Welcome to In The News for August the 7th, 2026.

I am Brett Burney from Appsinlaw.com.

And this is Jeff Richardson from iPhoneJD.

Hey, Brett, how you doing?

Good morning, Jeff.

I'm doing good.

If I was a betting man, I think I would put my money on your predictions for the next Apple announcement.

This is how you started off your post today.

Two years ago, in fact, here is the article that you posted on August 27th, 2024,

that you believe September the 9th is the day that Apple is going to probably announce the new iPhone.

This will be the iPhone 18 with whatever multiple options that they offer along with that,

and possibly even the new iPhone fold that we have been speculating about,

rumoring about for quite a while now.

But you think September 9th will be that day.

I am so certain about it that I'm wearing a jersey right now that has a big number nine on it.

What?

The reason I am wearing a number nine jersey is this is a,

if anyone watching the video can see, I'm wearing black and gold.

Here at my law firm today, we were having a black and gold day.

We are celebrating the fact that tomorrow, which is August 8th, our good friend Drew

Reeves is going to be inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame, which I guess, actually, I think

that's in Ohio, right?

Canton, Ohio?

It is in Canton, Ohio.

You're right.

Is that close to where you live?

That's almost about an hour south of Cleveland, Ohio.

So like the Akron, Canton area there.

So it's about 45 minutes to an hour.

But yeah, we pass it all the time.

And I'll just quickly say before you go on, what's great is that if you go to the highway,

you can see the football hall of fame. If you're going south, you can see it on the right.

And there are electric wires that go, that go across, you know, just normal electric wires,

right? Those big little towers. Well, the two, the, the, on either side of the highway,

the electric wires are not those typical, you know, triangle squared towers. They are goalposts,

yellow goalposts. So you drive under the electric wires that are goalposts where you pass by the

football hall of fame. That is very cute. That is very cute. Well, unfortunately,

you're not in Ohio today. You are traveling today. People can tell you're using a different

microphone today, so you sound a little bit different. But New Orleans is very excited for

Drew Brees. And I mean, just for a little point of personal privilege here, I will just say that,

you know, my entire life from being a little kid, the New Orleans Saints were a horrible football

team. They had ups and downs, but I mean, so many downs. People used to wear, you know,

brown paper bags over their heads in the 1980s. And, you know, after Hurricane Katrina, when the

city was completely despondent and trying to rebuild when drew breeze came in and you know

led our saints to greatness for so many years including winning the super bowl in 2010 um which

was ironically also at the time against the indian apricot cults who were being led by

eli manning who's another new orleans person it was just like every sort of thing came together

it was emotional it was winning it was you know people will you know i i hate to be silly about

you know sports victories being so but i will tell you it truly changed the city to have won that

Super Bowl in ways, you know, maybe other places that went all the time. It wasn't as big of a deal,

but it was a big deal. And Drew Brees is also just a really first class guy. Yes. Yes. He's like one

of these really good people. So I'm, you know, the whole city is excited for him tomorrow. But anyway,

that's, but again, back to the number nine, you know, I, I, a couple of years ago, I was looking

at when does Apple announce the iPhone, which is the biggest, right. That's the biggest day of the

year for Apple, right? I mean, the iPhone is what, like half of Apple's money. It's like, it's,

It's such a huge phenomenon around the world, as we're going to talk about more.

But Apple is a creature of habit, which I respect because I tend to be too.

And for many, many, many years now, they have liked to announce Apple products on a Tuesday,

which is nice because people can – to the extent that it's an in-person event and nowadays it's sort of a very minor in-person event.

It's mostly an online event.

But people can travel on Monday and be there on Tuesday.

but and they like do it in the fall because you want to like get the excitement and then it's

moving into the holiday buying season and stuff in december because you know it takes a few weeks

for it to be out and people get it so september is a great day to do it um but then you've also got

uh i guess it'll be it's labor day right which is on monday and so that's right depending on what

it is they don't want to do it the day after labor day because yeah traveling there you're

traveling labor day and so they have basically have a formula and i spelled it out in that post

two years ago. And, you know, with the only exception, I think, if I remember correctly,

was in the COVID year when like the production was just so ridiculous that everything was on

schedule that year. But with that exception, I mean, you can go back well over a decade,

almost 15 years to predict with some, you know, once you figure out the formula, which I lay out

in that post, that's when they do it. Now, again, doesn't mean that they won't change things this

year. I mean, this year is a bizarre year too, right? The iPhone is going to be costing more

than normal because of the high cost of memories. As you alluded to, Brett, this might be the year

that they announce a folding iPhone, which would be something really, really new. Would that be in

the same? I guess it would be the same announcement as the regular iPhone. So there's definitely,

I mean, we don't have COVID this year, but we definitely have things that are out of the

ordinary in 2026, we believe. And so maybe this will be the one year that they break from pattern,

But I'm going to predict and put my money on September 9th and say that that's going to be the date this year.

And, you know, like I sort of joked in my post, if they use that same formula, you can predict.

If you're going to skip an iPhone this year and get one next year, I can predict what that date's going to be too or even other dates.

So which is right around the corner because today as we're recording this is, what, August 7th.

So we're basically one month away from the excitement of a new iPhone.

whatever new secret features are in iOS 27 they haven't told us about yet

because they require the new iPhone.

You know, it's an exciting time.

It's the happy time of the year for people that enjoy using Apple products

is when Apple announces the new iPhone every year.

So I'm already getting excited just a few weeks away.

Now, September 9th this year is a Wednesday, actually.

Now, as you mentioned, Labor Day is that Monday, September the 7th.

So this year you're predicting it's going to be a Wednesday.

Now, at the end of your intro paragraph to your post today, you also are already betting you would earmark Wednesday, September 8th, 2027.

You think it's going to be a Wednesday next year.

Because that year too, September 6th will be Labor Day and they don't want to do it the day after Labor Day.

It's going to be Wednesday.

Okay.

And then you said for 2028, just because you want to plan ahead a little, you say Tuesday, September 12th is the day from 2028.

Because that year Labor Day will be earlier in the month because you know it varies.

Ah, okay, okay.

So there's a little formula that I – this is just me putting it together, but I think I'm right.

I think you're doing good.

But we'll see.

We'll see.

Put the money out there.

Mark your calendars now.

Plan to watch that day.

The Apple announcements are always at 10 a.m. Pacific, which for me in the central time zone is noon.

So it always works well for me.

I have lunch in my office that day.

Grab a sandwich or whatever.

sit down, you know, close my door for the lunch hour and I watch the announcement and think about

all the fun Apple things I'll buy. So I'm guessing I'll be doing the same thing in one month. We'll

see. That will be exciting. Okay. So we'll, I'm sure we'll be talking a little bit about this.

Like, so now I guess we should have made this clear. We don't know for sure yet. This is a

prediction because Apple actually doesn't announce that date until what, maybe two weeks out or three

weeks. It'll probably be near the end of this month. Yeah. Near the end. Okay. Okay. So that's

when we'll know for sure. In other words, this, in fact, when you had this post from two years ago,

that Apple will send out emails, right? Mostly to a lot of journalists out there for the invitation.

And it'll be some kind of a weird logo that everybody tries to interpret to see what does

that mean? What could it possibly mean? From two years ago, September 9th, 2024, it was,

it's glow time. They always have some kind of a little phrase that's going to be on there.

But as soon as those emails hit inboxes, we start to see them. People will post them.

I remember we will get emails. The normal folk of us, non-journalists, will get emails as well

because it'll just say the announcement of the recording or the video, right? This will be played

because everybody can watch it now. This was more hearkening back to what you mentioned earlier

would be when journalists actually went in person

to the Moscone Center in San Francisco

or the C. Jobs Theater now in Cupertino.

But now there will still be people

that will be on site there,

but then all of us normal people

can watch it remotely as well.

So anyway, we should have probably made that clear

that we don't know for sure,

but in a couple of weeks,

we probably will be seeing some of those invitations

if Jeff is correct.

And I think my friend is.

That'll be good.

it's interesting because you were just showing the picture from two years ago that it's global

which was an obvious uh reference to siri i'm correct right in you know we that's when siri

was sort of coming out in what was supposed to be the ai version of siri that's right but you know

didn't really come to plan and then here we are two years later where apple has you know going back

to the you know taking it all back down to the to the what is it the you know break it break it down

basics and start over again with its ai version that's right that's right um and that's what we're

next month. And as you and I've talked about in the podcast, the initial reviews of the beta version

is that the new Siri is pretty darn good. It'll be fun. Once that announcement happens, I predict

many people will buy the new phones. You had a couple of links today, which I thought was just

interesting. Apple holds 65% of the premium smartphone market as that segment reaches a

record high. And I think this is from Marcus Mendez at 9to5Mac when he defines the premium

smartphone market as $600 and up. Is that right? Yeah. So this is a counterpoint research.

Counterpoint Research is one of the companies that tries to predict the smartphone market.

And, you know, they don't know for sure because Apple does not release specific numbers on how

many models of things sell, but they use their estimates and, you know, it's as good of a guess

as any. So it's not going to be 100% accurate, but it's a decent guess. And the thing is,

iPhones are so ubiquitous. We see them everywhere. But the reminder is, there are tons of smartphones

in the world, many of which are relatively dumb and cheap smartphones, and they're very popular.

But Apple doesn't really have anything in that market, nor I think should they,

because there's not a lot of money to make. I mean, the margins are razor thin in the markets.

But once you have... So Counterpoint Research defines it as $600 and up as being the more

smartphones. And once you get into that market, I mean, Apple is pretty dominating. It's, you know,

65% is not 100%. You know, it's definitely, there's competitors there. A lot of people buy

Android phones, of course, too. But, you know, this is why Apple is so successful is they sell

the most probable type of smartphones and they sell the most of them. And that is why Apple is

a ridiculous, you know, multi-trillion dollar company nowadays. So, again, these are guesses or,

estimates from outsiders, but wouldn't surprise me if they're accurate. That chart that you're

showing right now is just so interesting because you look at the high end of the market and Apple

just has such a big portion of it compared to their prediction is what? Apple 65%, Samsung 19%.

19. Wow.

Everybody else 16%. Everybody else.

Yeah, that is a little mind blowing when you kind of break it down like that.

but people are ready for it, right?

I mean, again, like you said,

these are sort of estimates

and maybe guesstimates even to them,

but I think that they're educated estimates

in the sense that even if it's not accurate,

it's not gonna be very far off on here.

I mean, and it's not slowing down.

I mean, there's so many people

that you and I talk to all the time,

not just us, that are hungry,

looking to see what these new phones are going to be.

The other story that you linked to here,

which is a little interesting because now that I start thinking about this,

we spent a long time last week talking about the Apple Upgrade Program,

which is basically this new leasing program that Apple has partnered with Klarna to offer.

And one of the things that I posited last week was it's interesting they're doing this now,

making this announcement, because perhaps this is going to lessen the blow a little bit of the pricing

when the new phones do come out in September.

And then this other story that you link to here, Apple sweetens its trade-in deals.

But this is William Gallagher at Apple Insider.

He says you can still do better, which you and I have talked about many times.

If you sold it on the private market, possibly you could get more money maybe for these devices.

But let's say now we've got this Apple upgrade program.

We've got new phones.

We know that are probably going to be coming out or being announced at least on September 9th.

And maybe a week or two after that is when you can preorder and receive it, actually.

I feel like Apple is kind of banking this up because they know it's going to be a heavy hit.

It's going to be hard.

So not only is that Apple upgrade program, but as William Gallagher reports here,

Apple is now offering a little bit more for the trade-in deal.

So if you've got a current phone, you're waiting for September to see what the new phones are going to be,

you want to trade it in, you can get a few extra dollars now for that trade-in.

Yeah. You know, if you have what I have in my hand right now, which is the 16 Pro Max, you know, if it's in good condition and mine is in good condition, get up to $720.

Now, again, I spent a lot of money on this phone, but being able to get just over $700 for trading it in would definitely reduce, you know, even if the new iPhones are more expensive, like you say, and they will be more expensive.

That would help, right?

Yes.

Maybe, let's just say maybe half price or something like that. So that is definitely good.

Now, I personally am going to probably pass mine on to a family member this year, but it's nice to know.

And, you know, it makes sense that Apple would be paying a little bit more because, like you said, you don't have to sell to Apple.

You could sell to other people.

And, you know, considering that new iPhones are going to be more expensive this year, last year's iPhones I think are going to have a pretty good market for what people –

a lot of people – in fact, you and I –

Oh, definitely.

It might be for some people.

You don't need whatever this year's iPhones is going to be because last year's iPhone is going to be plenty good enough, right?

because it's still going to be very, very powerful,

especially if it's a Pro or a Pro Max.

So get whatever is right to you.

I can understand how they have value.

And I'll also say finally,

although you can, I'm sure, get more money

by selling on eBay or something like that,

you just take away the uncertainty

when you get it back to Apple.

Absolutely.

My only advice I have for this

is when you trade back to Apple,

there's two ways you can do it.

You can go to an Apple store.

if you have an Apple store that's close by for you or Apple will give you a box and you

can send it in.

And I will just warn you that I've had one or two times over the years, over the many

years, over a decade where I've put something in a box.

Like one year I put an iPad in there and like they claimed the iPad was damaged and it was

not damaged.

That iPad was in pristine condition.

Oh, interesting.

But like I guess during shipping something happened to it.

And so like they vastly decreased what they would give me and it really annoyed me because

I'm like that – I mean again, I guess from Apple's standpoint, it showed up to them with

a crack or whatever it was.

They don't know who. Yeah, I blame, you know, the UPS person or whatever. So ever since that experience, I always, always, always, if I do a trade in, I go to my local store because that way I'm handing it off.

They can see the condition it's in. They can tell me the price. We both know it. So that's my one little tip is that that's a great point.

Not everybody has an Apple store that's close enough to go to. But if you do have one in your locality, that would be my recommendation.

You know, I hadn't thought about that, Jeff, because I always have, well, not always, but probably the last three or four times I have done that little, it's like a little cardboard foldable envelope.

It's really cool.

It's a beautiful box.

Yeah, it's a nice box.

Exactly.

And it's just neat how you could fold it all up.

And it's like, the sticker's already on there.

I don't have to go.

All I got to do is just drop it off, basically, like going to a new PS store or something like that.

And just the convenience has always appealed to me so much.

But I never really thought about that angle there because, yeah, that would really upset me if I knew I put in this beautiful – because I would clean mine off and wipe it down and make sure it's all pretty before I put it in that box.

But you don't know what's going to happen between you and Apple receiving it.

Yeah, that's a great point.

I will take you up on that.

So that iPhone is probably going to be safer in the box than something a little bit bigger like an iPad, an iPad Pro, and then something even bigger like a big Mac or a display or something.

The bigger it is, the more risk of damage.

But anyway, just something to think in mind.

To be fair, I have sent back many iPhones in those boxes, and it's been 100% perfectly fine.

And it's been fine?

Okay.

It's just one bad experience for me was enough to sour me on ever doing it again.

Because number one, it's so easy for me just to drive 20 minutes to Metairie, Louisiana, where the Apple store is.

And then number two, it gives me an excuse to go to the Apple store.

Like you need one, man.

Okay, that's great.

You know, the more, we've talked about the Apple Newton many, many times over the years.

And of course, not because it's a new device and it's something, but the more that we get

into the modern day touch screen, you know, what started with the iPhone in 2007 and the

iPad and just the interactive capabilities, like when you tap and hold in there, I'm saying

that because an article that you linked to today, again, from William Gallagher at Apple

Insider, Newton's August 1993 launch set the stage for what would become the iPad and iPhone.

And I'm talking about that interaction capabilities, even with a touchscreen today,

when you tap and hold and you can highlight text, for example, a lot of that, the more I realized,

a lot of that came from this Apple Newton. Now, the Apple Newton was a very, very old Apple device.

And this is a fantastic little article. I didn't get a chance to read through all of it, but

He even embeds some really nifty videos in here about people interacting with the Apple Newton.

Now, some people, you could almost say, like, when I was looking at some of these elements,

it's very similar to the old Palm Pilots, if you remember some of that, right?

Because I think during that time, those mid-90s, that's when the Palm Pilot came on board,

and just some of these early, like, touchscreen, interactive screen elements.

You know, we call them the PDA, the Personal Device Assistance, right?

There's just a lot of history that has come through and what we kind of take for granted today in these touchscreens.

And this was a great article from William Gallagher to kind of walk down that memory lane, that Newton memory lane.

Yeah. The article I saw at Link this week, and I was thinking it was an article from this week.

I actually see as you're showing it there that the date was 2018.

So he wrote this. Again, it's history.

Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay. It has been a while. Okay. Yeah, yeah.

But it is a – it's a great article.

In fact, I recently, we were talking earlier this year about David Pogue's book, the Apple

50-year book, where he also did a job of talking about all aspects of Apple history, including

the Newton.

And it's just a fascinating story because there's the product angle of it, of, you know, it was

the first time that people were going to have something.

This was before even the Palm Pilot.

I mean, it was something in your hands.

Yes, right.

It was a powerful little computer.

And, you know, the technology was just so interesting and forward-thinking and perhaps

ahead of its time.

But everybody knew that this was going to be the future.

And one of the things he mentions in this article, and David Pogue talks about it too in his book, is that in addition to Apple, a part of Apple was working on the Newton.

Apple was also investing in a company called General Magic, which was coming up with their own version of a handheld device.

And the people at General Magic, many of them, most of them, were former Apple employees that were instrumental in creating the original Macintosh.

And so they had these two – in some ways it was competing, but there was these two things.

You know, Apple in the days, this was when John Sculley was around and this was, you

know, before Steve Jobs imposed some discipline, Apple was spending too much money on too many

different things and it was a problem.

And the fact that they were both working, you know, being in investing in General Magic

and working on the Newton at the same time, I can't imagine that modern Apple would do

anything like that, right?

Certainly not Apple when Jobs came back.

It just sort of shows that Apple was a little scatterbrained.

But you know, that's the business side of it.

From the technology side of it, it was just interesting.

fascinating stuff ahead of its time. But I just always, you know, as someone that loves the iPhone

so much, I always enjoy looking back at these Newton things because you can totally draw the

line from what they had there to what we have today, even though there was also so many problems

and it was expensive and it couldn't do very much. And the handwriting recognition was

laughably horrible in the first generation, although they did improve over time.

And so it's just, you know, history can teach us something. And I think it's always interesting to

look back at where we came from and then think of where we are today.

I'm just fascinated watching this little video right here.

Like somebody's going to,

like a businessman is being interviewed and he's interacting with the Newton

and he's highlighting like a date or something and then creates a calendar

appointment.

Is he like,

he's using a little pen and he's highlighting the name and sending,

actually he's sending a fax here.

I did watch this little piece.

So anyway,

just the fastest they need to,

for a quick look back and it's always enjoyable to get.

Yeah,

yeah,

yeah,

yeah.

Jeff, my family and I are on vacation right now in northern Maine.

And yesterday, one of our family members was very nice to take us out on a pontoon boat.

And, you know, the whole time that we're out there in this beautiful wilderness,

we even saw a great bald eagle out on the lake.

The whole time I'm sitting there in the boat thinking,

I could really, we could really use CarPlay right now in this boat.

I mean, it would just be nice to have that.

And so can you imagine my thrill this morning when I saw this article you linked to today?

CarPlay is coming to pontoon boats.

So Mastercraft Boat Holding said today that it is adding CarPlay to its upcoming pontoon boats.

They're working with a company.

This is a great name for a company, Savvy Navi, to bring CarPlay and on-water navigation to boaters.

Boy, it just can't come soon enough.

I am not a boater, but as I understand it, Savvy Navi provides basically a boat version of Google Maps, I guess.

So it's, you know, Google Maps for a boat.

And so if I understand correctly, you can use their app in CarPlay.

And, you know, I didn't realize, I'd never really thought about CarPlay on boats, but once this article floated around,

I saw other people saying that many people will purchase like a separate CarPlay unit and install it on a boat.

Just to have, because it's like the nicest technology, right?

But, of course, you don't want to just be limited to driving on roads on the boat.

So you want to have something that's going to work on the open seas.

But at least it gets sort of funny.

And, you know, heck, I mean, one of the features coming to CarPlay this fall is that you can actually, like, watch a movie on a CarPlay screen if you're parked at some.

So maybe if you're out in the boat late at night, once you're done looking at all the eagles and it's dark and you can't see anything else, you can all crowd around your CarPlay display and watch Ted Lasso.

I don't know.

I'm just saying, okay, first of all, this is MasterCraft.

boats. We know, you've seen that name, Mastercraft. They're working with a company called Savvy Navi,

which, I mean, come on, that's a fantastic name. But Apple, you've got to release boat play. I mean,

we have car play, we've got to have boat play. And, you know, I will just say on a quick serious note,

you know, in this boat, and there were several other pontoon folks, you know, out and about

yesterday, because it was a beautiful day. But most people, you know, when you're on a boat,

and some of these pontoon boats, you may not know this, Jeff, because you're not a voter,

as you said, but there is like a Bluetooth speaker that's hanging underneath the canopy there.

Because people like to have some tunes when they're out on the lake. And it's like, well,

if you've got CarPlay, you could connect that to your boat. And now you got BoatPlay with the music,

a shared album. I mean, you know, you could just go a little hog wild there. That's great stuff.

There you go. I love it.

Okay, well, let's go back to the car in CarPlay. A couple of stories that you linked to today

that you and I are both very serious fans,

by the way, of CarPlay,

and we are excited to see iOS 27

bring a few new features to some Apple apps.

One that I am just thinking,

thank goodness, finally, I would love this.

How about a little scrubber for your music

or for your podcast?

I love this.

If you see on this little screen I'm showing here,

most of the time you've got a play pause button in the center,

and then to the left and the right of that,

you typically have these little circles that you can jump ahead 10 seconds or 15 seconds,

or you can jump back 15 seconds, which I've used those a lot. Those are fine. But I've always

wanted to tap the little play head and I wanted to scrub back and forth. Couldn't do that on CarPlay

before, but apparently in iOS 27, when that comes out, you will have that capability both in, I assume,

Apple Music and the Apple Podcast app. And I would hope that that comes to a lot of other apps as well.

Yeah, but the article that you're linking to says that it's part of – of course, it's part of Apple Podcasts, but it's also part of the player technology.

So depending upon what third-party app you use – I mean the one that I use is Overcast.

If they plug into – and I think they may have to.

If they plug into the Apple technology for playing, they will also get this feature automatically.

And again, once it's available, I'm sure third-party apps will make sure that it works with them.

But yes, I agree.

It is useful.

When you're in the car, of course, you don't want to touch the screen too much while you're driving, although I guess if you're stopped at a red light, you can touch it easily enough.

So I will typically, if I need to jump forward or backwards on my car right there on my steering wheel, I've got little buttons under my thumb that I can press to fast forward and to jump back.

And I do do that sometimes, but sometimes you don't want to have to do it over and over and over again to jump back a ways.

You just want to jump earlier.

You know, I've had times where I mess up something, I hit something on my phone, and next thing you know, I've jumped to the end of the podcast.

I'm like, oh, goodness, I totally missed, you know, I want to go way, way, way back.

And I don't want to hit the rewind button a thousand times, right?

So just sort of quickly dragging it back, that would make so much sense.

So I am looking forward to this feature, and, you know, it's the thing I'm not going to use very often.

But when you need it, you need it.

The one time that I do not want a scrubber is if my CarPlay automatically shows an ad, a video ad.

You linked to this today.

I don't know if the – it looks like the link went to a past post of yours.

But if you go to Darren Fireball, you'll see it.

Let me see.

Darren Fireball.

We'll go here.

You go ahead and explain what happened here that he was upset about.

So, you know, BMW has all sorts of fancy displays in their car.

I think they have CarPlay too.

But, you know, they have the other dash and stuff.

And people started to notice that it just happened a day or two ago that they were putting an advertisement for the new Spider-Man movie, which by the way I've heard is very good, right there on your car screen.

And if you like tapped it or clicked it or whatever, it would basically show like a video on your screen.

And like I don't want ads.

And the funny thing is like the article you're linking to right now is this is from John Gruber a couple of years ago where somebody from BMW specifically said, what year is this?

If you go to the top, is this 2024?

2023.

Yeah.

BMW executive promises we are not going to sell ads in our car.

And here we go later.

They're doing it.

And they claim – there's another post that John Gruber had where they claim, oh, this is not an ad.

This is just a delightful feature for our users.

I'm like, yeah.

You're going to tell me that Marvel did not –

to put a Spider-Man ad in your car.

And I mean, I just think that that's distracting

to have ads all over the place.

We were just talking about this,

what was it, one or two weeks ago,

of we know that ads are coming out of the maps.

We're hoping that they're not going to be very obnoxious.

We are also hoping that when John Ternus takes over a CEO,

that he sort of reverses this trend.

Apple, you make a lot of money already, right?

You got 65% of the smartphone market,

as we just talked about.

You don't need the incremental income

that you make from uglying up your ads.

So I would like to think that Apple would never do this.

But there are car manufacturers that are trying to get money,

even high-end ones like BMW.

I don't know much about their business model,

but you would think BMW is doing okay.

I have no idea.

Whoever owns BMW.

But, you know, it's just a little distasteful to see an ad.

Oh, how frustrating is that?

You had an interesting post earlier this week, Jeff,

that I would like to ask you about a little bit.

Because it seemed like it touches upon several things

and I have discussed over the years. First of all, 1Password. Very much a fan of the 1Password app

for a multitude of reasons, not just for passwords, but also because it has several features that will

protect like secured notes and other things. We've talked about the idea of people traveling across

borders and having to maybe hand over their iPhone, which has a lot of personal information on there.

And I think that you wrote this because I saw the story as well, that there was somebody that crossed the border.

He gave them a, quote, special password, gave them the Border Patrol, gave them a special password that wasn't a password.

It was actually a secret code that basically erased his smartphone.

Border Patrol wasn't very happy with that.

But I think it brought up a question, and I can see I just barely got a chance to look over your article, that does the 1Password travel mode, which we've mentioned before, does that violate anything?

Is that a dangerous thing to look at?

What say you, my friend?

So many interesting stories here.

So the particular story that you're talking about was – I saw it in the New York Times, but it was reported elsewhere too – that somebody who was sort of a social activist, he was traveling back into the United States.

He believes that he was targeted by customs because they knew that he was an activist.

And they decided we're going to ask you, you know, we're going to demand that you give me your smartphone and you demand that you give me your password.

And so he used an Android phone, not an iPhone.

And he had actually put a special, you know, on an Android because you can do whatever you want to it, basically.

You could install your own operating system.

And he had installed this operating system that had this special code that when you type in your password, it unlocks.

But if you type in this other word, it erases the entire phone.

And so when Customs asked for his phone and asked for the password, he gave him the fake password, which erased the phone.

Customs was not happy with that, as you can imagine.

And they charged him with violating 18 U.S.C. 2232.

Right.

So I can understand why he's being prosecuted.

And you could talk about whether it's unfair political persecution, everything else.

I'm not going to get into that today.

But what I'm thinking about is one password has had for a very, very long time a feature called travel mode.

And the way it works is let's just say I have everything that is in my vault.

I'm going to be traveling.

And just in case my iPhone is stolen and somebody would get access to it, I don't want them to get my passwords and all my other secure information in 1Password, like my secure notes and stuff like that.

And so I can tell 1Password I want to turn on travel mode, which means that that vault is completely deleted from my iPhone.

It's just not there.

And in fact, if you have multiple vaults, you can choose to delete some of them, all of them.

Maybe you leave like a tiny boat belt that's just your travel vault, which only has like one or two things.

Right, right.

If the bad guys get access to that, you could perhaps live with that.

And then once you get to your destination or you feel safe again, then you just turn off travel mode and it downloads very securely from the 1Password server, you know, that vault again.

And so you're back up in business.

But that way, if you were stopped at the border, it would by any country, whether it's entering another country and they do it or coming back to the United States and they do it.

Or if somebody stole your phone and got access to this stuff by somehow jailbreaking it or something like that, they can't get your passwords because they're not there, because they're not there.

And so the question I had is I'm looking at the words of this statute and I'm thinking, if you use this, do you violate the statute?

And, you know, it's a tough one because if you look at the words of the statute, it says that if, you know, anyone before a search of your property knowingly destroys, damages, wastes, disposes of or transfers or otherwise takes any action for the purpose of preventing or impairing the government's lawful authority.

Now, when I turn on one travel mode, am I destroying data?

I mean, in a way I am because I'm deleting it from my iPhone.

In another way, maybe I'm not destroying it because it still exists out there on the world.

It's on the website.

Right.

It's on the 1Password website.

Right.

But even if I didn't destroy it, did I transfer it?

Did I transfer it from my phone to the website?

Or did I take any other action on the data?

Any other action?

That's subject to interpretation.

And was I doing it for the purpose?

Because it's a crime.

So it has to be intentional, right?

But, you know, you wouldn't negligently violate a statute like this.

But if your intention was, I'm going to prevent the U.S. customs people from having access to my passwords, then that was your intent.

And, in fact, if you look at the 1Password website, they even say that one of the purposes of it is, you know, you're going through customs and the custom agent.

So like they specifically say this is a reason you might want to turn it on is for this particular reason.

So suffice it to say, look, I'm not going to give legal advice here.

And I can imagine a whole bunch of arguments as to why you did not violate the statute.

Like you're not intending to destroy it.

I can also make the argument that this is akin to me saying my private diary where I have all of my secret thoughts about who I love and what I want to do.

I'm going to keep that diary at home.

I'm not going to take the diary with me as I go through customs because I don't want them to see it.

And if, you know, if turning on travel mode, I could make an argument that that's just like leaving it at home.

It's leaving it, you know, on the server.

You'll get it back later.

I'm not just –

What if I lose my phone?

Like I just want to make sure that if I lose my phone or get stolen, I don't want to have all of that information on that phone.

I mean like you said, there's so many arguments.

That you weren't intending to do this for customs.

You were intending to do it for losing your phone or having it stolen.

But, you know, obviously what if, you know, I'm sitting here talking about it now.

So I guess if I ever did it, they could cite this podcast and say maybe Jeff was thinking about 100 money.

They got Jeff.

It's complicated.

And then, of course, it has to be for a lawful search.

You have arguments against that.

We've talked in the past about this many, many years ago on the podcast, and I've written about it in the past.

But if you're an attorney and you have attorney-client privileged information, that's a whole other can of worms.

Does customs – do they need a warrant to get it?

What are your rights as an attorney?

it is incredibly, incredibly complicated because unlike when you're in the United States,

there have been some mixed opinions over whether the protections that you have within our borders,

you know, the Fourth Amendment and stuff like that, does that apply as you're trying to enter

our borders? And some courts say maybe not. Right, right. Yeah. It's an uncertain area of the law.

It's, you know, any time that you travel internationally, you need to think about it.

And, you know, most people, you know, the customs, how many people does customs actually pull to the side and search?

You know, they've certainly never done it for me before.

But, you know, heck, I'm a white male and everything else.

And I'm not politically, I'm not a political activist or something like that.

But if I was known to be somebody who, you know, protests against unfair things from the government and I was on a watch list.

Right.

My skin color was different.

And they thought that, you know, maybe somebody who was, you know, doing racial profiling thought, you know.

There's all sorts of reasons why people have a lot of concerns and it's a legitimate concern.

And so I wrote this post to raise the questions and to get people thinking about it.

And I got so many emails.

Really?

Other people this week of people saying, I think about this all the time.

I don't know.

One person wrote me.

I think he lived in Melbourne, Australia.

He says, I think about this whenever I come to the United States.

It is like, and again, I don't have answers.

If you look on the Electronic Frontier Foundation's website, the EFF, I know – we've talked about this in the past.

I know that they have some tips for people, but it's really just to be better educated, to know what your rights are.

But the reality is this is an uncertain area of law.

And again, I don't want to get political, but we all know that in our current administration in the United States, laws are being applied in ways that many of us look at and say, are you serious?

The ICE is doing what?

Customs is doing what?

And so this is a difficult situation.

So you just got to think about it.

And I'll end with one last thing, and I think I put this in my post.

You know, you might decide as you're traveling in the old days, well, of course I'm going to bring my laptop.

Of course I'm going to bring my phone.

Of course I'm going to bring my iPad because I want to use all that stuff.

Right.

Just think about, do you actually need it?

Because is there a chance it would get stopped?

You know, maybe you just want to have a burner phone and you're not going to have all your apps and everything else, but maybe you don't need it for when you're traveling.

Maybe all you need is a burner phone that just has access to Google Maps so that as you're traveling around, you know, France or whatever, you're, you know, Ireland, wherever you're going to Italy, you can, you know, look at the maps and that's all you need and figure out different ways to get access.

I don't want to get people paranoid, but I also don't want to ignore that this is a real issue.

Thank you for raising the issue.

And I guess when I saw this, I'm like, okay, you know, this is interesting.

People will, but I had no idea that you would be getting that much feedback, that many questions, Jeff.

So in other words, it is something that people are thinking about.

And I think that it should be.

And I'm glad that you additionally raised the question on there.

And by the way, I think I did find, this is what we've talked about in the past.

The EF has a border search pocket guide.

So it's like a cute little PDF that you can print out and then fold up just so that it kind of helps you understand.

I mean, here, I don't know if I can turn it around, but they have it to where it's like when it's folded up,

it just can fit in your pocket about what you can do.

And there's a lot of other great resources.

My goodness, I've been following the EFF for many, many, many, many years,

just with a lot of the issues that have arisen around the Internet and technology over the many years.

It's a great resource for a lot of that kind of stuff.

I mean, I just have to wonder if you have this EFF border search pocket guide in your pocket and if a customer finds it in your pocket.

Uh-huh.

I'm sure there are very good customs agents and there are others.

Oh, good question.

For certain types of people, would they look at that and think now you are a target because of – oh, goodness gracious.

Yeah, yeah.

Good questions.

Good questions.

Thanks for writing about that.

Yeah, I, you know, I didn't name this in the vision segment here, but I think we can,

let me verify that I'm not a robot and we can continue on to this website, which is the,

what is it?

The AJO.

I'm not really sure.

Is that the annual for the Journal of Ophthalmology, I believe?

So apparently the American Journal of Ophthalmology, which is, you know, for the doctors that practice

in this area, this is the companion that basically puts online some of the articles.

So what I link to here, this is a scholarly scientific article that uses lots of words I don't understand like endoscopic, I don't even know what the heck that word is.

I don't even know what the heck that word is.

They said, we want you to do half of your surgeries the way that you normally do it and half of your surgeries wearing an Apple Vision Pro.

And when you have the Vision Pro, it means that those displays that you're using when you do surgery, instead of having to turn your neck and look up and look at the display, you can have it basically whichever way your head is facing.

The display is just right there because it's virtual and it can be as big as you want.

And they said, what impact does that have on surgery?

And perhaps unsurprisingly, they say that first of all, it speeds up the surgery by what, like almost 100% or something like that.

Shorter operative times.

Yeah.

There you go.

And I mean, obviously, if you're having an operation, I mean, I think this is obvious.

I'm a lawyer, not a doctor.

But it seems like the shorter the operation, the better chance of risk and stuff like that.

But just as importantly for me, the surgeons said we prefer doing it this way.

And I was almost surprised.

Because the Apple Vision Pro, I mean, this is a first-generation product.

It's so big.

We know in the future they're going to get smaller and lighter.

Right.

You know, I don't mind wearing it.

I've gotten used to it.

But it is a little bulky, right?

And for the surgeons, for them to say, on the one hand, this is adding some bulkiness

to my head.

But on the other hand, it is making it so much better because I'm not straining my neck to

look at screens.

Yeah, they prefer it.

And they've actually said not just that it makes the surgery faster, but they prefer it.

That was the most important part for me.

And you and I have talked in the past about other doctors using vision pros in surgery.

So this is something we know.

But I just thought that, and I don't know what the sample size was here.

I mean, they definitely say, like any cautious scientific study, more inquiry is needed, more study is needed.

But I do think that this is the future.

I want my eye surgeon, as he is cutting my eye, to be as comfortable and as comfortable as possible.

And so perhaps if I do need eye surgery, I might bring my own Vision Pro and say, hey, doctor.

Bring it. Say, hey, doc.

Yeah.

Feel free. Feel free to use that.

I want you to be nice and comfy if you operate on me.

I just like to, I mean, I can just see Apple's ad for this.

Like if you want ProVision, try a Vision Pro.

Like that's the way you got to go.

You might be wearing your Vision Pro tonight because I'm expecting that tonight, Jeff,

you might be watching the new season of Ted Lasso.

Well, maybe not.

You said that your wife and I are going to watch it tonight.

So she doesn't have a Vision Pro yet.

Maybe that'll be Christmas or so you can get one for her.

So Ted Lasso, in fact, we came on vacation

and my wife specifically asked me

that we could bring our Apple TV with us

just so that maybe this weekend

we could watch the new season of Ted Lasso.

It is upon us.

I haven't seen it yet.

It actually came out on the 5th, right?

So two days ago.

And you linked to this story from Jason Snell

who said, it's fantastic.

He said, what did you say?

Each episode made me laugh out loud a lot.

So I can't wait now.

Yeah, so I thought that you were going to tell me

that you and your wife had already watched it,

but y'all haven't watched it yet.

Okay.

So we're all in the dark.

This weekend too, right?

Yes.

In fact, last night,

just before I started to do some work at home

and put together today's post,

I actually asked my wife,

do you want to take 30 minutes and watch Ted Lasso?

And she's like, you know what?

Let's save it for Friday night.

So we will definitely be watching it tonight.

Yeah.

And I will not be in my vision pro

because we watch it together.

So it'll be

Right, right, right.

But I'm very much looking forward to Ted Lasso.

I love that, you know,

there's always the chance of like,

if you bring back something,

is it going to still be as funny or not it can't be can it i mean come on speaking of speaking of

way way way back when uh what long before we had kids my wife and i would sometime watch the show

called scrubs i'm sure you've seen it before oh yes also also done by what's the name of bill

lawrence the same guy that that is behind ted lasso too right it was correct yes and scrubs was a very

funny show and scrubs came back uh i think this year on netflix and they brought out almost all

all the same actors and stuff.

I haven't seen that yet either.

I have been watching it.

And look, it's silly network TV.

And it's not technically network because it's on Netflix.

But you know what I mean.

It's like that sort of a show.

But I have to admit, it's been sort of cute.

It's just sort of something fun to watch.

I was glad that they were able to bring back the show and still have it funny.

But, you know, sometimes they bring back shows and they're not as good anymore.

So Ted Lasso finished, you know, a couple of years ago after its three-year run.

And gosh, that first season of Ted Lasso was so good.

It's one of those rare shows that I watched the entire thing myself.

And then I told my wife, this is so good.

You're going to laugh.

And I watched the entire thing a second time with her.

And I loved it just as much the second time as I did the first time.

So, you know, there's so much happiness that it brought us during COVID and afterwards to have Ted Lasso.

And I'm so happy that I came back.

But especially I'm so happy because the reviews and I've tried to read these reviews with like one eye closed because I don't want to give you spoilers.

But right.

But like I just sort of skimmed through it.

And like that last sentence that Jason Snell says and he's seen like he got some preview versions of it.

So he's already seen the first half of the season.

He says it's just as funny.

And I've heard him say on podcasts, everything that you liked about the other Ted Lasso's.

Oh, good.

I've even heard people say that Ted Lasso season three was maybe not quite as good as seasons one and two, but they say season four is good again.

So I'm excited about it.

There's Ted Lasso fever everywhere.

You had this little video you linked to on Instagram, which I hadn't had a chance to watch.

But some of these guys are really good.

Like they dressed up and look like a Jason Sudeikis, you know, coach.

Like it was like almost a spitting image.

And you tell the same jokes and homespun jokes.

I mean, look at that.

That's fantastic.

It's like Jason Sudeikis himself is right there.

This was just outside the Apple Fifth Avenue store in New York City, right?

And I know that's right.

There's the cube.

Nice.

They have the people, the top three candidates are on stage.

And in fact, one of them is actually holding a Ted Lasso puppet, which could not be more cute.

But the person that won, if you watch, set aside three or four minutes, Brett, and look at these videos.

It's worth it.

Whoever posted this, I got it.

What is that?

NYC loves NYC.

I don't know who that person is.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'll put a link in the show notes.

But the videos are really short.

But the guy that won, his Ted Lasso, his accent is great.

He uses all the right words.

this is somebody who has seen believe me i've seen ted lasso season one twice i've seen it a hundred

times his his his language is good he does the dance correctly like this guy is a really good

that's funny so i hats off to him i don't know what he won by winning that contest but i'm sure

it was something special so uh that's some ted lasso and then you know the other ted lasso in

the air i mentioned was that i was doing uh you know i use uh apple fitness plus to do workouts

sometimes. I was doing some weight workouts and I noticed that they had like a Ted Lasso. They have

a whole bunch of workouts this week with the Ted Lasso theme. And so, you know, without giving away

spoilers, I think it's widely known that there's a woman's team this year instead of a men's team.

And so for the workout that I did, they had all female instructors and they were all wearing

like the jerseys of the Ted Lasso. I don't know what it's going to be called. It's the Richmond

women's team, I suppose. I haven't seen the show yet, so I don't know. But, you know, and I'm

laughing because like they looked like the outfits they were wearing looked pitch perfect right and

i'm like well of course because apple owns fitness plus and so of course just called up the people

that work on the show and say okay hey can we borrow yeah and more of those in all the correct sizes

and so i'll be i hope that the instructors get to keep those jerseys oh i can't wait that's going to

be fun so ted lasso enthusiasm is in the air i will be very happy tonight when i get to watch it and

yay, yay, yay. In the know. So as I mentioned, my family and I are on vacation. And what do we do

when the family goes on vacation? Everybody takes pictures, but you want to share those pictures.

So I dug just a little bit deeper into this because I knew that there has been something

called a shared album for many, many years, right, Jeff? But if you remember a few years ago,

So Apple also announced a shared iCloud photo library.

Do you remember that?

I don't know if I even have a link to this back then.

But I remember when that came out that I was a little, well, at first I was excited because I'm like, okay, well, this sounds good.

I want to share an iCloud library.

But then I'm like, no, wait a minute.

I have my iCloud library.

I don't want to share my library or have an extra library or do I?

I don't think I do.

But the iPhone shared album,

I could understand a little bit better.

Does that make sense?

In fact, to me, I don't think I've ever done

an iCloud shared library.

Have you done one of those?

Do you know?

No, no.

That would be like if you and your spouse

want to have access to it.

And Apple did not allow that for many years.

And now they do.

But I haven't even tried it.

I haven't tried it.

Okay, good.

Okay, so I think it seems like it should be

for the same purpose.

Because maybe you do the same thing as well.

We're on vacation.

We're all taking pictures on our different phones now

because it's not just one.

You know, it's not just daddy that has a phone.

Everybody's got a phone and everybody likes to take different things.

And we like to share those pictures.

So I create a shared album and I call it like we're up here in Maine, you know, 2026.

And so now I invite the kids and the wife.

They can now access it and see all the pictures.

But then they can also add pictures.

And interestingly, and this is what I just dug a little deeper into, what a shared album is.

This is not actually saving pictures to my personal photo roll or my collection, right?

This is a separate album.

It's a separate album.

And in fact, if you go through, I found this great, what is, it's MissFreddy.com.

Apparently she does some tech tips.

And I just thought this was a great, she laid this out a great way about a couple of years ago,

how to use an iPhone shared album.

And she did this good thing about what are the pros and cons of the shared album.

An iPhone shared album is a feature to where the owner can create the shared album and invite others to collaborate, right?

Everyone can add content and comments, but they can only delete their own contributions.

So if my daughter adds pictures, she can only delete her pictures that she has added to that shared album, right?

Which is fine.

Most of us, we don't do that.

But again, if we have a shared album and she adds pictures to that shared album, Jeff,

those shared pictures from her don't become part of my personal photo role unless I go

into that shared album and save them to my role.

And that's what this website does.

She goes through and talks about the fact that if you want to save them, you actually

have to go in and you tap and you select them.

And then you can say, well, here she selected 180-watt items.

So she says, you know, save that.

But it'll also say, you know, add image or save image,

which means that it'll save that image from the shared album into my personal role.

I just wanted to make sure that people knew about that.

Because for me, I guess I just assumed that it was part of my role, but it's not.

The pros of shared albums here is that, number one, it doesn't count towards your iCloud storage.

So it's not actually taking your iCloud storage.

If you have a separate iCloud shared library, photo library,

That does count towards your iCloud storage.

But shared albums don't.

Now, I think that's good in the way that Apple released that.

She's like, you can't really take advantage of that because people say, well, hey, can I just use shared albums then?

No, you can't do that.

You still have to have your own library here.

But then the first con or the disadvantage to shared albums is just, again, something to keep track of, is that the photos in the shared albums are not full quality, right?

So if somebody shares that album.

No, go ahead.

Go ahead.

Keep talking, Brett.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay, good.

That's about to change, but keep talking.

Oh, it is.

Okay, yeah, because I remember this, but I just wanted to say right now, it's not a full quality,

but I believe that if you save it into your photo roll, I think that it becomes full quality there.

At least I couldn't tell the difference there, but maybe it is.

But anyway, I know that that is going to change.

It's one of the other reasons that I wanted to bring it up.

Okay, that's about it.

I just wanted to make sure that people understood, first of all, the iCloud photo shared library.

I feel like that would just be a very small percentage of an instance where people may actually use that.

Most people, I think, think about shared albums.

And that's indeed what we do.

But if you see something like when my daughter adds images to a shared album and I want to save them to my own photo row, I have to go in and specifically save them.

And that to me is the main thing because if she deletes those from the shared album, then I don't have access to them anymore.

So just make sure that if you wanted to save them, that that's the way that you save them.

Okay, go ahead.

I know you had a couple of thoughts on this too.

Shared album is a great feature.

I don't use it very often, but when I do use it, it works well.

I mean I've had people set them up like after a wedding and we all shared pictures there.

Exactly, yes.

I got to see – I shared my pictures and other people shared theirs.

and it's like, oh, that's a great angle.

Or there's a picture that I'm in,

which I didn't, you know, not in my role

because the picture I was taking,

obviously I'm not in,

unless I set it up as a tripod or something.

And so I do like it, but you're right.

You do need to manually share them to your album.

A traditional limitation was that they were not full quality.

Now, I will tell you that even though they're not full quality,

they're still pretty good.

And they're totally fine on an iPhone or an iPad screen.

Correct.

If you were to print them out in a big 8x10,

you might notice it.

But this is something that I believe is changing in iOS 27.

And so that would be nice.

Finally, we're about to have full quality.

It's interesting.

I see that the screen you're showing says it's not part of search or facial recognition.

I didn't know that.

So like if I search for a picture, then I only have it in a shared album.

But again, shared albums are useful when you use them.

I remember years ago, you and your wife went to some culinary event that you knew I would be interested in.

And you shared some pictures with me.

And it was a nice way to look at it.

I was able to go through it.

But again, if you were to stop sharing that album tomorrow, then I would lose access to those pictures.

Correct. That's right.

Unless I save them.

And again, I don't need to save pictures of you and your wife at that event.

But, you know, it was fun for me to look at them.

Right.

I'm glad you did it.

So it is useful in its way.

I will just tell you what I have done.

And this is as much for historical reasons as anything else.

Very, very long time ago, Apple had a service called MobileMe, which had a lot of pluses and minuses and perhaps more minuses than pluses.

But one of the things it allowed you to do was to create galleries where you could share pictures online.

And so when Apple shut down the MobileMe service, I was like, well, I had been using that to share pictures.

I mean we're talking about like 2005, 2004, 5, 6, that time period.

And so I was using that to share pictures with my parents and my brothers and sisters and stuff like that.

And so I started to look for another service to use.

And, of course, Flickr has been around forever, and that was one of them.

The one that I picked was called SmugMug, and SmugMug's been around for a very long time.

That's right.

And so I have a SmugMug website, which is behind a password, but everybody in my family knows what the password is.

And that's where I post pictures.

Now, it doesn't allow the collaboration like this does, right, that other people – I mean, I guess actually I take that back.

It actually does allow a collaboration feature.

I've just never had people use it that way.

In my family, if people want me to add something, they just send me the picture and say, Jeff, put this in your online collection, and I just do it that way.

But I do like it because it's a permanent.

Now that I've used it for so many years, I've got pictures organized by year and then by event on SmugMug.

Not all of my pictures, but just like the 15 pictures that I want to share of my uncle's birthday party or whatever it was.

But you need to have a good solution for sharing pictures.

So whether you're going to use the iPhone shared albums or for me, I've used SmugMug.

It's nice to have something like this so that everybody can access pictures wherever they are.

And I will tell you, I mean, gosh, that SmugMug site, you know, there have been times where people in my family have been like, oh, I was going back in time and I wanted to like make a card or I'm putting together a, I'm making a collage or something like that.

And like it was useful for me to go back and find some pictures of like my own kids from four years ago because you had posted them four years ago in that SmugMug site.

Right.

So, no, this is a very timely and I'm glad you shared this.

And a lot of information here I did not know about, like the fact that it doesn't count towards iCloud storage and all that sort of stuff.

Just very interesting stuff.

cool stuff okay my tip of the day has to do with um emails so many times when i send an email

i you know most of my a lot of my emails are just plain text but sometimes i want to have

things formatted and on the iphone yeah and the ipad you do have some formatting options

like one thing you can do is you can indent a paragraph and so like okay let's say for example

I was sending someone an email about that statute we talked about earlier today that criminalizes,

you know, destroying evidence. I will take that statute. In fact, you can see in my post,

I have it sort of. Yeah, you indented. That's right. I will take it. I will put it in my email

message using either my iPhone or my iPad mail app. And I can say increase, you know, indent it so

that it stands off as like a quote. But then I like that. Right. I will. What if I want to emphasize

one or two words in it in the iPhone? There's a couple of things you can do. You can make words

bold italics underline. That's fine. You can change the color of the words. So for example,

if I wanted to highlight a phrase, I could highlight four words and say, make these four

words bold and red. That would make them stand out. But on my computer, what I will often do

using my PC and Outlook, I will highlight them like in yellow because then it's like you used a

yellow highlighter on them. It stands out. This is how I typically do it in the computer. And so

So how, if you're using an iPhone or an iPad, how do you highlight in yellow?

And the answer is you can't, but there's an asterisk because my tip today is how you can do it.

So here's how you can do it.

Can you show the picture on your screen?

Yeah, I'm going to bring it up.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So let me start with the end result.

This was just a test email that I have a word highlighted in yellow.

I just typed, you know, now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the country, which is something that I learned when I was learning how to type in middle school.

Yeah, same.

One of those typing sentences.

So if I wanted that word, you know, C-O-M-E to be highlighted, I cannot do that within the mail app.

But here's what I can do.

Really?

What I can do is I can copy the word or the phrase from my mail, like after I've typed it in my mail app.

Then open it in a different app on my iPhone or my iPad that supports a highlighting feature.

And the one that I use is Microsoft Word.

Microsoft Word, for me, every attorney, anyone in business, you need to have Microsoft Word,

even if it's just the free version, on your iPhone and your iPad.

You just need to have it.

A million, that's a whole other discussion we could talk about.

But then once it's in Word, once I have the Word in Microsoft Word app, well, then I can

select it in the app and I can use the Microsoft Word feature to highlight it yellow, green,

blue, whatever I want, right? And so now I've highlighted the word. So now that it's highlighted,

I copy that. I go back to my mail message and I paste it. And when you paste it, it will preserve

that formatting of highlighting. But here's the asterisk. Here's an asterisk on my asterisk.

What it does do, however, is it changes the font. Now, maybe you don't care.

I was going to ask that, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

On the screen, Brett, can you see that the word that's highlighted, not only is it highlighted,

Can you tell that it's a slightly different font than the words around it?

I mean, if you look closely, you can tell.

No, I cannot.

But it's probably something you're going to notice.

And the reason for that is that in the mail app, there is a function.

You're showing it on the screen right now, just below it.

You see that capital letter A and a little letter A next to it?

Yes, yes, that little button.

If you tap that button with the A and the A, it brings up the format menu.

And in the format menu, you can change the font, right?

So what you might say is, oh, well, that's a different font.

I'll just change it back to the same font as my message.

You actually can't do that because Apple Messages,

they use a special font from Apple that they created called San Francisco.

The specific variant of it is called SF Pro, I think,

but it's one of the Apple San Francisco fonts.

And bizarrely, if you tap the format button and choose a font,

there's lots of different fonts to choose from,

but when you know which one you cannot choose from,

you cannot choose FF Pro.

So you can't make it the exact same font as the rest of the message.

I mean, I don't know why, silly.

Apple, put the font in there.

Yeah, come on.

But what I have noticed is that whatever, like when you take something in a San Francisco font and you paste it in Word, it uses, I don't know what it uses.

Arial, Helvetica, something like that, whatever it is.

I can hear Microsoft talking in the background there, Brett, whatever.

Yeah, it's doing, yeah.

No problem.

But whatever the font is, it's close enough.

And if I change it to 14 point in whatever font Microsoft Word is using and I put it back in here, 14 point of whatever font Word uses, I don't know what that is, is close enough, close enough.

Yeah, this looks great.

If you look closely, you can see that the O, like look at the O.

But no one's going to look that closely.

Yeah, it looks just like bolded.

Yeah, it looks bolded.

And that's the other thing is my point of doing this entire thing was just to emphasize the word.

And so I actually don't even mind.

That's a lot.

different font because again it makes it stand out but that's true that's true i personally believe

that something that is bold and highlighted in yellow just stands out a lot more absolutely

or just bold and underlined or even if i just change the font color to red and so um this is

a silly tip but i will actually use it again i often use it like i said i i'm going to send my

client or another attorney here's the full statute these are the words i want you to pay attention to

I'm going to highlight those specific words in yellow

and now I'm going to send you the email from my iPhone

and when they look at it on their iPhone

or their iPad or whatever

mail program they use

just about all mail programs

can support highlighting because it's just part of a rich

text format it will look highlighted

and so I know that this is totally

geeky and there's a lot of steps to it

but a lot of steps

is it worth your time to do it you decide

but if you like highlighted

text in an email message

that's how you do it

Well, I'm glad to know this. I don't know how often that I will do it on my phone because I do exactly what you're discussing many, many times when I'm on my Mac or my Windows computer and I'm utilizing it because I do like to highlight things, especially when it's a longer email and I try to keep things short and brief as possible.

But it's just nice because immediately your eye is going to go to whatever is highlighted on there. And that's a lot of steps on the phone to do that.

It seems like a lot of sets, Brett.

I'm telling you in practice, especially on my iPad.

You go quick.

I copy.

I paste in Word.

I highlight it.

I copy.

I paste back.

It's done.

It literally takes me a few seconds.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay.

I get that.

Yeah, yeah.

So my question is, I wonder if the Notes app would do that.

Have you tried that?

You go to Microsoft Word.

It does not, unfortunately.

Okay.

You don't have a highlight.

Yeah.

In fact, I checked that before today because not everybody has Microsoft Word,

although everybody should have Microsoft Word.

Right, right.

But everybody has a Notes app,

but no, the Notes app does not support highlighting,

so you can't use that.

But Microsoft Word does,

and I'm sure that there are other third-party apps

that do as well.

I just don't know what they are,

because for me, I have Microsoft Word.

Yeah.

Now, there is like a highlighting-esque type

of a feature in Notes,

but it changes the color of the text,

and then it highlights it in the back as well.

And it's not the punchy yellow,

like what I call it.

Like, I call this the fluorescent yellow, right?

and there is a yellow or actually there is not yellow in the notes app when you do that highlight

ask type of button it's like a little highlighter looking uh icon it's purple pink orange mint and

blue so you have no yellow but i like this fluorescent yellow because that's what we

typically would expect and anticipate when we're talking about the highlighter uh feature on there

so i want to see it yellow exactly i want that to punch you right exactly i want to really emphasize

So then I'm just like, I wonder if pages would work, right?

Okay, we'll experiment.

We won't take the time.

I suspect it would.

I haven't tested that, but I suspect it would.

I don't know.

Because you're not doing a full document inside Word or pages, right?

You're just putting that Word in there and then copy and paste and paste.

Okay, well, excellent tip, even though I know some people are probably thinking, man, that's a lot of hoops to jump through.

But when you need it, especially, again, I talk about this all the time because you do this on the iPad as well, right?

This goes for the iPad as well as the iPhone.

And a lot of times if I'm on my iPad,

I feel like sometimes I'm doing more serious type work

and which means that I'm communicating

with professional colleagues.

And in that case, I will do some of this highlighting.

So yeah, you know what?

Great, thank you.

Thanks for that tip.

That is good.

Okay, I know we've got a lot we have been talking about.

We are anticipating September 9th.

We'll see in the next few weeks how right you are, Jeff.

That'll be fun.

All right, so this is good.

Thanks again as always.

We'll talk with you next week, Jeff.

Thanks, Brett.

Bye-bye, everybody.