Welcome to In The News for May 16th, 2025.

I am Brett Burney from appsinlaw.com.

And this is Jeff Richardson from iPhoneJD.

Brett, you know, I always love these podcasts because I like to play this game that I call

Where In The World is Brett Burney.

Last week here in Chicago, you have meetings everywhere.

You're in meetings in Puerto Rico right now, which is exciting.

I've never been to Puerto Rico before.

I am indeed in Puerto Rico, San Juan.

I tell you, the flight was nice and comfortable, except like there's just nothing to look at

except water, you know, when you're going over here.

But it's very nice.

We're at a resort.

We're actually with the Law Practice Division of the American Bar Association talking already

about next year's ABA Tech Show conference that you and I go to.

And yeah, it's been nice, except for the fact that the first day I got here, the sun was

out.

Beautiful.

I got to look at the beach.

I didn't go to the beach because I'm like, well, there's got to be time for me to go to

the beach later.

And of course, the last two days, it has been raining the entire time.

Clouds everywhere.

So, okay, you know, I guess I'll sit at the bar and have a mojito or something.

I don't know what's going to happen, but it's very fun.

You know, last week I was in Chicago and you, you mentioned the fact that, hey, say hello

to the Pope.

If you see him, happen to see him, didn't get to see him.

But I did enjoy seeing the first story that you talked about this morning, Jeff.

Like, not only do we enjoy the Apple Watch, apparently the brand new Pope enjoys the Apple

Watch as well.

You had a leak to his story here from nine to five Mac.

The newly elected Pope wears the Apple Watch on his first official mass.

Just thrilled to see Apple getting blessed, I guess, you know, from the very beginning

here.

There's been all sorts of interesting stories about him, you know, first American Pope,

you know, man of the people, you know, from Chicago, roots for the White Sox.

But it's funny that he apparently is a tech person, you know, wears an Apple Watch, presumably

uses an iPhone, you know, a link to a story that his brother was being interviewed by the

AP.

The Pope actually called him and I thought it was funny that his brother had what it

looked like.

It was an iPad mini, but he was using it as a phone.

And I've seen some people do that, especially older people, because it can be a little,

everything's a little bit bigger and stuff.

I say that as if I don't prefer things bigger as well.

And that was sort of interesting.

But anyway, it was just sort of a silly transition into the one of the big, gosh, quite a few

stories this week from Apple.

But one of the big ones, of course, was, you know, the new carplay.

Goodness.

Yeah, I know.

And which I loved your little transition from the Pope into carplay is like the Pope mobile

of peace.

Because Francis, you know, donated his Pope mobile.

And then you wondered, which was such again, a nice segue, maybe the new Pope mobile could

have carplay because as you mentioned, the new Pope has an Apple watch.

That means certainly he has an iPhone.

Why not also have carplay in his brand new Pope mobile?

That could happen.

Well, you know, and it ties in good timing, right?

Because what you're talking about in reference is the fact that carplay ultra just came out

from Apple this past week, too.

Yeah.

Carplay ultra has been a long time coming.

Apple announced a number of years ago that it was going to have what it called the next

generation of carplay.

In fact, Apple said that it would be in cars in the year 2024.

That did not happen since we're here.

Spoiler alert is now the year 25.

But right.

One of the one of the rumors that we heard about the delay was that Apple had the technology

ready to go and just a pause for a second.

The technology being that carplay would number one, it would extend to the multiple screens

that modern cars and number two, it would be able to integrate with the car to display

things like how fast you're going, what your car tire pressure is, control the climate,

AC and heating in the car, that sort of stuff.

But so that's been in the works for a long time.

But one of the rumors was that some car manufacturers didn't like the idea of letting Apple take

over the entire look of the screens because the screens are a big part of the car.

That's why famously companies like Tesla and stuff would never even support carplay in

the first place.

First place.

Support it.

Right.

On the joke about the Pope Mobile, I said that the rumors that it's going to be a Mercedes

Benz class, but Mercedes Benz is one of the companies that famously pushed back, according

to the rumors, pushed back.

They have carplay.

They're definitely in board with carplay, but they pushed back a little bit on the next

generation carplay, which we now know is called carplay ultra, because they wanted, for example,

the dash to reflect their style.

And they didn't want to have just some generic Apple designed, every car is going to look

the same because they're all going to have that carplay interface with this sort of that

modern colorful look that we all know for carplay.

And so my sense is that behind the scenes, Apple has been talking to car manufacturers

and sort of regrouping and said, okay, we're going to change next generation carplay.

And so it can actually reflect your personality and style.

And what we've now seen from the first one, which is Aston Martin, which of course is

a very stylish and expensive car, sure enough, the screens that they have, many of them reflect

sort of that unique Aston Martin style, not a car person, but like that sort of deep green

and you know, the design and Great Britain and all this sort of stuff.

And so it's something that would only, it would only look like this on this car.

And it would look different on other cars.

Now I'm sure there will be some generic screens that you could optionally choose to use on

like your dashboard, for example, that would be the same no matter what car you're in.

And some people may opt to do that.

But my guess is that they took additional time in part for this personalization and

in part to work with car manufacturers and get them on board.

And so it's going to be a big question for me.

Apple has announced a few people that are supposed to be coming out with this, but way

back when years ago, they had a big long list of people that currently supported carplay

and we expect to support the next version of it.

That list is now, you know, Apple is being a little more close to the vest.

I think negotiations are still ongoing.

But my hope is I love carplay.

My hope is that, you know, most vehicles will get on board, you know, famously some companies

like GM don't want to do carplay because they prefer to have their own system where they

can upsell you for things and stuff like that.

But my hope is that most cars that we want are going to be available with carplay ultra

because to get to the next part, carplay ultra looks really cool.

And we have seen some still images for years now of what it might look like.

But one of the favorite things that I linked to this morning was this hands on review from

Top Gear, which is a BBC thing.

And they have a guy who was actually an I apologize, I don't remember his name, but

he was he actually was in like an Aston Martin.

My understanding is that current Aston Martins that people own today, people with a lot of

money on today, they're going to have a software update within weeks that's going to allow

you to use carplay ultra.

So there will be people driving around with this like within a month, which is really

cool.

You know, obviously a number of people.

So this is ready to go.

And the video that he showed up here is really neat because, you know, you've got your regular

carplay screen.

It's a little bit wider than the ones that we're used to.

And that's nice.

But that looks the way that you would expect it to look.

And then you have the carplay screen, the second screen, which is where your dashboard

is.

And it's really interesting.

It completely replaces like the odometer and all the other, you know, motors that are

there, you know, you can display all sorts of information.

You can have like different tiles, like you can have like, you know, your speed on one

side and your RPMs in the middle, you can choose what goes in the middle.

Do you want the map?

Do you want to see what you're listening to?

Like what your music is?

Do you want to see your car tire pressure?

You know, you can sort of opt for those different things.

Or you could have like a complete full screen.

It's this really cool one.

Like for example, with maps, the map goes the entire length.

It's a huge long map.

And then at the bottom, it still tells you as it must, here's how fast you're going.

There's how much gasoline you have left, or if it's an EV or coal, what your battery

is, you know, those, that information is still there, but it looks really cool.

So that, that's neat.

And then the other thing that I thought was cool, Brett, is on the, well, you know, the

more traditional carplay screen, you know, that thing we all know about that's sort of

in the middle of the car.

It's not only does it have these new apps, because it can have like an app to control

things like your car temperature and like a radio, if you want to listen to the radio

or things like that.

So you can actually control some car features that in the past, you would have to use,

the car's own app and do everything from within there or, or maybe even get out of carplay

completely.

Now that can be all really integrated, which is nice.

But also they showed this cool feature of called widgets.

And I don't know if you saw this part of the video, Brett, but as soon as I saw this,

I'm like, Oh, I know what this is.

This is standby.

This is standby mode.

I'm literally looking at it on my iPhone right now, where you can have standby mode.

And one of the modes of standby is the widget mode where your iPhone is like sitting there

on like a MagSafe and you can have two panes, one on the left, one on the right.

And you can decide like a clock on the left.

You're showing it right there.

A clock on the left and the weather on the right or my calendar, my upcoming events on

the left and, and the music I'm listening to on the right.

And you decide, so this exact same time, it just shows you Apple does this.

They come out with something for one product and you think, Oh, that's really cool for that

product.

But behind the scenes, Apple is thinking of how can we take this and use this on different,

you know, to take it from the iPhone to the Mac to the Apple watch to the, to the whatever,

you know, to the car.

And so that's, this is really cool.

So it means that Apple knows this.

They've got this technology down and it's going to be familiar and comfortable to many

companies because we've already done stuff like this.

We know widgets.

So I'm just super excited about this.

I, I now I want a new car.

I want a new car.

I will not be buying an asset tomorrow.

I don't know how to talk to my wife about that.

I'm not sure if I can support that.

I'm excited about this.

And again, car plays move slowly cause car, but maybe my next car will have it or certainly

the one after that.

And I'm excited.

First question that I had, I don't remember hearing the car play ultra branding before

now brand new.

Yeah.

That was okay.

Well, I know we've talked about, I guess I felt like it's always been called car play

version two or like the next version, right?

And so I was a little surprised because I think the only other brand that that matches

is the Apple watch, right?

The Apple watch ultra and the car play ultra.

I just, I had never heard the ultra moniker kind of apply to this before, but like you

said, it was brand new.

So that's why.

Are there chips too?

Like, you know, like the M two, the M two, I think there's an ultra version that combined

pro and max.

Oh, maybe that's not what I forget.

But yeah, you're right.

It is.

And it's something, and that name, you know, has been kept quiet all this time.

You know that they've been talking about it.

And yet it has.

Right.

I mean, when Apple announced this yesterday, this was the first time that we did ultra.

I had heard no leaks that it was coming to the Aston Martin.

No leaks.

It was coming.

Yeah, that was all new as well.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They have the M four, M four pro and the M four max.

So I don't know if that's what you were thinking or not.

But go back to the M one or the M two.

Some of the older versions are going to be harder to find.

I don't even know where to find that anymore.

But yeah, okay.

Yeah, they, they, it's possible they may have.

But I guess, I guess just from that aspect of like, first of all, I'm like carplay ultra.

Like, is this brand new?

But I, you know, it makes sense and they can brand it what they want to on that.

And then the second thing, just as I was listening to you and looking at some of these pictures,

which are great in this little press release that they have there, it is exactly what I

would love to have for my car.

I've been saying this for a long time.

It's like, I just want car makers, car manufacturers to produce a fantastic shell.

And then my iPhone will power all of, because right now everything is electronic anyway

already.

So it's like just the iPhone needs to be plugged into my car's onboard computer to show me

the oil level and the heat and the, in the tire pressure and all that kind of stuff.

But I want to be able to customize the way it looks.

Because right now the way it happens is I've got my carplay, my carplay window in the middle,

right?

And I just, when I've ever run playing from my iPhone, like, you know, from Spotify or

Apple Music.

Right.

And then the car manufacturers try to give me the ability to see that in front of me.

They give some kind of ridiculous, primitive looking listing of like, hey, you're listening

to carplay.

I'm like, I know I'm listening to carplay music.

I don't need you to tell me again.

Like I just want everything to be in a nice package that I can customize.

I mean, just even one of these, these shots down here where it shows like the Apple Music,

you know, like the cover art of what I'm playing.

Plus the fact that I can do all of this.

And then the last thing quickly, I'll just tell you, this must have been maybe a year

and a half ago, I think I reported this on the podcast.

I had a rental car.

I think it was a Chrysler.

So this is before carplay ultra, but it did exactly what you described as far as having

the map.

It like the entire dash was a complete screen in front of me, right?

So I did have the Apple CarPlay screen on the middle console.

And then the only option that I had was to have the entire map, you know, stretched out

across the entire screen.

But it was amazing, Jeff.

I loved it because they didn't have to glance over to my right to look at the screen in

my carplay.

I had the map, the entire map in front of me.

And just like you said at the bottom, it had like my speed and my odometer and everything

else that I needed, you know, the information there.

But I absolutely loved that.

And I don't know what Chrysler had done with this specific model.

I can't remember what the model is.

My son would remember we were together on this and we were just geeking out over this,

Jeff.

But like that was one of the first times that I have ever experienced that.

And it's like ever since then, I've just wanted to go back into that.

Now that didn't give me the ability to kind of customize, you know, the speedometer and

everything like that.

But just having the capability to see a much bigger specter of the map was amazing in and

of itself.

And I'm like, let's get there.

Let's get there as soon as possible.

You mentioned design and this is something that's always really just sort of made me

curious.

Cars historically have been a design playground.

I mean, right?

You think of like so bad.

Cars look like on the outside.

Well, this thing on the outside of cars, you know, classic cars, you know, with, you know,

whether you like them or not, but they have, you know, the Volkswagen Beetle and the sports

cars and Lamborghini, you know, cars from the outside.

That's the reason that so many people are car people because from the outside, they have

the ability to look amazing and historic.

I mean, you think of the fins and the sixties and everything else, you know, the design

of car has been amazing.

And yet the screens like on my Honda, I mean, I just have a Honda Accord.

But when I switch from carplay to the regular screen on my Honda Accord, it's like going

back to DOS from wind.

I mean, it's ridiculous.

It's these hard monochrome.

Clearly, clearly you employ people that know something about design.

Did you just not consult them when it came to your menu?

Just do the outside.

Yeah.

When you switch from the carplay to the built in menus, it's like, oh, mama, this is bad.

And so I thought it was interesting that in that interview from Takir, he represents he

interviews somebody with Aston Martin that's like their head design guy.

And he's really asks the obvious question of, you know, aren't you a little worried about

giving, you know, design is so important to your company and you have such a history

of it.

Do you worry about like giving that up to Apple?

And the guy says, you know, his answer is basically on the one hand, we did work with

Apple.

That's the whole point of this new carplay ultra design things for us.

But number two, he looks at him and he's like, we're talking about designers for Apple.

Like these guys are good.

You know, they are the top of their field.

And I wish that more car manufacturers recognize that is don't necessarily seed everything,

but recognize that the Apple and Apple, they do know what they're doing when it comes to

design.

And so they may have something to contribute to this discussion.

And it's not necessarily a bad thing.

Plus, there's all the obvious things that you and I know that carplay is nice because

it can be updated every time your iPad updates, your iPhone updates.

Exactly.

The car's interface never changes after you buy the car.

Even if you use the car for three, five, 10 years, who knows how long you have a car.

So isn't it so much nicer that you can have the ability to improve the.

So anyway, I'm excited.

I love carplay.

I'm excited about carplay.

Yeah.

I want to say one more just quickly, like in carplay already right now, like when my

wife gets in and plugs her phone in or connects her phone, she's got like a different background,

a picture and all the apps that she uses.

When I get in, I get to have all the apps that I want.

And I like a lighter mode and some, you know, my kids like a different screen in the back.

It's like, it's, it's almost like I just want that shell of a car.

And like you said, beautifully designed on the outside, but when it comes to the inside,

which is what I'm going to be staring at for the, you know, for the hours that I might

be on the road, then I want to be able to customize that.

And I want my wife to be able to do and my daughter to be able to drive what she wants

to drive.

Anyway, I feel like it's coming.

It's just, you're right.

Apple has to continue to do work with the car manufacturers.

And I don't want to put blame all in their lap.

I understand where they're coming from.

I do.

You don't want to give that up.

That is you have eyeballs for hours a day, right?

Of people that are sitting in your car and I understand you don't want to give that up.

But I love that.

I didn't get to get to watch that part of that video, but that's, that's it.

It's like, they get it.

They're like, ask them, are like, we know what cars look like.

We can design even a beautiful leather covered dashboard, but we can't, we're not good at

designing the actual interface.

And of course, Apple has years on that.

So I'm just glad you reported on that.

I'm thrilled that we went from the Pope's Apple watch all the way to carplay ultra.

That's a beautiful segue on there as well.

But that's not all that Apple announced this past week.

This is what I actually heard a whole lot more about because, you know, while the carplay

ultra only affects those people that may already have like a brand new Aston Martin within

the last two months or so, Apple announced a slew of accessibility features.

And we are obviously big fans.

We've talked about all the accessibility ability features that Apple keeps coming out with.

Now the reason that they did this, because one of the questions that a lot of us have

is why is Apple announcing all these things, you know, when we're like, what, two, three

weeks away from the WWDC keynote address, which is typically where they would announce

some of these things.

Well, I can't answer that question about carplay ultra.

Maybe you can.

But I can't answer the question.

This was most recently the, what is it, the global accessibility day, right?

It's GAD.

G-A-A-D.

I can't remember exactly what it means, but Apple has done this in the past, right?

They've released things, the new features in conjunction with this global accessibility

day.

And it's just this one, man, there's some great features in here.

Apple has been fantastic.

I mean, love or hate Apple.

There's a lot of things that Apple is not getting a lot of good press on right now when

it comes to develop relations and app store and stuff.

But one thing that the company has always been good for, besides most of its design

decisions as we just discussed, is accessibility.

They have gone above and beyond in making their devices accessible.

You know, I always remember, you know, years ago, people I've encountered in life that

have, you know, serious limitations on vision and hearing and stuff like that.

And they're able to use their Apple devices.

And I'm amazed when I see it.

And I love it.

Plus, as you and I talk about all the time, accessibility features work for everybody.

And so many of us find them that we want to use them, though maybe it was designed for

somebody that's completely blind or deaf, but we can all use it or has mobility issues.

So for global accessibility awareness day for the past, I forget how many years now,

five years now, Apple has taken those announcements, as you said, that they would normally announce

at WWDC and they've announced them earlier on the day.

And it's a great way to sort of give them space to shine and let us think about them.

And there's so many of them here.

I won't go through all of them in the nutrition labels.

Yeah.

I particularly like the magnification things, though.

And this one's just personal.

Oh, yes.

I'll tell you, Brett, my vision's not, you know, even with my corrected vision on my

glasses, I think my corrected vision is like maybe 2050 in my right eye, which is my best

eye, which means that, you know, it would normal people can see 20 feet away or what

normal people can see 50 feet away.

I have to get 20 feet away to see it the same.

And so if I'm just, you know, you know, looking at the CLE PowerPoint or I'm in a restaurant,

and I'm looking up at the menu items at like a fast food restaurant, I have some difficulty

seeing it.

I'm certainly not blind or anything like that.

But these sorts of things that like I would love a future where my apple glasses have this

built-in ability that I could just press something and have it zoom in on something.

Because what I do now is I will often with my iPhone take a picture of something and

then just zoom in on it.

I do this at CLEs, for example, all the time is there's something on the PowerPoint slide

in and I can't quite read it all because people do a poor job of having small type and slides,

which is a whole nother issue.

But anyway, but I'll take a picture of it and then I can read it.

In fact, what I'll often do is take a picture with my iPhone, move it over into my iPad

where I'm taking notes.

And then maybe I'll even include the picture as a part of my notes if it's something I

want to remember in the future, but also it's easier to read.

And so this new magnifier feature, there's two different ways.

One version is if you're using your lap, your Apple Mac laptop in a classroom, you can just

connect your iPhone to it using the same connections that they use for continuity camera if you're

using it as like an external webcam.

But you just have the iPhone pointed the opposite direction at the board or whatever

and you can zoom in and not just make things bigger.

But if it helps your eye, you can even adjust it.

You can straighten it, of course, you could adjust the colors so that if you read some

certain colors based upon your eyes, that others.

So like this is just a really cool feature.

People had all of the pieces to do this, but they put it all together into this feature

and I just think it's really, really cool.

So that was one of them.

I'll go on and talk about some other ones too, but anything that you want to say about

those before I move on?

Just first of all, a lot of people don't even know first that there is a magnifier app on

the iPhone.

And this is so I think you addressed this.

I mean, the announcement is that the magnifier app came to the Mac.

But first, I just want to quickly say the magnifier app on the iPhone and the iPad is

really fantastic.

And a lot of people say, well, why do I need that?

I'll just go into the camera and I'll just do the zoom.

But I don't know what additional technology they threw into this magnifier app, Jeff, but

I have used this many times if I need to get even closer to something, like especially

if I need to like take a picture of a label on like a hot water heater or something like

that.

I've used this app many times to get really straight in or if it's some even today, I

don't think I'm quite as bad as you on the on the on the eyesight, but I'm getting there.

But you know, there's like some little tiny bottle and I need to read the text.

Instead of trying to squint and like get the light right and everything, I'll just take

a picture of it with the magnifier app and then I can zoom in.

I can do some of that with a camera app, but that's not where the magnifier app stops.

You can do the detect mode, which is great.

You know, I use this when I do presentations on AI because I'm like, you already have AI

built into your you're holding it in your hand because if you'd go into the detect mode

in the magnifier app and you point it at something, it will tell you what it's looking at.

Like it knows if it's a cat sleeping on the ground or if it's a table in a chair.

Now obviously that's not meant for folks like me.

It's meant for folks that may have some ability, you know, compromised ability to see or understand

what's in front of them or so.

But I use that a lot, you know, just to show people like that's already built in and there's

many other things that you can do within the magnifier app as well.

But the story that you're talking about here, and it's a great little video that you put

at the bottom of your post as well, is the fact that you can use the magnifier app on

your Mac, but in conjunction with the iPhone.

And I just think it's great.

And if that doesn't really make a lot of sense to you, this little video that you posted,

it's just fantastic.

I mean, I'm just smiling the whole time that I'm watching this little video because she's

in a class similar to what you were just talking about.

And she's, you know, sitting way up in the top.

But there's like little writing on the chalkboard, I think is what it looks.

You know, I don't know why the professor is using a chalkboard, but be that as it may.

But she's able to zoom in and not just like capture that information so that she can see

it up close because obviously she's hard of seeing, hard of sight.

But she can also like skew it correctly and she can make it bigger and put it on a different

colored background so that she can see it.

Just a brilliant, brilliant way to look at that.

I'll make sure that that video link is in the show notes.

So let's go from sight to sound.

Okay.

Okay, good.

There's two things that we can say again, two features that currently exist that Apple

has enhanced.

And you may or may not know about them.

One of them is live captions and one of them is live listen.

Live listen is a neat feature.

Okay.

A couple of years ago where let's just take the classroom environment since we're there.

Imagine you're sitting back in the classroom and you would just have difficulty hearing

the professor.

Obviously they're not using like a speaker system or something like that.

And so you just couldn't hear it because your hair is not good.

One of the things that you can do now is you can take your iPhone and you don't ask the

professor if it's okay and just put that iPhone close to where the professor is speaking

or whoever else is speaking.

And then with your AirPods, it will basically enhance it.

It's not just that it makes it louder, although it does that too, but it can also reduce some

of the surrounding noise and concentrate on the voice.

Yeah, amazing.

So that just makes you easier to hear the voice.

And it's a really cool feature.

That's live listen.

Live captions is another currently available feature on the iPhone that provides you with

this real time transcription.

And if you turn it on through accessibility and then like you just let's maybe put your

iPhone close to someone speaking or hand it to them so that the speaker on your iPhone

is there, but that you can see it, it will, as they're talking, it will in real time transcribe

the words of what they're saying.

So it's really cool.

And so that way, even if you couldn't hear them in real time, you could keep up with

what they're saying just by reading the words.

And so one of the, they've done lots of enhancements to this.

For example, one of the enhancements on live captions is that you can now have it on your

Apple watch as well.

So in that example that I just had, where if somebody has the iPhone closer to them so

that you couldn't see the screen, I could just look down at my Apple watch and the words

will show up on my Apple watch as they're showing up on the iPhone, which is really, really

cool.

So I'm looking forward to a future where, I mean, you talk about how Apple takes pieces

and then puts them all together.

We're so close.

And I think there's even some third party stuff that does this now, but like, I think

it would be cool to have a day in which through my AirPods, I have a conversation with someone

in a different language.

There was this thing called the, in the Douglas Adams Hitchhiker Guide to the Galaxy, there

was this thing called the Babel Fish, where like you put this little fish in your ear and

the idea is the fish can translate and it was in, letting me have his books.

But the idea would be that someone else could speak Russian or Chinese or Spanish.

And number one, the iPhone would transcribe what they're doing, which we already have

right now.

That's live captions.

And then we would translate the live captions from whatever their language is into English,

which again, many apps can do this right now.

And then it would speak those in real time.

And it would be just like the people that are in the UN, where one person is speaking in

French and someone has a little thing and they've got like real people that are in real

time, you know, re-saying it so that they can hear it in their language.

But you know, if we had this and we're so close to it, and there are some third parties

that already do it now, but just to have this all built in, which is literally, it's just

one more step from what Apple is now announcing.

I mean, Apple is announcing this in terms of the accessibility standpoint.

This would just be sort of a universality.

I mean, you could, you could travel the world or talk to other people that even in your

right locality speak different languages and you could have conversations and we're just

so close to this being built into everything.

And it's just the natural extension.

So that's really exciting.

The next thing I was going to talk about was the bringing plan.

Before I go there, go ahead.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm just going to say like, I don't think that you put this a link in this, but this

past week, iOS 18.5 did come out.

In fact, I think I just updated all of my devices.

Do you need to update to 18.5 in order to get access to some of these accessibility features?

Do you know?

Actually, I don't think any features are out now.

I think this is all going to be iOS 19.

Oh, they're got you.

Okay.

And Apple doesn't say that explicitly in the press release because they haven't announced

it yet.

Yeah.

We know what we know.

There's going to be a next iOS.

We know it's going to likely be called iOS 19, but they just haven't said that yet.

So that's why they're a little peachy.

They say things like coming this coming later this year, but we know right that in September,

presumably when iOS 19 presumably comes out, it's going to be in there.

And so that's why these are things that in the past, they would have announced at WWDC

when they actually announced the next iOS, but they're just giving us a couple, you know,

a month preview today.

So that's when, so I don't think any of this that's announced is available right now.

The last thing I was going to mention, if you're up for it, is this brain implant that

the Wall Street Journal talks about that.

Oh my goodness.

You know, they have this example of this guy who has ALS, which you know is basically

paralyzing, you know, many people with ALS can't control anything except maybe their

eyes, but they already today have these really cool systems that I've seen.

Like, you know, Steve Gleeson, a former player for the New Orleans Saints is a very big ambassador

for ALS and stuff.

And he has these computer screens in front of him on his wheelchair that he can with

his eye, he can, it's slow, but he can select words and letters and then he can use that

to speak so that just using his eyes, he can communicate with the outside world, which

is cool.

And what Apple has, you know, another way to do that instead of using your eyes is,

and this is just so futuristic, you actually implant something in your brain.

And there's this company that Apple is working with, which has done this and they've had some

success in the labs where they put something in your brain and it reads your brain waves

and based upon your brain waves, you are controlling like an input device or whatever.

And so what they have an example here is they have this guy who is in Pittsburgh or something

like that, Philly, that, you know, he has ALS.

So he can't travel, you know, it's it's it would be difficult.

It would be unrealistic for him to travel the world.

And yet somebody can put an Apple vision pro on him, which as you know, from trying mine

out a few weeks ago in Chicago, you suddenly you're, you know, on the Alps of Switzerland

or suddenly you're underwater, you can be wherever you are.

And he's controlling what he does just by his brain waves.

And I'm like, oh my goodness, this is just, oh, I don't even know what to say.

Well, that is definitely amazing and equally amazing.

Well, perhaps not quite because while this thing about find my on an Apple watch may not

be quite as life saving or life amazing as what we were just talking about here.

This was a great article.

Glenn Fleischman writing for six colors talked about how to locate an Apple watch and I guess

some other devices.

If they're not connected to your cellular network or a Wi-Fi, how does that work?

I have wondered the same question and I'm glad that Glenn answered it for us today.

Yeah.

And what's great is that the answer is so detailed.

Glenn Fleischman recently became a member of the staff of six colors and for years,

like a decade at Macworld, he'd been doing this, you know, question and answer column.

And so the question is a simple one that he's answering.

If you have an Apple watch that doesn't have cellular, can it update find my because, you

know, I actually pay for the one that does have cellular, which means that no matter

where I am, regardless of whether my iPhone's with me, it knows where I am.

If I, if I fall on, I can't get up, I can call 911 and it can tell them where I am and

stuff and that's really good.

But what if you don't have cellular?

How does it do that?

And Glenn in his typical, you know, fashion, he's always so detail oriented.

He, you know, to answer the question of how it works, you actually have to look back at

all the different ways that find my can work for all sorts of devices, not just the Apple

watch, but also things like air tags and stuff like that.

Right.

So it's a really interesting article.

If you're interested in fine mind, and I think fine mind is such a great technology.

I love that Apple has it.

I think it's worth checking out.

And let me just to give you some of the highlights, he points out that if your Apple watch can

access Wi-Fi, which you can do because any Wi-Fi network that your iPhone knows how to

access to, it shares that to the Apple watch.

And so even if your iPhone's not with you, if you suddenly walk in your home, when you

walk in your office where it already knows to get on that Wi-Fi, including with passwords,

then Wi-Fi, it's not GPS, but because it knows where the Wi-Fi router is more or less in

the world, it can give you sort of an approximation of where you are in the world.

And so that's why as long as you are within Wi-Fi, your Apple watch can do a pretty good

job of figuring out where you are and then updating the fine mind servers.

But there's other things too, because an Apple watch like an air tag can just sort of use

its Bluetooth to sort of broadcast quietly to the world so that if you just left your

watch someplace or something like that, or if it was on your wrist, but not connected

to either Wi-Fi or cellular, if somebody else has like an iPhone, for example, that passes

within distance, all iPhones are constantly listening to the world around them.

And if they pick up a device like an air tag or another iPhone or a Mac or an Apple watch,

they, for privacy concerns, they don't know what the device is, but they know the very

unique identifier associated with it.

And that gets updated to an Apple server that says device number 1265127 was in this

location at this time.

And so when you later then go to say, where is my air tag?

It says, oh, well, that air tag that's associated with number such and such.

And it was last seen in this location.

And so that's a neat service that you can use.

I mean, even with like AirPods and stuff like that, you know, if I leave my AirPods in my

office and I can't remember where they are, somebody like even the older versions of AirPods,

if somebody else happened to walk by it or something like that, you could figure out where

it was.

I always think it's interesting that I have an air tag in my car.

I don't know if you have that too.

And so, you know, the air tag doesn't communicate with the outside world, but I'm amazed that

I can always find exactly where my car is because just, you know, living in a city, someone

with an iPhone is going to be walking somewhere in the vicinity of my car every couple of

minutes, unless I'm parked in the middle of a, of an open field somewhere or something

like that.

And so it's, it's neat how it works.

So the article, you know, he answers the question of how the Apple watch can figure out where

it is, but it's interesting because he talks about all the different ways that Find My

can work to, to, you know, share locations that you can find things, whether you're looking

for your luggage, your air tag, your car, what have you.

Need stuff.

Obviously I enjoyed reading the article because I can geek out on it, but at the end of the

article, I'm just like, I'm glad it just works.

I don't have to understand it.

That's the great part.

But it's just amazing that it continues to work the way that it does.

And thank you, Glenn Fleischman, for covering that.

Let's move to the iPad just for a second.

A great article that you link to.

Ten very useful things you probably didn't know that spotlight on the iPad can do.

Spotlight you might say, what in the world is that?

Well, if you've been using a Mac for any time period, you know, spotlight is sort of like

the, the, um, all general search tool that we have for searching everything on the Mac.

And that is available on the iPad.

And I use this a lot because it's not just searching, right?

I have always used it on the Mac to launch apps instead of going to the applications

folder and everything.

And I'm just going to guess, I think that's one of the 10 items in here that this is from

iPad productivity, right?

By Matt, uh, that puts, uh, that, that one of those items might be that you can launch

apps from there.

But oh my goodness, there's so much more.

Some of these, I'm just like, this is amazing.

Yeah.

In fact, if you have a Mac, you can do a lot of these things on spotlight and a Mac

too.

You know, if you have an iPad, if you put your finger in the middle of the screen and

sort of swipe down, you bring up that little bar.

Or if you have a keyboard attached, you can do, I think, I think it's a command space

is this command space.

Yes, sir.

And then it brings it up.

And of course you could search for, you know, items like a find, but I use it as a launch,

as a launcher too.

So I don't feel like going to screen to launch Safari.

I just hit command space.

And then I start to type SAF.

And once I see Safari, I hit return and it launches Safari, which is great.

But he points out, there's lots of things you can even do in here.

Like you can ask it to do currencies.

I mean, you can just say something like, you know, I see the dollars.

And it will give you the translation.

You can have it do some math without even opening up the calculator app.

You can launch that up, you know, find photos by describing them.

And it can even link to some of the answers that Siri might give you, like, you know,

definition of a word or, you know, simple Wikipedia answers.

And so this is a useful list to look through that there's a whole lot here that you may

not have been thinking about that you can do just by using the feature.

And you know, by the way, I'm talking about using the iPad.

But of course, on the iPhone as well, you can also pull down and swipe.

And I guess I'm testing right now.

I was just going to ask.

I think some of these same things would also work with the iPad.

If I do, you know, two times, you know, three and hit return.

Yeah.

So if I just bit two and then the asterix and then three, it tells me two times three

six.

I was trying it out too.

Yeah.

So it's again, whether it's more or less convenient, I don't know.

But just keep in mind, you don't necessarily have to, you know, a lot of stuff can happen

right then and there, right in.

Find, right.

Yeah.

I'm glad you mentioned that because I know this is from a site called iPad productivity.

So obviously the focus is on the iPad there.

But that little, you know, I always tap in fact now at the very bottom of your iPhone

screen, it used to be just dots.

And sometimes it will go to dots because that's how you can swipe back and forth to your home

screens or it shows you how many home screens you have.

But it also says search down there.

So you can just tap in that, although you can also swipe down just in the middle of

the screen as well.

And you know, you can do calculations and similar things in there too.

It's a great way.

I search for apps all the time that may not be on my first two home screens.

I will do a search for that as well.

So anyway, great little article there and some tips.

You know, you mentioned Bluetooth just a few seconds ago about the Apple Watch and

find my and Bluetooth has been kind of one of these interesting technologies that we've

had around for a very long time now.

I would not, I would have lost money on a bet to say what version of Bluetooth are we

on right now?

I had no idea.

We're on Bluetooth 6.1, but apparently that's getting ready to update to Bluetooth 6.1.

And I guess there's a few things, you know, I don't know how much this can be improved

to be honest with you at this point with the kind of technology that it is.

But you know, I'm always happy to see that there are some updates.

Yeah.

When whenever Bluetooth is updated, like you say, there's not a lot that it does, but we

want to have more features, which typically means being able to send more information

more quickly.

We want it to go further.

We want privacy because one of the problems with Bluetooth is some of the earlier versions

of it, like somebody else could sort of spoof your Bluetooth and control something that

you own that was enabled by Bluetooth and then power efficiency and stuff.

And so those are the overall things that Bluetooth tends to improve.

6.1 is going to have two of those.

It's going to enhance privacy by ensuring through encryption and stuff like that, that

only devices that are supposed to be talking to each other or talking to each other, we

have some of that now, it's going to be enhanced.

And then additionally, more power efficient so that using Bluetooth doesn't run down your

battery quite as much, which is of course always a good thing.

So this is coming, you know, we currently have 6.0, which arrived last year.

6.1 is now been announced.

The speculation in this article is that it will be included this fall in new devices,

like for example, the next version of the iPhone presumably will have 6.1.

And so, you know, it always takes a while for the new standards to propagate, but then

eventually they'll be in all of our, all of our things.

So, you know, it's, it's one of the ways to get a little bit of a preview of what's coming

in the future for Apple products is to the extent that Apple relies upon open standards

like Bluetooth, seeing what they're announcing as coming soon.

I like the way you started off one of your stories today.

If you know what you mean when you say dog cow, then you might be interested in this

next story.

This was nice because again, we're looking forward to WWDC, their developers conference

coming up in a couple of weeks.

And we talked about accessibility features and CarPlay Ultra that Apple has already announced

or they are announcing the fact that it's going to be coming.

But in addition to that, they have, I guess it's like an honor of the developers coming,

right?

That there is an Apple developer app and they are now some stickers, including one of the

stickers is the dog cow, which has been around for a long time.

It has.

So if you download and you don't have to be an Apple developer to do so, if anyone downloads

the Apple developer app from the app store, which is free, one of the things that we'll

do is it will allow you in the messages app.

If you go under stickers, there will be some new stickers for associated with WWDC.

And there's a couple of silly ones like one of them is a pig flying, you know, when pigs

fly sort of thing.

But one of them is the dog cow.

And just for people that don't know what it is, let me just, if you will give me just

a second, please, when the original Macintosh first comes out in 1984.

So when it's being designed even before 84, having a graphical user interface was such

a new thing.

You know, some computers had done it, but never in a mass market device.

And so one of the things that, you know, everything has a little graphic associated with it.

And one of the things that they needed is when you print things to know if you're printing,

you know, portrait or landscape, what direction something is.

And so they wanted to have just something on the rectangle that represented a sheet of

paper to show which way it was facing.

And so I believe that Susan Kair came up with this.

Susan Kair, K-A-R-E was one of the people responsible for all of the original icons on the Mac.

She's just a fantastic graphic artist.

And so she came up with the idea of what sort of looks like a dog, but because of the way

the spots are located, it sort of looks like a cow.

And based upon what direction that dog slash cow, people call it a dog cow, is, you know,

if he's standing up or is he on its side, you could immediately tell whether, you know,

what direction something was going to print in, what direction the orientation was.

It was just such a smart way.

Everybody could look at it and tell whether he is up and down or on his side.

And so over the years, there was a time way back when Apple on its campus would actually

take some of those original Susan Kair icons and had like big, you know, cut, you know,

blow ups of them that would be like on the grass outside the buildings.

They took those down years ago.

But you know, of the things that longtime users of Apple products, because it hasn't been

or, you know, actually you can still find it somewhere.

Everyone's know how.

But, you know, the people that, you know, date back to the 80s, certainly in even the

90s, they will recognize the dog cow.

So and I think it's cute to put it in the developer app as a sticker because a lot of,

you know, developers tend to know the Apple history.

They've been with the company a long time.

So they know instantly, it's sort of an inside joke.

They know exactly what this is.

So if you want that, you can download it and you can share it with your friends.

Plus there's another one too.

I think there's what maybe 10 of them here that you can, you can share.

Yeah, looks like it.

Like you said, the pigs fly.

Yeah.

The developers conference logo.

Yeah.

Silly little things.

So if you want some, if you want some free stickers, go ahead.

This next story falls under the category of wish I had never read this because now I

can't unsee it.

Completely agree.

This was a story in in gadget where talk about somebody that it wants to geek out on fonts,

which I'm, I'm, I'm all about it.

Like I like to talk about fonts every now and then.

And maybe I can just kind of encapsulate this story.

He always figured that there was something off when he looked at the notes app, I guess

on his iPhone is most of the time that he's talking about it.

There was just something about the font that was being used in the notes app, which is

the font that is pretty much used almost everywhere else, right?

On any kind of an iOS device or a Mac or so, but there was something different and he couldn't

put his finger on it until finally he tracked it down.

And it turns out I didn't know that there was a single story a and a double story a

or two story a, but there is.

And once you under read this article, you're welcome.

You're never going to be able to unsee this again.

Why in the world did they change the lower case a for the notes app, but they use a different

lower case a for the rest of everything.

You have to kind of, this is one of these things.

You got to see it to really understand what we're talking about here.

Yeah.

It's definitely a geeky thing.

And it's funny that it bothers him.

You know, once you see it, of course, you definitely recognize, Oh, yeah, there's two

different ways.

Like you can have an, you know, two ways to have a letter I, it could be just a single

up and down, or you can have a little serifs on it, you know, but the letter a, but it

really is a truly different version of the a.

And he says it's almost like they have to go out of the way to do it this way because

the font they're using, which I believe is called San Francisco, I forget, but like,

I think it's like a customized version.

Yeah.

But it's a decision for Apple to use this single story version of the letter a, which

is the same version that you might use if you're just, you know, handwriting a lower

case a, it's probably the way that you would do it.

I can't imagine right.

People would handwrite a double story a because it's more complicated.

But it's just an interesting little design flaw.

The one thing that occurred to me when I linked to this and I put this in an iPhone JD was

that the original, not the very first Apple logo, but like sort of the second Apple logo,

the one that came out in the late seventies and was there through the eighties.

It was, you know, it had the six color Apple and then it would have the word Apple in lower

case.

And the a of the lower case Apple was using sort of a stylized version of a single story

a, not a double story a, but that's maybe that's just a coincidence.

It's one thing that I thought about.

So but it's funny that like, like you say, once, once he mentioned this scene now after

reading this article, when I look at the notes app, it does sort of stick out.

I don't know, like a sore thumb, but it does stick out to me.

It's certainly a, it's certainly a decision.

It is a design decision, which is not rolled about.

You know, decision.

It's interesting.

It's just like now every time I can't use the notes app now because I'm like, oh man,

it's not matching everything else.

It's crazy in the show.

One of the, one of the shows that we were, we have been talking about for at least the

last three or four weeks is called murder bot, which I never read.

I think was this a comic book or a book?

I forget it's some kind of a science fiction book, which, which sound amazing to me.

I've never read it, but I loved the trailer.

And now apparently, in fact, I think you said you already watched like the first two episodes,

right?

That have come out on Apple TV plus and you sound like you like it.

I do.

And you know, Apple has Apple TV plus has really been firing on all cylinders recently.

We just finished severance, which was so good.

The studio, which was so good.

You know, so many good shows and, and here they are just coming out with another one

just as one ends.

They start another good one.

And at least we hope it is the initial reviews have been very good.

When Apple released it, they dropped two episodes and the episodes are only about 30 minutes

each.

So, you know, you can watch two episodes and about the same time that you would normally

watch a one hour show.

And when when Apple releases things on Fridays, they will typically drop at 12 a.m. Eastern,

which means for me in the central time zone, I could watch them at 11 p.m.

And so last night, I literally I just finished typing in the news post and I wasn't quite

ready for bed and I'm like, you know what, I bet you this show is there.

And so I just went.

Okay.

I just watched it on my Apple Vision Pro and watched it and it was really cute.

I haven't seen a show like this before.

It's a it's funny, but it's not like a comedy.

It sounds ominous.

Like, yeah, murder.

It sounds like it should be like a horror movie or some kind.

And you find out within the first couple of minutes why it's called bad and it's a little

tongue in cheek.

Okay.

But it's, you know, but the one thing that is known is that Alexander Skarsgard, who's

been in so many great things.

I loved him in what was the vampire show on True Blood on HBO years ago.

Okay.

And he's done many other things too.

But he plays like a robot, like an android robot who is supposed to be programmed to

be, you know, so methodical and follow directions and everything else.

And you know, not much of a spoiler alert to say that he has some independent thoughts.

And it's just an interesting role for him.

And it's like it's a it's situational funny.

I mean, it's not like they're telling jokes or anything like that, but the situations

are so absurd and over the top that it's really interesting.

The whole thing takes place in an incredibly futuristic world, you know, space and stuff

like that.

Okay.

Where we where we're interacting with, you know, robots as if they're part of our everyday

life.

But it looks like it's a really funny premise.

And like I spent most of the first episode sort of thinking, I've never seen anything

like this.

And then once I sort of got into it, the second episode, I'm like, okay, I'm on board for

this.

And, you know, I'm not saying that this is going to be like, you know, severance.

But I mean, you're pulling up rotten tomatoes right now and it's got a 90.

I know.

It's a little bit of a middle meter.

So 98.

Okay.

98% still.

I mean, that's incredible.

It's getting some good early reviews.

And of course, some of the reviewers, like not not people like me, but you know, real

probably they've probably seen more of the season than I have.

Whoa.

So I'm excited.

So how great, you know, we have a fun new show on Apple TV plus.

It's going to be sort of funny.

It's going to be sort of sci-fi.

I'm on board.

Yeah.

Jeff, can I tell you quickly, talk about the shows coming out Apple TV plus when you

didn't mention, but you convinced me last week to try trying.

And so my wife and I watched the first two episodes last weekend and absolutely loved

it.

Like that's going to be our show.

She was rolling.

I mean, it's there's some, some really cute, funny sections in there.

And it's just really, it's really good.

So I just wanted to tell you, thanks for that.

And I would recommend that to a lot of other folks.

It's called trying.

It's about a couple that have some difficulty having a baby naturally.

So they're going through the adoption process and it's just, it's just, it's a feel good,

but funny at the same time.

It's really, it's really neat.

And as we discussed last week, it just got picked up for its fifth season.

And so, you know, you're starting a show.

That's right.

There's going to be tons of great episodes.

So you and your wife, my wife and I are together too.

Y'all have lots of stuff to go through now.

So that's always fun.

Oh, it's so fun.

That's got lots of episodes.

Shrinking is another one that I think we maybe watched like the first episode.

This is one with Harrison Ford in them.

Am I correct?

Correct.

I think it's a psychiatrist or psychologist or something along those lines.

And I don't remember how many episodes or seasons that this has gone in, but oh my goodness,

what an announcement.

Michael J. Fox now is going to join season three.

Okay.

So it must have two seasons already.

And Michael J. Fox is going to be a guest star in season three.

That's amazing.

Yeah.

It's worth getting back into it because the first season is really good and it continues

to be really good for season two.

I thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyed it.

And it's a Bill Lawrence show who is on a bajillion shows, Scrubs.

He knows Michael J. Fox because way back when he did Spin City, of course Bill Lawrence

was involved in Ted Lasso.

And in fact, also from Ted Lasso, Brett Goldstein, who is a writer on Ted Lasso, but also played

Roy Kent in Ted Lasso.

Roy Kent, of course.

He is one of the writers in this show.

And I don't think it's much of a spoiler alert that he actually shows up in the show eventually.

So it's a great show.

I really encourage people to watch Shrinking.

So for season three coming out, Michael J. Fox.

Now, Michael J. Fox, as we all know, he's had Parkinson's disease and there was a really

good documentary called, what was it called?

Shaken or something like that.

It was on Apple TV Plus about Michael J. Fox.

Oh yeah.

Okay.

My wife and I really enjoyed watching it way back when.

It's definitely worth watching because he was such an iconic actor in the 80s and 90s.

Absolutely.

So good.

On the one hand, it's a shame that his acting career was cut short.

But at the same time, it's amazing that he's continued to be involved and done shows.

But he hasn't actually done a show because he's had severe limitations on movement.

But he hasn't done a show, what, in five years now?

But Bill Lawrence convinced him to come back.

So is it going to be like a full-member season three cast?

Is he going to have like one five-minute cameo?

I don't know yet.

But I love Michael J. Fox.

And so for a show that I love to then have an actor that I love coming on it next season,

I say, yay, this is going to be great.

That's going to be great.

That's going to be great.

If there was one movie already that I would like to watch on the Apple Vision Pro, it

would probably be, what is it called?

It's F1, right?

You talked about this.

Did we, where did it come out?

You were talking about this.

I mean, first of all, it's Brad Pitt, right?

Starring in F1 and there's somebody else.

And I remembered you did link to this three or four weeks ago because the trailer is incredible

in and of itself.

And the whole time I'm sitting there imagining what would it look like on a Vision Pro?

I don't know if they're specifically doing it for the Vision Pro, but it's going to

be amazing.

Yeah.

So, I mean, this show is coming to the big screen and I think rightfully so.

This is one of those shows that people might want to watch at the movie theater because

it's going to be great.

And then after it's in the movie theater, it will come to Apple TV Plus.

And like you say, I would love to watch it.

But Apple, this is the big movie for them of the year and they're really hoping for it

to be the hot summer movie.

I don't know when it's coming out, but I got to presume it's coming around around July

4th when blockbusters typically will in the summer.

And so this is going to be a big movie.

And so now is sort of a little bit of a cross marketing feature.

We've talked in the past about how there are certain cities in the world that have this

enhanced detailed city experience.

And you and I just talked a few weeks ago because New Orleans now has it as of when

the Super Bowl was here earlier this year.

And so it's cool that when I'm looking for things in New Orleans, I can see incredibly

detailed 3D representations of buildings and stuff like that.

It's really, really cool.

And so they also bought it to Monaco.

Why Monaco?

Well, because that of course is Grand Prix is where which starts in just a few days now

and also where I think last year at the Grand Prix, Apple filmed a lot of the scene or maybe

it was even two years ago, they filmed a lot of the scenes for F1 of the movie.

And so it's just sort of a great little cross promotional thing.

So if you want to take, you know, open up your iPhone or your iPad or your Mac, I'm

actually in the surface of the Mac yet, but definitely the iPhone and the iPad, you will

see much more detailed maps of Monaco, including where the cars race and you can see the right,

you know, the streets that are coming up, right?

And stuff.

Yeah.

And you even see little representations of little cute little F1 cars and the maps app

and stuff.

And so it's a nice little cross promotion for the movie coming out.

Okay.

So I see this only in theaters on June 27th, like you said.

There you go.

Okay.

It says filmed for IMAX.

So you know, I'm almost confused about what that means today.

I mean, IMAX, I think of the big theater with the big dome on it, right?

But does that mean that that kind of same experience will come to the Vision Pro, but

isn't that different with the spatial video?

Or do you have an idea of what that means?

Okay.

So I don't think that this will be spatial, but IMAX is actually great for the Vision Pro.

And here's why, you know, a traditional movie has the really long screen.

Like, and you know, if you're watching a movie on TV that's shown in the same aspect ratio

as the movie theater, you'll have the black bars at the top and bottom because even on

our current 16 by nine TV screens, our screens are not as long and wide as it would be in

a movie theater, right?

IMAX, however, when they film things for IMAX theaters, because the screens are so big,

not only are they bigger with, but they're top to bottom, much, much bigger.

And in fact, it's much closer to a four, three or sort of, you know, an old style, maybe

sick between 16, nine, four, three.

I don't know the exact numbers, but everything's a lot taller.

So what it means is that to see this entire movie this summer, you're not just going to

want to go to a theater.

You want to go to a theater that's got an IMAX size screen to really see the entire picture.

Now when it comes to the Vision Pro, there is the company IMAX has an app for the Vision

Pro that has a couple of things on it.

And one of the things that I like about it is when you're in the Vision Pro, it's not

immersive.

It's not 180 degrees.

But when you watch an IMAX movie with that aspect ratio, because it's tall as well as

being big from side to side, it actually makes it immersive with an asterisk.

It's a better experience.

If you're watching something in that aspect ratio, it looks better on the Vision Pro because

you can just see more.

So I do hope that when F1 comes to the Vision Pro and Apple TV Plus and stuff like that,

I hope that they have some way, whether it's when the Apple TV Plus app or maybe within

the IMAX app, I hope there's a way to watch it in that aspect ratio because I think it

will be better.

And I think they could do that.

And as I'm saying this out loud, Brett, in one of the companies that has some of the

best movies out there, especially on the Vision Pro is Disney.

And one of the things I like about the Disney app is if you're a fan of the Marvel movies,

you can actually choose in the Disney app if you want to watch the version of the Marvel

movie that was for IMAX or the version that was for the regular movie theater.

And so the IMAX version is going to have a little bit more on the top and the bottom.

And when I watch those on the Vision Pro, it's actually nice because like I just described,

watching something in that aspect ratio fills more of your field of view.

And so in that other thing out loud, I'm sure that Apple TV Plus will be able to do this

within their own app and not make you use the special IMAX app.

And I just hope that they release it in that format when they do eventually release it.

But of course, if you want the best experience with the best surround sound and everything

else, go to an IMAX theater somewhere.

If you're a real car nut, we'll see what the reviews are like.

But if it's as good as one hopes it will be, this will be a blockbuster.

In the know.

In the know.

I thought for an honor of learning that the new Pope is also an Apple Watch wearer and

you know, maybe he might listen to the podcast and we could share some tips about using the

Apple Watch.

Here's a quick one that I was talking with somebody yesterday and he wanted to show me

a picture.

And you know, typically what most people do when they want to show you a picture, they

pull out their iPhone or their phone and they scroll through their photo album or you know,

their photos app and they find it.

But he didn't do that.

He just pulled it up on his watch and then just kind of, you know, like leaned over so

that I could see it on his watch.

Now, obviously, you know, it's not as very, very large and wanted to see it.

But it just got me thinking, I don't normally look at photos on my watch and it's not like

you can have access to all the photos, but there is a photos app on the watch.

So if you go into your, into your apps, you can pull up the photos app and really what

it does is it syncs one single photo album from your iPhone to the watch.

So that's by default in the photos app.

There's other apps and things that you can get access to this.

But if you're just using the basic photos app by default, that, that album is your favorite

album.

And so if you go into your photos app, like on your phone, for example, there is a favorites

photo album, right?

And you can tag certain images and photos as your favorites.

And that album, that favorites album by default is what will sync from your iPhone over to

your Apple watch.

And so I can pull up my photos, apple, my apple watch, I can tap in there and I will

see this little tiny screen of the different pictures that I have saved as favorites.

And sure enough, I can go into one or two of them.

I can go into each one of them and see it.

Obviously it's a very small screen and what I'm looking at, but it can at least give you

the idea.

Now if you don't want it to sync the favorites album, you can change that.

To do this, you need to go on your iPhone to the Apple watch app and you can go down

and scroll down to photos.

And when you go into the Apple watch app and go to photos, you'll see that there is the

album.

Which album do you want to sync?

And you can go in and you can see when you say sync album, you can select the album that

you want to sync over to your Apple watch.

And I found when I was flipping back and forth between these albums, Jeff, it was pretty quickly.

Like I could see, I could watch on my watch as it was updating that and I could switch

it back.

Also, in the photos, in that settings, you can say a photos limit.

So I only have, I don't know, I think maybe 40 images in my favorites photo album.

But you can go to the photos limit that will allow you to sync 25 photos, 100 photos, 250

photos or the max is 500 photos.

So if you have more than 500 photos in this album, it may not sync them all.

I'm assuming that's just due to limitations on the storage space, that kind of a thing.

But I just like the idea that you could either just leave it by default to the favorites album

and then just know that that favorites album will be accessible on the Apple watch as well.

Or you could go in theoretically and you could create a new, you know, Apple watch specific

album on your iPhone and the photos app and you could just have that synchronize over

to your Apple's watch.

I got to tell you, I don't do this a lot because it's like if I want to see a photo, I will

go to my iPhone probably.

But sometimes it is kind of fun to maybe just go into my Apple watch and to look at those

photos.

You can select which photo album that you want to sync over to your Apple watch.

So that's my Apple tip today.

Yeah, I'm glad that you mentioned it because as I mentioned, maybe it was even last week,

I had recently gone through and re-update, reinstalled from scratch my operating system

on my phone.

Yes, I remember that.

It reset.

So like right now, if I go to use my Apple watch to use the photos thing, which I tried

to use as you were talking about it, it's not working for two reasons.

Number one, I haven't set it up yet on my phone.

And number two, I actually don't use the favorites feature that often.

So I don't think I have any favorites right now.

So I would have to go favorite some things or what I used to do and I was just looking

for that album.

I want to say that in the past, I went through and I made a little album called something

like Apple Watch Faces or something.

I'm just not going to get right now of things that I thought here's some good ones.

And it's really nice because as you know, they can take the picture and they can sort

of put the clock behind them and it looks 3D and it's done.

So this is a good tip.

There was a time in the past where I had not been using this watch face and I went ahead

and I used it and it was fun because it's fun that you sort of glance down and you see

different pictures.

You know, for me, it was my kids and stuff like that.

And sometimes my wife and it was like, oh, those are fun pictures.

Nice to see them in the watch.

So it's a good reminder to use this.

Very cool.

So when I saw that you were doing this tip, it reminded me of sort of a step back from

your tip and look at the bigger picture, which is the different.

Okay.

Paces you can do in the Apple Watch as much as I am upset that doesn't allow third parties

to come up with their own Apple Watch Faces.

I have to admit, when you look at this page that you have it here and I'm sure you'll

put the link in the show.

Look how long this scrolls, Jeff.

I mean, there is a goes on forever.

There really are a lot of different watch faces, especially considering how to customize

these.

So it's not like we have five to choose from.

We have a ton.

They just are all from Apple and not all of them support all the features and stuff like

that.

Like a second hand that you can see in all the time.

But my recommendation is if you're looking to spice things up in your life with your

Apple Watch as it were, one of the things I like about the photo watch face is that

it's full screen.

And I actually find it really nice to look at the Apple Watch and see something that's

really big.

And it's especially true.

I have the series 10, which is an even slightly bigger screen and stuff.

And of course, you have the Ultra, which has a big screen as well.

I want to take advantage of that big screen and really look at something that goes side

to side up and down just to spice things up every once in a while.

Photos will do it.

But if you go through this list, there's actually a ton of them that will do it.

You know, California contour, kaleidoscope.

One of the things that I actually have right now is it was, I think it was just this past

week that Apple released the new Pride bands for the Apple Watch.

And in connection with that, they now have the Pride Watch face, which I am using right

now.

It's hard to see.

Now, that is updated, right?

You have to have iOS 18.5, I believe.

You have to have the new update on the watch.

I can't get it to show up on the screen.

But it's a really nice little thing.

It's got these cool sort of designs.

You don't have to have the bands to show it.

And it's a cool design, but this is not the first time.

Apple has come out with Pride Watch faces for many, many years now.

And each of them is interesting its own way.

But I particularly like the ones that give you, it's very colorful on the entire screen.

So this year's version of the Pride does it.

Now another one that does it great is the Snoopy watch face.

The Snoopy watch face is awesome.

And I switched to it from time to time.

My wife still has that one.

All the time.

And I love it because, you know, you get to watch Snoopy do something funny that lasts

about five seconds.

But it's also really pretty because it takes the entire watch face.

So it's a nice big, bold color on the entire watch face.

And I think it looks really, really nice.

In fact, parenthetically, let me say something about Snoopy.

If you own an Apple TV device, one of the screensaver choices that they came out with

a while ago was a Snoopy screensaver.

Oh, that's right.

I've had it enabled for a few months now.

And to my complete surprise, Apple updates that all the time.

The animators that work for the Charles Schultz Industries, which has obviously an affiliation

with Apple now, they are constantly, constantly updating the animations.

And it's funny.

I mean, it's Snoopy animation.

So you know, whatever.

It's G rated humor, but it's cute and funny.

And whenever my Apple TV goes into the screensaver mode, you know, sometimes I see ones I've

seen before, but I'm amazed at how frequently I see brand new ones.

So thumbs up for Snoopy.

The last thing I'll say on my pitch for having an Apple watch face that uses the entire watch

face is there's one that's been around since generation one called Stripes.

And Stripes is just so simple.

It's just some stripes.

But it's actually nice because you can control how many stripes you have.

You can either have one, you know, one stripe, which is just basically one color, two, three,

four, they have one, two, three, seven on the one that you're showing right now.

Oh, no kidding.

You can control what those colors are.

And so I have a series of stripes that are saved on my Apple watch that, for example,

for Christmas, I have some red and greens back and forth.

Or for my draw, I have green and gold.

And I have a couple of other ones when, you know, my daughter's school, their school colors

are green and white.

And so sometimes I have like just some green and white stripes.

It gives you the ability to create.

Yeah.

A watch face that supports the colors of your team, your school, you know, the holiday,

whatever it is.

And so it's the closest you can get to designing your own watch face because you have so many

choices in the Stripes app.

And it's one of those full screen, very bold ones.

So if Stripes is one that's because it's been around from the beginning, it's probably one

that you don't even think about using because you're like, oh, that's the old stuff.

I want to look at the new watch faces.

I'm here to tell you that Stripes is an oldie but a goodie.

It's worth looking at.

So this is you can change the angle of the stripes as well.

I did not know that they can be horizontal.

They can be vertical or they can be at an angle.

It's a ton of customization that you can do on this and you can come up and then once

you come up with a set, oh, that's cool.

So you know, you can have your set that's for your college, your set that's for, you

know, your high school, your set that's for your local sports team and you can switch

between them.

And I like you can even do that full screen like you were talking about, or you can do

a circular stripes, which means you can have four complications.

I know because I like the full screen like you were talking about, but I'm just saying

to your point, there's so many things that you could do in the colors.

I remember I had a stripes face when that first either when it first came out or you

had mentioned it a long time ago, something like that, but I forgot that you could get

in this.

Yeah, that's fantastic.

And there's even a time lapse one in here.

I think I remember when that came out.

It's just so cool.

And I feel like sometimes I don't have the time to go through and like when you've linked

to this page before I remember, we've gone through this page and it's just amazing how

many there are.

But typically we only hear about it because people are upset that you can't customize

the faces.

And I think what they're talking about there is they want to be able to, they want like,

you know, what they want stripes, but they want to be able to determine whether there's

a second hand and an hour hand or, you know, if it's digital clock versus analog clock.

I mean, I get it.

I know that you always want a little bit more of a deeper thing in here, but if you just

take some time to look around, it's really some pretty amazing watch faces that you can

come up with here on there.

Yeah, there's more than you probably remember.

It's worth checking out this.

If you've been an Apple Watch user for a long time, like many of us have, it's worth taking

a look at this page and just reminding yourself, oh yeah, the such and such.

And oh yeah, the such and such.

There's a lot there.

Yeah.

I'll make sure it's linked in the show notes.

Okay.

We started and we ended on the Apple Watch today.

And if the Pope Leo wants to any additional tips, we'll be happy to serve them up.

Just let us know.

Send us an email or call us on FaceTime since obviously you have your Apple Watch.

Great talking with you, Jeff.

We'll talk with you next week.

Thanks, Brett.