Episode 26 of the In the News podcast is now available. We start by discussing the new Apple Watch Series 7, which I've been using all week and I love. We then talk about possible interference between 5G and radio altimeters used by planes, and then we discuss putting your vaccination card in the Wallet app on an iPhone thanks to iOS 15.1. (I mentioned in the podcast that I had not yet used this new feature, but I subsequently used it when I went to a restaurant yesterday and had to prove that I was vaccinated to enter. It was fast and convenient, and is definitely what I will use going forward.) We then briefly discuss Apple's holiday return policy and Apple's new $19 cleaning cloth.
In our In the Know segment, we discuss two useful shortcuts, each of which is powerful but consists of only a single instruction, so you can create each one in the Shortcuts app in only seconds. Brett shared a tip for instructing your AirPods to connect to the device you are using, even before you start playing audio on that device. I shared a tip for quickly getting directions to a specific location, even if the Maps app normally has trouble finding that location when you use Siri. And the shortcut that I described also lets you name that location anything that you want when you say "Hey Siri..."
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