Welcome to In the News for July 24th, 2026. I am Brett Burney from Appsinlaw.com.

And this is Jeff Richardson from iPhoneJD. Hey, Brett.

Good to see you as always, Jeff. And wow, several things to start talking through this week as

always. I always feel like it's like every week, okay, well, there wasn't just much going on.

But by the time you compose your In the News post, I'm like, oh boy, there was quite a bit

going on in the world of technology. Let's start with something that caught my eye yesterday. I

just saw this headline yesterday that Apple may be making some changes to a popular iPhone upgrade

program. I remember when they first came out with this and I maybe you have the more than a it's

like more than a decade. You have more details about it, but there's an iPhone upgrade program.

I remember I was on this for maybe one to four years. I can't remember because it went through

citizens bank i believe is what this so the idea was instead of paying for full to a phone for a

phone or getting it through at&t and like paying monthly you know which at the end of the day at

the end of the time you would be paying more anyway apple came out with this really cool thing it's

almost like leasing the phone but the impetus here is that you could upgrade it every year and i i

thought this was brilliant now i stopped doing that for various reasons we can get into here but

But now Apple may be making some changes to that, where to me, the big headline that jumped out at me is in certain cases, if you stop paying for that lease or if you default on it, they may turn off some of the features on the iPhone, which makes sense, but it's a little scary.

Yeah.

You know, two words that you use.

You said it's a popular program and you said that they may change it.

I – this is all just anecdotal.

You and I don't have the data.

My anecdotal sense is it's not a hugely popular program, but people do.

I don't see Apple promoted a bunch.

But like you say, it's a good way if you know you're going to get an iPhone every year and you just want to pay monthly.

Like, you know, what can I pay you every month that I can, you know, every year I'll have the latest iPhone.

And then that 13th month I'll be continuing to pay to get the new iPhone.

I mean, it's a good system for people that know what they want to be in that.

What you lose, of course, is the ability to sell back the iPhone because, like you said, you're just leasing it.

And you can get pretty good money for selling back a new iPhone because new iPhones are really good.

And of course, you also lose the ability to pass it down to a family member or a friend

or something like that.

But and then the second thing you said is that they may change it.

And of course, that's the reason for the story.

This is a Mark Gurman story at Bloomberg.

We all know that Mark Gurman is the number one person for Apple leaks.

His batting record is pretty good.

It's better than most, but it's not always accurate.

I get this.

My sense from this one was that it probably there probably is something here, or at least

I think it's real that Apple's talking to people.

And the impetus for the story is that right now when you do this, it's really through Apple.

I know they have partners and stuff like that, but it feels like an Apple service.

Whereas what they might be moving towards is Apple will be happy to tell you about it, but it's really going through.

What's the name of this company?

Klarna.

Klarna, K-L-A-R-N-A.

It's not a company I'd heard of before, but that they're known for like buy now, pay later services.

Right.

This is just sort of an area that they're in.

And my guess is that when you get a third party more involved, it will not have some of the niceties that it currently has.

And so that's why this article from Dan Morin at Six Colors, Dan's been doing this program, I think, since the beginning.

So it's like a decade or something.

And, you know, he's had ups and downs and he points that out.

But he said that at least lately it's been pretty good.

And he's concerned, I think rightfully so, that if Apple ships this off to a third party to do this type of – if they turn off what they currently have and say, now go to this third party, you know,

I suspect it's going to be a little bit more hoops you need to go through.

It might not be quite as nice.

And again, I will say that even if you just buy a phone every year and sell it back, even

if you just get the Apple sellback price, and in theory, you can get more money if you

go through the trouble of eBay, but I don't want to deal with that, or some of these other

services.

But the Apple sellback price, because I do it a lot, and it's pretty good.

I forget the numbers.

I think I posted about it last year.

But, you know, I feel like what they give me is something like, you know, I get a new iPhone and I get a nicer iPhone.

So I probably pay maybe twelve hundred dollars like that.

And I want to say that they typically give me five to six to seven for last year's model.

And so it's it's sort of like my new iPhone is half price.

And if you compare that to what Dan is paying every month, is it more?

But I mean, I get the flexibility of like this year, for example.

Don't don't tell don't tell them.

But if you happen to run into my son, don't tell him.

But I'm probably going to give him my iPhone because his current iPhone is a little pitiful.

It's one of my old iPhones, too.

But, like, it's time, right?

And so I think this year, instead of me selling back my current iPhone, I'm going to probably give it to him.

So, you know, let me say one more thing.

I have a different topic on this.

I was just going to say, do you – so you're talking about trading it into Apple.

Have you ever, like, sold it on the outside market, like eBay or Facebook?

Because then you've got to worry about if the person is going to scam you.

Right.

It's too much trouble.

I mean, that's one of the things that appealed to me.

And by the way, Dan Morin wrote about this program when it first launched.

If you can see, he had a link to it in Macworld in September 2015.

He wrote about this.

So he's been doing this, and he explains it down here, this paragraph here.

Because I remember this is what I started with too.

The iPhone upgrade was the cost of buying your phone was divvied up into 24 payments, which a lot of the companies will do.

But after 12 of those payments, you could then upgrade the loan.

It was basically a loan.

So it was a lease loan.

We're back by Citizens Bank.

That's right.

I remember that because I would get an email every month from Citizens Bank telling me when I first did this.

There were no other interest charges, no other fees.

And that was, like you said, it felt like it was being handled from Apple in conjunction or in partnership with the Citizens Bank.

Now, if they hand this over to Klarna, like, I'm glad that I got out of this.

I think I got out of it mainly just for the reason of I did want to own it.

I think similar to what you're talking about, Jeff, like I wanted to sort of, quote, own the phone so that if I did want to sell it, I could if I wanted to sell it.

But I just I've never done that.

I just feel like it's too much trouble.

I don't know if I should go to Facebook Marketplace or eBay or, you know, Craigslist or if you still have Craigslist.

It's like I don't want to do any of that.

And so I have been doing the same thing and I've been trading that in on that because it feels like it's a lot easier on some of that.

But like you said, also, just being able to hand that down.

I don't typically do that.

I don't think.

I've done it in the past.

But it just makes sense.

And you're probably right.

When this first debuted in 2015, I think it was more popular.

And you're probably right today.

There are so many different ways that you can get it now that it just makes it a little bit easier.

I mean, frankly, I just buy it through Apple and they have the Apple card.

We've talked about this before, the Apple credit card.

And so it's basically the same idea in my mind.

It's just even easier because that is all through Apple without having to pull in a separate bank.

Can I ask you this question, Brett?

Do you get a new iPhone every single year?

Not every single year.

I try to.

But here's the thing.

When I do that Apple card, as you know, I actually elect for the monthly payments, right?

There's no interest in anything on there.

So that's 24 payments.

And it tracks it.

It's really nice in the Apple wallet.

In that card, you can track your installation payments is what they call it there.

And so in some cases, I have kept it.

If there's a phone, I feel like I skipped over 15.

Or maybe I skipped over 16.

I did.

Remember last year, I did not get to 16.

or I think I just went to the 17,

regardless of the fact there,

it really depends for me more on how good is it?

Like, is there enough justification to do the upgrade?

So it's not an automatic for me,

but most of the time it's going to be.

Because I mean, that's obviously the key part

for a program like this.

You know, you need to be someone who wants one every year.

I mean, we all perhaps want one.

I mean, I will tell you that I do get,

I have like literally since my first iPhone,

the iPhone, you know, 3G,

I have gotten a new iPhone every year

and it has been a luxury.

I know that.

And in fact, there have been some years where like my wife is very nice to me.

I'm like, I'm going to get a new iPhone and she just, you know, rolls her eyes a little

bit.

But like, I know that it is a luxury to have the latest and greatest every year.

I certainly don't get like a new Mac every year or anything else like that.

But it's just, it's something that I enjoy.

It's a big part of my work, my work life, my personal life.

And for me, I mean, I have, I know people that are big car people and they lease a new,

they lease cars.

They don't buy them and they lease a new one every two years so that they always have good

cars.

And if that's where you want to spend your money, you know, you enjoy having that newer

all the time. Great. For me, I just enjoy having the latest and greatest features of the iPhone and

the camera and everything else. So for me, it's worth it. Yeah. And for that's the other thing,

I mean, I deride it, but it's like I can, you know, quote unquote, justify it to myself

because I have my website and that's true. And plus like, you know, all of my friends and people

at my firm, you know, they all come to talk to me about the latest features of iPhone. But the

reason I even mentioned this is I saw, I didn't link to this, but I heard somebody talking about

this somewhere. I don't even know where. We know you and I talked about this a couple of weeks ago,

how Apple has previewed that they're raising prices.

They've already raised a bunch of prices.

The only product that they have not yet raised prices on

is the iPhone.

And that's gonna, we all know that's gonna happen

this September, right?

So they're gonna come out with,

we're on the 17 now, right?

So when they come out with the 18,

what like, you know, it's hard to do apples to apples.

Ha ha ha.

It's hard to do, you know, apples to apple comparison,

but like the, you know, whatever would have been

the low end and the middle and the upper,

you know, good, better, best,

You can sort of line them up a little bit.

And of course, there's new features in the new product.

But you can see, in addition to the new features that came out this year, is the price about

the same as what they charge.

And for many, many, many, many years, Apple has pretty much kept the price the same.

Now, they have done things like they come up with a bigger phone and the memory.

But the prices have remained remarkably consistent.

In fact, almost in spite of inflation and everything else.

I mean, you can argue that the iPhone is less expensive now than it was 10 years ago because

Apple has kept the price steady as inflation and everything else.

A little stretch, but okay.

It's a little stretch.

You can make that argument.

But my point is, so whatever would have been a thousand dollar iPhone this fall, my guess

is it's going to be a $1,200 iPhone.

You know, maybe it'll be 11, maybe it'll be 1250, who knows.

And so I heard people saying, is this the one year, let's just say that you have an older

iPhone right now.

You're using whatever, a 15, a 16, something like that.

This time of year, July, August, when people come to me, and I'm sure to you, Brett, and

they say, should I get a new iPhone in August or should I wait until the new iPhone? I always tell

them, look, we're so close. Apple, like clockwork has something new in September. Why get something

that's going to be the old iPhone in six weeks, right? This is the one year that I have to admit,

unless you're someone like me who just, you always want to have the latest and greatest.

Well, that's a different category. But like, if you're just a regular person that wants to have

a nice iPhone or even a regular person that wants to, you know, you know, you're not looking to get

something, you know, you're not looking for the SE or the, you know, you're looking for a nice

iPhone, but you also want to be, you know, penny wise, pound full, you know, you want to use your

money appropriately, right? This is the one year that if you can find a nice price, and I think you

can on an iPhone 17 pro, the model that I'm using or an iPhone 17, you know, one of the models that

came out last year, yeah, is what comes out in September going to be better? Yes. Is it going to

be so much better that it is going to be worth that price increase that Apple's going to have

to do because of the memory prices and stuff like that. You know what? I mean, my 17 Pro is a

fantastic phone. And although I'm excited to upgrade it in September, whatever Apple comes

out with, who knows what it will be. But if I use this for another year, like would I be fine?

Absolutely. I would be fine. Or even, you know, so, you know, this is like one of those rare years

because of the price increases that I'm going to like, I might tell people, you know what,

if you can get a good price right now on a 17 pro, I say, go for it. Um, and it's because of

that price hike. And I, I've never said that in the past, in the past, I've always said, Hey,

it's August don't. So I don't know. I just, I just raised that. I'll throw one other point

quickly in there. I, do you think that the potential foldable iPhone would take so much

of the headlines? Like, I don't know that it would take away from the updates or designs of the

iPhone 18, but I feel like if Apple does go forward with a foldable iPhone, that is going to absolutely

take over the headlines on everything so that it's almost like the 18 and the 18 Pro are going to be

great, but I don't know if there's going to be enough improvements. It'll be a better camera.

It'll be a better processor. You know, it's like there's this minor tweaks on there, which is not

a bad thing, but to your point, I completely agree. I don't know. I don't know if it's going to be

enough to say you you must upgrade yeah and that's another point if if all of the fanfare is on the

folding iphone right and if you're a person that wasn't going to get that anyway then that would

be yet another reason that this year's upgrade is not good i mean i we i'm not going to prejudge

until i see it but like my sense right now is that the folding iphone is going to probably be very

expensive probably you know two thousand dollars and um at least 25 30 maybe 20 and and and even the

price would not deter me i mean it would deter me a little bit but it would not be the biggest

turn if it was like, well, this is the coolest thing ever. I mean, Hey, look, you're talking,

you're looking at someone who spent $4,000 in a vision pro. So believe me, I will spend a ton

of money on something that's just really fun that I want. Um, but I, I don't know if I need a folding

iPhone. I'm going to have to see Apple's case. You know, case, I mean, in terms of their justification

for it. And it would not surprise me if I'm going to see it much like the iPhone air last year,

Brett, the iPhone air, it's a thin iPhone. How cool is that? We all know that we're going to

have thinner phones in the future, but is the iPhone air, the iPhone for me? No, I'm glad it's

around. And for some people it's great. And I think I'm going to feel the same way about the

fold. I think I'm going to say if you, for people that want it, like maybe you don't even use an

iPad. Like I use an iPad all the time, you know, for some people, this is going to be that great,

you know, compromise. But I don't know, it's going to be the phone for me. And you're right.

Does that mean that the 18 won't have as much pizzazz to it? Right. It's, it's, it's, it's,

going to be a really interesting fall really interesting last let's go back to this leasing

story just real quick and then we can move on because i alluded to this initially this is some

of the headlines that i saw in this um if you decide to still go with this quote apple leasing

program i don't even know if they still call it that necessarily but apparently this was in uh

nine to five mac that found this is that if if you're late on a leasing payment or if you fall

behind or something that apple then would restrict certain features inside the phone apparently you

know this i think we've mentioned the restricted mode in an iphone before um that just sounds a

little crazy but i i feel like to underscore something you had said earlier if this was through

apple i don't know that i i feel like this may not have even been something that they would

contemplate but if it's through a third party like clarna which has a whole other kind of a revenue

stream on there, I would totally see that that could be happening. Yeah, it's interesting. I mean,

how long can you go without paying your utility bill before the utility company eventually turns

it off? I mean, and that's more extreme because that's life. But it is interesting. It is

definitely interesting. Okay, moving on. Let's talk about something that we really talked about

a lot last time. So we don't need to rehash it, but this is Apple versus OpenAI. So this was a

case that Apple filed. We talked a whole lot about it last time. There's even a couple of individuals

that are former Apple employees that have been named in this suit that went to open AI.

We gave a lot of us at our editorial last week or a couple of weeks ago on this as well. But

this was a great article you link to from John Gruber and Darian Fireball,

who just seems to have a little bit of a different take. And we always pay attention to what John's

going to be saying here. Yeah, it's a really long article. It's got good points. And the reason I

worth discussing as a follow-up to what you and I talked about, was it two weeks ago? I forget when

it was, is that one of the things that you and I speculated on is, look, what's the end game here?

Why did Apple file the lawsuit? And I pointed out the truism that I know as a litigator,

that virtually all cases settle. They don't always, some cases go to trial. I'm an appellate lawyer,

so I work on lots of cases that have gone to trial. But from a statistical standpoint,

they often don't. And so that's when I was sort of asking out loud to you and to the world,

what is Apple looking for here?

Is it looking for a settlement?

Is it like whatever?

And like you go to the last sentence of this article

and, you know, to

Way down here.

John explains why he gets there,

but yeah, you're in the footnotes now.

But, you know, he basically says, you know,

I am not saying that OpenAI cannot win,

but what I'm saying is he doesn't think

they're going to get Apple to settle.

And the reason he says that is he says

he thinks that people at Apple,

and when I say people,

he specifically talks about John Ternus,

who's going to take over the CEO

in like a few weeks, right?

Yep. He, he, his belief, um, maybe he's wrong, maybe he's right. Is that John Ternus and others

at Apple were deeply offended, um, that their former engineers, number one, jump ship to go

to a competitor, but you know, this is a free world, especially in California, you have the right to do

that. But that number two, they were bringing, you know, plans, they were accessing servers.

They shouldn't have been accessing. They were bringing over documents. You know, these people

were saying, you know, I worked on something at Apple. And so I know about it in my brain. So I

should be able to use it a new company. That part is true. But these people were also saying,

I worked on this stuff. And because I worked on this document at my former employer, I should have

the right to take that document and do what I want with it. And that's where you cross the line when

it comes to, I mean, I'm not a trademark attorney, but my understanding is that's what you can't do

is you can take what's in your brain, but you can't go back and take all your files and move

them over. And so Apple, they, they want to, you know, what John believes is that, you know,

It's almost like the people that did it, they feel wronged and they want to act because of that.

They also probably want to deter future people from doing the same thing and putting it in the bud.

They want the discovery process so they can figure out exactly what did happen and how bad was it.

And at the end of the day, they probably don't love the idea of open AI coming up with cute little AI projects, products that Johnny Ive makes look really good because he knows how to do that now that he has an affiliation with them.

And, you know, this just sort of gets them in their gut.

And he has some good analogies to way back in the early 1990s, way back in time, Apple was upset that Windows existed because Windows looked very different from DOS.

It had Windows in it, right?

And it had that graphical user interface, the GUI.

And so they said, you copied us.

And that was a lawsuit that even as somebody who had barely even gone to law school at the time, I always thought was silly because Apple itself didn't invent the GUI interface.

They copied it from Xerox PARC with permission, but still, you know, and so that I think that lawsuit was doomed from the beginning.

Is this lawsuit like that one or is this a legitimate lawsuit?

You can make arguments either way.

I think that there's a lot more there there for this one.

Again, I'm not saying that that Apple will win, but they seem to have to have some of the goods.

We haven't yet seen open eyes answer.

We haven't seen the motions that they file.

Maybe they'll come up with some really good reasons on why this is everything they did was perfectly appropriate within the law.

But I just have a sense, knowing OpenAI, that they do have a history, as do others in Silicon Valley, of playing loose and breaking things and just do stuff first and ask for permission later and those sort of stuff.

And so were they being appropriately aggressive or did they go too far?

That's going to be the question.

It's going to be interesting.

So a lot of interesting insights in here.

So I don't know if this is actually right, Jeff, but I kind of got the sense reading through John's article here that this is oversimplified a little bit.

But did Apple just file this complaint because they wanted to warn their employees?

Like, don't leave.

Or if you leave, don't mess with us.

I mean, John uses a little bit stronger terminology in there.

But it's like, if you're going to leave, don't try to do anything like this.

And if and if you do, this is a warning shot.

Now, I know there's got to be multiple layers that I admitted to oversimplifying it, but reading through and skimming through John's article here, I kind of got that sense that this it could have been what Apple was doing, at least on one level to be like, don't mess with us.

If you're leaving and don't and don't try to, you know, proudly like announce it and take stuff with you because we'll come after you.

Yeah, I mean, it was a little bit to stem the bleeding of the employees.

I agree. And there's a limit to what they can do, because especially in California, it's a right to work state.

If I have that word, that phrase correctly, you can leave and anti non-compete agreements are hard to enforce or non-enforceable, whatever it is.

So there's a limit to what they can do. But I do think that a part of this was to send a message to current employees.

And I think a part of it was to send a message to former employees of, you know, don't be using our stuff, which is why I think.

Yeah, I forget if it was in the John Gruber article or elsewhere I saw that, and this is standard for this type of case, but like they issued letters to their former employees, you know, for document preservation orders of, you know, do not destroy anything, you know, anything you have, you know.

And so just to probably put a little bit of fear in them, I don't disagree that that's a part of this.

It's like they had to take a – they felt like they had to take a stand.

And at the end of the day, are their claims going to be legally supportable?

We'll see.

Are the facts going to support it?

I mean, the facts and the complaints seem pretty good, but we'll see if there's another side of the story.

And we'll see.

We haven't heard that other side yet, right?

OpenAI has not filed an answer, or at least we haven't seen it publicly.

Okay, so it remains to be seen.

Yeah, they've made some statements in the public, but they're just sort of, you know, they don't really tell you that much.

You started off your post talking about an AI bot that tried to infiltrate your video conference.

That's a little strong on there.

But I thought you did a great job of talking about the idea.

Like there are so many every time I jump on a Zoom call or a Teams call, even for that matter of fact, Jeff, it's exactly what you just were talking about.

Even if a person is there, it'll say like, you know, Jeff's AI bot or Jeff's recording bot or Fireflies or whatever it is, is coming on there as well.

And, you know, first of all, as legal professionals, as lawyers, we have been trained to always ask questions or be a little skeptical or something like that.

Like, do you, are you recording?

Did you get everybody's, you know, okay on that?

There's always questions that raised in there.

But the reason that this came up, we can talk about it both in the legal context, but as

well as the genius bar context.

I saw this headline this week as well.

Apple is testing a new AI powered live notes feature.

So that basically if you take something to the genius bar, they're recording this or

transcribing the conversation so that the,

I guess they can reference it later. Right. Or it's almost like, in fact,

I was just, by the way, this made me think of, we were,

my wife and daughter and I were watching the pit the episode last,

last night.

And one of the things is one of the doctors is having to do her charting.

Okay. You know what I'm talking about?

And she's speaking into a microphone because that's faster than maybe typing on

some of this. And frankly,

this is how I interact with a lot of AI platforms today as well.

it's so much easier for me to transfer i'll do sometimes a transcription on my iphone copy that

over to my computer and put that into an ai you know platform cloud or chat gpt just because it's

quicker for me to kind of dictate what i'm looking for anyway this this came up today as the fact

that genius bar apple stores may be recording that and i think you just made some good comments

on the fact that even you know is that is that perfectly legal i think it is in the genius bar

may not necessarily be for meetings that you have with your opposing counsel, for example.

Yeah.

You know, and you mentioned the pit.

I mean, it's not just the TV doctors.

In real life, my primary care physician has tried around, maybe it's, I don't know if

it's just her or the entire hospital, where like I have, you know, my annual physical

and stuff like that.

And, you know, they ask consent, but like our conversation is being picked up by some

sort of an AI.

And when I get my notes, you know, after visit summary, it has like a, not transcript, but

sort of a, an outline of what we talked about. And I find for the most part, it's accurate.

And I do like the idea of that, if the things that I say being a part of the file so that the doctor

can look at it in the future, because I have a good relationship with my doctor, you know,

what did you say a year ago? Where are you now? I think there's a value there. And it's the same

thing with what the, the, the, the Apple, you know, this is again, was a Mark Gurman rumor,

Mark Gurman of Bloomberg rumor. We'll see if it's true or not, but it wouldn't surprise me if it

is, if he says they're testing it, they probably are some places, you know, that your interactions

with the genius bar, they could have more information there, not only to help you,

but in any, the way that he says is both sides would have to consent to it, which is nice,

which I think is key. But it also means that Apple could probably use some AIs to say

thousands and thousands of genius bar interactions. What are the issues that are coming up over and

over again? What can we do to address this for everybody? I think there's a lot of good here,

not for you individually, but for users in general. And yet, and yet this type of technology concerns

me because as much as I enjoy AI and it's become a big part of my professional and my personal life,

it absolutely makes mistakes. It just does. And I did one yesterday where the AI got something

wrong. And I put, I mean, I did, do I have to do this? No, but I mean, I told the AI, hey, AI,

I think you got this wrong. And it's like, oh yes, you're so right. I got it wrong. I'm like,

Thank you for telling me I'm so right. But like, you seem so definitive when you told me before that the answer was X when we both now know it's Y. And so if you were involved, and so like the example that I had this week where it was a discovery conference with opposing counsel, you know, if his AI creates a purported summary, and if it's wrong, or maybe if it's even one-sided, I'm not even saying he would do it intentionally.

but like, I don't want someone to say that that's the record of our communication.

And the fact that I'm saying I agreed to do X when I, when I actually only agreed to do X,

if Y, and you know, so I, you know, so this is my advice, you know, think about it whenever,

wherever you are in life, whether you're talking to your doctor, where you're talking to your genius

bar professional or whoever it is, you know, I think there's a place for these. And I think

there's a place that they can be really helpful. The AI technology is making the transcription

and the summarization so good,

but it's not perfect.

And think about if you're going to be in a place

where creating an inaccurate summary transcript,

the consequences of that are so not worth

whatever little niceties you get.

You know, go back to the old way,

take your own notes,

send an email afterwards confirming your communication.

And that's the confirmation of what you said.

So, and I think this is a good

public service announcement, Brett,

because so many people have this software installed

on their computers that it just automatically joins

your conference calls, you know,

without even thinking about it.

And then it sends her, and then it has this summary.

And like, I think people are just like, okay, I guess,

I guess it's there, you know,

and this is a built-in feature for like team.

And I think Zoom's too, if you have it turned on.

And my point is think, because what I did this week

where the AI bot came into the,

because I'm the one that created the,

it was my meeting invitation.

And so I had the right to invite people, right?

So you know how you start your conversation.

It says, do you want to let these people in?

And do I want to let another person?

Yep.

This person?

Yep.

Do I want to let in the AI bot?

Nope.

I said, I'll come in the door.

And nobody on the call even said anything about it.

It's like he probably didn't even realize because it was another attorney in his office.

So nobody pushed back.

And if somebody does push back, we can deal with it.

But my public service announcement is be conscious of it wherever you are in life.

And if you want it, great.

I want it in some cases, but I don't want it in others.

And make it a conscious decision.

Don't fully rely.

So we're on season two, and I think it's episode four or five of The Pit.

So thinking about that last night, as I told you, the next step after that, that was Dr. Santos, right?

That was doing the transcribing.

But Dr. Al Hashimi, who is taking over for Dr. Robby, right?

I'm not giving any spoilers, but Dr. Al Hashimi was telling Dr. Santos, like, why are you taking the time to transcribe it?

You should use the AI tool that I have introduced.

And Dr. Robbie and others are kind of like, yeah, we don't know about the AI, but Dr. Alashimi was like, you need to use this. And then in this episode, I think it was four or five, like I said, in season two, the, some other nurse or doctor comes down to say, Dr. Robbie, you sent this patient saying that you didn't even mention that it had appendicitis or whatever it was. I can't remember now.

And it was because the AI tool had put something in that wasn't true.

And so Rob, Dr. Robbie talks to Dr. Alashimi and it's like, your AI tool got it wrong.

And she's like, I made sure to tell everybody you've got to check the output.

All right.

That's no, again, no spoilers.

It's just, but to your point, underscore what you're saying, even from the medical profession,

you've got to check that and make sure you can't just rely on it because Dr. Santos is

overwhelmed.

She's behind in like 20 hours, what she said, of doing all of her charting.

But it's like you can't just rely on the AI.

You've got to test it.

Okay, enough of the public service, but that's good.

And the pit is another good public service announcement.

Amazing show.

I love it so much.

I have to say, I'm enjoying that.

And I got to tell you, if you've got a daughter in nursing school like I do, it's even better

because anytime that it's like, wait, what did they just say?

What kind of a procedure is that?

She's great to pause it and then let us know.

All right.

We know that iOS 27 has been announced.

We know a lot of the things coming out.

We also know that public betas are starting to trickle out,

and we are getting some updates from several folks.

And I thought three that you highlighted today were great, Jeff.

Let's start with the Apple TV app.

I like this.

Apparently, you can turn on automatic downloads for sessions or seasons or episodes

that you want to automatically download, which is great.

So I don't have to remember to manually tap each one of those.

This is a cool one on this.

Every time I take a trip, I always think to myself, what shows am I watching?

What do I want?

Right.

If I want to watch a show on a plane where you're not going to have the internet to stream

it, probably.

Or if I even want to watch it in a hotel room where the internet might not be very good or

might not be working, you know, you want to, you want to pack up your device with the good

shows.

But then you have to take the time to think about it.

And I forget about it.

Me too.

It's, it's, you know, I've, I've had situations where I'm in the airport trying to download,

you know, nowadays it's, it's the show.

And in the old days it was a podcast.

when things were more limited.

That's right.

I'm trying to get it.

I'm trying to get it.

And I run out of time.

It's time to board the plane

and it hasn't downloaded.

And so this feature sounds like such a neat idea

of it knows what shows you're watching.

I presume it's only the shows that show up

in the Apple TV app as what's next.

So it's going to be your Apple TV shows,

your HBO shows.

It will not be your Netflix shows

because that's not part of this.

But I think it's a cool feature

to automatically download it.

It sounds like it's going to be on the iPhone.

I don't know if it's going to be on the iPad too.

I can't remember.

I hope so.

That's what I watch on all the time.

I could even see an argument for putting it on the Apple TV, because although my Apple TV usually has a great, fantastic home Internet connection, just in case something goes away, it's got space on there.

Why not download the next episode?

You know, might as well.

So I think it's a cool feature.

I can't imagine it's something I haven't thought about before.

This is one of these things that once you see it, you're like, oh, yeah, that makes so much sense.

Another feature coming is at the Apple card in your Apple wallet.

So, again, this is the Apple credit card.

If you have that in your Apple wallet, it will now start to show recurring transactions in one place so that you can track subscriptions.

Because I see that and I have to go into every month and I have to say like, oh, yeah, for example, we have to pay for hosting for this podcast, for example.

And every month I see it come through on my Apple credit card.

And it's like I can see it if I go to each individual month.

But I like the fact that I can kind of track it.

It even has a little calendar tracking tool now, which is really nice.

What a perfect thing.

I don't know if this is AI or machine learning or just simple searches, but like, of course,

it's got all the data there.

And so it should be able to say, I'm seeing the same charge for essentially the same amount,

or even if it's a slightly different amount, it's the same pay or payee, I guess you're

the payor.

It's the same payee.

Of course, they should be able to compile that automatically and put it so that when

you just want to see those, it's all, I mean, again, it's just like the other fashion.

I was like, wow, why didn't I think about this earlier?

Of course you should do this.

Great feature.

I'm excited to have it.

And then the last one that you mentioned is something I'm very excited about.

Copy and paste doesn't sound that exciting until you really need it.

I actually do this.

I mean, I'm doing this constantly throughout my daily life.

I don't care if I'm on a computer, if I'm on my iPad, my iPhone.

I mean, copy and paste to me is so in the easier that I can make it anywhere that I am, the better.

There are several ways you can do the copy and paste.

Now you can tap and hold, you know, to copy something and then you go somewhere else,

tap and hold the paste.

You can do it.

It's like a three finger tap, I think at the top that you, it'll come up with a little

toolbar.

I don't use that as often, but that'll come up with little tiny icons where you can copy

and paste.

And I like this, but now apparently it'll start showing up there in like, uh, I don't know

what you call this little section right above the keyboard, but this is really convenient.

Yeah.

I mean, any time in life on my device where I copy something and then open up another app, whether that be email, messages, Safari, whatever, I feel like there's a 90% chance that the reason I copied something just before I opened this app is to paste it, right?

Right.

And so this is just a feature that, again, recognizes that and says, you know what?

Since you just copied something and you just opened up this app, we're going to guess that you probably are looking to paste, maybe not immediately, but pretty soon.

Pretty soon.

And so we're going to put like a little thing.

And in fact, the image that you're showing now, like the preview of it, not only do you

see a nice little button, but like it's a tiny little square, like if it's a photo, it's

a tiny little thumbnail of the post.

You can just, oh yeah, that's the right photo or whatever.

Again, I'm now said it three times in a row.

Why didn't I think of this earlier?

It's so obvious.

Thank you for adding it, Apple.

These are the reasons I think I'm more excited for iOS 27.

We've talked about this since the announcement came out at WWDC that it just seems like so

many of these little tweaks but they're not just tweaks because you're trying to fix something

it's almost like they're just making it a little bit better and that is exciting

you also link to what i have dubbed the cutest little e-reader ever

magsafe so this is it looks like a little uh battery magsafe battery pack that you can put

on the back on your phone and in fact when i first saw this i'm like wow is that a battery

pack that it can also be an e-reader? No, I think it's just the e-reader. In fact, Dan Warren does a

good job of talking about some of the pros and cons about using this. Don't know if it's quite

ready for, you know, mainstream and everybody get it, but look at this little thing. It's so cute.

And the fact that you can put it on and flip over your iPhone and read a little book,

you might have to squint a little bit. I mean, this isn't the best, highest quality. It's not

an Amazon Kindle. This is G-Think. Is that the name of it? Or G-Tanique? I don't know how to

even pronounce this. Anyway, I just felt like I had to like leave this and talk about it because

it's just so cute. I don't think I'm going to be getting one of these, but I just like the idea

that something like this can happen on the back of your iPhone. You know, you don't get a foldable

screen yet, but you get a double screen, right? You got a color screen on the front. You got an

e-reader screen on the back now. It's certainly convenient, especially if you don't have a case,

but I guess even if you do have a case, it could attach to the back of it. You know, the idea is

you're going to have your iPhone in your pocket. You know, why not just have your little e-reader

attached to it? I've played around a tiny bit with e-readers over the years, but I don't, I mean,

I'm embarrassed to admit, Brett, that I don't read books because my life is too busy. It's not that

I don't enjoy books. I listen on Audible all the time. I love doing it, you know, when I'm working

out and doing chores around the house. I love to listen to books. In fact, having really good

narrators brings my books to life and makes it so fantastic um so i love books but um it's just so

you know the the in fact even the last book that i that i bought i'm looking at right now is the uh

the david poge book about the history of apple for 50 years oh yeah i bought the physical book um

because as you and i talked about you know last year i got his signature you got to sign it yeah

but and i started to read it and i'm like you know what i want to listen to this so i then went and

bought the audible version which was nice because david poge was talking in my ears and reading it

He narrated it.

And so I actually did it twice for that one.

But if you are into reading, and I totally understand why some people are, e-readers,

you know, make so much sense because, you know, they're not, most of them are not backlit.

Some of them are.

But if that's okay, if you've got well that you think, I mean, it lasts forever with the

battery, right?

And it's perfect.

If you want to like sitting on the beach and reading a book, you absolutely want to have

a e-reader version with digital ink.

You don't want to have an iPad or an iPhone where it's hard to read.

So for the people that are in the market, and this one's a little finicky, you know,

He describes how the built-in operating system is not very good, but if you follow a few steps to put in the third-party operating system, it's so much better.

But again, if you're a little geeky, and you are if you're listening to this, and if you enjoy to read, which I think many people do, it's an interesting little option.

It's the X-Tink.

X-T-E-I-N-K.

I don't have a clue how to say that, but interesting stuff nonetheless.

last apple is involved in another lawsuit well maybe there's multiple lawsuits that apple is

involved but one that we have talked about now for goodness several years years going on

is the massimo patent uh m-a-s-i-m-o and this has to do with a blood oxygen um i i guess some kind

of a sensor that it affects the apple watch so i don't want to rehash the whole thing because it

just takes so time it's an interesting case and and i know that apple has over the years done

things to kind of get around this and they had you know different angles that they would come at this

because it's an important sensor that needs to be in the apple watch i absolutely believe that it

needs to be apple keeps losing apparently to massimo uh whether massimo is still a company

or not or just you know from holding the patent i don't want to get into all of that either

necessarily, but Apple loses a bid to overturn the $634 million Massimo patent verdict. There's a new

trial that they tried, also denied. I know this is your neck of the woods here. You probably know

exactly what Apple's next step is going to be. But I feel like at this point, I'm like, Apple, just

settle. Just pay them something. I mean, these are some drops in the bucket. And just get this

technology out. Some people are still running older watches, Jeff, just because they still

want this technology in there. Yeah. I mean, having the blood oxygen sensor on an Apple watch is very

useful, especially for some people. It's incredibly useful. Massimo sued Apple for tons and tons of

patents, and they lost everything except for one, except for just this one issue. And this is the

one that they went to verdict. And, you know, Apple had more of an incentive to try to settle

when they had turned off the blood oxygen feature for US iPhones.

Remember, because of the patent import laws,

it only applied to Apple watches in the United States.

If you lived in other countries,

you could still use this feature on your Apple watch.

But here in the United States, for a long period of time,

we had no blood oxygen sensor unless you had an older one.

And then Apple figured out a way to do a workaround

where it still did the sensing on the watch,

but it processed all of the sensing on the iPhone.

And so as a result,

You know, it's a it's a backdoor way to get to essentially the same place by using two devices instead of one.

And so I think Apple lost their incentive to settle because they had a workaround, but they still thought that they were right.

And again, who knows if they were right or if Massimo was right?

Well, the jury made a decision that Massimo was right.

So I saw reported this week in the news, you know, Apple lost its appeal.

Well, no, no, technically, let's just be precise.

They lost the trial. We knew about that before.

They've had post-trial motions, you know, a motion for a judgment, you know, not standing

the verdict, a motion for new trial.

And the same trial court judge that's been in charge of the trial ruled against them,

which is what typically happens.

You know, almost all the time when you lose a trial, you always have to file your post-trial

motions for preservation purposes.

And sometimes you might win something around the edges, but you're usually going to lose.

Everybody knows that.

So no big surprise, Apple lost that.

And so now that means that the trial court proceedings, I presume, are going to be finished.

And so the next step is going to be the appeal, which I 100% think that Apple is going to take.

I think they even said in the news they're going to take it.

And I'll also say one last thing.

These patents actually expire in just a few years.

Okay.

And so now, again, Massimo is going to argue that it should get some things in the past.

But, you know, there's a chance that the patents will expire before this litigation ends, which is just sort of an interesting development.

So it's interesting.

I mean, as you say, Massimo is not a patent troll.

They are a company that does operate in this area.

Yeah, I didn't want to call them that.

Yeah, they had not been using this patent the way that Apple is using something.

Apple claims that what they're doing is independent of Massimo.

But there's a story here because we talked about this years ago.

Apple talked to Massimo.

They thought about hiring the company.

They thought about hiring employees.

They thought about buying the company.

They decided not to.

Massimo claims that Apple improperly looked at our stuff and then copied it.

And Apple says, no, we looked at your stuff and we realized that the way you were doing it's not the way that we wanted to do it.

And so who knows who's right or wrong?

The jury agreed with Massimo.

We'll see if Apple wins an appeal.

I don't know.

But it's just – it's an interesting litigation background.

But for those of us that don't care about the lawsuit, we just want to have the feature on our Apple Watch.

It's been hanging over us for years now.

Let's do a where you at segment.

Where you at?

Where, yeah.

You got two stories I wanted to address here quickly.

The first one is from Glenn Fleischman.

When Find My doesn't help with separation anxiety.

And I related to this story here quite a bit because it's about a gentleman that was traveling, found out that he left.

I think it was his iPad or something in the safe at a hotel.

And then he realized after he had left and traveled across the country that he had he'd lost it. He had left it there. And so this was bag is what it was.

Oh, his bag. OK, bag that had an air tag in it. Yeah, correct. OK, so he found out that he didn't have it and he tracked it down going into the find my.

But I think the the the the the the start of the story here is why didn't it notify him that it was left behind when he walked out of the hotel on this?

and Glenn Fleischman, I think does the best job that he can do because I have seen some

inconsistencies in the same lines. Sometimes it'll tell me when I walk out of a hotel and it's in the

bag is not with me. Other times it doesn't. So how can, why isn't it more consistent?

Yeah. I mean, the real message that I took from this article is think about making sure you have

that feature. The feature is called notify and left behind and think about it having turned on.

And sometimes it is annoying to me. I've had times like literally just, you know, remember last week

I was talking about how I've been taking the streetcar more often home because my daughter

and I are sharing a car.

I had, I purposefully left something in my office because I wasn't going to bother to

take it home.

I forget if it was my iPad or something else.

And, um, and I'm on the streetcar going home and it says, oh, you left this behind.

And I'm like, yeah, I know I left it behind.

It's in my office.

It's fine.

But, um, and so what I should go back is, is go to that item and say, don't notify me if

it's left at my office.

I already have it set.

Don't notify if I left it at home because if it's home, that's the same word.

But so you need to do some managing to it.

But I mean, if I had been at opposing counsel's office and I left my iPad, I would absolutely want to know as soon as possible that I left it behind.

In this particular case, it didn't notify the guy at first.

They, you know, like you say, Brett, they speculate as to why it was inside of a hotel safe.

And, you know, the idea is like maybe the thick walls of the safe were acting as like a Faraday cage.

It wasn't having signals go out and other things like that.

So, I mean, it's never going to be perfect, but at least it's something.

And you think of the old days when you would just have no sense of where something is.

It happened to me just the other day.

I was sitting here in my office, Brett, and I went to use my AirPods.

And I'm like, where are they?

And then I'm like, are they underneath something?

And then I looked in the Find My app.

I'm like, oh, they're at my house right now.

Like, okay, I left them at home today.

But it was nice to just, I had the answer.

Okay, it's at my house.

I don't have it here.

If I want to listen to a podcast as I'm having lunch in my office, I'm going to have to use

the speaker.

The other thing quickly to your point, when you get this message, if I let's say I'm traveling and my bags in the hotel room, the theoretically defined my recognizes that it's not a typical place where I leave it.

It's not home. It's not correct, et cetera. So it'll come on my watch. Typically is when I see it, it's like, hey, you've left this bag behind because I name it as a bag.

It's usually an Apple AirTag is telling me. But the options down below, Jeff, are you can dismiss it completely, which is typically what I do.

I just dismiss it. Or you can say, trust this location. And I hardly ever tap trust this

location because I don't want it to always trust that location. Like I still want you to tell me,

it's just, I'm going to dismiss the message now. And maybe I'm just being a little too paranoid on

that. But anyway, those are just some of the things that are a little confusing. I probably

need to dig into that just a little bit more to find that. And maybe you do want to trust some of

those locations, but not true. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. The other story from where you're at was really

cute. I'm not going to play the video here, but this is, I forget the name's gentleman, Phil,

I guess the gentleman's name is Phil. He's just Phil. Yeah. Phil, Phil was on a mountain bike

with his two kids. A crash left him unconscious on a remote trail. The kids didn't call 911,

but his Apple watch did. Yeah. And you've summed up the story. I mean, this is exactly what you

want it to happen. If you have a big fall, I love that the Apple watch will sense it. And especially

if you're unconscious, it could call 911, let them know where you are. He gets to the hospital. I

think if I remember correctly, didn't he say he was in the hospital for a week? I mean, it was a big

deal. But I mean, and I don't know the specifics of his medical condition, but I have to imagine

that calling the authorities immediately was much better than, you know, not waiting for somebody

else to find you. Or I don't know if his kids had their own phones with them that they could do

something. But I mean, so this is what you, you know, we all think we never ate like they were

not going to do very much, you know, they have to try to call for help. So we all hope that we're

this situation but if you are i'm so glad that i've got that apple watch on let's talk about

another story that's um getting me hot under the collar i am not happy about this you and i both

are subscribing subscribers to the apple one and both of us have the highest end on this here uh

in uh adam inks talks about there's the individual subscription there's the family subscription and

the premier subscription which basically i think it gives you six people so it's almost like a family

but it gets everything on there now with this with the premier you also get the iCloud storage space

very good and which is great and which has worked out i love having this my entire family uses because

all of these things come with it in here right um in fact you looked this up a little bit well

you and i were talking because i'm so a little upset about this when this apple one subscription

was announced September 2020. The price was $29.95 per month. And you got all of these things in here.

You got Apple Music subscription, wonderful. Apple TV Plus subscription, absolutely fantastic.

Apple Arcade, Apple News Plus, use that every day. Apple Fitness Plus, use that every day.

The iCloud subscription to where I have more space instead of paying separately for that.

It's all included in Apple One. We have like two terabytes for the family and it's fantastic to

have all that because everybody nobody gets those messages about hey all of your photos are taking

up too much space so we've been using this now for 16 years and it's gone up now every few months or

i feel like okay that's too much every few years i'll be fair and i think currently right now it's

all the way up to 37 i want to say somewhere around there and apple just announced add two

more dollars on top of that now that's the premiere again if you're having the individual

In fact, the individual did not change, I don't think.

The family went up maybe $1 or no, $2 on that as well.

I'm just, this really appeased me.

I can't stop paying it, Jeff.

We're so bought into the system now.

But it's like, come on, Apple.

You don't need to keep raising the prices.

Just, it bugs me.

Okay.

I mean, I completely understand your viewpoint.

Thank you.

I somewhat disagree.

Only in that I know that, I mean, we were just talking about inflation earlier in the podcast.

You know, everything is getting more expensive.

Netflix is going up.

Disney Plus is going up.

Everything is going up in prices when it comes to streaming services.

And then other things too.

I mean, the world just gets more expensive.

I still think at $40 a month, again, not cheap, but considering that it's for my entire family,

considering all the services that it gives me, like you said, I mean, with the premiere,

you get the News Plus and everything else.

When I think of all the ways that I use this, even aside from Apple TV, and I use it a ton

for the Apple TV TV shows, for me, it's worth it.

I mean, of course, if Apple raised it to 50, 60, 70, 100, I mean, of course, there's a point at which I would say, I know this is not worth it.

But for me personally, and I don't want to be all like, you know, Daddy Warbucks about it.

Who cares about the price?

I mean, it's still within the range that I think is reasonable.

Again, I'm not thrilled.

Prices go up.

But, you know, the iPhone is going to be more expensive this fall.

This is more expensive.

I mean, this is unfortunately life.

I mean, sure, it'd be wonderful if Apple could cut the price over the years.

Um, that's just, that's not life.

We should, I should also be fair to say I was focusing on the Apple one subscriptions that

includes everything.

And, you know, you can still subscribe to Apple plus or Apple TV by itself.

You can subscribe to Apple music by itself and Apple fitness by itself.

The Apple music subscriptions are going up a little bit.

If the individual subscription includes this by $1 family by $3 and the student subscription,

which is only 599 right now goes up a dollar to $6 and 99 cents.

That's great.

That's just for Apple Music, though, I should say.

But I do hear you.

And again, I've already said it's like, it's not like I'm going to cancel anything.

We are so bought into the system.

It is so great to be able to open up Apple News.

I use it for all kinds of things, even just the Apple News.

Probably the least of thing, and Adam links to another story here,

like what are the more popular services in Apple One?

Probably for me, the Apple Arcade.

I just don't do the Arcade as much.

But Apple Music, I use it, TV, the Cloud Plus, the Apple News, the Apple Fitness.

I mean, all of these things are great to have, plus the iCloud subscription in there, like having that space in there.

And this little blue bar, I don't know how accurate this is.

Oh, this was just a survey of people.

Just from his readers.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So it's not necessarily representative.

It's only 700 people.

But Apple Fitness was the lowest on that.

But I personally do like Apple Fitness.

I've been using the one lately with the strength training stuff.

And I was just listening to a podcast earlier this week and somebody was like, oh, I hate the Apple Fitness stuff.

You know, why would anybody want that?

I'm like, well, I'm sorry, but like I'm enjoying it.

I do find you in it.

So, but again, that's to each their own.

And yet the flip side is I'm like you, I'm not a big Apple Arcade person.

Every once in a while I'll play a game and it's nice.

It's, you know, quote unquote free, you know, only in that I've already paid for it.

But like by far, if my Apple Arcade subscription was turned off, I might go months before I even noticed it.

So.

I have to say just real quick, I'm trying to remember there's a couple of other fitness systems, subscriptions that I've tried to use in the past.

Equinox is another one.

Peloton.

They're good.

They're good.

Don't get me wrong.

And, you know, some people may like those.

But I got to tell you, Jeff, they don't hold much of a candle from a professionalism, like just the whole entire package than what Apple Fitness Plus can show.

So like you, I stay there.

Let's do an in the show to round out our content today.

A couple of things that you link to.

I don't know if you saw this trailer for The Dink.

It looks funny.

It's a movie about pickleball.

Okay, so first of all, you might want to think.

It's a TV show, not a movie.

Oh, it's a show.

Okay, so it's not.

Okay.

First of all, you might just dismiss that,

except when you hear that Ben Stiller is, first of all, acting in it,

and I think he's the producer of it, if I'm not mistaken.

There he is right there.

The trailer alone, Jeff, is worth it.

If you haven't seen the trailer, I mean, I showed this to my wife this morning and like she wants to watch it tonight.

You know, if you're a fan of apparently 2004 is when Ben Stiller had Dodgeball, which is still such a great, great movie with Vince Vaughn.

And I mean, this is sort of along those lines, kind of, you know, tongue in cheek.

Anyway, it's just going to be fun.

It looks really good on there.

I'm going to probably watch it this weekend, too.

It looks like it'll be cute.

So we'll see.

Is it a show?

Oh, no, it's a movie.

It says it's a movie here.

It says a new film.

Yeah, because I was like, say, the trailer's a little bit longer than I thought that it should be.

Oh, okay, maybe I'm wrong.

For some reason, I was thinking it was a TV show.

I think it's a movie.

I'm trying to, you verify there on there as we go to the next last article here,

which is, of course, the most exciting that everybody's waiting for.

The new season of Ted Lasso is coming out.

Is this season four?

I got to tell you, huge fan of Ted Lasso, just like anyone else, you know, normal people in the world.

Ted Lasso is fantastic but there's something inside of me Jeff that I feel like you know what

Jason you should have just you should have just kept it stopped when when you when you knew that

it was over you should have just stayed over but man you know it's like Apple wasn't gonna hold

back at whatever he asked for he was gonna get on this and I'm excited to see it I just got kind of

low hopes that it's gonna hold up to the original well let me address that because I loved all three

seasons of ted lasso me too but the third season was not as good as the first two i completely

agree and the first season was just you know it was it was wonderfully done it was the right time

during the pandemic um but the early buzz and we'll see if they're correct is that season four

of ted lasso is pretty good like they they've got some of the initial spark back and this article

that's in is this in variety where is it from variety oh the hollywood reporter sorry i'm sorry

hollywood reporter it um they they do a good job of sort of explaining why that you know uh they got

people involved in doing production that had not been involved in that you know to sort of run

you know uh jason sudeikis had sort of taken over the show in season three and so for season four

he's obviously still very involved creatively and starring but somebody else is going to be doing the

the nuts and bolts to sort of keep it you know a tighter show and stuff like that and so at least

from this article and from the initial reviews that i've seen um they say this is going to be a

really good season so i guess the idea is that we're going to have much like we had the three

seasons with the men's um soccer team i guess we're going to hopefully have three seasons with

the women's soccer team women's soccer and i'm ready because you know ted lasso i'm saying what

is obvious it's funny it's feel good it's like you know you just feel good when you watch the show

and do we do we have the starting date it's it's next month right it's sometime in august that it

starts it's kind of i think it's august 5th oh that's right around the corner yeah right around

very soon so i'm uh we try to make sure if i'm correct i'm totally ready i think so and by the

way you're right i was wrong i thought that the dink was a tv show but it is it has absolutely it's

a movie it's a movie that's 103 minutes long and so that was my error well thank you for that yeah

okay now now you got to look up and make sure it's august 5th i thought i saw that somewhere in there

that sounds right to me yeah when it was right and it makes sense you know when we had the uh the

world cup uh uh finale game here in the united states well i know that jason's today gets sort

of showed up in the halftime and stuff like that and you know he's getting out there to get people

excited about Ted Lasso. And didn't we report a football is life? He actually is playing for the

El Paso soccer team, if I'm not mistaken. Right. Right. And that's great. But, you know, as I

understand it, and they talk about it in this Hollywood Reporter article that some of the team

members of the Ted Lasso team, because the old season with the old show is about the men's team,

and this is gonna be a women's team. Like they're not gonna, they're not, they're certainly not

gonna be season regulars. And, you know, maybe they'll show up for a cameo or something like

that. And so the article describes how Jason Sudeik has specifically called each of them in

person to explain why they're not going to be in the new season. Not that we don't love you,

it's just the story's going a different direction because he's sort of a, he's a classy guy.

They got to make some cameos. I mean, come on. I would hope so. Yeah, I would hope so.

Okay, in the know. Let's do a couple of notes tips. Here's mine. I'll start off.

Locking and unlocking notes on your iPad. I've used this several times and I like this,

But I got to tell you, I'm glad that I dug a little deeper in here because it can be a little confusing.

And this is Apple's official support page on this.

I guess I originally thought, Jeff, that I could go into my Notes app on my iPhone.

Typically, it's where I do this.

I would tap and hold, and I would have an option to do lock, and it would ask me for a password.

And I guess I just thought that's what it does.

But no, in the background, you can go into your settings, and there's two options here.

To lock notes, you can either use your iPhone passcode slash face ID, or you can create a unique password only for notes.

So to do this, you have to go into your password set.

So you go into settings, you go down to the apps, right?

To that list and you go into notes and enter notes.

You have two options.

You're probably there right now, right?

and the two options are use the iphone passcode or create a custom passcode is that what it says

here i'm jumping into there right now just so that i can yeah in fact i'm not even seeing it in the

settings app i'm seeing it i just right clicked on a note i'm using my ipad right so i just i just

okay on a note and i click the lock i've never used this feature before i click on lock note

and the very first thing so now it's maybe this is just my introduction to the feature

it's telling me like you say i've never seen it before i can either lock it with my regular

iPad passcode. Correct. Or I can create a separate password. And why would you want to

have a separate password? Okay, so I'm going to get there because the reason this came up today

is I was talking with someone that she's going to be traveling. She doesn't use one password or a

password manager for that, but for that matter, but she wanted to have a secure way to store the

phone numbers for her credit card banks in case something happened to her credit cards, right?

So I said, why not just put it into notes, but you can lock the note. And so that's why this came up.

So if you can use your device passcode and Apple talks about it up here, if you do that, it's nice because you already know your iPhone passcode, theoretically, right? And you can use your face ID. But let's say that maybe you share the phone with a kid or something like that. They know your iPhone passcode because you let them do it. So you might want to have a custom password then set up just to access a note. Because if it's something private, you want to make sure that it's closed in there, right? And while they can open up the phone, you may not want them to open up the note.

Now, so if you go into your settings app and you go into apps and you go into notes, you'll see this.

You can see it says use device passcode or use custom password.

So you can choose which one you like.

Now, I didn't realize I just had it set up with a custom password.

Maybe I did that long ago when it first came with the option and this was the only option that you had.

And I use pretty much the same custom password for all the notes.

That's what it allows you to do.

So here you can set up with the device passcode and then you can have it with face ID.

So if you have it locked, you it will tap into a note that's that you have put on a passcode or say, I want to lock this note and then it'll open or unlock with your face ID.

If you use the custom password, then you actually have to type in the password.

Now, for this one, I keep it fairly short.

It's not the most secure, which is fine because it's really just more of a deterrent than anything else.

Right. You can have a long one if you really want to.

But here's where it starts getting confusing for me just a little bit on this, Jeff, is that you can have a device passcode with or without Face ID.

You can have a custom password with or without Face ID.

Like, it just confuses me.

I feel like this is more confusing than it really should have to be.

But this is the sandbox that we're playing in with Apple, so we just have to be aware of it.

You just need to decide which of those avenues you really want to go with.

Device passcode, I think most people are going to do that.

Or custom password, if you want to just have something a little bit separate,

you can make the changes in the settings app under notes.

Because once you set it in the settings app, Jeff, then you go into notes.

And when you want...

My question for you, Brett, is why might a person choose to have a custom passcode?

I'm just trying to figure out the advantage of that.

Is it so that you can give it to a friend that's using your iPhone

and they could see it if you give them the passcode, I guess?

Correct.

That's what I'm saying.

Like I know some people like, you know, I know, like I know that my daughter knows my wife's iPhone passcode, right?

Just because it's the phone that we kind of use in the family a little bit more than anything else.

But if my wife wanted to have a private note, she would want to use a different password for the note.

I got you.

So that my daughter can't get into that private note without knowing that additional password.

That's the main thing that I can think of on there.

But here's the thing, Jeff.

I guess I just thought that, well, I want to set up custom passwords for different notes.

Well, you can't do that, at least not in Apple Notes.

You have to have one custom password that can lock or unlock the note.

Because once you set that up, then you go into the Notes app.

You tap and hold on a note in your list.

You can say lock note.

And then it depends on what your selection was.

You have to put in your custom password.

Or you just say, yes, I want to use my iPhone passcode because you've already set that up in the settings.

So I know that was a lot of involvement.

I'll make sure we have a link to the support article

from Apple in the show notes.

You know, once you understand

that it's one of those two avenues, it's not that bad.

I just feel like you have,

you got to have the information

so that it's not as confusing as it really could be.

Okay, good kit.

Yeah, and I've never used this feature before,

but the reason I've never used it

is because when I have a really private note,

I put it in my One Password app.

Exactly, I know.

Which has a Secure Notes feature.

So, but for people that don't use a password manager,

it's good to know this.

Or if you use the Apple's built-in password manager, because the passwords app from Apple doesn't have, I mean, this would be the Apple solution for this.

So I totally understand that.

That's right.

And I would just say quickly, somewhere in here, I wanted to say, I think if it's a shared note, you can't lock it.

Like that can't be locked if it's a shared note on there.

And I feel like there was one other restriction.

I'll look for it, but you can go ahead with your tip.

My tip is I love putting things in notes because it's there.

And when I need it in the future, I can find it.

But that's sort of my tip today has to do with fine.

I did not realize until recently that there's two different ways to find in Apple Notes.

One of them is finding across all notes and the other is finding within a specific note.

And so on the iPhone, it makes more sense because if you're in your iPhone and if you're using the Notes app,

if you're on the part of the Notes app that has like, you know, all the different notes listed and you tap on one to read it.

So when you're on that cover screen, that's got all the notes listed in a big long list.

If you go at the very bottom of the screen, there's a search box.

And if you just tap in there, if you tap the word poodle, it will show each of your notes

that have the word poodle in it.

And it will even highlight in the note where it is.

So that's very useful because I don't know which one of my notes talked about poodle.

I want to find that.

But sometimes I am within a note, especially a long note that I have lots of stuff in.

And I want to find things within that note.

I don't want to search across all my other notes because my other notes might use the

word poodle in a different context.

I want to find out where this particular note has the word poodle.

And so the way that you do that on the iPhone is you tap the three dots at the top right,

and then you use the thing called find in note.

Now, I mentioned all of this because in my mind, it's not as intuitive on the iPad,

because when you're using the iPad, the same two things I just told you are true,

except that when you're looking at the iPad, because there's more screen real estate,

at the same time that you're looking at your note,

there's a column on the left that shows all of your notes, right?

Right.

It's a dual column, which is useful because then you can very quickly.

Yes, I like it.

That's better than the iPhone because you've got more screen real estate.

Right.

But what's confusing is that if you can imagine that you have your column with all your notes,

then you have the big part that has the current note.

And at the top right of the big part with the current note, there is a search box.

And intuitively, you might look at that search box and say,

well, because it's literally sitting on top of my note,

That's going to search within this note.

No, that is the same thing as on the iPhone, the search box that's at the bottom of the

list of notes.

And so if you search for the word poodle, it will show it across all of your different

notes, which may not be what you want.

If you want to find something on the iPad within the actual note that you're looking

at, do the same thing I mentioned before, which is tap the three dots and do find a

note.

Or if you're using an iPad and you have an external keyboard connected.

So like, as I'm sitting here right now and talking to you, I'm using my Apple magic keyboard,

right?

If you're using the Apple magic keyboard and you're looking at a note, if you do command

F, which is sort of like, you know, the generic find function, right?

It will, it is, it is not the find across all notes.

It is the find within this note, which is good because that's what I want.

And so I'm looking at a particular note.

It's got tons and tons of things in there.

I want to find where, where in this note that I talk about Poodle, do command F and it'll

search within this note.

Now, if I want to search all my notes on the iPad, I can do that too.

Just tap into that top right search field.

But so my real tip today is to number one, understand the distinction between find across all notes and find the end note.

And then second of all, to know how you're doing one.

You know, when the search box brings up one, when you go to the three dots and do find a note or alternatively do command F on the iPad because you get different things.

And it's frustrating when you're just trying to find something, you want to find it quickly.

And, you know, I've been thinking about this lately.

not only because I use my notes so much,

it's just such a great place to jot things down, right?

The information you want to find,

but it's going to become even more useful

starting this fall with Siri AI

because the Apple on-device AI system,

it's going to know my emails,

it's going to know my contacts,

it's going to know my text messages,

and it's going to know my notes.

And so the notes feature,

not only is it going to be this great way

for you to jot down something in a note,

but it's also going to be basically your way

of teaching the AI, as it were.

You know, things that I want the AI to know, I'm going to put them in an Apple note, whatever

it is, you know, something about me, something about my family.

And, you know, I might be, I suspect that starting this fall, I'm going to be putting

things in notes, not, not just because I might want to go back and look at the note in the

future, but more of just, it's a way to have that educate my on-device AI.

So it knows the things that I think are important.

And so notes and finding things, you know, it's, it's important.

It's useful today.

it's going to be even more, it's going to get even more helpful this fall.

That's a great point. I hadn't thought about that way, but yeah, I, uh, it's almost like

notes could be a training playground for Siri AI. Like that could be part of my small language model,

my personal small language model. Okay. Interesting stuff like that. All right. I know this has been

a little long, but it's just a lot to talk about. Like I said, at the beginning, I didn't realize

so much was going on this past week, but always good to talk with you. And we'll talk with you

next week, Jeff. Thanks, Brett. Bye-bye, everybody.