The January 2026 meeting was just the briefest of brief introductions to the iPhone, talking about how to set preferences to do the kinds of things you want to do and avoid doing things you don’t want to do. This brief introduction was mostly 90 minutes of talking, and several minutes of battling with Zoom, which insists on moving things around for no good reason.
The group also talked about what we wanted to do next, and the answer was: more information about Zoom. We talked a lot about security and general knowledge, but didn’t talk about privacy, which is both critical and somewhat complicated. We didn’t talk about the camera at all, which is one of the most popular features of the iPhone, and we didn’t mention phone calls. I guess you can make phone calls on the iPhone; does anyone have any experience with that?
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In the video, at one point, a slide said you got 5 MB (five megabytes) of storage with the free version of iCloud. That should have read 5 GB (five gigabytes), which is one thousand times more. The slides have been corrected.
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18:40:02 Okay, now it's…
18:40:04 No, it's recording.
18:40:09 Me?
18:40:06 It's nice to have feedback. I… like I said, the, uh…
18:40:12 the, um…
18:40:14 Um…
18:40:17 interface has changed, and…
18:40:19 I… ah.
18:40:21 And I don't exactly know why.
18:40:24 Because Zoom doesn't actually tell you. They keep on offering for me to use, um,
18:40:31 AI features, and I played around with their AI
18:40:35 for, um, a bit.
18:40:38 And it seems to do nothing that I would ever want to do, so…
18:40:43 Um, it's possible that I might have dismissed it, and it got…
18:40:47 Huffy and decided to make things hard for me.
18:40:51 But, uh, I think we have closed captioning on, I think we have recording on, so…
18:40:55 I'm back in business.
18:40:59 Other questions?
18:41:06 Yes.
18:41:04 I have a question. I'm trying to undo my…
18:41:08 I can't… I wanted to try to put my video on, but I can't see how to do that. Okay, this is Jolie Will, and I had, um, sent you an email.
18:41:17 So, actually, I have two questions. After I…
18:41:20 The first one is about the newest version, 26, that I downloaded, or I upgraded my phone.
18:41:27 And after I did that, I noticed that the little, um, keyboard
18:41:32 looked different.
18:41:34 And it's smaller.
18:41:36 And I couldn't get it to be any bigger. I tried to go into settings and…
18:41:41 I couldn't figure out how to make it a little bit larger.
18:41:45 Do you know anything about that?
18:41:48 I…
18:41:48 Like, when you're texting or emailing any, you know, any reason to use the keyboard, it was smaller.
18:41:54 I can't swear that I noticed that.
18:41:57 It looks different because of their transparent interface, but…
18:42:01 I'm not aware of a side diff… a size difference.
18:42:07 Um…
18:42:09 I'm not… I just…
18:42:10 Okay. Thank you.
18:42:13 The other question that I have is that, um…
18:42:16 I was wondering, because I'm starting to see just some little postings about
18:42:23 how… really, it could be anywhere that we might happen to be.
18:42:29 anywhere, but we can be tracked.
18:42:32 And possibly identified, and so the… the… what… the reason that it came up in recent
18:42:40 days had to do with
18:42:42 Uh, maybe attending or being near one of these
18:42:46 public demonstrations.
18:42:49 Um, about the government. And, um, so…
18:42:52 People were saying, no, turn your phone off, don't carry your phone, and it really just brought up the larger question,
18:42:59 about security, personal security,
18:43:03 Um, when you have a phone.
18:43:06 It's…
18:43:05 So I just… I don't know anything about that.
18:43:08 It's a… it's a valid question.
18:43:11 I will give you… I will start with talking about some things, security of something completely different, but it's actually related.
18:43:19 The, uh… your… the only people allowed to use your mailbox.
18:43:25 are the U.S. Postal Service and you.
18:43:28 Your neighbors can't put messages in there, vendors can't put messages in there. The only people who can put mail in your mailbox is the U.S. Post
18:43:37 office than you. Anything else that's done is a felony.
18:43:42 Well, the FBI wanted to track people by their, uh, post… by their
18:43:47 you know, messages that, uh…
18:43:50 email that they were sending and receiving,
18:43:52 And they were tired of getting…
18:43:56 trying to get warrants for this, because the…
18:43:59 Courts are very reluctant to give you warrants.
18:44:02 But the courts ruled that there was one thing in Anna
18:44:07 on an envelope that is public, and that is the outside.
18:44:11 The outside has who it's going to, and sometimes it has who it's coming from.
18:44:16 So the, um, FBI started issuing what they call cover letters.
18:44:22 And a cover letter is a letter that they issued to the post office saying, uh, when you get mess… when you get letters to or from this person, please run them through your Xerox machine.
18:44:34 And you can't actually see the letter, but you can at least see who's mailing it. And by that, they can…
18:44:40 try and find out if you're engaged in some kind of corrupt activities. Well…
18:44:44 That is not as useful as it used to be, because…
18:44:48 Uh, people don't mail as much as they used to, but, you know, back in the 1930s, 1940s,
18:44:53 was used in a lot of criminal prosecutions. They didn't know what the contents were, but they knew that two
18:44:59 bad people were talking to each other, and so therefore they…
18:45:02 could investigate them and see what it was they were doing.
18:45:06 Today, we don't do that. Today, we send things via email, we send things via text message.
18:45:14 the… on the Mac, if you were sending something from one Mac to another Mac,
18:45:20 and you're using Apple Mayo,
18:45:22 It's encrypted on your machine, it's encrypted in transit, it's encrypted when it gets to Apple's mail service,
18:45:28 It gets encrypted when it goes to the person on the other end. So it's encrypted from end to end.
18:45:35 One part that is not encrypted…
18:45:37 is the address. And that can't be for the same reason you can't encrypt
18:45:43 an envelope. The post office has to know where to deliver it, and in this case, the email service
18:45:49 has to know where to deliver it.
18:45:51 Another issue with email is that once it gets to the other end, that person can
18:45:59 basically decrypt it by mailing it off to whoever they want.
18:46:03 You hear a lot of people about, you know, their email was intercepted. It really wasn't intercepted. They sent it to Joe. Joe shared it with his girlfriend. His girlfriend was offended and shared it with her friends,
18:46:15 ended up in the newspaper. But it's encrypted from your end to another Mac.
18:46:20 If you send it from you to a Windows user, it may or may not be encrypted,
18:46:25 Because the Windows machine…
18:46:27 may not have the technology, may not have an email client that can encrypt it. So, it's encrypted from you to Apple, it's encrypted
18:46:35 But it may not be encrypted from Apple to the other person, because that person may not be…
18:46:40 have the technology to decrypt it. So, you have a limited amount of control there. It's even worse with messages,
18:46:48 Because if you're sending them from one iPhone to another iPhone,
18:46:52 and you're using the, uh…
18:46:54 You're using the Apple ID as the address name.
18:46:59 It's encrypted, from end to end.
18:47:01 But if you send it to somebody who's got an Android firm,
18:47:04 I Android phone, it's probably not.
18:47:07 Um, because most Android phones don't have that.
18:47:11 of technology.
18:47:13 So, what does this have to do with, um, geofencing, which is where the police can figure out where you are located?
18:47:21 Geofencing requires a warrant.
18:47:24 And you can't just go out and do it by… without a warrant, because it requires the telephone company to do something.
18:47:32 And what it does is the warrant specifies, I'm looking for a particular
18:47:38 person, and they're going to be in this area we think they might be in this area. And they specify a cell tower,
18:47:45 And with that specification, they can see
18:47:50 whose phone was in that area.
18:47:53 But it's kind of vague.
18:47:55 Um, because if you… if you're walking or driving along, and you're going from one cell tower to another cell tower,
18:48:04 it will retain
18:48:06 the linkage to the first cell tower for a little while in order to keep from
18:48:11 disrupting the conversation.
18:48:12 So it's possible you might be locked to a cell tower, and you're not even in that area. So, in terms of…
18:48:18 In terms of finding out what you're doing, it's not terribly useful.
18:48:23 But, um, in, uh, some countries, like Iran,
18:48:28 They're using it for everybody that we found in this area. We're gonna arrest them all and throw them in prison.
18:48:35 Um, in the United States, you have to have a little bit more proof than that.
18:48:38 The, um… and again, the only thing it does to… it doesn't say that you were in that area, it says a device
18:48:45 that they can trace back to who paid for the account, a device was in that area.
18:48:51 So, for example, if you left your car in…
18:48:54 If you left your phone in someone's car, and that person drove… was driving down Washington, they could say that, oh, you were in that
18:49:03 You were driving down Washington at a particular time,
18:49:07 No, it was… it was your device.
18:49:10 Um, so, it's… it's of limited use, and uh…
18:49:16 Um, the courts are very reluctant to…
18:49:19 to, uh, get too excited about,
18:49:21 Uh, somebody just because they pinged on it on a tower.
18:49:26 Um,
18:49:27 turning off your phone. A lot of people have been suggesting they turn off your phone.
18:49:31 Turning off your phone negates your ability to use the phone. You can't be contacted on the phone if the phone's turned off, so that's not really a…
18:49:39 Good idea. I know one guy who keeps his phone,
18:49:44 In his microwave.
18:49:45 Does anyone know why anyone would keep a phone and a microwave?
18:49:53 Aren't microwaves shielded?
18:49:55 Yes, a microwave is a Faraday cage. A Faraday, you can…
18:49:59 look up what Faraday was, but he was an English physicist.
18:50:02 Who figured out how electromagnetic fields work.
18:50:05 And a Faraday cage, um, is basically a box that you can put something in
18:50:11 so that it… so that radio signals of a certain type can't leave
18:50:16 the, uh, box, or enter the box.
18:50:19 Um, there are rooms that they build in government buildings that have a Faraday cage inside.
18:50:26 So that, uh, you can go in and look at classified information and know information can leak out of that, of that, uh…
18:50:34 room. Uh, and a microwave happens to be a Faraday cage.
18:50:40 Um, so if you put your phone in the microwave, it's… it can't send out… it can't be detected.
18:50:46 Of course, that also can't be used, because if it's in the Faraday cage,
18:50:50 it can't get any signals, and so people can't call you.
18:50:54 It just says the phone's unavailable.
18:50:58 Um, so, yes, you can turn off your phone,
18:51:01 but then you can't use your phone. Yes, you can put your phone in the microwave, but then you can't use it.
18:51:06 Um, I know one person who didn't quite understand about putting the phone in the microwave,
18:51:11 And they turn the microwave on, which was…
18:51:14 bad for both the phone and, um…
18:51:18 And the microwave, uh, the phone caught on fire and blew up.
18:51:22 Um, so…
18:51:26 It's… basically, you want to use your phone
18:51:30 leave it turned on. Um, and if you're going down Washington Street and you happen to be
18:51:36 Going past some protesters, that's perfectly fine.
18:51:39 Uh, there's really nothing that anybody can associate other than
18:51:43 You had a device that…
18:51:45 you're paying for that, uh, went through that area. But they won't know that it's you.
18:51:51 First of all, unless you happen to be the target,
18:51:54 Because when they're targeting this, they have to be…
18:51:57 Very specific is that I'm looking for Joe Johnson. They can't just say,
18:52:01 Give me a list of everybody who went past this cell tower.
18:52:04 Uh, that's… that's…
18:52:07 No courts are going to go with that.
18:52:11 So, yes, I've read the people who are afraid to take their…
18:52:16 phones to demonstrations, but, um, that's really not a terribly great idea, because, uh…
18:52:23 You might need your phone, among other things, to call for bail.
18:52:27 Yeah.
18:52:28 Thank you very much.
18:52:31 Did that answer your question? Did there just seem to be…
18:52:34 beating around the bush.
18:52:35 No, I… it's… you answered the question, thank you.
18:52:43 Um, I pasted into the chat window.
18:52:47 the, uh, registration form for tonight, because I would like to know
18:52:52 Uh, who I'm talking to.
18:52:56 Um, so if you could…
18:52:58 Click on that link, um…
18:53:01 You can fill out the registration form.
18:53:03 Basically, it's just saying who you are, and please enter your email address.
18:53:07 And also, please, put in your first and last name. If you put in Jeff, or…
18:53:14 Princess Leah, that doesn't help me much.
18:53:18 See…
18:53:20 I'm sorry?
18:53:22 The link should be in the chat window.
18:53:24 Um, the link should be in the chat window.
18:53:27 It's not.
18:53:29 Okay, then you might have come… you might have logged on after I put it there, so I'll put it there again.
18:53:40 Okay.
18:53:43 Any more questions?
18:53:49 Can you say, if you don't want to have notifications pop up from, like, games,
18:53:55 Do you have to go to that game itself in the apps?
18:54:00 you know, the apps section.
18:54:02 And turn off the various notifications.
18:54:05 Or can you do it in the notifications part?
18:54:09 Or do you have to…
18:54:08 You can… you should be able to do it in the notifications part, or you should be able to do it in the game itself.
18:54:14 Some games…
18:54:15 Okay.
18:54:17 They have a function that turns it on, but then they don't have a way for turning it off.
18:54:22 should be able to go to the Notification Center and…
18:54:25 find that particular application and say,
18:54:27 Uh, turn it off, or do whatever else you want.
18:54:30 done with it?
18:54:36 Um, one of the things I'm going to talk about tonight is setting up a…
18:54:41 how to set up a quiet period.
18:54:43 So that, um, if there are certain parts of times of the day where you don't want to be bothered with things,
18:54:48 There's a way to set your phone so that it won't…
18:54:51 bother you?
18:54:54 I have a question, Lawrence. Is it January that we renew our membership?
18:55:00 Uh, yes, um…
18:55:01 Yeah. Okay.
18:55:03 It's in January.
18:55:04 Yeah, okay, um, is, um, our secretary gonna put the address we mail the check to?
18:55:12 Uh, it's on the website. If you look under…
18:55:14 Is it? Okay.
18:55:15 Yeah, it's under… I don't remember what it's under.
18:55:19 Um…
18:55:21 It's join or something? It's on the website.
18:55:24 Okay, thank you.
18:55:27 Lawrence, this is Debra.
18:55:29 Yes.
18:55:29 And I have a question, um…
18:55:33 I usually work on, uh, my computer with Gmail.
18:55:39 And I'm trying to learn… use my smartphone more.
18:55:43 But how do I…
18:55:46 take a link that I want to share with someone.
18:55:50 in my Gmail, and get it to my phone so I can send it to them as a… as a message. Like, if I want to share this link.
18:55:58 I don't know how to do that.
18:56:01 Does your… have you set up email on your phone?
18:56:03 Yes.
18:56:05 email it to yourself.
18:56:08 Email it to… what do you mean, myself?
18:56:10 Well, whatever phones… whatever, um…
18:56:15 If you have it on your computer and you want it on your phone, and they don't have the same email accounts on either,
18:56:22 then… but then…
18:56:22 They do. They do.
18:56:24 Yeah, you can still just…
18:56:24 But how do I put it into a text message, the link?
18:56:28 Oh,
18:56:28 Without… without typing it, just to transfer it from…
18:56:33 Gmail to the iMessage.
18:56:36 Um, well, one way is to bring them both up at once and just copy-paste from one into the other.
18:56:41 Or you could just email it from one address to the other.
18:56:46 Can I email it to a telephone number?
18:56:50 Uh, if it's on messages, yes, you can email it to a telephone number. Well, you can't email it, you can send a message to a telephone number.
18:56:57 Through my email.
18:57:00 Well, no, there's messages… if you're talking about text messages, you use the messages application.
18:57:07 Right.
18:57:07 And it's on… it's on your phone, and it's on your computer.
18:57:10 And you send it to that, uh… you send it to that phone number.
18:57:15 I will tell you that I rarely send things to phone numbers, I send them to email addresses.
18:57:21 Even in messages. And that's because if I send it to… if I'm sending it from
18:57:27 my computer to someone who has an iPhone,
18:57:30 If I send it via… to their email address, it'll be encrypted.
18:57:34 Oh, okay.
18:57:34 And if I send it to the phone number, there's a 99% chance it will not be encrypted.
18:57:40 Not that most people really care, but…
18:57:43 Um, depending upon what it is, you probably want it to be secure.
18:57:48 Yeah.
18:57:50 Couldn't she right-click on the…
18:57:52 On the email address and copy it?
18:57:55 Yeah, it's a copy-paste.
18:57:58 Okay, say that again? I…
18:58:01 Control-Click is a right-click, right?
18:58:02 Oh, control…
18:58:06 Click. Okay.
18:58:08 on what I want to copy.
18:58:09 Yes. Well, you select it first.
18:58:14 Okay.
18:58:13 And then you can, um, either right-click or control-click to copy it.
18:58:18 Okay, I'll try that.
18:58:20 But I will tell you that, quite often, I just email it to myself.
18:58:24 from one account to another. Like, for example…
18:58:27 If I want to talk about something with straight Mac, I have a straight Mac email address that's separate from my personal one.
18:58:34 And if I want to talk about it at a straight Mac meeting, I'll just
18:58:37 email it to that straight MAC address, so that when I'm sharing it with people, I'm not using my personal address.
18:58:45 Okay.
18:58:46 I like you guys, but my personal address is basically for my daughter and…
18:58:51 you know, relatives.
18:58:53 Um, Lawrence, I have one more question that was kind of along Jolie's line.
18:58:58 Uh, of questioning, because I'm… I tend to be a little paranoid, but it's mostly because I don't understand this whole AI thing. But…
18:59:07 I was having a conversation with my sister in the living room. I don't know what it was about health or something.
18:59:13 And then I hear…
18:59:16 My phone, in the middle of our conversation at the end of one sentence, go, uh-huh?
18:59:23 And I realized, oh, Siri has been listening to our whole conversation here, and that was her comment. Uh-huh.
18:59:31 And then I got kind of thinking,
18:59:33 Oh, is everything I say in my house being, um…
18:59:39 recorded or tracked?
18:59:41 And I thought, well, gee, that makes it kind of dangerous to have a conversation, maybe, against the… a certain administration, or what if you said this? It made me very uneasy.
18:59:52 Um,
18:59:52 Tell me what's going on.
18:59:55 your phone is set up, it's designed to listen for the word Siri.
18:59:59 It'll ignore everything else you're talking about until you say Siri, but if you say Siri,
19:00:04 There's a good chance that Siri will respond.
19:00:07 And in my…
19:00:07 I might have said, seriously,
19:00:09 Yes, it'll… it'll…
19:00:10 I… I could have said that.
19:00:12 And that's what triggered it, because I definitely was not asking for her opinion on anything.
19:00:18 Right, but I… but it can also be…
19:00:20 Seriously, surely, anything that…
19:00:23 is somewhat close to that.
19:00:26 Um, it will… it will trigger it. For example, there are commercials on TV,
19:00:30 Where somebody will make some…
19:00:33 just wild, stupid statement.
19:00:35 that includes the word Siri in it.
19:00:38 And my HomePod will say, uh-huh.
19:00:42 Oh,
19:00:42 And… because it's listening to the TV, and it heard its name.
19:00:47 So, yes, it's listening, but it doesn't actually trigger until it hears its name.
19:00:52 Um,
19:00:52 So it's not like it's… our conversations are being recorded or listened to.
19:00:57 No, I'll give you an exception, though.
19:01:00 Alexa doesn't work that way.
19:01:05 Who's Alexa?
19:01:05 Alexa is the, uh, Amazon.
19:01:10 Oh.
19:01:09 AI. Alexa listens all the time.
19:01:12 Uh, it doesn't wait for the, um, keyword.
19:01:15 And the, um… why this is a…
19:01:19 is important.
19:01:21 I have a former work colleague who, on the East Coast,
19:01:25 She had a, um…
19:01:27 Very small dog, and she had a parrot.
19:01:30 It's a gray parrot. Gray parrots can live longer than
19:01:33 humans. They can live forever. And they're quite bright.
19:01:37 And this, um, gray parrot…
19:01:40 had listened to her owner say a whole bunch of different things, and one day,
19:01:46 You used to be able… well, you can still order things using Alexa by just talking to Alexa, say, uh, Alexa…
19:01:54 Um, send me 50 pounds of dog food.
19:01:57 And Alexa will place an order with Amazon.
19:02:00 And you can get your 50 pounds worth of dog food.
19:02:03 And apparently she had done this once.
19:02:05 Only not 50 pounds, um…
19:02:08 It had been, um…
19:02:11 I don't remember what it was, because it was… the important thing is it was a small dog.
19:02:16 The gray parrot ordered 50 pounds of dog food.
19:02:19 for a dog that weighed about 5 pounds.
19:02:22 And it did… it… it said, Alexa, send somebody on… I think an X for multiple bags, and it came to light.
19:02:29 50, 100 pounds. It was a lot of dog food.
19:02:32 I couldn't figure out how this happened, and eventually they tracked it back, that the order was placed by
19:02:37 Alexa, and it was placed at about a time that she was at work, so she…
19:02:41 knew that she couldn't have done it. She was talking about this to her husband or boyfriend, I don't… I think they were…
19:02:48 I think there was a boyfriend at the time. They later got married, saying she couldn't figure out how this had happened.
19:02:54 And at that point, the gray parrot pops up and orders another…
19:02:58 Uh, 50 pounds of dog food. So, she figured out…
19:03:01 how that had happened. There's a way to stop that.
19:03:06 And that is you set a pin on Alexa, it wants a pin of some sort, you know, a 4-digit number.
19:03:11 And, uh, I happen to have an Alexa in my guest bedroom,
19:03:15 But I set a pin, and then I promptly forgot it. So nobody can use that pin. But what it does is it prevents…
19:03:23 your parent from using the pin, too.
19:03:25 But, um, Alexa listens all the time.
19:03:29 And Siri only wakes up when it hears its name.
19:03:34 So if we order on Amazon, anything, is Alexa there?
19:03:39 if you… if you have an Alexa…
19:03:42 ECHO, which are those…
19:03:43 Oh.
19:03:44 Um, little… it's a smart speaker system.
19:03:47 Oh.
19:03:47 If you… if you have an Alexa speaker…
19:03:49 Yes, you can order things on Amazon through your Alexa Smart speaker, and I…
19:03:56 I encourage anybody who has an Alexa to stop that, because…
19:04:00 Anybody can walk into your house and order anything.
19:04:03 Or your parrot can.
19:04:05 So there's a couple of things there. Number one,
19:04:08 Uh, Alexis can also listen to your
19:04:11 your iPhone, you know, even without pushing any buttons, and do the same thing, so you need to disable it there also.
19:04:19 But Siri, you can choose between having to say, hey, Siri,
19:04:25 or be able to use either form. So you can turn it to that to…
19:04:31 avoid some of them by turning it on to Hazeri instead of…
19:04:34 either one.
19:04:36 Yeah.
19:04:39 I found some web results. I can't show them if you ask again from your iPhone.
19:04:45 Oops.
19:04:48 So much for that demonstration.
19:04:53 Yep.
19:04:56 Um, I was in a classroom once, teaching people how to use Macs.
19:05:00 And we had, like, 40-some-odd Macs.
19:05:04 And somebody made some joke about how stupid Alexa was.
19:05:08 How stupid Siri was. And so all of these 40 Macs defended themselves.
19:05:13 Because they used to have it as, if you insulted, um…
19:05:19 Siri, Siri would respond saying, I'm a highly intelligent, uh,
19:05:23 Artificial electronic assistant or something.
19:05:31 My phone did that.
19:05:32 And because I called it stupid.
19:05:37 And it told me it was not stupid.
19:05:41 that it knew many things, and it proceeded to list all of them.
19:05:47 Um, I was gonna ask if, therefore, it might not be good for me to bring
19:05:53 My Alexa… I have this Alexa that I ordered, but I've been scared to plug it in.
19:05:59 And, um, I was going to bring it to my husband, who's, you know, in a residence veteran's home residence,
19:06:06 Um, but maybe that might not be a good…
19:06:11 Actually…
19:06:09 Idea. I thought he'd enjoy the access to information.
19:06:14 I do think that it would be a good idea.
19:06:17 But I would set a pin and then promptly forget it so that you can't…
19:06:22 Yeah. Okay.
19:06:23 accidental, uh…
19:06:26 Um, purchase, because it's…
19:06:28 It's fairly common for people to accidentally order things like, uh…
19:06:32 Okay.
19:06:34 Blankety-blanket, we broke another dish. I'm going to tell…
19:06:39 Um, Alexa to order, uh, 500 more dishes, and the next thing you know, you have 500 dishes.
19:06:45 Yeah.
19:06:46 Um, so it is a good idea to set a PIN
19:06:50 and then forget it, because again, that also presents…
19:06:54 Anybody who comes into your husband's room,
19:06:57 accidentally doing something.
19:06:59 Yeah, okay.
19:06:59 And, uh, and Alexa is good for things like asking, you know, what the weather's going to be, what the time is in Tokyo, and all kinds of…
19:07:08 It does useful things, too.
19:07:08 Yeah.
19:07:10 Yeah, thank you.
19:07:14 Okay, it's past 7 o'clock, and…
19:07:18 Um… I will ask, is… I see our treasurer. Is our president anywhere?
19:07:24 Yeah, um, the president is out of town right now, I'm sorry.
19:07:30 And she cannot join, either. So, yeah, she's…
19:07:35 of today.
19:07:37 And I have a little report, but not very much. Our balance right now is, uh, $2,041.47.
19:07:48 And… but that's before I have paid you. So, it's probably gonna be about 300…
19:07:55 almost $350 less, and I'll send you the cheque.
19:07:59 Okay, thank you.
19:08:01 Yeah, no problem.
19:08:03 So…
19:08:05 Yes.
19:08:05 And actually, deduce would be…
19:08:09 do again for 2026.
19:08:12 The…
19:08:14 what was it, $25?
19:08:16 I think it's… I think it's 24…
19:08:16 Yeah.
19:08:19 24, I'm sorry, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's 24.
19:08:22 Uh, for the year.
19:08:26 And the address is on the join page of our website.
19:08:29 If you scroll down to the bottom, it says, uh…
19:08:32 Um, straight Macintosh user group, and it gives the address.
19:08:36 Oh, okay, great. Yeah, it's 325 East Washington Street, number 146.
19:08:44 And SQUIM98382.
19:08:48 Um, and yes, it is true that I am the biggest expense of the, um…
19:08:54 organization.
19:08:56 I…
19:08:59 Yeah.
19:08:56 Well, you can explain better what the money goes out for. I know it's, uh, for WordPress, so…
19:09:03 Yeah, the, uh, our website, we…
19:09:05 worth it for every penny.
19:09:07 Our website is, um…
19:09:10 done in a content pet management system called WordPress.
19:09:13 And because it's slightly more expensive, but it's easiest for us to…
19:09:19 Hosted on WordPress's own servers.
19:09:23 Because at that point, nobody really has to know anything about computers in order to use the WordPress site.
19:09:28 You have to know how to use WordPress, but that's a…
19:09:31 That's about it. We play for WordPress, we pay for the rental, we're renting space on the server.
19:09:37 We're renting the name Straight Mac.org,
19:09:41 we actually have to pay a company
19:09:44 to provide the service that links the computers together.
19:09:48 So we rent that, and we also rent some pieces of software to do backups and…
19:09:53 And, um, run the discussion board.
19:09:57 and things like that. So, I am the biggest expense, I will.
19:10:02 Readily acknowledge that.
19:10:04 Um, speaking of…
19:10:07 expenses.
19:10:09 Um, I would like us to have an in-person meeting, but because of
19:10:14 things that I'm doing personally,
19:10:16 Other than running the user group, I really probably won't have any time until…
19:10:21 possibly… May.
19:10:25 Um, or June.
19:10:28 Um, if the library is not open by that time, I was planning on using, um, my church.
19:10:34 as a, uh, a meeting place.
19:10:37 And I need a topic for us to talk about when we get there, but one other thing that we could do at the same time
19:10:44 is basically have a, um…
19:10:49 Um, it's not really a garage sale.
19:10:51 an exchange. I can bring some equipment…
19:10:53 that I don't need anymore, that people might find of value and…
19:10:57 The other people could do that as well, but right now it's looking like that probably won't happen until…
19:11:04 June, or something like that.
19:11:06 And it would probably be held on a Saturday.
19:11:10 Because while there are people who…
19:11:14 Um, do all kinds of interesting things on Saturday. There are also people who have to work,
19:11:19 They don't want to drive, and we probably wouldn't want to do it at night, so we want to do it during the daytime.
19:11:24 And that, for a church in particular, that means Saturday.
19:11:28 Um, so I am… I have given that some thought.
19:11:32 Um…
19:11:34 Uh, any questions before I go on to the presentation?
19:11:41 Okay? I'm going to share my screen.
19:11:46 I hope.
19:11:51 Oh, really?
19:11:54 Um…
19:11:58 And… you should be seeing a PowerPoint slide.
19:12:04 I hope. It's not… sorry, it's not PowerPoint, it's, um…
19:12:09 keynote. Is that what you see?
19:12:13 Okay.
19:12:12 Yes, you see iPhone literacy.
19:12:15 All right, I'm going to start this up.
19:12:21 Um…
19:12:23 I'm saying it's part one of maybe more parts, because it's a complicated…
19:12:28 what an iPhone can do is actually fairly complicated.
19:12:31 An iPhone is basically a Unix computer that you put in your pocket, and the first Unix computers cost millions of dollars.
19:12:39 And our…
19:12:42 millions of times slower than an iPhone.
19:12:44 Uh, but what an iPhone can do is a lot.
19:12:47 So, um, uh, first thing I'm going to do is point out some references.
19:12:51 On your iPhone is an application called TIPS.
19:12:56 And if you've never seen it, just tell… go down to the search bar and type in tips.
19:13:01 And it'll pop up. It's basically an encyclopedia
19:13:05 of what, uh, your iPhone can do, and there's a…
19:13:09 screenshot of the types of… way that it's set up and the different…
19:13:14 topics that you can have, and that's just the first page. There's a…
19:13:17 There's another page, the second page over here. This is all out of, uh, tips.
19:13:22 So it's not only how to use the iPhone itself, but also how to use it with Apple
19:13:26 TV and AirPods and all kinds of different things.
19:13:30 And TIPS is available on the iPhone,
19:13:34 the iPad and the Mac, they have slightly different content.
19:13:38 But a lot of the things they have in, uh, are in common.
19:13:42 And you'll notice that there's a search bar on every page, so if you don't see what you're looking…
19:13:47 If you don't immediately see it, then you type something into the search bar, and it'll go find it.
19:13:52 And this is on your iPhone, unless you have a really old iPhone.
19:13:56 Uh, but it's been on the iPhone for…
19:14:01 Oh, 5 or 6 years at least.
19:14:04 Another reference that I can endorse is the iPhone and iPad Basics
19:14:11 book by, uh, Take Control.
19:14:13 books. It's an electronic book, so you go to their site, and you buy it, and you can download it and start using it immediately.
19:14:20 It's in iBook format.
19:14:23 Uh, which is called an EPUB.
19:14:25 Um, and EPUBs can be read by books on your…
19:14:31 iPhone, your iPad, or your Mac.
19:14:33 And it's because it's electronic, it's searchable, so you can do the same thing, just
19:14:38 Type in what you want and go find that particular page.
19:14:41 I think this is $15, the, uh…
19:14:44 TIPS is free, because it's on your iPhone already.
19:14:50 One of the first things you should note about your iPhone is who you are.
19:14:55 And now that might seem kind of self-evident, but it's important.
19:15:01 to, right from the start, keep this in mind.
19:15:03 Because your iPhone has all kinds of personal information on it.
19:15:08 Uh, you've got names and phone numbers and who your contacts are, and who you called, and who called you, and…
19:15:14 Personal health records and…
19:15:17 thousands of photographs, all kinds of stuff.
19:15:20 And on the About page…
19:15:22 you will find that it says things about you, such as your name.
19:15:27 And that's the first thing you should go to. Go to…
19:15:30 Settings, General, About.
19:15:32 And right at the top, it'll have probably something that says something like, John's iPhone.
19:15:38 You can edit that immediately. Just click in there and name it anything you want,
19:15:42 That is not your name or something associated, so don't…
19:15:47 Don't name it after your, uh…
19:15:49 your, uh, favorite pet, or the street that you live on, or something like that.
19:15:54 just pick a word or a phrase or something and stick it in there. The reason for this is that your iPhone
19:16:01 has lots of radios in it, and some of those radios will say what it is. They'll say that it's an iPhone,
19:16:08 And some of them might even say what the iPhone's name is. So if the iPhone is telling people,
19:16:14 that this is John's iPhone, then it kind of narrows down
19:16:19 who it is that they're, uh…
19:16:21 who's in the area, that John is in the area, and you may not want to know that. Uh, so go in there, and the first thing you should do is change that. It doesn't change how the…
19:16:31 phone works, it just makes it a little bit harder for people to
19:16:35 to, uh, people you don't want, uh, involved to come in and, uh…
19:16:41 And, um, bother you. It also tells you the model number.
19:16:46 And the model name. Like, the model name might be iPhone 16…
19:16:51 Um, but it'll have a model number,
19:16:54 And the model number will tell if you're having… trying to do troubleshooting. It'll tell somebody on the other end,
19:17:00 It's an iPhone 16 Pro Max.
19:17:04 that it's got 256 gigs of, uh, of, uh…
19:17:09 of, um, storage, and it'll tell them more things about it.
19:17:13 So that's worth knowing, and the way to get there is to go to Settings,
19:17:18 General and About, and if you go to About, and it's got your name,
19:17:21 I rec… I recommend that you change that, too.
19:17:25 something else.
19:17:27 I'm sorry, I have hiccups.
19:17:31 You can also use that same area to check on how many songs you have on your phone,
19:17:37 Uh, how many videos, uh, the total capacity of your phone, how much you're actually using.
19:17:42 And it has a bunch of identifying information called EID…
19:17:47 I-M-E-I-I-C-C-I-D,
19:17:50 And in my example, which is taken from my phone, I've blotted these out because, among other things, it would allow people to track your phone.
19:17:58 Uh, it's very specific.
19:18:00 your… these things are unique on your phone.
19:18:05 The reason why they're unique on your phone is when you make a phone call,
19:18:09 And you're trying to reach somebody else,
19:18:11 You want to make sure that only that phone number rings.
19:18:15 And rather than trying… have you memorize this really complicated
19:18:19 Uh, so there's a series of letters and numbers.
19:18:22 It, uh, abbreviates that into a phone number.
19:18:25 And the phone numbers can change and be moved, and all kinds of things.
19:18:29 But that, uh, uh, IMEI is on your phone and nowhere else.
19:18:34 Um, and I've masked them off because this is taken from my iPhone, and I don't really want to tell the entire world that.
19:18:42 Another thing that you should immediately pay attention to is Find My.
19:18:48 Find My allows you to find your phone.
19:18:51 And why is that important? Well, your phone
19:18:54 Uh, say you get your phone for $1,000.
19:18:58 Is that the cost of your phone? And the answer is no, that's not the cost of your phone. If you…
19:19:03 by your phone, you also have a phone plan attached to that.
19:19:07 Even if it's something that you…
19:19:11 buy independently, buy an unlocked phone, you're still going to be paying
19:19:14 probably another $1,000 to $2,000 over the course of a couple years
19:19:19 for that phone plan, so the cost of your phone is really the cost of the…
19:19:23 phone, plus the cost of your phone plan.
19:19:26 It makes it valuable, and it's got valuable information on it.
19:19:30 Find My allows you to find your phone.
19:19:33 So, if you have a Mac or an iPad, you can use Find My on the Mac or iPad.
19:19:38 to find your phone. And among other things, if you turn on, uh, Find My Phone,
19:19:43 you can even use your iPad to go wander around the house and find it, and it'll actually
19:19:50 point arrows in the direction where the phone is located, in case you left it in…
19:19:54 Your car, or in the closet, or wherever it is.
19:19:57 Um, the other thing that it's useful for is you can share that location
19:20:03 with your loved ones. So, for example,
19:20:06 Um, um, my late spouse, I knew where she was from just going to find Mike and find out that she was at church, or she was…
19:20:16 doing something else. But if she was at… if she was in a meeting, I wouldn't call her and interrupt her. But if she was at, uh…
19:20:24 Costco or Home Depot, I knew that she was probably free to take a phone call.
19:20:30 And I also use this with my daughter in England.
19:20:33 If I see that she's at home, and it's not midnight there, I know that I can call her, whereas if she's at work, I probably shouldn't.
19:20:41 So it's useful for, uh, finding your lost phone, reaching your loved ones, but it's also useful for, uh, use in emergencies.
19:20:50 Uh, if you're… if you have one of the more modern iPhones, it's got a crash detector on it.
19:20:55 And if you're in a crash,
19:20:57 Um, it will, um…
19:21:00 it will, uh…
19:21:02 send out a message on 9-11.
19:21:06 And it doesn't even require your assistance, it'll just send it.
19:21:10 Um, which is, um, nice to have. Many, many lives have been sought, uh…
19:21:15 Save because of that feature.
19:21:17 And if you don't have, uh, Find My turned on, you, uh, you should.
19:21:21 And it's, again, under Settings, and Apple Account is that part at the top.
19:21:26 Where it's got your photograph or your image, or something like that. That's the Apple account.
19:21:32 portion, you click on that, and you can go in and set IP, uh…
19:21:36 find my… turn it on.
19:21:40 Um, you also want to protect your phone from bad things, and the easiest way to do that is to turn on updates.
19:21:49 Um, you heard in the question and answer session that somebody
19:21:52 had not turned on an update to the new operating system because of rumors that there were
19:21:57 that it had bugs. That's really not a good idea, because every time Apple
19:22:02 issues an update, it tells you what they patched.
19:22:06 And by telling you what they patched, it also tells hackers what is vulnerable on older machines.
19:22:14 So they immediately, for people who have older operating systems, start attacking those machines.
19:22:19 So, you always want to turn on the updates.
19:22:22 And you find that under Settings, General Software Update, you want it
19:22:27 turn automatic updates on.
19:22:29 There's a thing down below that that says Beta Updates, and mine is off, and yours should be off.
19:22:35 Because, uh, if you don't know Greek, Greek is the, uh…
19:22:40 Um, beta is a Greek word, and it means it does not work.
19:22:43 Beta software is called beta software because the…
19:22:46 Publisher of the software sends it out to a bunch of people,
19:22:50 And says, tell us what doesn't work.
19:22:52 Which means that at the time they send it out, they know that there are things that don't work.
19:22:58 You should also manage storage.
19:23:01 on your machine. You cannot
19:23:04 add memory to an iPhone.
19:23:06 When you buy it, it's… it's…
19:23:09 it's a whole thing. You can't add anything to it.
19:23:13 So, you always want to make sure that you buy more than the minimum that you need to use.
19:23:18 Because things like photographs in particular, take up a lot of room.
19:23:22 You can store entire movies on the phone, so you can watch them during flights and such.
19:23:27 And a movie could be
19:23:29 4GB worth of, uh, of storage. And music, and email messages, and attachments, and all kinds of stuff can use up room.
19:23:37 So you always buy more than you want.
19:23:40 You'll notice that in my image here,
19:23:44 Prince of Persia, which is a game all by itself is 3 gigabytes, that one game.
19:23:49 And, um, this is a screenshot from my phone.
19:23:53 I've never played Prince of Persia. It was downloaded because somebody…
19:23:57 said that they wanted… they thought it was a really good simulation,
19:24:01 And, uh, they wanted me to download it, so I downloaded it, and then I really just haven't got around to playing around with it.
19:24:08 But, um, um…
19:24:10 You always want to manage your storage and make sure that you have enough.
19:24:13 And you can review, there's a section here that says Review Large Attachments.
19:24:18 So we'll go through your email and look for things of a certain size that allows you to delete them out of, uh…
19:24:25 Out of your email messages and out of, uh…
19:24:31 photographs that are… that you don't really need, that are taking up a lot of space.
19:24:36 It'll allow you to do that. That's not the best way to do it, but you can do that.
19:24:43 Um, next thing, before I get too involved with this, I want to ask, are there any questions about
19:24:49 anything I've said.
19:24:53 Um, I… I… this is Sidna.
19:24:56 Um, I can't find Find My iPhone.
19:24:59 you…
19:25:00 in settings,
19:25:01 It's not in settings, but you can… you can do… you can find it two ways. You can, one…
19:25:06 is you can go to the search bar down at the bottom and type in
19:25:10 Find mine. It'll tell you where it's located. But the other thing is that just go to the About screen,
19:25:17 And at the top of the About screen,
19:25:19 is, uh, your photo or something that says that it's Sidna's account.
19:25:24 Oh, I changed that, so it doesn't…
19:25:25 Yes, but that same screen should have Find My on it. You might have to scroll.
19:25:32 Okay, not seeing it.
19:25:35 Alright.
19:25:36 Let me go back here.
19:25:40 Yeah, the… uh… yeah, you have to… you have to scroll off this, uh, screen.
19:25:46 So you click on, uh…
19:25:49 Um, the, um…
19:25:52 Hmm. Okay.
19:25:53 the ID…
19:25:54 And, uh…
19:25:56 it'll, uh… it'll lead you to, uh, find my…
19:26:01 Or I'd type that in there.
19:26:10 If you're not finding it, we can go back and take a look later.
19:26:13 Okay.
19:26:14 Um, in addition to protecting the machine, you also need to protect yourself.
19:26:19 And, uh, the most obvious way to do this is with passwords, but on your iPhone,
19:26:26 You might have other options, depending upon what kind of iPhone you have. Some of them have, uh, Touch ID,
19:26:32 Where you can use your fingerprint. Some of them have Face ID, where you use your face.
19:26:38 If you have those capabilities,
19:26:41 absolutely turn those on.
19:26:43 But you should also set a pin.
19:26:47 Um, I was surprised at the number of people who have no password protection on their…
19:26:51 phone at all. And so they're taking a really expensive device with all kinds of personal information,
19:26:57 And they have no kind of protection whatsoever, so anyone
19:27:00 could just take it away from them and then start using it.
19:27:03 and run up their phone bill. Um, so you should make sure that you have a PIN set.
19:27:07 And you have a choice of either a 4-digit or a 6-digit. I'd always recommend
19:27:14 a six-digit, and the sixth digit should be something that…
19:27:17 is easy for you to remember, so you don't have to, uh…
19:27:20 to, uh, um…
19:27:23 fumble around trying to do it.
19:27:25 And one way to do this as an example is, uh, find the zip code of wherever you were born,
19:27:30 and add an extra digit. So, that'll give you 6 digits, and it's something that
19:27:36 Um, if you don't know the zip code of where you're born, it's easy enough to look up. Uh, after entering it a few times, you'll definitely remember it.
19:27:45 But you should set the pin because it's a backup for your Face ID.
19:27:49 If your Face ID is not working because of…
19:27:52 for light or a bunch of other things.
19:27:54 you can still type in the PIN. And there are times…
19:27:57 When your phone will insist you type in the PIN
19:28:00 Even though you know Face ID is working, because…
19:28:03 if you have it in your pocket or your purse,
19:28:06 things bump into it, and it thinks people's trying to break into it, so it wants your pinned to make sure that it's you.
19:28:11 Uh, so, set a pin and use Face ID, or use the fingerprint, uh, Touch ID,
19:28:18 Uh, because, among other things, you will need it…
19:28:21 to do things like unlock the phone, add things to your phone from the iTunes and the App Store, do payments,
19:28:30 have password autofill.
19:28:32 You notice that on this particular phone, all those things are turned on, so if you want to do
19:28:38 Any of those things, you need either Face ID or a passcode.
19:28:42 There is an op… there's a… you can set up an alternate appearance, so, for example, if you're afraid that it won't…
19:28:50 recognize you with and without glasses, you can do that.
19:28:53 You can also set a Face ID with a mask.
19:28:56 Now, you might think this was put on there for the pandemic, and that's true.
19:29:00 But it's also useful in the wintertime, when you might have a muff around your face,
19:29:04 And you don't want to take the muff off of your face in order to…
19:29:08 open up your phone. So, um, give it a chance with this Face ID with mask.
19:29:15 as a clue when it's doing the look at your face, it's looking mostly around your eyes, because that's a very distinctive part of the face.
19:29:26 your eyes and the shape of your nose.
19:29:28 And how it does this, if you have a… if you have a phone that's got a black bar at the top,
19:29:34 That black bar actually holds a whole bunch of…
19:29:37 infrared emitters, and what they do is they shine a whole bunch of invisible light at your face,
19:29:43 And depending upon how rapidly it comes back to the phone, they can tell the shape of your face. So it's looking at the shape of your face,
19:29:50 As well as, uh, particularly the, uh, look of your eyes.
19:29:54 is how, uh, Face ID works.
19:29:58 Um…
19:30:01 Passwords in part two. Mac OS, iOS, and iPadOS all come with a password manager called
19:30:09 Passwords. And they will sync
19:30:12 back and forth to each other using iCloud. So, if you set up
19:30:17 passwords to use iCloud, which you should.
19:30:21 If you enter a password on your phone, your Mac will know it. If you enter a password on your…
19:30:26 Mac, your phone will know it. And that's rarely useful when you're doing things like
19:30:32 you're going onto your bank account, and you want to know
19:30:35 what your balance is, and you're not at home, and you want to look at it someplace.
19:30:39 You can use your phone to do that, and even if you've never done it before, the password will be on your phone.
19:30:45 And it's also useful for things like Wi-Fi.
19:30:49 I'll give you… I'll give you an example on the next page, but it'll remember…
19:30:54 that the Wi-Fi access in a particular place, it knows what that word is.
19:30:59 And then if you bring another device, like you went there with an iPad,
19:31:03 And you show up with a MacBook one day, that MacBook will also know that password because they're shared back and forth via iCloud.
19:31:11 Uh, using the Passwords app. Uh, there's also a really good commercial app called, um,
19:31:18 1Password, which does a few more things than, uh…
19:31:22 Apple's password, but it costs… it's a subscription thing, it costs money. I'm not denigrating it, I'm just
19:31:28 Saying, yes, it does more, but it also costs money.
19:31:32 Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Google,
19:31:36 All of these also save passwords, and there are also things called authenticators,
19:31:42 that, uh, uh, basically authenticate that are you,
19:31:48 And those things can also store useful information.
19:31:52 So, you really should use a password manager.
19:31:56 Because you should never, ever use…
19:31:59 a password for more than one.
19:32:03 website, or application, or anything of that sort. Never repeat a password. I'll give you an example.
19:32:10 There's a business downtown where the owner used the same password for his phone.
19:32:17 And for his, uh…
19:32:19 computer that he used to run his business.
19:32:22 And, uh, used it on a bunch of other things. And he entered into a free drawing that he found online.
19:32:30 And this free drawing was for, I don't know, a boat or something. Well, the free drawing was actually a scam, and what they were doing is they were collecting people's
19:32:37 email address, and then password.
19:32:40 Since this business owner used the same
19:32:43 email ID and password for everything.
19:32:46 The hackers then just went through and found
19:32:49 banks that had that email and password ID and drained his account.
19:32:54 So you never, ever, ever want to use the same password for more than one thing.
19:33:01 And the best way to keep track of that is with a password manager. Password managers, among other things,
19:33:07 sort them in alphabetical order, and they've got a little find thing where you can go find things.
19:33:12 Um, it's much better than lead…
19:33:15 putting them on a sheet of paper. This, um…
19:33:18 Back in the ancient days, they used to have these things called typing L's on desks.
19:33:23 And a typing L was a flat…
19:33:25 metal panel that came out that you could put a typewriter on.
19:33:28 And if you weren't using the typewriter, you could then shove it back into
19:33:31 The desk, well, people don't use them for typewriters anymore, and I was appalled to find out that one of my, uh…
19:33:37 Coworkers had all of their passwords on their password now.
19:33:41 And, uh, so I pulled it out one day, and…
19:33:45 I was absolutely horrified.
19:33:47 And so I did what any good computer security manager was. I took a photograph
19:33:52 of that, and I emailed it to them. And they were appropriately horrified.
19:33:57 So you want to protect yourself from people like me.
19:34:02 Oh, by the way, this is a screenshot of things on my…
19:34:06 phone that I'm allowing to autofill passwords. Uh, the password manager, yes, I'm allowing it to do that, but I don't let any of my browsers do that.
19:34:17 Anyone have an idea why?
19:34:24 No ideas why?
19:34:29 I don't allow browsers to fill in passwords because when I go to my bank,
19:34:34 I wanted to make sure that I really want to log into that bank.
19:34:37 I don't want the browser to assume something.
19:34:40 and log in. I want that to be a deliberate…
19:34:44 act on my part, so…
19:34:46 Yes, I'm… I'm exceptionally paranoid, and I don't let the browsers log me into websites.
19:34:53 Um, because that's just me.
19:34:56 More on passwords. Yes?
19:34:57 Would you…
19:34:58 Would you speak to, um…
19:35:02 your preferences or your thoughts about password managers.
19:35:08 Um…
19:35:06 In general, those that we can, um…
19:35:10 contract with.
19:35:13 I would… I highly recommend, if you have an iPhone, to use the passwords…
19:35:18 app that comes with it. It's very easy to use, it's not the least bit complicated.
19:35:23 Um, it can't do as much as 1Password.
19:35:27 But 1Password is something like, I don't know, 70 bucks a year?
19:35:31 So, it costs more money.
19:35:33 But, uh, 1Password can also do things like
19:35:37 It can remember PIN numbers for banks and things that are not passwords. It can remember those.
19:35:43 Um, uh, so, uh, you can have encrypted notes and things with one password.
19:35:49 But it offers, uh, it's…
19:35:52 it's not as… it's not as easy to use and elegant as passwords, and passwords you don't have to
19:35:58 You don't have to spend money on it. And if you have both, uh,
19:36:02 and you have, uh…
19:36:04 iPhone, then they can share passwords back and forth between them through iCloud.
19:36:10 So, um, I would highly recommend passwords if you have an iPhone.
19:36:16 But if you have multiple different things, including Windows machines, 1Password looks more interesting.
19:36:29 I'm not going to answer that. Um…
19:36:33 If you have something like a Windows machine, 1Password might be more…
19:36:37 I'm attracting because 1Password works on both Macs and…
19:36:42 iPhone. The downside is you have to pay
19:36:46 for a separate version for the iPhone.
19:36:50 than for the windows. It's not… it's not one-size-fits-all. You have to…
19:36:54 pay for each copy. Um, but I highly recommend passwords apps.
19:36:58 And if you notice, this is a screenshot of the opening screen of my passwords.
19:37:03 I have 707 passwords.
19:37:05 I have 13 pass keys, which…
19:37:08 I don't want to explain right now, it's a much… it's a more secure way of doing this.
19:37:12 I have zero codes.
19:37:14 I have 46 Wi-Fi passwords.
19:37:17 Most of these were collected by my phone.
19:37:20 Um, and I have 214 security alerts.
19:37:23 And I'm going to mention the security alerts. You can get a security alerts because…
19:37:28 You have an account on a site that was hacked.
19:37:31 Um, that's one way to get a security alert. You can also get a security alert if you reuse passwords. Now,
19:37:39 Passwords doesn't actually send these passwords up to Apple. It compares it right on your phone.
19:37:44 And it goes through and says, ah, you use this for both
19:37:49 Um, uh, the Bear Diner, whatever that restaurant is that…
19:37:54 Uh, East Swim.
19:37:55 Um, and you also used it at Home Depot.
19:37:58 And you shouldn't do that. So it'll flag that as a security concern.
19:38:02 Um, and those are things that you should pay attention to. The reason there are 214
19:38:07 is because of some things that I do.
19:38:10 Among other things, I do…
19:38:12 past… I do security checks.
19:38:14 Um, and, um…
19:38:18 That's… that's from, um, passwords that's on your phone now. If you do not have a passwords app on your phone,
19:38:26 It means that you're using an older version of, uh…
19:38:29 the iOS operating system, but…
19:38:32 current version has the Passwords app on it.
19:38:35 And it first came out on the iPhone, in fact, and then…
19:38:38 Recently, it moved to the Mac.
19:38:42 Any questions on that?
19:38:47 Ken or Kenneth James?
19:38:51 I will talk to him later.
19:38:56 Something else you need to pay attention to, um…
19:39:00 The average age of the person in our user group is not young.
19:39:05 Um, and looking into the display settings, if you think that the text is too small,
19:39:11 or the screen is too bright, you can go to Settings Display, and you can change it.
19:39:16 Uh, from a light theme to a dark theme.
19:39:20 I usually have mine set at the light theme during the day, and the dark theme at night.
19:39:25 Um, because they don't like the glaring white light coming up at me.
19:39:29 Um, you can have it change the scene at, uh…
19:39:34 The theme at sunset, and how does it know sunset? It knows what your latitude and your longitude is, and it knows what…
19:39:41 time it is, so it's got a good idea of when sunset is.
19:39:44 If you don't like the liquid glass interface that Apple has, you can make some changes to it.
19:39:49 Um, the primary one to pay attention to, though, is the text size,
19:39:54 And whether or not you want it to be bold text.
19:39:57 Um, a lot of people, they just see bold text with more ease.
19:40:03 You can do all kinds of, uh, different kinds of settings just in the display.
19:40:08 This true tone has to do with…
19:40:11 how much, uh, blue light you have.
19:40:15 LEDs are famous for emitting more blue light than the sun does.
19:40:20 The sun has a slightly more yellow light.
19:40:22 And the True Tone sets it so that
19:40:25 It's more… it has less blue and more yellow.
19:40:30 Um, and it looks better on things like skin tones, so…
19:40:33 That's what two-tone is. A true tone is.
19:40:39 related to accessibility, the display, is the accessibility settings, which is under settings, accessibility,
19:40:46 You can have the phone speak to you, so when you…
19:40:49 you click on something, it'll actually speak the text to you.
19:40:52 You can have the Zoom text to make it larger, you can change the size of text in something other than the main display.
19:40:59 You can set it to control things by your voice,
19:41:02 Where you can actually say, um, do this, that, and the other thing. I can act… you… all of us can do this if you turn on Siri.
19:41:11 You can have Siri,
19:41:13 dial a phone number. The trouble is, you have to have something that's very…
19:41:18 specific. So, for example, I could have it…
19:41:21 dial my late spouse's phone number, because she was in my VIP list, and she was the only one there.
19:41:27 named Kathleen. So I can say,
19:41:30 call Kathleen, and my phone
19:41:32 would call Kathleen without me even touching the phone.
19:41:36 Um, so that's a… that's a useful…
19:41:41 Sari in another room, stuck.
19:41:46 Or, press 1 for more options.
19:41:52 Anyway, um…
19:41:55 There are a lot of things you can do. Among other things, you can control it with your voice.
19:41:58 So there are a lot of accessibility options,
19:42:01 It goes on for actually a couple pages.
19:42:04 Maybe more than a couple pages.
19:42:08 This is something that a lot of people don't think about, but you should… you can set the dictionaries that iPhone uses.
19:42:15 Uh, I have a mindset to the…
19:42:18 English, US, the English UK,
19:42:22 The French to the English, the German to English, the Japanese to English are all selected on my phones.
19:42:27 Because of various things that I do. My daughter lives in England,
19:42:31 And she sends a lot of things to me with British spellings.
19:42:35 Um, I use the English spelling myself.
19:42:37 Where is this used? It's used in spell checking and autocorrect and all kinds of other things.
19:42:42 If you don't set it, it's going to be set to English US.
19:42:47 But you can add other things to it.
19:42:50 Um, and I do that because I'm, among other things, I got really tired of the way there was misspellings and…
19:42:56 German words, and it's much better about that now.
19:42:59 But you can set that in Settings General Dictionary.
19:43:05 I'm going to now mention something that's one of the most controversial parts, which is artificial intelligence. A lot of people, because of news stories,
19:43:13 are very afraid of artificial intelligence.
19:43:16 And I'm not afraid of artificial intelligence, but I do see that it can do a lot of harm.
19:43:21 Um, the Apple intelligence is unique
19:43:25 Inasmuch as Apple has deliberately restricted what their
19:43:29 artificial intelligence can do.
19:43:33 your iPhone tries to do as much as it can…
19:43:36 on the phone, and they have a whole bunch of what are called, uh…
19:43:41 logic, uh…
19:43:42 processors that do things like parse the things that you are saying so it knows
19:43:47 But it is, you're asking for, and if it can do that…
19:43:51 Without talking to anybody else, it will.
19:43:54 If it does something that you… that it needs to go out and ask
19:43:59 more information elsewhere, it sends an encrypted message that sends a token
19:44:04 It doesn't identify what it is you're… who asked for it, it just knows what was being asked. So, for example…
19:44:10 If you want to know what the weather is like in Bonn, Germany,
19:44:14 It would send a token to Apple, Apple would find out what it is, send the answer back.
19:44:19 And give you the result. But nobody else would know that you asked that, because it's… it sends an encrypted token,
19:44:27 With no identifying information from you.
19:44:29 So it tries to do as much as it can on your machine, and if you ask for things like…
19:44:35 calling your spouse, it can do that. If you ask for
19:44:39 the current temperature, it knows where you are, and it can figure out what the current temperature is.
19:44:45 doesn't really need to go out and do a lot of things.
19:44:48 for what you're…
19:44:54 with the message, press 1. To listen to your message, press 2.
19:44:59 Please record, press 3.
19:44:59 I do not know what that is.
19:45:02 Um…
19:45:11 record, press 3.
19:45:14 I do not know what it's doing.
19:45:17 So I hope he gives up.
19:45:24 Records, press 3.
19:45:25 Um, I'm gonna go back there.
19:45:27 You can use this, um, um, among other things,
19:45:35 Um, you can change the voice that it's using for Apple Intelligence. And mine is a woman's Irish voice, because I just like it.
19:45:44 And I like the way it mispronounces the word squim.
19:45:47 Um, you can have it…
19:45:50 you can use artificial intelligence to dictate messages, to dictate email,
19:45:55 to do a lot of things. Um, I use it when I'm…
19:46:00 navigating, I'd say,
19:46:02 Um, um, show me the directions to the…
19:46:06 Chipotles and, um…
19:46:09 Port Angeles, and it'll…
19:46:11 bring up a map and…
19:46:13 plot me, of course, and I can do this without
19:46:16 taking my hands off the wheel. So, it is… it is a useful…
19:46:20 set of things you can do. But you can go through the Apple intelligence to tell it what it is that you
19:46:26 wanted to do, and what you don't want it to do.
19:46:29 And other applications can also use Apple Intelligence, and you can turn them
19:46:34 That was on or off as you please.
19:46:36 As a general guideline,
19:46:39 Don't allow…
19:46:42 applications to use contacts, or Siri, or Apple Intelligence, unless you think it makes sense.
19:46:49 You will see a lot of games want access to your contact list.
19:46:53 And your game should not have access to people's addresses.
19:46:58 Um, it just shouldn't.
19:46:59 Why do they want that? They want that so they can sell advertising, and that's not…
19:47:03 While you're playing the game, so just don't let it do that.
19:47:07 Any questions about that?
19:47:13 Okay.
19:47:13 Okay, looking forward to it.
19:47:15 I'm sorry?
19:47:21 Um, the camera. There are a staggering number of things to talk about the camera.
19:47:26 And I'm going to skip this entire, and we can do this at some other time, because…
19:47:31 It's really a universe unto itself. These are just the screens for all the different things you can set the camera for.
19:47:38 And, um, that's a lot.
19:47:42 So, we're gonna skip that.
19:47:44 Uh, I'm going to demonstrate something else, though.
19:47:47 I'm going to, uh, get out of my…
19:47:51 slideshow, and bring up…
19:48:00 a, um…
19:48:01 a movie that I made.
19:48:06 Holy crap.
19:48:07 I'm sorry?
19:48:08 That's 3 crabs, isn't it?
19:48:10 Yes, that's 3 crabs. That's not the… that's not the demo part, though.
19:48:13 The demo part. I want to show you that your Apple Photos…
19:48:18 is really good at organizing things, and you have Apple Photos on your phone as well, but I did this demo…
19:48:25 on my Mac, because
19:48:27 It's got more space. But you can… I can…
19:48:30 going to fire it up here, and for collections, you can put things into collections, and it puts them together, and…
19:48:36 does nice things. You can have favorites.
19:48:39 You can have recently saved,
19:48:41 You can have MAP. Well, this map shows where photographs were taken.
19:48:45 How does it know where they're taken? Because the Apple… the iPhone knows where it was when it took a photograph.
19:48:53 you can have videos, and videos, among other things, you can have videos that have…
19:48:58 slow motion. Now, you'll see it slows down here…
19:49:02 And that was done with the slow motion setting on the camera.
19:49:05 And here we are… have it sped up because it's a time lapse.
19:49:09 And you never want to be in a merry-go-round going that fast.
19:49:12 And here we have some windmills in eastern Washington that are going at really
19:49:17 fast speed, so this actually helps speed the Earth up by making them go that fast.
19:49:23 Uh, that's it. That's a joke, that's a joke.
19:49:25 Here we have the, um, Northern Lights, uh, time lapse of the Northern Lights that I took.
19:49:30 Last year? The last year.
19:49:32 Yeah.
19:49:34 So, those are… that… but…
19:49:38 you're, uh…
19:49:39 iPhone automatically characterizes things and puts them in these spaces.
19:49:44 How does it know what a Screenshot is?
19:49:47 It knows that because you click two buttons and it saves it in a certain format.
19:49:51 This, by the way, is the punctuation out of a…
19:49:53 something I wrote. So it got rid of the text and just had the punctuation. Don't ask why I did that.
19:49:59 Um, there was a reason.
19:50:01 Um, I was trying to show somebody how to do secret messages. It's not showing people in pets because I didn't specify people in pets, so I didn't have them.
19:50:09 here, you're showing the videos again.
19:50:11 Selfies, how does it know selfie? It's using the front camera, so it knows it's a selfie. I use it for taking, um…
19:50:17 pictures of roofs in European buildings, cathedrals, and…
19:50:21 This is York Cathedral, for example.
19:50:24 This is the underside of my table. I didn't want to crawl around on the floor to find out what it was, so I just…
19:50:29 took a selfie of the floor. This is a diving bell in Dublin.
19:50:33 Uh, the next thing it's going to show is a conference center in Dublin, shooting straight up.
19:50:38 So, selfies can be used for things… that's as a dinosaur in Denver.
19:50:42 They can be used for things other than taking pictures of yourself.
19:50:47 Live photos, all those live photos were taken by mistake, and these portraits were also taken by mistake.
19:50:52 These are panoramas.
19:50:55 Panoramas can be vertical. I wanted a long picture of this…
19:50:58 Totem pole, and so I made a panorama.
19:51:00 It defines a panorama as something that has an extra long…
19:51:04 width, so it can be almost anything. It can be the ocean,
19:51:09 Um, this is taken up from, uh…
19:51:13 park here. And this next one's going to be a meteor crater in Arizona.
19:51:19 that I'd always wanted to visit.
19:51:21 time lapse, the same thing. It knows that these are time lapses. All this organization was done by
19:51:28 photos. I didn't do any of this organization.
19:51:31 And that's what I want to show you, that
19:51:33 Photos can do this, and photos can do this on your phone as well.
19:51:38 You don't have to go to any great effort. A lot of people say, I can't figure out how to organize my photos.
19:51:45 Uh, Photos is doing a really good job already.
19:51:50 This is a stupid ad for, uh, something that doesn't exist.
19:51:54 This is a visual pun. Tinkerball, where it's knocking a ferry back and forth across a net.
19:52:00 That was all done with, um, uh…
19:52:03 emojis. Here's a misspelling that I thought was funny. It's out of a…
19:52:08 news story.
19:52:10 Um, and again, back to…
19:52:12 This was something my daughter sent to me.
19:52:17 I'm amazed it went through the mail.
19:52:22 Here's… this is a screen recording. I had my iPad…
19:52:25 record its own screen of me playing a game.
19:52:30 This is a spatial photo that I did by mistake.
19:52:33 Here you see a cat playing with an iPhone.
19:52:38 Uh, raw photos, I should almost everything in RAW.
19:52:41 This is a ProRes, which is a very high professional, uh…
19:52:46 recording for video, and that is just absolutely fascinatingly saturated.
19:52:52 beautiful video, and that was just done with the iPhone.
19:52:55 This is my brother with a hydrogen bomb.
19:52:59 It also will do things like find duplicates.
19:53:02 A lot of people have lots of duplicates on their phone. It'll go through and find them.
19:53:06 it thinks this is a receipt, which it is,
19:53:10 it thinks this is a receipt, and it's actually a bookmark.
19:53:12 It can detect handwriting, and again, all of this organization was done by…
19:53:19 photos. It wasn't done by me.
19:53:21 And that's what the point of this video, is that you're, uh…
19:53:25 your iPhone can do a lot of things that you may not have really given any thought to.
19:53:30 Um, it can detect the next thing after this is going to look at, uh…
19:53:34 illustrations, and again, it's looking at the image,
19:53:38 It's using logic on the phone to think that
19:53:41 something is an illustration rather than a photo.
19:53:45 Um, and it does all of this automatically.
19:53:50 You just have to let it do its thing.
19:53:59 Any questions about that?
19:54:08 I will go back to my…
19:54:11 to my, uh…
19:54:15 presentation.
19:54:19 Where am I?
19:54:23 Okay.
19:54:27 Um, I have…
19:54:29 custom wallpaper on my machine, on my phone. It's a picture of my granddaughter, and you do that by going to into Settings, Wallpaper.
19:54:39 I know people who've had
19:54:42 their phones for, like, 10 years and didn't realize that they could change
19:54:45 the way that it looks. Um…
19:54:48 You can also have it… you can have multiple sets.
19:54:51 You can have the, uh…
19:54:53 a photo for, uh, the lock screen, and you can have a different one.
19:54:58 For the regular screen that you're using when you're actually doing something with the phone.
19:55:03 So you have complete control of that, and you can change it. You can also customize it, so, for example, I have this
19:55:09 large time setting.
19:55:12 Uh, on the lock screen.
19:55:15 Standby is sort of similar to lock screen, it's in settings, standby.
19:55:21 If you have one of the newer phones,
19:55:24 and you have it on its charge, and you mount it tilt it up on its side,
19:55:30 It turns itself into a nighttime clock.
19:55:33 And it'll have a, you know, red characters, so it doesn't…
19:55:38 mess up your, uh, time vision, and you can have it show the outside weather, whatever it is that
19:55:43 fits in that. A number of different things can be on it. And that's…
19:55:48 Built into your iPhone. You don't have to do anything special.
19:55:51 Just make sure it's plugged into power,
19:55:54 set it up on its side at nighttime, and it'll turn into a…
19:55:59 Uh, bedside, um, clock.
19:56:03 Focus is something that a lot of people complain about when they have a smartphone that
19:56:09 He keeps on interrupting them.
19:56:10 And there are lots of things that you can do. You can set it so that in settings focus, you can have it set to Do Not Disturb times.
19:56:18 I have my day set
19:56:20 from, uh…
19:56:23 10 at night till 6.30 in the morning.
19:56:26 From 10 at night to 6.30 in the morning, my phone will not beep when it gets an email, will not beep when it gets a message.
19:56:32 will not respond to a phone call unless it's somebody on my VIP list.
19:56:37 And the VIPs are usually family members, and…
19:56:41 It'll also send through, um…
19:56:43 Emergency alerts. Um, I don't know how many of you were…
19:56:47 hit with a, uh, Amber Alert, like, at 5 in the morning.
19:56:51 a couple weeks ago, there was an Amber Alert. Those do, uh, break through.
19:56:56 Um, so if we had a tsunami warning, it would break through.
19:56:59 You can set to times where it reduces interruptions at
19:57:05 work times, or when you're studying, or other types of things.
19:57:09 You can set it for… to know what your sleep time is, and…
19:57:13 all kinds of different things to reduce the amount of…
19:57:17 chaos that you have to…
19:57:19 deal with. You can also go through and set
19:57:23 notifications on all of your apps.
19:57:26 And you do this in setting, notifications, and at the top, it lists you the different kinds of, uh…
19:57:32 alerts, displays that you can get.
19:57:34 And here it says I want a scheduled summary of alerts at 8 and 6 in the morning and 6 at night.
19:57:42 And down at the bottom, it says Notification Style, and…
19:57:46 It'll have a long list of every single app on your phone that sends out a notification.
19:57:51 And you can turn off notifications so you get
19:57:54 none at all, or you can specify a…
19:57:57 particular type of notification.
19:57:59 Notification can be a beep noise, the moon notification.
19:58:01 can be a banner across the…
19:58:04 Uh, front of your iPhone, the notification can be a vibration.
19:58:08 But again, for a lot of people,
19:58:11 You might just want to go through and just turn off a lot of these things.
19:58:14 Uh, because you don't want to be interrupted.
19:58:18 Haptics, uh, is a fancy word for the vibration, so you can set things so that…
19:58:24 Uh, for certain types of things.
19:58:26 Um, you get a vibration rather than…
19:58:30 an audible signal. But you can also go through, and you can change the volume level for alerts,
19:58:36 You can change, um…
19:58:39 you can, uh, change the ringtones,
19:58:42 for… have a different type of ringtone for your text messages, for voicemail,
19:58:47 for email, when you're sending mail, sometimes people like to hear something to make sure that it actually left.
19:58:54 Um, in my particular case, I use a
19:58:56 swish noise, um…
19:58:59 you can have custom ringtones for…
19:59:02 particular people. I'm not going to go into how to do that right this second, because it's not…
19:59:08 It takes so… it takes a while.
19:59:10 But, for example, my brother, my daughter, my late spouse all had their own
19:59:16 Ringtones, so I could tell just from the ringtone.
19:59:18 who was calling me.
19:59:23 They're also on newer phones, they will automatically dial 911 if you're in a crash.
19:59:29 And you do this from the Settings Emergency at SOS, you can turn it on. I recommend everyone do that.
19:59:35 You can also trigger it
19:59:37 yourself, by holding down the side button,
19:59:41 And either of the volume buttons, if you hold it for, I think it's something like…
19:59:46 5 seconds, it'll call 911.
19:59:49 Um, or at least it'll ask you if you want to call 911.
19:59:53 And it'll also, depending upon what it is, send a message to your family member or somebody you designate,
20:00:00 or your healthcare provider.
20:00:04 by setting up an emergency contact for them.
20:00:07 Um, the, um…
20:00:09 Uh, it'll do that for a crash.
20:00:12 The Apple Watch will also do that for a fall.
20:00:15 Um, I had a fall…
20:00:17 a couple weeks ago, I got my foot tangled in something, I fell down.
20:00:22 And my watch asked me, do you want to call 911?
20:00:25 If I had not told it to stop that…
20:00:28 It would have called 911. And this has saved a great number of lives. The first person…
20:00:35 Uh, who was ever rescued by an Apple Watch was here in Washington State.
20:00:39 They fell off a, uh…
20:00:42 trail, uh, up in the Cascades.
20:00:44 It's falling down a cliff, and their watch called…
20:00:48 911, and they were rescued.
20:00:50 Um, most people… nobody knew that they were missing, which is…
20:00:54 why it's really handy, because it did this without anyone even realizing there was a problem.
20:01:01 Um, I'm going to make a couple recommendations, and one of them is that if you don't have an iCloud Plus account,
20:01:09 You buy one. Because with your phone,
20:01:13 You can use 5GB worth of space on Apple's iCloud.
20:01:18 Well, 5GB worth of space, especially for an iPhone,
20:01:22 is nothing, because a picture can be 20 to 40 megabytes in size, depending about
20:01:27 what it is you're doing. And you go through that space really quickly, and if you include all the attachments that people send you in email, and attachments they send you in messages, and so on and so forth,
20:01:38 You can use up all that space real quick.
20:01:41 And it's inexpensive. You can get 50 gigabytes for 99 cents, and you can get…
20:01:46 12 terabytes for $59.99.
20:01:50 12 terabytes is a staggering amount of stuff.
20:01:54 I have two terabytes.
20:01:56 And I shared that with my late spouse, and I share that with my…
20:02:01 daughter in England on a family plan.
20:02:03 So we're all sharing the space.
20:02:05 Um, and it's really just an inexpensive way to back up
20:02:10 information and share passwords between your phone and your…
20:02:15 Mac, and all kinds of different things.
20:02:17 And I highly recommend it.
20:02:20 And this URL will take you to it. You can just say, how do you sign up for iCloud, and it'll take you there.
20:02:26 Um, that's one of my recommendations that everyone should have. Oh, we also… a couple of things that iCloud also has, iCloud Plus has.
20:02:35 is Private Relay. If you visit a website, and you have
20:02:39 subscribe to iCloud Plus.
20:02:42 When Apple… when you go someplace,
20:02:44 Apple uses a fake IP address,
20:02:48 for you. So you can go to, like, the straight Mac,
20:02:53 website, and in my log on the Straight Mac website, it'll have an IP number, but it's not yours.
20:03:00 And that's useful to prevent…
20:03:03 advertising agencies from building a picture of the kinds of things you visit and what you do.
20:03:08 So, uh, um, that's, um…
20:03:11 something well worth having.
20:03:13 And I also recommend that if you can, to get an Apple card. An Apple Card…
20:03:18 Um, you can apply for it on Apple. It's designed to work with your iPhone and the Apple Wallet, which is included on your phone.
20:03:26 It has no fees, you get cash back on purchases,
20:03:30 And on the card itself, there's nothing. It has your name,
20:03:33 It does not have the card number, and there's no CV number.
20:03:39 That's the little number it asks for.
20:03:41 Um, to, uh, for verification, and there's no expiration date on the card. So, if somebody gets your card, they can't do anything with it.
20:03:51 Um, and I have mine set so that every time I make a purchase,
20:03:55 it changes the CVV number, so that I have to actually look on my phone to find out what that
20:04:02 that security number is, because it does it every time.
20:04:05 You can keep track of the purchases on your phone and make payments directly from your phone. So, I use it for all online purchases.
20:04:15 Uh, as an, uh…
20:04:16 Just as what I use it for.
20:04:19 And, um, there's a bunch of stuff that I would like to cover on privacy, but we require meeting all by itself.
20:04:26 Because there are hundreds of different things you can…
20:04:30 deal with, uh, to maintain your privacy.
20:04:33 Other things you can do with a phone, you can use it to measure things, find an altitude, find the weather, calculate tips, get directions.
20:04:39 navigate using CarPlay.
20:04:41 You can record calls on your phone,
20:04:44 You can record both memos, which I use all the time.
20:04:47 You can use it to tell time. You can use it to set alarms, you can set reminders by location.
20:04:52 You can pay for things, you can carry in a full electronic calculator, you can play games, you can take photos, you can draw.
20:04:59 And, shockingly, you can also use it…
20:05:03 to, uh… to, uh…
20:05:06 make phone calls.
20:05:11 Um, last month, I just got my phone bill.
20:05:15 Last month, I received…
20:05:18 about 200 phone calls, most of which got screened out.
20:05:22 So I didn't have to pay attention to them.
20:05:24 So, there were about 300 phone calls. I made 6.
20:05:29 So, I'm a big telephone user.
20:05:35 Any questions? That was an awful lot of things to talk about.
20:05:39 In a short amount of time.
20:05:45 Thank you very much. Wow, it is a lot.
20:05:50 So my one question is, do we want a part two where I cover either photographs,
20:05:55 or privacy.
20:06:00 If I did photographs, that's the only thing we'd cover.
20:06:02 And if I did privacy, that's the only thing we'd cover.
20:06:06 Can't we do both at different meetings?
20:06:08 That's what I'm suggesting. Yes, it would be…
20:06:14 Yeah.
20:06:12 two meetings to do both. My question is, is that what you want to do, or have you been…
20:06:17 Um, maxed out.
20:06:19 No, I'd like to do it.
20:06:22 I'd like to do it.
20:06:25 Is there anyone who does not have an iPhone?
20:06:29 Because I don't want to do this if, you know, only… if I'm the only one with an iPhone, so…
20:06:36 I'd like to do it also.
20:06:37 Okay. I shall, uh, work on that.
20:06:41 looking into the future, there's a possibility that we will not have a meeting in…
20:06:47 April, but that's not certain.
20:06:51 or May, but again, that's not certain.
20:06:54 And the reason is, my daughter might be coming to visit me in April up in Canada.
20:06:59 And I might be going on a train trip.
20:07:02 In May, but, uh…
20:07:04 Those are a couple months off, just kind of a…
20:07:07 FYI. Um…
20:07:11 is ideas on what we do next month, or you want more of the same?
20:07:17 Mura's… yeah.
20:07:21 more of this… more of the same.
20:07:23 Um,
20:07:25 I agree, more of the same.
20:07:27 Okay, any more… any questions about what I covered? Because…
20:07:31 I did cover a lot.
20:07:33 And by the way, if you didn't get the impression that I want you to use a password manager,
20:07:39 I want you to use the TIPS application on the iPhone.
20:07:43 It would be a good idea, but you don't have to, to get an Apple credit card, because it's really… oh, by the way,
20:07:49 Um, this is Kathleen's credit card.
20:07:52 It's made of titanium.
20:07:54 So you can also use it as bulletproofing, you know.
20:08:01 Um…
20:08:02 Well, I succeeded in changing my name to Alexander Hamilton.
20:08:06 Oh, good! But this is the front of the card. It only has her name.
20:08:11 And on the back, actually, it was upside down.
20:08:14 But, and on the back, there's nothing.
20:08:17 Yeah.
20:08:17 So there's no… there's no card number, there's no expiration number, there's no…
20:08:22 security code, there's nothing on the card.
20:08:26 Which is…
20:08:26 Is it tap to… is it tap to touch?
20:08:28 Uh, yeah, you tap it against the terminal, and it does its thing.
20:08:32 Okay, I caught, uh, TV…
20:08:36 scam report about people who left Lumen Field,
20:08:40 And we're solicited for a $5 contribution for a kids' basketball thingamy.
20:08:47 And they were repeated.
20:08:50 Uh, anyway, it was a scam, and they ended up…
20:08:53 having hundreds of dollars on their…
20:08:59 Yes.
20:08:58 accounts. So, there are situations where that's not a good idea for any tap-to-touch card, but
20:09:05 But you see, among other things, when you tap it on there, within just a few seconds, it shows up on your phone.
20:09:13 So it's not like you have to wait for the bill to find out that you used the card.
20:09:19 To know.
20:09:18 you get a text… you get a text message. And you have to say that you want them, but you get a text message.
20:09:26 Um, um, huh.
20:09:28 Kathleen used to keep track of me.
20:09:30 I was downtown doing something, uh…
20:09:33 And, um…
20:09:35 She asked for me to stop by Dairy Queen and get her a milkshake.
20:09:41 And when I came through the door,
20:09:43 I was in the process of unlocking the front door, and she said, you didn't go to Dairy Queen!
20:09:50 Because she didn't get an alert.
20:09:53 So she knew I didn't go to Dairy Queen.
20:09:57 But it's, it's, um…
20:10:00 I'm not… I'm not being paid by who has this right now.
20:10:04 I'm not being paid by Goldman Sachs, but…
20:10:07 It's… it's a… it's a…
20:10:09 It's a perfect credit card, because there's nothing… if I…
20:10:12 If I were to lose my Apple card, there's really nothing they could use it for except
20:10:17 body armor. Um, it won't do anything for them.
20:10:21 And having the security code change with every online purchase is also nice.
20:10:27 Because even if they have my name, and they've got the card number, and they've got the expiration date,
20:10:32 They don't have the security code, it does them no good.
20:10:39 Um, those people that, um…
20:10:41 who were scammed at Lumen Field. What had happened was that they were… they were repeatedly running the same
20:10:49 Yeah.
20:10:48 charge through. Well, that won't work because it'll only get the first one to go through. After that, it won't work.
20:10:55 And because you're getting alerts, you can know how much it was for, and you can… if it's not right, you just…
20:11:00 follow up and say, hey, this is a scam, and they stop it.
20:11:06 Um, and also, if you… the other thing that I'm… you might have noticed, I am lobbying that you get…
20:11:12 iCloud Plus. Between having
20:11:15 More space in iCloud, and the private relay, where you go someplace and what your browser, and they…
20:11:24 basically have nothing that they can use.
20:11:26 Um, to, uh…
20:11:28 to track you, that's, uh, also…
20:11:31 very worthwhile.
20:11:34 their iCloud Plus, so is that for your computer, too?
20:11:38 We… when you're on iCola Plus, it'll work with any of your Apple devices that use that same account.
20:11:43 I see.
20:11:45 Okay.
20:11:50 Anything else?
20:11:54 Thank you, Lawrence.
20:11:56 Yep, thank you.
20:11:58 Have a nice night.
20:11:58 That's great.
20:12:00 Thank you very much.
20:12:01 Thanks for doing that. That's a lot of work.
20:12:03 Yeah, thank you.
20:12:05 Thank you. Bye.
20:12:09 Yeah, thank you.
