaker 1: notifications and stuff, all of that will come straight through
Speaker 1: to your Mac computer and you can actually manipulate anything
Speaker 1: on your iPhone screen that you would typically pick up
Speaker 1: your phone to do. So that's gonna be kind of
Speaker 1: a neat thing for the Mac computers. Now let's get
Speaker 1: to the most important one, the Apple Vision pro. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of kidding because I know this has not
Speaker 1: sold a ton, but I still do have high hopes
Speaker 1: for the Apple Vision Pro when they can make it smaller, lighter,
Speaker 1: and I don't think it needs to be better, because
Speaker 1: I think it's already incredible. I think it just needs
Speaker 1: to be smaller and lighter, and that's basically it, and
Speaker 1: get rid of that battery pack. But the Apple Vision OS,
Speaker 1: it's called Vision OS, that's what it runs on there.
Speaker 1: This is a major new update. It's called Vision OS two.
Speaker 1: One of the main things you can do create spatial
Speaker 1: photos from any existing photo. It uses advanced machine learning
Speaker 1: to kind of separate the image from the background, and
Speaker 1: your photos look like they're in three D. Of course,
Speaker 1: Apple does not use the term three D. They use
Speaker 1: spatial because three D is standard. Spatial little more unique.
Speaker 1: There's new hand gestures so you can I forget what
Speaker 1: they are, but there's a bunch of new hand gestures
Speaker 1: that make it easier to navigate.
Speaker 2: This is kind of cool.
Speaker 1: You can make your Mac in your screen, in your
Speaker 1: virtual VR screen. You can make your Mac display huge,
Speaker 1: so you can make it giant in front of you.
Speaker 1: You can make it really giant or like one of
Speaker 1: those giant, giant, giant curve screens. And that is really cool.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to try that out. So if you
Speaker 1: just have a regular small computer screen, if you have
Speaker 1: a Mac computer, you can see that computer screen in
Speaker 1: the vision os like in this headset the Apple Vision Pro.
Speaker 1: But now you can make that screen huge, like one
Speaker 1: of those big wrap around screens that everyone loves to
Speaker 1: have at work.
Speaker 2: That's cool, let's see.
Speaker 1: The other thing is that they now have I talked
Speaker 1: about this on this show, how annoying it is to
Speaker 1: have a guest try out your Vision Pro because they
Speaker 1: have to go through this whole process of setting it up,
Speaker 1: and then as soon as they take it off their
Speaker 1: head all that information goes away they have to reset it. Well,
Speaker 1: Apple said, oh okay, we will save your hand and
Speaker 1: I data for thirty days now, so if you want
Speaker 1: a family member or a friend to try it out,
Speaker 1: their information will be saved in the vision Pro headset
Speaker 1: for thirty days. It's interesting that they didn't go as
Speaker 1: far as adding guest users, like multiple users, but this,
Speaker 1: I guess is like a little tiptoe step towards that,
Speaker 1: because they're really trying to make the Apple Vision Pro
Speaker 1: a one on one kind of device.
Speaker 2: Okay, So with all that said, Apple at.
Speaker 1: WWDC twenty twenty four rendered a lot of third party
Speaker 1: apps useless or redundant. This is something called sherlocking. So
Speaker 1: back in the day, Apple came out with an app
Speaker 1: that replaced an app called Shurelock.
Speaker 2: I don't want to get this wrong.
Speaker 1: I don't exactly know the history on this, but basically,
Speaker 1: sherlocking is when Apple comes out with one of their
Speaker 1: own apps that replaces a third party app. So, for instance,
Speaker 1: I use an app on my Mac computer called Rectangle,
Speaker 1: and that app is now redundant because Apple has built
Speaker 1: this feature into the Mac operating system. So tech Crunch
Speaker 1: went through and came up with a list of all
Speaker 1: the different apps. So number one, their password app now
Speaker 1: competes with one password, last Pass, Bitwarden and proton Pass.
Speaker 1: The native call recording and transcription in the iPhone now
Speaker 1: challenges tape a Call and True Caller Voice transcription in
Speaker 1: the Notes app that replaces Otter Audio pen and Voice
Speaker 1: nototes dot Com. The iPhone mirroring on the Mac overshadows
Speaker 1: the Bezel app. Then that Windows tiling feature I just
Speaker 1: talked about replaces the functionality of Magnet and Rectangle. The
Speaker 1: custom emoji creation competes with the nugipp I don't know
Speaker 1: that one. Oh yeah, you can also create custom trails
Speaker 1: in Apple Maps that challenges the all Trails app. And
Speaker 1: then of course you've got the writing tools powered by
Speaker 1: AI that impacts grammarly, which I absolutely love on my computer.
Speaker 2: But now I might not need it anymore.
Speaker 1: So all of these apps that Apple comes out with
Speaker 1: first party it kind of puts these third party developers
Speaker 1: in a tough place because it's much easier to use
Speaker 1: the app that's built into the iPhone or the iPad
Speaker 1: or the Mac computer instead of downloading and potentially.
Speaker 2: Paying for a third party app. They do it all
Speaker 2: the time.
Speaker 1: Eighty to eight rich one oh one eight eight eight
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Speaker 2: We'll get back to the phone lines in just a moment.
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Speaker 2: My name is rich Damio.
Speaker 1: You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to
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Speaker 1: lines in just a second. I see you hanging on there.
Speaker 2: I just want to explain. I kind of.
Speaker 1: Quickly went over the apps that Apple was replacing, and
Speaker 1: I mentioned the sherlocking thing, and I didn't really know
Speaker 1: exactly what that meant because I wasn't describing it very well.
Speaker 1: So sherlocking is when Apple releases a new feature or
Speaker 1: app that sort of replicates the functionality of an existing
Speaker 1: third party app, essentially making the latter redundant. So this
Speaker 1: term was coined after Apple's shrlock search app came out
Speaker 1: in the late nineties. See that's why I didn't know,
Speaker 1: because that was kind of before my time rendered this.
Speaker 1: Other software companies they they made a very similar app
Speaker 1: called Watson, and when Apple came out was shrlock, it
Speaker 1: made the Watson app obsolete, and so that's why people
Speaker 1: called it shrlocking. So now you know, let's go to
Speaker 1: Alan and Santa Clarita. Alan, you're on with Rich.
Speaker 3: Hey, Hey, Rich, love your shows, Thank you. I have
Speaker 3: an issue my one of my family members back. He
Speaker 3: suddenly has anointed us as a a friendly group of
Speaker 3: the family and has sent this Marie photo they've ever
Speaker 3: taken up their children, and I went to jump them
Speaker 3: because they're clogging my iPhoto in their clog in my
Speaker 3: cloud and it tells me I can't delete them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't delete the uh the album or what?
Speaker 3: I can't delete the album?
Speaker 6: Another?
Speaker 3: Let me back up here.
Speaker 2: So this was shared with you, Yeah, albums shared with me.
Speaker 3: And when I go to let me try to dump it.
Speaker 2: Here, it'll work because you're on the phone with me.
Speaker 3: Now of course, Well I drug it, drugged the entire
Speaker 3: album to the trash. Yeah, and it's just staring at me.
Speaker 2: Okay, illuminated.
Speaker 3: I can't even no, I can't even move it around,
Speaker 3: let's say, on the page.
Speaker 2: So are you doing this from your Mac computer, your iPhone?
Speaker 3: My mac computer?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: So first off, as far as I understand, the shared
Speaker 1: albums shouldn't take up storage in your I cloud. It
Speaker 1: should only take up the storage in the sharer's iCloud
Speaker 1: unless you Yeah, that's that's number one. So it should
Speaker 1: not really affect your iCloud storage. And that makes sense
Speaker 1: because you know Apple. Like, let's say I'm sharing my
Speaker 1: photos with you, right, so I make this album, I
Speaker 1: put all these photos in there. That's gonna They're stored
Speaker 1: in my iCloud, right, That's where they are first and foremost.
Speaker 1: And so when I share that link to you, it's
Speaker 1: just a link to those albums. Yes, it might show
Speaker 1: up in your shared you know albums, but it's not
Speaker 1: taking up any memory on your iCloud because where those
Speaker 1: photos physically live is on my iCloud storage. That's number one.
Speaker 1: If it makes you feel any better, that's the way
Speaker 1: that should work. Now, if you're doing a shared library,
Speaker 1: that's a different scenario. A shared library is where a
Speaker 1: spouse or a partner whoever, wants to share all of
Speaker 1: their pictures in their library, and they it uses up
Speaker 1: storage on both of their I clouds because it's kind
Speaker 1: of not not necessarily duplicating those pictures, but it kind
Speaker 1: of is in a in a you know, in a way.
Speaker 2: So that's number one.
Speaker 1: Number two, if you want to delete this, I'm I
Speaker 1: have a shared album right here, and I'm looking at it,
Speaker 1: and it shows me my shared album details, which has
Speaker 1: the owner and all the other people that can see it.
Speaker 1: And then there's an option to unsubscribe, so you can
Speaker 1: try that and see if that helps by unsubscribing to
Speaker 1: that album. But if it's just the storage that you're
Speaker 1: worried about, you know that that shouldn't be too much
Speaker 1: of an issue because it, as far as I know,
Speaker 1: that does not take up storage on your iCloud unless
Speaker 1: you take a picture from that album and you save
Speaker 1: it to yours. So if you press the share icon
Speaker 1: on the album and then say save to my you
Speaker 1: know iCloud, which is you know, you press that share icon,
Speaker 1: it says save image. That will save that image permanently
Speaker 1: into your iCloud life library. So that reminds me I
Speaker 1: should probably do that on these images because I'm looking
Speaker 1: at this shared album and't I don't think I saved
Speaker 1: those to my library. But Alan, I hope that helps
Speaker 1: clear things up there in Santa Clarita. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: we are in the sharing economy and sometimes people like
Speaker 1: to share a lot of stuff, and that's what sounds
Speaker 1: like is happening with you. So try those things and
Speaker 1: see if it helps. And if you can't unsubscribe on
Speaker 1: your computer, maybe try it on the iPhone and hit
Speaker 1: that unsubscribe in the menu and that should delete it
Speaker 1: that shared album from your phone and from your iCloud library.
Speaker 1: Let's see here. Let's go to Mike and Corona, California. Mike,
Speaker 1: you're on with Rich Hi.
Speaker 9: Rich, Hi, My question is Apple. I have an iPhone
Speaker 9: Apple fifteen, right, and I'm getting like updates, If not
Speaker 9: every week, probably every other week is the latest, and
Speaker 9: that was seventeen points something.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Now my question to you Rich the apps that I
Speaker 9: myself count on just to make a living, do they
Speaker 9: get affected by these by these updates? For example, the
Speaker 9: sound notification, it's stopped sending sound notification. We count on
Speaker 9: it because in the middle of the night, a job
Speaker 9: comes up, right, and if there's no sound, there's no
Speaker 9: way for me to know that there's a job.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Now, again the question is those updates would they affect
Speaker 9: these apps?
Speaker 1: Yeah, they can for sure, and in fact, specifically with
Speaker 1: a sound I know Apple in a recent update did
Speaker 1: tweak the sound because so many people are having issues
Speaker 1: with not being able to set their own notification sounds
Speaker 1: and the notification sound that was the default was too silent.
Speaker 1: So yes, I know recently they did change the notification
Speaker 1: sounds and they tweaked it a little bit, so that
Speaker 1: could be what you're experiencing. But yes, in general, any
Speaker 1: software update can change any functionality at any time, So
Speaker 1: if there's an app that's very important to you that
Speaker 1: you rely on, be sure to check those that functionality
Speaker 1: After a major software update of either the app or
Speaker 1: the operating system every time. Great question, Mike.
Speaker 2: Coming out.
Speaker 1: We'll talk more WWDC right here on rich on Tech.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at
Speaker 1: triple eight Rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight
Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one. We'll get
Speaker 1: back to the phone lines in just a moment, but
Speaker 1: first I want to talk more about Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference.
Speaker 1: This is where Apple showed off Apple Intelligence and also
Speaker 1: iOS eighteen some of the new features coming to the iPhone.
Speaker 1: So I talked to a bunch of journalists up there
Speaker 1: and I got their take on some of the biggest announcements.
Speaker 1: Let's start with Zach. He's the editor at large for
Speaker 1: nine to five Mac, and he talks about Apple's own
Speaker 1: brand of AI.
Speaker 10: I think for a lot of people these software updates
Speaker 10: will be the first introduction to AI in general. They're
Speaker 10: using that phrase Apple Intelligence rather than saying AI. I
Speaker 10: think it makes it a little more friendly or a little
Speaker 10: less scary than the connotation AI taking over may have.
Speaker 10: I think they get a very good job of narrowing
Speaker 10: down what the AI does, what Apple Intelligence can do,
Speaker 10: in terms of this will help you be a better writer,
Speaker 10: It will help you communicate better with image generation in
Speaker 10: playful ways, ways that people already use, generating your own
Speaker 10: emojis that have waiting for them to finally make whatever
Speaker 10: emoji you want to see one day, and those are
Speaker 10: the things that people will actually do.
Speaker 2: And there's things like integrating with chat GPN.
Speaker 11: See.
Speaker 12: So if you're a.
Speaker 10: Power AI user already, you can look at Apple Intelligence
Speaker 10: and say, okay, those are some system integrated things, but
Speaker 10: you can also continue using AI that you've already learned
Speaker 10: and sort of mastered for free anonymously, which is the
Speaker 10: Apple privacy angle. And that's that's a big difference in
Speaker 10: Apple Intelligence and what they're doing versus other companies. But
Speaker 10: they're also working with those companies making them more private.
Speaker 10: There's even a feature to let you pay for chat
Speaker 10: to BT and get more out of those features with
Speaker 10: your mac, iPhone and iPad, and that's I think the
Speaker 10: best anyone can ask for in terms of getting Apple's
Speaker 10: version of AI as well as the existing stuff out there.
Speaker 10: I think it's a very exciting update this year for
Speaker 10: all the hardware. I think that where companies like open
Speaker 10: Ai need to sell their AI as a service. Apple
Speaker 10: is using AI to sell their devices, their hardware, and
Speaker 10: their services sure, and I also think it's only the
Speaker 10: first year that AI will deeply influence what the software
Speaker 10: bits do because they're doing modern AI right now. But
Speaker 10: over the next year it will change, and each year
Speaker 10: in the next few years, I think it'll change quickly
Speaker 10: so that iOS nineteen and iOS twenty be just as
Speaker 10: AI specific as I was eighteen today.
Speaker 1: Next up Carolina Milansy. She is the president and principal
Speaker 1: analyst at Creative Strategies, and she talks a lot about
Speaker 1: how Apple has full control over their hardware and software,
Speaker 1: which allows them to integrate AI throughout their devices, but
Speaker 1: maintain that all important privacy.
Speaker 13: I think obviously, for Apple, privacy is paramount, and I
Speaker 13: think they did a good job in explaining that everything
Speaker 13: that is Apple Intelligence, that is homegrown by Apple is
Speaker 13: private both on device and in the cloud. So they're
Speaker 13: using their servers with their silicon to make sure that
Speaker 13: whenever the model on the device is not enough and
Speaker 13: they need to go to the cloud, everything remains private
Speaker 13: and secure.
Speaker 9: I think the.
Speaker 13: Difference that Apple has is that they control everything right,
Speaker 13: They control the operating system. They control the hardware and
Speaker 13: then some of the services they have on it, and
Speaker 13: that gives you the ability to really bring AI throughout
Speaker 13: the system, throughout the device, and so the phone in
Speaker 13: this case for others like Samsong is a bit more
Speaker 13: complicated because they don't control all the pieces, and so
Speaker 13: they're still value, but you're going to have to pick
Speaker 13: and choose where you want that value to show up.
Speaker 1: Mark Spoonauer, global editor in chief at Tom's Guide, talks
Speaker 1: about how iOS eighteen will bring some useful features to
Speaker 1: everyday users, but Apple Intelligence will be limited to the
Speaker 1: latest iPhone fifteen Pro models and later, which might leave
Speaker 1: some users behind.
Speaker 14: I would say that AI was everywhere, but in a
Speaker 14: good way, in the sense that it's going to be
Speaker 14: coming to the devices that we already use. But there's
Speaker 14: a catch, I think with the Apple Intelligence in particular,
Speaker 14: because it's nice that they're thinking about like the personal
Speaker 14: and contextual awareness and things like that, but the fact
Speaker 14: that it's limited to the latest model iPhone fifteen Pro
Speaker 14: and iPhone fifteen Pro macs, I think it's going to
Speaker 14: leave millions out in the cold. Like if you have
Speaker 14: an iPhone fifteen from this year, you still can't participate,
Speaker 14: So I think it goes to show that Apple Silicon
Speaker 14: you need something really powerful under the hood in order
Speaker 14: to enjoy all.
Speaker 15: Of these new features.
Speaker 14: So I think there's a lot of people who are
Speaker 14: gonna have upgrade envy. I think there's always been conspiracy
Speaker 14: theories around new iOS updates in terms of like forcing
Speaker 14: people to upgrade to the latest model iPhone. But in
Speaker 14: the past it's been about like slowing down performance or
Speaker 14: less battery life than before. But here is a tangible
Speaker 14: reason to potentially upgrade, no conspiracy theories required. Yeah, there's
Speaker 14: a lot of features that don't have nothing to do
Speaker 14: with Apple Intelligence that I actually think are useful for
Speaker 14: everyday users. One is the fact that you can customize
Speaker 14: your control center, for example, the fact that you could
Speaker 14: swipe down and then you decide what shortcuts are and
Speaker 14: which orders or whenever you're actually unlocking your iPhone. Up
Speaker 14: until now it's been flashlight and camera. Now you can
Speaker 14: choose what those are as well, so people aren't locked
Speaker 14: out of new features. When it comes to iOS eighteen,
Speaker 14: it's just the AI stuff that is only reserved for
Speaker 14: the most powerful iPhones. I think to a certain degree
Speaker 14: with Samsung's phone and the Galaxy AI, it feels bolted
Speaker 14: on after the fact, where I think with the iPhone
Speaker 14: and iOS eighteen in particular, it feels very much woven
Speaker 14: into the system, especially with Siri, and I think that's
Speaker 14: one area where both Google and Samsung in a weird way,
Speaker 14: are going to be catching.
Speaker 2: Up to Apple.
Speaker 1: Jason Heiner, editor in chief at zd net, talks about
Speaker 1: how Apple's new features will save time for users.
Speaker 16: Apple's taking a lot of the things that they could do,
Speaker 16: the ways they can automate things in life, and bringing
Speaker 16: them into the iPhone in ways that are going to
Speaker 16: be really meaningful, I think, to a lot more people
Speaker 16: going forward and so doing things like the demo in
Speaker 16: the in the keynote was talking about somebody going and
Speaker 16: asking what time is my mom's flight?
Speaker 2: Is it delayed?
Speaker 16: You know, and it would instead of having to go
Speaker 16: into a bunch of different apps, Siri then can pull
Speaker 16: that data based on a text message, based on an email,
Speaker 16: based on a flight an app that has the flight.
Speaker 15: Data in it.
Speaker 2: So doing a lot of things.
Speaker 16: That are going to make so much of the stuff
Speaker 16: that we do on our phones all the time, for
Speaker 16: everybody a lot smoother, a lot more intuitive, and frankly,
Speaker 16: just saving people time and also headaches and saving phone calls,
Speaker 16: saving sorting through messages, all of those things. Anything that
Speaker 16: this tech can do to do that save people time
Speaker 16: and effort and make things easier is going to be
Speaker 16: a win. And I think there's potentially.
Speaker 15: A lot of those kinds of things.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I think that the opportunity to search through your
Speaker 16: photo library is something that is so simple but really powerful.
Speaker 16: We all have photos that are hard to find. The
Speaker 16: idea of just being able to essentially ask questions of
Speaker 16: your photo library and say, find that time that I
Speaker 16: went on vacation, you know, with my aunt to London
Speaker 16: or something like that, and let it just pull all
Speaker 16: of those photos for you, rather than you know, swiping
Speaker 16: around and do it is super powerful. And then even
Speaker 16: the idea of being able to search through a video
Speaker 16: and find a certain point in a video that could
Speaker 16: be really cool too. And again, I think just for
Speaker 16: everyday uses.
Speaker 2: And for all of us, I think it will be
Speaker 2: really powerful.
Speaker 1: And finally, Jacqueline Dallas, a YouTuber with the channel nothing
Speaker 1: but Tech, says she's impressed with the new customization options
Speaker 1: in iOS.
Speaker 6: I think the interesting part of iOS is that it's
Speaker 6: more customizable now, and that's small, but I think that
Speaker 6: a lot of people that use Android often say that
Speaker 6: iOS is not customizable. So it's nice to see the
Speaker 6: ability to move icons. You can also have the icons
Speaker 6: that color matched. All those small things. Oh and then
Speaker 6: also the tap back notifications are cool. You can now
Speaker 6: customize them, so any emoji. So RCS means a rich
Speaker 6: communication service and it's a more secure version of SMS
Speaker 6: that Google developed, meaning that your images will be encrypted.
Speaker 6: You can send like high resolution ones. And previously Apple
Speaker 6: did not adopt it, so if you had an Android phone,
Speaker 6: everything would suck when you're messaging an iPhone. RCS will
Speaker 6: make it suck a little bit less. I don't think
Speaker 6: it's going to change the cultural stigma though. I think
Speaker 6: what Apple does really well is extreme the fundamentals, and
Speaker 6: so I think if we were like, look at what's
Speaker 6: going to happen with AI and I phone, it will
Speaker 6: just become part of the phone and we won't be like, oh,
Speaker 6: it's AI iPhone, just like the phone does things really well.
Speaker 1: Isn't that the dream of all computers and mobile devices?
Speaker 1: We want them to do what we need them to do,
Speaker 1: and we want to be able to ask them in
Speaker 1: a very natural language. It sounds like Apple has taken
Speaker 1: a big step towards that once again. The phone number
Speaker 1: triple a Rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight
Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one. If you
Speaker 1: have a question about technology, give me a call. My
Speaker 1: name is Rich Demiro and you are listening to Rich
Speaker 1: on tech. Jerry's in Rancho, Santa Margarita, California. Jerry, you're
Speaker 1: on with Rich.
Speaker 17: Hey, uh, great to hear you again. And I've called
Speaker 17: you before many kinds.
Speaker 2: Oh, okay, We've got to repeat call.
Speaker 3: Here we go.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I've got a weird question. I've been doing some research.
Speaker 17: Back in December, I just got my iPhone fifteen promacs.
Speaker 17: It's been a great phone. But I've been seeing some
Speaker 17: articles about I message and just not loading or crashing constantly.
Speaker 17: And they said that there's a way to turn off
Speaker 17: FaceTime and messages, but sometimes it's even locked where I
Speaker 17: can't even turn off FaceTime or as a fix. Have
Speaker 17: you read or seen any information on the updated iOS
Speaker 17: where the I messages are I just get a blank screen,
Speaker 17: then it crashes and I have to restart the phone
Speaker 17: a couple times. Any info that you might have in
Speaker 17: your bag of tricks.
Speaker 1: I know that there was an issue with I Message
Speaker 1: when iOS seventeen first came out. It was like a
Speaker 1: little bit wonky, but I've not heard anything since. And
Speaker 1: just doing a quick search of the web for I
Speaker 1: Message crashing, I'm not getting any articles that are actually legitimate,
Speaker 1: like articles. I'm getting a lot of you know, forum
Speaker 1: posts and Apple discussions and all that kind of stuff
Speaker 1: that's not really anything that's I mean, look, and this
Speaker 1: happens a lot on this show and in general. When
Speaker 1: I get emails from people, they say, hey, Rich, I'm
Speaker 1: having this problem with my phone and a lot of
Speaker 1: other people are having the same problem. And I say,
Speaker 1: what do you mean a lot of other people? And
Speaker 1: they say, well, I looked up online and I found
Speaker 1: this forum where everyone's complaining about this problem. Well, yes,
Speaker 1: because everyone searching Google going to that form that's having
Speaker 1: that situation and they are posting in that same exact post. Now,
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that it's not happening. In fact, a
Speaker 1: lot of times when things I call it bubbling up, right, like,
Speaker 1: these issues will happen and they start on Reddit posts,
Speaker 1: and they start in forums, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: it is, you know, a software update or something will
Speaker 1: address it later on. So I'm not saying that it's
Speaker 1: not happening, but I guarantee you if you search this
Speaker 1: you know this issue online, you'll find a million documents
Speaker 1: that purport to help you figure out how to stop
Speaker 1: this from happening, when realistically, there's not a way that
Speaker 1: I know of to just like reset I message altogether.
Speaker 1: So my best advice, Jerry, would be to do this.
Speaker 1: If you're having issues, I would go through your I
Speaker 1: message and I would delete a couple of messages that maybe,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe just go through and clean up your
Speaker 1: messages and get rid of some of the either the
Speaker 1: larger files or you know, I don't know some of
Speaker 1: the older messages I've got. I've got like thousands of
Speaker 1: messages in my I message and I don't have any issues.
Speaker 1: I've never never had a crash in that. So it
Speaker 1: could be that there's something that was sent to you
Speaker 1: that could be triggering this. There could be one of
Speaker 1: the messages in the list that just has some weird
Speaker 1: characters that maybe are causing this. But I'm not really
Speaker 1: sure on a method to just get this fixed, like instantly,
Speaker 1: because there's not really a way I know of doing that.
Speaker 1: You can go through and delete all your messages and
Speaker 1: start over and restart your phone and see if that helps.
Speaker 1: But that's the best case scenario I can think of.
Speaker 1: What is when you're looking online, like, what is the
Speaker 1: main kind of theme that everyone's saying causes.
Speaker 17: This of replies? And oh, yeah, I had, but it's
Speaker 17: like older articles or older forums. And you're right, but
Speaker 17: I have done what you suggested. When you clicked on
Speaker 17: the top left corner, you can actually get that pop
Speaker 17: up to select messages you wanted to lead. And I've
Speaker 17: done that often on stuff that you know, like blocked
Speaker 17: spam and stuff like that that I have to get
Speaker 17: rid of constantly. But you're right, I think maybe there's
Speaker 17: a couple of extra large text messages that may have
Speaker 17: triggered something like that. And I think that's what I
Speaker 17: saw in an article that sometimes that can happen, and
Speaker 17: you know, and I'm probably it's not a real bad thing,
Speaker 17: but sometimes it's just frustrating when it shows the number
Speaker 17: of unread messages and it says four and it won't load,
Speaker 17: and I get that blank screen and I have to
Speaker 17: just power off and restart the phone about two or
Speaker 17: three times in a row, and then it's fine.
Speaker 1: That is very frustrating. So I guess what I would
Speaker 1: do in this case. I'd probably if if I was
Speaker 1: having like major issues where I had to restart my
Speaker 1: phone two or three times, I'd probably do two things.
Speaker 1: Number One, I'd go through and I would just blast.
Speaker 1: I would just get rid of every message in my
Speaker 1: I message list. To me, text messages are fleeting, they're ephemeral.
Speaker 1: You don't need them, like I know some people they're
Speaker 1: obsessed with keeping their messages forever.
Speaker 2: I don't care if someone's texting me.
Speaker 1: I mean they're telling me what time of flight lands,
Speaker 1: they're saying, hey, i'll see there in five minutes. I
Speaker 1: don't need a record of anything in my text. Like,
Speaker 1: if it's something that I need to keep, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: keep it. I'm gonna copy it, i'm gonna paste it,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get an email. So that's what I would
Speaker 1: do first off, is just delete everything in my messages,
Speaker 1: if you're okay with that, and then I would go
Speaker 1: through and I would restart my phone, make sure everything
Speaker 1: is up to date on the software up page, which
Speaker 1: I'm sure you've already done, and then I would see
Speaker 1: if it keeps happening. If it keeps happening, then I
Speaker 1: would probably personally, I would format my phone completely. I
Speaker 1: know this sounds wild, but if you're trying to you know,
Speaker 1: if you're telling me you're restarting your phone two or
Speaker 1: three times in a row, that should not happen with
Speaker 1: an iPhone, and iPhone is just not that buggy.
Speaker 2: It just isn't.
Speaker 1: Now, maybe if you're running beta software, that could happen.
Speaker 1: I assume you're not right, No, okay, So I mean
Speaker 1: you know that would be the next case. Thing that
Speaker 1: I would do is personally, I would just wipe my
Speaker 1: entire phone and reset and and kind of put everything
Speaker 1: back on there one by one instead of restoring it
Speaker 1: from an iCloud backup. And I'm just looking real quick,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna look into General and there's a there's a
Speaker 1: reset iPhone functionality, and I'm gonna see if there's something
Speaker 1: that we can do here.
Speaker 2: Let's see reset all settings. Yeah, there's not like one that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's not one that like says reset all my
Speaker 1: messages you could try reset all settings or reset network
Speaker 1: settings and see if that helps. Maybe it's a network thing.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Jerry, those are the two things I would
Speaker 1: do to see if maybe one of those works. I
Speaker 1: think if you if you did the nuclear thing where
Speaker 1: you deleted all your messages, that would probably fix it.
Speaker 1: And then restart your phone and start fresh, that would
Speaker 1: definitely fix it. I think, as long as you're not
Speaker 1: restoring it from an iCloud backup. But I feel you,
Speaker 1: I hear you, and you know, if there's something like
Speaker 1: that happening on your phone, it is very frustrating. It's
Speaker 1: just it's not the way it's supposed to be, and
Speaker 1: so hopefully one of those things works. The other thing
Speaker 1: I would do, just real quick, is go into your
Speaker 1: messages and at the upper left hand corner. I'm sure
Speaker 1: you've done this, but there's a thing called filters, and
Speaker 1: you can see you've got all messages known senders, unknown
Speaker 1: senders on read and then recently deleted. You can go
Speaker 1: into your recently deleted. It will delete these up to
Speaker 1: forty days later after you delete them, but you can
Speaker 1: go through and manually delete them by just tapping delete all.
Speaker 1: And I've got I just found four hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: one messages in there. I'm gonna go ahead and delete
Speaker 1: that now. I've got a bunch of that stuff that's
Speaker 1: not taking up storage on my phone anymore. Or an
Speaker 1: iCloud and I would restart my phone, maybe start there
Speaker 1: and see if that helps. Maybe there's something that deleted
Speaker 1: folder that you've gotten rid of, but it's still just
Speaker 1: causing some sort of issue on there. Great call, Jerry,
Speaker 1: thanks for trusting me to call me again.
Speaker 2: I do appreciate that. So thanks for listening to the show.
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Speaker 1: grown up in New Jersey, a draw draw. That's what
Speaker 1: you pulled out of a chest. That I literally grew
Speaker 1: up my entire childhood thinking what you pulled out of
Speaker 1: a chest was called a draw And it was only
Speaker 1: when I came to California that I learned it was
Speaker 1: called a drawer. There are some extra letters in there,
Speaker 1: so I have come a long way. I know I
Speaker 1: say things a little weird. I know I pronounced button
Speaker 1: and a lot of.
Speaker 2: Things very strangely.
Speaker 1: But if you heard me before I went to college,
Speaker 1: I you, yeah, I said some things really really weird,
Speaker 1: like Oregon that thank you? Oregon was Oregon?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 2: Coffee was coffee? Water was uh water?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: It goes on and on one. All right, let's go
Speaker 1: to Olivia in Huntington Beach, California.
Speaker 2: Olivia. You're on with Rich?
Speaker 18: Hi Rich?
Speaker 12: How are you?
Speaker 2: I am doing fantastic, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 15: Thank you.
Speaker 12: So my question is I have two work from home jobs.
Speaker 18: So each job requires two monitors, So I have four
Speaker 18: monitors total with two keyboards and two mouths. How do
Speaker 18: I seamlessly transition to just using one keyboard and a
Speaker 18: mouse for all.
Speaker 1: Four What kind of job are you doing? Are you
Speaker 1: like mission controler you're landing stuff on the or what?
Speaker 12: No, just a one full time gig and like a
Speaker 12: freelancer on call kind of thing for the second launch.
Speaker 12: But sometimes it kind of overlaps my hours. Okay, I'm
Speaker 12: always going back and forth between the two keyboards and
Speaker 12: sometimes I'm like, oh, shoot, this is not the like.
Speaker 7: One and all that.
Speaker 1: Okay, So a couple of ways you can do this.
Speaker 1: There is a device called a KVM switch.
Speaker 2: Have you heard of that?
Speaker 19: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, keyboard video mouse, that's what it stands for. KVM switch,
Speaker 1: So you can you can get one of those. That's
Speaker 1: a physical switch that you would connect one mouse and
Speaker 1: keyboard to multiple computers.
Speaker 2: So look it up.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of articles on picking the best one,
Speaker 1: but that's one way of handling it. It's a switch
Speaker 1: that you know, it's kind of like anything else. It's
Speaker 1: just a switch. You put a bunch of the stuff
Speaker 1: into the back of it and then it streamlines it
Speaker 1: into the rest of it. So that is one way
Speaker 1: of doing it. There's also some software programs that you
Speaker 1: can use. So now I've not tested this, but it
Speaker 1: there's one for Microsoft Garage called Mouse without Borders and uh,
Speaker 1: and that's one that you can download and try. And
Speaker 1: this is this is quite old, but you know, I
Speaker 1: don't think mice really have a lot of updates over
Speaker 1: the years, so it probably still works. Are these Windows
Speaker 1: or mac computers?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 12: Both Windows?
Speaker 1: Okay, so this one will probably work Mouse without Borders.
Speaker 1: That's probably only going to take care of the mouse though,
Speaker 1: So I think that you want to uh that you
Speaker 1: probably want something a little more powerful. So there is
Speaker 1: a shareware app called sharemouse dot com share mouse dot
Speaker 1: com and this software lets you control multiple computers from
Speaker 1: a single mouse and keyboard. So pretty pretty simple. And
Speaker 1: it kind of is like a KVM, except it is
Speaker 1: more software based.
Speaker 2: So those are.
Speaker 1: The recommendations I have for you, Olivia. I will link
Speaker 1: them up on the website. Rich on tech dot tv
Speaker 1: just hit the light bulb icon. But two review if
Speaker 1: you want to connect you know, a couple different computers
Speaker 1: to one keyboard and mouse, you can use what's called
Speaker 1: a KVM so that is a KVM switch.
Speaker 2: You can do that.
Speaker 1: You can try the app called Microsoft Garage Mouse without Borders,
Speaker 1: but that's just for the mouse. Or there is a
Speaker 1: shareware called share mouse or right.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's shareware. I think you actually
Speaker 2: you might have to pay for this.
Speaker 1: Let's see demo version allows you to try all features
Speaker 1: for thirty minutes, and then you'll have to pay. And
Speaker 1: let's see how much is the license. I don't see
Speaker 1: the price, but I'm sure it's reasonable. So and if
Speaker 1: you've got a couple jobs, you should be able to
Speaker 1: afford it. Olivia, you're killing it. You're doing you're doing
Speaker 1: great lots of jobs managing all those computers that that
Speaker 1: takes a lot.
Speaker 2: So thanks for doing that. Appreciate it all, right.
Speaker 1: Eighty eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four two four to one zero one. Let's go to
Speaker 1: hol and see me Valley. I'm sorry I can't do that.
Speaker 1: How what's up?
Speaker 19: Hello, Hi, Hi there, I'm so happy to speak with you.
Speaker 19: Here's the problem. For years, I've utilized information from a
Speaker 19: California governmental entity website. The site includes public access detailed information.
Speaker 19: When I was able to use Internet Explorer, I was
Speaker 19: able to copy the information and paste into a word
Speaker 19: document while retaining the information format. Then Internet Explorer was
Speaker 19: replaced by Microsoft Edge after the end of use state
Speaker 19: for Explorer. When I copied and pasted, I would lose
Speaker 19: the right twenty five percent of the formatted information. Still
Speaker 19: able to copy and paste text only and keep all
Speaker 19: the info.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry say that last part.
Speaker 19: Again, I was still able to copy and paste the
Speaker 19: text only and keep all of the information. I couldn't
Speaker 19: do that with the formatted text. And I tried using
Speaker 19: Chrome as a default browser or Edge is a default browser.
Speaker 19: Didn't make any difference. Multiple times I've tried to contact
Speaker 19: to buy email the governmental entity to determine of a
Speaker 19: problem was at their end, and I've never received the
Speaker 19: respond What.
Speaker 1: You've never received a response from a government organization.
Speaker 19: Believe me, it's it's not unusual with this governmentality at all.
Speaker 19: I believe them namelessly.
Speaker 1: Okay, song story short, you are trying to copy and
Speaker 1: paste this information. It used to copying format in a
Speaker 1: correct format that that was. You know, whether you pasted it,
Speaker 1: it would it would just look the same as it
Speaker 1: did on the website. Now it no longer looks that way.
Speaker 19: Also edited, and this went on for years until Internet
Speaker 19: Explorer disappeared.
Speaker 2: Okay, so a couple of things.
Speaker 1: So are you're trying to preserve Let's say the font
Speaker 1: is in bold, you're trying to keep that bold. And
Speaker 1: maybe it's in bullet point format, you're trying to keep
Speaker 1: all that right.
Speaker 19: It was essentially rows and columns, wow information, and I
Speaker 19: could completely edit it. Oh, I can choose part of it,
Speaker 19: just like any any text in any word doctor.
Speaker 2: And the trouble.
Speaker 19: The trouble is I do reports and recommendations to third parties,
Speaker 19: and they preferred the formatted information rather than the straight text,
Speaker 19: of course, and I met a loss to figure it out.
Speaker 19: I tried copying and pasting as a PDF, which retains
Speaker 19: all the format and information. But then I was the
Speaker 19: capacity to simply edit and incorporate into my reports.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, okay, So hmmm, uh, I'm sure there is
Speaker 1: a solution to this. Off the top of my head,
Speaker 1: I don't have one, but there is something you might
Speaker 1: be able to do. So what what web browser are
Speaker 1: you using right now?
Speaker 19: Right now? Chrum?
Speaker 2: I tried.
Speaker 19: I tried microceft edge, figuring it was proprietary, but it
Speaker 19: didn't make any difference.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm wondering if if this. I'm wondering if this
Speaker 1: is like in like a markdown format or some interesting
Speaker 1: because there might be there's a Okay, what if you
Speaker 1: go into a document like a Google doc and you
Speaker 1: try pasting it into their same thing happened? Like does
Speaker 1: it happen no matter where you paste it into.
Speaker 19: Yeah, no matter what I do, you cannot paste with
Speaker 19: the with the formatting of information without losing the right
Speaker 19: approximate twenty five percent of it.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, So here's I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1: I want you to email me because I want to
Speaker 1: check this out, Like, email me the exact website that
Speaker 1: you're trying to copy from. I'm going to take a
Speaker 1: look and see the only thing I can think of
Speaker 1: the there's a couple like solutions. There might be a
Speaker 1: Chrome extension that would that you can install that would
Speaker 1: preserve the formatting. So I would start with just searching
Speaker 1: like Chrome extension preserve formatting and maybe even throw in
Speaker 1: the term table in there. Right, so that you might
Speaker 1: get for a Chrome extension that can help you preserve
Speaker 1: that formatting across a copy and paste.
Speaker 2: That's the number one thing I would do. Number two.
Speaker 1: You might, I mean, obviously there's like that whole you know,
Speaker 1: copy and paste, preserve formatting inside the document. There may
Speaker 1: be some options to preserve the formatting. I know there
Speaker 1: is on Google Docs where it will preserve some of
Speaker 1: like the modes that like I just had it the
Speaker 1: other day and I'm trying to find it again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: see this, it's under preferences automatically detect markdown, automatically detect links,
Speaker 1: so it might do. That might be an option too.
Speaker 1: In word, there might be a thing you could toggle there.
Speaker 1: The other thing you could do is you might just
Speaker 1: use AI. So you might just throw this data into
Speaker 1: chat GBT and say, here's the columns I have. Can
Speaker 1: you format this into a table and then copy and
Speaker 1: paste it from there? So those are a couple of options,
Speaker 1: how but I don't have a standard solution off the
Speaker 1: top of my head, like I said, but hopefully maybe
Speaker 1: just by mentioning it on this show, we'll get someone
Speaker 1: that's listening that says, oh, I know exactly, how to
Speaker 1: do that, and they will email me that information. But
Speaker 1: I also want you to email me the website and
Speaker 1: the issue so that I can test myself and see
Speaker 1: what's going on here, because copying paste is not a
Speaker 1: it's not necessarily a standardized thing, especially with mark down,
Speaker 1: especially with formatting, especially with different programs out there, they
Speaker 1: all do things slightly differently. Thanks for the call, do
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Rich on Tech dot tv is the website.
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Speaker 1: Looks like Jay in Lancaster has a solution for our
Speaker 1: friend Olivia who needed to connect to multiple computers to
Speaker 1: one mouse and keyboard.
Speaker 2: Jay, welcome to the show. Yeah right, Rich, Hi, what
Speaker 2: do you have to add?
Speaker 7: So I'm running five monitors off of three different computers,
Speaker 7: what do you do? And one keyboard?
Speaker 1: Are you sending people to Mars? What's happening there at
Speaker 1: the Jay household?
Speaker 11: Its flight to MARSK. They have running cat on one monitor, okay,
Speaker 11: and then I'm running airport to manage software on the
Speaker 11: second computer and then the rest of myself on the
Speaker 11: third one.
Speaker 2: Nice Okay.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's a separate solution and I've had it running
Speaker 7: for about three years now.
Speaker 3: So what I have is a Logitech.
Speaker 7: M seven twenty mouse, okay, and it has a unifying receiver.
Speaker 7: So you buy the mouse, it comes with one of
Speaker 7: those receivers, just the USB dog that goes in the
Speaker 7: port right, and then you can buy a second, one third,
Speaker 7: one fourth one and put them in a different computers
Speaker 7: and uh, you know the backing. So I just get
Speaker 7: keyboard and you can run your mouse across INDU screen
Speaker 7: up and down across. Because I am stacked. I've got
Speaker 7: two by two and one on the end, so I
Speaker 7: can run them across uptown on the NU screen, I
Speaker 7: just pull them out across and that becomes active.
Speaker 2: Oh nice, that's that's the.
Speaker 3: And keyboard with it.
Speaker 2: It's the se So okay.
Speaker 7: The mouse is like I know, thirty five different receivers.
Speaker 7: I think are can or twelve or something like that.
Speaker 2: Okay. I believed that.
Speaker 7: They have any even newer mouse like mindspare four years old,
Speaker 7: so I think they have an NX Master. Is there
Speaker 7: maybe more advanced newer one?
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm looking at them seven twenty. They call it
Speaker 1: the Triathlon because I guess it can control three. It's interesting.
Speaker 1: I so a couple of things. I bought a Logitech
Speaker 1: mouse couple of weeks ago. One of those stand up
Speaker 1: mice that like you know, helps with like ergonomics, and
Speaker 1: it does have the ability to connect to three different
Speaker 1: computers on the bottom, but on mine, I don't know
Speaker 1: what the deal is, but every time, every so often,
Speaker 1: it just disconnects from my computer, like I have to
Speaker 1: read Bluetooth it. So I got the kind without the dongle.
Speaker 1: I know, the dedicated dongle definitely makes the connection more
Speaker 1: stable over Bluetooth, but anyway, that's one side note. But
Speaker 1: the other thing is that Logitech ended up sending me
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of stuff to test out all of
Speaker 1: their latest stuff, so I guess I'll have more knowledge
Speaker 1: about this stuff very soon. But Jay, thanks for the suggestion.
Speaker 1: I'll put it in the show notes. That seems like
Speaker 1: an easy suggestion. And I'm looking at the bottom and
Speaker 1: again it's got the bottom of the page on the
Speaker 1: Triathlon mouse has the K seven to eighty multi device
Speaker 1: wireless keyboard as well, one keyboard fully equipped for computer, phone,
Speaker 1: and tablet. That's interesting, so I think I don't know
Speaker 1: if they sent that one, but yeah, lots of solutions,
Speaker 1: and I guess our next guest will actually have some
Speaker 1: solutions too.
Speaker 2: Matthew S Smith is coming up.
Speaker 1: He's going to talk about what to look for when
Speaker 1: buying a computer monitor. You won't want to miss that
Speaker 1: conversation that's coming up right here on rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology. The website for the show
Speaker 1: richontech dot TV. Joining me now is Matthew S. Smith,
Speaker 1: a free lance tech journalist who has written about consumer
Speaker 1: tech for PC World, Reviewed, PC Mag, and many other places.
Speaker 1: And this is my favorite part. We share a similar
Speaker 1: naming identity his website Matt on tech dot me. I
Speaker 1: love it, Matt on tech dot me. Matt, Welcome to
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 15: Thanks very much for having me on.
Speaker 2: I love that we both use the same naming mind.
Speaker 15: Yeah, it's nice to meet a fellow on tech person.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 2: Maybe we'll start a trend. So let's talk about that.
Speaker 1: You wrote a great article for Advisorator, one of my
Speaker 1: favorite newsletters that I subscribe to. You talked about how
Speaker 1: to buy a monitor. And I know during the pandemic
Speaker 1: probably a lot of people set up their offices and
Speaker 1: things like that, but this is still something that you know,
Speaker 1: with work from home, people are still doing, and there's
Speaker 1: a lot of monitors out there, So let's let's start
Speaker 1: with kind of just give me the the overall kind
Speaker 1: of like when you're looking for a monitor, you know,
Speaker 1: what are you looking for?
Speaker 7: Do you?
Speaker 2: Let's start with screen size. I guess okay, starting.
Speaker 15: With screen size, my general recommendation is to do a
Speaker 15: twenty seven inch monitor because it is a very common
Speaker 15: size and it is a readily available it'll fit on
Speaker 15: most desks. Also, if you want to upgrade in the
Speaker 15: future and do say a dual monitor setup to twenty
Speaker 15: seven inch, monitors will still be a reasonable size. Or
Speaker 15: if you decide to add a larger monitor in the future,
Speaker 15: like a thirty two inch or something like that, you
Speaker 15: can also do that twenty seven inch monitor next to it,
Speaker 15: or even in a portrait orientation where you flip it
Speaker 15: ninety degrees and kind of have a sort of more
Speaker 15: vertical space by your larger monitor. So it's just very
Speaker 15: versatile and again also very common, so they're typically not
Speaker 15: too expensive.
Speaker 1: Okay, And then you say thirty two for gaming, and
Speaker 1: then avoid twenty four inches unless your space is limited.
Speaker 1: What about the resolution, let's talk about resolution.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I recommend for most people to go four K resolution.
Speaker 2: It is more.
Speaker 15: Expensive than the basic ten ADP monitors, but four K
Speaker 15: is a very noticeable boost in sharpness, especially on a
Speaker 15: twenty seven inch or larger monitor, And it also sort
Speaker 15: of gives you a little future proofing. And I figure
Speaker 15: most monitors are going to be lasting a pretty long time.
Speaker 15: I don't think people tend to replace them very often,
Speaker 15: So it's best to try and get sort of at
Speaker 15: the top of the curve on features. And four K
Speaker 15: is definitely.
Speaker 1: That TENADP that's just going to look that's not going
Speaker 1: to look very good.
Speaker 2: Huh. And you're still noticing all day oh on.
Speaker 15: A twenty seven inch monitor, and if you go twenty
Speaker 15: four inches, even more passable, but you are going to
Speaker 15: notice a difference with four K it looks much sharper.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Now, the panel type, so, I mean probably a lot
Speaker 1: of people think, you know LED, that's like an LED screen, right,
Speaker 1: So but what types of panels should we be looking for?
Speaker 15: Yeah, that's where it gets really interesting because up until
Speaker 15: recently you didn't have a whole lot of meaningful choice,
Speaker 15: but now there are new O LED panels that are
Speaker 15: a premium panel type which have really good contrast and
Speaker 15: really good color. They are, however, quite expensive, but if
Speaker 15: you want a premium monitor or a really really nice
Speaker 15: image quality, that is one way to go. Another alternative
Speaker 15: is Mini LED, which is technically a backlight more than
Speaker 15: a panel type, but it provides really good HDR in
Speaker 15: most cases and tends to have a very clear, crisp image.
Speaker 15: Now that again is a premium option, So if you're
Speaker 15: looking for more affordable stuff, you're going to want to
Speaker 15: go with an IPS panel, which tends to have really
Speaker 15: good color performance. The contrast is not as good as
Speaker 15: some of those more premium options, but still tends to
Speaker 15: look quite good. And then another one of the VA panel,
Speaker 15: which tends to also have pretty decent contrast in color,
Speaker 15: but if you're doing gaming high end gaming, the motion
Speaker 15: clear sometimes not quite as good as similar IPS panels.
Speaker 1: Now, I know, the ultra wide screens are kind of
Speaker 1: like the new trend I see Mat Worsk. You know,
Speaker 1: we just talked about the Apple Vision Pro. They added
Speaker 1: an option for like a really cool like ultra wide
Speaker 1: screen and virtual reality, which is really neat. What do
Speaker 1: you recommend when it comes to the wide versus ultra wide?
Speaker 15: I'm a big fan of ultra wide monitors, and thirty
Speaker 15: four inch ultra wide monitors are not really that expensive.
Speaker 15: You can find decent ones at three the four hundred
Speaker 15: bucks on Amazon, and what you're going to get from
Speaker 15: that is basically I've run the numbers on it. I
Speaker 15: think it's about a twenty five to thirty percent increase
Speaker 15: in the amount of display real estate versus a twenty
Speaker 15: seven inch wide screen monitor, So you basically just get
Speaker 15: some more room bumped out to the side to multitask
Speaker 15: to put different windows up on your desktop, or if
Speaker 15: you want to play games, it's going to look more immersive.
Speaker 15: If you want to watch movies and they're in that
Speaker 15: twenty one by nine ass ratio or something similar, you're
Speaker 15: not going to have black bars at the bottom or
Speaker 15: on the sides. So there are a lot of advantages
Speaker 15: to that format and I really do recommend it. You
Speaker 15: can also if you want to spend some more money,
Speaker 15: you can go with a forty nine inch super ultra
Speaker 15: wide or something of that nature where you have a
Speaker 15: whole and in fact, I have one of those in
Speaker 15: front of you right now because I do to review
Speaker 15: a bit and you just to have this gigantic expanse
Speaker 15: of display in front of you, and that's a really
Speaker 15: nice option. They do tend to be expensive, expect to
Speaker 15: pay around one thousand dollars or more. However, for the
Speaker 15: amount of display space you get, it's not necessarily a
Speaker 15: bad value. You can compare it to say, two twenty
Speaker 15: seven inch monitors of similar quality.
Speaker 1: Well, now, taking the newfound knowledge you just taught me,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at Google thirty four inch ultra wide monitor
Speaker 1: LG two hundred and forty bucks with that IPS, which
Speaker 1: you just recommended, So that doesn't sound like a bad deal.
Speaker 1: I'm so embarrassed because I have a thirteen inch MacBook screen.
Speaker 1: I went from the sixteen inch, and I'm telling you
Speaker 1: is just that three inch difference makes a huge difference
Speaker 1: because I used to have stuff on the side, kind
Speaker 1: of like a messaging app on the side panel, like
Speaker 1: on you know, on the side of my screen, and
Speaker 1: now I miss like all like Kim is our call
Speaker 1: screener and she's been texting me the whole show, and
Speaker 1: I miss all of that because it's like behind all
Speaker 1: my windows.
Speaker 2: So I say, the benefit of.
Speaker 1: The more screen real estate that you can tuck little
Speaker 1: things into the corners like your music and your texting
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. So anyway, let's see what other
Speaker 1: considerations should we be thinking about when it comes to monitors.
Speaker 15: Well, one thing that I especially if you're looking at
Speaker 15: a more budget minded monitor, is to make sure that
Speaker 15: you get a ergonomic stand with the monitor. This is
Speaker 15: pretty common. You don't have to spend a lot of
Speaker 15: money to get it. But what I mean is you
Speaker 15: want to have height adjustment, tilt adjustment, and swibbl adjustment,
Speaker 15: and the height adjustment in particular is the thing that
Speaker 15: the really cheap, inexpensive monitors are going to not have,
Speaker 15: and that tends to be a problem because then when
Speaker 15: you put on your desk, unless you are just naturally
Speaker 15: the ideal hype for that monitor, that's where you get
Speaker 15: to the situation where you have to like start stacking
Speaker 15: up books or you need to go buy one of
Speaker 15: those fifty dollars sort of desk cutch things that sort
Speaker 15: of elevate your monitor. It's usually not ideal, and again
Speaker 15: you don't have to spend much more to get the stand.
Speaker 15: It's usually one hundred and fifty dollars. On up, you
Speaker 15: can start to find monitors that have it, so I
Speaker 15: really recommend looking for that. Another thing to lug out
Speaker 15: for is USB connectivity. Okay, a lot of monitors have
Speaker 15: USB connectivity. Some of them even now have USBC connectivity
Speaker 15: where you can plug in a laptop, which I think
Speaker 15: is what most people use these days. And if your
Speaker 15: laptop has USBC and that monitor has USBC and has
Speaker 15: something called power delivery, the monitor can charge the laptop,
Speaker 15: so you may not even need to plug it in
Speaker 15: to another external power source. Really cleans up on the wire,
Speaker 15: cut the wire clutter on your desk, right, It really
Speaker 15: makes everything a lot more seamless. Also just makes it
Speaker 15: easier to sit down and connect your laptop whenever you
Speaker 15: want to. And so that's definitely something to look out
Speaker 15: for if you know, if you're someone who doesn't like
Speaker 15: to have a lot of wires around your desk.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: Okay, you've got some specific recommendations. I'll link those up
Speaker 1: through the article Dell Asus, Phillips alienware. But just real quick,
Speaker 1: we've got about a minute left. External speakers and the webcam.
Speaker 1: Do I look for one that has the speakers in
Speaker 1: webcam built in or what?
Speaker 15: Right? I recommend skipping on that and the main reason.
Speaker 15: There's two reasons. One is I have reviewed some monitors
Speaker 15: that have these features. In general, I find they are
Speaker 15: not as good as when they are external, So it's
Speaker 15: kind of you'll probably have a webcam that's not as
Speaker 15: good as it could be, speakers that are not as
Speaker 15: good as it could be. And then also the price difference.
Speaker 15: I find that for the amount that you spend extra
Speaker 15: on the monitor to get those features, you could easily
Speaker 15: buy a better set of external speakers in webcam. So
Speaker 15: generally it's better to keep them separate. Also, if when
Speaker 15: goes bad for some reason, you can just replace it.
Speaker 15: Only reason I would recommend doing that having them integrate
Speaker 15: is again, if you just really hate wire clutter on
Speaker 15: your desk and you want the most seamless setup possible,
Speaker 15: then maybe it could make sense, But otherwise I probably
Speaker 15: wouldn't go that direction.
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna leave it there. Matthew S. Smith,
Speaker 1: freelance tech journalist. The website matt on tech dot me
Speaker 1: dot me matt on tech dot me.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much.
Speaker 1: I learned a lot, so I'm sure someone else did
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I hope everyone is ready to go buy their
Speaker 15: monitor now.
Speaker 1: I know you got me excited. Thanks so much for
Speaker 1: joining me on the show today. Really appreciate it. Now
Speaker 1: I need that ultra wide thirty four inch IPS monitor.
Speaker 2: I can't wait. I will never miss a message Trump
Speaker 2: Kim again, I mark my words. All right?
Speaker 1: Coming up, we are going to do the feedback segment.
Speaker 1: That is where we will talk about your comments and
Speaker 1: your questions email to me right here on the show.
Speaker 2: My name is richdmiro. You are listening to Rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Let's talk a few more stories before we get to
Speaker 1: the feedback segment. First off, Yahoo email is getting a
Speaker 1: modern makeover with you guessed it AI powered features. Everything
Speaker 1: is getting a dose of AI.
Speaker 2: This actually looks pretty good.
Speaker 1: This is their most significant update to their email on
Speaker 1: the desktop in nearly a decade. Why did it take
Speaker 1: you so long? Yahoo Email? I think this company's bounced
Speaker 1: around a little bit. But the new design is clean,
Speaker 1: it's more intuitive. It's got this new priority inbox tab
Speaker 1: which automatically highlights your most important messages, and it's kind
Speaker 1: of neat. It provides AI generated summaries of your messages.
Speaker 1: So if someone sends you a super long message and
Speaker 1: it's got like ten questions in there, that you're supposed
Speaker 1: to answer, but they're all kind of mixed in between things.
Speaker 1: It will pull those out and say like, here's the
Speaker 1: things you need to answer from this email, So that's
Speaker 1: really smart. They've also got these things where you can
Speaker 1: take action on your email. So if there's like a
Speaker 1: packaged tracking number that's in there, or something you can
Speaker 1: add to your calendar, it creates a button that you
Speaker 1: can just press and put that in your calendar or
Speaker 1: track that package. There is a starred view. This is
Speaker 1: something that Gmail has had forever. But now you can
Speaker 1: start your most important emails and you can look at
Speaker 1: them later, and you can link other email accounts. So
Speaker 1: I guess Yahoo thinks their system is so good now
Speaker 1: you might want to use it for other email accounts
Speaker 1: like an Outlook account or a Gmail account. You can
Speaker 1: put those in there as well, and I think that
Speaker 1: means you can have multiple emails in one place as well.
Speaker 1: The new desktop experience coming to all new US users instantly.
Speaker 1: Existing users will be able to opt in over the
Speaker 1: coming months. Interesting move there, but there you go. And
Speaker 1: then if you need to renew your passport, you can
Speaker 1: do it online. The State Department has relaunched their online
Speaker 1: passport renewal service. This is limited, it's in beta, but
Speaker 1: you can do this so a limited number of travelers
Speaker 1: who meet certain criteria can renew or submit their passport
Speaker 1: for renewal daily.
Speaker 2: The system opens.
Speaker 1: Up at ten am Eastern, which I think is one
Speaker 1: pm Pacific every day for a couple of people to
Speaker 1: be able to submit their information. It's open to residents
Speaker 1: twenty five and older who already have a passport that's
Speaker 1: been a ten year passport. You cannot change any of
Speaker 1: your personal information, you can't be traveling internationally for at
Speaker 1: least at least eight weeks, and you can only apply
Speaker 1: for a regular passport.
Speaker 2: This was first announced in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: It was paused in twenty twenty three for improvements, and
Speaker 1: it sounds like the state Department has gotten back from
Speaker 1: their backlog from the pandemic. So routine applications now take
Speaker 1: six to eight weeks. Expedited services take two to three weeks.
Speaker 1: I know we got our kids passports renewed. It did
Speaker 1: take about the peak time of like eight weeks, but
Speaker 1: it did work all right. Let's get to the feedback.
Speaker 1: That's your feedback plus the mail bag. These are the emails,
Speaker 1: the comments, and the questions I get from you.
Speaker 2: If you want to submit yours, just go to the website.
Speaker 1: Rich on tech dot tv hit contact got an email
Speaker 1: that's asking about this DJI drone ban, and this was
Speaker 1: news to me. I didn't realize that there was a
Speaker 1: bill percolating about these drones. Inside this bill, there's a
Speaker 1: small part that stops the drone company out of China
Speaker 1: from using certain radio frequencies. This would make it hard
Speaker 1: for DGI to sell new drones in the US, and
Speaker 1: could even stop people from using the DJI drones they
Speaker 1: already own. Nothing has changed as of right now, so
Speaker 1: don't be alarmed. You can still use your DGI drone,
Speaker 1: which is all I mean. They're noticed some of the
Speaker 1: best drones out there. The bill needs to pass the
Speaker 1: Senate and then be signed by the President before it
Speaker 1: becomes law. If it does become a law, DJI and
Speaker 1: even the public might try to challenge it in court
Speaker 1: because those drones are very popular, and it's surprising to
Speaker 1: me that they are trying to ban those.
Speaker 2: But we've seen that happen before. Let's see.
Speaker 1: Mary writes in Rich, would you be able to research
Speaker 1: watches that monitor blood sugar. I would really appreciate it. It
Speaker 1: would help a lot of folks with diabetes. Thank you, Mary,
Speaker 1: one of your fans. Mary, there is no smart watch
Speaker 1: that can directly monitor blood sugar levels. The FDA has
Speaker 1: issued a safety communication advising against using any smart watch
Speaker 1: or smart wing, smart ring to measure blood glucose levels. However,
Speaker 1: if you get that dex Com G seven last week,
Speaker 1: I mentioned that it does directly connect to the Apple Watch,
Speaker 1: so that's your best bet right now. But there's an
Speaker 1: FDA warning that says do not buy a watch or
Speaker 1: ring that says it can monitor your blood glue close directly.
Speaker 2: It cannot do that.
Speaker 1: There is no technology right now that's been approved in
Speaker 1: a big way that can do that. It might exist,
Speaker 1: but right now I know a lot of companies are
Speaker 1: working on that because that's kind of the holy grail
Speaker 1: for people living with diabetes. Thanks for the question, Mary
Speaker 1: Nora writes in I've been watching you on Channel five
Speaker 1: for a long time.
Speaker 2: I appreciate the information.
Speaker 1: Not too long ago you mentioned a kid smart watch
Speaker 1: that doesn't need an iPhone for it to work.
Speaker 2: I want to get one for my grandson. He's only ten.
Speaker 1: He doesn't need a phone, it'd be nice for us
Speaker 1: to communicate with him. Thanks for your response. Yes you
Speaker 1: want the fitbit ace lte. My kid has been testing it.
Speaker 1: We absolutely love this. I think Google nailed it. The
Speaker 1: thing to know is that it does not get assigned
Speaker 1: a traditional phone number. Anyone who wants to communicate with
Speaker 1: this device you can add up to twenty people. I
Speaker 1: believe has to communicate through an app, but it does
Speaker 1: have its own cellular connection and it works really well.
Speaker 1: My kid absolutely loves it. So fitbit ace lte. It's
Speaker 1: two hundred thirty dollars.
Speaker 2: David from Chicago rights in. Hey, Rich, I enjoy your show.
Speaker 2: You're doing a great job.
Speaker 1: I listened to get the latest tech vibe for my
Speaker 1: podcast in Touch with iOS.
Speaker 2: Oh there you go. You just got a plug for
Speaker 2: your podcast.
Speaker 1: I've been using Credit Karma to monitor my credit report
Speaker 1: for years. It's free. It includes TransUnion and Equifax. I
Speaker 1: also use the Experience app, which lets you check that
Speaker 1: report for free. Both services send emails with any updates. Yes,
Speaker 1: Credit Karma, that's what Mint is, that's what's replacing Mint.
Speaker 1: I think they sell you. They try to sell you
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff, so just be careful with that one.
Speaker 1: I like my wallet hub. I don't think they try
Speaker 1: to sell you as much. Let's see here we got
Speaker 1: two more. These are compliments. Howard from Westlake Village rights in.
Speaker 1: I do appreciate your radio program and find you present
Speaker 1: a great deal of practical info. My wife had a
Speaker 1: problem with her computer and one of your callers had
Speaker 1: the same problem, which you solved. I took his solution
Speaker 1: and became in quotes King four a day. Thank you
Speaker 1: for what you do, Howard Howard, that makes my day.
Speaker 1: Frank from Hemmett writes in just a little thought, it's
Speaker 1: so ironic how I watch you. I started to watch
Speaker 1: you on KTLA five on TV. I'm watching on TV
Speaker 1: from an antenna. Now I find myself listening to your
Speaker 1: radio show on six forty I and AM radio station.
Speaker 1: Both of these are ancient tech and I'm learning about
Speaker 1: the latest tech through them. It goes to show that
Speaker 1: although there are better ways of doing things, you don't
Speaker 1: disregard the rest. Thank you for the entertainment and information
Speaker 1: your passion for tech shines through double made my day.
Speaker 1: Frank from Hemmett, thanks for that comment. That's gonna do
Speaker 1: it for this episode. You can find everything I talk
Speaker 1: about on the website Rich on tech dot TV. Thanks
Speaker 1: for listening. There are so many ways you can spend
Speaker 1: your time. I really do appreciate you spending it right
Speaker 1: here with me. Thanks to Adam for filling in today
Speaker 1: for Bobo Kim on phones.
Speaker 2: My name is rich Demiro. I'll talk to you real soon.