Welcome to In the News for July 11th, 2025.

I am Brett Burney from appsinlaw.com.

And this is Jeff Richardson from iPhone JD.

Hey, Brett.

Happy birthday, Jeff.

Well, happy birthday to your original 3G iPhone that you got.

I love the way you started off your blog post today.

17 years ago today, on July 11th, 2008,

You woke up very early that day to go to your AT&T store and wait for your phone.

Now, this wasn't the original iPhone, right?

This was the 3G iPhone.

And I just loved how you even had the original tweet from all of those years ago.

Hello, world.

This is Jeff's new iPhone tweeting.

And I think this may be one of the first posts that you had on iPhoneJD.com, if I'm not mistaken.

Indeed, indeed.

And it all came back to that 3G.

I still own my original iPhone 3G.

I

kept it.

And I was going to tell you, oh, I wish I had brought it in today to hold it up to the camera.

But I don't need to do that because there's a picture of it at the top of iPhone JD for the last, you know, 17 years

or whatever.

Every page.

Because that was what it all started with.

When, you know, when that first iPhone came out in 2007, I was so excited because I was like, oh, because I had been using a Trio for a while.

And I was like, I was

really excited to have whatever the Apple

product would be.

And then it comes out and it doesn't support, like the main thing I want to use it for is email,

or at least that's what I thought the main thing I was going to use it for. It turned out to be not

necessarily the main thing,

but an important factor.

And when that original iPhone did not

work with Microsoft Exchange, you know, ActiveSync, I'm like, oh, I'm not going to be able to use it

for my email. So I didn't get that first iPhone, which is just as well, because that first iPhone,

although revolutionary, was just so basic in so many ways and

everything else. And so

when that

second generation came out that and apple said now we're going to support exchange i'm like yes this

is it and it was a great time because as i

noted it

added the app store which i mean if you can't

it's hard to even imagine an

iphone without

an app crazy you know i mean it still didn't have

things like copy and paste and stuff like that but i mean the app store and all sorts of other

features and then of course the 3g network which you know we sort of laugh at now in terms of speed

but that first iphone with edge i mean i remember the edge network

because i used edge

on trio 650

it was well it was nice to have edge was nice to have but it was so slow so slow but 3g was you

know about three times faster it was so fast that apple put it in the name you know of the product

the iphone 3g and so um that was just a revolutionary product this was the beginning

though i don't know if they had maybe they i guess they did have lines for the original iphone too

but like these were back in the days where you couldn't just pre-order an iphone and have it

shipped to you or something like that. And

so for many, many years,

if you wanted the new iPhone on

the day it came out, you would have to wait up early and go in line. And I would say at your

local Apple store, but there were far fewer

Apple stores back in 2008.

We didn't have one here in

New Orleans. And so I woke up early to go just to an AT&T store. And I was not, I just expect,

I mean, I got there at the crack of dawn. It was not even the sun up yet. And I'm like, surely no

other idiot. I mean, this is like downtown New Orleans, right? This is a business area. I'm like,

No one else is going to be standing in front

of this AT

&T store.

But I wasn't first.

I was fifth in line.

And that store

only had two of the high-end models.

And of course, by definition, anyone in line that early in the morning was an enthusiast

who wanted to get the high-end model.

So they're like, well, you

could

get the low-end 8-gig model in white.

And I'm

like, no, I don't want the white one.

I don't want the 8-gig.

I want the 16-gig.

Nowadays, you can do anything with 16-gig.

But, you know, I wanted the bigger model and I wanted the black one and I had to wait.

But at least I put my order in.

And a few days later, I actually got it.

And it was I mean, I laugh when I look back at it now because the I guess you were probably

were you involved in Tech Show back in 2008 that long ago?

I was.

Yeah.

I so I know.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

It's a couple of years.

So I have been going to Tech Show, but I wasn't involved.

You have been going to.

Yeah.

You and I did not know each other at the time.

That's for sure.

And I barely knew it.

Yeah.

I sort of knew what Tech Show was.

I guess I had spoken there once before, maybe at that point. And so, yeah, because the first time

I went to Tech Show, I actually didn't talk about iPhone things. I talked about preparing for disaster

recovery because as an attorney in New Orleans that had lived through Hurricane Katrina,

believe

me, we knew about disasters. So that's why I

submitted that post for the Tech Show blog,

which at the time was a good place to submit things about why I thought the iPhone was really

useful for our lawyers. And then two months after that is when I turned that into this first post.

So like that 3G just changed everything.

And everything has come out there.

We know how much the iPhone has changed over the years.

But for me personally, and I know for a lot of other people, that 3G and then the next

year, the 3GS models, I mean, you look at the chart of iPhone sales.

And I mean, they had a lot of sales in that first year, but it really started, it's one

of those charts that goes, whatever you call that type of a chart that goes steeply up.

That's when so many people

started to get it.

And then the opposite was the BlackBerry sales for attorneys, right?

Because BlackBerry was king.

And then BlackBerry, as iPhones went up, BlackBerrys went down and then eventually went away.

I love this post on November 17, 2008.

And you actually say that here, I don't recommend an iPhone to all lawyers.

Many don't even need a smartphone.

Just a simple

flip phone will do.

Others never use anything but email and

want a physical keyboard.

And for them, I say, just get a BlackBerry.

wow how times have changed it's just great to see that but it is nice to kind of walk down you know

memory lane just a little bit and just to think about that i mean wow that's been so long 17 years

ago

and yes 17 years ago so i mean that's that's a little crazy it's it's amazing you know

so let's switch gears and talk about the apple watch now i don't know

that i got to get

into

lied for the Apple Watch, but you had a couple of interesting stories. You and I obviously are huge

fans of the Apple Watch. We have always talked about this idea of the angle coming at it from

the health components of what the Apple Watch is doing. Yeah, it'll tell you time, but it does so

much more. And it's just been amazing how that has sort of transformed my life, you know, similar to

just 17 years ago, how we started using the iPhone. This was an interesting story that now

Apple apparently is using an AI model to look at the data from the Apple Watch to make health

predictions. Now, I use the Apple Watch every day to be able to kind of see, you know, trends in my

health, my sleep, you know, how much sleep I have, how many steps we have. But wow, could the AI

model look at that and then start predicting health issues maybe down the road and it sounds like

that's at least one of the directions apple is going to be going here yeah

and in fact brett

you're framing this as an apple watch story which is legitimate but i

actually think

that more

appropriately this is sort of an ai story it's the

idea that when

you have and again they're both of

those viewpoints are correct it's just that when you have a large amount of data ai is really good

at trying to figure out patterns and things from that

data. And we hear about this every

day. We

hear about AI looking at the human genome product and looking at so many fields, but certainly in

medicine and health, when you look at stuff over time, the AI can start to draw connections. And

many of us know the old phrase that correlation is not causation, just because two things happen at

the same time doesn't mean one caused the other. And yet when you see a lot of correlation and AI

can see correlation a lot deeper than most of our brains can handle, it can actually spot trends.

And so this has been coming in a while. You and I have talked about this in the podcast of the past,

but this is like, you know, and now we're actually seeing some studies that's using some AI models

and Apple, I mean, what they really want, I think is for the Apple watch because it's, you know,

right there on your wrist. It's just so personal

with the data,

but really they want all the,

all the worlds of data. I mean, even in, even information that you might type yourself into

app that you get from whatever source, you know, like how

much you

weigh every day, for example,

or, you know, something like that, or you might have a smart scale that tells it,

but Apple wants

to put

all that stuff together and say, what, what can we predict from this? Because I think this is,

I mean, not that it's going to take away the job of a doctor because a doctor has got all the

experience and everything else, but, but it might see some things that the doctors might, might miss,

which is just really interesting to me because this study talks about how, I don't have the

in my head, but I'm going to say it was something like, you know, the, the, the Apple AI might

predict things with 75% accuracy, whereas like a doctor would be like 25%. And I might be off in

those numbers, but it's something like that. It's now, of course the doctor is going to bring a lot

more to the table. And once you have a diagnosis, the doctor can do a lot more with it, but like,

these are just all tools that are, that are coming together. And Apple is going to be at

that forefront with, with the, the combination of having the wearables to get a lot of information

from your wrist and stuff. And also having the AI models and the things that's good about Apple,

you know, there's this whole discussion about Apple, Apple's AI stuff may not be as sophisticated

as what chat TPT and Anthropic and all these other ones out there. But what they are doing

is they're coming up with these small AI models that are more limited, but that they just run on

your device, which means you've got perfect privacy, which is what you want for something

like your health. I mean, people don't necessarily want the world knowing about that. And, and,

And these models will get better over time.

I mean, I think Apple is on an interesting track here, something that they can bring to the AI table and do useful stuff on.

I'll mention one more thing, Brett, which is as a lawyer, you know, AI, it was just a few years ago that we all heard about ChatGPT.

And now not only is it becoming a big deal in medicine, you know, I know my brother's a doctor and I'm sure he's looking at this stuff.

But for us lawyers, it is it's becoming really huge.

I mean, we've been doing some of this stuff at my law firm where you can just throw a

whole bunch of information, a bunch of documents, whether it's a whole bunch of

transcripts

or a

bunch of contracts or a bunch of documents of any kind of documents.

And you can ask the AI question.

And within seconds, the AI is like this expert.

I mean, imagine if you hired somebody to read every document and know every footnote, every

nook and cranny, just

know it all.

Oh, and by the way, you need to do that in 30 seconds.

I mean, and then once that expert exists, you can ask them anything and it can pull out all

of this information.

And I find it incredibly useful as a lawyer because I'm constantly working with exhibits

and documents.

Or heck, even if I just throw a draft of a brief that I'm working on and say, hey, Mr.

AI, what do you think about this?

And it'll give you suggestions.

And of course, you need to use tools as a lawyer.

And I'm sure doctors are concerned about this too.

You need to be private and secure.

I would not use ChatGPT.

I would use one of these services that's specifically designed for lawyers so that it's got

privacy and

security and stuff. But AI, I mean, this is the future. This really is. I mean,

and so if you're interested in the future of technology, you cannot ignore how quickly AI

is getting so much better with what it can do. So that's why to go back to the story,

this story has a fascinating story with the Apple Watch, but that's why I say I see this as more of

an AI story. More of

an AI, right. Well, it's definitely a very scientific paper here. I mean,

already my mind just goes blank here looking at all of this on there but i'm just i'm glad that

they that you know there are some stories like this coming out with ai and how they are you know

applying some of this technology to the the tools that they already have of course a lot of people

are complaining they're not doing it fast enough but this is good to see i'm glad you linked to the

story and sort of on a little bit of a related note

yeah legal legal

battles i thought we could

throw this in as well because we've talked about this several times this is the lawsuit going on

from a company called massimo m-a-s-i-m-o against apple that has prohibited basically apple from

putting in i i always forget exactly what this what this is blood oxygen reading technology right

in the apple

watches they

were there before and i know there are some models i believe my wife still

has maybe an apple watch i want to say maybe a five or something that still has this technology

built in but every model since then while it could have this technology it's been prohibited by this

by the court ruling

here and

you reported on a story from reuters here where it's at an appeals

court it may still take some time for us to get some kind of a resolution here when

the original

ban came in place and i want to say it was right around the holiday buying season like i think i

It actually started on Christmas day of 2023, if I remember, and then

it went into effect

and then it finished and then it went back into effect in January, 2024.

I mean, we're talking a year and a half ago.

When this happened a year and a half ago, I thought, well, surely, I mean, I know that

Apple is going to try to win it in court, but like if they can't get it reversed in court,

I mean, it's all about money, right?

It's just a, it's just a patent issue.

You know, Apple

has so

much money.

They want to have this feature.

They had, they do have the feature outside of the United States.

They're going to want to have it in the United States.

I'm sure they're just going to pay.

Someone's going to get together in a room,

maybe with a mediator, and they're going to

resolve it.

And yet, maybe Apple must really think that it's right, because I'm sure this has an impact

on sales, because a lot of people like having this blood oxygen sensor in the watch.

And it's bizarre

that I have something.

It's right here.

It's in my watch, and I can't use it

because of the court ruling.

It could work if

Apple would just get this result.

yet, but no. So Apple has appealed it and it's now at the federal, this is not a court I

practice

in. This is US Court of Appeals for Federal

Circuit,

which I know has a

lot of patent appeals

and is the appeals from this court. And so they filed their appeal in spring of this year. I don't

remember the specific date. The oral argument was, I think this past Monday. And so that means that

there's for non-lawyers, that means there was a three judge panel that heard their appellate

argument. And how long will it take the appellate court to rule? I mean, who knows? I've seen

appellate courts rule in as quickly as 30 days. But typically, there was some statistics I saw

on the internet that said that this particular court's typically around six months. I know some

federal appellate courts are closer to three months. But then even once it rules, that's often not the

end because you've got

post-apel rulings.

And so suffice it to say that if Apple is going to

litigate this to the end, which it appears to be what they want to do. I don't see this resolving

this calendar year. And then whenever it resolves, either Apple will win and then we have the feature

again, or Apple will lose. And then you have to just assume that they're just going to have to

pay a lot more money than they want to pay to get the feature. So.

And is it true? I mean,

could they be using this technology that's built into watches now that even that we have, could,

could they just be capturing information or data from this? You think, Jeff,

or they

just can't

turn it on at all they probably can't turn it on at all because

i'm just thinking back to that story

we were just talking about like this to me would be another critical you know health tracking

that they could

be doing right now that they're not able to and that could be adding to some of

this you know with the ai components and data points and stuff but okay we'll we'll

continue

to watch

this and just see it's just unfortunate i think if

you are a person who has respiratory

problems like if you have

cfg or something

like that blood oxygen is absolutely something that

want to monitor.

I mean, I

remember a lot of us learned about blood oxygen levels during COVID

when, because that was one of the things that if you're,

if your levels got

too low. And so,

and of course you could buy these cheap little things that you put on, I say cheap, I don't know

how much they are. I'm sure they're less than a hundred dollars, but you know, you just put them

on your finger and it checks it. But, but that's an extra thing to, to worry about. If you've already

got the watch there on your wrist, you know, it's just so convenient. Plus the nice thing about the

watch on your wrist is that it can monitor it over time because, you know, obviously just one data

point means one thing, but looking at trends, that's what can actually be interesting.

Let's move on to talk about a couple of interesting tidbits coming out again with iOS 26, iPadOS 26.

We'll start there because I just, I just, I love this little interim time here before, you know,

that it was announced, of course, at WWDC. And then we're waiting, of course, until probably

September when it comes out. But, you know, so many people have been getting their hands on the

developer betas and playing with it and we're seeing some changes this i love this is chris

lally who's always done some great stuff on the ipad and has been using it for a long time and i love

this when you pointed to it today because this is a a nice little trick that i have been using on my

mac for so long jeff i love this i usually might usually have my cursor kind of tiny right just a

tiny like i don't even think i've made a change to it it's just a tiny little arrow and i don't

know if you can even kind of see it that I've got it there on the screen there I could probably do

this because I'm on my Mac right now right but if you are moving your mouse here I'll put it over

here on the left you can see it and it's like I can't see it or typically when I have multiple

monitors I don't know which monitor that the that the cursor is on but on the Mac you have been able

to do this for a long time if I just shake my my mouse quickly back and forth you'll see the cursor

will get very large and show me exactly where it is.

Now, I've had that on the Mac for a while,

and I like now that Chris Lawley has reported

that he can check off another one of his wishlist features.

You can now shake the cursor in iPadOS 26

to actually see where the cursor is.

Now, I don't know how big of a deal this is on an iPad screen,

but now that you can put multiple monitors with an iPad,

I feel like this could be a very useful little tidy trick.

I love this.

I know that you just did it live for folks watching the video, but I'm actually not seeing

it on my end.

You, I take it.

You

can't.

It happens so quickly

that it's not showing it over the zoom recording, but

at

least I

don't think it is.

Maybe it'll show up in the final version of this video, but regardless, it's a feature

that people that use a Mac probably know about since I

use a PC

at work.

I wish I could do it because I've got two monitors here in my office and sometimes like,

where is my, I don't know where my, it's,

you find yourself moving around.

It's a very cool feature.

And so now that the iPad is becoming even more of a device that you can use very well, you don't have to use it, but you can use it very well with an external keyboard and an external pointy device, whether it be a trackpad or a mouse, I think this is a great idea.

It's just one of those great Apple-y features that is going to be so nice to bring to a new platform.

You know, I think there is a way, I'll just try to be fair, in Windows, I'm not exactly sure because I don't use Windows every day, but it's like a buried setting, I think, that you could hit like a

hotkey or something like

that.

that to go in and see it but i just like it especially on a macbook pro and if you're using

a trackpad you could try this when you go home on your mac at home jeff you can just you just take

your finger you just like go back and forth like

really quickly

and you can see it and it pops up

and i'm just

glad i love it i

mean again it just to me this this is what's going to be so interesting

for the ipad to be we talked about this already at length but it's just the continual blurring of the

line between an iPad and a Mac, a MacBook, or at least a MacBook laptop. And I'm just like, okay,

well, you know, just, you're just running Mac OS on an iPad at this point, I feel like, or you're

getting much closer to that. And that could be interesting.

Yeah. And what's particularly

interesting is that we're in this period of time. We had the new OSs announced in June. They're going

to come out in like, you know, presumably September. And so during this beta period,

if history serves as a guide, and I think it does, during these first couple of months,

we start to see some interesting new things added to the betas. And then as we get closer to September,

Apple's not adding as many new features. It's more of just

making sure that there's

no bugs

and you can ship it. So like right now, early July, we are in this time period. They haven't

even released the public betas yet for the iPhone and iPad. We are in that time period where Apple

is starting to continue to add like some pretty cool features that people are going to really like.

And so this is just one example of it.

I'm sure there's others that I haven't even heard about yet.

And where it comes from, and this is what you were referring to, is for so long, I just

have a sense that Apple saw these clear dividing lines between the Mac and the iPad.

And the big change of iOS 26 and iPad OS 26, especially iPad OS 26, is Apple seems to be

saying, you know what?

It's okay for those lines to blur between the two.

And if there's a really good feature on the Mac, why not bring it to the iPad?

And so the cursor is an example of it.

The windowing is an example of it.

There's tons of examples of it.

And

it's this

philosophy change of don't worry.

It's OK.

People still love the Mac.

It's got its own world.

But you can let the iPhone borrow some things that work really well on the Mac.

And the opposite is true, too.

If the

iPad's got something

that's pretty cool, hey, you can bring that to the Mac.

That philosophy change, I think, just makes everybody happier with their products.

So it's really exciting to me.

our friend david sparks is also been reporting he's been running apparently the ios 26 developer

beta on his iphone and he has reported and i love this little image that he put here on his website

that maybe response to some response to some complaints that the liquid glass interface

coming out in iOS 26.

It's a little too much see-through.

David reports that they've kind of made it

a little tiny bit less see-through on this.

He goes, this comes as a surprise to nobody

that pays attention to Apple beta cycles.

They always start at an extreme with beta one,

and then they kind of slowly dial it back.

I think you said the same thing

when we first started talking about this, Jeff,

but I'm glad to see that Apple is continuing to respond

to some of the comments here.

Yeah. Like you say, Apple's done this in the past. In fact, it was when you were in New Orleans a few

weeks ago when we recorded the podcast and we were in the same room, you know, that was when the new

betas were out. And I remember thinking liquid glass looks really cool, but my guess is that

they're starting way up here, but just cause

it's really cool. And let's just push it to the end.

And then as people start to use it, then we're going to dial it down. And so, and I think it's

going to go the other way too. It's going to be like a sine wave. Like, you know, now they've pulled

back on it because they realized that although it looks really fun and believe me, that's the main

reason for the liquid glass because it looks fun. It's going to make all of our iPhones look sort of

fun and cool. But you also don't want that fun, funness, is that a word, to get in the way of

usability. And so now they're dialing it

back. So it doesn't have quite

as much of that cool effect,

but it's easier to read. It's more legible. And if you look at these two pictures that Zach Hall

posted on 9to5Mac and David Sparks is reposting here, it's just a static image. But just looking

at the static image, I actually wonder

if Apple may have pulled

back too much and like, maybe they

actually want to loosen it up a little bit. I don't know. And you know, this leads into the next story

that, that we had here. I don't know if you, if you can pull it up because threads sometimes

doesn't show up in a computer screen. Good. You do

have it here. This is on

the Apple watch. So

the Apple watch has liquid glass too. And there's two pictures here. This is the control panel. So

like if I tap the button that's on the side of my Apple watch, it brings up all the little, you

version of the beta, Apple thought it would be really cool for every one of the buttons when you

have them selected to glow such that the buttons next to it that are not selected, they would sort

of have the effect of the light shining off of it, which Benjamin Mayo in

this post

on thread said,

he's like,

it's like a disco ball, you know, it sort of shines everything

over. I have to admit,

I actually think it looks sort of cool. But in the current version of the beta, again,

just like we talked about the iPhone, Apple has dialed it down.

And so now there's

a

slight, slight glow on the buttons around it, but it's not nearly there. And I actually sort of,

I mean, again, just from the static image, I haven't actually tried it because I don't have

the beta installed on my Apple watch. I think I prefer the way they had it before because it

seems more fun, but who knows? I trust them. They're trying to find that happy medium throughout

the interface. And so this is what they're going to do in the beta period. And because it's a beta

period that we can all watch, it's just sort of fun to sort of see how Apple is tweaking it.

And we'll see where they end up in September, October.

You're saying you prefer the disco ball.

I do prefer

the disco ball.

You call

it fun.

David says whimsy.

It's whimsy.

He loves liquid

glass.

We are now going, they should have just called it liquid whimsy.

And I think that would have

been much, much better on that.

Well, thank goodness for this story today.

If you have been missing your favorite football team in car play,

now you can get an NFL app right on CarPlay.

Oh, my goodness.

I almost want to follow this in things that I did not know that I needed,

and I still don't need them.

But if you want an NFL app to show on your CarPlay screen,

you got it now.

Yeah,

and I don't know exactly what the app does,

but there's this

one company that

works with a bunch of the NFL teams,

and the first three to have them are my own New Orleans Saints.

Who dat?

Horrible season this year, I think.

we long for the days when drew breeze was our quarterback,

but, but the Saints, the Buffalo

bills, the Chicago bears, um, what I would want for this app to do. I don't know if it actually

will do it is, um, in many local cities in new Orleans is one of them. You know, we have our

local radio broadcasters here in new Orleans. It's on WWL that cover the game and have for a long time.

And these are the people that really know the players because they're local broadcasters.

And I typically prefer to listen to their play by play. And so sometimes what

I'll do when I'm

Yeah, right.

I will.

I'm sure people do this in other cities, too.

I'll

watch the game

on my TV, but I actually use my amplifier to switch the audio to my FM radio so that I can

listen to

the local guys talking about it

because they really know the players

and I know their voices versus the national people that, you know, change from week to week and stuff.

So I sort of do that.

But if I'm driving around in my car, you know, sometimes I might just want to listen to the Saints game.

And right now what I have to do is I need to switch from car play.

I got to find the button because I use it so infrequently in my car to switch over

to

FM.

You got to go to actual radio?

The old days.

And there have been times actually where I've been like traveling and I wanted to listen

to a Saints game and I'm outside of the local market.

And I'm like, well, because, you know, I'm doing a road trip or something like, well,

how do I do this?

And you got to

find an app

and pay money.

So I don't know if that's, you know, it would be, I would love it if the Saints app or the

Buffalo Bills app or the Chicago Bears app would actually, you know, purchase the rights

to play the local sports announcement.

So that would be a definite thing.

That would be cool.

Yes.

I could

do it with all within CarPlay,

and I wouldn't have to figure out how to switch to my FM

and how to switch back to CarPlay because I do that so infrequently.

But again, that's just my – but whatever.

Who knows what they're going to do with the app,

but it's nice to see anything coming to CarPlay.

I guess.

Why not?

The NFL.

Why not?

I put this under the head of –

like I remember when Dunkin' Donuts came with an app.

Although I got to tell you, every once in a while,

I'll pull that one up on CarPlay, but I don't know why I need an NFL app.

But hey, for some of you guys out there, some of you folks that are really interested in your team, you can now follow them while you're driving around.

Well, it sounds like you unfortunately dropped your iPhone not too long ago in the airport.

And I know that feeling of you drop it, you look down at it, and then there's that moment as you're bending down to like, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please do not crack.

Please, please.

Fortunately for you, Apple continues to do some amazing durability testing.

And you can do a story today, Jeff, that I just thought was cool.

We've seen some of these over the years when Apple, you know, dares to let somebody in to just give a few images and take some pictures around on some of this.

But I thought these were cool.

I don't know that I've ever seen this picture here.

Yeah, that's interesting.

It's almost like lasers, but this is like water lasers, you know, being shot at an iPhone.

But hey, you know what?

I'm glad that Apple has spent the money to do all the durability testing so that you and I can relax once we know that it dropped.

And we pick it up and we see that there's no crack.

And maybe we continue to

have that.

I don't have a case on my iPhone.

I know you

don't.

And a lot of people look at me like I'm crazy, and I think you're one of them.

Right.

But I don't want to add to the bulk.

I want to be able to easily slip it into my pocket.

And most of the time, it's fine.

But for last year's model, and I think a couple of years before that, I would often buy a case that I would only use really in one time, which is traveling.

Because

sometimes when you're in

the airport, you're fumbling with your phone, you're using it as an ID.

And I've just got bags in my hands and stuff like that.

And so I just found historically that that was one of the few times I would actually put a case in my iPhone.

But when I got my current iPhone 16 Pro Max last fall, I'm like, you know what?

I use it so infrequently, and I don't even know that I need it for travel.

I'm not going to get a case right away.

Let me see.

And then here we are.

so many months later and I just haven't bought one at all. So when I was traveling recently,

I didn't have a case. And, and again, it was typical. I have an iPhone. I was using for

something. I went to go put it in my pocket. It slipped out of my hands. And

like

you say,

Brett, we all know that feeling. You're like, Oh no. Oh

no.

But then when it was fine,

I was like, Oh, isn't this nice? I mean, Bravo Apple. So all of these pictures you're showing of

these, you know, pretty funny, you know, robots and stuff that are doing all this stress. I say

these machines

that are doing stress testing. Thank goodness Apple does this because goodness

knows that today's iPhone is a heck of a lot more durable than that 3G that I had 17 years ago.

And I'm glad because I know that people like me, Lord goodness knows my kids. I mean,

I love my teenagers, but they're dropping iPhones.

I mean, it's

almost become a joke.

My son will typically get like one of my hand-me-down iPhones. And so

even though it's

no longer my iPhone, it's his now, I still sort of feel an affinity to it. I know I shouldn't do

anthropomorphizing my thing and so he drops it all the time Brett and when it does it it's

becoming a running a joke in my family he just gives me that smile and I'm like oh my goodness

what are you doing so

anyway thank goodness

Apple

makes these things durable

you know I could get

liquid water testing because and I just imagine there's like buckets of water

people

are just

dropping them in I get drop testing but I like this story apparently they also do vibration

testing i didn't realize that they needed but it looks like they've got about six macbook pros

strapped to this table and they have it different frequencies that are simulated through a vibration

table to create different shaking environments i i did not know

i don't really really

go into it

i mean i guess maybe a plane or a car maybe

i

guess i don't know if you have different things

but never thought about that for an iphone because like i talk about carplay i mean my iphone just

on my cup holder and I guess it shakes around but like your your your laptop computer does a

does a laptop

computer shake that much I guess it's good to know I wouldn't think so but I guess

having said that it

wouldn't take much to cause some damage to those delicate insides so you

know

I was I was just looking at my iPhone which I do have the Apple cover on it and I am seeing

three corners out of four Jeff I've got the I can see a little tiny crack on each of these quarters

because I have dropped the phone.

So

there you go.

So it's doing it inadvertently.

And the fact that I see these little cracks,

I'm like, that probably makes me keep some kind of a case on.

Every once in a while, I will take it off

because I do like the thinness of it.

And this does add bulk.

It's not like it's a bulk is a sense of weight so much.

It's just when I take off the case, I'm like, wow,

this is really thin and much better streamlined.

But, you know, I see these like there's little tiny cracks

and everything holds together still, but just makes me so nervous.

Can I ask you, Brett?

Yeah, go ahead.

Do you like that case?

Because I have to admit, if I was going

to get one,

I mean, it doesn't add a ton of bulk

and it's see-through.

Right.

I presume that it makes your iPhone not quite as slippery.

It gives you a little bit more friction on it to hold it in your hand.

That's right.

A little bit.

I mean, and as we know, there's so, so many hundreds of dozens of thousands of cases that

you can get.

This is not one of the thinner ones.

I think there are some thinner ones that they do bulk up just a little bit more on the corners

because typically when you drop it, that's where you're going to be dropping it on there.

I think I do like it simply because it is from Apple, so I knew and I had a lot of confidence

that all the buttons and everything were going to be fine.

I also actually do like the fact that it has a big cutout on the very bottom there.

Some cases just have a little tiny hole

where you can plug that

in.

So I do like that.

And just overall, I mean, I knew that the little the camera bump was going to be protected there.

And I like that.

Again, there's dozens and dozens of cases.

And of course, it's MagSafe.

And that, you know, was also pretty helpful

because I take advantage of

that all the time on there.

But yeah, just interesting.

Just when I read that, it's like every time I read a story like that, I cringe, whether it's from you or anybody.

Just

drop.

Thank you for that mini review.

I appreciate that.

Yeah, exactly.

Of course.

Of course.

In the vision.

Let's talk about just a vision pro real quick.

I thought this was funny.

We don't have too much to report on it, but I was listening to a podcast from Jason Snell, who is, of course, at Six Colors.

And one of his co-owners, co-writers is Dan Morin, who apparently I know Jason has had a Vision Pro for a long time.

I've seen pictures of him playing games and stuff, but apparently Dan Morin has not had a Vision Pro.

And Dan Morin apparently just got one, if I wasn't mistaken, just this past week.

And he's been going through and he's starting to write his little Vision OS diary.

I'm here for the whoa.

The whoa pro is coming on strong.

And I like this because it's just great to know somebody like Dan that's been writing

about Apple products for so long to get his perspective on the Vision Pro.

Dan is one of the most people that are in the majority that do not own a Vision Pro because

it's

so expensive,

even though I do love it.

And I think it's worth it for me.

But Apple loaned him one for a couple of months specifically so that he could do some writing

on it, which is great.

And I love the idea of somebody who hasn't been using it for so long, who's coming to

it fresh.

I mean, he had tried

it out before,

much like you've tried out mine before, but he had just

tried it out, but he hadn't lived with it, which is such a big difference.

And so this is his first article, but I'm looking forward to reading it.

And even if you don't currently

own Vision Pro, if

you're interested in the future of

Apple, I love getting the perspective of a smart, you know, Dan's a great writer.

He literally is a great writer.

He

writes novels and

stuff, but he's a great tech journalist.

And so I'm very excited to have his perspective on this.

But that word, whoa, it just made me laugh.

I mean, he put it

in the title of the article because, you know,

because when you've tried

it before, there are times when you're using the Vision Pro and you find yourself saying,

whoa, like, oh, my goodness.

Whether

it's one of these spatial things or like, oh,

my goodness, this is incredible.

This is so much the future.

He's very serious in his persona here.

I think he says.

I see that.

Yeah.

And you know, I felt, I saw this very interesting on this Mac quote, Mac virtual display.

He's like, is it almost too much space?

You know, we've talked about this and I know if I were to get a vision pro, this is, I would

just want to wear it all the time because I'm

constantly trying

to use more monitors and

stuff and just having that expanse of being able to, you know, I call it the desk real

estate, but it's my desktop real estate, just

having that expanse.

And he's like, is it almost too much?

But he's just, he says he's impressed with the quality.

And again, it's just great.

Like everything you just said, it's great to see somebody like Dan Morin, who we've respected for so long, writing about Mac products and Apple products, and that he's now just starting to use a Vision Pro.

It's going to be great.

It'll be fun to watch.

In the show, you got to go and see the new F1 movie, which my daughter actually went and saw as well.

And she loved it.

She's like, it was fantastic.

And I don't even think she went to an IMAX.

I think you went to an IMAX viewing and you said you liked it as well.

This is what you want to see for a summer blockbuster movie.

You want a

big

screen, fun action.

I mean, this movie is incredibly, incredibly well done.

And I mean, again, and I know nothing about racing.

If you are a fan of F1, you're going to love this movie even more because you're going to

recognize the real F1 drivers and the announcers and stuff like that.

And there's going to all be these Easter eggs for you.

I didn't get any of those Easter eggs.

I

just went in just to watch a movie and the, it is filmed so incredibly well.

And you and I've talked in the past, how at least

some of the films was

actually done with

a special camera that Apple made from iPhone parts.

But, um, but the things that they do, I mean, it is just, it, it is, it, your, your heart

is pumping.

It is an exciting movie.

It is, I mean, the plot it's, it's a typical sports movie.

So you can probably, you know, the good guys win in the end.

I mean,

whatever surprise,

but, um, but the way that they get there is incredibly fun

and it had some twists and turns that I did not see coming.

I'm not

saying it was like the most incredible movie,

but it was totally,

I didn't even do that.

But it was totally fun to watch.

And it's going to be great to watch.

I mean, if you don't watch it in the theater nowadays,

you know, post COVID, most of us watch movies

just on our television at home.

And that's fine.

If you have big TV, I'm sure you'll still enjoy it.

But if you're trying to find like,

what is a movie that justifies

going to a theater,

especially an IMAX screen,

which is even bigger and the sound's even better.

this is one and so I would encourage you to go see it and I'm not alone because I mean as it's

been reported Apple is making a ton of money from this movie and the thing is Apple traditionally

has not done great in movies I mean they had that initial hit with Coda the sign language movie but

Coda was not a movie that they made Coda was a movie that they saw in the early days of Apple TV

plus they saw it at a film

festival

and they bought the rights to it so it became their movie you know

give them some credit. They, they, they found a diamond in the rough and they publicized it. And

that's, you know, you, you know, good for you, Apple, but this is a movie that Apple has been

involved in since day one. And Apple's come out with a lot of movies and, you know, some of them

have been, you know, you know, killers, the flower moon, got some awards and that, that was good. It

was a little long, but it was a good movie. And they, um, they've had a couple more that were

good, you know, maybe not the best movies ever. They were certainly enjoyable, but like nothing,

I would probably justify going to the theater or spending big money on to see it at the big

but this is, this is that good of a movie. And so I, as I've said before, I

hope that Apple

just

learned from this experience and whatever special sauce that they added to this, of course, it also

involves working with great directors, great producers, stars like Brad Pitt. Although Apple

knows how to work with stars, they do that on Apple TV plus all the time. So I was just very,

it was a fun, I mean, this was just a pure fun movie. If this had nothing to do with Apple,

we wouldn't be talking about it on this podcast,

but the fact that it does makes

me excited for

the future of Apple movies. And again, let's just talk about the present. If you're out there and

it's a hot summer day, you want to go sit in a cool theater and watch a good movie,

I would

recommend

this to anybody. It was a

fun, fun movie.

Is there a scene where they're racing around the Apple spaceship loop

with

Craig

Crederighi?

No, that's not in there.

That's not in there, yeah.

The last thing quickly is, more seriously, I'm glad you went and saw this on an IMAX theater

because I'm so interested to hear when this comes out to your Vision Pro

and you're going to watch it on the Vision Pro again,

and I want to hear your comparison on that.

Because, I mean, I feel like there's still some differences

in how you would record for an IMAX versus the Vision Pro, the spatial video.

I could be wrong, but I'm just thinking,

like, that's the next thing that I want to hear about this.

Obviously, I'm going to watch the 2D version of this probably

because I don't have a Vision Pro.

I might try to go get C and IMAX now that I hear you talking about this, but I'm just

interested to see that comparison because I feel like, you know, that to me will be sort

of that next level of what we're looking for in the entertainment side.

Yeah.

I mean, to be clear, when this comes to the Vision Pro, this is just a 2D movie.

It's not going to be spatial.

It's not going to be 3D on the

Vision Pro.

Oh, okay.

Okay.

But watching

2D movies or TV shows on the Vision Pro is still incredible because you can make

the screen as big as you want.

I mean, I

have a big screen in my house,

but even a big screen is only so big.

You know how some people have like a home theater room in their house if you have like

lots of money and you actually have a big projection screen, like it's your own private

movie theater.

A Vision Pro is the same thing.

It's like a private movie theater.

And even if I'm just watching a regular show, I love to just, I mean, if I'm watching with

my wife or my kids, well, of course, then you're watching the TV.

But if I'm just watching it by myself, I virtually never turn on my TV anymore.

I always turn on my Vision Pro because I can make the screen as big as I want.

So to get to your

point, what's going to be interesting to

me about the Vision Pro is,

you know, there's going to be a version that runs on a regular television, which is just

like the regular movie version

with a wide screen.

But the iMac screens are very tall.

And that actually will work really well in a Vision Pro.

I hope,

and frankly, I expect,

I hope that Apple will eventually release some Apple TV

Plus.

We know they will.

But I hope that they release a version for the Vision Pro that's in that original aspect ratio format.

There is an IMAX app for the Vision Pro.

And you can watch IMAX

movies.

Like, for example,

you know, sometimes you

might go to like a science museum and they have an IMAX theater and they may have something that's filmed on IMAX.

And you can currently watch some of that.

I think you pay a few bucks for an IMAX app.

And you can watch them in the Vision Pro.

And the advantage is that instead of just being a long banner, which is fine, but it actually fills more of your field of view because it goes up and down just like an IMAX screen would.

So I'm really hoping and I'm very curious what Apple is going to do because this is such a big deal for them.

I suspect they're going to want to present the movie in the best way possible when it does come to PV Plus.

And so my hope is that they will show an IMAX formatted version of it for the TV Plus.

But we'll see.

I don't know.

I don't know.

Well, tonight you won't be watching the F1 movie on your vision probe,

but maybe you'll be watching the new season of foundation.

I'm very excited about this.

I got to tell you, I love the first season.

I feel like I got completely lost in the second season.

I couldn't keep track of who was flying around where and what time situation that they were in.

Anyway, I still like the overall story.

I've never read the books.

I know David Sparks, we just talked about.

He's a big fan.

He read the books.

And anyway, this will be good.

This was the other piece of news I wanted to talk about and in the show, just the foundation series coming.

Because, again, something original from Apple.

They took it from Isaac Asimov,

right?

And it just brilliantly, I feel like, recorded.

And I just like the whole idea, the environment, even if I don't fully understand who is who all the time.

Yeah.

And it's funny that you mentioned that because at the end of my post, I linked to this video on YouTube that Apple dropped this week that has like the top five movies from the first two seasons.

And it was fun to watch that video for me.

But when I watched that video, it reminded me that this is a very complicated show.

It's a fun show.

And believe me, it's beautifully shot.

It's beautifully shot.

But as excited as I am to watch season three, part of me wonders if I need to like go back and

rewatch seasons one and two.

Same thing.

You know what I might need to do?

sometimes there are smart people on YouTube that put together like these sort of, you know,

compilation videos. I don't know if they have the rights to do that, how that works, but like,

I might need to, or just read something. I need to remind myself of the story because it is a

complicated story. And I want to make sure that I understand it. Cause you know, it's not fun when

you watch something and you're like, wait, who's this person? Where does this come from? So I

need

to come up with a viewing

strategy for when I watch it, but I will tell you aside from that,

It's a wonderful show.

And the preview, the critics that were given early versions of season three

have said that this

is a great season.

And many

people have compared it to Game

of Thrones.

And, of course, Game of Thrones is such a groundbreaking show that it's getting to be that big.

It's that good.

It's epic.

Wow.

It's got incredible characters.

And this is epic because it actually goes across decades of time as well.

Truly epic.

So it's going to be fun to start the ride.

I mean, it's always sad when a show that I like, like Severance, like that ends.

But the nice thing about Apple TV Plus is they always have the next one.

I mean, today,

Murderbot ends, which is a

good show.

But when the season finale comes today for Murderbot, that'll be fun.

And then I put that one away.

But now as one goes away, as one door closes, another door opens.

And

here we are starting with foundation.

Good.

Good stuff.

In the know.

In the know.

I had somebody ask me this past week, Jeff, can the Apple Watch take my temperature?

And I had to think about that for a little bit because the technical answer is yes, it can take your temperature.

But that's not what this person was asking.

They wanted to be able to go into their watch and say, take my temperature and tell me what it is right now.

Similar to like we could do a heartbeat or even an EKG or ECG or something like that, right?

We can say, hey, tell me what the current weather is or tell me what the current time is.

Tell me what.

But we can't say what is the current temperature.

However, this is similar along the lines of we were just talking about this earlier

about the

Apple Watch, which is why I wanted to bring this up.

The Apple Watch can take your wrist temperature.

Now, there's an Apple support article about that explains this.

I thought this one from iDownload blog was very good that it measures a baseline wrist temperature, but it doesn't do it when you go in.

There's no temperature app that you can.

There's no complication.

There's no button to say.

But what it does is it will track your wrist temperature in conjunction with tracking your sleep every night.

So if that makes sense, you and I have talked about this, right?

You can go into this sleep mode, the sleep feature on your Apple Watch and your phone.

Actually, they kind of work together, right?

At least that's how I do it.

So I've been doing this for a very long time.

And I know you started doing this now because you

use your Apple

Watch 10.

You can keep it on overnight.

You have to keep your watch on overnight.

You have to turn on track sleep with the Apple Watch.

And then typically you have to go into a sleep focus for at least four hours per night.

So you can set this up and customize it however you want it.

Like I think mine is from 9 p.m. at night until like 4 a.m. in the morning or something like that.

You can set whatever time that you want it to be up.

And at that time, I'm sorry, I think it's at 10 o'clock.

It's at 10 p.m. at night.

My watch will go into a sleep mode.

It turns it on automatically.

And my phone does the same thing.

And so then at that point, it thinks that I'm in bed

and it can track, of course, my activity

and it tracks sleep tracking.

So that's one thing from the sleep tracking.

But in conjunction with tracking my sleep,

how many times I get up, how many times I wake

or deep sleep, REM sleep, et cetera,

it's also tracking my wrist temperature.

Now, it's really interesting how it does this.

There's like two sensors in the Apple Watch

that Apple figured out how to do this

It takes like an ambient temperature as well as your actual wrist temperature on your skin.

But it saves this.

Now, it can't tell you immediately, like the first night that you're doing this, it has to sort of aggregate this over several days.

I forget how long they say to take.

It's maybe a week or so, you know, five days.

And so once it kind of gets sort of this baseline, that's what it shows you in the Apple Health app.

It shows you your baseline temperature.

And then by default, as you go through each night, the health app will show you how much higher or lower than your baseline temperature you were overnight.

And this is going to sound a little complicated on this, but this is how the Apple Watch will track your body temperature.

Now, that in itself is a pretty good tip.

I like that.

And I like, you know, having people understand that the Apple Watch can track your temperature.

You can't, I wouldn't say it takes your temperature.

It tracks your temperature and it tracks it over a period of time.

However, here's really what I wanted to show for my tip today.

Because if you have been tracking it for a while, typically you have to do it with that sleep focus on and you have to wait several days.

But you can go into your health app, either on your phone or you can go into your Apple Watch and you can see what your temperature was each night.

So you go into the, I do this on my iPhone.

I go into my health app.

You go to body measurements and you'll see wrist temperature.

Now, by default at the top, you can see it tells you plus or minus from your baseline.

But if you scroll down on that page, you'll see there's a couple of things.

First, you can change it from Celsius to Fahrenheit if you want to do that.

But there's also a little button down there that says show more data or show additional data.

And if you go into that, you can see this screenshot here from Macworld.

It will literally give you each night and it will show you exactly what your wrist temperature was of that night.

And it gives you the start time and the end time and, you know, the source.

There's a lot more information

that goes

into that.

So if you are interested in knowing what your temperature was overnight, because typically we're a little bit lower temperature overnight, right, than we are during the day kind of a thing.

But at least there's one way that you can track that if you wanted to get a little bit more information about your wrist temperature.

My hope is, similar to exactly what we were just talking about a little bit earlier, Jeff, with the Apple Watches, is that there will be a time where I can just go in, tap a button on my Apple Watch and say, you know, how hot or cold am I right now?

What is my bodily temperature?

You know, similar to if I put like a thermometer in my ear or something like that, right?

can't quite do that right now, but I feel like that maybe in the future, this, this seems to be

more of a hardware thing because you got to have the right sensors and everything on there. Uh,

but if you want to see what your, uh, overnight temperature was, you can do

that.

So that's my

tip for the day. That was long and winded, but

I just wanted people to know on that. Oh, good.

Okay. I learned so much from what you said, because first of all, I did not know that you

could actually get a specific temperature, like, you know, so, you know, 90, 96 degrees Fahrenheit,

whatever it is. Right.

Right. And so

you're right. This is the way to do it. And it's obviously

taking your temperature throughout the night, but what it's showing is just one number for each

night. So I guess it's

like the average, right? Because I know that Apple knows

that it's not

a hundred percent accurate, but what they're trying to do

is, you know,

so that's why they

just want to bury the number because I don't think they have a lot of confidence in that particular

number, but what they do have more confidence in is how does that number change from night to night?

And so that's why they're showing you a baseline

without like an actual

number on

it.

And then is it more or less?

I have not, you know, I'm now curious.

I'm trying to think of the last time that I had a cold or something like that.

It's been a while, but I would be curious.

I wish I could do that and go back and see like, what was, was my temperature higher

or for that matter, was it lower for some reason?

And this is like you

say, this goes

back to the story that we had at the top of the, of

the

show.

Apple is going to see that data.

I mean, maybe I don't need to look at it, but I would love to have my iPhone

automatically look at it and tell me something that is interesting and actionable based upon

what it's seeing. So that's really interesting. Another thing that you said is, and you mentioned

this as an aside, but I didn't know this. So I, as you said, I started using sleep tracking when

I got my current Apple watch last year, cause it's not got enough battery power that that's okay for

me to do that. And I could just charge it in the morning and be fine. I don't, I don't currently do

like I first, I thought I was going to use these sleep trapping tracking apps or they're built in

to the iPhone too, to sort of like analyze. And, you know, I really don't look at it that much

because how many hours did I sleep? You know, whatever, how much did I get up? But what I do

look at is Apple takes that data and it puts it into the vitals setting in

health. And again,

it's just

sort of a general sense of how it thinks you're doing, which is an early version of what we

talked about.

The way that I currently

do it is like literally when I go to bed, I go to my control

panel and I kept the button

on my watch first. And I manually turn

it on because only by manually

turning it on and off will it understand exactly when I went to bed. Now, of course, just because

I go to bed, I might

lie in bed and

not fall asleep for a little bit. Although, you know,

sometimes I fall asleep pretty quickly. Whereas the way that you're doing it, Brett, but again,

for me to take the trouble of doing that every night and every morning, it does have the advantage

of being like, did I have just a few hours of sleep or did I have more sleep tonight? The way

that you're doing it, Brett, of having it automatically come on at like 10 and go up

at

four, it

means that it's not capturing the number of hours that you slept. But considering that I

don't really use that data anyway, but it is doing

it on,

but it needs to be on. It's looking at your

body temperature. It's looking how restless you are, those sorts of things. So you're getting all

of that information and you're not having to manually turning on and off.

So I will tell you,

Even though when my sleep focus turns on, let's say it turns on at 10, but I don't go to bed until 1130, it still knows that I'm up and active.

It somehow understands, because when I get up in the morning, if I only have four hours of sleep instead of six or eight, it will tell me.

And it seems to be

pretty

precise on that.

So I would just say for you.

So

for me, it's almost

like a reminder as it's almost going to the wellness side, right?

it's

like hey but

you do need to be thinking about going to bed now like don't be staying up too late

so even though it turns on sleep mode which is sometimes annoying because if i am up and doing

something i have to like you know wake up the phone or my

apple watch but

at least when it's

in sleep mode like overnight it knows that that's when i'm supposed to be in bed but it knows that

i'm not actually sleeping so and i think again that goes to some of those sensors as well it can tell

of course, when you go into sleep, there is a certain, you know, your temperature drops a little

bit. And I'm sure there's some other sensors that they have on there that they can tell that, well,

you're motionless, right? You're not walking around because, you know, the gyroscope isn't

working the same way. So I don't know all the science behind that, obviously, as you can hear

me talking about it. But I do know that if the sleep focus turns on and I'm not in bed, it doesn't

say automatically or just by default that I'm asleep. It'll still wait until I'm actually in bed.

That's cool. Well, thank you. I learned a lot from this. So this

is very cool. And

hopefully other folks do too. My tip, it actually ironically does have something to do with going to bed in a way, but here's my

tip.

So if you have the

current, any

of the current iPhone models, the ones that went on sale last September,

which is the

iPhone 16, 16 plus, 16

pro, 16 pro max. So those,

those went on sale September 16 of last year.

Or if you have the prior year iPhone, but the pro models, so the

iPhone 15

pro or the iPhone

from X,

if

you've got one of those, then you have the action button at the top of your phone,

just built just

above the

volume buttons.

And you can control that action button to have it do whatever you want.

So you can just set it up in settings.

When I press that action button, I want it to do blank.

You know, I wanted to open this type of mode or open this app or whatever.

Something that I found very useful and I've had it for a long time is instead of having

and just do one thing, I have that button do two different things depending upon the time of day.

And the way that I'm doing this, the reason I'm doing this is because what I find really useful

is when I go to bed at night, I'm more of a night owl, so I stay up later than you. And more

importantly, I stay up later than my wife. My wife usually goes to bed first and she keeps like a

small little lamp on in the bedroom, which is fine that she can go to sleep to that. I have trouble

going to sleep with lights on. But anyway, it's nice that she leaves it on for me, but I want to

turn it off. And this light, this lamp is hooked up to HomeKit, but I don't want to say, hey,

you know who, turn off the light because that's me talking out loud and that's being

rude and

waking people up. So what

I love having is my action button. And so I can just press my action

button and it turns the light off. And that makes

perfect sense to me because I usually have my

iPhone there.

But that function is really only something that I want to do at night. It's not

something I want to do during the day. I mean, I don't want to be

sitting here in my office

and

making my lamp and my bedroom go on and off. And so there's other, there's another thing that I'd

like to do. And so other than nighttime, what I actually prefer doing is Apple has the, um,

the magnifier mode that you can get to from the control panel and stuff. But like lots of times,

you know, I'll be looking at something and I'm like, I can't, you know, I'll just want to look

at that, you know, use the magnifier feature. And, um, I love having easy access to it. And

so what

I wanted to do was I wanted to have magnifier

mode during the day, but I want to have this mode during

the night. And so what I've done is, first of all, I have created a shortcut and then I've told

the action button in settings that I want you to use this particular shortcut whenever I press the

button. So that's what's one thing. But then the shortcut itself, how does the shortcut do two

different things depending upon what time of day it is? And the way it does that is

you have

to

understand that the shortcuts app knows what time it is and you can use that information, but you

just have to understand how it uses it. And Apple has a page on its website that we'll have a link

in the show notes and you're showing it right now. But it basically just shows that if you want the

shortcuts app to know what the year, what the, what is the current year in four digits,

the, the,

the, uh, the sort of the nomenclature for that is the letter Y for year, like four Y's, Y, Y, Y, Y,

that is,

that is a, uh, a wildcard replacement for the year. What I want is if I want to know

what time of day it is because the way I have it is like after 10 o'clock at night, but before like

three o'clock in the morning. So if I'm going to go to sleep, it's going to usually be after 10 or

before three for goodness sakes. And so during that time period, that's when I want to trigger

the turn off the lamp shortcut. But how does my shortcut know what that is? And for hours of day,

it's the letter H. If you use two uppercase H's, that is the hour of the day and it's a 24

hour

military time.

So 10 PM at night would be what 20, right? And so if I want to say if the hour of the

day is basically 20 or higher, or if the hour is a three o'clock in the morning would be zero three,

so zero three or lower. So that's just, that's just what you have to have in your brain. So then

it goes

into creating a shortcut.

And so I've, I've shown an example of this and I didn't write

the shortcut originally, but I've tweaked it over time, but, and we'll put a link to it in the show

notes that you can take a look at it. What I did is

I took a

couple of screenshots and I used one

of these apps to sort of put the string them all together. But what I did is

the

shortcut basically

says, okay, Mr. iPhone, I want you to figure out the current date.

And then I want you to,

from that date, I just want you to pull out the HH, which is in other

words, the military time,

you know, 19, 20, 24.

Right. And then from that, if it is greater than 20, so I guess if it's,

if it's past, you know, I guess it maybe only works for 11 o'clock at night, whatever. If

it's

greater

than 20, then I want you to turn, you know, change the bedroom light to off.

Otherwise,

if it's not greater than 20, then if it's less than three, then I also want you to do

the same thing, you know, because it would be less than 3 a.m. in the morning.

So let's just say I'm

going to bed at like 1230 or something like that. I also want this thing to do the same thing. So if

it's more than 20 or if it's less than three, but then otherwise, if it's not either one of those

things, then instead what

I want you to do is open up the magnifier app. And so every time

I trigger

this shortcut,

I press the

action button. It starts the shortcut in the background. It doesn't show

anything on the screen or anything like that. And it basically says,

okay, what am I going to do now

that

you press the button? If I'm between these hours, I'm going to turn off that lamp. Otherwise,

I'm going to open up the magnifier app. And that does exactly what I want. And so now that I have

this shortcut, I can change it over time. Like maybe

in a couple of months,

I will decide that

during the day, I don't want the magnifier app during the day. I want, you know, who's something

else like my maps app or who knows what I can just go into the shortcut and just change that one part

at the end that says,

otherwise,

you know, just open up this app, but it's a nice template. So,

so this

is, this is the format for it. Once you set it up, once you really don't have to worry

about it again, unless you want to change something and then just call it something.

I called it my action button, call them lamp shortcut. And so then I just go into the settings

And I say, whenever I press the action button, trigger the shortcut.

So anyway, it's a way to get two for the price of one.

And I like it.

It was so helpful for you to walk through this.

Like I'm showing this picture.

And if you're watching the video, you can kind of see what it's built out in the shortcuts app,

which constantly I just feel like I am certainly not taking full advantage of the shortcuts app.

And I just

love it when somebody

like this, you walk through on here and do this.

So, okay. When you hit the action button though, Jeff, this is a lot. You're, you basically have

programmed the action button.

Um,

does it go quick? I mean, I feel like that it's going to have to

think through this, but maybe not like, does it happen quick on this? Like you don't see anything

happening, right? Does it take a few seconds for this to happen or does it just open up the

magnifying glass if it's in the right timeframe here?

Yeah. So to use the action button, you don't

just press it quickly. You hold it down for about a half a second.

Okay. Right. So I'm going to

tell you

right now i'm gonna say start which is when i'm holding down the button

and i'm gonna

say stop when i actually see the magnifier so let's see how long it takes start stop there it is so

it's that quick i mean it's a it's a fraction of a second right

and i know what you're talking about

because typically that button has been or at least for me i think i still leave it on for uh silencing

right or muting the phone i mean i just i feel like that's just terrible it's like i'm not

yeah

that's that's the traditional use case is to mute the phone right that's what we used to always have

that switch on the side yeah or

you can go in like now in the settings right this happened a couple

years ago where you can go to the settings or i guess without with the 15 right that you can change

it like you can be a camera it can be the flashlight if you want it to be on so

that's sort of like

built in that's

the built-in options that apple gives you within the settings app and it's like

a really nice little kind of a visual interface there to change that but what you've done is taken

it to that next level my friend i mean you are like creating a shortcut and then i assume somehow okay

here at the very top, you've assigned this entire shortcut programming stage here to your action

button. So

the iPhone knows. Yeah, go ahead. What I've actually, at the very top there, that's just

the name of the shortcut. Actually,

that's the name.

I mean, I could call it Fred if I wanted to,

I can call it whatever I

want. Okay. Okay. Once

you give a name to the shortcut, then in the

settings app, that same one

with all the pictures. So you have

a picture of a flashlight. If you want

the flashlight app, one of the pictures you can choose is run a shortcut. And then you just

tell

what the shortcut

is. And so that's what, that's what it is. If you

go into settings here and then

you can just flip back and forth. And what you're doing is you just gone to the shortcut button,

wherever that

is on there now.

And then you just say, it says, choose a shortcut, right? And that's

what you chose in there. Okay.

And that's really, yeah, there you go.

You got it.

Ooh, I love this.

Okay. Well, thank you for providing this. And like we said, uh, you were nice to upload it,

a picture of this to your website.

So we'll make sure we include the URL there that people can click on if they

want to copy this amazing little shortcut in there.

That's great.

I just,

I got to,

I feel like we've mentioned David Sparks a few times.

He has,

I think what he calls a field guide,

right on doing shortcuts.

That would be probably a great place to start for me to go through and learn a

little bit more about using the shortcuts on there.

I'd like to learn a little bit more because that's a good thing.

That's a good thing on that.

All right, Jeff.

Well, thank you.

Enjoy Foundation tonight, season three.

I might do the same.

I got to tell you.

I buy that.

But like you, I think, do I need to go back and watch?

I feel like I got season one.

But man, season two, there was just so many things happening in different planets and worlds

and everything.

And it's like people coming back from the dead.

And

OK,

I don't know.

We'll have to figure that out.

But good stuff as always.

Thanks, Jeff.

And we'll talk with you next week.

Thanks, Brett.

Bye bye, everybody.