Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance

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iOS 16 Includes a new “Block Sender” shortcut along with a bunch of stuff added to the Lock Screen, and you can use Siri to control your Apple TV. That’s just a sampling of the Quick Tips your two favorite geeks share to start the show.

Listen as John and Dave then dig into your questions about managing your iCloud Keychain passwords, using your Apple TV with HomePods as your speakers, extracting Blu-Ray content, and streaming audio from your phone to your stereo!

It’s a veritable cornucopia of tips, tricks, and answers to your questions. Press play and you’re guaranteed to learn five new things!

Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 968 for Monday, February 13, 2023

Sylvain-QT-Long Press in iOS 16 Mail Now has Block Sender Option

The MGG Discord Server is Live!

The MGG Merch Store is Live!

Quick Tips

00:03:26 Tony-QT-Bypass Auto-Capitalizing Form Fields

00:05:15 Fix 1Password on Safari for iOS

00:06:58 PorthosJon-QT-HomeKit Automations Can be Converted to Shortcuts

Join The MGG Discord Server

00:08:51 Tony-QTR-Lock Screen Camera (and more) Access (recently also from Henry on MGG 949)

Access Additional Features from iPhone Lock Screen

00:11:37 Dominic-QT-Force sending as SMS instead of iMessage

Change your number from iMessage to SMS

00:14:48 AndrewWoodward in Discord-QT-949-Hey, Siri: Turn on Apple TV (and pause/play, and “Hey Sonos” to do the same thing)

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Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared! 

00:18:56 QT-Additional Apple TV “Hey, Siri” Tips: “Go back 2 minutes” or “What did they say” (for 10-15 seconds back)

00:20:12 John’s Apple TV Remote Upgrade

Identify Your Apple TV Model

Even with Apple TV 4K (1st generation) (A1842) whose remote I messed up, it works just fine with the newer Apple TV Siri Remote (2nd Generation)

00:24:03 David-CSF-Function101 Apple Remote now has Bluetooth

00:27:15 Patrick-Moving to TV’s HDMI ARC Port Helped Increase Dialog Clarity

00:31:44 Gary-Playing or Extracting Blu-Ray Content

MakeMKV

Handbrake

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