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The iPhone does a great job of taking pictures, but taking pictures is only the beginning.  Once your pictures and video are in Photos, there is so much you can do to edit, organize, search, and share your photos and videos.  There is no “help” button in the Photos app, but you can learn everything that you need to know about Photos in the new-and-improved third edition of Take Control of Photos by Jason Snell.  I was provided a free review copy of this ebook, and I’m impressed.  If you want to get more out of the Photos app yourself, or if you want a great present idea for someone else who loves to take pictures with an iPhone, this $14.99 ebook is a great resource.  It comes in three formats—PDF, EPUB, and Mobipocket (Kindle)—so it can be read on nearly any device.  I read my copy in a PDF app (PDF Expert) on my iPad, and that worked great.

The Photos app can be used on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac.  This book covers all three platforms.  Most features can be used on all three devices, but when a feature is only available on one platform or works differently on that platform, Jason explains the differences, such as in the section of the book discussing Portrait Mode Photos:

This book is full of pictures that make it very easy to see what Jason is describing.  That means that you see a lot of pictures of Jason’s family and friends in this book, and it also means that what he showing off in the book is very similar to what you will see as you work with your own photo library because his example photos seem typical of a real photo library.

This book covers the basics including the Photos interface, the ways in which you can organize your library, tips for using search, and lots of advice for editing photos, such as an explanation of what all of the different light adjustments can do.

There are detailed sections on sharing photos.  Relatively new additions to the Photos app covered in this book include shared photo libraries, live search in Photos, and duplicate detection.

Jason Snell has been writing a “Take Control” book about Photos since 2015, when he first wrote a book about using Photos on the Mac.  In 2018, he released the first edition of the current version of this book, which covers the Mac, iPhone, and iPad, and that first version was about 150 pages.  The second edition was almost 175 pages, and this edition is just over 200 pages.  Page count is only a crude metric; more relevant is the number of years that Jason has been writing these books.  The latest version of this book reveals his deep understanding of how the Photos app works, and he is able to explain everything in a way that is easy for anyone to understand.

If you consider yourself a more advanced user of the Photos app, then I don’t think that this book is for you.  There are other resources that provide detailed editing tips on certain types of pictures, such as getting the best looking picture at sunset or in the snow or making the most of HDR photography, and this book doesn’t go deep on topics like that.  Also, this book only discusses using Photos in conjunction with Shortcuts app once, when Jason describes (and shares) a shortcut for resizing photos to make them easier to share.  But to be fair, Photos itself is a basic app.  Once you start getting into more sophisticated projects, you are more likely to use specialized apps like Photoshop or Pixelmator, not Photos.

On the other hand, for any beginning or intermediate level owner of an iPhone, iPad, and/or Mac who has an interest in doing more with Photos, this is an excellent resource.  You already know if that describes you, and that is also why I can see this being a nice gift for Christmas or another occasion if you know of someone who has an interest in doing more with the Photos app and would appreciate a well-written guide that has lots of information in one place.

If you are still not sure if this book is right for you, fortunately, you don’t have to guess.  The publisher provides this link where you can download sample pages from across the entire book, and it is a generous sample: 49 pages, including the full index.  Flipping through those dozens of pages will give you a good sense of whether this book is right for you.

Click here to get Take Control of Photos by Jason Snell ($14.99)

Brett and I recorded a fun episode of the In the News podcast on Saturday morning.  We start by discussing Apple’s new Advanced Data Protection option, which I expect to be available in iOS 16.2 in just a few days.  I’m looking forward to the extra protection, but it does come with additional risks for you to consider.  Next, we discuss Apple Music Sings, the Karaoke feature also coming in iOS 16.2.  We also explain why you are going to see so many new types of prices for apps and in-app purchases very soon.  We also discuss AirTag stocking stuffers, GoodNotes on Windows, Apple Fitness tips, iPhone tips, and the first reported incident of someone being saved by using Apple’s new Emergency SOS via Satellite feature.

In our In the Know segment, Brett shares a tip for customizing the alerts that you get when you receive a new text message.  I discuss different ways to share photos with others using the iCloud link option and related options.

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This week, Apple announced an upcoming new service for folks who subscribe to Apple Music called Apple Music Sing.  I suspect that most people will call it Apple Karaoke.  You activate this feature in the Apple Music app by turning on lyrics and then tapping the icon with a microphone and stars.  What makes Apple Music Sing different from just viewing the lyrics is that you can adjust the volume level of the vocal track so that you can replace the original artist’s voice with your own or sing along with the artist. Also, the lyrics will dance to the rhythm of each syllable of the vocals.  Background vocals can animate independently, in a smaller font, from the main vocals.  And a Duet view mode will show different lyrics on each side of the screen.  Sami Fathi of MacRumors lists all of the devices that it will work with.  Although this seems like a natural feature for the Apple TV, he says that it will only work with the newest Apple TV 4K that was introduced in 2022, which is a shame because that excludes a lot of folks.  (Perhaps you can use AirPlay to stream to an older Apple TV model from a supported iPad or iPhone.)  The feature also works with the iPad Pro models introduced in 2021 or later, the iPad Air introduced in 2020 or later, the entry-level iPad introduced in 2021 or later, or the iPad mini introduced in 2021 or later.  On the iPhone, there is better support if you have a model without the button: any model without a button introduced in 2019 (iPhone 11) or later will work.  Or you can use the iPhone SE, but only the model introduced in 2022.  Why are only newer devices supported?  As Sarah Perez of TechCrunch reports, Apple isn’t removing vocals from music, and instead your device uses “an on-device machine learning algorithm that processes the music in real time” to remove the vocals from songs selected by Apple (80% of the most-played songs). Apple says that Apple Music Sing will be available this month, and I expect it to be a part of iOS 16.2, which could launch as soon as next week.  So get ready to listen to a lot of poor singing voices with great background music this holiday season—especially if you spend any time near me as I check out the feature.  And now, the rest of the news of note from the past week:

• A quick programming note: this week’s episode of the In the News podcast will come out tomorrow instead of today due to Brett’s travel schedule.
• ‘Tis the season to replace AirTag batteries for many folks.  California attorney David Sparks offers advice for doing so, and recommends an Apple TV remote case that holds an AirTag to help you find the remote.
• Starting this week, App Store developers have a lot more choices on what they charge for apps and in-app purchases.  Prices can now start as low as $0.29, with price points every ten cents up to $10 and every 50 cents up to $50.  Prices can go all the way up to $10,000, although the highest prices need to first be approved by Apple.  Chance Miller of 9to5Mac has more details on the new price points.
• If you want to get yourself or someone else an iPhone 14 Pro by this Christmas, your options are very limited, but Jason Cross of Macworld has some suggestions.
• Frank Bajak of the Washington Post reports on Apple’s new Advanced Data Protection feature, which I discussed yesterday.  The article notes that the FBI says that it “continues to be deeply concerned with the threat end-to-end and user-only-access encryption pose, but also notes that “cybersecurity experts have long argued, however, that attempts by law enforcement to weaken encryption with backdoors are ill-advised because they would inherently make the internet less reliable and hurt vulnerable populations including ethnic minorities.”
• For a while now, the GoodNotes app that you can use to take handwritten notes on an iPad has also worked on a Mac, and I sometimes find it useful to read through my notes when I am working on my iMac.  In a tweet this week, GoodNotes revealed it is working on a similar product for Windows, which will be very useful for folks like me who need to use a Windows computer at work.
• This week, Apple CEO Tim Cook visited the upcoming TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) factory in Arizona along with President Biden.  Cook confirmed that Apple will use chips made at the plant in its products, including the iPhone.  The plant should open in 2024.  I’m curious how much more it will cost Apple to purchase chips made in the USA, although obviously there are some advantages that come along with that.  Don Clark and Kellen Browning of the New York Times have more details on the announcement and its significance.
• Apple’s VP of Fitness Technologies Jay Blahnik shares workout tips in an article written by Sean Keach of The Sun.
• Tim Hardwick of MacRumors put together a good list of iPhone tips.  Check it out to see if there is one that you didn’t already know about.
• If you have an iPhone 14 Pro and want to see live sports scores in the Dynamic Island, Stephen Hackett of 512 Pixels recommends the Sports Alerts app.
• You knew that this report was coming soon.  We now have the first report of a person being saved by using Apple’s iPhone 14 Emergency SOS via Satellite feature.  Juli Clover of MacRumors reports that a man stranded in a rural part of Alaska while traveling by snow machine was rescued. 
• And finally, Apple released a trailer to preview a few shows currently streaming on Apple TV+ and many more that are coming in 2023 including Ted Lasso, CODA, Spirited, Causeway, Masters of the Air, Shrinking, Tetris, Sharper, Wool, Hello Tomorrow!, and more.  Wait, Tetris?  No, it is not a movie about fitting shapes into spaces, but instead is based on a true story about the high-stakes legal battle to secure the intellectual property rights to Tetris.

Most people have a desire to keep certain information private, but that concern is heightened for lawyers and other professionals with a legally-imposed duty of maintaining confidentiality.  Most folks keep information on their iPhones, iPads, etc. that would be considered confidential—either because it is a personal photograph or because it is a document subject to a confidentiality agreement.  But if you backup your device to Apple using iCloud, are you maintaining the confidentiality of the information?  The confidentiality of cloud storage has been discussed countless times by legal ethics authorities over the years (for example, see here and here), but the key is always to be reasonable in protecting the confidentiality of information.  For example, putting confidential documents on an open website that doesn’t have a password is unwise, but storing those same documents on encrypted and password-protected servers in the cloud is typically fine.

Up until now, iCloud backups have been encrypted in transit—meaning the information is encrypted as it travels from your iPhone to Apple’s iCloud server.  But once on that server, Apple has a key that it could, in theory, use to unlock the data and look at it.  For example, if a criminal suspect backs up his iPhone to iCloud and the police obtain an appropriate warrant, the police can often obtain from Apple a copy of the backed-up data without having to access the iPhone itself.  (As Joanna Stern of the Wall Street Journal reports, last year, Apple responded to thousands of such requests in the United States.)  Or, if Apple was hacked, a hacker could potentially gain access to your data on iCloud—although Apple says that this hasn’t happened in the past.

Yesterday, Apple announced that when iOS 16.2 comes out later this month, it will include a new feature called Advanced Data Protection.  It will work in the United States immediately, and will roll out to the entire world in 2023.  When you turn this on—it is turned off by default—Apple will store your iCloud data in a way that is encrypted such that even Apple cannot read the data.  And this doesn’t just work with iCloud; Apple says it works with 22 other categories of information such as Photos, Reminders, Notes, iMessages, and Voice Memos.

What’s the catch?  With Advanced Data Protection turned on, only you have the key to your secure data, such as the password that you use to unlock your iPhone.  If you forget your password, Apple cannot help you because it has no way to unlock your encrypted information.  However, Apple offers two ways that you can get help unlocking your encrypted backup even if you forget your password.

First, you can designate a recovery contact, such as a family member or a close friend, somehow who can verify your identity and help you regain access to your account and all of your data if you ever get locked out. 

Second, you can create a recovery key, a randomly generated 28-character code that you should store someplace very secure such as a lock box.

Advanced Data Protection sounds like a fantastic idea for attorneys and others who want extra protection for their data on Apple’s cloud servers.  However, with the extra security comes extra responsibility, so think long and hard about how you will use the recovery contact and/or recovery key feature.

Joanna Stern of the Wall Street Journal conducted a fantastic, short interview with Craig Federighi of Apple to discuss the new Advanced Data Protection feature.  If you have any interest in turning this on once it becomes available later this month, I strongly recommend that you watch this video:

This week’s episode of the In the News podcast takes a deeper look at some issues that we’ve discussed before.  Following up on our past discussion of the new Live Activities feature, we talk about some apps that do it well such as ParkMobile and Flighty.  Following up on our past discussion of crash detection on the iPhone 14, we discuss some recent tweaks made by Apple.  And following up on our past discussion of the Apple Card credit card, we discuss a great offer that gives new customers 5% back.  We also discuss Belkin’s new $15 product for cleaning a pair of AirPods, the new App Store awards, and Apple’s fantastic new video called The Greatest.

In our In the Know segment, Brett shares a tip for customizing background app activity.  I discuss the value of AirDrop and recommend some possible adjustments that you can make depending on how you want to use the feature.

Click here to listen to the audio podcast, or just use your podcast player of choice.  You can also watch the episode on YouTube:

As I had hoped, we are starting to see more developers take advantage of Apple’s Live Activities function so that notifications can update themselves to provide useful information.  I saw a great example the other day when I used the ParkMobile app that I reviewed in 2016.  This app lets you pay the “meter” for street parking in New Orleans and many other cities.  After I paid for parking, ParkMobile put a notification on my lock screen with a countdown timer showing me exactly how much time I had left on my parking spot, plus other information such as the number of the zone where I parked.  This meant that while I was taking care of things, I could just glance at my iPhone screen to immediately see how much time I had left, without needing to unlock the iPhone and open an app.  The feature even worked when my always-on display activated and the screen dimmed, although to preserve power, in this mode the notification only displays the number of minutes left without updating the seconds.  Bravo to ParkMobile for this incredibly useful implementation of Apple’s Live Activities feature.  And now, the news of note from the past week:

• If you use Apple Music, you can now take advantage of the Apple Music Replay feature to see your favorite songs, albums, etc. from 2022.  Attorney John Voorhees of MacStories has the details.  It works great unless you let your teenager use your iMac to play video games while he listens to music via iTunes without logging out of your account, in which case you will find that all of “your” top songs from the year are songs and artists that you have never heard of.  Ahem.
• A few weeks ago, I discussed reports that certain roller coasters were triggering crash detection alerts on the iPhone 14.  As Felipe Espósito of 9to5Mac explains, this week, Apple released iOS 16.1.2 to improve the crash detection feature on the iPhone 14 models.  I’m sure that the large number of iPhone 14 models now in use has given Apple lots of data to analyze about how to improve the feature.
• Andrew Liszewski of Gizmodo reports that Belkin released an AirPods Cleaning Kit, including earwax softener, to get your AirPods (but not the AirPods Pro) looking and sounding good as new.  The kit is only $14.99.  Seems like a good stocking stuffer, and not a bad present for yourself.
• Chance Miller of 9to5Mac predicts that the second generation AirPods Pro (my review) ($229 on Amazon) could be the most popular gift this holiday season.  I certainly love mine.
• As a result of several statements that Elon Musk made on Twitter this week, it looks like there could be a dispute on the horizon between Apple and Twitter.  Benjamin Mayo of 9to5Mac reports that Elon Musk met with Tim Cook on the Apple Campus this week, and hopefully they were able to iron things out.
• I consider a password manager to be critical, but developers of password manager apps need to be extra careful about the security of their own products.  Ben Lovejoy of 9to5Mac reports that LastPass was breached back in August, and it was learned this week that attackers were able to access some customer data.  I’ve been using 1Password for many years, and this hasn’t happened to them.  I’m not saying that something similar couldn’t happen to 1Password tomorrow in theory, but the fact that it hasn’t happened gives me additional trust in that product.
• If you don’t have an Apple Card credit card yet, there is a promotion running right now where new customers can get 5% Daily Cash back on purchases between now and Christmas.
• This week, the App Store recognized some of the best apps of the year.  I was thrilled to see that GoodNotes was recognized as the iPad App of the Year.  GoodNotes is a fantastic app that I use in my law practice and in my personal life just about every day—a great way to use an Apple Pencil to write notes on an iPad.
• In an article for Macworld, Jason Snell discusses the incredibly useful Universal Control feature.
• In an article for Six Colors, Jason Snell reports that even if you only have access to iMessage—such as when you are on an airplane using the free Internet feature that only supports text messages—you can still receive push notifications.  As a result, apps like Flighty can give you real-time flight updates even if you are in the air.
• Benjamin Mayo of 9to5Mac reviews the Eve Outdoor Cam, a HomeKit-compatible camera with a floodlight.
• If you have an Apple Watch Ultra and you like to dive underwater, you’ll want to check out the new Oceanic+ dive computer app that came out this week.  The app is free, but you can pay to add special features.  The Apple website has a very in-depth look at the Oceanic+ app.
• If you have been using a small handheld device for as long as I have, then you probably used a Palm or PalmPilot years ago.  Jason Scott creates a new online emulation, available at the Internet Archive, that lets you run old Palm software again.  Playing Solitare Pack from Stand Alone, Inc. on my iPhone as it emulated a PalmPilot made me feel like I was in the late 1990s again.
• And finally, Apple released a video this week called The Greatest that shows off some great iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac accessibility features such as Door Detection, Voice Control, Sound Recognition, and Siri.  The video does a nice job of demonstrating how empowering these features can be.  Also interesting is the same video with audio descriptions.

I’ve been using a pair of HomePod mini speakers for almost two years, and I love them.  For a while, I had them in two different rooms downstairs in my house, and it was fun to have the music flow from room to room.  But since I use them in our living room / family room so much more often than anywhere else, I eventually decided to put both of them in that room and create a stereo pair to make the music even richer.  However, my left HomePod mini is located on a table behind a couch, and because the table is just a little bit lower than the back of the couch, it seemed to me that the HomePod should be elevated just a little bit.  I was surprised to find that there are many products on sale for this very purpose.  The one that I purchased on Amazon, the balolo Real Wood TriPod for HomePod Mini, is exactly what I was looking for: a little elevation in a form factor that looks nice.

What it is

The TriPod, which is handmade in Germany, consists of three legs made of walnut wood attached to a 1.5mm powder-coated steel circular base.

The feet have cork on the bottom to protect the table and absorb vibration.

Elevated sound

Using the TriPod couldn’t be easier.  Just place the TriPod in a location and sit your HomePod mini on top of it.  That’s it.  Nothing to attach or anything like that.

The product raises the height of the HomePod mini about 1.25 inches.  For me, that was just enough to get it a little higher behind my couch, which is what I was looking for.

Does this make a noticeable difference in sound?  To be honest, I cannot say yes using any objective scale, but I feel like it is better.  On the one hand, it makes more sense to me for my HomePod to be a little higher because of the edge of my couch.  On the other hand, Apple clearly designed the acoustics of the HomePod mini to sit on a flat surface and bounce sound off of that surface, and I’m cognizant of the fact that using a stand changes that.

My other HomePod mini is on a shelf, so I didn’t see any reason to raise it even higher.  But for this HomePod mini, the slight elevation seems to make sense to me.

Elegance

The primary reason that I’m a fan of this stand is that it looks great.  I have a lot of wood in my living room, and having wooden feet on this HomePod mini makes it fit into the decor even better. 

The walnut version that I selected pairs well with a black HomePod mini.  If you have a white HomePod mini, you might want to get the oak version because the wood is a lighter color.

Conclusion

This is a simple product, but it looks great and it does exactly what I wanted.  And unlike many of the other HomePod mini stands that you can find on Amazon that are made of plastic and look cheap, I think that this one looks nice and improves the overall look of the HomePod mini.

Click here to get the balolo Real Wood Tripod for HomePod Mini on Amazon ($29.90).

For over three decades, the ABA has conducted an annual survey of lawyers to find out what legal technology they use.   These results are released every year by the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center.  The 2022 report was just released (edited by Taylor Young, and researched by Taylor Young and Joshua Poje).  There are five volumes, and you can purchase a copy using this page of the ABA website.

I have been looking at these reports every year since 2010 because they have been the best source of statistics on the use of mobile technology by lawyers.  (My reports on the prior ABA surveys are located here: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010.)  Starting in 2011, the survey asked lawyers what smartphones they use, and from 2011 to 2021, we saw an increase in iPhone use, reaching a record high of 80% in 2021.  Android use started at 15% in 2011, increased to a high of 25% in 2018, and has been around 18%-19% since 2019.   During those same years, we saw the fall of the once-dominant BlackBerry along with all other smartphone brands other than the iPhone and Android.

Unfortunately, we don’t have updated numbers for 2022.  In 2020, the ABA changed the way that it collected data.  In odd-number years, the ABA releases a volume called Life & Practice, and that volume asks about the type of smartphone that a lawyer uses.  In even-number years such as this one, the ABA replaces that with a volume called Litigation Technology & E-Discovery.  The 2022 volumes still contain some interesting data on smartphone and tablet use by attorneys, but not as much we saw last year.

The ABA was kind enough to provide me with a complementary copy of the 2022 volumes.  Here are the survey results that relate to smartphone and tablet use that jumped out at me.

Putting the YO into BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)

The 2022 ABA survey asked respondents to identify the type of hardware for which they are allowed to select their own brand, model, or type.  The #1 response was the smartphone, where 81% of lawyers reported that their law firm let them select what they wanted.  We have this policy at my own law firm; the overwhelming majority of attorneys at my firm decide to select an iPhone model, but a small number of attorneys select an Android phone.  The #2 response was the tablet, with 55% reporting that they can select their own device.  For other device types, less than half of the respondents could select what they want: monitor (43%), printer (37%), desktop (32%), portable accessories (31%), and scanner (30%).

Lawyers were also asked if their law firm allows them to use a personal mobile device such as a tablet, laptop, or smartphone to access the firm’s network.  Only 5% said no.  However, almost two-thirds of the lawyers said that pre-approval was required and/or restrictions are imposed.  I presume that many law firms use some sort of Mobile Device Management (MDM) software to protect both the law firm network and individual attorneys.

Online research

An all-time high of 91% of lawyers reported in 2022 that they do legal research when they are out of the office.  That’s up from 88% in 2021, 87% in 2020, and 86% in 2019.  The most popular way to do so is with a laptop or desktop computer, with 65% of lawyers saying that they do so regularly and 18% saying that they do so occasionally.  But a significant number of lawyers report doing legal research using a smartphone or tablet.  22% reported using a smartphone regularly and 32% report using a smartphone occasionally to do legal research.  18% report using a tablet regularly and another 18% report using a tablet occasionally to do legal research.

One statistic that I’m trying to wrap my brain around is that 2% of lawyers report that they regularly use a smart wearable device to do legal research.  I am a huge fan of the Apple Watch, and I regularly use it in my law practice for communication and reminders.  But I don’t think that I use my watch for anything that I would call legal research.  The only possible exception that I can think of is starting and stopping a timer to track how long I spend doing legal research.  Is there something else that I’m not thinking of?  If you have an idea for how a smart wearable device can be used for legal research—especially if you yourself are part of that 2% who do this—please let me know!

The iPhone and iPad in the courtroom

Speaking of legal research while out of the office, one such venue for doing so is the courtroom.  But of course, there are many other reasons to use an iPhone or iPad in the courtroom, from consulting a calendar to scheduling upcoming dates to giving an appellate oral argument. 

According to the survey, 81% of lawyers say that they use a smartphone in the courtroom.  And since 2017, the responses to that question have been in the 80% to 84% range, so lawyers have been doing this for some time now.  Lawyers at law firms with 100 or more attorneys are somewhat more likely to use a smartphone in the courtroom (87%).

Here is a chart showing what lawyers say that they are doing with their smartphone in court (click to enlarge).  The most popular uses are email and calendaring.  I was amused to see 25% of lawyers report that they use their smartphone in court to browse the web to kill time—something that I hope attorneys only do while waiting for the judge to enter the courtroom.

Far fewer attorneys report using a tablet device in the courtroom — about 33%.  For those who do, top uses are for email, calendaring, legal research, accessing key evidence and documents, real-time communications, and delivering presentations.

This week, Brett and I recorded a special edition of the In the News podcast: the 2022 iGift Guide.  Brett and I each picked 10 items that would make perfect gifts for the person in your life who enjoys using Apple mobile products.  And if you are reading this, I suspect that these are also gifts that you would love to receive yourself, so now you have some ideas if someone asks you what to get you.  Also, if you find yourself with a gift card, these are some great ideas for picking out your own present.

Of course, you can hear all about our picks by listening to the podcast or by watching it on YouTube.  But Brett also took the time to prepare a PDF file with all of our picks and links to get them.  That way, you don’t have to worry about taking notes as you listen to our watch the episode; Brett took care of that for you.

Enjoy this special edition episode!

This week we have a great episode of the In the News podcast and I encourage you to check it out.  Brett just returned from a four-day hiking trip through the Guadalupe Mountains National Park.  He was off-the-grid for most of the trip, but his Apple Watch Ultra and iPhone 14 Pro helped him to navigate the terrain and arrive at the top of Guadalupe Peak, the highest natural point in Texas, in time to take some amazing sunrise pictures.  After Brett shares lots of fascinating details about his adventures, we discuss how much safer he could have been if Apple’s new Emergency SOS via a Satellite feature had been active just a few days earlier while he was there, and we also discuss all of the details about this new service.  We then discuss some interesting upcoming new features for the Apple Watch and iPhone.

In our In the Know segment, we share tips for preserving battery life.  Brett discusses a new low power mode for the Apple Watch, and I discuss whether you should keep 5G turned on or off.

Click here to listen to the audio podcast, or just use your podcast player of choice.  You can also watch the episode on YouTube: