Podcasts

In this podcast, Tyler Stephen shows us an overview of some of the new features in MacOS Big Sur.

Everything you need to know about using and setting up to use the People Detection feature. Join as Thomas Domville shows us how to use the People Detection on iOS.

Take control of your cellular data speed and options. Listen in as Thomas Domville shows us how to manually manage 5G to optimize for speed or battery life on iOS.

In this edition of the AppleVis Extra, Dave Nason, Tyler Stephen, and Ed Worrell get together to discuss Apple's "One More Thing" event.

Delve in with Thomas Domville as he puts on his headphone and his detective hat. In this podcast you will get a small sampling of the game. Pitch Black: A Detective’s Demise, a harrowing yet comedic story of a washed up and AWOL Lambton Detective, presented in this new and innovative binaural audio game. A Detective’s Demise is a dark, tech-noir inspired 3D audio adventure experience. Take on the role of the “Detective,” a Lambton enforcer with a few tales to tell; as you delve deep in the…

In this month's edition of AppleVis Unleashed, Thomas Domville and Randy Rusnak discuss recent Apple news and other topics of interest. Topics featured in this podcast include:

• All the major announcements from Apple's iPhone 12 event
• iPhone 12 preorders twice that of last year's iPhone 11; Pro demand higher than expected…

In this podcast, Dave Nason shows us how to subscribe to the new Apple One bundles, which were announced in September and released on 30 October 2020.
Apple One allows customers to bundle services including Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple News+, iCloud Storage and more into a single monthly subscription at a better price than paying for each individually.
There are three plans available:
Individual: Bundles Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade and 50GB iCloud Storage.
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In this episode, Tyler demonstrates how to disable contact suggestions in the iOS Share Sheet, which can help declutter the view.

To do this, go to Settings > Apple Intelligence & Siri, and toggle the "Show when sharing" switch under the "suggestions from Apple" heading off.

Do you know somebody with a cool watch face on their Apple Watch that you want or vice versa? In this podcast Thomas Domville will show us how to share Apple Watch faces with family and friends on Watch OS.

Is the standard vibration patterns tough to notice on your Apple Watch? Do you want more noticeable vibration on your wrist.
? In this podcast Thomas Domville will show us how to enable prominent haptics on Watch OS.

In this podcast, Thomas Domville demonstrates how to force quit an app on Apple Watch.

Reasons you might want to do this include the app becoming unresponsive, frequently crashing, or you simply having a suspicion that the app might be the cause of a more general and system-wide issue.

As Thomas demonstrates, the process is simple - with the app open, press and hold the side button to show the power options. Then press and hold the Digital Crown to quit the app. 2 of 3

If you’ve got two microphones but don’t have a digital mixing board, the Audio MIDI Setup app on macOS lets you configure them as a single audio device. Paul Martz shows us how to do it in this podcast, which was recorded and mixed entirely on GarageBand.

For more information on recording with GarageBand, see Paul’s blog series.

In this edition of the AppleVis Extra, Dave Nason, Scott Davert, Thomas Domville, & Tyler Stephen get together to discuss Apple's Hi, Speed October 2020 event.

Did you know that you can easily check your iPhone to see if has a carrier lock on it? Follow along in this podcast as Thomas Domville shows us how to access iPhone carrier lock information on iOS.

Need to scan a QR code? In this podcast Thomas Domville will show us how easy it is to scan a QR code on iOS

In this month's edition of AppleVis Unleashed, Thomas Domville, Randy Rusnak, and Mike Malarsie discuss recent Apple news and other topics of interest. Topics featured in this podcast include:

• Everything Apple announced during its September event: Apple Watch Series 6, new iPad Air, and more
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In this podcast, Thomas Domville demonstrates how to use Siri to send an audio message.

In this podcast, Thomas Domville shows us how to quickly and easily move back through menu levels by performing a long-press on the Back button.

Essentially, this functionality is similar to back button history menus that you are probably familiar with from your desktop web browser.

In this podcast, Thomas Domville shows us how to get notified and have your headphone volume reduced to a safe level when you reach the World Health Organization’s recommended safe weekly listening dose.

In this podcast, Thomas Domville demonstrates how to create, view, and edit captions to add context to your photos and videos, and easily find captions you’ve added in the Search tab.

Note that with iCloud Photos enabled, captions sync seamlessly across all your devices.

In this podcast, Thomas Domville introduces us to the new option available in iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 that allows you to set a default web browser and email app that launch when you click a link or want to compose a new mail message.

In this podcast, Thomas Domville introduces us to the App Library, a new space at the end of your Home Screen pages on iOS 14 that automatically organizes all of your apps into one view.

Features of the App Library include:

• All of the apps on your iPhone are automatically sorted into categories such as Social, Productivity, and Entertainment. Categories intelligently reorder based on app use.
• The App Library shows suggested…

In this podcast, Thomas Domville explores some of the new features and options for widgets in iOS 14 and iPadOS 14. These include:

• Place widgets anywhere on the Home Screen for information at a glance.
• Widgets now come in small, medium, and large sizes so you can pick the information density that’s right for you.
• You can create stacks of up to 10 widgets to make the most of the space on your Home Screen. Drag one widget on top of another and swipe through…

In this podcast, Thomas Domville introduces us to the expanded VoiceOver Recognition features of iOS 14 and iPadOS 14.

These use on-device intelligence to recognize key elements displayed on your screen to add VoiceOver support for app and web experiences that don’t have accessibility support built in.

VoiceOver Recognition offers the following features:

VoiceOver Recognition: Image descriptions
VoiceOver reads complete-sentence descriptions of images and…

In this podcast, Thomas Domville introduces us to Headphone Accommodations, a new accessibility feature for supported AirPods and Beats headphones in iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 that allows you to amplify soft sounds and adjust certain frequencies for your hearing needs or preference, or to help music, movies, phone calls, and podcasts sound more crisp and clear.

Headphone Accommodations also supports Transparency mode on AirPods Pro, making quiet voices more audible and tuning the sounds of…