Welcome to In the News for August 22nd, 2025.

I am Brett Burney from appsinlaw.com.

And this is Jeff Richardson from iPhoneJD.

Hey, Brett.

Good morning, Jeff.

Good Friday to you.

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But let's get everybody up to date on what has happened in the news this week.

And you may have seen a small little update on your iPhone or your iPad this week.

It is 18.6.2.

We're not at iOS 26 yet.

But boy, I feel like Apple is to get in these last little tiny security updates right before everybody switches to the big new operating system, Jeff.

Yeah, I was surprised to have them come out with one because it was just a week ago that we were talking about the update that allowed the Apple Watch to have the blood oxygen sensor.

Yes.

And so, you know, it never would have occurred to me that they would have another update just a week later.

But, you know, and as I'm saying that out loud, everybody knows the reason for that.

Apple comes up with these, you know, emergency type updates when there's a problem.

And as as reported here by Julie Clover and many others, there was a security bug and it was one of those infamous.

It is, you know, a vulnerability that has been known to be exploited.

So whatever that is, it's something that you want to fix.

But but yeah, it's a quick update.

I updated my iPhone and my iPad and both of them update quickly.

And so something to update.

There's an update for the Mac as well.

We've got that.

Yeah, that's Mac OS Sequoia 15.6.1.

These are the sort of quasi-infamous point, point, point, point, point updates.

It's like multiple points here.

But again, it's just these last little things.

I almost feel like it's last little house cleaning before, you know, they want to try to get everybody getting iOS 26,

which I'm guessing what we're talking is still thinking about September 9th is maybe that date.

We still haven't heard for sure, right, from Apple yet.

But that's just only in maybe a couple of weeks there that we're hoping to get not just the updates on iOS 6, which, of course, was discussed over the summer, but maybe some announcements on brand new hardware.

But we just don't know yet.

It's still it's still rumors right now.

Is that right?

Yeah.

In fact, today's the 22nd.

So next week's podcast will be the 29th.

I predict that on next week's podcast, we will be able to say Apple has confirmed the date of September 9th.

We'll see that.

Oh, good.

And then, like you say, if September 9th is the date of the new iPhone event, my guess is that iOS 26 will be out later that week, maybe Friday the 12th or maybe the beginning of the next week because it usually comes out a few days before.

My guess is that on Friday the 12th, you can place orders for new iPhones.

And so we'll see.

But everything's – we are right on the precipice of a lot of big things changing in the world.

We're just sort of in that calm before the storm right now.

I know that this happening because a number of people sort of in this little couple of weeks period, Jeff, that probably the same with you.

They come up and ask me, like people that I wouldn't know or anticipate saying, hey, should I get like a new phone?

I really want to get a new phone, but I hear that maybe I should wait a little bit, right?

The same could be even for AirPods and the same for the Apple Watch.

And I'm like, well, you're right.

You might just want to hold off a couple more weeks if you can because we just don't know exactly what's going to be announced.

and it could be something exciting, which is good.

When we say Steve and talk about Apple,

most people think of Steve Jobs.

But there was another Steve once upon a time.

I mean, he's still around with us.

In fact, Steve Wozniak,

affectionately known to all of us as Woz, W-O-Z,

is the co-founder.

In fact, he founded or created the first Apple computers,

the Apple I, and was instrumentally Apple II

many, many years ago.

This is the story probably many people have heard, Jeff, that Steve and Steve started in like, I think it was either Steve Jobs' garage or some garage in San Francisco.

And that's where they basically birthed this idea of the personal computer.

Now, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak have two pretty different personalities, but somehow that yin and yang just worked so beautifully together to create basically what we know of as Apple today.

But you posted about this on your blog post today that Woz turned 75 years old this week, which is amazing in and of itself.

But every time I hear about him or there was a little video that John Gruber linked to from the CBS morning show, Morning News, which is wonderful.

Steve Wozniak just looks so fun and youthful as I remember him all of these years.

And happy birthday, Woz.

It's just I'm so glad that somebody like Woz exists on this earth and has such a passion that he has for this nerdy computer geekdom that we have developed.

I mean, not to mention the fact that he's so instrumental in Apple, but happy birthday, Woz.

Steve Wozniak just seems to me like such a great guy.

I mean, as you say, the story of Apple is so well known.

You know, Wozniak was the really smarter computer person who came up with the technology behind the original Apple computer.

Steve Jobs was also into technology, but he was the one that really figured out how to sell it, how to market it.

And you need both of them.

If you just had Steve Wozniak, it would have just been some guy creating something that nobody ever knew about.

And if you just had Steve Jobs, you wouldn't have had the technical genius of the Apple computer, which the first one was just so revolutionary at the time.

But you put the two of them together, and that's the special sauce, the applesauce, as it were.

That's what gave us Apple's computer.

So but it's funny because, you know, Steve Jobs is so well known.

You know, he was such a public figure, you know, for good, bad and otherwise.

Wozniak, everyone that's ever talked to him just says, you know, he's just this, you know,

lovable guy that just wants to do computers and teach people.

And, you know, as a founder of Apple, he could be worth bajillions of dollars right now.

But most of the money that he had in Apple, he just spent most of it on, you know, investing

and local community things and putting on some big concerts that just to make people happy in the 80s

and working with kids. And, you know, he remarked, it's noted in here that he's like, you know, I,

I think, you know, I may have like $10 million in some houses. It's not that, you know, he's,

he's homeless or anything, but he is, he, he, he, if it was all about money, it would be completely

different. He'd be one of the literally, literally one of the richest people in the world, but it's

not for him. It's just about happiness and just being, being, doing nice things and helping people

out and all these stories over the years that people, especially in the 80s and 90s, that had

an idea for something would come to him and he would just give them money just to help them get

started with their technology company and just a nice guy. My tiny little interaction with Waz,

and it's not much of one, but I don't think I've mentioned it on the podcast before,

although I did mention it many years ago on my website. I put a link in the show notes.

Oh, yes. Here.

This is, gosh, maybe 20 years ago. I was on, I forget what it was, some online forum where

people were just talking about technology things. And Woz was in there just sort of, you know,

typing things about his thoughts. And he had mentioned something about how the fact that he

had this business card, which he's like, oh, I think this thing's really fun. And he was describing

that he had this metallic business card. He's like, oh, I love to give them out to people.

You know, let me know if you want one. And so I just replied to it. I'm like, why not? You know,

and I'm like, hey, Woz, I'd love to have one. And he wrote me back immediately. He's like, oh, yeah,

I'd love to give these out. You know, give me your address and I'll send you one. And so you have a

picture right there i've got one in my hand right here it is it's it's a bizarre business card

because it's metal it's made of like aluminum this thing is sharp i mean he's he's joked in

the past you could cut steak with this thing because it's so sharp but it's like this was

before the apple card the apple you know the apple credit card is titanium but this was way before the

apple card i'm just pointing that out there's no reason to have this die cut whatever it is metal

carb with all these little things in it but it's just cool and it's a way that he would hand things

out for himself. And I think it may have been had his home address on here. I don't even know.

The phone number on it is interesting. I mentioned it in that post that he did a long time ago,

because the phone number, it's something, what is it? I don't want to get it wrong,

but whatever it is, once you get past the area code, I think of the numbers themselves are 888-8888,

which is sort of a memorable number. And it used to be like a dial-a-joke line in the general San

Francisco area. And so Woz bought it just because he's like, oh, that would be funny to have this

number. And I know for years, like if you dialed it, sometimes he would just pick up the number and

just start talking to people and like, how are you doing and stuff? So certainly don't encourage

anybody to dial it right now. You don't want to bother him, but who knows? Maybe you'll hear a

joke if you call him, but he's just approachable, nice, you know, nothing but good things. And,

you know, Apple, you know, the Apple II and the Apple are so far away for Apple. Was had nothing

to do with the Mac or anything else, but he is still technically employed by the company, I

believe. I think he still gets his healthcare through Apple or something like that. And,

you know, he's just a lovable figure. So thank goodness, you know, we wouldn't have Apple

without him. And I love reading these stories about him because he's just such a nice person.

We need, we need more people like this in the world. Thank goodness. So happy birthday,

75 years old. Happy birthday to Woz. I hope he lives for another 75 years.

I would just recommend you. So you link to Gruber's post and Gruber linked to this

CBS Sunday morning, little video. It's only like seven minutes long, but first of all,

I love CBS Sunday morning.

I remember the Charles Oswald.

I'm trying to remember who used to host it for so many years.

I loved it.

But this little video is just great because they're actually in the computer history museum somewhere.

It's like in California somewhere.

And like Woz is touching the Apple One that he developed.

Like it's in the museum.

It's just so great to see that.

And, of course, he's still just so happy and passionate about it.

And I'm just so glad that I've heard about this business card before because there's like punch holes in it, right?

Oh, yeah.

That dials the actual phone number or somehow he's got that.

I didn't know if it was like a binary code or something.

But, you know, he's just always so into all of those different things and just the uniqueness of it.

Anyway, this little video also has his wife on there.

And they're talking about an unfortunate story where people are using his likeness to scam and everything.

But it just, I mean, it's just a nice little video for seven minutes to watch and just get an idea of, you know, his passion on so many cool things.

Really, really nice there.

Well, let's talk about another Apple product that was probably didn't have anything to do with the AirPods.

But again, his legacy lives on in some of this idea.

But this was, I thought, a really interesting little article you linked to on Apple Insider from Amber Neely.

She goes through several little tips and tricks using the AirPods Max, the AirPods Pro, and just the regular AirPods.

And one of them, I think, is very relevant to probably a lot of people in the fact you can get these little silicone covers for your AirPods if you are one of these people that the AirPods, one of the few people, I would say, that the AirPods actually don't fit in or don't stay in your ears.

And I just thought this was a really unique little fix here.

Yeah.

My wife had this problem with the AirPods.

She would love to use them, but they would fall out of her ears all the time.

And so she tried, I've mentioned this in the past, she decided to change from the AirPods

to the AirPods Pro, and she wasn't a big fan of them so much.

And then she changed to the Beats Pro, I think is what they're called.

And that's what she really likes.

And the Beats are nice because they go over your ear, so they stay on really, really well.

And she loves those.

So that's what she now uses.

But I didn't realize that there's an option.

I mean, you can get them on Amazon.

There's a million people that make them.

It's like, you know, 10 bucks or less than 10 bucks.

And it's just a piece of silicone that goes around the AirPod to give it a little bit more friction.

And, you know, I never try to read too much into comments on Amazon.

But I did notice that some people on Amazon said, hey, works great, solved the problem.

And other people are like, ah, it came off or it was too hard to put on or something.

I mean, who knows?

I mean, your mileage may vary.

It's a couple dollars.

But, you know, if you want to use AirPods, you don't want to change to Beats or something else, and you would love them to have just a little bit more friction so they stay in your ear.

It sounds like it's worth giving it a shot.

Who knows?

Now, that's for the regular AirPods.

I thought it was interesting in here that Amber Neely also said if you have the AirPods Pro 2, she goes through that app that we've talked about before in the iPhone for your ear tip fit result, which is just amazing to me that they even have that little test.

I haven't done that in a while, and this reminded me maybe to go back and do that.

But one thing she mentioned in here is something that I remember my wife had to do.

Like I've just always had this idea that if you use like the medium tips on your AirPods Pro, because all the AirPods come with like small, medium and large tips.

Right. So you can change those out. It's very easy to do.

And I just have always had this this understanding, Jeff.

It's like, OK, well, if I'm a medium ear, then I both of my AirPods have to have the same tip on it.

But that's not true. And my wife did this one of her ear.

I think it was her left ear.

She found that the small tip fit better in the left AirPod, but she had the medium tip on the right AirPod.

And again, that just kind of messed with my brain because I'm like, oh, my goodness, that's not symmetrical.

How can that work?

But it worked out great for her, and Amber mentioned that in here too, which I just thought was a really neat addition.

Yeah, I've actually heard other people that have remarked to me.

It's like, oh, isn't this odd that I have two sizes?

And I'm like, you know what?

The human body, you know, everybody sits just – your body is what it is, and whatever fits fits.

So it's Apple knew what it was doing when it decided to include the three different sizes for the AirPods Pro because there really are a bajillion different ear sizes.

And, you know, it's nice.

And then lastly, you just mentioned about the beast, but she also mentioned down here that there are some over the ear third party like aftermarket hooks over the hooks that you can buy and put on your AirPods.

any of the AirPods, if you do want that over-the-ear kind of a thing.

I feel like this looks a little bulky to me, and I just – I mean, I'm one of those that the AirPods Pro work absolutely fantastic for me.

But I think this is just a great article in the fact that it lists several of these options there,

that if you do – if you found that they don't necessarily work for you directly out of the box,

here's a couple of options that you can try, including these over-the-ear hooks too.

Yeah.

You know, the AirPods, it's not surprising to me that there's so many third-party options

because AirPods are so incredibly popular.

In fact, there's another podcast that I listen to every week called The Upgrade Podcast.

And they were talking earlier this week about if they were just, you know, looking for things

to fill the time in the summer when there's not many new announcements.

And they were saying, you know, what products do you think Apple loves the most, you know,

puts most of its attention to?

And of course, the number one product was the iPhone.

We all know that.

But way at the list, they thought AirPods, and I actually think there's something to

it.

I mean, AirPods are incredibly popular.

So many people have.

I mean, all you need to do is look around the streets and looking at the white and people's ear pods.

So I don't know what the numbers of sales are, but I just think that Apple has sold a bajillion of these.

And so, you know, anyone that can come, you know, any of these third party companies that can come up with a way to, you know, even if you're only fixing something for 1% of the market, that's still a huge number of people.

So it's not surprising to me that there's all these options out there.

So, yeah, it was nice to see a bunch of them in this one article, these options you can do.

Not only are they so popular, I found this video from this – the company is Real Engineering or at least the video company is Real Engineering.

I was going to text this video to you when I found it earlier this week.

I thought to myself, well, surely Jeff's probably already found it and you had and you linked to it.

This is like an 18-minute video on how the AirPods are built.

But, I mean, that explanation doesn't even do this video justice.

When I just watched about half of this already, and I am just mesmerized at how much engineering is going into these tiny little things.

So they use like a CT scanner, I think, right, to do like a 3D x-ray of all of the internal components.

Not only that, in this first little section here, they're talking about the difference between the actual AirPods Pro and how much engineering goes into that versus sort of these not necessarily knockoff AirPods Pro, but other non-Apple AirPods or earbuds.

And even just the way the battery is constructed, I mean, this was amazing how much engineering goes into these AirPods.

You know, it's the fact, like I think of something that's so popular, like the AirPods.

And I guess I just don't take the time to think about how much mechanical engineering goes into it.

Like I remember they were talking about the Bluetooth antenna inside each of these AirPods Pro.

And I'm like, man, like I got to take better care of these things.

There's so much engineering inside of them.

What a fascinating little video here.

Just the other day, I came across a picture from Christmas at my house in the early 80s.

And it was a Christmas when both my brother and I, we were like teenagers.

We had gotten Sony Walkmans as presents, which, you know, I still remember to this day as one of the best Christmas presents ever because I love my Sony Walkman.

And of course, it had just the very simple, you know, headphones that would come out, you know, just a little cord with a thing that would go over your head.

You know, the way the technology has gone from, you know, just a silly little not very high quality, you know, Sony Walkman headphone to AirPods.

I mean, AirPods are, they are little bitty computers.

They are incredibly sophisticated.

They are so, so tiny.

I mean, I think about, you know, my Apple Watch and how Apple squeezes so much technology into that.

But the AirPods are so much smaller than that.

And there's all these things.

I mean, of course, it's got to have the speakers in it, but it's got to have microphones.

It's got to have antennas.

It's got to have things shielded correctly.

It's got to, you know, the battery, you know, everything about them.

It is truly, I don't think people appreciate it enough.

I think it's the sort of thing that, you know, oh, yeah, it's just my AirPods.

They are true marvels of engineering.

And a video like this makes you think about just the incredible technology that goes into this.

And, you know, rumors of changes coming.

We've talked in the past that there's a rumor that Apple might be soon coming out with something that's almost like a real-time translator.

So that if you're speaking German and I'm speaking English, my AirPods will hear your German and translate it almost in real time in English.

I mean, I have no doubt that this technology is coming soon.

And it's all just because of this technology of the AirPods.

It's so much more than just, oh, it's the next version of my Sony Walkman headphones.

No, these things are incredible technology.

And I love the fact that Apple, I mean, obviously they're popular and Apple makes a lot of money off of them, which thrills me because it means that Apple continues to push the envelope.

I mean, I loved my original AirPods.

And then when the AirPods Pro came out, I'm like, oh, this is so much better.

And, you know, with the noise cancellation.

And then, of course, Apple has now brought a version of noise cancellation back to the regular AirPods.

And, you know, I'm sure there's going to be new versions coming soon.

It is in some ways it's an unsung hero.

You know, bravo to Apple for the AirPods.

Switching little gears here, about a year ago, year and a half ago almost, maybe even two years, we started talking about passkeys, Jeff.

as in like the next generation from passwords,

which all of us have been struggling with for years and years,

going to pass keys.

Now, I have to tell you, since we talked about this,

I haven't felt like there has been a general acceptance of it.

I've seen it pop up more and more myself in websites, for example,

and I've used a few, a few, I would say very, very sparingly

because I'm like, yeah, I don't want to mess with that

and set that up right now.

I just want to go with my password that I know.

Of course, both you and I use one password all the time, and I just am so comfortable using that and trust it so much.

But I thought this was an excellent article you'll link to from Glenn Fleischman at Six Colors.

He probably has done one of the better jobs that I have seen explaining what passkeys are.

I admit that I still have some hesitation on it just because it's like, okay, well, wait, that's going to make me change my general workflow and how I log into sites.

Now, the couple, maybe three or four sites that I have enabled it on, it's gone well.

I like how Glenn kind of talks through it a little bit and even uses his own example here down here at the bottom that it really works.

It's much more secure.

But I don't know, Jeff, I still have this hesitation.

Like, if I'm hesitating adopting it, what are, quote, normal non-nerd geek people doing right now?

Because I've already gotten questions from people when it's popped up on websites.

like what is this i don't i don't know if i want to do with it do i trust this people even sometimes

think that it's that it's a rogue hacker or some kind i'm like no no it's legitimate but it hasn't

been fully adopted quite yet gosh i could not agree with you more brett i like you i completely

understand and i i drink the kool-aid pass keys are so much better and yet i i personally although

i have started using them on some websites i'm i know that i'm not using them as much as i should

And so if I'm not, you know, why aren't everybody else?

And so Glenn Fleischman always does a fantastic job of taking complicated subjects and describing

them simply.

But, you know, as he points out, passwords suck.

You know, there's a lot of problems with passwords, even if I mean, of course, some

people have bad passwords.

You know, the name of their pet one, two, three is their password for every site they

use or something like that.

But even if you have unique and complex passwords because you use like a password manager, like

one password. There's so many problems because, you know, he talks about the problem of phishing.

It is because I'm, you know, the head of technology at our law firm. I'm constantly

seeing all these different ways that the bad guys, the hackers are trying to convince people at my

law firm to click links and and pretend like it's an appropriate login and get people. And

and some of the stuff I'm seeing, it's like you almost got to hand it to these guys because

it's nefarious, clever. And like they can so trick people if you're not careful. And so it's so easy

be tricked into giving your password to the wrong person. And then once they have your password,

they can often, you know, get in and do a bunch of stuff. And it's not just, you know, generic spam

phishing emails. Sometimes it's spear phishing where it's really targeted towards you. Plus,

that's just on your side. You know, on the website side, a lot of websites don't practice the type of

hygiene that they should or they think they do and they still get hacked. And if the password

that you use for website XYZ is only used for XYZ, well then fine. But if you use the same password

in multiple places or a variation of the password, then you're in trouble. So there's all these

reasons that the current system that we've had forever of a username and a password is a problem.

And pass keys solve that. And let me say, even for passwords, you have two-factor authentication,

and that's a big help. That's definitely a big help. But sometimes if somebody's tricked into

giving their password because they think they're doing something appropriate. They'll then be

tricked into giving up a two-factor code and the bad guy gets your two-factor code, immediately

logs it to login. So even two-factor is not a perfect solution. Pass keys are the solution

because what they do is it's a unique thing between just you and just the website. And so

if it works with website 123, somebody else cannot impersonate website 123. It's not going to work

because they're not going to have, you know, there's two parts of the pass key. There's the

part that's public and the part that's private and Glenn goes into all of that here. So you know that

it could only be used on the right website and you know that it's actually yours. Nobody else can,

if somebody else tries to, you know, there is no password that they can copy. If somebody in the

middle of Russia, they can't take your pass key and then use it because they don't have your unique

device. So it's so much more secure. In fact, you don't even need two-factor authentication because

that's sort of built into it. It's definitely the right way to go. Now, not the problem, but

the reality of passkeys is that you do need to have a place to store your passkey that you're

going to always have access to. And so if you live in the Apple ecosystem and you only use Apple

products, well, then you could use Apple's built-in password manager because it handles passkeys.

If not, I mean, I use PCs at work and Macs at home and I use all sorts of different stuff.

For me, one password is the perfect way to do it because I just store my passkey in one password

and then I have access to it wherever I am. And one thing that Glenn mentions in this article that

I have to admit, Brett, I didn't even remember this.

Maybe I've read it before.

But he said that even if you're trying to log into a website that has a passkey and you're

doing it from a device that doesn't have like your password manager or whatever on it so

that your passkey is not on it.

He's like, you can still log in.

There's a way that as long as you have like your iPhone with you, you can like scan something

on the screen and you're technically using your iPhone to log in, which does have your

passkey to tell it, oh yeah, I'm at a hotel computer, you know, and I, it's this one, this

one time only logged me in sort of thing. I have to admit, I didn't know that they have that. And so

the, the, the, the smart people that came up with passkeys thought through all of this.

And I really do think it is the future. Gosh, I would love to have a future, man. And we're

moving towards us at my own law firm where we didn't have passwords at my law firm. We would

move towards complete passkeys for logging in. So I, I, this really is better, undeniably better.

It does have a tiny bit of a learning curve, but again, passwords have a tiny bit of a

learning curve too, because you got to tell people, make them all unique.

So I, you know, reading this article reminded me that I myself need to get more on board

with pass keys.

I need to just, I think one password even has an option that it'll tell you the websites

that support it.

I just need to go use it for all of those.

And then just, and you know, it's not a complete solution because Glenn points out that nowadays,

because we are in this transition period, even websites that support pass keys,

also have passwords as a backup, which is understandable, but it does take away some

of the advantage because like, you know, let's just pick Amazon, for example, if you have a

passkey for Amazon, but there's also a password out there, well, that means that you might use

your passkey every single day of your life. But because that password still exists, if in theory,

a bad guy got access to it, they might be able to use it. Now, of course, the flip side is if you

never use your password, you're much less likely to potentially leak it to a bad guy that's trying

to, you know, spearfish you or something like that. So it's, it's a halfway solution, but you know,

the real solution is to have a future where we just don't have passwords at all. You just have

passkeys. But, so this is a great article, you know, and, and even though passkeys have been

around for a while, I would call it timely because we're at the part where we're at the point now

where this, this works, this technology works. It's just on us to use it as users and it's on

the companies and the services that we deal with to implement it. Right. Right. Yeah. The only

question I have, and maybe I'm already answering it in my mind is, how is it different than using

an authenticator app? And I guess that's because that authenticator app is almost like the two

factor authentication, right? Like, I've almost gotten annoyed with authenticator apps, because

there's Google Authenticator, there's the Microsoft Authenticator, there was like Authy for a long

time, and there's some of these others authenticator apps. And I think when I log into like Salesforce,

It has its own authenticator app, and it's like I think I have to use a password first, and then I have to go to the authenticator app to use the authentication code, and usually it kind of refreshes every minute or so, whatever that is.

Well, I'll tell you one.

Go ahead.

Yeah, please.

Go ahead, because I'm trying to remember, and I think I'm answering my own question, and probably you know a little bit as well.

But I feel like the passkeys then would even just bypass having require of that second authentication.

Is that right?

Okay.

Yeah, so let me give you an example of it.

Let's say let's just we're going to pick on Amazon.

OK, let's say that somebody is spear phishing me.

So they've sent me an email that makes, you know, you know, your Amazon return needs help.

And so I click the email.

I think I'm on the Amazon website, but the reality is I'm on the bad guy's website.

OK, you'll be with me so far.

So he then says, give me your password.

And so I type it in.

He immediately types it into Amazon.

And then he says, now give me your two factor code, like you just said, give me that six

digits.

And so like I give him the six digits and then he immediately logs into Amazon with six digits.

But that would work.

That's a way to bypass two factor.

But in a pass keys world, that doesn't work because Amazon, as he is trying to log in from Russia, China, North Korea, wherever it is, they're going to know that this person, the one that's actually logging in, doesn't have his version of the pass key on his side.

And so they will know this is somebody impersonating Jeff Richardson.

This is not the real Jeff Richardson.

So that is an example.

How about – it's similar.

I mean it's – the one factor, the one-time code that you're talking about is definitely a big improvement of security.

Those have been around for decades now, but they're still not as secure.

So that's exactly, again, what Glenn talks about here.

He goes into explaining public key cryptography, which is actually nothing new.

I've known about this.

This has been around for decades because this is what the original email encryption was built on.

I think it was PPG, right?

PGP, pretty good privacy.

PGP, thank you.

PGP, of course.

PGP because the idea was like somebody could authenticate the fact that an email was from me because I used my private key, which is what a passkey would do, and they had my public key, right?

And then they could basically verify it.

Okay, that helps a lot, Jeff.

Thank you.

Okay, I don't want to spend too much more time on that.

But I mean, the fact that we're having to go through this discussion and understand it just, again, makes me a little nervous.

Like, I don't know how you and I are going to handle our parents, you know, understanding passkeys.

I mean, we barely get them to use passwords as it is right now.

It is important and it is good.

And we're going to continue to talk about it because I do believe, like you, that it is the future.

And thank you, Glenn, for putting this out on that.

Let's talk about Apple TV subscription, Apple TV+.

Now, we're not going to do in the show yet because I don't think we have anything for in the show today.

But let's talk about the cost, the subscription cost for Apple TV+.

This isn't the Apple TV hardware.

This is the Apple TV Plus subscription where you get severance and Ted Lasso and all of the other great things that comes.

Well, when it started out in 2019, right?

I think that's when it first started out.

What was it?

$4.99 a month.

Now, all these years later, it is now $12.99 a month.

That is crazy, Jeff, that it has gone up that much.

Now, there's been a couple more increases.

It went to $6.99, $9.99 in 2023, and now in 2025, it is now $12.99.

That's a little crazy for that jump, but people are still going to pay that, I think.

I mean, frankly, I think it's worth it.

I'm sure Apple, I think somebody mentioned maybe Joe Rosignol here or John Gruber mentioned.

Apple is justifying it because it's like, well, don't you want to pay for the great content that we put out now?

And we do, and I think some people are willing to pay for that.

But there's a couple of different ways that you can still get it for a little bit less.

So I don't think it's crazy.

I actually think it makes perfect sense.

When the service first debuted six years ago, it had like four shows.

So paying five bucks for four shows is like a buck a show.

Of course it's not going to be very much.

And the content has – and with some rare exceptions, Apple has not purchased content from others.

They haven't gotten let's buy the entire years of Friends and Mad About You and shows like that.

So it's all been their own stuff.

They have built it organically.

But over time, it is now to the point that I can no longer watch everything on Apple TV+.

There are shows out there that look like they would interest me, but I just don't have that much time in my day.

And so it's now, so that's why, you know, Netflix has a bajillion shows.

Apple has fewer, but the quality of the Apple shows is so good.

I mean, time after time, I see people say that ranking the best streaming services,

many people consider Apple TV Plus to be the best simply because it's got so many good shows.

There are also good shows on HBO, on Netflix, on Disney Plus, on Paramount, you name it, NBC.

But it is definitely near the top.

And so there's lots of good stuff.

So I think it's legitimate for Apple to say this should now be priced similar to any of these other services, all of which have an increase in their prices.

And so when Apple entries to $6.99 and then $9.99, so I think it makes sense.

Apple increased back in – what was the one before this?

In 2022, Apple went up to $10 a month.

In my mind, I didn't really think of it as being $10 a month.

I thought of it as being 100 bucks a year, which I guess is sort of 12 months for the price of 10, because I'm going to continue to subscribe to it year long.

But so many people subscribe to streaming services on a month to month basis.

And John Greber explains why.

Because a lot of people will say, I'm going to use Netflix for three months, then I'm going to cancel it.

And then I'll pick it up again because I want to watch Stranger Things and then I cancel it.

And people do the same thing with Apple TV Plus.

So those are the people that by increasing the monthly price, which is all that Apple has done this week, just the monthly price has gone up from $10 a month to $12 a month or to $13, rather.

If you're going to come in for a few months and drop out, well, you're going to have to pay a little bit more.

But if you have an annual subscription, either only to Apple TV+, which is still $100 a year, or Apple One, which we're going to get to in a second, the price stays the same.

So I don't think it's surprising.

And I realize people may say, oh, I'm just being an Apple apologist.

but I honestly think it's worth it.

I mean, when I sit down to watch TV on the weekend,

my number one place is going to be Apple TV Plus

because the shows are so good.

And there's so many new ones coming out.

So I do think it makes sense.

Now, I will admit, you know, in the bigger picture,

we are in an ecosystem where, you know,

way back when you just paid one month

for your Geeker Cable TV.

And now we've gotten to the point where,

you know, maybe I am, maybe I've cut the cord, who knows.

But, you know, or you're like me, you pay too much

because I pay for my quote unquote cable TV,

which for me is still direct TV.

But then on top of that,

I'm paying for all these different streaming services

separately.

And so it's ridiculous, I guess, how much I do pay for,

but I actually do get value out of them.

And even I jump in and out.

Like right now, I currently have a Paramount subscription

that I turned on about a month ago.

And I'm going to probably turn it off in a month

when I'm finished watching Dexter,

just because I don't watch it enough.

But there's just so many options out there.

So anyway, I think it's legitimate.

I'm not surprised that Apple has raised the monthly price,

But it is a good opportunity, and many others have raised their prices recently too, Disney and others.

But it's a good opportunity to sort of think about what do I need?

Do I need to have all these things?

Do I want to pay for a year?

Do I just want to pay for a month?

Well, when you explain it that way, Jeff, that helps a lot.

And certainly, I mean, I think that's Gruber's point here as well, right?

That this price increase is really for those people that may only want to pay for maybe one or two months at a time.

They watch as much as they can and then they kill it.

And certainly that would be a lot less expensive.

However, as you just briefly noted, the annual subscription to Apple TV Plus is going to remain at $99.

So you mentioned in 2023 when they upgraded, you know, they went to $9.99 a month.

That was sort of the same price.

But now if you paid every month, you would be paying effectively $156 a year.

So $99 for a year is really a good deal at that point.

And that's what Gruber says.

Or one of the other things I think you pointed this out, I know here you have another story from 9 to 5, where you can also choose instead to get the Apple One subscription, which is not just Apple TV+, but it also includes Apple News subscription.

It includes Apple Fitness+, it includes Apple Arcade, it includes Apple Music.

Now, I know both you and I subscribe to this, and I got to tell you, every month it hits my credit card.

I think it's like $39 now with tax and something like that.

But then I think of all of the benefits I get with it, including Apple TV+, and I'm like, man, totally worth it.

I still think it's great and worth it, and it sounds like you do too.

Yeah, there's three different tiers of Apple I, so be clear about that.

The cheapest tier, the individual tier doesn't include all of the features.

It doesn't include fitness.

It doesn't include news.

It does, however, include the music and the TV and the games and stuff like that.

And I don't have the prices.

You can probably pull that up on the Apple website.

Yeah, I'll find it right now.

Pull that up while we're talking.

There's the cheapest tier.

There's the family version of the cheapest tier, which is nice because you can share it among people.

So the per person cost becomes less.

And then there is the premier package, which is 37, basically 38 bucks a month.

And that's the one that I have and you have.

and it adds a lot of things like fitness plus, which is great. Yeah. This is the page I was

talking about. And if you scroll down to the prices, you'll see the three parts of it.

There you go. So the individual is 20 bucks a month. The family is 26 bucks a month and the

premier is 38 a month and it has what you get. But I like the premier because you get fitness plus,

which I do use for workouts. I think it's really good. News plus we've talked about this time and

time again. I continue to think it gets better. There's so many news articles that otherwise I

would not be able to read, not just things like the Wall Street Journal, but other ones too,

Washington Post, others, that I can read many of those articles on News Plus, and it's great.

Plus, it sort of surfaces for me the news of the day that I care about. And so I just have my

widget right there on my iPad just to sort of get a sense of what's going on in the day. I really

like News Plus. I think a week or two ago, I talked about the new emoji game that they have

in addition to their crosswords and everything else, which I really like. So you put it all

together and it actually, plus you also get the iCloud storage. And this is just last night,

I noticed that you get two terabytes of iCloud storage for you and your family in the Premier

plan.

And since, you know, what I recommend that everybody do now is you want to have your iPhone and

your iPad and your computer backed up, but just have them backed up automatically to the

iCloud service because that is dependable.

It works fine.

And so with my Premier plan, everybody in my family has all their devices backed up.

I also use that storage space for my photos, which of course is not just photos.

It's also videos, which take up a lot more space, at least the ones that I keep in there.

So I looked last night, Brett, and I'm like, well, you know, I'm glad that I have two terabytes

because I bet you I use a bunch of it.

And I was amazed to see that I'm currently using like over 1.8 of the two.

Like I'm starting to get to the limit.

And a big part of it, as I mentioned today, my photo storage alone is 800 gigabytes.

But, you know, I've got my backups.

My son has his.

My daughter has his.

my wife, you know, is a little smaller there for my wife. She doesn't have as much stuff on her

phone, but you know, you add them all up and like, I, I'm almost getting worried that two terabytes

is not enough. And I'm going to be sad. I'm going to be sad when it's not enough, which I guess is

going to happen soon because to go up from two terabytes to the next level, it's actually pretty

expensive. I think it was looking at it the other night that you can go from two to, I think four or

six, but the price increase is substantial. I want to say Apple's charging like an additional

30 bucks a month or something like that. It's right there on your iPhone if you go

and your settings. So I'm not going to be happy when I have to upgrade my iCloud storage.

Hopefully I can find a way to stay within the two terabytes for as long as possible.

But regardless, you know, to getting back to the point, you know, you get a whole lot of value,

especially if you have a family plan, you get a whole lot of value. But even if you're at the

other end, even if you're at the individual level, you know, now that Apple TV plus per month is what,

13 bucks. So for just an additional seven bucks a month, you can add onto it, you know, some iCloud

storage, what is it? A 50 gigabytes. So it's not very much, you know, some iCloud storage and the

Apple music service, which people would pay for independently through Spotify or something,

plus Apple arcade. So it, it, it, I think it, Apple has done exactly what they want. They've

convince you to pay a little bit more money to them month after month for services.

And as we talk about every quarter, when Apple has its financial results,

Apple makes lots of monies from iPhones and everything else that it sells.

But that services revenue is becoming a bigger and bigger part of Apple's revenue every year.

And so they want to get people used to paying month after month for Apple One,

month after month for the Apple Care, for everything else.

It's just a good way to get that steady flow of dependable income for them.

Let's talk about our sponsor for today.

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Yeah.

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I'm just going to add the confidence level in there, Jeff.

You're talking about it from the outside perspective on there.

But when I've worked with attorneys that have been able to use these apps, and again, there's not a, I mean, there is a little bit of a learning curve just to make sure that you are comfortable with it.

But I have trained many, many people on these apps, Jeff.

And just having the confidence, like when you have all those documents available to you in TrialPad, they don't have to worry about like what document was that?

Where can they go?

They just go and they search for it quickly.

Or to your point, they can search for something in a transcript really quickly.

And just having all of that accessible right at your fingertips makes a huge difference just in your own confidence level and being able to know that you can talk about that.

And I just wanted to mention that because I see so many people, how that transforms them.

They're like, oh, yeah, I don't have to worry about this as much anymore.

I don't want to go on forever, but let me share one more thing.

I have had multiple times where I have been in a deposition.

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And I instantly, because I have my iPad with me, I've got every prior deposition transcript with me right there in transcript pad.

And within seconds, while he's talking, I can instantly pull up because I've tagged it from poor.

Like, you know, OK, well, that's interesting, Mr. Johnson, that you say this.

But when we deposed, you know, the eyewitness the other day, he said such and such and such and such.

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You're going to you're going to stick them on it.

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I couldn't do that in real time in a deposition, but I can with transcript pad.

So anyway, enough about that.

It's like it's like that was your like your Matlock moment.

Do people even know who Matlock is anymore?

Do they even say it?

Okay.

Just close this out.

Thanks, Lit Software, for your continued support.

You know that we're big fans of these apps.

And we just wanted to mention, once again, not only can you sign up for an individual license of this,

you can just go and it's associated with your iCloud account.

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So if somebody comes and goes at your firm, whatever you need to do, send an email to hello at litsoftware.com.

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Let's do a quick where you at segment.

Where you at?

It's an interesting story, Jeff.

Wow.

I mean, kind of scary, but happy ending.

Heart rate alerts on an Apple Watch led this lady to a brain tumor diagnosis.

I mean, the stretch there is crazy, but because she was getting some of these alerts, and if you can read this story,

I mean, she's gone through some tragedies in her life, some tragic times that have happened.

So she was very stressed out, and she just kind of dismissed these alerts about her heart.

It's almost like I call them palpitations, but that's not accurate, the medical term.

But she dismissed them as like, okay, well, I'm just going through some hard times right now.

But finally, she did go into a doctor's office, ended up getting a brain scan, I believe, right?

And they found a tumor that they were able to take out.

I mean, just amazing that the Apple Watch would lead you to that, even though it's certainly not designed to detect brain tumors, at least not initially.

Yeah, we often read stories and talk about it on the podcast of someone who, oh, I didn't realize I had condition X, but the Apple Watch detected it for me.

This is a story in which, yes, the Apple Watch actually did detect something.

But once you have your interaction with your health care professional, of course, we should all get our annual physicals.

There's, you know, your PSA for today.

But, you know, just by getting in there, doctors can ask you other questions and see other things.

And that's what happened to her and led to the brain tumor.

I will tell you, when I read the story of this poor woman, I feel bad for her.

I mean, she was going through a bad situation.

She lost her dad.

She lost her dog.

It's like a country song, you know, every it's this and that and the other thing.

She had she had a stressful situation and she had a stressful trip.

This person had some stress in her life.

And as the article describes, you know, that stress can lead to, you know, stress in your body.

And it was leading to this condition that ectopic beats, which I don't know a lot about myself,

not a doctor, but doesn't sound good.

So it was excellent that her Apple Watch alerted her, hey, something may not be right here.

And that got her in the door to see her doctor.

But then, you know, it just goes to show that once you're there, something else can be discovered.

So, you know, everybody, gosh, I mean, I just feel like Apple Watches are so useful for day-to-day

stuff, but I sure am happy that my Apple Watch is there just keeping an eye on me, making

ensure things are okay. If I fall down, it's going to sense it. If I need some help,

if it senses something, you know, incorrect, you know, I I'm, I I'm sure I know that Apple has in

their labs, all sorts of future sensors that they're going to come out with in the future.

And I look forward to that because I just like, you know, having that early detection,

giving you early warning signs so that, you know, when to go in and talk to your doctor,

to your doctor. It's just so important. So this is another good story. Talk to your doctor,

talk to your lawyers too. Let's also say that don't forget to talk to your love of your lawyer.

Lawyers need your love as well.

Cover all the bases.

Exactly.

But no, talk to your doctor.

I saw this ectopic beats and I'm like, wow, is that like a new Apple Music channel or something here?

It's like, that's interesting.

But no, that's extra beats or palpitations in the heart.

Very important.

But we're just happy that the Apple Watch helped her to find out some additional health issues there and get them resolved.

In the vision.

We'll do a quick in the vision segment here.

Because if you have it in the vision, if you have a Vision Pro, you've got a couple of new immersive environments, which I usually kind of laugh at a little bit.

Like, do you really need an immersive environment?

Until, of course, I got to wear your Vision Pro, Jeff, and I was like, this is amazing.

The immersive environments are amazing.

And now, not only can you sit in like an island in like Denmark or somewhere, I forget where that one immersive environment was.

But you can also now sit in a Harry Potter – I forget what's the school.

Hogwarts.

It's like the big castle with the floating candles on it.

Great hall, yes.

Thank you.

Yeah.

This is cool.

You know, immersive – I use my Vision Pro, you know, as often as I can.

And I usually don't use an immersive environment in part because, like, it'll be like a Friday night and I'm watching TV.

But I don't want to be completely closed off to the outside world.

So if, you know, one of my kids comes in and wants to talk to me, I can see them.

But sometimes when I know that I'm by myself, it is nice to just turn the world around you

into a serene beach setting or Joshua Tree or one of these things, because it just sort

of allows, or actually it's not just when I'm watching TV.

Sometimes when I'm getting work done, I actually like, and again, I have mixed emotions about

being closed off to the world around you, but it's really nice to just be in this complete

and serene environment that I can focus on my Microsoft Word document and my web browser

and my other stuff.

And so I do like the immersive environments.

So the way different apps like HBO and Paramount and Disney, they have immersive environments built into it that they only work while you're using the app.

I wish there was a way that you could use it when you're not in the app.

But so while I'm in the Disney app, I can now go and turn on – actually, this is HBO here.

The HBO – they previously had only one of those environments.

It was the Game of Thrones, the big throne that had all of this that made it of swords.

And so you could be in that environment.

And it was sort of cool because it was incredibly realistic.

You'd look around and it was sort of dark.

It was a nice place to watch a movie.

This new one, it's really cool.

I was playing around with it.

So, I mean, I, you know, putting aside the problematic relationship that I have with the fine creator of Harry Potter.

We won't get into that political thing and her problematic views.

But what she created, the story itself is amazing.

When my kids were little, I had for over a year, I sat there every night and we read all the Harry Potter books beginning to end.

My kids loved it.

I loved it.

It's something I will treasure the rest of my life.

And then, of course, when the movies came out, I loved watching the movies with them.

And so to be sitting there in the great hall where they had, you know, where the kids in the story had lunch and the students had their four tables for the four houses.

The owls.

Gryffindor, Huff and Puff.

Exactly.

The owls would fly in the mail.

The candles were floating on top of you.

I mean, I was I was in it just last night, Brett, and you're sitting there and like it is so realistic.

I'm like, oh, my goodness, I am sitting in the great hall.

I'm looking up. I'm looking down.

It is I mean, I'm here and there's background ambient noise of just, you know, like it would be like what you would hear if there was stuff going on in the background that you're not seeing.

You know, you look at the fire to the left and it's flickering and stuff.

And then when you go to watch a show, the entire thing dims as if it's nighttime.

And then like the candles are all lit and stuff like that.

I'm like, wow, this is a really nice way to watch a movie.

Now, I do have one gripe about some of these environments.

Some of them, actually, the Hogwarts one is okay.

The Hogwarts one, when you go to watch a movie, the screen is actually a pretty good size.

So it's about the same size that I would normally make my screen, which is like a really big TV.

But I've noticed that some of these environments, like another one that's new today or new in the last week or two, is there's a show on Disney+, which I've actually just started watching.

I've only seen the first episode, but it's actually pretty good.

It's called Alien Earth, and it's the latest in the Alien franchise, which I was never – I mean, the Alien franchise was fine.

But I liked the first episode.

I really enjoyed it, and I look forward to watching the second one this week.

But they have an environment from this show that it's the containment chamber, if that means anything to you.

But it's sort of a creepy, spooky, futuristic, but also a little scary environment.

And I was sitting in there last night and I'm like, this is really, really good.

And then I'm just sitting there for a few minutes.

And then suddenly like one of the monsters sort of goes across the screen at the top.

I'm like, oh, whoops.

Not that he was attacking me, but it was like in the background.

I'm like, oh, I didn't expect that to come.

But in that environment, when you go to watch a show, the place where it puts the screen,

it's almost like I'm sitting in a movie theater and I'm sort of like in the back of the theater,

which I know some people like to sit in the back.

I prefer to sit more of like the middle to the front.

And there's no way to resize.

This is an Apple limitation.

This is not the fault of Disney necessarily.

There's no, you know, whatever the default screen size they give you, you can't make it bigger or smaller.

And that's one of the things I really like whenever I'm watching TV by myself.

I always use my Vision Pro because I can make a perfect size television that's basically like the size of a movie theater.

And it's such an enjoyable way to watch a show.

But if I'm watching Alien Earth, as cool as this environment is, I don't want to watch it here because the screen's a little smaller than I would like.

So I watch it outside.

But again, hopefully this stuff will get better.

I'm glad that companies are continuing to come out with new immersive environments because they're incredibly cool.

And I know that there's not a lot of Apple Vision Pro users right now, but I want them to continue to develop these things so that in the future we can use them.

So anyway, the last thing I mentioned about the app, the Harry Potter one is, and I said this in my post, I'm a mate.

I mean, obviously they came out with this because HBO, you know, Warner, whoever, they own the rights to Harry Potter and they have just started filming a Harry Potter TV series.

And it's I think I think it started filming this week in London.

So it doesn't come out this year.

It doesn't come out next year.

I think it comes out in 2027.

It is a far way away.

why are they announcing this immersive environment today?

Wouldn't they want to hold this back until maybe a year from now

to get people excited that the new show is coming out?

But whatever.

I guess they figure there's so few people that have an Apple Vision Pro.

Might as well get it out there now, and it'll be out there,

and people can use it when the show comes out.

It makes people happy.

You're so happy.

I guess it makes people happy.

I enjoyed it.

It was really cool.

Anyway, these immersive environments are neat.

Did you say that in order to get the Harry Potter environment,

you have to be in the HBO Max app,

Or can you download this as a general environment?

Okay, you have to be in the app.

So when you're using the HBO app,

like on the little bar on the side

that you can switch to like, you know,

my movies and browse and search,

there's a little button down there

called immersive environment.

This is the way that it works in all the apps.

Disney as well.

Paramount has one too with a SpongeBob immersive environment.

You click on the button

and then you choose the environment.

So in the HBO app, you have two choices,

either the Game of Thrones or Harry Potter.

And in the Disney app, they've got like eight choices.

They've got a whole bunch of them.

They've got Tatooine from Star Wars.

They've got, you know, Monsters Inc.

They've got a bunch of the Disney app.

And so when you choose the environment, like then it's around you.

And so like I'm seeing the Disney app where the window where I would choose an app and I can move that that window out of the way.

But as soon as I exit the app, as soon as I go back to my main screen, the environment goes away, which is a shame.

I so wish there was a way I want to be able to go into Harry Potter to I want to go into the Great Hall and then open up Microsoft Word and open up my browser.

and open. That's what I want. But Apple doesn't currently let you do that. I say it's Apple. I

mean, Apple must be the one making the decision. Maybe it's maybe it's an IP issue. Maybe,

maybe Disney doesn't want you or maybe HBO doesn't want you looking at Game of Thrones,

but watching Mickey Mouse. I don't know. Who knows? I don't know if it's an IP issue or if

it's a technology issue. I do wish that these would be standalone things like you say, Brett,

that I could choose the environment and then use it. You know, obviously I need to pay for HBO

every month to get access to it so hbo is getting something for me but that's not how it works today

all right a quick little side uh quest here is the game that they play in harry potter is it is

it quidditch kidditch quidditch do you know that i was at a i was eating dinner at a bar the other

day and i looked up and on the television there is a collegiate quidditch game on i've heard about

this have you seen this so obviously they're not flying around on brooms but they all have a broom

stick between their legs as they're running around the field with this ball and throwing it around

just incredible amazing uh on that okay just had to throw that out there we'll talk about

call collegiate quidditch uh at some point in the near future last but not least quickly before we

get to our little tips to share this video at the end of your post today hit a little close to home

but it was so precious to watch Jeff I gotta tell you so I I'm gonna give a little bit away but it's

so worth watching this is a little video that Apple just put out about action mode on the iPhone and I

remember specifically a video when this came out maybe a couple of years ago we talked about it

to where it was a mother filming her son running a race and she was running along the sidelines do

You remember this video and filming her son.

So she was moving, but it was really her son that was going very fast.

And this action mode, instead of it being herky jerky and bumping up and down or watching, you know, the kid run up and down, it was kind of smooth and it was just a beautiful little video.

I've never thought about the action mode from the other way around.

What if the photographer, the filmer, had some kind of an issue where they would shake constantly?

And in this case, when you watch this amazing video, it's somebody suffering from Parkinson's disease.

And they can't hold the camera still.

But the action mode in this video, I'm tearing up thinking about this, gives them the capability to be able to film what they want to film.

So I lost my father about, well, almost three and a half years ago.

He had some form of dimension.

At some point, we think it was Parkinson's, but there's so many different ones that are related there.

And he didn't have a huge shake, but he did have a shake quite a bit.

And just watching this little video just obviously brought memories of that.

But it just made me so happy that there are ways that people can work around a horrific disease like Parkinson's and other forms of dementia as well.

This was an amazing video.

Thank you for linking to this today.

And I would just encourage everyone to watch it.

It's called No Frame Mist.

Yeah.

Gave me all the feels as well.

One of the subjects of the video is somebody who his job was taking video.

That's what he did professionally.

And then he said, once I got Parkinson's, I couldn't do it anymore because, you know, my clients don't want me filming things if I'm shaking.

And so he was just describing how amazing it was that he can now take his home movies once again.

And even though you see his hands are shaking because he can't, that's just what his body does.

The end product is completely stabilized so he can share it with his family and enjoy it.

And it's just such a great story.

Again, it's not at all what I thought action mode would be used for, but it makes perfect sense that it works for this as well.

and you mean yeah apple's tooting their own horn to a certain degree but um but it's just another

example of you know apple this is not what you know sometimes it goes the other way apple designs

something for people that have special needs and then it's something we can all use this is

something we can all use but it had a great use case for people with special needs great video

it's really really worth watching yeah they apple toots their own horn here but they toot it so

well jeff that's the thing i mean and there's three different other profiles that they are two other

profiles that they do that are just amazing. Please, please go and watch it. It's five and a

half minutes long. So well worth it. And it'll just give you, like you said, the good feels for the day.

Let's do in the know. And because of the video, I started thinking about the things that I do

on my iPhone and just some other, you know, photograph related tips. And here's one that I

came out with live photos. Now it's not just the live photos. I think most people know what live

photos are. They came out in 2015, which again, that just blew me away that we've had these live

photos. What it is, is that if you have live photos turned on, instead of just taking a static

picture, what a live photo will do is that you take a picture just like you normally do,

but the iPhone records 1.5 seconds before that picture and 1.5 seconds after that picture.

So Apple actually doesn't call this a video.

They call it a live photo, but it really looks like a video.

I mean, I think most of us will think of it as just a very, very short, like three-second video when you take a picture, which is amazing.

Now, the reason I wanted to bring this up is because there are three ways that this can be used.

You can have it on all the time so that every picture you take actually turns into a live photo.

Or you can turn it off, which is I pretty much do that.

I have mine turned off almost all the time.

And then there's a third option, though, that's called auto.

And so apparently when you turn on auto, then you have the phone to decide when it has enough time before and after when you take a picture to actually create a live photo, if that makes sense.

I think, though, that if you have it on auto, probably more times than not, it's going to take a live photo than just a regular still photo.

But you can do several things with these live photos, which is really cool.

It also records audio, by the way.

If you're looking through your photo roll, these live photos look just like regular pictures, although I think it has that little symbol.

It's like three concentric circles or so, that little symbol on there that will tell you if this is a live photo or not.

And if it is a live photo, you can look at it as a static picture or you can tap and hold on the screen and you will actually see that three second little video and even hear some of the audio that it takes in that live photo, which is pretty amazing.

And then I forget exactly when this came out.

Oh, here, I got a link to it.

This was a few years ago.

Apple hasn't really done a whole lot with live photos and I think it's worked very well for the past 10 years now.

But what they did in, I was going to see if they had the year when they added this.

But now after the fact, after you take a live photo, you can actually go and add some effects on that live photo.

So if you're in your camera roll, you open up a live photo.

It says this is a live photo.

You can actually go and switch to a loop so that you can have it just continuously loop all three seconds all the time.

You can have it bounce, which basically means that it goes forward for three seconds and then comes back for three seconds.

goes forward to three seconds and then there's one called long exposure which is kind of weird but

it works it's it's nice you know i think of that if you're recording like a stream right and the

waterfall yeah the long exposure can be like a waterfall or something like that so i i just

wanted to remind folks about the live photos the other reason i brought it up is because my mom

apparently just has it turned on all the time so any picture that she sends me is a live photo

which isn't necessarily a bad thing but she always complains about her photos being full

And I know that one of the reasons is because it's always live photos, which doesn't take up a huge amount of room, but it does take up more room than a regular static photo.

So if that is something that you have turned on, when you go into your camera app, you can just go up.

And I think usually in the very top right corner, you can see that live photo button up there.

And then if you tap on it, you can determine whether you want to turn it off or on.

And then if you go into your settings in the Photos app, then you can put it on auto.

which, by the way, these settings are probably going to change where they're going to be located with iOS 26.

But I just wanted to give people a reminder about live photos.

They are fun.

I do like having them, and I will turn that on sometimes if I know that I'm going to take several pictures,

but I want to capture a little bit more of the moment than just a regular static picture.

And then that way I just turn on the live photo and include that.

I love live photos.

I often call it the Harry Potter feature because it allows you to have a picture that actually has some animation just like the movie.

I'll mention two more things about live photos that I enjoy.

One is – and I keep it turned on all the time.

I specifically turn it off.

You have it on.

If I know I'm taking a picture of a product from my iPhone JD website, I might turn it off because that's just a still picture is all I really need.

But almost all of the time I have it turned on.

Two things I like.

One is you mentioned that the videos –

So that's why you're iCloud.

That's why you're running out of iCloud storage.

That's probably why.

Okay, number one.

Sorry.

First of all, if you mentioned that it's a three second video, that's true.

But if you take a couple pictures in a row, it will be smart enough to stitch together.

So if you keep all five of those pictures, you take five pictures of like somebody blowing

out the birthday candle, you just snap, snap, snap, snap.

And then you do the live photo, you hold down to make it animate.

It will make it a lot.

It'll be longer than three seconds.

It'll be up to, I don't know how many seconds it is, 10 seconds, 12 seconds, because it

stitches together the videos from each of those individual live photos.

Second, what I love about live photos is I take a picture because I want a picture.

And the fact that there's a video with it is something I never think about.

And then years later, we've had it long enough now that I will be using the memories feature

and it will create a little memories movie for me.

And sometimes it shows a picture, but sometimes it shows a little two seconds of video, which

is more than enough for like two or three seconds, which is more than enough for a members

memories video because you go from one to another.

And I'm like, oh my goodness, I didn't even realize it's not just the picture of the person

blowing out the candle.

It's actually like the little two or three seconds video where you see the cute little kid blowing out the candle or things like that.

And I am just surprised and delighted by the fact that there is a small video associated with a picture and I love it.

So that's why I like to keep it on all the time because you never know years from now when I'm going to be so happy that I had it.

It's great.

Great point.

Great point.

My tip today is a quick one, but I just wanted to give a little love to the Final Cut Pro app for iPad.

Came out a couple of years ago.

It is incredibly powerful.

I was using it this week for something.

You know, when I work with videos, I used to use iMovie all the time.

And then I moved to Final Cut Pro because it was more powerful.

And look, 90% of the time, if not more, I'm doing this on my Mac.

Don't get me wrong.

But every once in a while, I will use it on my iPad.

And I am just amazed how good it works because it's got a ton of the features,

maybe not everything that the Mac does.

And it's just something very intuitive and easy about using your finger to sort of make

make a clip longer or shorter, move this clip from here to there. I can so quickly take a couple

videos and put them together into like a little video that makes sense, which I can then share,

show on Apple TV to somewhere else. And it's just quick and easy and it works. It works really,

really well. Now, Apple also has a free app for the iPad and iPhone called iPhoto and it works

too, but Final Cut Pro has a lot more features. It's just, it's much better. The downside of

Final Cut Pro is just the cost that unlike my Mac, where I paid 200 bucks for it years ago,

and I continue to get updates for free. If you want it on your iPad, you have to pay either 50

bucks a year, which I will admit is a lot of money if you're not going to use it very often,

but you can also pay five bucks a month. This reminds me of the discussion we just had about

streaming services of jumping in. And so if you're going to use Final Cut Pro this month,

just pay for a month, pay $4.99, use it to do your videos, and then you're done. And you may

not need it again for another six months. So if you're the sort of person and you know who you are,

If you work with videos, it is just such a powerful way to take a couple of different

videos, easily move them together, put some animations on it, put some titles, have some

transitions.

And it's incredibly powerful.

It's incredibly intuitive to use the iPad for this.

It just gets the biggest thumbs up for me.

I really, if I used it every day, you would be like, oh yeah, it works.

You know, I use Microsoft Word every day.

Of course, Microsoft Word works.

But because I don't use it all the time, when I come back to it, I'm just amazed.

There's just so much great stuff in there.

So big thumbs up from me to Final Cut Pro from Apple or the iPad.

Are you able to use the same Final Cut Pro movie?

Like, can you edit it both on the Mac and the iPad?

Like, are you able to do that at all, Jeff?

So it's a complicated answer for that.

If I understand correctly, you can start on the iPad and then finish on the Mac.

But I don't think it works the opposite way.

I don't think you can start on the Mac and finish on the iPad.

That's something Apple may change in the future.

For me, however, the whole advantage of using the iPad app is I just want to do something.

I just want to take five, 10 minutes and make something quick.

So for me, it starts and ends right there, and then I export the final product, and I'm done.

So I personally haven't had a need to go back and forth with Team Platforms, but you do raise a good point that if that's something that you want to do, like I said, I think you can go one way but not the other.

And this is really just for the iPad.

It doesn't really make a lot of sense, I think, on the iPhone.

I don't even know if it works on the iPhone, yeah.

But on the iPad, that's where you want to use it.

Is this a final cut for the iPad?

You can use iMovie.

You can use iMovie in the iPhone, and I've actually done that before.

Of course, on the iPhone.

Yes.

Yeah, that's true.

But I was looking down here.

What iPad do you need?

It looks like it's like an M4, of course.

That's the one that you have.

Would the M1 work?

It looks like it requires an M2 or later maybe on this.

Well, no.

I don't know.

Yeah, okay.

So just make sure that you have the right one.

I mean, you can certainly try that out and check that out.

But, yeah, thank you.

You know, I've used another app called LumaFusion on the iPad and just to underscore what you were talking about.

It's a little bit different than Final Cut Pro, but the same idea.

It's the same.

It's a movie editing.

But I do enjoy, I did enjoy very much using the Apple Pencil and the tap interface to be able to edit the movie as opposed to maybe like a keyboard on a typical Mac, which is interesting.

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Woo. That's a lot this week, Jeff, but thanks as always.

And we'll talk with you next week.

Thanks Brett. Bye-bye everybody.