September 3, 2025 • 7 mins
KTLA & KFI technology reporter Rich DeMuro joins the show for ‘Wired Wednesday.’ Today, Rich talks about clearing your iPhone storage, OpenAI parental controls, Amazon Prime sharing ends, Gmail security, and the Wizard of Oz at The Sphere in Las Vegas.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's say good morning now to the host of Rich
on Tech on KFI. It's KTLA's tech reporter Rich DeMuro.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Morning, Rich, good morning to you. Amy.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Okay, so I've had this happen before where your phone
starts to get glitchy and slow and doesn't do everything
because the storage is getting too full.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
But you have an app that can help us with that.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Yes, and this is literally one of the most popular questions.
People email me and they say, Rich, is there an
app that can help clean up my phone? And on
the iPhone. I'll be honest, there's not an easy way
to do this when it comes to your overall phone.
But when it comes to your pictures and your videos,
there is a great app that I've discovered. It's called
(00:41):
Clever Cleaner. Do not go to the app store and
just search that, because I'm telling you everyone's like Rich,
it's this app costs money. It's only free for a week.
You got to go to my website Rich on tech
dot TV, go to the direct link. That way, you
don't get a scammy app. This one is completely free.
There are no ads, there, not even the option for
an app purchase. So it's almost too good to be true.
(01:04):
But basically, once you use this app, it will scan
your camera roll find the similar photos. It will find
what they call the heavies, which are the biggest files, screenshots, duplicates.
You can get rid of all of these things in seconds,
free up space not only on your phone, but also
if you're using iCloud, it'll then mirror those changes in
(01:24):
i Cloud. Free up your space. There might even save
you some money.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Okay, I think I'm doing that this afternoon because I
know I got a lot of it.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
And I know it's eating or save it for Saturday night.
It's always fun to just you know, clean up your
phone on a Saturday night.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Because you're saying that I have no social life thanks
a lot rich to mirror.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I thought we were friends.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Okay, it's me, you know, I like to spend my
Saturday night doing nothing.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Okay, let's talk about And this has got to be
a huge concern for parents, and that is that their
kids are getting into AI and god knows what they're
doing with it.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Oh my gosh. This is like, you know, like Google
was a problem back in the day. Imagine AI, which
purports to be your friend and your confident on and
everything else. In between. And so I'm sure you've reported
on the teen suicide in California. The parents are suing
chat gibt because the teen had many, many interactions with
(02:21):
chat gibt over months. Chat cybt did not flag any
of those conversations or get an expert involved or even
tell the parents. And so now they're changing their tune,
rolling out new safeguards over the next couple of months
and in the next month specifically, I think parents are
going to be most interested in the fact that they
will introduce parental controls that let you link accounts with
(02:42):
your kid, set rules on what chatchbt can do with
your kids, and get notifications if the system the texts
that your child is in distress. Not going to be perfect.
There's still going to be, you know, things that slip
through the cracks. But this is probably much better than
what's happening right now.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah, that sounds like a very cool thing.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Okay, Amazon Prime, which is still a great deal, but
they're taking away a really cool benefit.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
You know, and it's interesting. A lot of people didn't
even know they had this benefit, but if you did,
you are very bummed right now because basically Amazon had
this deal where and I've talked about it like before,
so people that listened to me might have started and
used this. But basically, you were able to share your
Amazon Prime with pretty much anyone you wanted to. So
(03:31):
if amy, if I said, if you said, oh, I
don't want to pay for Amazon Prime, said here, I'll
invite you to my account, you would get your own
account with your own shipping, and it's all free and
I'm paying the monthly fee, so for the yearly fee.
But now they're ending that program. It's called the Prime
Invitee program that's ending on October first, and basically Amazon
(03:52):
now says, nah, you can't share your Prime benefits with
someone that doesn't live with you, some random person across
the country that you're splitting the fee with or whatever.
And so now it's only people inside your house. And
by the way, not even teenagers. Has to be one
adult that you live with, and then up to four
kids teams have to get their own account, which is
(04:12):
you know, it's a discounted account. But I'll be honest,
I had like two of my family members email me yesterday.
They're like, wait a second, am I losing my free
Amazon Prime through you. I'm like wait a second, how
long have I been paying for your Amazon Prime. It's
time for you to get your own account, not even
my kids.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
That's funny, okay, So.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
With her adults, buy a lot.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Before October first, because then you're going to be cut off.
And the other question I had for you about that
is can I still use my account like to ship
to someone else's house?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Though, yes, that was a big question. People are like,
wait a second, I can't send gifts anymore. You can
do whatever you want, but basically, if you wanted, let's
say you still wanted to share your account with someone,
they would have to physically log into your account, use
your card, you know, all these like use your full
account because they can no longer have their own separate account.
That just somehow magically, you know, you pay the fee,
(05:02):
they get all the benefits. That's that's all. The free
ride is over us.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
I say, okay, that good to know. Good to know.
And then I wanted to ask you this really quick.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Before we left yesterday, we talked to Mike Debuski with
ABC about sort of the techie aspects of that Wizard
of Oz show at the sphere, but he hadn't seen
it and you just did, and I want to get
your You're not your techie necessarily, but your just your
take on it.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
It's wild. I mean it really is. So it don't
come for the movie storyline, Like if you're you're expecting to, like,
you know, watch Wizard of Oz and like understand the storyline,
which is fine, but we all know that this is
all about the experience. This is a giant dome. The
movie has been completely reimagined in a new way with
(05:50):
AI like you probably explained, but the physical plus the
giant screen. So we're talking the seats, rumble, the wind,
the audio. It snows in there, there's flying monkeys, there's
apples that fall from the sky, there's fire. I mean,
it's pretty wild, and the audience is a part of
it and they're hooting and hollering and it was just
(06:11):
so fun. It's expensive, don't get me wrong, but it
is a completely new way to experience a movie that's
so old. You're like, wow, they came up with a
whole brand new way to experience this. How cool is that?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
See?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
And that's a completely different take than like the critics
are saying it's an abomination and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
So oh, critic schmidticks, I know what they're talking about. Yes,
and they sat there were Yeah, they never even smiled
the whole time. Give me a break. We were the
regular people were loving this so much. It was just wild.
Now again, if you're a purist, you're a critic, you're
one of those people that goes in rotten tomatoes and
gives poo poos to everything, don't go see it. But
if you just want to have a good time in
(06:52):
Las Vegas, it's fun and you can afford it.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
All right, there you go.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I love that that you actually saw it, because I
do the same thing. I go, maybe I won't see that.
The critics hated it, which usually means I'm gonna like it.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
So yeah, like I critics have no bearing on my
life whatsoever. Like I'm sorry, but like I like the
Adam Sandler you know the uh oh it was the
last one he just came out with that.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I watched it happy Gilmore too.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
And yeah, like critics hated that. They hate everything.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
It's their job to hate it, Okay, never a hater.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
It's the host of Rich on Tech on KFI KTLA
tech reporter Rich Demiro. You can hear him every Saturday
on KFI from eleven to two. It's a show called
Rich on Tech. You can watch him on KTLA and
follow him on Instagram at rich on Tech. Oh and
the website again rich on Tech dot tv. That's where
you can find that clever cleaner app to clean up
(07:43):
your iPhone.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Rich thank you so much. We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Thanks Amy,
Let's say good morning now to the host of Rich
on Tech on KFI. It's KTLA's tech reporter Rich DeMuro.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Morning, Rich, good morning to you. Amy.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Okay, so I've had this happen before where your phone
starts to get glitchy and slow and doesn't do everything
because the storage is getting too full.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
But you have an app that can help us with that.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Yes, and this is literally one of the most popular questions.
People email me and they say, Rich, is there an
app that can help clean up my phone? And on
the iPhone. I'll be honest, there's not an easy way
to do this when it comes to your overall phone.
But when it comes to your pictures and your videos,
there is a great app that I've discovered. It's called
(00:41):
Clever Cleaner. Do not go to the app store and
just search that, because I'm telling you everyone's like Rich,
it's this app costs money. It's only free for a week.
You got to go to my website Rich on tech
dot TV, go to the direct link. That way, you
don't get a scammy app. This one is completely free.
There are no ads, there, not even the option for
an app purchase. So it's almost too good to be true.
(01:04):
But basically, once you use this app, it will scan
your camera roll find the similar photos. It will find
what they call the heavies, which are the biggest files, screenshots, duplicates.
You can get rid of all of these things in seconds,
free up space not only on your phone, but also
if you're using iCloud, it'll then mirror those changes in
(01:24):
i Cloud. Free up your space. There might even save
you some money.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Okay, I think I'm doing that this afternoon because I
know I got a lot of it.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
And I know it's eating or save it for Saturday night.
It's always fun to just you know, clean up your
phone on a Saturday night.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Because you're saying that I have no social life thanks
a lot rich to mirror.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I thought we were friends.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Okay, it's me, you know, I like to spend my
Saturday night doing nothing.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Okay, let's talk about And this has got to be
a huge concern for parents, and that is that their
kids are getting into AI and god knows what they're
doing with it.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Oh my gosh. This is like, you know, like Google
was a problem back in the day. Imagine AI, which
purports to be your friend and your confident on and
everything else. In between. And so I'm sure you've reported
on the teen suicide in California. The parents are suing
chat gibt because the teen had many, many interactions with
(02:21):
chat gibt over months. Chat cybt did not flag any
of those conversations or get an expert involved or even
tell the parents. And so now they're changing their tune,
rolling out new safeguards over the next couple of months
and in the next month specifically, I think parents are
going to be most interested in the fact that they
will introduce parental controls that let you link accounts with
(02:42):
your kid, set rules on what chatchbt can do with
your kids, and get notifications if the system the texts
that your child is in distress. Not going to be perfect.
There's still going to be, you know, things that slip
through the cracks. But this is probably much better than
what's happening right now.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah, that sounds like a very cool thing.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Okay, Amazon Prime, which is still a great deal, but
they're taking away a really cool benefit.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
You know, and it's interesting. A lot of people didn't
even know they had this benefit, but if you did,
you are very bummed right now because basically Amazon had
this deal where and I've talked about it like before,
so people that listened to me might have started and
used this. But basically, you were able to share your
Amazon Prime with pretty much anyone you wanted to. So
(03:31):
if amy, if I said, if you said, oh, I
don't want to pay for Amazon Prime, said here, I'll
invite you to my account, you would get your own
account with your own shipping, and it's all free and
I'm paying the monthly fee, so for the yearly fee.
But now they're ending that program. It's called the Prime
Invitee program that's ending on October first, and basically Amazon
(03:52):
now says, nah, you can't share your Prime benefits with
someone that doesn't live with you, some random person across
the country that you're splitting the fee with or whatever.
And so now it's only people inside your house. And
by the way, not even teenagers. Has to be one
adult that you live with, and then up to four
kids teams have to get their own account, which is
(04:12):
you know, it's a discounted account. But I'll be honest,
I had like two of my family members email me yesterday.
They're like, wait a second, am I losing my free
Amazon Prime through you. I'm like wait a second, how
long have I been paying for your Amazon Prime. It's
time for you to get your own account, not even
my kids.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
That's funny, okay, So.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
With her adults, buy a lot.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Before October first, because then you're going to be cut off.
And the other question I had for you about that
is can I still use my account like to ship
to someone else's house?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Though, yes, that was a big question. People are like,
wait a second, I can't send gifts anymore. You can
do whatever you want, but basically, if you wanted, let's
say you still wanted to share your account with someone,
they would have to physically log into your account, use
your card, you know, all these like use your full
account because they can no longer have their own separate account.
That just somehow magically, you know, you pay the fee,
(05:02):
they get all the benefits. That's that's all. The free
ride is over us.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
I say, okay, that good to know. Good to know.
And then I wanted to ask you this really quick.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Before we left yesterday, we talked to Mike Debuski with
ABC about sort of the techie aspects of that Wizard
of Oz show at the sphere, but he hadn't seen
it and you just did, and I want to get
your You're not your techie necessarily, but your just your
take on it.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
It's wild. I mean it really is. So it don't
come for the movie storyline, Like if you're you're expecting to, like,
you know, watch Wizard of Oz and like understand the storyline,
which is fine, but we all know that this is
all about the experience. This is a giant dome. The
movie has been completely reimagined in a new way with
(05:50):
AI like you probably explained, but the physical plus the
giant screen. So we're talking the seats, rumble, the wind,
the audio. It snows in there, there's flying monkeys, there's
apples that fall from the sky, there's fire. I mean,
it's pretty wild, and the audience is a part of
it and they're hooting and hollering and it was just
(06:11):
so fun. It's expensive, don't get me wrong, but it
is a completely new way to experience a movie that's
so old. You're like, wow, they came up with a
whole brand new way to experience this. How cool is that?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
See?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
And that's a completely different take than like the critics
are saying it's an abomination and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
So oh, critic schmidticks, I know what they're talking about. Yes,
and they sat there were Yeah, they never even smiled
the whole time. Give me a break. We were the
regular people were loving this so much. It was just wild.
Now again, if you're a purist, you're a critic, you're
one of those people that goes in rotten tomatoes and
gives poo poos to everything, don't go see it. But
if you just want to have a good time in
(06:52):
Las Vegas, it's fun and you can afford it.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
All right, there you go.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I love that that you actually saw it, because I
do the same thing. I go, maybe I won't see that.
The critics hated it, which usually means I'm gonna like it.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
So yeah, like I critics have no bearing on my
life whatsoever. Like I'm sorry, but like I like the
Adam Sandler you know the uh oh it was the
last one he just came out with that.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I watched it happy Gilmore too.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
And yeah, like critics hated that. They hate everything.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
It's their job to hate it, Okay, never a hater.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
It's the host of Rich on Tech on KFI KTLA
tech reporter Rich Demiro. You can hear him every Saturday
on KFI from eleven to two. It's a show called
Rich on Tech. You can watch him on KTLA and
follow him on Instagram at rich on Tech. Oh and
the website again rich on Tech dot tv. That's where
you can find that clever cleaner app to clean up
(07:43):
your iPhone.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Rich thank you so much. We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Thanks Amy,
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