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Simon and Nick are back, a week late because Simon forgot what date it was! Nick's trusty microphone then decided to die completely, so he sounds a little different as he had to fall back on his headset, and the master recording crashed and deleted itself before Simon could save it, so this is the Piezo backup recording, which is perfectly OK but doesn't have all the Audio Hijack niceness. Anyway in a month that saw new Apple Macs, and iPads, and Tariff Tomfoolery and much more the boys decide to talk about Simon ordering a 16e, and plastic eating mealworms, amongst other things!!! Recorded 13th April 2025 On this week's show NICK RILEY Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube APPLE Simon orders the iPhone 16e Apple released: iPad Air M3 and A16 iPad launched on March 4 and MacBook Air M4 and M4 Max Mac Studio on March 5. Everything New in the iOS 18.5 Beta – MacRumors How to use Visual Intelligence on iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 16e – BGR Apple reveals details of security fixes added in iOS 18.4 and more – 9to5Mac Apple TV+ cancels Mythic Quest, allowing new season 4 ending – Cult of Mac The iPad Launched 15 Years Ago Today, Continues To Dominate The Tablet Market – WCCFTech SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Microsoft is now 50 years old – The Verge [Scientists break down cheap plastic using the air – LiveScience Plastic-eating mealworms native to Africa discovered – Live Science SECURITY & PRIVACY Court confirms Apple is suing UK government over encryption backdoor – TechRadar WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS You can now buy an Apple Pencil Pro that looks like a crayon – 9to5Mac New Low Price: Add Ports Galore to Your Apple Mac Mini With Satechis – CNET Select Faster on iPhone With This Two-Finger Trick – MacRumors Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Obscenely late putting this one up – Sorry! Also, yes I know it should be iCloud in the title but that typeface has no lowercase, and it looked silly all in capitals, don't @ me! Anyway, Simon and Nick got together to look at the news and the biggest things at the time were the iPhone 16e and the UK's disgraceful and abhorrent attempt to force a backdoor into iCloud not only for UK citizens but everyone, everywhere. Simon and Nick chat over those and a several other things (as ever). Recorded 2nd March 2025 On this week's show NICK RILEY Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube APPLE 5 reasons to buy the iPhone 16e and 3 reasons to skip – Tom's Guide Heres why the iPhone 16e doesnt have MagSafe, according to Apple – Macworld How Fast is Apple's First-Ever 5G Modem? The Results Are Surprising – MacRumors The future of Apple Vision Pro is in medicine – Popular Science Watch Apple TV On Android – Apple Magazine A new Adobe Photoshop app is coming to iPhones – Engadget Apple's Acquisition of Pixelmator is Complete – PetaPixel Apple Launches New 'Invites' App – MacRumors SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Skype Is Finally Shutting Down on May 5 – MacRumors SECURITY & PRIVACY Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row – BBC What Apple pulling UK Advanced Data Protection means for you – BBC US Probes UK's Apple Encryption Demand for Possible Treaty Violation – MacRumors Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Mike and Darren some of their top reasons to switch to a mail client like Apple Mail including Mail specific features such as Focus-based email, sending large attachments with Mail Drop, Rules, and even some unique mail sending features not found in the typical webmail service! Mike and Darren answer listener questions from Andy and Alex on Finder's Recents and legacy System Extensions. Then Darren closes the episode with this week's Essential App pick: Ghostery!

Essential Apple Podcast 303: Zombies, Zombies Well it is 2025! So guess what? The Essential Apple is back again, late as ever... anyway Nick and Simon talk about some stuff in the news and wander around as usual. Sorry it isn't the best recording we ever did, something was causing a bit of a buzz on Simon's mic, cleaed up as best as possible and hopefully fixed next time... Recorded 2nd February 2025 On this week's show NICK RILEY Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube NEMO'S HARDWARE STORE (14:44) Macally Mac Keyboard with USB Hub | Dual USB C / USB A – Macally Plug In Night Light Desk Lamp with Safe Phone Charging – Macally APPLE Apples reports record revenue for Q1 2025 (with charts) – Six Colors Reminder: You really need to update your Apple devices this weekend – MacWorld Why Apple Vision Pro's $3,500 price is actually a selling point – 9to5Mac Apple AR glasses for Mac reportedly cancelled heres why – Tom's Guide Best cloud storage for Mac: online storage for Macs & Apple devices – Macworld SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Apple, Meta and Microsoft CEOs weigh in on AI startup DeepSeek – Quartz This Diamond Battery Last 5,700 Years – Popular Mechanics ‘Groundbreaking' sickle cell disease treatment approved for NHS use – The Guardian. SECURITY & PRIVACY Security Bite: Top macOS threat found riding the DeepSeek wave – 9to5Mac SLAP and FLOP security flaws affect all current Apple devices – 9to5Mac WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS How to reset an Apple ID password – Macworld RCS messaging on iPhone: New ways to chat with Android friends – Cult of Mac Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

On a week where Florida got mauled by Milton, Elon unveiled a CyberTaxi and what looked like humanoid robots, Russians on YouTube unboxed alleged M4 MacBook Pros and AAA Gaming comes to Apple Silicon (sort of) Simon and Nick get together to talk about that, and lots more... MISSION TO SEAFARERS APPEAL The Mission to Seafarers is looking for donations of old, but working, smartphones and internet capable tablets to give seafarers far from home a way to talk to friends and family If you have any old smartphones or tablets cluttering your cupboard and drawers why not donate them to this worthy cause? If you are in the UK contact Vicar@felixparish.com or your nearest Mission to Seafarers Centre, or if you live outside the UK simply visit missiontoseafarers.org. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 13th October 2024 On this week's show NICK RILEY Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube NEMO'S HARDWARE STORE (5:56) Pitaka Aramid Woven Cases – Not just for iPhones 16... prices from about $50 USD / £50 UKP – Some products can be found on Amazon... Catalyst Cases from about $40 USD / £40 UKP or on Amazon US / Amazon UK Scosche Magic Mount Flask – $40 USD APPLE These M4 MacBook Pro leaks are a goldmine of secret info – Digital Trends iPhone 16 vs iPhone 16 Pro: Apple's latest smartphones compared – TechRadar I upgraded to the iPhone 16 Plusa nd I have thoughts – Macworld Is the iPhone 16 Plus going to be Apple's last Plus model? – Tom's Guide Apple officially cancels autonomous driving permit as Tesla unveils CyberCab – 9to5Mac Reasoning failures highlighted by Apple research on LLMs – Apple Insider Apple's cheapest iPads are still steeply discounted following Prime Day – The Verge Apple's New iPhone Update—Bad News Revealed For Millions Of Google Users – Forbes RCS on iOS 18: Which UK networks support it (and how to enable it) – Trusted Reviews RCS Arrives on iPhones: See which US Carriers Support the Feature – NextPit SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AAA gaming comes to Apple M1 thanks to the latest Asahi Linux build – Tom's Hardware SECURITY & PRIVACY Apple Intelligence privacy features: Here's what you should know – 9to5Mac Apple bug could expose personal info to your employer –MorningBrew VINNE & THE SQUIRRELS VS THE ANALYSTS Report: Cheaper Apple Vision headset to cost around $2000; drop EyeSight – 9to5Mac WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS iOS 18: How to send iMessages via satellite – BGR You can now change your Apple ID email, as of iOS 18.1 – Apple Insider Apple TV hidden features: 9 helpful tricks everyone should know – [BGR] JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast SuperDuper! Sequia update – ShirtPocket and so has Carbon Copy Cloner – Bombich iOS 18 fixed my motion sickness problem with one new feature – 9to5Mac Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Eventually we return - after illness, a bad bout of depression followed by Summer ennui and a lack of real stories Simon and Nick rise again like an unwanted Phoenix to return to your Podcast feed... A few thoughts on a solid if not overly inspired Glowtime and a lot of rambling “catch up” conversation... Welcome back to the world of the EAP! MISSION TO SEAFARERS APPEAL The Mission to Seafarers is looking for donations of old, but working, smartphones and internet capable tablets to give seafarers far from home a way to talk to friends and family If you have any old smartphones or tablets cluttering your cupboard and drawers why not donate them to this worthy cause? If you are in the UK contact Vicar@felixparish.com or your nearest Mission to Seafarers Centre, or if you live outside the UK simply visit missiontoseafarers.org. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 29th Septempber 2024 ---- On this week's show NICK RILEY Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube NEMO'S HARDWARE STORE (12:14) UZBL Cushy Case for iPad 10.2 and many other models https://uzbl.Com/collections/ipad-cases Catalyst full protection waterproof drop proof case for iPad Pro and all iPhones https://www.Catalystcase.Com Scosche Baselynx 2.0 modular charging for iPad, iPhone,AirPods Watch and all USB C gizmos https://www.Scosche.Com/collections/baselynx2-family-white APPLE Glowtime Impressions iPhone owners warned of huge sacrifice to enjoy cutting-edge AI features – The Sun An ‘iPhone of AI' Makes No Sense. What Is Jony Ive Really Building? – Wired 4 Underrated iOS And iPadOS 18 Features You Should Be Using – Slashgear SECURITY & PRIVACY Why Apple cant decrypt iPhones of would-be Trump assassins – Cult of Mac WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Apple Watch SE 2 is now cheaper than some Fitbits – Trusted Reviews Your Phone Has a Free, Hidden Scanning Feature – Reviews by Wirecutter Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

This is our second interview analyzing the impact of Google's decision not to deprecate third-party cookies on its Chrome browser. Daniel Jaye is a seasoned technology industry executive and currently is CEO and founder of Aqfer, a Marketing Data Platform on top of which businesses can build their own MarTech and AdTech solutions.  Daniel has provided strategic, tactical and technology advisory services to a wide range of marketing technology and big data companies. Clients have included Brave Browser, Altiscale, ShareThis, Ghostery, OwnerIQ, Netezza, Akamai, and Tremor Media. He was the founder and CEO of Korrelate, a leading automotive marketing attribution company -purchased by J.D. Power in 2014- as well as the former president of TACODA -bought by AOL in 2007. Daniel was also the founder and CTO of Permissus, an enterprise privacy compliance technology provider.  All of the above were preceded by his role as founder and CTO of Engage, acting CTO of CMGI and director of High Performance Computing at Fidelity Investments. He also worked at Epsilon and Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting).  Daniel Jaye graduated magna cum laude with a BA in Astronomy and Astrophysics and Physics from Harvard University.   References: Daniel Jaye on LinkedIn Aqfer P3P: Platform for Privacy Preferences (W3C) Luke Mulks (Brave Browser) on Masters of Privacy Adnostic: Privacy Preserving Targeted Advertising (paper by Vincent Toubiana, Arvind Narayanan, Dan Boneh, Helen Nissenbaum, Solon Barocas)

This one is a bit late (nothing new there). Also I am sorry that the audio isn't as good as normal - not sure what happened but there was a lot of crackling and some sort of stuttering/drop out. I have done my best to clean it up as best I can. Anyway, with all that said Nick and I got together to talk about what we thought of the WWDC announcements, Apple Intelligence and more. MISSION TO SEAFARERS APPEAL The Mission to Seafarers is looking for donations of old, but working, smartphones and internet capable tablets to give seafarers far from home a way to talk to friends and family If you have any old smartphones or tablets cluttering your cupboard and drawers why not donate them to this worthy cause? If you are in the UK contact Vicar@felixparish.com or your nearest Mission to Seafarers Centre, or if you live outside the UK simply visit missiontoseafarers.org. Recorded 18th June 2024 On this week's show: NICK RILEY Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

WWDC is tomorrow, so Simon does a quick solo show with his pre show thoughts. Also Nemo is back to review a couple of portable Bluetooth speakers he crowns as his “best ever” so if nothing else listen for that!!! MISSION TO SEAFARERS APPEAL The Mission to Seafarers is looking for donations of old, but working, smartphones and internet capable tablets to give seafarers far from home a way to talk to friends and family If you have any old smartphones or tablets cluttering your cupboard and drawers why not donate them to this worthy cause? If you are in the UK contact Vicar@felixparish.com or your nearest Mission to Seafarers Centre, or if you live outside the UK simply visit missiontoseafarers.org. Recorded 9th June 2024 On this week's show NEMO'S HARDWARE STORE (2:48) TRIBIT XSound Plus 2 Portable Bluetooth Speaker – $70 USD (Father's Day Offers available). Amazon – $70 USD / £65 UKP TRIBIT StormBox Flow Portable Speaker – $80 USD (Father's Day Offers available). Not currently available on Amazon Bonus: Nemo got these working as a stereo pair even though they are different models APPLE I want Apple's AI features at WWDC to be boringly awesome – ZDNet Can't wait for iOS 18? You still might want to skip the first beta release – TechRadar Here's why you should care about everything that happens at WWDC 2024 – and why it will change your Apple world – TechRadar 7 Things Apple Has Gotten Away with Because It's Apple – iDrop News Apple adds iPhone 5s to Obsolete products list – The Apple Post SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 50% OFF EVERYTHING – Affinity Microsoft reckons its new Prism x86 emulation for Arm PCs is as good as Apple's Rosetta – PC Gamer SECURITY & PRIVACY PSA: Bartender Mac App Under New Ownership, But Lack of Transparency Raises Concerns – iDrop News Hidden Bar – Mac App Store Microsoft rolls back ‘dumbest cybersecurity move in a decade' – CyberScoop Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Rich discusses how Google's new AI Overviews feature got out of control and how the company plans to improve it.Here's the latest issue of Rich's newsletter. Sign up using your email to get it in your inbox.Mark in Lomita asks about a dash cam under $200. Rich mentioned Nexar, Vantrue & VAVA.The FBI helped to take down a major international botnet. Here's how to check if your computer had malicious VPN software installed.John in Fallbrook has an Arlo Pro camera that won't connect to his WiFi.Terysa in Harrisburg, PA asks how password managers work.Fran in Studio City has questions about a new TV.Google has unveiled a smartwatch for kids called the Fitbit ACE LTE. The one thing to know is that the smartwatch is cellular connected but not assigned a traditional phone number. All calls and messaging are handled through the Fitbit app.Amazon partners with Grubhub to give Prime members free Grubhub+ indefinitely, and you can now place orders through the Amazon app.Dan in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA needs to change his passwords. Rich recommends using the Google Password Manager on Chrome and iPhone.JP Schmetz, CEO of Ghostery, digital privacy expert and advocate, will discuss tools, browsers, AI privacy, and legislation like the American Privacy Rights Act.“Granny” wants to know the best antivirus software for her Windows computer.Android devices are being enrolled in Google's new Find My Device network. Here's the opt-out page.Ed in Las Vegas wants to know if there's a difference between Amazon Music Prime and Unlimited.Anil Sabharwal of Google Fitbit will discuss the company's new connected smartwatch for kids, the FitBit Ace LTE.You can now find games to play on YouTube.Philo now offers a free level of its streaming service with 70+ ad-supported channels; no credit card is required. Get full access to Rich on Tech at richontech.tv/subscribe

Nick visits Everything Electric, the Duck is downed, Apple buys all the 2nm, explains (sort of) what went wrong with the “deleted” photos, ICQ is shutting down, and a 1994 PowerBook rises from the grave... All this and more on this week's Essential Apple! MISSION TO SEAFARERS APPEAL The Mission to Seafarers is looking for donations of old, but working, smartphones and internet capable tablets to give seafarers far from home a way to talk to friends and family If you have any old smartphones or tablets cluttering your cupboard and drawers why not donate them to this worthy cause? If you are in the UK contact Vicar@felixparish.com or your nearest Mission to Seafarers Centre, or if you live outside the UK simply visit missiontoseafarers.org. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 26th May 2024 On this week's show NICK RILEY Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube APPLE WWDC 2024 to reportedly showcase Project Greymatter, Apple's idea of AI for the masses – iMore Apple reportedly seeks to lock out its competitors from TSMC's 2nm process – PC Gamer macOS 15 said to bring big UI design changes – BGR Apple explains the strange iOS 17.5 bug that made photos reappear – [TechRadar]](https://www.techradar.com/phones/iphone/apple-explains-the-strange-ios-175-bug-that-made-photos-reappear) Here's why deleted iPhone photos returned to some iOS devices – The Verge TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT – The Verge VK announces ICQ (I Seek You) will hit end-of-support in June 26 – Windows Central SECURITY & PRIVACY Apple's Wi-Fi location data could allow people to be tracked… – iMore WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS iPhones Pause MagSafe Charging During Continuity Camera – TidBITS JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast The TinyPod turns the Apple Watch into a hybrid iPod-iPhone gadget – TechRadar Apple's 1994 PowerBook 520C rises from the grave with iPad display and i5 internals – Tom's Hardware Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Another week, another show, and Simon and Nick consider do iPad Pros need to do more? Should Apple perhaps differentiate the Pros with their own OS? Also Apple announce a slew of new accessibility features, and are sorry that the “Crush” ad upset some people... MISSION TO SEAFARERS APPEAL The Mission to Seafarers is looking for donations of old, but working, smartphones and internet capable tablets to give seafarers far from home a way to talk to friends and family If you have any old smartphones or tablets cluttering your cupboard and drawers why not donate them to this worthy cause? If you are in the UK contact Vicar@felixparish.com or your nearest Mission to Seafarers Centre, or if you live outside the UK simply visit missiontoseafarers.org. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 19th May 2024 On this week's show NICK RILEY Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube APPLE Apple quietly promoted an excellent iPhone feature I never knew existed – Zdnet One Powerful MacBook Pro Feature The New iPad Pro Can Never Match – Forbes Apple Vision Pro set to launch in Canada, Australia, the UK, and others – Apple Post Apple's New iOS Accessibility Innovations Poised To Fulfill Unmet Needs – Forbes iOS 18: Vehicle Motion Cues might reduce motion sickness in cars – BGR iPad Pro 2024 teardown video reveals some of Apple's internal design changes – TechRadar Apple Pencil Pro shadow shows tool user selects – Cult of Mac Apple Apologized for Its 'Crush' Ad. Steve Jobs Would be So Disappointed – Inc 6 M4 iPad Pro features Apple didnt tell you about – BGR TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE Look who else is getting out of the self-driving car business – Apple 3.0 SECURITY & PRIVACY Some iPhone Users Say 'Allow Apps to Request to Track' Toggle is Disabled (Fixed) – MacRumors iOS 17.5 Bug May Also Resurface Deleted Photos on Wiped, Sold Devices – MacRumors Apple's iOS 17.5 photo resurfacing bug just got a whole lot more serious – iMore VINNE & THE SQUIRRELS VS THE ANALYSTS Siri could get a more conversational voice in iOS 18 – Cult of Mac WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS How to Use Your iPad as a Second Screen for Your Mac – iDrop News How to see every WWDC session since 2000 – Apple Insider Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do.Essential Apple Podcast 293: Where goes A.I.? Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Late again, really must do better - but this is what we thought might come out of the Let Loose event which was due in a couple of days when we recorded this, and as ever plenty of other stuff from down the rabbit warren... MISSION TO SEAFARERS APPEAL The Mission to Seafarers is looking for donations of old, but working, smartphones and internet capable tablets to give seafarers far from home a way to talk to friends and family If you have any old smartphones or tablets cluttering your cupboard and drawers why not donate them to this worthy cause? If you are in the UK contact Vicar@felixparish.com or your nearest Mission to Seafarers Centre, or if you live outside the UK simply visit missiontoseafarers.org. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 5th May 2024 On this week's show NICK RILEY Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube APPLE Ctrl+Alt+Del: Slow down Apple, it's too early for an M4 chip – TrustedReviews More details of the AI upgrades heading to iOS 18 have leaked – TechRadar Apple boss says it has "advantages that will differentiate" its AI push – iMore iPhone 16 – how Apple can make this year's phone a must-have upgrade – Tom's Guide via Apple News Former Apple Employees Found a Startup that Focuses on Safeguarding iOS Devices – Craving Tech TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE Review: Rabbit R1 – WIRED UK Tesla Recalls Cybertruck Over Faulty Pedals—Its Worst Flaw Yet – Wired ByteDance would rather shut TikTok down than sell it, according to Reuters. – The Verge SECURITY & PRIVACY Apple @ Work: How is passkey usage changing user behavior? – 9to5Mac WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Former Apple employee shares 7 iPhone tips they should tell you when you buy the phone – BGR Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

So Apple had an event... and unsurprisingly it was about iPads, and how! Also the rumoured M4 arrived (in a bit of a change of habit for Apple and how they usually do these things). Nick and Simon take a look at what was what, and have their tuppence worth of say (that's 2c to those of you who don't understand “old money” LSD, That's Pounds, Shillings and Pence people, not an halluinogenic). MISSION TO SEAFARERS APPEAL The Mission to Seafarers is looking for donations of old, but working, smartphones and internet capable tablets to give seafarers far from home a way to talk to friends and family If you have any old smartphones or tablets cluttering your cupboard and drawers why not donate them to this worthy cause? If you are in the UK contact Vicar@felixparish.com or your nearest Mission to Seafarers Centre, or if you live outside the UK simply visit missiontoseafarers.org. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 12th May 2024 On this week's show NICK RILEY Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube APPLE Apple insider reveals who could replace Tim Cook as CEO – iMore Report says WWDC 2024 will bring visionOS 2.0 and international Vision Pro launch – iMore iPad Pro with M4 chip boasts impressive performance jump compared to M3 – 9to5Mac Apples new iPad Pro is a fascinating fusion of processor and design – CreativeBloq Latest iPad launch was marred by one big mistake. Heres how Apple can fix it – Zdnet Why Apple's ‘Crush' ad is so misguided – TechCrunch Siri in iOS 18 rumored to be 'more conversational and versatile' thanks to AI – TechRadar How Did Siri Get Its Name? – Mental Floss Apple Vision Pro surgery: Watch a doctor use it in surgery – BGR PSA: New iPads won't include stickers in the box – 9to5Mac TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE Ray-Ban Meta glasses reinforce my belief in future Apple Glasses – [9to5Mac]((https://9to5mac.com/2024/05/10/ray-ban-meta-glasses-review-2/) Android Find My Device: what is Googles new tracking network and how does it work? – TechRadar SECURITY & PRIVACY Apple Addresses Critical Security Vulnerability For Windows 10 And 11 – [Forbes] WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS How to Record a Phone Call on iPhone – LifeWire Nick's 7-in-1 pen/multitool thingy – Gift & Gadget Shop Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do.Essential Apple Podcast 293: Where goes A.I.? Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Essential Apple Podcast 294: New iPads incoming? Yes this one is obscenely late and Simon can only plead “life events” sorry! Simon and Nick meander around a variety of stories, and some of them even have to do with Apple and the news stories when this was recorded... MISSION TO SEAFARERS APPEAL The Mission to Seafarers is looking for donations of old, but working, smartphones and internet capable tablets to give seafarers far from home a way to talk to friends and family If you have any old smartphones or tablets cluttering your cupboard and drawers why not donate them to this worthy cause? If you are in the UK contact Vicar@felixparish.com or your nearest Mission to Seafarers Centre, or if you live outside the UK simply visit missiontoseafarers.org. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 24th April 2024 On this week's show NICK RILEY Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube APPLE Apple announces special event for May 7: Let Loose – 9to5Mac Apple TV+'s biggest new sci-fi series gets a major boost from Masters of the Air – T3 Apple releases new family of Open-source Efficient Language Models – 9to5Mac Apple Store clearance sale get these refurb M2 and M3 Macs on sale – Tom's Guide TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus may be the laptop chip of Intel and Apple's Nightmares – TechRadar Snapdragon X Plus vs Apple M3: Worth the wait? – Trusted Reviews Is the Arm version of Windows ready for its close-up? – Ars Technica Comments on AI and creativity from Wonder Dynamics' co-founders, Tye Sheridan and Nikola Todorovic – The Vergecast SECURITY & PRIVACY Apple @ Work: Over 52% of workers try to memorize and reuse the same password – 9to5Mac WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Do you hate the new YouTube screensavers on Apple TV? Here's how to turn them off – iMore You can still buy the M1 MacBook Air (cheaper than ever) – Digital Trends Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

After a bit of a cock up last week which was completely Simon's fault (and he's very very sorry about it) Simon does a solo show because Nick is otherwise engaged... Simon has thoughts on AI after more adventures with generative tools, fun tunes from Suno, some with lyrics by Simon, Copilot generated images (some with AI weirdness) and a whip around some of the news stories... MISSION TO SEAFARERS APPEAL The Mission to Seafarers is looking for donations of old, but working, smartphones and internet capable tablets to give seafarers far from home a way to talk to friends and family If you have any old smartphones or tablets cluttering your cupboard and drawers why not donate them to this worthy cause? If you are in the UK contact Vicar@felixparish.com or your nearest Mission to Seafarers Centre, or if you live outside the UK simply visit missiontoseafarers.org. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 14th April 2024 On this week's show NICK RILEY Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube AI – Tunes, Images and Thoughts Making Music with Suno.ai and images from Copilot Designer You can find all my AI music here Best place to look at my AI images is in the Slack APPLE Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference returns June 10, 2024 – Apple The first gaming emulators are now on the iOS App Store and one has already been pulled – TechRadar Apple Vietnam operations expanded, in Chinese diversification – 9to5Mac How to edit PDF files on Mac: Pixelmator Pro is the easiest way – BGR Apples Self Service Repair Program Will Finally Let You Use Second Hand Parts – TechPP Apple's iOS 17.4 browser choice is under fire, despite increased adoption increases – iMore Apple quietly added Qi2 charging to the iPhone 12 – The Verge SECURITY & PRIVACY iPhone Lockdown Mode explained as mercenary spyware attacks target users – Lad Bible VINNE & THE SQUIRRELS VS THE ANALYSTS Apple's M4 plans could make the latest MacBooks outdated already – TechRadar WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS How To Reduce Photo File Sizes On Your iPhone – SlashGear Fix ‘Cannot Be Opened Because the Developer Cannot Be Verified' Error on Mac – TechPP How to Remove Line Under Battery on iPhone – TechPP JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast 'I bought fake Apple Airpods on Amazon - I was shocked at what actually arrived' – The Mirror Newer AirPod 2 and AirPod Pro ones still available on Amazon! Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

This week Simon and Nick are joined by Mattieu Kopp co-founder and CTO of CYME.io, makers of Avalanche (a tool for migrating photo libraries from App to App), plus Peakto, Find My Snaps, and since we recorded this Peakto for Lightroom, which are amazing AI/ML powered tools for searching and organising your photos in clever and interesting ways. After discussing that they all take a wander through some of the news from the week, including an M series chip flaw and a medical world's first. MISSION TO SEAFARERS APPEAL The Mission to Seafarers is looking for donations of old, but working, smartphones and internet capable tablets to give seafarers far from home a way to talk to friends and family If you have any old smartphones or tablets cluttering your cupboard and drawers why not donate them to this worthy cause? If you are in the UK contact Rev. Andrew Dotchin Vicar@felixparish.com or your nearest Mission to Seafarers Centre, or if you live outside the UK and would like to help, simply visit missiontoseafarers.org and make a donation. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 10th March 2024 On this week's show NICK RILEY Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube MATTHIEU KOPP Links to all their product info, socials and blog at CYME.io APPLE United States v. Apple (Complaint) – Hardcore Software U.S. versus Apple: A first reaction – Six Colors Various comments by John Gruber – Daring Fireball Here's why Apple is negotiating with Google on AI partnership – iMore Apple 'accidentally' updates every AirTag in the world at the same time – iMore Entertainment expert claims "nobody's watching Apple TV Plus" – [iMore] What's a Steve Jobs signed business card worth? How about $181,183 – 9to5Mac TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE Pig kidney transplanted into living person for first time – CNN Watch This Humanoid Robot Talk and Complete Tasks Thanks to OpenAI Tech – PC Mag SECURITY & PRIVACY Vulnerability found in Apples Silicon M-series chips – and it cant be fixed – Mashable There's a vulnerability in Apple's Mac chips –and the fix might be as bad as the flaw – MSN Unpatchable vulnerability discovered in Apple M1, M2 and M3 chips – Tom's Guide JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast Check Out This Functional 3D Printed Macintosh – MacRumors Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

On this show: the World Wide Web turned 35, Nick still has hacker issues, Sonoma bugs, Vision Pro used in neuro surgery, hints that Apple are ramping up on their AI works and more. As ever Simon and Nick have a natter about it all. MISSION TO SEAFARERS APPEAL The Mission to Seafarers is looking for donations of old, but working, smartphones and internet capable tablets to give seafarers far from home a way to talk to friends and family If you have any old smartphones or tablets cluttering your cupboard and drawers why not donate them to this worthy cause? If you are in the UK contact Rev. Andrew Dotchin Vicar@felixparish.com or your nearest Mission to Seafarers Centre, or if you live outside the UK and would like to help, simply visit missiontoseafarers.org and make a donation. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 10th March 2024 On this week's show NICK RILEY Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube APPLE The World Wide Web just turned 35 years — and please, stop calling it the Internet – TechRadar Vision Pro used in surgery for the first time "to eliminate human error“ – 9to5Mac Apple reports AI training breakthrough – Philip Elmer‑DeWitt Apple buys startup DarwinAI, adds staff to its AI division, Bloomberg reports – Reuters A wrinkle in lawmakers' plans for TikTok: Finding a willing buyer – CNN New macOS Sonoma update is reportedly taking down printers as well as USB Hubs – TechRadar Oracle Warns macOS 14.4 Can Cause Java to Terminate Unexpectedly – MacRumors Apple is now assembling the 6.1-inch iPhone 15 in Brazil – 9to5Mac iOS 18 could bring hearing aid functionality to AirPods Pro – Cult of Mac Leaked Apple roadmap hints at iPhone SE 4, foldable iPhone, and AR glasses – TechRadar Apple developed chip equivalent to four M2 Ultras for Apple Car – 9to5Mac Building Under Regulation – Hardcore Software by Steven Sinofsky SECURITY & PRIVACY GarageBand update comes with an important security patch – 9to5Mac Do an iPhone's 'Journaling Suggestions' Settings Reveal Your Name and Location? – Snopes WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS How to Fix iPhone Messages Indexing [2024] – TechPP Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

On the show this time, Nick got hacked! Apple and Epic get into another spat, in which they both came off looking stupid, and childish... Simon and Nick have been playing with A.I. image tools. Apple made modifications to its new EU rules, a man has recovered over 200 Apple Watches from lakes in Illinois and Donny is disappointed in his Zagg pencils for iPads, and of course some other stuff too! MISSION TO SEAFARERS APPEAL The Mission to Seafarers is looking for donations of old, but working, smartphones and internet capable tablets to give seafarers far from home a way to talk to friends and family If you have any old smartphones or tablets cluttering your cupboard and drawers why not donate them to this worthy cause? If you are in the UK contact Rev. Andrew Dotchin Vicar@felixparish.com or your nearest Mission to Seafarers Centre, or if you live outside the UK and would like to help, simply visit missiontoseafarers.org and make a donation. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 10th March 2024 On this week's show NICK RILEY Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube APPLE Apple reverses course and clears way for Epic Games to set up rival iPhone app store in Europe – The Independent M3 MacBook Air has this one major upgrade Apple didn't advertise – Tom's Guide Apple confirms the MacBook Air M3 won't be a fingerprint magnet – TechRadar Apple releases MacOS Sonoma 14.4 with a whopping 64 bug fixes – ZDNet Apple could be planning a giant, foldable MacBook that doubles as your iPad – TechRadar Apple's Box Office Misfires: Are Napoleon, Flower Moon, Argylle Worth it? – Variety Apple's last-minute App Store changes come with a catch – The Verge What's the most popular Mac in the US? Here's what one study says – 9to5Mac HomePod 17.4 Lets Siri Learn Your Default Music Service – iDrop News There is no excuse for failing to action Spotify HomePod support – 9to5Mac Alternative iOS App Stores Only Work for 'Grace Period' When Traveling – MacRumors Apple removes big barrier for rival iPhone app stores – Cult of Mac TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE Google is following Apple's lead by adding new developer fees in the EU – Engadget Why the hell would Google promise seven years of updates? – Android Central WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS This Simple Trick Helps Stop Your iPhone Apps Tracking You – Living Etc I review laptops for a living and this is now the MacBook I recommend – Tom's Guide Zagg Pencil wears out in a day – Donny in the Slackroom JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast Over 200 Apple Watches recovered from Illinois lakes by metal detectorist – 9to5Mac Colorware delivers a retro makeover with limited edition 'Apple Number 2 Pencil' – 9to5Mac Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

This week Simon has a new microphone so hopefully the sound will be a little better. Meanwhile apparently the “Titan has Fallen”, the Apple car project is “officially” dead, Vision Pro returns are no worse than any other Apple product, there is new Post Quantum crytographic protection coming for iMessage, and more! Simon and Nick set to and try to make sense of it all... MISSION TO SEAFARERS APPEAL The Mission to Seafarers is looking for donations of old, but working, smartphones and internet capable tablets to give seafarers far from home a way to talk to friends and family If you have any old smartphones or tablets cluttering your cupboard and drawers why not donate them to this worthy cause? If you are in the UK contact Rev. Andrew Dotchin Vicar@felixparish.com or your nearest Mission to Seafarers Centre, or if you live outside the UK and would like to help, simply visit missiontoseafarers.org and make a donation. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 3rd March 2024 On this week's show NICK RILEY Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube APPLE The Apple Car project is reportedly dead – Engadget Crash of the Titan: a short history of Apple's doomed car project – The Verge Apple Car project cost Apple $10 billion over a decade of work – AppleInsider In loving memory of the Apple Car – Creative Bloq Apple Vision Pro return rate is about the same as the iPhone 15 Pro – AppleInsider Apple TV+ to get the most exciting sci-fi TV series to be greenlit in years – T3.com Apple Wont Remove Home Screen Web Apps From iOS After All – PC Mag UK Apple Adds M3 Macs to Its Do-It-Yourself Repair Program – iDrop News Ridley Scott's ‘Napoleon' movie is now streaming on Apple TV+ – 9to5Mac Apple ID could get a branding makeover to Apple Account – Cult of Mac Gurman: No Apple Event Planned for Upcoming iPads and Macs – MacRumors Apple hit with class action lawsuit over iCloud's 5GB limit – 9to5Mac Zoom Pulls the Plug on Older Versions of iOS – PC Mag UK Netflix Subscribers Can No Longer Pay Through Apple's App Store – MacTrast TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE Windows 11 borrowing Apple's ‘iPhone as a webcam' feature for Android – 9to5Mac No physical buttons, but the bottom of the trackpad still clicks. Tap-drag to drag*. Three finger swipe up reveals all windows and desktops. *The the tap-drag gesture is tragically flawed, however, as it does not have any form of drag lock, so you have to be able to complete the drag in the available area of the trackpad. Which is nowhere near as big as Apple's. SECURITY & PRIVACY Blog - iMessage with PQ3: The new state of the art in quantum-secure messaging at scale – Apple Dougee Says: iMessage lacked post-compromise security. In the Signal protocol, your communication keys are constantly updated and “ratcheted” forwards. This means that a compromised phone/backup won't be useful for long. You'll replace the stolen keys within a few minutes. In iMessage this wasn't true: public keys were long-lived. The new update adds periodic rekeying using elliptic curve cryptography, to ensure that compromised keys quickly become useless, both in the future and for decrypting past messages. This closes an important threat vector. Along with key transparency, this makes iMessage a state-of-the-art cryptographic protocol. Even with those improvements, the remaining problem is that elliptic curve crypto is not secure against future quantum computing advances. This doesn't matter today, but if such computers are built in the future, they could be used to decrypt past conversations. So Apple has made two changes in this update. Frequent elliptic curve rekeying. Second “post quantum secure” algorithm: Kyber. This algorithm rekeys as well, but a little less frequently. (This is because Kyber cophertexts are much bigger and “eat” more space on the wire.) An important note here is that the two main encryption algorithms are arranged into a “combiner”: this means that as long as one algorithm remains secure, nobody should be able to break the encryption. This means Apple gets the safety of elliptic curves today, plus PQC in the future (maybe.) Ok, so what? You might point out that this is overkill. Quantum computers are years away, and key compromise is rare. So why should I care about this? The answer is you probably don't need to care. It is overkill. But sometimes overkill sends a useful message, one that should be heard by people who aren't technical at all. VINNE & THE SQUIRRELS VS THE ANALYSTS Forget the M3 and A17 Pro, Apple might already be designing chips using 2nm – iMore New Apple Watch bands tipped for Spring launch iOS 17.4 code reveals... – iMore WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS 10 New Things Your iPhone Can Do in Next Week's iOS 17.4 Update – MacRumors JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast Apple TV+ Gains Over 50 Movies for a Limited Time – MacRumors Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

This week Simon and Nick consider Steve's birthday and, sadly, two years of war in the Ukraine, plus Post Quantum Cryptography, Apple's first folding device, some Apple TV+, and an Apple Ring? Apologies if the sound is still a little below par, Simon's new mic didn't arrive in time for this recording, but hopefully all will be well by the next show. MISSION TO SEAFARERS APPEAL The Mission to Seafarers is looking for donations of old, but working, smartphones and internet capable tablets to give seafarers far from home a way to talk to friends and family If you have any old smartphones or tablets cluttering your cupboard and drawers why not donate them to this worthy cause? If you are in the UK contact Rev. Andrew Dotchin Vicar@felixparish.com or your nearest Mission to Seafarers Centre, or if you live outside the UK and would like to help, simply visit missiontoseafarers.org and make a donation. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 25th February 2024 On this week's show NICK RILEY Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube APPLE Steve Jobs Would Have Celebrated His 69th Birthday Today – MacRumors Here's how much it costs Apple to make the $3,500 Vision Pro – 9to5Mac Critical Mac And iPhone Security Warning—Stop Doing These 3 Things Now – Forbes ‘iMessage With PQ3: The New State of the Art in Quantum-Secure Messaging at Scale' – Daring Fireball New iMessage PQ3 Encryption Protocol Protects Against Post-Quantum Attacks – TidBITS Apple's own descriotion of what they're doing - Apple iPhone 15 owners are still having Bluetooth problems – almost 6 months after launch – Tom's Guide New Rumor Suggests An Apple Ring Could Be ‘Imminent' – iDrop News Apple's first folding device won't be an iPhone – iMore Apple chipmaker moving ahead toward 2nm processors in 2025 – Cult of Mac Exclusive: Apple Maps to get a big boost in the UK – iMore MASTERS OF THE AIR Is Apple TV+s Most Watched Series Launch Ever – [GeekTyrant]https://geektyrant.com/news/masters-of-the-air-is-apple-tvs-most-watched-series-launch-ever-which-is-great-news) Apple TV Plus space thriller Constellation divides opinion – iMore Apple's hit sci-fi show is finally set to resume filming following production delays – GamesRadar WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Sorry But You Need To Stop Using This Old School Phone Hack To Dry Your Phone – HuffPost UK Apple debunks common charging myth that people claim could harm your battery – UNILAD 15 Cool Apple Watch Features You're (Probably) Not Using – iDrop News 10 iPhone pro tips that are actually helpful – BGR Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. 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Late yet again! However, this time Nick and Simon talk about the DMA (again), the Vision Pro (again), Peleton backpedalling, and look at the award-winning, world's smallest humanoid robot ironically reported on by Giant Freakin Robot! Also Simon's microphone failed suddenly and unexpectedly with no apparent cause just before the show... so sound quality isn't quite as good as normal - sorry. MISSION TO SEAFARERS APPEAL The Mission to Seafarers is looking for donations of old, but working, smartphones and internet capable tablets to give seafarers far from home a way to talk to friends and family If you have any old smartphones or tablets cluttering your cupboard and drawers why not donate them to this worthy cause? If you are in the UK contact Rev. Andrew Dotchin Vicar@felixparish.com or your nearest Mission to Seafarers Centre, or if you live outside the UK and would like to help, simply visit missiontoseafarers.org and make a donation. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 18th February 2024 On this week's show NICK RILEY Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube APPLE Apple's iMessage Avoids EU's Digital Markets Act Regulation – Mac Rumors Apple's iMessage dodges tough new EU regulations – and Google isn't happy – TechRadar Apple's Latest AI Tool Can Animate an Image Based on Your Description – Mac Rumors The 3 reasons people are sending back their Apple Vision Pro headsets – TechRadar 3 Ways Apple Vision Pro Owners are Modding Their Headsets For Comfort – Inverse Someone has already used Apple Vision Pro while cycling and it went as well as you might expect – iMore Say goodbye to web apps – iOS 17.4 removes useful feature on iPhones in the EU – [TechRadar/(https://www.techradar.com/phones/say-goodbye-to-web-apps-ios-174-removes-useful-feature-on-iphones-in-the-eu) Gruber: Apple was 'effectively forced' by China to bring RCS to iPhone — 9to5Mac Apple shares Super Bowl Halftime Show behind-the-scenes video shot entirely on iPhone 15 Pro — 9to5Mac Apple Podcasts bug prevents listeners from enjoying new episodes — AppleInsider Apple's longest-serving designer to retire; cost-cutting efforts causing ‘unrest' inside the design team — 9to5Mac Peloton will continue to support Apple Watch GymKit following userbase uproar — iMore Mark Zuckerberg dishes on Apple ‘fanboys' and how his Vision Pro review compares to Steve Ballmer's iPhone reaction - 9to5Mac TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE ‎Arc Search – App Store Former Apple exec introduces new AI-powered glasses — Fox Business World's Smallest Humanoid Robot Created By High Schoolers — Giant Freakin Robot Legacy IT infrastructure accounts for more than a third of enterprise power consumption, and it's creating a sustainability nightmare for IT leaders – IT Pro SECURITY & PRIVACY 'GoldDigger' trojan targets iOS users to steal facial recognition data and bank accounts — 9to5Mac Protect against iPhone trojan GoldPickaxe: How-to - 9to5Mac Fake LastPass App Sneaks Past Apple's Review Team – Mac Rumors Apple pulls pirated movies and TV shows app disguised as a vision testing tool — 9to5Mac WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS 10 Hidden Messages Features in iOS 17 – [Mac Rumors] Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. 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Simon and Nick have a chat about the Vision Pro, Apple's DMA proposals and the Quarterly results... And yes, the title is a deliberate misquote of Kenneth Williams' famous "stop messing about!" MISSION TO SEAFARERS APPEAL The Mission to Seafarers is looking for donations of old, but working, smartphones and internet capable tablets to give seafarers far from home a way to talk to friends and family If you have any old smartphones or tablets cluttering your cupboard and drawers why not donate them to this worthy cause? If you are in the UK contact Rev. Andrew Dotchin Vicar@felixparish.com or your nearest Mission to Seafarers Centre, or if you live outside the UK and would like to help, simply visit missiontoseafarers.org and make a donation. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 4th February 2024 On this week's show NICK RILEY Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube APPLE Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it's not – The Verge Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it's not – YouTube The Vision Pro – Daring Fireball Tim Cook teases AI, but wont pick favorites – Six Colors Apple reports nearly $120B quarter: Full charts – Six Colors Apple Vision Pro gets rave reviews — but Tim Cook won't predict future – The Tiimes Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the EU – Apple Newsroom Apple's Plans for the DMA in the European Union – Daring Fireball TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE Startup develops new ‘I-State' battery that could make electric cars cheaper and more sustainable than lithium-ion – The Cool Down SECURITY & PRIVACY Apple Warns Proposed UK Law Could 'Secretly Veto' Global User Protections – MacRumors Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

This week Simon and Nick are joined by the Revd Canon Andrew Dotchin, Suffolk MUG member, longtime Mac user and Vicar of Felixstowe (Britain's busiest port), to talk about Apple, 40 years of the Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro and lots of other stuff which may (or may not) be related to tech… MISSION TO SEAFARERS APPEAL The Mission to Seafarers provides help and support to the 1.89 million crewmen and women who face danger every day to keep our global economy afloat, transporting over 90% of the world's goods and fuels. Being able to contact home when making shore half way round the world from home is something priceless to these merchant matelots. The Mission to Seafarers is looking for donations of old, but working, smartphones and internet capable tablets to give seafarers far from home a way to talk to friends and family If you have any old smartphones or tablets cluttering your cupboard and drawers why not donate them to this worthy cause? If you are in the UK contact Rev. Andrew Dotchin Vicar@felixparish.com or your nearest Mission to Seafarers Centre, or if you live outside the UK and would like to help, simply visit missiontoseafarers.org and make a donation. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 21st January 2024 On this week's show REV CANON ANDREW DOTCHIN Vicar St John the Baptist and St Edmund, King & Martyr, Parish of Felixstowe @suffolkvicar on X/twitter Vicar@felixparish.com Felixstowe Parish https://felixparish.com NICK RILEY Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube APPLE Forty Years Ago, the Mac Triggered a Revolution in User Experience – Smithsonian Computer History Museum in Mountain View celebrates Apple's Mac turning 40 – NBC Bay Area Apple Execs Talk About the Mac's 40th Birthday This Week – iPhone in Canada Blog The one unbeatable benefit I've enjoyed by going all-in on Apple – Digital Trends Apple had an update ready months ago to switch off the Apple Watch pulse oximeter – 9to5Mac Apple Issues New Warning For Millions Of MacBook Users – Forbes Apple Vision Pro is not wireless and this is driving some people to distraction – TechRadar Apple Says Vision Pro Does Not Support Hard Contact Lenses – MacRumors Scalpers are already hawking the Apple Vision Pro on eBay. Here's why you shouldn't buy from them – Fast Company Apple offers to open iPhone tap-to-pay to other payment systems in the EU – Cult of Mac Spotify Attacks Apple's ‘Outrageous' 27 Percent Commission From External Links – Daring Fireball Apple Vision Pro content can be beamed to other Apple devices via AirPlay – TechRadar Is the best Windows laptop an M3 MacBook Pro? It could be with Parallels Desktop – Windows Central iPhone users left raging by 'woke' update that allows for pronouns to be added – Toronto Sun SECURITY & PRIVACY FTC Order Prohibits Data Broker X-Mode Social and Outlogic from Selling Sensitive Location Data – FTC Meta faces another EU privacy challenge over 'pay for privacy' consent choice – TechCrunch California's Delete Act lets consumers make one request to delete personal data – The Verge WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS 7 Secret iPhone Tips You Should Know According to This Ex-Apple Employee – iDrop News What Is Mail Drop, And How Do You Use It? – SlashGear Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. 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Happy New Year! It is 2024 (even though it was 1976 a few months ago wasn't it?) Anyway, Simon and Nick finally get back together after the Holiday Season (and a few other things) got in the way... Chatter covers the Vision Pro, a bunch of security stories, a nuclear battery, and lots more, as always seems to happen. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 14th January 2024 On this week's show NICK RILEY Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube APPLE Apple Vision Pro demos will include scanning your glasses to identify your prescription – The Verge Apple says its Vision Pro is ‘spatial computing,' not VR – Fast Company Apple Vision Pro – Apple Go Pro Max 360º – Go Pro Angels Landing Survival Guide: Things to Know Before You Go – Earth Trekkers U.S. appeals court upholds tribunal decisions in Apple-Masimo patent dispute – Reuters I tried Apples alternative iPhone interface in iOS 17 here's what happened – Tom's Guide It's official: Apple's Find My network now lets you track twice as many devices – Tech Radar UKs digital markets regulator gives flavor of rebooted rules coming for – TechCrunch Apple security releases – Apple Support Now that Wi-Fi 7 is official, let's see the return of AirPort – iMore TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE Qi2 Wireless Charging: Everything you need to know – Laptop Mag EU antitrust chief meets Apple, Alphabet, and Qualcomm chiefs – Reuters Groundbreaking nuclear battery produces 50 years of power without needing to be recharged – Brighter Side News SECURITY & PRIVACY Operation Triangulation – Securelist 4-year campaign backdoored iPhones using possibly the most advanced exploit ever – Ars Technica Apple admits to secretly giving governments push notification data – Ars Technica Apple Magic Keyboards are at risk from security attacks, update now – TechRadar AirDrop 'Cracked' By Chinese Authorities to Identify Senders – MacRumors Apple ignored warnings that AirDrop had a vulnerability that China learned to exploit – Techspot VINNE & THE SQUIRRELS VS THE ANALYSTS iOS 17.3 Beta drops 'Pro' from 'Apple Vision' could another model be on the way already? – iMore Apple to release new Mac Studio and Mac Pro this year, new ‘M3 Ultra' – The Apple Post Samsung's Apple Vision Pro competitor might be one-third the price – Android Central NEMO'S HARDWARE STORE (47:34) Scosche MagicMount Travel Folding 2-in-1 Wireless Charger – Amazon $75 USD / Not currently on Amazon UK Scosche PowerVolt PD35 Dual-Port USB-C Charger $50 USD direct, not currently available on Amazon Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Simon and Nick get together to chat over what is actually quite a lot of news – Apple unexpectedly announce RCS support is coming to iOS, how much Google pay Apple leaks out in court, Black Friday is coming and there will be deals to be had on Macs new and not quite so new, latest betas are out, and more! GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Get 2 months on the Kino Premium Plan with offer code KINOWITHJOHNNEMO Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 19th November 2023 On this week's show NICK RILEY Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube APPLE Winners and Losers: Apple adopts RCS messaging as Samsung rejects rumours of a mid-range foldable — TrustedReviews A secret about the riches Apple extracts from Google spills into the open — Yahoo Finance iOS 17.2 beta 3 is live — all the new features for your iPhone — Tom's Guide Amazon joins Black Friday M3 MacBook Pro price war, driving prices down to $1,449 — AppleInsider Buying a Black Friday MacBook Pro? Don't sleep on M2 models... — iMore Save up to $1,900 on M1 Max MacBook Pro laptops at B&H — AppleInsider iPhone 15 owners are reportedly having major issues with GM vehicles — ZDNET The watchOS 10.2 update brings back a popular Apple Watch feature that should never have gone away — iMore Apple extends Emergency SOS via satellite for an additional free year for existing iPhone 14 users — The Apple Post Apple Music Classical has arrived for your iPad, but Mac users are still waiting — TechRadar You can now record spatial videos on your iPhone 15 Pro — here's how — Tom's Guide YouTuber Explains How to Watch Spatial Videos From iPhone 15 Pro on VR Headsets — MacRumors Apple stops selling OS X Lion and OS X Mountain Lion installers — 9to5Mac SECURITY & PRIVACY Apple makes legal move to challenge EU law that enforces sideloading — iMore Apple's head of security speaks out against iPhone app sideloading in new interview — 9to5Mac Apple uses Paris engineers to break and harden iPhone security — AppleInsider Nothing Chats pulled from Play Store amidst privacy blunder — Android Central WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS How To Set A Silent Vibrate-Only Alarm On Apple Watch — SlashGear The Hidden Secrets of the Fn Key — TidBITS Block all YouTube ads with the best Safari extension ever [Awesome Apps] — Cult of Mac Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Bit late again with this one, sorry - Simon and Nick talk about the MBP M3s and is 8GB RAM enough, is it worth upgrading if you have an earlier M series, and a variety of other stuff (as they always do) including Nick's NuKiand the UK bonus in ApplePay courtesy of the UK Banking's Open Banking API. GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Get 2 months on the Kino Premium Plan with offer code KINOWITHJOHNNEMO Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 12th November 2023 On this week's show NICK RILEY Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube APPLE Steve Wozniak says he is ‘feeling good' after being hospitalised in Mexico City — The Independent Apple Vision Pro 2 leak reveals what's coming next for Apple's headset — TechRadar Here's more proof that Apple is wrong about MacBook memory — Digital Trends M3 14-inch MacBook Pro teardown shows few internal changes in new models — AppleInsider Apple promises it doesn't increase product prices to offset the costs of its environmental goals — 9to5Mac M3 MacBook Pro vs M1: Worth upgrading? — 9to5Mac Forget the new M3 MacBook Pro — 3 Black Friday MacBook deals that are way cheaper — Laptop Mag What Else is New in iOS 17.2 Beta 2? — iDrop News Apple Wallet account balances now available for 10 UK banks — 9to5Mac WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS How to view Apple Notes attachments in small view in macOS Sonoma — AppleInsider 6 ways to customize your Mac's Menu Bar, and another to make it disappear — Popular Science NEMO'S HARDWARE STORE (1:09:15) Einova - Eggtronic Universal Ultra Fast Power Bank 63W – [$70 USD]((https://icuracao.com/default/einova-eggtronic-universal-ultra-fast-power-bank-63w-canvas.html) or unfortunatley currently £90 UKP where you can find it (not avallable via their store or Amazon UK atm) Pitaka MagEZ Slider 2 – about $130 USD, upto £185 UKP Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Simon and Nick get together to talk about the Scary Fast Event and the Apple Earnings, and some other stuff, just because... GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Get 2 months on the Kino Premium Plan with offer code KINOWITHJOHNNEMO Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 5th November 2023 On this show NICK RILEY Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

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Another unexpected hiatus and Simon tells us some of why that was before he and Nick try to settle down and discuss what they think Apple might have to tell us in the Scary Fast event... except it doesn't pan out that way and Simon has to do most of the show solo... GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Get 2 months on the Kino Premium Plan with offer code KINOWITHJOHNNEMO Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 29th October 2023 On this week's show NICK RILEY Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

OK so Simon is finally catching up, and here is the show from only a week ago where he and Nick spend some time on what's new in Apple's most recent releases, some customer support experiences they've had, and to be honest a lot of time talking about Simon's new EV... and why not? Also sorry about the intrusion of a bunch of folk and Vinnie the dog part of the way through... Apparently the “On Air” sign wasn't enough to deter them - edited out the worst of it but you will find Vinnie wasn't going to give up until his opinions were heard :D, and there is some background noise in the later part of the show. Anyway hope you enjoy this one regardless! GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Get 2 months on the Kino Premium Plan with offer code KINOWITHJOHNNEMO Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 8th October 2023 On this week's show NICK RILEY Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube APPLE Everything new in iOS - MacRumors Everything new in Sonoma - Apple Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Spotify / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

This one is OBSCENELY LATE (and it is all Simon's fault, and he holds his hands up to it) - anyway, in the spirit of “we recorded it, so we're putting it out” here is an ancient recording discussing stuff that happened way back in the start of September, plus more of Nick and Simon's usual idle musings on other stuff not related to anything in particular. GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Get 2 months on the Kino Premium Plan with offer code KINOWITHJOHNNEMO Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 10th September 2023 On this show NICK RILEY Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube LEGISLATION It's not just iMessage: UK government could ban Apple security updates – 9to5Mac Online Safety Bill: encrypted messages to be saved - for now – TechRadar Proton Mail CEO: An Online Safety Bill that doesn't protect encryption is a paradox – Evening Standard The UK Government Knows How Extreme The Online Safety Bill Is – EFF UK pulls back from clash with Big Tech over private messaging – Financial Times Digital Services Act comes into force today – hard to tell whether Apple is complying – 9to5Mac WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger are gatekeepers in the EU - prepare to be confused – BGR The EU won't force Apple to open up iMessage - at least not yet – TechRadar APPLE R.I.P. John Warnock, father of Apple desktop publishing – Apple 3.0 Apple's strange Vision Pro accessory has people baffled – Creative Bloq Apple Will Automatically Offer iOS Apps on the Vision Pro Store – HYPEBEAST Apple supports California's right-to-repair bill, breaking with tradition – TechSpot Apple backs California bill that would require stricter emissions reporting – 9to5Mac This new iOS 17 AirPods Pro feature will take some iPhone users by surprise – BGR Apple TV+ show shoots crucial episode on iPhone – Cult of Mac How to use the updated text magnification in iOS 17 – AppleInsider iPhone 15 Pro's new Action button teased in latest iOS 17 beta release – BGR Apple researching a Smart Ring for notifications and controlling other devices – AppleInsider The evolution of iPhone from the original to the anticipated iPhone 15 release next week – USA TODAY The MacBook Air M2 is so good it's given Apple a problem – TechRadar Mark Gurman's Apple iPhone 15 Bingo card – Apple 3.0 Apple Ventures into Classical Music with BIS Acquisition – iPhone in Canada iOS 17 beta testing – 7 things that still frustrate me in Apple's software update – Tom's Guide This change to Apple's website could be a surprisingly big deal – iMore Apple Releases macOS Ventura 13.5.2 – MacRumors Apple might release Thunderbolt cable for iPhone 15 Pro – [Cult of Mac]https://www.cultofmac.com/828383/apple-might-release-thunderbolt-cable-for-iphone-15-pro/) Apple's iPhone 15 cables could be limited to sluggish data transfers – Cult of Mac These iOS 17 Features Won't Be Available at Launch – MacRumors SOCIAL MEDIA Apple Plans to Stop Providing Customer Support on Twitter and YouTube – MacRumors X wants permission to start collecting your biometric data and employment history – The Verge TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE Scientists develop artificial kidney that could eliminate the need for dialysis – Brighter Side News GUIDED TOUR | The new Fairphone 5 – Fairphone SECURITY & PRIVACY Apple patches two zero-day flaws abused to install the Pegasus spyware – TechSpot Your iPhone Is At Risk Of This New iMessage Hack, Here's How To Protect Your Device – SlashGear This notorious Mac malware has resurfaced as an office productivity app – how to stay safe – Tom's Guide The Nine Passwords Experts Warn You Should Never Use – HuffPost Is your smart light bulb giving passwords to hackers? – [Cult of Mac]](https://www.cultofmac.com/828287/is-your-smart-light-bulb-giving-passwords-to-hackers/) Fixed with new. updates according to @zkarj The 2023 Proton Pass roadmap – Proton – WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS You'll Want To Avoid Using These Products When Cleaning Your iPhone – SlashGear How to disable animated cover art in Apple Music – AppleInsider Apple's no.1 iPad app just revealed a game-changing upgrade for animators – T3 How to Take Back Control of Your Photo and Video Storage – WIRED UK JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast Apple-1 ad handwritten by Steve Jobs sells for amazing $176,000 – Cult of Mac Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! 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If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Another disgracefully late release as I (Simon) try desperately to get back on track and publish the stuff that should have been out weeks ago... Anyway this time Nick and I natter about the WonderLust event and what new shiny toys Apple brought us this time. Also because we never get any reviews, Nick goes all out to see if he can generate a few for us! (Listen to the results in the Aftershow). GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Get 2 months on the Kino Premium Plan with offer code KINOWITHJOHNNEMO Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 17th September 2023 On this show NICK RILEY Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube APPLE The Wonderlust Event - Apple Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Spotify / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Another super late release of a show with Simon and Nick (really have to find a more efficient way to process the show notes..., not sure Simon can do anything to fix his busy life schedules :D). Anyway - here it is with a variety of stories again mostly avoiding stuff from “people close to the matter say”. Oh and a bunch of car chatter in the Aftershow/Preshow segment! GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Get 2 months on the Kino Premium Plan with offer code KINOWITHJOHNNEMO Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 13th August 2023 On this week's show NICK RILEY Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube APPLE Apple is donating to Maui and Hawaii relief efforts – iMore A year with Dynamic Island on iPhone 14 Pro: A notch by any other name – iMore iPhone 14 Pro users are already seeing battery health tank – what to do now – Tom's Guide iPhone 15 might not be the only Apple handset getting USB-C upgrade – Tom's Guide Apple may be adding USB-C charging to older iPhones now, too – ZDNET Launchpad Doesn't Compete for Longtime Mac Users – TidBITS Do You Use It? Stage Manager Sees Weak Adoption – TidBITS Apple TV+'s 'Frog and Toad' not viewable in the U.S. – AppleInsider Vancouver Car Thieves Outsmart Woman's Hidden AirTag – iPhone in Canada Blog Your iPhone's 'End call' button is moving, and it might be weird for a while – ZDNET Apple cuts classic iTunes Movie Trailers app, but it has a new home – TrustedReviews SECURITY & PRIVACY An Apple Malware-Flagging Tool Is ‘Trivially' Easy to Bypass – WIRED Google rolls out unknown Apple AirTag tracker alerts for Android devices – check yours now – EFTM VINNE & THE SQUIRRELS VS THE ANALYSTS M3 roadmap speculation hints at next Apple Silicon generation chips – AppleInsider WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS 10 Most Underrated iPhone Features You Should Be Using – SlashGear 7 things you need to do before reselling your iPhone – Tom's Guide How To Uninstall Apps On Apple CarPlay – SlashGear Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Late again but there we go - apologies for that. Anyway Simon and Nick got together as usual to chat about the news stories and other stuff as they do. This time there's Game Maker stuff for VisionPro, a weird Apple patent, a new TidBits Poll feature, threats to encrypted messages, an expensive pair of Apple Sneakers (and the original Apple Watch). GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Get 2 months on the Kino Premium Plan with offer code KINOWITHJOHNNEMO Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 30th July 2023 On this week's show NICK RILEY Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube APPLE AppleInsider – Unity launches game creator program for Vision Pro developers Cult of Mac – iPhone 15 Pro's massive upgrades could cost you Business Insider – A locked box in a locked space, and out of view from family: This strict list of rules shows Apple is really, really paranoid about early versions of its $3500 Vision Pro being stolen 9to5Mac – Gurman: Expect iPhone 15 price increases, Apple tested dark gray titanium color for Apple Watch Ultra iMore – iPhone 15 Pro will be redesigned to be more repairable like the iPhone 14 Tom's Guide – iPad Pro repairs breaking some Apple Pencil features - what you need to know Creative Bloq – Apple's latest patent sounds like a game changer for DJs (And digital artists.) TidBITS – Introducing “Do You Use It?” Polls AppleMagazine – Apple Requiring Developers to Validate Use of Certain APIs, Aiming to Improve Privacy 9to5Mac – App Store developers must detail why they're using some APIs Apple Insider – Apple cracks down on apps identifying users through device fingerprinting. MacRumors – iOS 17: What's New With Autocorrect and the Keyboard Entrepreneur – 'Ultra Rare' Apple Sneakers Set for $50K Sotheby's Auction Guardian – Beats Studio Pro review: Apple's new top headphones love Android too BGR – watchOS 10 adds all-new gestures for Apple Watch users RFI – French competition authority issues antitrust objection to Apple for app data tracking NationalWorld – Apple iPhone users urged to update devices after 25 security flaws revealed SlashGear – 5 Products Apple Should Have Never Discontinued SOCIAL MEDIA iMore – Twitter may not get to change iOS app name to 'X' due to Apple's App Store rules iDrop News – The Twitter Bird is Dead - X Now Marks the Spot TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE ScienceAlert – Scientists Invented an Entirely New Process For Refrigerating Things Arvix – The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor SECURITY & PRIVACY 9to5Mac – Apple says it would remove iMessage and FaceTime in the UK rather than break end-to-end encryption BBC News – Apple slams UK surveillance-bill proposals — NationalWorld – Apple iPhone users urged to update devices after 25 security flaws revealed Tom's Guide – Macs under attack from password-stealing malware — how to stay safe WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Apple – Find your saved Wi-Fi passwords on iPhone or iPad Toot.Cat – How to use AirPods as hearing aids Digital Trends – This hidden menu has forever changed how I use my Mac Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. 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Sorry this one is disgracefully and inexcusably late because... well because of stuff. Anyway Simon was joined by Bart to take a look at the news of the week (at the time) and found a bit more to talk about than they thought they might... Also apologies the sound isn't up to the usual standard... there was quite a lot of traffic noise and also either Discord or Audio Hijack had a hissy fit at Bart's end and he had to do the second half with just a live mic resulting in some gain issues... Anyway its cleaned up as best as Simon could manage and we hope it doesn't spoil your enjoyment too much! GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Get 2 months on the Kino Premium Plan with offer code KINOWITHJOHNNEMO Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 16th July 2023 On this week's show BART BUSSCHOTS @bbusschots on both Twitter and Mastodon Host of the Let's Talk Podcasts Frequently appears with Allison Sheridan on her Podfeet podcasts APPLE 10 iPhone hacks you need to know to get the most out of your mobile — TechRadar Apple's password manager just got a big update in macOS Sonoma – BGR Apple's latest patent suggests a rollable iPhone could be on the way — TechRadar macOS Sonoma public beta is out — here are the 5 features you should try first — Tom's Guide DaVinci Resolve for iPad review: no mere gimmick for video editors — Creative Bloq Apple Introduces Tap to Pay On iPhone Across The UK — AppleMagazine Apple just made a major change to how your iPhone charges itself — here's how it's affecting your monthly energy bills — The Cool Down Apple Opens Public Betas for macOS 14 Sonoma, iOS 17, iPadOS 17, watchOS 10, tvOS 17, and HomePod Software 17 — TidBITS Anger and fear after popular diabetes app breaks — BBC News Apple to focus on new AirPods features guided by growing hearing aid market — BGR iPhone battery replacement process won't change anytime soon (if ever) — 9to5Mac Apple Lands Record 54 Emmy Award Nominations • iPhone in Canada Blog — iPhone in Canada Apple AirPlay found in latest version of Tesla iPhone app after Musk signaled support — 9to5Mac Apple Expands Its 'Apple Car' Test Driver Team Following Reduction Earlier This Year — iDrop News Apple invents a new Wear-Resistant Coating for MacBook Keys and 8-iPhone 14 Pro Patents surface covering key H/W features — Patently Apple Apple's macOS saw a dramatic upturn in 2022 worldwide — AppleInsider Debugged iOS and macOS Rapid Security Response patches are ready for installation — Cult of Mac Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

This week Simon and Nick get back together to talk about a variety of stories that for a change aren't all “sources familiar with the matter say”. Regardless of that they do of course manage to wander off the topics and into other matters... GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Get 2 months on the Kino Premium Plan with offer code KINOWITHJOHNNEMO Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 9th July 2023 On this week's show NICK RILEY Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube APPLE Apple's biggest Vision Pro headset production problem is the displays — AppleInsider Apple Vision Pro rumored to launch in the UK and Canada by end of 2024 — The Apple Post Apple invents Future Tunable Ophthalmic Lenses that could be fine-tuned to Change Visible Properties for HMDs & Smartglasses – Paatently Apple Apple's Game Porting Tool sees MacBooks run Cyberpunk 2077 better than a PS4 — Laptop Mag Apple's Game Porting Tool for macOS got its first update – and it's a huge one — 9to5Mac How to use Personal Voice in iOS 17 and how it compares to an actual voice — AppleInsider Apple Partnership with Goldman Sachs Nears End, American Express Could Step In — AppleMagazine Apple is working on a new hearing test feature for AirPods Pro, but you'll have to wait — TechRadar Spotify Subscribers No Longer Allowed to Pay Through App Store – MacRumors Intel prevented Apple from making a 15-inch MacBook Air: “It just did not say ‘Air' to us” — 9to5Mac Workflow cofounder and Shortcuts engineering manager departs Apple Vision Pro parody ad featuring Stephen Fry banned from Apple Music Apple Music didnt ban track over Vision Pro parody, admits artist – [AppleInsider] Jony Ive's discontinued Apple design book now goes for big bucks — Cult of Mac Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers' Story — IEEE Spectrum SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter isn't showing tweets unless you're logged in | Engadget Elon Musk claims Twitter's new login requirement is a ‘temporary' response to data scrapers | Engadget Twitter puts strict cap on how many tweets users can read each day | Engadget Twitter quietly backtracks on requiring users to log in to see tweets | Engadget Meta launches Instagram Threads in a direct challenge to Twitter — CNBC TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE Tooth Regrowing Drug Therapy Set For Human Clinical Trials Next Year — IFLScience SECURITY & PRIVACY Apple security and privacy engineers thwarted Pegasus. It was just one of their successes this year — Fast Company Taking Action: Apple Cracks Down on Predatory Lending Apps in India after Investigation — Grit Daily Iranian hackers targeted nuclear expert, ported Windows infection chain to Mac in a week – [IT Pro] How to lock your iPhone from your Apple Watch — BGR WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS 'I don't know whose bag it goes to': Airport worker finds lost AirTag in plane's luggage compartment, says it defeats their purpose — Daily Dot 12 macOS Tips New Mac Owners Should Know (Especially Former Windows Users) — SlashGear JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast Somebody Figured out How Much Forrest Gump's Apple Stock Is Worth Today (It's a Lot) — Comicbook.com Jony Ive's first post-Apple hardware project is a $60,000 turntable — Engadget Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! 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This week Simon was joined by special Guest Carolina Milanesi of Creative Strategies and The Heart of Tech. As one of the privileged few to have had hands on, nay, eyes on, experience of the Vision Pro - that is of course the main part of our conversation, but not all by any means... GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Get 2 months on the Kino Premium Plan with offer code KINOWITHJOHNNEMO Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 2nd July 2023 On this week's show CAROLINA MILANESI President of and Technology Analyst for Creative Strategies Founder of and Chief Consultant at The Heart of Tech @caro_milanesi on Twitter and Mastodon APPLE Apple's SOS partner hints in FCC filing that satellite chat may be coming – Apple 3.0 Apple Card and American Express? Talks Underway: Report – iPhone in Canada Blog Apple Watch's Key Milestone: Apple Execs On The Genius Of watchOS 10 – Forbes Apple becomes first public company to be valued at $3trn – Sky News iOS 17: All the Safety Features in the Latest iPhone Update – [MacRumors] Apple partner hints at potential satellite internet features for iPhone – 9to5Mac These iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 features won't be available at launch – Cult of Mac Apple's alien show Invasion returns for season 2 in August – The Verge Apple starts charging more for iCloud storage in the UK – Evening Standard Apple's encrypted messaging is in danger in the UK – here's why – Laptop Mag Moving data from iCloud may need to be made easier under upcoming EU law – 9to5Mac The Apple Car is a question of 'when, not if' according to one source – TechRadar Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

This week Nick is busy so Simon is joined by Suffolk Pete and Steve from Geeks Corner to mull over the rather slim pickings in the news. Nevertheless we manage to find enough to chatter on about for a while so that's a show! GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Get 2 months on the Kino Premium Plan with offer code KINOWITHJOHNNEMO Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 25th June 2023 On this week's show PETER PHILLIPS @suffolkpete on Twitter occasionally @suffolk_pete in the Slack STEVE DURBIN Runs the Geeks Corner website Produces the Geeks Corner podcast @GeekCorner_uk on Twitter APPLE Apple opens up developer program with new free tier that includes developer beta access – AppleInsider Apple adds passkeys to Apple ID, iCloud logins – SixColors iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma Add Passkey Support to Your Apple ID – MacRumors Apple Wants to Make the Apple Watch Your 'Key to the World' – CNet Woz: Microsoft might be more creative than Apple – CNet How to use your iPad Pro in ‘clamshell mode,' sort of, with iPadOS 17 – 9to5Mac Report: Apple Vision Pro top strap helps headset weight issue, but Apple might not include it – 9to5Mac Everything New in iOS 17 Beta 2 – MacRumors TECHNOLOGY Professional Phone Repair Services in & Around Ipswich – ArmaFone SECURITY & PRIVACY Apple fixes zero-days used to deploy Triangulation spyware via iMessage – Bleeping Computer Proton Pass Review: Pros & Cons, Features, Ratings, Pricing and more – TechRadar iCloud Keychain Review: Pros & Cons, Features, Ratings, Pricing, and more – TechRadar WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Apple Photos: 6 Helpful Tips For Using The App On A Mac Or MacBook – SlashGear Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Simon and Nick return once again to chew over a few stories of the week that caught their attention... If you're wondering about the show art it's “Bits and Bobs” from the CBEEBIES TV children's show (bits and bobs also being a UK term for an assortment of oddments). GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Get 2 months on the Kino Premium Plan with offer code KINOWITHJOHNNEMO Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 18th June 2023 On this week's show NICK RILEY Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube APPLE 5 New AirDrop Features Coming in iOS 17 – MacRumors Few buy the iPhone 14 Plus, but the iPhone 14 is doing better than the iPhone 13 did – AppleInsider iPhone - Compare Models – Apple 10 more sweet tweaks and changes in iOS 17 – Cult of Mac Steve Jobs once declined an autograph request in the funniest way possible – iMore 5 things you didn't realize you could do with CarPlay – iMore TECHNOLOGY Apple Subreddit Goes Dark in Protest of Reddit's API Pricing Changes – MacRumors Reddit sees more than 6,000 communities 'go dark' in protest over API changes – Engadget Why millions of usable hard drives are being destroyed – BBC News Elon Musk: Twitter sued by music publishers for $250m – BBC News New Laptop Brand Shocked Whole Computer Industry - Framework Laptop - Teardown And Repair Assessment – YouTube SECURITY & PRIVACY The Privacy Paradox | A Proton - YouGov Report – YouTube or Proton WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Using Pandora on the Apple HomePod – Apple Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

As late as ever, sorry! Simon and Nick get together to talk about WWDC23... GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Get 2 months on the Kino Premium Plan with offer code KINOWITHJOHNNEMO Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 11th June 2023 On this week's show NICK RILEY Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube APPLE 15”MacBook Air 15.3 inch Six speakers 18 hours battery $1299, 13“ down to $1099 Mac Studio M2 Max 50% faster M2 Ultra, 20%/30%/40% faster CPU/GPU/Neural 192GB – upto six displays Mac Pro M2 Ultra 3x faster 192GB 7x Afterburner equivalent 6x PCI expansion $6999 iOS 17 Phone FaceTime and messages improvements Contact posters Will work with VOIP Live voicemail transcriptions on device Video voicemail messages Check in on messages Name Drop works with phone and watch Works with Airdrop and PhotosAlso works with SharePlay Better autocorrect with inline suggestion Better dictation Journal Uses the ML - Ssuggestions API to integrate 3rd party apps Secured Standby – Nightstand type mode, customisable with widgets Siri drops “Hey” and adds run on support iPadOS 17 Interactive Widgets Peronalised Lock Screen with widgets Live activities and multiple timers Health app Better PDF and Freeform MacOS Sonoma New wallpapers and lock screens Desktop widgets with fade back. Includes iPhone widgets Game mode prioritizes game code, reduced latency with 2x BT sampling for controllers Demo - Death Stranding Directors cut Presenter on screen and effects for FaceTime and 3rd party apps Safari – Blocks trackers and more - New Profiles mode (focus for Safari) Secure sharing of passwords/passkeys Create webapps AirPods Adaptive audio blends transparency with noise cancellation AirPods Pro conversation mode detects you speaking AirPlay Airplay enhancements Airplay in hotels SharePlay for CarPlay AppleTV New control centre FaceTime for AppleTV using continuity camera API for 3rd party apps coming to AppleTV WatchOS 10 Scrollable widgets New design language and a bigger focus on the crown Cycling improved with tools for 3rd party tools to link to iPhone for display New compass and waypoint features Better maps for hikers/cyclists - contours and safety improvements New developer features for training apps Mental health - state of mind in mindfulness Survey of your mental health with suggestions Myopia reduction with sunshine measures and screen distance suggestions Apple Vision Pro Introduces spatial computing Eyes hands voice EyeSight Massive amounts of tech M2+R1 $3499 The features that didn't get discussed onstage at WWDC – Six Colors These are the macOS Sonoma features that aren't available to Intel Macs – 9to5Mac Apple Releases Tool to Help Developers Port Windows Games to Mac – MacRumors 10 awesome new features Apple didn't talk about at WWDC23 – Cult of Mac iOS 17 Lets You Share iCloud Keychain Passwords With Friends and Family – MacRumors App Store App Can Now Tell You How Long an App Will Take to Download in iOS 17 – MacRumors Apple Acquires AR Headset Firm Mira Behind Mario Kart Ride at Super Nintendo World –MacRumors iPadOS 17 adds support for external USB-C webcams and microphones – 9to5Mac 'Ducking hell' to disappear from Apple autocorrect – BBC WWDC 2023 — June 5 Apple on YouTube Apple Exec Shows Off Guitar Skills After Solo in WWDC Video – Business Insider The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2023 – YouTube SECURITY & PRIVACY Microsoft finds lethal macOS 'Migraine' exploit that was bypassing Apple SIP – Windows Central NEMO'S HARDWARE STORE (1:01:45) Catalyst Cases Scosche Emergency Jump Starter - PowerUp 600 $100 rrp, Amazon £60 UKP – Apparently not on Amazon.com Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. 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Slightly shorter show this week, a combination of technical issues and lack of real stories, however Nick and Simon get together again to chew over the news that caught their eye regardless. GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Get 2 months on the Kino Premium Plan with offer code KINOWITHJOHNNEMO Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 14th May 2023 On this week's show NICK RILEY Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube APPLE Report: Apple to start selling Ted Lasso merch through the Apple online store – [9to5Mac[(https://9to5mac.com/2023/05/21/ted-lasso-merch-apple-store/) Don't hold your breath for Apple's AR Glasses – T3 iMessage Contact Key Verification appears in first iOS 16.6 beta – AppleInsider Apple rejected 1,679,694 App Store submissions in 2022 – Engadget iOS 16.5 breaks compatibility with Apple's Lightning to USB 3 dongle – 9to5Mac Apple's Lightning to USB 3 Camera Adapter Not Working With iOS 16.5 – MacRumors Apple's translucent Beats Studio Buds Plus finally go on sale for $169 – Android Central Download: Apple Releases New iOS 16.6, iPadOS 16.6, macOS 13.5, watchOS 9.6, And tvOS 16.6 Beta 1 Ahead Of WWDC – Wccftech Apple posts 28 new AI positions in May, says generative AI will 'transform' iPhone – 9to5Mac Apple TV+ post-apocalyptic 'Silo' is a hit, ranks as 2nd most popular streaming show – 9to5Mac Killers of the Flower Moon: Five things you should know about Scorsese's new Apple TV Plus epic – iMore iOS 17 Will Let You Create a Voice Sounding Like You in Just 15 Minutes – MacRumors Here's Why You Would Want Your iPhone to Talk in Your Own Voice – Lifewire 3 reasons why Davinici Resolve on iPad is game changing – Laptop Mag The Free Way To Speed Up An Old Mac – Forbes TECHNOLOGY Microsoft Completes Rollout of Basic iMessage Support on Windows 11 – MacRumors First US state officially bans TikTok, $10,000 fine per violation – 9to5Mac SECURITY & PRIVACY 1Password passkey support launches on June 6; video demo – 9to5Mac WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS 6 secret features in Apple Mail – Cult of Mac Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

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So after the zingy star studded relaunch it is back to normal service... Simon and Nick having a good old natter, sure there is some Apple related stuff in here, but a lot of it is just idle chatter! Make of that what you will listeners. GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Get 2 months on the Kino Premium Plan with offer code KINOWITHJOHNNEMO Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 14th May 2023 On this week's show NICK RILEY Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube APPLE 3nm Apple Silicon: What Is It and Why Does It Matter? – MacRumors Apple M3 chip: all the news, announcements, and rumors so far – TechRadar iOS 16.5 to be released next week; here's everything new – 9to5Mac Apple ID services currently down for many, users unable to login or make payments – 9to5Mac Apple Headset's Capabilities Said to 'Far Exceed' Those of Rival Devices – MacRumors You May Soon Not Need to Say 'Hey Siri' Anymore – MacRumors Apple Is Bringing Its Flagship Pro Apps to the iPad and This Surprising Feature Is a Game-Changer – Inc. Passkeys may not be for you, but they are safe and easy—here's why – Ars Technica Google passkeys are a no-brainer. You've turned them on, right? – Ars Technica Tim Cook Addresses ChatGPT's Popularity, Calls AI's Potential 'Very Interesting' – AppleMagazine Millions of Apple users warned of a major messaging downgrade – T3 This Dock concept is exactly what we want to see from macOS 14 – TechRadar Video: Hands on with the new iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro designs and compared to the iPhone 14 lineup – AppleInsider TECHNOLOGY Why your thoughts may not be private for much longer – BBC Science Focus SECURITY & PRIVACY Millions of Android phones are shipping with malware already installed – TechRadar WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS How to watch new Michael J. Fox documentary 'Still' – 9to5Mac Apple TV+ drops teaser for Foundation season 2, reveals release date – Winter is Coming JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast Check Signed by Steve Jobs Sells for Over $100k at Auction – MacRumors The Bad News Is You Got Hit by a Car, The Good News is Tim Cook Wishes You a Speedy Recovery – MacTrast Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

So finally Simon gets his act together enough to relaunch the podcast (but not enough to get it out on time!!!) Anyway in a grand relaunch (okay, so we got a couple of guests on) Simon and Nick are joined by Guy Serle, and Jeff Gamet to do what they always do... Welcome back! GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Get 2 months on the Kino Premium Plan with offer code KINOWITHJOHNNEMO Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 7th May 2023 On this week's show GUY SERLE Co-host of the MyMac Podcast with @GazMaz @MacParrot and @VertShark on Twitter @Macparrot on Mastodon Sometime records Guy's Daily Drive in his car on the way to work Posts all his stuff to vertshark.com – eventually Appears on a variety of other podcasts including In Touch With iOS, and MacVoices Live JEFF GAMET Co-host of the The Context Machine with Bryan Chaffin @JGamet pretty much everywhere Appears on a variety of other podcasts including In Touch With iOS, and MacVoices Live. The Big Show and The Mac Show on The British Tech Network NICK RILEY Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube APPLE Apple posts better-than-anticipated earnings fueled by iPhone sales – The Guardian Apple Q2 2023 results: $94.8B revenue, better than expected (with charts) – SixColors Apple sales falter again but iPhone demand persists – BBC How Steve Jobs saved Apple with the iMac 25 years ago – AppleInsider 25 years of iMac: a computer that changed everything for Apple (again) – Stuff iMac at 25: I didnt love it then but I appreciate it now – TechRadar Why Apple's Rapid Security Responses Are Better Than a Software Update – LifeWire EU sends Apple stark warning over USB-C charging on new iPhones – TechRadar Why the EU should stop complaining about the iPhone 15 before it even launches – BGR Apple and Google Collaborate In Unwanted Tracking Alerts For All Item Trackers – Ubergizmo AirTag credited with helping investigators locate $1.1M in cash stolen from armored truck – 9to5Mac Apple Launches 20 New Games on Apple Arcade – MacRumors Tim Cook Touts 'Incredible' Response to Apple Card Savings Account on iPhone – MacRumors Epic Games Loses Again in Battle With Apple Over App Store Rules – MacRumors (These two are specially for Guy) Solid-state iPhone 15 button cancellation effectively confirmed by supplier – 9to5Mac Future Apple Watch Update to Enable Pairing With Multiple Apple Devices Rather Than Just One iPhone, Claims Leaker – MacRumors TECHNOLOGY Driverless bus service to start in Scotland in world first – BBC News SECURITY & PRIVACY Terrifying study shows how fast AI can crack your passwords; here's how to protect yourself – 9to5Mac Worst passwords exposed as users urged to change them immediately – Daily Record Generating Random, Secure, Memorable Passwords in Your Head – Allister Jenks on Podfeet Google joins the fight against passwords by enabling passkeys – Popular Science Bitwarden's password manager browser extension has a known exploit it hasn't addressed in five years – TechSpot New AMOS Mac malware targets passwords, personal files, crypto wallets – MacWorld WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS How to set a song as a ringtone on iPhone for free – TrustedReviews Miguel de Icaza: "Neat iOS feature, for years I dreaded sharing my Contact Card – Mastodon How to turn on Voice Isolation on iPhone with iOS 16.4 – Toms Guide JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast Netflix kills DVD-in-the-mail business, upgrades ad-supported plan from 720p – 9to5Mac NEMO'S HARDWARE STORE (45:18) BoomCan™ Mini Magnetic Bluetooth Speakers – $50 USD direct from Scosche. 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Just after Christmas Simon, Nick and Jim got together and recorded a show, but because life and reasons it never got released... So here it is in all of its “glory”! Sound quality isn't as good as usual because a) Simon had just moved and wasn't properly set up, and b) this was recovered from the backup recordings... also for the same reason there aren't any proper show notes, they got overwritten months ago - apologies (though being months out of date I don't suppose that matters too much!) GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Get 2 months on the Kino Premium Plan with offer code KINOWITHJOHNNEMO Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 27th December 2022 On this week's show NICK RILEY @spligosh on Twitter very occasionally Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube JAMES ORMISTON MacJim in the Slack Also on Flickr as Ormie (O) Has videos on Vimeo Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Simon and Nick got together for a chat on what was a very, very, light news week and talked about a variety of stuff including the fact that Simon is on the move again (which of course accounts for the lateness of this show and the absence of any newer ones (as he is currently buried in boxes, and trying to arrange furniture etc., again!) We promise to try and get back on schedule as soon as possible. Sorry about that. GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Get 2 months on the Kino Premium Plan with offer code KINOWITHJOHNNEMO Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 5th February 2023 On this week's show NICK RILEY @spligosh on Twitter very occasionally Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube APPLE New iMac Not Expected to Launch Until Late 2023 at Earliest – MacRumors Siri Remote connectivity issues continue to plague Apple TV 4K – 9to5Mac AirTag reveals airline donated couple's lost luggage to charity without explanation – 9to5Mac Apple may have overestimated its ability to create a Mac Pro with an Apple Silicon chip – 9to5Mac Here's how many devices the average Apple customer owns and which ones are most popular – 9to5Mac TECHNOLOGY This study shows how long you can expect your hard drive to last – Kommando SECURITY & PRIVACY 40% of online shops tricking users with “dark patterns” – Malwarebytes NEMO'S HARDWARE STORE (28:32) iRig Stream Mic Pro - Compact multi-pattern microphone and stereo/4-channel audio interface – IK Multimedia £179UKP Amazon / Not apparently on Amazon.com Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Well, we are back again and this time Nick and Simon discuss Apple's quarterly results, some Lisa “family photos” taken by Bill Atkinson during the development of the Apple machine that launched 40 years ago, new HomePod reviews, ChatGPT, M1 vs M2, and as usual a selection of other stories from the week. GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Get 2 months on the Kino Premium Plan with offer code KINOWITHJOHNNEMO Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 5th February 2023 On this week's show NICK RILEY @spligosh on Twitter very occasionally Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube APPLE Apple results and charts: $117.2B quarter is still a step back – Six Colors With 18% of the smartphone market, Apple took 85% of the profits last quarter – Apple 3.0 Chinas 2022 smartphone sales plunge to lowest level in a decade – Reuters The 1 Word Apple CEO Tim Cook Has Not Said Is a Lesson for Every Leader – Inc MacBook Pro 16-inch (2023) review: Apple does it again – iMore MacBook Pro M1 deal: Save almost £400 on the premium laptop – The Independent In praise of the M1 MacBook Air, and why I still recommend it – 9to5Mac Report: New Mac Studio unlikely due to Mac Pro similarities – 9to5Mac These 5 features turned my iPad into a shockingly good computer – Digital Trends Apple HomePod Review (2023): Old and Stale – Wired Apple HomePod 2nd Generation Review - Tested by Experts – Men'sHealth Apple is worlds most admired company for 16th straight year – AppleInsider Lisa's Family Photos – The Verge TECHNOLOGY chat.openai.com SECURITY & PRIVACY Security keys Apple recommends for iPhone, iPad, Mac - 9to5Mac WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Comic Relief 2023: Where to buy new Jony Ive red nose – The Independent How to turn a Live Photo into a video on iPhone and iPad – Tom's Guide How to Use Your Smartphone to Counteract Vision Loss (2023) – Wired Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

We are joined by David (not RPPR's), who is running a session of his in development RPG Ghostery Store! The game focuses on workers at a department store called Spectres, that secretly specializes in supernatural goods and services, and its workers generally are also supernatural. Our trio of protagonists are coming in for their first day at work, and already things go off the rails...Ghostery Store is in development. If you would like to learn more, David has provided the current iteration of the rules, and they are attached. He can be reached on Discord with the username Darch525#8949 or via email at darch525@gmail.com.David - GMDan - Lucky Tobias, Vampire Security, "Bostonian"Ethan - Jimminy, Ghost Stockboy, Child Laborer On Work Release Following a Lawn Darts-Death Related Lawsuit with SpectresGreg - Blaidd Wolfheart, Werewolf Maintenance Staff, College Student

Wow what a week, Apple went quietly mad and released new M2 Macs, full size HomePods and iOS 16.3! Simon and Nick chat about what it all meant – Mrs P bought a 50 inch 4K TV for just £229, but it cost Simon another £149 for an AppleTV 4K, she also bought an Apple Refurb iPhone 12 ProMax, and more stuff that caught our attention... GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Get 2 months on the Kino Premium Plan with offer code KINOWITHJOHNNEMO Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 22nd January 2023 On this week's show NICK RILEY @spligosh on Twitter very occasionally Spligosh in the Slack Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube APPLE The Mac mini M2 is now the best upgrade from your Apple iMac – TechRadar How the M2 and M2 Pro Mac minis compare to the M1 model – Cult of Mac Top Stories: New MacBook Pro, Mac Mini, HomePod, and More – MacRumors The iPhone's white noise machine and other fun, little-known features – Fast Company HomePod mini software update will activate hidden sensor and Sound Recognition feature – 9to5Mac Apple Leaks Long Awaited Feature In New iOS 16.3 Release – Forbes iOS 16.3 brings iCloud Advanced Data Protection feature to all users worldwide – 9to5Mac Apple Invents a Magneto-Inductive charging & communications system for underwater– Patently Apple Resident Evil Village Proves That Modern AAA Gaming On Apple Silicon can work – Press Start TECHNOLOGY M2 Max With 38-Core GPU Loses to Laptop RTX 4070 in OpenCL Benchmark – Wccftech VINNE & THE SQUIRRELS VS THE ANALYSTS The next MacBook Air and iMac could come with a 3nm M3 chip - The Verge After Apples busy January, the rest of the quarter may be quiet – Apple Insdider WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Raycast Store: SimpleLogin 50" Sharp 4K TV with Harmon Kardon Speakers Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.