iOS 18 & Apple Intelligence

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Apple adds AI to the iPhone. I'll explain how they're
doing it differently and which phones will get it. Microsoft
recalls it's recall feature the international E SIM that's completely free.
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this show, we've got some great guests. I'm gonna talk
to my friends up at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. They're
going to discuss the announcements that stand out most to them,
and later on in the show, if you're in the
market for a new computer monitor, Matthew S. Smith will
join us to talk about what to look for in
a new computer monitor.

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news of the week. I was in Cooper Tino for
Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference twenty twenty four. This is where
Apple tells you all about the stuff that's coming soon
to their various products. They've got the iPhone, they've got
the iPad, they've got Apple Vision Pro, they've got Mac computers,
they've got the Apple Watch. What am I leaving out?

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I think that's about it. They've got a lot of stuff.
So this is where they go through, and this was
super fast, I mean, super super charged. They just blasted
through all these new features because there's so many of them.
No new hardware, but a lot of new features, including
iOS eighteen and Apple Intelligence. I'm going to focus on
those two right now, but throughout the show, fairwarning, going

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to talk a lot about Apple because they're in the
news this week. They had their big event. We talked
about Google a couple weeks ago, we talked about Microsoft,
we talked about Open AI.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Now it is Apple's turn.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
So iOS eighteen this is the new software that's launching
in the fall. It's going to work on the iPhone
ten R and later, and also the iPhone S two
and later. So from what I've seen, as long as
your phone is running iOS seventeen right now, it should
get the upgrade to iOS eighteen.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
That doesn't mean it's getting the AI upgrade.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
More on that in a moment, but first let's talk
about iOS eighteen getting much more customizable. So I'm really
taking a page from Android here and making the iPhone
pretty much as customizable as you can imagine. Icons can
now be placed anywhere on the home screen. I know
that sounds silly if you're an Android user because you've
had that since day one, but the iPhone has not,

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So no, I can place your icons anywhere you want.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
You can change their color.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
The control center is getting much more useful with multiple pages.
That's the portion of your phone where you sort of
swipe down from the upper right hand corner to bring
up things like the volume control and the Wi Fi
toggles and all that stuff. You're gonna be able to
make multiple pages there, and third party apps can finally
put their controls in there as well, so if you

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have a favorite app and you want toggle something very quickly,
you'll be able to do it. Even the lock screen
shortcuts can now be customized, so instead of just having
access to the camera and the flashlight, you can now
put whatever you want there as long as developers make
a widget for the lock screen. Another new feature, This
one is kind of interesting and or controversial and or helpful.

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You can now lock down apps behind a passcode or
face ID. So if you have an app that you
don't want people when they get your phone in their
hands opening up, you can lock it down with a
passcode or your face ID. They will not be able
to open that app without unlocking your phone. Even with
the phone unlocked, they'll still need to do a secondary
passcode or face ID. Now, another level of this is

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a hidden apps folder.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
This is a folder where you.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
Can put apps inside, and nobody using your phone can
even see what those apps are without unlocking with face ID. So, yeah,
that's going to be an interesting one because people can
hide apps from just about anyone inside that folder and
nobody will know. I message getting a lot of upgrades.
You can use any emoji to react to a message.
You can schedule text messages to go out later. You

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can format the text in text messages with various effects
in styling. You can send messages via satellite if you
don't have a cellular or Wi Fi signal. If you
have an iPhone fourteen or fifteen or later, you'll be
able to send messages over satellite no extra cost. Right now,
Apple has still not said how much they're going to
charge for any of these satellite features, but people have

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enjoyed them now for over a year or two now
for free. One of the big things they didn't really
go into very much but arecs. They are now going
to support rich communication services. This means that messages exchanged
between iPhone and Android, if they include a picture or
a video, will finally look their best. Yes, this is

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a long time coming. It will finally cut down on
that whole iPhone versus Android debate with messages because you
can finally send people photos and videos that are high resolution.
iOS eighteen is also getting a dedicated passwords app, so
all these third party password managers you'll be able to
use just the one that's inside iOS eighteen. And let's

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talk about Apple Intelligence. This is Apple's personal brand of AI.
So of course, leave it to Apple to rename an
entire genre of technology.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
They can't call it AI.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
They have to rename it instead of artificial intelligence. It
is Apple Intelligence. So Siri is now getting reprogrammed to
become a powerful AI chatbot programmed with knowledge about you.
That means that it will have access to your email,
your text messages, your photos, anything that you have on

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your phone, Siri will be able to tap into to
understand the emails that you're sending, and you can ask
questions like, Hey, when's my flight tomorrow? Or do I
have lunch plans next week? Who am I having lunch with?
Show me that picture of me in Montana diving into
a pool, and not only will it find that video,
it theoretically will fast forward right to you diving in

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that pool in Montana. Yes, powerful stuff. Powerful stuff requires
a powerful iPhone. Apple Intelligence is only coming to the
iPhone fifteen Pro models and up. Apple says they need
this processing power and the older phones just don't give
it to them. So if you have an iPhone fourteen,
you're not getting these AI features. Now, to some of

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you you might like that, but to the rest of
you you might say wow. Or even an iPhone fifteen
you will not get the AI stuff. Apple also build
what's called a private cloud compute, so they have kind
of a trifold method of doing AI on the iPhones.
They're going to try to handle it on the phone itself.
If that's not enough, they're going to hand it off

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to this private cloud compute, and that is built with
Apple products and Apple processors, and it's all very private.
So it will take your question, it might take some
of your data, but when it's done answering your question
and setting it back to your phone, it's going to
delete all that data. So they have said that privacy
is paramount, and I do believe Apple because I sat

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through a lot of briefings where they talked about how
much privacy they built into these new AI systems, and
it is private. Now Chat GBT is also going to
be built into the iPhone that is also not as private,
but a little bit more private. So they did a
deal with open ai where they said, look, you can
have access to all of our iPhone users, but you're
not going to get just carte blanche access. When they

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have a question, We're going to ask them every single time,
do you want us to flip this question over to CHATCHI?
And if they do, we're still not going to share
any personal identifiable information with them.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
You're going to answer their.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
Question, and as soon as you do, you've got to
delete their data and you cannot train your GPTs on
their data. Now, why did open ai agree to this?
Because it's Apple, they get to tap into millions and
millions of iPhone users. That's a big new audience for them,
and it's a lot of exposure. The big catch to
all of this stuff you have to be fully immersed

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in the Apple ecosystem. Now they say eventually third party
apps you can have your information in there and it
may be able to tap into this Apple Intelligence. But
right now, let's be honest, a lot of it's going
to be through Apple Mail, Apple messages, Apple Photos.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
They want you to use Apple services.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
A couple other interesting things come in with these, Apple
Intelligence and image Eraser. This will remove unwanted people and
things from your photos, the ability to create AI images
from your photo library.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
A built in phone call.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
Recorder, so now you can have your iPhone record all
of your calls, transcribe and summarize them. Jen Moji these
are custom emojis you can create, so if you want
to send someone a picture of a donut in coffee,
you can just say create a custom emoji. And of
course the system wide tools for rewriting, proofreading, and summarizing text.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
It is a lot.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
I've outlined every one of these features in my newsletter
this week. Go to Rich on tech dot tv to
read it. We will talk about more of this throughout
the show, but yes, Apple is putting a big dose
of AI into their iPhones. It's going to be exciting,
it's going to be interesting. We will see how it
all plays out. Let's hope it's half as good as
they promised.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
All right.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
Coming up on today's show, Microsoft already recalling their AI feature.
We're going to talk about that, but first it is
your turn. Give me a call. Your call's coming up
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Give me a call if you have a question technology.
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on tech. Steve from Pittsburgh writes in what are your
recommendations for buying e sims for data for foreign travel?
I travel a lot on cruises, and my additional free
data via T mobile is not fast enough for me.
Thanks well, Steve, Thanks for writing.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
In on the website.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
The answer I typically give is errol ai r alo ai,
r alo errolo. They've got all kinds of sims that
I've personally used in various countries. I've used this in Japan,
I've used this in Germany. I've used this in Italy

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and some other places sprinkled throughout so you can get
local sims. You can get one that's just for a country,
you can get one that's regional, or you can get
one that's global. Obviously, the more global you can go,
the more expensive it's going to get. The more local
you go, the typically the cheaper it is. And these
work very very well. I will tell you my mom,

(12:08):
who is not a techie, I was able to purchase
this for her over the internet, have her install it
on her phone, and when she landed in the foreign
country that she went to, I said, just go into
your settings, toggle on the eSIM and you will be
able to connect to that network. And she was able
to and her friends were marveling at her because they

(12:31):
couldn't believe that their phones were not working and hers were.
My other advice before you buy an eSIM is to
check with your cell phone company. So I know Steve
said that his data was too slow. But if you're
with like an AT and T or a Verizon, sometimes
depending on your plan, they will give you a certain

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number of days included of their day pass. Typically they
charge about ten dollars a day for a day pass
and sometimes to ending. On your plan, you may get
one of those every month, or you may stalk those up.
So for instance, on my plan, I have like ten
of these stockpiled, so if I travel somewhere for a week,
I'm pretty much covered for the week with those.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
Stockpiled day passes.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
I still prefer Aerlow better because it's just easier, it's simpler.
I can turn off my regular cell phone service, but
also check into Wi Fi calling and texting, because you
should be able to get your texts and your calls
internationally through your Wi Fi connection as long as your
provider does not charge for that service. Most of them don't. Also,

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by the way, I ran this entire radio show. We
did a remote show in Germany off an Aerlo simcard,
so I know it's pretty good. I couldn't believe it,
and it did not use much data at all. Now
some other options. There's a new one. I was not
familiar with this one, but it's called gig Sky gigsky
dot com. I have not tested this, but I was

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very surprised because you can actually get a free INTERNATIONALESIM
from them. So they offer a free one hundred megabyte
eSIM data plan that you can use in over one
hundred and ninety countries. You don't even need a credit
card to try it out. So my recommendation is if
you are traveling anywhere internationally, the best you can do

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for yourself is to just go to gigsky dot com
download this eSIM, even if you don't need it, just
to try it out and get the hang of it.
Let's say you have Verizon and you get those free days,
but just go ahead and go through the motions of
setting up this eSIM, just so you're familiar with it.
Because eSIMs have really revolutionized data internationally because it's so

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easy and most of the modern smartphones support them. In fact,
if you have an iPhone I think it's fourteen, they
switched over completely to an eSIM, so you can't even
pop a physical SIM into the latest iPhones. So gigsky
g I g Sky dot com. That's another option and
another option. Again I have not to tested, but this

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is what I do. I will mention these, but I
will test them eventually. Is called Sally sail Y, maybe
it's called Sale. I would think it's Sally, but they
also have and what's good about all of these e
sims is they kind of work the same.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
You just search for the country you're going to.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
You type it into the website, it will tell you
how much it costs, and then you can download the
SIM to your the e SIM to your phone. It's
very simple, and then you just activate it when you
land in that country. So if you want links to
any of those, just go to the website. Rich on
tech dot TV hit the light bulb. I'll put that
in there. Thanks for the question. If you have one

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eight eight eight rich one O one eight eight eight
seven four to two four one zero one. The news
this week Microsoft is actually delaying its recall feature for
those Copilot Plus PCs. We talked about this so much
a couple of weeks ago. Microsoft was so excited about
this new recall feature that remembers everything on your screen

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and lets you search for it. And then the next
week they said, oh, you know what, because of all
the privacy concerns, we're not going to turn it on
by default, and we're going to require the face ID
login Microsoft hellow. And now this week they're just coming
out and saying, you know what, we're actually not even
gonna include it on those computers that are available on
June eighteenth. We're just going to make this for our

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Windows Insider program. Those are like the real techy nerdy
folks that download the software before everyone else. We're gonna
let them try it out first, give us their feedback,
and then maybe we'll activate this as an option on
those Copilot plus PCs. So Microsoft doing a full one
to eighty on this new AI powered recall feature.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
Pretty wild stuff eighty eight.

Speaker 1 (16:40):
Rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to
two four one zero one. My name is Rich dmiro.
You are listening to Rich on tech Tony in Los Angeles.
You're on with Rich.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
What's up?

Speaker 3 (16:57):
Hello?

Speaker 4 (16:58):
I recently noticed a feature or a voicemail on my
iPhone where you can send it to a voicemail, but
it starts texting you a live I guess text of
the voicemail and if you want, you can answer it,

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sort of like an answering machine. Are you aware of that?

Speaker 5 (17:23):
And do you know anything about it?

Speaker 6 (17:26):
Have you noticed it?

Speaker 2 (17:27):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (17:27):
I've noticed it, and so has everyone else. Because here's
the deal. It is annoying. It hijacked everyone's voicemail on
the iPhone, and Apple didn't even tell anyone they were
doing this, so yes, they announced it.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
It is called live voicemail.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
This is a feature that was introduced with iOS seventeen
and this was turned on by default, and people all
of a sudden started noticing their phones were acting strange,
their voicemail was acting different, and it was just turned on.
So live voicemail basically shows you what the caller is
saying as they leave a voicemail message. It displays the

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message in real time on your screen, sort of like
an old school voicemail or not voicemail, sort of like
an old school answering machine. The caller cannot hear you
unless you decide to answer the call. Now, this is
obviously good for like cutting down on spam and things
like that, but I think it surprised a lot of
people because they just said, wait, what's going on here.

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I'm not really sure what my phone is doing at
this point. And so you have the option to turn
this on or off. If you want to turn it off,
you can go into the settings app on your iPhone,
tap phone and then tap live voicemail, and that will
turn the feature on or off. So if you want
to see what people said in the live voicemails, you

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can look in the voicemail tab. iPhone won't delete these,
And it's just one of these things where I'm fine
with it. I mean, I don't use voicemail in general,
Like I don't even answer for a while. My phone
just would not even have voicemail until I think they
toggled this on. I just recently turned voicemail on on
my phone. But the thing is, I don't need voicemail,

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like if someone if I see a missed call from
a number, I know, I'm gonna call it back. Uh,
and usually that person's gonna text me too. So that's
the explanation for this live voicemail feature. I think it's
a little odd that Apple turned it on for everyone,
and it is a little confusing, So if you want
it off, you can go into settings and turn it off.
But I mean, I guess it's quite useful if you

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like to screen your calls, and this is something you
are not able to easily do with your traditional voicemail carrier.
But if you just want the regular voicemail experience where
it goes to voicemail, person leaves a message and you
can check it later, you can you can just turn
this feature off in the settings. Tony, thanks for the question, Tony,

(19:50):
good question today.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
Appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
Eighty eight rich one one eight eight eight seven four
to two four one zero one. Let's see, let's go
to do we have time. Let's go to Sue in
Pacific Palisades, California.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
Sue, you're on with Rich.

Speaker 7 (20:06):
Yeah, good morning.

Speaker 8 (20:07):
How are you doing?

Speaker 2 (20:08):
I am doing fantastic. What can I help you with? Yeah?

Speaker 8 (20:10):
I'm calling because we bought an Apple Watch for my
husbands because it has the all detection feature. And for
the first several times that he fell, it worked, and
then I noticed it didn't work another time, another time,
and another time, including one time when he broke his arm.

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So it's quite a hard fall.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
Wow.

Speaker 8 (20:33):
So I well, finally went down to the I made
phone calls. They said, oh, it's sometimes they work, sometimes
they don't, just a function of the feature.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
Oh that's a great answer.

Speaker 8 (20:44):
Well it gets worse.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
Okay, it's worse.

Speaker 8 (20:46):
So finally go to the Apple store and they tried
to say, well, you have to take your phone to
Watch in to be repaired, and I pressed further. They
finally got an engineer on the phone after a long
call who says that they know they have a problem
with the fall feature and they're waiting on an update

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for the PHM. I mean, excuse me for the watch
to do it. But the problem is in the meantime,
they know about this, but they're not letting people who
depend upon the feature know that some of watches have
this problem.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
Well, what do you mean some watches have this problem?
What I mean? Number one, I'm always a little.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
Bit hesitant when some random, unnamed engineer says we know
there's a problem, because I don't think Apple would admit that.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
I don't I've not heard.

Speaker 1 (21:36):
Of a major issue with this fall detection, but I
will tell you I agree with you. It is definitely
all over the place and you cannot rely on it.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
And that's the thing.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
I'm playing football out in the street with my kid
wearing my Apple Watch, and I'm not kidding. On the
second throw, it says, hey do you take a hard fall?
And it happens quite often, and I'm like, how does
this algorithm not know so when a football is being
catched versus me taking a hard fall? But you know,
these features are experimental, they are new, and it definitely

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is one of these things where Apple is not making
any guarantees. If you look in the fine print of
any of their medical features, it's like, oh, and by
the way, you can't really rely on these things in
a real, you know, situation, so you have to be
very careful with that. What did the engineer say is
the problem with the feature?

Speaker 8 (22:26):
They said, And first of all, the fact that it
worked even on the slightest provocation early on and now
it doesn't work at all, even in a very difficult
situation led us to explore, and the manager of the
Apple store got on the phone with a lot of
different people, finally ended up with someone in their tech

(22:46):
department who said, yes, we know, we have a problem
that didn't basically didn't exist before. Something has happened that
some of the watches need a software up date and
in order to start working again for fall detection. And
I'm just telling you what the person on the phone

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said to the Apple store manager.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
Okay, well, what I would do, I would do a
couple of things. Number one, I would go into your
Apple Watch. I would reset the Apple Watch. So I
would do a complete factory reset, okay, and that would
take everything back to the factory system. Then I would
make sure go into the Apple Watch app and make
sure that there are no updates pending for your Apple Watch.

(23:31):
There are you know, from time to time, there's a
lot of updates for these things, so I would make
sure that all of those updates have been installed on
this device. After you do the want, I want you
to start fresh, and then once you start fresh, do
all the software updates. Then go into the settings on
your Apple Watch, go into SOS and fall detection and

(23:51):
make sure it's turned on. And then also you need
to kind of look at when this thing is activating
because there's an always on feature, which means fall detection
is always checking to see if you've fallen, and then
there's one that's only on during workouts, so that means
it's only going to detect if you've taken a fall

(24:11):
while you've started a workout. Now, I do know that
Apple has you know, they've been improving this and they've
been doing better with this stuff. I'm reading something interesting here. Okay, See,
if you're between the ages of eighteen and fifty five,
setting up a new Apple Watch fall detection during workouts

(24:31):
is oh wow, Okay, that's interesting. So it could be
that this is set up that this is only turned
on during workouts if you're between eighteen and fifty five.
So definitely check that setting and make sure and then
if you notice, here's the fine print I was talking about.
It says Noe Apple Watch cannot detect all falls. The

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more physically active you are, the more likely you are
to trigger fall detection due to high impact activity that
can appear.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
To be a fall.

Speaker 1 (25:02):
So with all of this said, I know, Sue that
it's it's not what you want to hear because it's
not a perfect system, and I get that, but the
fact that you've got your husband clearly seems to be
at risk of falling, you need to be sure that
whatever system he has in place to get help if
that happens if he's alone, that is working. So I

(25:24):
would look into this, and I would look into maybe
there are some more, you know, hardier solutions out there
that are more dedicated to this.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
I'm not aware of those.

Speaker 1 (25:34):
I often go to some of these events with like
medical devices and things like that, but you may want
to look into, you know, maybe something like you know,
one of those like life alert kind of things or
something like that where he can manually trigger it as well.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
Good question.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
Please do those software updates, Please check the settings, and
hopefully you don't have to use this feature, but if
you do, it could really be life saving. And I
know this has helped a lot of people. The pixel
Watch has it, the Apple Watch has it, and it
really does help. But again it's just not perfect. Eight
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four to two four one zero one. The website is

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rich on tech dot TV.

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Question, give me a call, or you can send an
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Speaker 1 (26:20):
Coming up, Speaking of watches, I'll tell you about Samsung's
affordable new Galaxy Watch that's coming up right here on
rich on Tech. Let's go to Brett in Lamar, Colorado. Brett,
you're on with rich.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
Rich Hullo.

Speaker 5 (26:42):
My wife and I share an Apple Idy and have
for years, and somewhere around maybe the first of the year,
our phones started sharing voicemails and call logs. Yep, so
her phone don't actually come to her phone, calls don't

(27:04):
come to my phone, but her voicemails do.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
This was a change in iOS seventeen where I got
a lot of calls about this early on about people saying,
what's going on here? All of a sudden, I'm seeing
all the phone calls from my partner and I said, well,
what's happening. Do you share an Apple ID? Well, yeah,
well that's why it's happening. So the only way around

(27:29):
this is to set up a secondary Apple ID, and
that way your wife will have you know, will have
their voicemails and things, and you'll have your voicemails. And
that's really the only way to get around it. Because
they made some sort of key change in iOS seventeen.
I think what they did was they linked the call

(27:51):
logs with iCloud, which maybe they didn't do in the past,
and so I think that's what triggered this change. And
so I'm trying to see if there's a let's see,
is there a Okay, so there is now there is
one more option you can try. I've not tried this,
but Brett, just in general, my general recommendation is that

(28:13):
people do not share their Apple ID, and that's for
a lot of reasons. Number one, it's confusing because you're
using the same Apple ID to log into different devices
and two different people are using them, and that could
have some security implications if one of the devices gets lost,
that could be a problem, but also just for confusion

(28:34):
and things like this. An Apple has a system for this.
It's called family sharing. So all you have to do
is set up a secondary Apple ID. Everything is shared
across the Apple ID. So if you purchased an app
and paid a subscription for it, you know your partner
would be able to download that app to their phone
and still have that subscription.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
This happened the other day with my wife.

Speaker 1 (28:53):
I told her about this great app I downloaded and
she's like, ah, it's like twelve bucks for the year.
I said, no, no, you should just be able to log
in and use my subscription because we're sharing that family plan. Now,
it might depend on how the app developer sets it up,
but in this case, yeah, she downloaded it and said,
oh you have premium, you're good. And so I think
there's a lot of a lot of parents as well
do this. They give their kids their iPad and they

(29:15):
sign in with their Apple ID, and next thing you know,
the kid is getting all of the parents text messages
on their iPad. That's because you're sharing the same Apple ID.
So I don't recommend this for a lot of reasons,
mostly privacy, mostly organization and security. So the only other thing, Brett,
that I could recommend it, And like I said, I
have not tried this myself. But if you go into

(29:36):
iCloud on the devices, okay, So go into settings, okay,
tap your name at the top where it says your name,
that's your iCloud. It gets your Apple ID account, and
then you tap iCloud okay, and then there will say
apps using iCloud, tap show all and there is an

(29:56):
option where it says phone and FaceTime. So I would
assume if you turn that off, you should stop sharing
the call logs and the voicemails because now it's not
uploading those to iCloud and it's not re downloading them
to your partner's phone. So you can try that if
you want to continue sharing this Apple ID. Again, I

(30:18):
don't typically recommend sharing the Apple ID, but if you must,
that might be the way around it. I'll put those
instructions on the website. Rich on tech dot tv hit
the light bulb. Thanks for the call today, Brett in
Colorado eighty eight rich one oh one eight eight eight
seven four to two four to one zero one. Samsung
has a new smart watch that is an affordable new

(30:40):
smart watch. It's called the Galaxy Watch FE. FE used
to stand for Fan Edition. This is kind of their
more budget line of their devices. So they come out
with their main devices and then they come out with
these FE version of the devices. They come out with
them for the phone and now the watch and the earbuds,
and it's kind of like a more basic budget version.

(31:02):
They still have a lot of great features for the price.
So this watch is two hundred dollars and it is.
It's got all the health monitoring features, sleep tracking, heart
rate tracking, exercise tracking. It's got forty millimeters size, so
it's not the biggest out there, and especially with the
bezel if you see it in person, the bezel is
kind of thick on this one, so the screen's not

(31:24):
the biggest. But again, this is a very reasonably priced
smart watch. It's got durable sapphire crystal glass. Comes in
three colors, black, pink, gold, and silver, and pink gold
goes together, not black, pink gold and silver, black pink
gold and silver. Obviously, it's going to work with all

(31:44):
of the Samsung devices. You know, you can control the camera,
use it for payments, tap to pay all that good stuff.
This is going to be available in the US starting
on June twenty fourth, and again it's one hundred and
ninety nine dollars for the Galaxy Watch FE. The LTE
will be available in October for two hundred and forty
nine dollars. These are both fantastic prices. They kind of

(32:07):
undercut the Apple Watch and some of the other pixel
watches and things by a couple of bucks. And so
I think this is a very smart move because you
pretty much get everything you need. You're not really missing
a lot with this device. But you might be thinking, rich,
well what am I missing? What am I not getting
by not spending all the pricey money on a Galaxy

(32:27):
Watch six series.

Speaker 2 (32:28):
Well, here's what you don't get.

Speaker 1 (32:30):
You get a slightly slower processor, and it's not by much,
it's just it's just a slightly slower processor. You're gonna
get a slightly smaller battery, You're gonna get a little
bit less Bluetooth.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
What does that mean?

Speaker 1 (32:46):
It means that the FE is supporting Bluetooth five point zero,
while the Galaxy Watch six series is supporting Bluetooth five
point three.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
That just means that Bluetooth is going to be a.

Speaker 1 (32:55):
Little bit more evolved on the higher end models, but
I think you're gonna be just fine here. And the
main sensor that you do not get is the temperature sensor.
So if you're really interested in that temperature censor tracking,
which I will admit is getting much more popular among
these watches because people are relying on that to tell
them if they're getting sick. So if you notice that

(33:18):
your temperature is deviating from its norm, that's an indicator
that you might be getting sick.

Speaker 2 (33:23):
I'm not a doctor.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
This is not medical advice, but I'm just saying that's
what people are using as that telltale sign that they
might be coming down with a cold or something else.
Is that temperature sensor. You do not get that in
the Galaxy Watch fe But otherwise not a bad deal.
Coming up June twenty fourth, one hundred and ninety nine bucks.
If you're in that Samsung World, might not be a
bad addition to your wrist eighty eight rich one O

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one eight eight eight seven four to two four one
zero one the website rich on tech dot TV. Coming
up much more show I'm gonna tell you the apps
that Apple is overshadowing with iOS eighteen coming up right
here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

(34:08):
Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at
Triple A. Rich one oh one eight eight eight seven
four to two four one zero one. Hope you're having
a fantastic day. I know I am. You can follow
me on social media at rich on Tech. I'm on Instagram,
I'm on Facebook, I'm on x Although Facebook told me

(34:32):
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some things you can do to make sure they see them.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
So what.

Speaker 1 (34:41):
All these social media platforms they want you to interact
as much as humanly possible with the people that are
commenting and with the posts and all that kind of stuff.
They want you to post on other people's stuff. And
it's a problem because I don't have time for that.
You know, I've got three social networks, plus a newsletter
that I'm trying to keep up, plus this show, plus

(35:02):
the TV segments. I can't sit there and comment on
every single comment that someone comments on my Facebook page.
So sorry, Facebook, I will keep putting my stuff on there,
But yeah, they don't show it to as many people
as they should because they want it to be a
two way street. That's why I really kind of doubled
down on my newsletter, which I send out to everyone

(35:25):
basically on Fridays or Saturday mornings. So that's I know
that I know is going to reach your inbox. So
if you want to sign up for that Rich on
tech dot tv, just hit sign up. It is free
and it's pretty cool. It's pretty much everything I think
you should know in the week, all in one place.
All right, So WWDC happened this week Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference.

(35:48):
Let me just tell you a couple more things that
happened there. So let's talk about let's see, let's do
the Watch. So watch OS eleven. This is for the
Apple Watch New Things here, they've got this new vitals app.
So this vitals app is going to monitor your vital signs,
so different things that are happening, like your body temperature,

(36:10):
your heart rate, your vitals basically and your breathing, and
it's going to let you know if there's any change
in those vitals. And again I was talking about this
earlier with the temperature sensor. This it might tell you
in the morning, hey, you had an elevated heart rate
last night. That could either mean that this is happening
or maybe you drink alcohol or something like that. Like

(36:32):
it'll show you these different little insights on your watch.
Activity rings are getting more customizable. You're able to pause them.
I could care less about the activity rings. I like
to close them, but I don't really give much thought
to them. But I guess a lot of people do
and make sure that they always close their rings every day,
And I think that's great if that's motivation for you.

(36:52):
When the Apple Watch first came out, yes, I looked
at my rings all the time. But now I kind
of know when I do a workout. Right, if I
go running on the tread for half an hour, I
know I got a workout, so I don't need to
look at the rings to let me know that I
got that workout. But I know a lot of people
maybe if you're just doing steps or something like that.
But people get into these streaks, all of these apps.
They love these streaks because it keeps you engaged. So

(37:14):
you can pause your rings. Like let's say you get
a broken leg, you can pause your rings that you
don't lose your streak. Okay, the smart Stack that's the
thing if you roll up the little scrolly dial on
the Apple Watch, that's the stuff that comes up. Developers
can now develop specifically for that, so that'll get smarter,
maybe more useful. Also, the translate app. This is kind

(37:36):
of cool because the translate app is something that's very
handy if you are out and about in a foreign
country need stuff translated. That is now on the Apple
Watch with watchOS eleven. And you can also download the
languages offline. So let's say you're in Italy you need
to ask someone direction somewhere, you can do it all
through your Apple Watch. And the check in feature is

(37:58):
coming to the Apple Watch. The check in feed is
the feature that says, hey, I'm going out for a run,
make sure I come back home. If I don't, email
or text a loved one and tell them, hey, we're
you know, check on me. So that's the Apple Watch.
Then we've got iPad OS eighteen. The main thing that's
coming to the iPad os is this thing called math

(38:18):
notes and a calculator. So it's been a long running
joke that there's no calculator app for the iPad. Finally,
the iPad is getting an official calculator app. But the
neat feature is called math notes. What is math notes?
It's pretty much a I don't know how to explain it.
It's a piece, you know. It's a place where you
do math equations, but it solves them in your own handwriting.

(38:43):
So you can write down two plus two equals and
it will give you the number four, but it writes
it in your handwriting. Yeah, it's super wild and weird,
but it's gonna be great for kids learning math, I guess,
or cheating on math however you want to look at it.
But overall, it can handle really complex equations and again
it answers them in your handwriting. Only Apple would come

(39:05):
up with something like that. It is so wild. I've
seen it in person and it works.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
It's cool, and it's gonna be a neat feature.

Speaker 1 (39:13):
They also have one more feature which I personally can't
wait to try. You can write on the page in
your own handwriting, and the iPad will clean up your handwriting.
It will make you a better writer, so it's actually
more legible. Because my handwriting is horrible. You can't read it,
so iPads supposedly will just clean it up and it
learns your handwriting over time. I mean it literally learns

(39:34):
how to write just like you. You can copy and
paste text onto a page and it will write that
down in your own handwriting. I mean, come on, this
is just wild, wild stuff Mac os Sequoia. The main
new feature there, this is for you know, desktops and laptops,
is iPhone mirroring. You will now be able to see

(39:55):
your iPhone screen on your computer desktop, and not only
see it, but manipulate it. So whatever you need to
do on your iPhone, you'll be able to do right
from your computer screen. So if you are on your
computer all day long at work and your iPhone is
next to your computer, instead of glancing down and unlocking
your iPhone and doing all these things to like check
notifications and stuff, all of that will come straight through

(40:18):
to your Mac computer and you can actually manipulate anything
on your iPhone screen that you would typically pick up
your phone to do. So that's gonna be kind of
a neat thing for the Mac computers. Now let's get
to the most important one, the Apple Vision pro. Okay,
I'm kind of kidding because I know this has not
sold a ton, but I still do have high hopes

(40:38):
for the Apple Vision Pro when they can make it smaller, lighter,
and I don't think it needs to be better, because
I think it's already incredible. I think it just needs
to be smaller and lighter, and that's basically it, and
get rid of that battery pack. But the Apple Vision OS,
it's called Vision OS, that's what it runs on there.
This is a major new update. It's called Vision OS two.
One of the main things you can do create spatial

(41:01):
photos from any existing photo. It uses advanced machine learning
to kind of separate the image from the background, and
your photos look like they're in three D. Of course,
Apple does not use the term three D. They use
spatial because three D is standard. Spatial little more unique.
There's new hand gestures so you can I forget what

(41:21):
they are, but there's a bunch of new hand gestures
that make it easier to navigate.

Speaker 2 (41:25):
This is kind of cool.

Speaker 1 (41:27):
You can make your Mac in your screen, in your
virtual VR screen. You can make your Mac display huge,
so you can make it giant in front of you.
You can make it really giant or like one of
those giant, giant, giant curve screens. And that is really cool.
I can't wait to try that out. So if you
just have a regular small computer screen, if you have

(41:47):
a Mac computer, you can see that computer screen in
the vision os like in this headset the Apple Vision Pro.
But now you can make that screen huge, like one
of those big wrap around screens that everyone loves to
have at work.

Speaker 2 (42:01):
That's cool, let's see.

Speaker 1 (42:03):
The other thing is that they now have I talked
about this on this show, how annoying it is to
have a guest try out your Vision Pro because they
have to go through this whole process of setting it up,
and then as soon as they take it off their
head all that information goes away they have to reset it. Well,
Apple said, oh okay, we will save your hand and
I data for thirty days now, so if you want
a family member or a friend to try it out,

(42:25):
their information will be saved in the vision Pro headset
for thirty days. It's interesting that they didn't go as
far as adding guest users, like multiple users, but this,
I guess is like a little tiptoe step towards that,
because they're really trying to make the Apple Vision Pro
a one on one kind of device.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
Okay, So with all that said, Apple at.

Speaker 1 (42:45):
WWDC twenty twenty four rendered a lot of third party
apps useless or redundant. This is something called sherlocking. So
back in the day, Apple came out with an app
that replaced an app called Shurelock.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
I don't want to get this wrong.

Speaker 1 (43:01):
I don't exactly know the history on this, but basically,
sherlocking is when Apple comes out with one of their
own apps that replaces a third party app. So, for instance,
I use an app on my Mac computer called Rectangle,
and that app is now redundant because Apple has built
this feature into the Mac operating system. So tech Crunch

(43:22):
went through and came up with a list of all
the different apps. So number one, their password app now
competes with one password, last Pass, Bitwarden and proton Pass.
The native call recording and transcription in the iPhone now
challenges tape a Call and True Caller Voice transcription in
the Notes app that replaces Otter Audio pen and Voice

(43:43):
nototes dot Com. The iPhone mirroring on the Mac overshadows
the Bezel app. Then that Windows tiling feature I just
talked about replaces the functionality of Magnet and Rectangle. The
custom emoji creation competes with the nugipp I don't know
that one. Oh yeah, you can also create custom trails

(44:04):
in Apple Maps that challenges the all Trails app. And
then of course you've got the writing tools powered by
AI that impacts grammarly, which I absolutely love on my computer.

Speaker 2 (44:15):
But now I might not need it anymore.

Speaker 1 (44:17):
So all of these apps that Apple comes out with
first party it kind of puts these third party developers
in a tough place because it's much easier to use
the app that's built into the iPhone or the iPad
or the Mac computer instead of downloading and potentially.

Speaker 2 (44:30):
Paying for a third party app. They do it all
the time.

Speaker 1 (44:34):
Eighty to eight rich one oh one eight eight eight
seven four to two four one zero one.

Speaker 2 (44:39):
We'll get back to the phone lines in just a moment.

Speaker 1 (44:42):
Right after the break the website Richontech dot TV.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
My name is rich Damio.

Speaker 1 (44:48):
You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to
rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here talking technology at triple
eight Rich one on one. That's eight eight eight seven
four two four one zero one. Get to the phone
lines in just a second. I see you hanging on there.

Speaker 2 (45:07):
I just want to explain. I kind of.

Speaker 1 (45:10):
Quickly went over the apps that Apple was replacing, and
I mentioned the sherlocking thing, and I didn't really know
exactly what that meant because I wasn't describing it very well.
So sherlocking is when Apple releases a new feature or
app that sort of replicates the functionality of an existing
third party app, essentially making the latter redundant. So this
term was coined after Apple's shrlock search app came out

(45:34):
in the late nineties. See that's why I didn't know,
because that was kind of before my time rendered this.
Other software companies they they made a very similar app
called Watson, and when Apple came out was shrlock, it
made the Watson app obsolete, and so that's why people
called it shrlocking. So now you know, let's go to

(45:54):
Alan and Santa Clarita. Alan, you're on with Rich.

Speaker 3 (45:57):
Hey, Hey, Rich, love your shows, Thank you. I have
an issue my one of my family members back. He
suddenly has anointed us as a a friendly group of
the family and has sent this Marie photo they've ever
taken up their children, and I went to jump them
because they're clogging my iPhoto in their clog in my

(46:20):
cloud and it tells me I can't delete them.

Speaker 2 (46:25):
Yeah, you can't delete the uh the album or what?

Speaker 3 (46:29):
I can't delete the album?

Speaker 6 (46:30):
Another?

Speaker 3 (46:30):
Let me back up here.

Speaker 2 (46:31):
So this was shared with you, Yeah, albums shared with me.

Speaker 3 (46:36):
And when I go to let me try to dump it.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
Here, it'll work because you're on the phone with me.

Speaker 3 (46:41):
Now of course, Well I drug it, drugged the entire
album to the trash. Yeah, and it's just staring at me.

Speaker 2 (46:49):
Okay, illuminated.

Speaker 3 (46:50):
I can't even no, I can't even move it around,
let's say, on the page.

Speaker 2 (46:54):
So are you doing this from your Mac computer, your iPhone?

Speaker 3 (46:57):
My mac computer?

Speaker 2 (46:58):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (46:59):
So first off, as far as I understand, the shared
albums shouldn't take up storage in your I cloud. It
should only take up the storage in the sharer's iCloud
unless you Yeah, that's that's number one. So it should
not really affect your iCloud storage. And that makes sense
because you know Apple. Like, let's say I'm sharing my

(47:19):
photos with you, right, so I make this album, I
put all these photos in there. That's gonna They're stored
in my iCloud, right, That's where they are first and foremost.
And so when I share that link to you, it's
just a link to those albums. Yes, it might show
up in your shared you know albums, but it's not
taking up any memory on your iCloud because where those

(47:39):
photos physically live is on my iCloud storage. That's number one.
If it makes you feel any better, that's the way
that should work. Now, if you're doing a shared library,
that's a different scenario. A shared library is where a
spouse or a partner whoever, wants to share all of
their pictures in their library, and they it uses up

(48:00):
storage on both of their I clouds because it's kind
of not not necessarily duplicating those pictures, but it kind
of is in a in a you know, in a way.

Speaker 2 (48:09):
So that's number one.

Speaker 1 (48:11):
Number two, if you want to delete this, I'm I
have a shared album right here, and I'm looking at it,
and it shows me my shared album details, which has
the owner and all the other people that can see it.
And then there's an option to unsubscribe, so you can
try that and see if that helps by unsubscribing to
that album. But if it's just the storage that you're

(48:33):
worried about, you know that that shouldn't be too much
of an issue because it, as far as I know,
that does not take up storage on your iCloud unless
you take a picture from that album and you save
it to yours. So if you press the share icon
on the album and then say save to my you
know iCloud, which is you know, you press that share icon,

(48:54):
it says save image. That will save that image permanently
into your iCloud life library. So that reminds me I
should probably do that on these images because I'm looking
at this shared album and't I don't think I saved
those to my library. But Alan, I hope that helps
clear things up there in Santa Clarita. I mean, look,
we are in the sharing economy and sometimes people like

(49:17):
to share a lot of stuff, and that's what sounds
like is happening with you. So try those things and
see if it helps. And if you can't unsubscribe on
your computer, maybe try it on the iPhone and hit
that unsubscribe in the menu and that should delete it
that shared album from your phone and from your iCloud library.

(49:38):
Let's see here. Let's go to Mike and Corona, California. Mike,
you're on with Rich Hi.

Speaker 9 (49:45):
Rich, Hi, My question is Apple. I have an iPhone
Apple fifteen, right, and I'm getting like updates, If not
every week, probably every other week is the latest, and
that was seventeen points something.

Speaker 3 (50:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (50:03):
Now my question to you Rich the apps that I
myself count on just to make a living, do they
get affected by these by these updates? For example, the
sound notification, it's stopped sending sound notification. We count on

(50:24):
it because in the middle of the night, a job
comes up, right, and if there's no sound, there's no
way for me to know that there's a job.

Speaker 7 (50:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (50:33):
Now, again the question is those updates would they affect
these apps?

Speaker 1 (50:37):
Yeah, they can for sure, and in fact, specifically with
a sound I know Apple in a recent update did
tweak the sound because so many people are having issues
with not being able to set their own notification sounds
and the notification sound that was the default was too silent.
So yes, I know recently they did change the notification
sounds and they tweaked it a little bit, so that

(50:58):
could be what you're experiencing. But yes, in general, any
software update can change any functionality at any time, So
if there's an app that's very important to you that
you rely on, be sure to check those that functionality
After a major software update of either the app or
the operating system every time. Great question, Mike.

Speaker 2 (51:19):
Coming out.

Speaker 1 (51:19):
We'll talk more WWDC right here on rich on Tech.

Speaker 2 (51:27):
Welcome back to rich on Tech.

Speaker 1 (51:29):
Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at
triple eight Rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight
seven four to two four one zero one. We'll get
back to the phone lines in just a moment, but
first I want to talk more about Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference.
This is where Apple showed off Apple Intelligence and also

(51:50):
iOS eighteen some of the new features coming to the iPhone.
So I talked to a bunch of journalists up there
and I got their take on some of the biggest announcements.
Let's start with Zach. He's the editor at large for
nine to five Mac, and he talks about Apple's own
brand of AI.

Speaker 10 (52:07):
I think for a lot of people these software updates
will be the first introduction to AI in general. They're
using that phrase Apple Intelligence rather than saying AI. I
think it makes it a little more friendly or a little
less scary than the connotation AI taking over may have.
I think they get a very good job of narrowing
down what the AI does, what Apple Intelligence can do,

(52:28):
in terms of this will help you be a better writer,
It will help you communicate better with image generation in
playful ways, ways that people already use, generating your own
emojis that have waiting for them to finally make whatever
emoji you want to see one day, and those are
the things that people will actually do.

Speaker 2 (52:46):
And there's things like integrating with chat GPN.

Speaker 11 (52:50):
See.

Speaker 12 (52:50):
So if you're a.

Speaker 10 (52:51):
Power AI user already, you can look at Apple Intelligence
and say, okay, those are some system integrated things, but
you can also continue using AI that you've already learned
and sort of mastered for free anonymously, which is the
Apple privacy angle. And that's that's a big difference in
Apple Intelligence and what they're doing versus other companies. But

(53:13):
they're also working with those companies making them more private.
There's even a feature to let you pay for chat
to BT and get more out of those features with
your mac, iPhone and iPad, and that's I think the
best anyone can ask for in terms of getting Apple's
version of AI as well as the existing stuff out there.
I think it's a very exciting update this year for

(53:34):
all the hardware. I think that where companies like open
Ai need to sell their AI as a service. Apple
is using AI to sell their devices, their hardware, and
their services sure, and I also think it's only the
first year that AI will deeply influence what the software
bits do because they're doing modern AI right now. But

(53:54):
over the next year it will change, and each year
in the next few years, I think it'll change quickly
so that iOS nineteen and iOS twenty be just as
AI specific as I was eighteen today.

Speaker 1 (54:03):
Next up Carolina Milansy. She is the president and principal
analyst at Creative Strategies, and she talks a lot about
how Apple has full control over their hardware and software,
which allows them to integrate AI throughout their devices, but
maintain that all important privacy.

Speaker 13 (54:21):
I think obviously, for Apple, privacy is paramount, and I
think they did a good job in explaining that everything
that is Apple Intelligence, that is homegrown by Apple is
private both on device and in the cloud. So they're
using their servers with their silicon to make sure that
whenever the model on the device is not enough and

(54:44):
they need to go to the cloud, everything remains private
and secure.

Speaker 9 (54:49):
I think the.

Speaker 13 (54:50):
Difference that Apple has is that they control everything right,
They control the operating system. They control the hardware and
then some of the services they have on it, and
that gives you the ability to really bring AI throughout
the system, throughout the device, and so the phone in
this case for others like Samsong is a bit more

(55:11):
complicated because they don't control all the pieces, and so
they're still value, but you're going to have to pick
and choose where you want that value to show up.

Speaker 1 (55:20):
Mark Spoonauer, global editor in chief at Tom's Guide, talks
about how iOS eighteen will bring some useful features to
everyday users, but Apple Intelligence will be limited to the
latest iPhone fifteen Pro models and later, which might leave
some users behind.

Speaker 14 (55:36):
I would say that AI was everywhere, but in a
good way, in the sense that it's going to be
coming to the devices that we already use. But there's
a catch, I think with the Apple Intelligence in particular,
because it's nice that they're thinking about like the personal
and contextual awareness and things like that, but the fact
that it's limited to the latest model iPhone fifteen Pro
and iPhone fifteen Pro macs, I think it's going to

(55:56):
leave millions out in the cold. Like if you have
an iPhone fifteen from this year, you still can't participate,
So I think it goes to show that Apple Silicon
you need something really powerful under the hood in order
to enjoy all.

Speaker 15 (56:08):
Of these new features.

Speaker 14 (56:09):
So I think there's a lot of people who are
gonna have upgrade envy. I think there's always been conspiracy
theories around new iOS updates in terms of like forcing
people to upgrade to the latest model iPhone. But in
the past it's been about like slowing down performance or
less battery life than before. But here is a tangible
reason to potentially upgrade, no conspiracy theories required. Yeah, there's

(56:30):
a lot of features that don't have nothing to do
with Apple Intelligence that I actually think are useful for
everyday users. One is the fact that you can customize
your control center, for example, the fact that you could
swipe down and then you decide what shortcuts are and
which orders or whenever you're actually unlocking your iPhone. Up
until now it's been flashlight and camera. Now you can
choose what those are as well, so people aren't locked

(56:51):
out of new features. When it comes to iOS eighteen,
it's just the AI stuff that is only reserved for
the most powerful iPhones. I think to a certain degree
with Samsung's phone and the Galaxy AI, it feels bolted
on after the fact, where I think with the iPhone
and iOS eighteen in particular, it feels very much woven
into the system, especially with Siri, and I think that's
one area where both Google and Samsung in a weird way,

(57:14):
are going to be catching.

Speaker 2 (57:15):
Up to Apple.

Speaker 1 (57:17):
Jason Heiner, editor in chief at zd net, talks about
how Apple's new features will save time for users.

Speaker 16 (57:23):
Apple's taking a lot of the things that they could do,
the ways they can automate things in life, and bringing
them into the iPhone in ways that are going to
be really meaningful, I think, to a lot more people
going forward and so doing things like the demo in
the in the keynote was talking about somebody going and

(57:44):
asking what time is my mom's flight?

Speaker 2 (57:47):
Is it delayed?

Speaker 16 (57:48):
You know, and it would instead of having to go
into a bunch of different apps, Siri then can pull
that data based on a text message, based on an email,
based on a flight an app that has the flight.

Speaker 15 (58:00):
Data in it.

Speaker 2 (58:01):
So doing a lot of things.

Speaker 16 (58:03):
That are going to make so much of the stuff
that we do on our phones all the time, for
everybody a lot smoother, a lot more intuitive, and frankly,
just saving people time and also headaches and saving phone calls,
saving sorting through messages, all of those things. Anything that

(58:23):
this tech can do to do that save people time
and effort and make things easier is going to be
a win. And I think there's potentially.

Speaker 15 (58:30):
A lot of those kinds of things.

Speaker 16 (58:31):
Yeah, I think that the opportunity to search through your
photo library is something that is so simple but really powerful.
We all have photos that are hard to find. The
idea of just being able to essentially ask questions of
your photo library and say, find that time that I

(58:53):
went on vacation, you know, with my aunt to London
or something like that, and let it just pull all
of those photos for you, rather than you know, swiping
around and do it is super powerful. And then even
the idea of being able to search through a video
and find a certain point in a video that could
be really cool too. And again, I think just for

(59:15):
everyday uses.

Speaker 2 (59:16):
And for all of us, I think it will be
really powerful.

Speaker 1 (59:19):
And finally, Jacqueline Dallas, a YouTuber with the channel nothing
but Tech, says she's impressed with the new customization options
in iOS.

Speaker 6 (59:28):
I think the interesting part of iOS is that it's
more customizable now, and that's small, but I think that
a lot of people that use Android often say that
iOS is not customizable. So it's nice to see the
ability to move icons. You can also have the icons
that color matched. All those small things. Oh and then
also the tap back notifications are cool. You can now
customize them, so any emoji. So RCS means a rich

(59:50):
communication service and it's a more secure version of SMS
that Google developed, meaning that your images will be encrypted.
You can send like high resolution ones. And previously Apple
did not adopt it, so if you had an Android phone,
everything would suck when you're messaging an iPhone. RCS will
make it suck a little bit less. I don't think
it's going to change the cultural stigma though. I think
what Apple does really well is extreme the fundamentals, and

(01:00:12):
so I think if we were like, look at what's
going to happen with AI and I phone, it will
just become part of the phone and we won't be like, oh,
it's AI iPhone, just like the phone does things really well.

Speaker 1 (01:00:22):
Isn't that the dream of all computers and mobile devices?
We want them to do what we need them to do,
and we want to be able to ask them in
a very natural language. It sounds like Apple has taken
a big step towards that once again. The phone number
triple a Rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight
seven four to two four one zero one. If you
have a question about technology, give me a call. My

(01:00:43):
name is Rich Demiro and you are listening to Rich
on tech. Jerry's in Rancho, Santa Margarita, California. Jerry, you're
on with Rich.

Speaker 17 (01:00:57):
Hey, uh, great to hear you again. And I've called
you before many kinds.

Speaker 2 (01:01:04):
Oh, okay, We've got to repeat call.

Speaker 3 (01:01:06):
Here we go.

Speaker 17 (01:01:07):
Yeah, I've got a weird question. I've been doing some research.
Back in December, I just got my iPhone fifteen promacs.
It's been a great phone. But I've been seeing some
articles about I message and just not loading or crashing constantly.

(01:01:34):
And they said that there's a way to turn off
FaceTime and messages, but sometimes it's even locked where I
can't even turn off FaceTime or as a fix. Have
you read or seen any information on the updated iOS

(01:01:56):
where the I messages are I just get a blank screen,
then it crashes and I have to restart the phone
a couple times. Any info that you might have in
your bag of tricks.

Speaker 1 (01:02:12):
I know that there was an issue with I Message
when iOS seventeen first came out. It was like a
little bit wonky, but I've not heard anything since. And
just doing a quick search of the web for I
Message crashing, I'm not getting any articles that are actually legitimate,
like articles. I'm getting a lot of you know, forum

(01:02:35):
posts and Apple discussions and all that kind of stuff
that's not really anything that's I mean, look, and this
happens a lot on this show and in general. When
I get emails from people, they say, hey, Rich, I'm
having this problem with my phone and a lot of
other people are having the same problem. And I say,
what do you mean a lot of other people? And
they say, well, I looked up online and I found

(01:02:56):
this forum where everyone's complaining about this problem. Well, yes,
because everyone searching Google going to that form that's having
that situation and they are posting in that same exact post. Now,
that doesn't mean that it's not happening. In fact, a
lot of times when things I call it bubbling up, right, like,
these issues will happen and they start on Reddit posts,
and they start in forums, and then all of a sudden,

(01:03:19):
it is, you know, a software update or something will
address it later on. So I'm not saying that it's
not happening, but I guarantee you if you search this
you know this issue online, you'll find a million documents
that purport to help you figure out how to stop
this from happening, when realistically, there's not a way that
I know of to just like reset I message altogether.

(01:03:42):
So my best advice, Jerry, would be to do this.
If you're having issues, I would go through your I
message and I would delete a couple of messages that maybe,
you know, maybe just go through and clean up your
messages and get rid of some of the either the
larger files or you know, I don't know some of
the older messages I've got. I've got like thousands of

(01:04:06):
messages in my I message and I don't have any issues.
I've never never had a crash in that. So it
could be that there's something that was sent to you
that could be triggering this. There could be one of
the messages in the list that just has some weird
characters that maybe are causing this. But I'm not really
sure on a method to just get this fixed, like instantly,

(01:04:27):
because there's not really a way I know of doing that.
You can go through and delete all your messages and
start over and restart your phone and see if that helps.
But that's the best case scenario I can think of.
What is when you're looking online, like, what is the
main kind of theme that everyone's saying causes.

Speaker 17 (01:04:44):
This of replies? And oh, yeah, I had, but it's
like older articles or older forums. And you're right, but
I have done what you suggested. When you clicked on
the top left corner, you can actually get that pop
up to select messages you wanted to lead. And I've

(01:05:07):
done that often on stuff that you know, like blocked
spam and stuff like that that I have to get
rid of constantly. But you're right, I think maybe there's
a couple of extra large text messages that may have
triggered something like that. And I think that's what I

(01:05:28):
saw in an article that sometimes that can happen, and
you know, and I'm probably it's not a real bad thing,
but sometimes it's just frustrating when it shows the number
of unread messages and it says four and it won't load,

(01:05:49):
and I get that blank screen and I have to
just power off and restart the phone about two or
three times in a row, and then it's fine.

Speaker 1 (01:05:59):
That is very frustrating. So I guess what I would
do in this case. I'd probably if if I was
having like major issues where I had to restart my
phone two or three times, I'd probably do two things.
Number One, I'd go through and I would just blast.
I would just get rid of every message in my
I message list. To me, text messages are fleeting, they're ephemeral.
You don't need them, like I know some people they're

(01:06:20):
obsessed with keeping their messages forever.

Speaker 2 (01:06:22):
I don't care if someone's texting me.

Speaker 1 (01:06:24):
I mean they're telling me what time of flight lands,
they're saying, hey, i'll see there in five minutes. I
don't need a record of anything in my text. Like,
if it's something that I need to keep, I'm gonna
keep it. I'm gonna copy it, i'm gonna paste it,
I'm gonna get an email. So that's what I would
do first off, is just delete everything in my messages,
if you're okay with that, and then I would go
through and I would restart my phone, make sure everything

(01:06:44):
is up to date on the software up page, which
I'm sure you've already done, and then I would see
if it keeps happening. If it keeps happening, then I
would probably personally, I would format my phone completely. I
know this sounds wild, but if you're trying to you know,
if you're telling me you're restarting your phone two or
three times in a row, that should not happen with
an iPhone, and iPhone is just not that buggy.

Speaker 2 (01:07:04):
It just isn't.

Speaker 1 (01:07:05):
Now, maybe if you're running beta software, that could happen.
I assume you're not right, No, okay, So I mean
you know that would be the next case. Thing that
I would do is personally, I would just wipe my
entire phone and reset and and kind of put everything
back on there one by one instead of restoring it
from an iCloud backup. And I'm just looking real quick,

(01:07:27):
I'm gonna look into General and there's a there's a
reset iPhone functionality, and I'm gonna see if there's something
that we can do here.

Speaker 2 (01:07:35):
Let's see reset all settings. Yeah, there's not like one that.

Speaker 1 (01:07:40):
Yeah, there's not one that like says reset all my
messages you could try reset all settings or reset network
settings and see if that helps. Maybe it's a network thing.
But yeah, Jerry, those are the two things I would
do to see if maybe one of those works. I
think if you if you did the nuclear thing where
you deleted all your messages, that would probably fix it.
And then restart your phone and start fresh, that would

(01:08:01):
definitely fix it. I think, as long as you're not
restoring it from an iCloud backup. But I feel you,
I hear you, and you know, if there's something like
that happening on your phone, it is very frustrating. It's
just it's not the way it's supposed to be, and
so hopefully one of those things works. The other thing
I would do, just real quick, is go into your
messages and at the upper left hand corner. I'm sure

(01:08:23):
you've done this, but there's a thing called filters, and
you can see you've got all messages known senders, unknown
senders on read and then recently deleted. You can go
into your recently deleted. It will delete these up to
forty days later after you delete them, but you can
go through and manually delete them by just tapping delete all.
And I've got I just found four hundred and thirty

(01:08:44):
one messages in there. I'm gonna go ahead and delete
that now. I've got a bunch of that stuff that's
not taking up storage on my phone anymore. Or an
iCloud and I would restart my phone, maybe start there
and see if that helps. Maybe there's something that deleted
folder that you've gotten rid of, but it's still just
causing some sort of issue on there. Great call, Jerry,
thanks for trusting me to call me again.

Speaker 2 (01:09:05):
I do appreciate that. So thanks for listening to the show.

Speaker 1 (01:09:09):
Eighty eight Rich one O one eight eight eight seven
four to two four one zero one. Un Like all
the parents on Instagram that can't believe that their kid
is turning another age, I.

Speaker 2 (01:09:20):
Can't believe my kid is turning nine. I can't believe
my kid's turning ten. We're surprised every year.

Speaker 1 (01:09:24):
I'm always surprised that another hour of this show is
in the can. We've got another hour coming up right
after this. My name is Rich Dmiro. You are doing
something smart. You're listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome back
to Rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with
you talking technology at Triple eight. Rich one oh one.

(01:09:45):
That's eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Still coming up on the show, I'll talk about Yahoo
mal getting a modern makeover, how you can renew your
passport online. And uh, it is Father's Day week, so
Happy Father's Day to all of the incredible fathers out there,
father figures. I also know that this weekend can be

(01:10:08):
difficult for some, so I totally understand that, and I'm
thinking of you out there as well. I am a dad,
I have two kids, and best thing that ever happened
to me.

Speaker 2 (01:10:19):
My kids are incredible.

Speaker 1 (01:10:21):
They are challenging, probably just as challenging as I was
as a kid, and they keep me on my toes
and they're probably a lot smarter than me too. The
access to information that my children have compared to what
I had when I was a kid, is just truly incredible.
When I was a kid, if you didn't have the

(01:10:41):
answer to a question, where did you go? I mean
other than the library?

Speaker 3 (01:10:45):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:10:46):
You asked someone and that person maybe told you what
they knew about that topic. And sometimes it was right,
sometimes it was wrong. There's a lot of misinformation going
on around there. These kids ask Google. Now, they ask
Ai and Hopefully they're not asking TikTok because that is

(01:11:06):
just filled with a lot of stuff that they should
not be listening to. But hope you get some time
to celebrate with your loved ones this weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:11:16):
I know I will be doing that and yeah, enjoy.

Speaker 1 (01:11:19):
Let me tell you about this website that's speaking of dads,
So if you want to keep your kids busy during
your celebrations, this is a website called dad Can't Draw.
This is a website that creates custom coloring book pages
for kids based on whatever you type in. It uses
AI to generate unique black and white illustrations instantly. This

(01:11:43):
was created by a dad named Josh. He is a
self taught developer who initially made this tool for his
own kids, but then he has expanded it to everyone.
So you get ten free coloring pages that you can
generate to try out the service and you can do
whatever you want. You can type in. I tried this
with all kinds of stuff and it's just fantastic.

Speaker 2 (01:12:05):
Again.

Speaker 1 (01:12:05):
The website is dad Can't Draw dot com and it
is a fantastic website that helps you create custom coloring
book pages instantly. So if you're hanging out with the
kids this weekend and you want them to make you
a picture, Just say whatever you want and the AI
will create that illustration. You print it out, the kids
can color it in and you can get as creative

(01:12:26):
as you want. This is a game changer. So again
the website, Dad can't draw dot com. And by the way,
grown up in New Jersey, a draw draw. That's what
you pulled out of a chest. That I literally grew
up my entire childhood thinking what you pulled out of
a chest was called a draw And it was only

(01:12:49):
when I came to California that I learned it was
called a drawer. There are some extra letters in there,
so I have come a long way. I know I
say things a little weird. I know I pronounced button
and a lot of.

Speaker 2 (01:13:01):
Things very strangely.

Speaker 1 (01:13:02):
But if you heard me before I went to college,
I you, yeah, I said some things really really weird,
like Oregon that thank you? Oregon was Oregon?

Speaker 2 (01:13:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:13:16):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:13:17):
Coffee was coffee? Water was uh water?

Speaker 8 (01:13:21):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:13:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:13:22):
It goes on and on one. All right, let's go
to Olivia in Huntington Beach, California.

Speaker 2 (01:13:28):
Olivia. You're on with Rich?

Speaker 18 (01:13:31):
Hi Rich?

Speaker 12 (01:13:32):
How are you?

Speaker 2 (01:13:33):
I am doing fantastic, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 15 (01:13:36):
Thank you.

Speaker 12 (01:13:37):
So my question is I have two work from home jobs.

Speaker 18 (01:13:41):
So each job requires two monitors, So I have four
monitors total with two keyboards and two mouths. How do
I seamlessly transition to just using one keyboard and a
mouse for all.

Speaker 1 (01:13:55):
Four What kind of job are you doing? Are you
like mission controler you're landing stuff on the or what?

Speaker 12 (01:14:02):
No, just a one full time gig and like a
freelancer on call kind of thing for the second launch.
But sometimes it kind of overlaps my hours. Okay, I'm
always going back and forth between the two keyboards and
sometimes I'm like, oh, shoot, this is not the like.

Speaker 7 (01:14:15):
One and all that.

Speaker 1 (01:14:16):
Okay, So a couple of ways you can do this.
There is a device called a KVM switch.

Speaker 2 (01:14:22):
Have you heard of that?

Speaker 19 (01:14:24):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:14:24):
Okay, keyboard video mouse, that's what it stands for. KVM switch,
So you can you can get one of those. That's
a physical switch that you would connect one mouse and
keyboard to multiple computers.

Speaker 2 (01:14:37):
So look it up.

Speaker 1 (01:14:38):
There's a lot of articles on picking the best one,
but that's one way of handling it. It's a switch
that you know, it's kind of like anything else. It's
just a switch. You put a bunch of the stuff
into the back of it and then it streamlines it
into the rest of it. So that is one way
of doing it. There's also some software programs that you
can use. So now I've not tested this, but it

(01:15:00):
there's one for Microsoft Garage called Mouse without Borders and uh,
and that's one that you can download and try. And
this is this is quite old, but you know, I
don't think mice really have a lot of updates over
the years, so it probably still works. Are these Windows
or mac computers?

Speaker 9 (01:15:18):
Uh?

Speaker 12 (01:15:19):
Both Windows?

Speaker 1 (01:15:19):
Okay, so this one will probably work Mouse without Borders.
That's probably only going to take care of the mouse though,
So I think that you want to uh that you
probably want something a little more powerful. So there is
a shareware app called sharemouse dot com share mouse dot
com and this software lets you control multiple computers from

(01:15:42):
a single mouse and keyboard. So pretty pretty simple. And
it kind of is like a KVM, except it is
more software based.

Speaker 2 (01:15:51):
So those are.

Speaker 1 (01:15:52):
The recommendations I have for you, Olivia. I will link
them up on the website. Rich on tech dot tv
just hit the light bulb icon. But two review if
you want to connect you know, a couple different computers
to one keyboard and mouse, you can use what's called
a KVM so that is a KVM switch.

Speaker 2 (01:16:11):
You can do that.

Speaker 1 (01:16:12):
You can try the app called Microsoft Garage Mouse without Borders,
but that's just for the mouse. Or there is a
shareware called share mouse or right.

Speaker 2 (01:16:22):
I don't know if it's shareware. I think you actually
you might have to pay for this.

Speaker 1 (01:16:25):
Let's see demo version allows you to try all features
for thirty minutes, and then you'll have to pay. And
let's see how much is the license. I don't see
the price, but I'm sure it's reasonable. So and if
you've got a couple jobs, you should be able to
afford it. Olivia, you're killing it. You're doing you're doing
great lots of jobs managing all those computers that that

(01:16:47):
takes a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:16:48):
So thanks for doing that. Appreciate it all, right.

Speaker 1 (01:16:50):
Eighty eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven
four two four to one zero one. Let's go to
hol and see me Valley. I'm sorry I can't do that.
How what's up?

Speaker 19 (01:17:01):
Hello, Hi, Hi there, I'm so happy to speak with you.
Here's the problem. For years, I've utilized information from a
California governmental entity website. The site includes public access detailed information.
When I was able to use Internet Explorer, I was

(01:17:23):
able to copy the information and paste into a word
document while retaining the information format. Then Internet Explorer was
replaced by Microsoft Edge after the end of use state
for Explorer. When I copied and pasted, I would lose
the right twenty five percent of the formatted information. Still
able to copy and paste text only and keep all

(01:17:44):
the info.

Speaker 2 (01:17:45):
I'm sorry say that last part.

Speaker 19 (01:17:47):
Again, I was still able to copy and paste the
text only and keep all of the information. I couldn't
do that with the formatted text. And I tried using
Chrome as a default browser or Edge is a default browser.
Didn't make any difference. Multiple times I've tried to contact
to buy email the governmental entity to determine of a

(01:18:09):
problem was at their end, and I've never received the
respond What.

Speaker 1 (01:18:13):
You've never received a response from a government organization.

Speaker 19 (01:18:18):
Believe me, it's it's not unusual with this governmentality at all.
I believe them namelessly.

Speaker 1 (01:18:24):
Okay, song story short, you are trying to copy and
paste this information. It used to copying format in a
correct format that that was. You know, whether you pasted it,
it would it would just look the same as it
did on the website. Now it no longer looks that way.

Speaker 19 (01:18:39):
Also edited, and this went on for years until Internet
Explorer disappeared.

Speaker 2 (01:18:44):
Okay, so a couple of things.

Speaker 1 (01:18:46):
So are you're trying to preserve Let's say the font
is in bold, you're trying to keep that bold. And
maybe it's in bullet point format, you're trying to keep
all that right.

Speaker 19 (01:18:54):
It was essentially rows and columns, wow information, and I
could completely edit it. Oh, I can choose part of it,
just like any any text in any word doctor.

Speaker 2 (01:19:08):
And the trouble.

Speaker 19 (01:19:08):
The trouble is I do reports and recommendations to third parties,
and they preferred the formatted information rather than the straight text,
of course, and I met a loss to figure it out.
I tried copying and pasting as a PDF, which retains
all the format and information. But then I was the
capacity to simply edit and incorporate into my reports.

Speaker 1 (01:19:31):
Yeah, yep, okay, So hmmm, uh, I'm sure there is
a solution to this. Off the top of my head,
I don't have one, but there is something you might
be able to do. So what what web browser are
you using right now?

Speaker 19 (01:19:50):
Right now? Chrum?

Speaker 2 (01:19:52):
I tried.

Speaker 19 (01:19:52):
I tried microceft edge, figuring it was proprietary, but it
didn't make any difference.

Speaker 1 (01:19:57):
Yeah, I'm wondering if if this. I'm wondering if this
is like in like a markdown format or some interesting
because there might be there's a Okay, what if you
go into a document like a Google doc and you
try pasting it into their same thing happened? Like does
it happen no matter where you paste it into.

Speaker 19 (01:20:17):
Yeah, no matter what I do, you cannot paste with
the with the formatting of information without losing the right
approximate twenty five percent of it.

Speaker 2 (01:20:32):
Okay, all right, So here's I'm gonna do.

Speaker 1 (01:20:34):
I want you to email me because I want to
check this out, Like, email me the exact website that
you're trying to copy from. I'm going to take a
look and see the only thing I can think of
the there's a couple like solutions. There might be a
Chrome extension that would that you can install that would
preserve the formatting. So I would start with just searching
like Chrome extension preserve formatting and maybe even throw in

(01:20:56):
the term table in there. Right, so that you might
get for a Chrome extension that can help you preserve
that formatting across a copy and paste.

Speaker 2 (01:21:04):
That's the number one thing I would do. Number two.

Speaker 1 (01:21:08):
You might, I mean, obviously there's like that whole you know,
copy and paste, preserve formatting inside the document. There may
be some options to preserve the formatting. I know there
is on Google Docs where it will preserve some of
like the modes that like I just had it the
other day and I'm trying to find it again. Yeah,

(01:21:29):
see this, it's under preferences automatically detect markdown, automatically detect links,
so it might do. That might be an option too.
In word, there might be a thing you could toggle there.
The other thing you could do is you might just
use AI. So you might just throw this data into
chat GBT and say, here's the columns I have. Can
you format this into a table and then copy and

(01:21:50):
paste it from there? So those are a couple of options,
how but I don't have a standard solution off the
top of my head, like I said, but hopefully maybe
just by mentioning it on this show, we'll get someone
that's listening that says, oh, I know exactly, how to
do that, and they will email me that information. But
I also want you to email me the website and
the issue so that I can test myself and see

(01:22:13):
what's going on here, because copying paste is not a
it's not necessarily a standardized thing, especially with mark down,
especially with formatting, especially with different programs out there, they
all do things slightly differently. Thanks for the call, do
appreciate it. Rich on Tech dot tv is the website.
Hit contact, send me that email. Coming up, we will
talk about Yahoo mail getting a modern makeover and how

(01:22:37):
you can now renew your passport online might save you
some time waiting in line.

Speaker 2 (01:22:42):
This is rich on Tech. We'll be right back.

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Speaker 1 (01:23:39):
Looks like Jay in Lancaster has a solution for our
friend Olivia who needed to connect to multiple computers to
one mouse and keyboard.

Speaker 2 (01:23:49):
Jay, welcome to the show. Yeah right, Rich, Hi, what
do you have to add?

Speaker 7 (01:23:55):
So I'm running five monitors off of three different computers,
what do you do? And one keyboard?

Speaker 1 (01:24:01):
Are you sending people to Mars? What's happening there at
the Jay household?

Speaker 11 (01:24:05):
Its flight to MARSK. They have running cat on one monitor, okay,
and then I'm running airport to manage software on the
second computer and then the rest of myself on the
third one.

Speaker 2 (01:24:17):
Nice Okay.

Speaker 7 (01:24:19):
Yeah, it's a separate solution and I've had it running
for about three years now.

Speaker 3 (01:24:25):
So what I have is a Logitech.

Speaker 7 (01:24:27):
M seven twenty mouse, okay, and it has a unifying receiver.
So you buy the mouse, it comes with one of
those receivers, just the USB dog that goes in the
port right, and then you can buy a second, one third,
one fourth one and put them in a different computers
and uh, you know the backing. So I just get
keyboard and you can run your mouse across INDU screen

(01:24:47):
up and down across. Because I am stacked. I've got
two by two and one on the end, so I
can run them across uptown on the NU screen, I
just pull them out across and that becomes active.

Speaker 2 (01:24:56):
Oh nice, that's that's the.

Speaker 3 (01:24:58):
And keyboard with it.

Speaker 2 (01:24:59):
It's the se So okay.

Speaker 7 (01:25:01):
The mouse is like I know, thirty five different receivers.
I think are can or twelve or something like that.

Speaker 2 (01:25:08):
Okay. I believed that.

Speaker 7 (01:25:10):
They have any even newer mouse like mindspare four years old,
so I think they have an NX Master. Is there
maybe more advanced newer one?

Speaker 1 (01:25:20):
Okay, I'm looking at them seven twenty. They call it
the Triathlon because I guess it can control three. It's interesting.
I so a couple of things. I bought a Logitech
mouse couple of weeks ago. One of those stand up
mice that like you know, helps with like ergonomics, and
it does have the ability to connect to three different
computers on the bottom, but on mine, I don't know
what the deal is, but every time, every so often,

(01:25:42):
it just disconnects from my computer, like I have to
read Bluetooth it. So I got the kind without the dongle.
I know, the dedicated dongle definitely makes the connection more
stable over Bluetooth, but anyway, that's one side note. But
the other thing is that Logitech ended up sending me
a whole bunch of stuff to test out all of
their latest stuff, so I guess I'll have more knowledge
about this stuff very soon. But Jay, thanks for the suggestion.

(01:26:05):
I'll put it in the show notes. That seems like
an easy suggestion. And I'm looking at the bottom and
again it's got the bottom of the page on the
Triathlon mouse has the K seven to eighty multi device
wireless keyboard as well, one keyboard fully equipped for computer, phone,
and tablet. That's interesting, so I think I don't know
if they sent that one, but yeah, lots of solutions,

(01:26:27):
and I guess our next guest will actually have some
solutions too.

Speaker 2 (01:26:30):
Matthew S Smith is coming up.

Speaker 1 (01:26:32):
He's going to talk about what to look for when
buying a computer monitor. You won't want to miss that
conversation that's coming up right here on rich on Tech.
Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging
out with you, talking technology. The website for the show

(01:26:54):
richontech dot TV. Joining me now is Matthew S. Smith,
a free lance tech journalist who has written about consumer
tech for PC World, Reviewed, PC Mag, and many other places.
And this is my favorite part. We share a similar
naming identity his website Matt on tech dot me. I

(01:27:17):
love it, Matt on tech dot me. Matt, Welcome to
the show.

Speaker 15 (01:27:21):
Thanks very much for having me on.

Speaker 2 (01:27:23):
I love that we both use the same naming mind.

Speaker 15 (01:27:26):
Yeah, it's nice to meet a fellow on tech person.

Speaker 3 (01:27:29):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (01:27:30):
Maybe we'll start a trend. So let's talk about that.

Speaker 1 (01:27:32):
You wrote a great article for Advisorator, one of my
favorite newsletters that I subscribe to. You talked about how
to buy a monitor. And I know during the pandemic
probably a lot of people set up their offices and
things like that, but this is still something that you know,
with work from home, people are still doing, and there's
a lot of monitors out there, So let's let's start
with kind of just give me the the overall kind

(01:27:55):
of like when you're looking for a monitor, you know,
what are you looking for?

Speaker 7 (01:27:59):
Do you?

Speaker 2 (01:27:59):
Let's start with screen size. I guess okay, starting.

Speaker 15 (01:28:03):
With screen size, my general recommendation is to do a
twenty seven inch monitor because it is a very common
size and it is a readily available it'll fit on
most desks. Also, if you want to upgrade in the
future and do say a dual monitor setup to twenty
seven inch, monitors will still be a reasonable size. Or

(01:28:26):
if you decide to add a larger monitor in the future,
like a thirty two inch or something like that, you
can also do that twenty seven inch monitor next to it,
or even in a portrait orientation where you flip it
ninety degrees and kind of have a sort of more
vertical space by your larger monitor. So it's just very
versatile and again also very common, so they're typically not

(01:28:50):
too expensive.

Speaker 1 (01:28:51):
Okay, And then you say thirty two for gaming, and
then avoid twenty four inches unless your space is limited.
What about the resolution, let's talk about resolution.

Speaker 15 (01:29:01):
Yeah, I recommend for most people to go four K resolution.

Speaker 2 (01:29:06):
It is more.

Speaker 15 (01:29:07):
Expensive than the basic ten ADP monitors, but four K
is a very noticeable boost in sharpness, especially on a
twenty seven inch or larger monitor, And it also sort
of gives you a little future proofing. And I figure
most monitors are going to be lasting a pretty long time.
I don't think people tend to replace them very often,
So it's best to try and get sort of at

(01:29:28):
the top of the curve on features. And four K
is definitely.

Speaker 1 (01:29:33):
That TENADP that's just going to look that's not going
to look very good.

Speaker 2 (01:29:37):
Huh. And you're still noticing all day oh on.

Speaker 15 (01:29:40):
A twenty seven inch monitor, and if you go twenty
four inches, even more passable, but you are going to
notice a difference with four K it looks much sharper.

Speaker 2 (01:29:49):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:29:51):
Now, the panel type, so, I mean probably a lot
of people think, you know LED, that's like an LED screen, right,
So but what types of panels should we be looking for?

Speaker 15 (01:30:02):
Yeah, that's where it gets really interesting because up until
recently you didn't have a whole lot of meaningful choice,
but now there are new O LED panels that are
a premium panel type which have really good contrast and
really good color. They are, however, quite expensive, but if
you want a premium monitor or a really really nice
image quality, that is one way to go. Another alternative

(01:30:25):
is Mini LED, which is technically a backlight more than
a panel type, but it provides really good HDR in
most cases and tends to have a very clear, crisp image.
Now that again is a premium option, So if you're
looking for more affordable stuff, you're going to want to
go with an IPS panel, which tends to have really
good color performance. The contrast is not as good as

(01:30:47):
some of those more premium options, but still tends to
look quite good. And then another one of the VA panel,
which tends to also have pretty decent contrast in color,
but if you're doing gaming high end gaming, the motion
clear sometimes not quite as good as similar IPS panels.

Speaker 1 (01:31:04):
Now, I know, the ultra wide screens are kind of
like the new trend I see Mat Worsk. You know,
we just talked about the Apple Vision Pro. They added
an option for like a really cool like ultra wide
screen and virtual reality, which is really neat. What do
you recommend when it comes to the wide versus ultra wide?

Speaker 15 (01:31:22):
I'm a big fan of ultra wide monitors, and thirty
four inch ultra wide monitors are not really that expensive.
You can find decent ones at three the four hundred
bucks on Amazon, and what you're going to get from
that is basically I've run the numbers on it. I
think it's about a twenty five to thirty percent increase
in the amount of display real estate versus a twenty

(01:31:43):
seven inch wide screen monitor, So you basically just get
some more room bumped out to the side to multitask
to put different windows up on your desktop, or if
you want to play games, it's going to look more immersive.
If you want to watch movies and they're in that
twenty one by nine ass ratio or something similar, you're
not going to have black bars at the bottom or

(01:32:04):
on the sides. So there are a lot of advantages
to that format and I really do recommend it. You
can also if you want to spend some more money,
you can go with a forty nine inch super ultra
wide or something of that nature where you have a
whole and in fact, I have one of those in
front of you right now because I do to review
a bit and you just to have this gigantic expanse
of display in front of you, and that's a really

(01:32:27):
nice option. They do tend to be expensive, expect to
pay around one thousand dollars or more. However, for the
amount of display space you get, it's not necessarily a
bad value. You can compare it to say, two twenty
seven inch monitors of similar quality.

Speaker 1 (01:32:41):
Well, now, taking the newfound knowledge you just taught me,
I'm looking at Google thirty four inch ultra wide monitor
LG two hundred and forty bucks with that IPS, which
you just recommended, So that doesn't sound like a bad deal.
I'm so embarrassed because I have a thirteen inch MacBook screen.
I went from the sixteen inch, and I'm telling you

(01:33:03):
is just that three inch difference makes a huge difference
because I used to have stuff on the side, kind
of like a messaging app on the side panel, like
on you know, on the side of my screen, and
now I miss like all like Kim is our call
screener and she's been texting me the whole show, and
I miss all of that because it's like behind all
my windows.

Speaker 2 (01:33:20):
So I say, the benefit of.

Speaker 1 (01:33:22):
The more screen real estate that you can tuck little
things into the corners like your music and your texting
and all that stuff. So anyway, let's see what other
considerations should we be thinking about when it comes to monitors.

Speaker 15 (01:33:36):
Well, one thing that I especially if you're looking at
a more budget minded monitor, is to make sure that
you get a ergonomic stand with the monitor. This is
pretty common. You don't have to spend a lot of
money to get it. But what I mean is you
want to have height adjustment, tilt adjustment, and swibbl adjustment,
and the height adjustment in particular is the thing that

(01:33:57):
the really cheap, inexpensive monitors are going to not have,
and that tends to be a problem because then when
you put on your desk, unless you are just naturally
the ideal hype for that monitor, that's where you get
to the situation where you have to like start stacking
up books or you need to go buy one of

(01:34:18):
those fifty dollars sort of desk cutch things that sort
of elevate your monitor. It's usually not ideal, and again
you don't have to spend much more to get the stand.
It's usually one hundred and fifty dollars. On up, you
can start to find monitors that have it, so I
really recommend looking for that. Another thing to lug out
for is USB connectivity. Okay, a lot of monitors have

(01:34:40):
USB connectivity. Some of them even now have USBC connectivity
where you can plug in a laptop, which I think
is what most people use these days. And if your
laptop has USBC and that monitor has USBC and has
something called power delivery, the monitor can charge the laptop,
so you may not even need to plug it in

(01:35:01):
to another external power source. Really cleans up on the wire,
cut the wire clutter on your desk, right, It really
makes everything a lot more seamless. Also just makes it
easier to sit down and connect your laptop whenever you
want to. And so that's definitely something to look out
for if you know, if you're someone who doesn't like
to have a lot of wires around your desk.

Speaker 2 (01:35:22):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (01:35:23):
Okay, you've got some specific recommendations. I'll link those up
through the article Dell Asus, Phillips alienware. But just real quick,
we've got about a minute left. External speakers and the webcam.
Do I look for one that has the speakers in
webcam built in or what?

Speaker 15 (01:35:41):
Right? I recommend skipping on that and the main reason.
There's two reasons. One is I have reviewed some monitors
that have these features. In general, I find they are
not as good as when they are external, So it's
kind of you'll probably have a webcam that's not as
good as it could be, speakers that are not as
good as it could be. And then also the price difference.

(01:36:02):
I find that for the amount that you spend extra
on the monitor to get those features, you could easily
buy a better set of external speakers in webcam. So
generally it's better to keep them separate. Also, if when
goes bad for some reason, you can just replace it.
Only reason I would recommend doing that having them integrate
is again, if you just really hate wire clutter on

(01:36:24):
your desk and you want the most seamless setup possible,
then maybe it could make sense, But otherwise I probably
wouldn't go that direction.

Speaker 1 (01:36:31):
All right, we're gonna leave it there. Matthew S. Smith,
freelance tech journalist. The website matt on tech dot me
dot me matt on tech dot me.

Speaker 2 (01:36:42):
Thanks so much.

Speaker 1 (01:36:43):
I learned a lot, so I'm sure someone else did
as well.

Speaker 15 (01:36:46):
Yeah, I hope everyone is ready to go buy their
monitor now.

Speaker 1 (01:36:49):
I know you got me excited. Thanks so much for
joining me on the show today. Really appreciate it. Now
I need that ultra wide thirty four inch IPS monitor.

Speaker 2 (01:36:58):
I can't wait. I will never miss a message Trump
Kim again, I mark my words. All right?

Speaker 1 (01:37:03):
Coming up, we are going to do the feedback segment.
That is where we will talk about your comments and
your questions email to me right here on the show.

Speaker 2 (01:37:11):
My name is richdmiro. You are listening to Rich on Tech.

Speaker 1 (01:37:20):
Let's talk a few more stories before we get to
the feedback segment. First off, Yahoo email is getting a
modern makeover with you guessed it AI powered features. Everything
is getting a dose of AI.

Speaker 2 (01:37:33):
This actually looks pretty good.

Speaker 1 (01:37:34):
This is their most significant update to their email on
the desktop in nearly a decade. Why did it take
you so long? Yahoo Email? I think this company's bounced
around a little bit. But the new design is clean,
it's more intuitive. It's got this new priority inbox tab
which automatically highlights your most important messages, and it's kind

(01:37:55):
of neat. It provides AI generated summaries of your messages.
So if someone sends you a super long message and
it's got like ten questions in there, that you're supposed
to answer, but they're all kind of mixed in between things.
It will pull those out and say like, here's the
things you need to answer from this email, So that's
really smart. They've also got these things where you can
take action on your email. So if there's like a

(01:38:15):
packaged tracking number that's in there, or something you can
add to your calendar, it creates a button that you
can just press and put that in your calendar or
track that package. There is a starred view. This is
something that Gmail has had forever. But now you can
start your most important emails and you can look at
them later, and you can link other email accounts. So

(01:38:36):
I guess Yahoo thinks their system is so good now
you might want to use it for other email accounts
like an Outlook account or a Gmail account. You can
put those in there as well, and I think that
means you can have multiple emails in one place as well.
The new desktop experience coming to all new US users instantly.
Existing users will be able to opt in over the

(01:38:58):
coming months. Interesting move there, but there you go. And
then if you need to renew your passport, you can
do it online. The State Department has relaunched their online
passport renewal service. This is limited, it's in beta, but
you can do this so a limited number of travelers
who meet certain criteria can renew or submit their passport

(01:39:20):
for renewal daily.

Speaker 2 (01:39:22):
The system opens.

Speaker 1 (01:39:23):
Up at ten am Eastern, which I think is one
pm Pacific every day for a couple of people to
be able to submit their information. It's open to residents
twenty five and older who already have a passport that's
been a ten year passport. You cannot change any of
your personal information, you can't be traveling internationally for at
least at least eight weeks, and you can only apply

(01:39:45):
for a regular passport.

Speaker 2 (01:39:47):
This was first announced in twenty twenty one.

Speaker 1 (01:39:49):
It was paused in twenty twenty three for improvements, and
it sounds like the state Department has gotten back from
their backlog from the pandemic. So routine applications now take
six to eight weeks. Expedited services take two to three weeks.
I know we got our kids passports renewed. It did
take about the peak time of like eight weeks, but
it did work all right. Let's get to the feedback.

(01:40:11):
That's your feedback plus the mail bag. These are the emails,
the comments, and the questions I get from you.

Speaker 2 (01:40:17):
If you want to submit yours, just go to the website.

Speaker 1 (01:40:19):
Rich on tech dot tv hit contact got an email
that's asking about this DJI drone ban, and this was
news to me. I didn't realize that there was a
bill percolating about these drones. Inside this bill, there's a
small part that stops the drone company out of China

(01:40:42):
from using certain radio frequencies. This would make it hard
for DGI to sell new drones in the US, and
could even stop people from using the DJI drones they
already own. Nothing has changed as of right now, so
don't be alarmed. You can still use your DGI drone,
which is all I mean. They're noticed some of the
best drones out there. The bill needs to pass the
Senate and then be signed by the President before it

(01:41:03):
becomes law. If it does become a law, DJI and
even the public might try to challenge it in court
because those drones are very popular, and it's surprising to
me that they are trying to ban those.

Speaker 2 (01:41:15):
But we've seen that happen before. Let's see.

Speaker 1 (01:41:19):
Mary writes in Rich, would you be able to research
watches that monitor blood sugar. I would really appreciate it. It
would help a lot of folks with diabetes. Thank you, Mary,
one of your fans. Mary, there is no smart watch
that can directly monitor blood sugar levels. The FDA has
issued a safety communication advising against using any smart watch

(01:41:39):
or smart wing, smart ring to measure blood glucose levels. However,
if you get that dex Com G seven last week,
I mentioned that it does directly connect to the Apple Watch,
so that's your best bet right now. But there's an
FDA warning that says do not buy a watch or
ring that says it can monitor your blood glue close directly.

Speaker 2 (01:42:02):
It cannot do that.

Speaker 1 (01:42:03):
There is no technology right now that's been approved in
a big way that can do that. It might exist,
but right now I know a lot of companies are
working on that because that's kind of the holy grail
for people living with diabetes. Thanks for the question, Mary
Nora writes in I've been watching you on Channel five
for a long time.

Speaker 2 (01:42:19):
I appreciate the information.

Speaker 1 (01:42:20):
Not too long ago you mentioned a kid smart watch
that doesn't need an iPhone for it to work.

Speaker 2 (01:42:26):
I want to get one for my grandson. He's only ten.

Speaker 1 (01:42:28):
He doesn't need a phone, it'd be nice for us
to communicate with him. Thanks for your response. Yes you
want the fitbit ace lte. My kid has been testing it.
We absolutely love this. I think Google nailed it. The
thing to know is that it does not get assigned
a traditional phone number. Anyone who wants to communicate with
this device you can add up to twenty people. I

(01:42:48):
believe has to communicate through an app, but it does
have its own cellular connection and it works really well.
My kid absolutely loves it. So fitbit ace lte. It's
two hundred thirty dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:43:02):
David from Chicago rights in. Hey, Rich, I enjoy your show.
You're doing a great job.

Speaker 1 (01:43:06):
I listened to get the latest tech vibe for my
podcast in Touch with iOS.

Speaker 2 (01:43:11):
Oh there you go. You just got a plug for
your podcast.

Speaker 1 (01:43:13):
I've been using Credit Karma to monitor my credit report
for years. It's free. It includes TransUnion and Equifax. I
also use the Experience app, which lets you check that
report for free. Both services send emails with any updates. Yes,
Credit Karma, that's what Mint is, that's what's replacing Mint.
I think they sell you. They try to sell you
a lot of stuff, so just be careful with that one.

(01:43:34):
I like my wallet hub. I don't think they try
to sell you as much. Let's see here we got
two more. These are compliments. Howard from Westlake Village rights in.
I do appreciate your radio program and find you present
a great deal of practical info. My wife had a
problem with her computer and one of your callers had
the same problem, which you solved. I took his solution

(01:43:57):
and became in quotes King four a day. Thank you
for what you do, Howard Howard, that makes my day.
Frank from Hemmett writes in just a little thought, it's
so ironic how I watch you. I started to watch
you on KTLA five on TV. I'm watching on TV
from an antenna. Now I find myself listening to your
radio show on six forty I and AM radio station.

(01:44:18):
Both of these are ancient tech and I'm learning about
the latest tech through them. It goes to show that
although there are better ways of doing things, you don't
disregard the rest. Thank you for the entertainment and information
your passion for tech shines through double made my day.
Frank from Hemmett, thanks for that comment. That's gonna do
it for this episode. You can find everything I talk
about on the website Rich on tech dot TV. Thanks

(01:44:41):
for listening. There are so many ways you can spend
your time. I really do appreciate you spending it right
here with me. Thanks to Adam for filling in today
for Bobo Kim on phones.

Speaker 2 (01:44:49):
My name is rich Demiro. I'll talk to you real soon.

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