In this podcast, Tunmi Jubril demonstrates how to find and browse all of the movies and TV shows on Netflix which offer audio description.
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In this podcast, Thomas Domville demonstrates how to force quit an app on Apple Watch.
Reasons you might want to do this include the app becoming unresponsive, frequently crashing, or you simply having a suspicion that the app might be the cause of a more general and system-wide issue.
As Thomas demonstrates, the process is simple - with the app open, press and hold the side button to show the power options. Then press and hold the Digital Crown to quit the app. 2 of 3
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In this podcast Andre Louis gives us a quick tutorial on how to format an SSD as APFS on macOS.
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On iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max, Apple has replaced the ‘notch’ that's been a feature of Face ID-equipped iPhones since the iPhone X with what it calls the Dynamic Island. The Dynamic Island is a small area of display pixels surrounding the pill-shaped cutout. It appears whenever your iPhone is unlocked, and changes size and shape to accommodate various types of alerts, notifications, and interactions such as music that’s playing, your timer, an AirDrop connection, and directions from Maps.
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In this podcast, Thomas Domville walks us through a new accessibility enhancement in iOS 16 that allows you to increase Siri's pause time, which causes the voice assistant to wait a longer period for you to finish speaking.
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In this podcast, Duyahn Walker shows us how to pair a Bluetooth speaker with the Apple TV 4th Generation.
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In this quick tip, Igna Triay shows us how to Pause an Audio or Movie Recording Using QuickTime Player On the Mac. Although this process is very straightforward, there is a step that might not be obvious to some.
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In this podcast, Thomas Domville walks us through where to find and enable the iOS setting that prevents the side or lock button from ending calls.
Note that some in our community have recently reported issues with the side button not behaving as expected in regard to ending calls.
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In this podcast, Kushal Solanki gives us a quick demonstration of the Read Aloud feature of Google's iOS app that will read a single or a number of articles aloud.
The app offers playback controls that allow you to pause or skip around in the “article.” Further, other articles can be added to the queue to create a playlist of articles.
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In this podcast, Thomas Domville demonstrates how in iOS 16 you are now able to recover deleted conversations in the native iOS Messages app. Note that this will only be possible for up to approximately 30 days after the conversation was deleted.
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New to the iPhone with the release of iOS 16 is the ability to report SMS/MMS messages as junk. This expands on the built-in "Report Junk" feature in Messages that previously only let you report iMessages. Now you can use the same option to report an SMS/MMS message as junk, which will alert Apple and your network carrier and delete the message in question.
In this podcast, Thomas Domville shows us how it works.
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In the last of his series of podcasts devoted to Apple's new AirTag Bluetooth Tracker, Thomas Domville shows us how to reset an Apple AirTag to its factory settings. This removes the AirTag from your Apple ID, enabling you to set it up from new again or give it to somebody else to use.
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How to reset your AirTag
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In this podcast, Thomas Domville discusses and demonstrates the relocation of the audio messages function in iOS 16. This is now accessed by a iMessage app in the Messages app dock, rather than a button next to the text field where you type your message.
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Introduced with iOS 14.5 and iPadOs 14.5 was the ability to share up to 150 characters of song lyrics with friends, straight from the Now Playing screen in Apple Music. In this podcast, Thomas Domville shows us how it works.
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With the release of iOS 16, when sending messages using Siri, you can now skip the confirmation step. In this podcast, Thomas Domville shows us how this works and how to enable it.
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New with iOS 16 is the ability to unsend sent iMessages. In this podcast, Thomas Domville shows us how it works.
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In this quick tip, Cruz1996 gives us a quick demonstration of how to use Apple’s support app for iOS to connect with an Apple representative to help you troubleshoot a problem with your i-device.
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In this quick tip, Dave Nason shows us how to de-clutter your Safari tabs on iOS by having tabs close automatically after a period of time not being used.
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In this podcast, Scott Davert demonstrates how to move apps around your various home screens with a braille display only using iOS 10 and higher. The process is the same for all displays that have a Perkins style keyboard paired with an iDevice. Moving apps to different pages, in to folders, and out of folders are covered.
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In this podcast, Chris Snyder demonstrates how to set up and watch audio described programming using the ABC app for iOS.. Note that there is a commercial before the beginning of each show, but this was eliminated from the podcast to save time and copyright violations.