iPhone passcode thieves, John's difficult living room, and the one trick you won't believe the kids these days are doing to evade Screen Time limits.

• Pre-show: Please go decline your Tweetbot/Twitterrific refunds!
• Follow-up:
  • John’s COVID project
  • mcg’s Experience with the Sony HT-A9
  • Larry King’s band’s Rivian Parody
  • “Not yellow” ≠ “no fun colors”
  • Adam Wunn on iMazing
  • Report on the Apple TV remote with touch disabled
  • Bad Apple TV news
  • Diabetes and blood glucose monitoring
    • Diabeetus
  • Sonos does allow you to shout requests into the air
• Criminals are shoulder-surfing passcodes and then swiping iPhones
  • Mitigation ideas:
    • Alphanumeric passcodes
      Settings → Face ID & Passcode → Change Passcode → Passcode Options → Custom Alphanumeric Code
    • Don’t use iCloud Keychain for banking passwords
    • Screen Time
      • Settings → Screen Time → Use Screen Time Passcode and don’t use the same passcode
      • Settings → Screen Time → Content & Privacy Restrictions → Account Changes → Don’t Allow
    • Venmo: Me → Settings → Face ID & PIN → Enable Face ID & PIN
    • Cash: Icon in the upper-right → Privacy & Security → Security Lock
• #askatp:
  • Is symmetric internet — particularly gigabit — worth it? (via Petar Petrović)
    • Casey’s original flex
    • Casey’s park bench picnic table
    • Casey downloads a Xcode beta
    • WRT54G
  • Do we use AlDente or Battery to manually limit charging levels? (via MaxLaves)
    • Coconut Battery
    • Battery GitHub issue
  • Why doesn’t anyone make fun but not-creepy games? (via Brian Hamilton)
• Post-show: Marco loses a war of YouTube attrition to Adam

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iPhone 15 rumors, blood-glucose monitoring, and a special Neutral: Marco drove a Rivian, and you'll never believe what happened… right before that.

• Pre-show: ✅ ATP hat-trick achieved ☹️
• Follow-up:
  • Getting a copy of your data from Apple
    • privacy.apple.com
    • Zack Whittaker’s experience in 2018
    • GDPR
    • iMazing
  • On our slagging of Dolby Pro Logic (via Rob Howard)
  • A tip about Skip Intro on Apple TV (via Mark Johnson)
  • More on the Sony HT-A9 & SA-SW5 from John Coke and Ian White
    • Linus Tech Tips
  • Alternative thoughts on why Xcode downloads are huge (via Michael McGuire)
  • Marco should buy a Ford F150 Lightning? Maybe? (via William Vabrinskas)
  • Some further thoughts on COVID from Keith, medicinal chemist
    • NYC study
    • More recent study
    • VA Study
      • Reuters
      • Scientific American
      • The Guardian
• iPhone 15 CAD drawings
  • …and colors
  • MaxTech video
• Post-show: Marco has many bits of car news
  • CarMax
  • Jackery
  • Rivian R1T
  • BMW i3
  • Yellow Stripey Things

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Casey made us do it. Our stomachs may never recover.

Apple's design-management change, the future of the Mac Studio, and why everything about our TV-audio setups is wrong.

• Pre-show: Marco is living the true Land Rover experience
  • TFL Offroad
  • Your Daily Lex
• Follow-up:
  • The foibles of a 2.1 setup (via Samuel Polay)
  • Sony HT-A9 & SA-SW5
    • Video review
    • Bundle on Amazon
  • What’s the ∆ between Apple TVs? (via Andy Galletly)
    • An Unsolicited Streaming App Spec
    • Streaming App Sentiments
  • Current vs. Previous-Gen Apple TV 4K
    • YouTube video
    • Identify your Apple TV model
  • imessage-exporter (via Christopher Sardegna)
    • Google Takeout
• Apple dropping Product Design Chief role
• Mac Studio is one-and-done?
  • Jason’s post
• #askatp:
  • Does subscribing to a dead show cause burden on Overcast? (via Scott Wright)
  • Would a 8 × 64 GB MacBook read data 8× faster than a single 512 GB MacBook? (via John Susek)
  • How do we handle unknown callers? (via b4rt0s1k)
    • NoMoRobo
• Post-show: The Liss family has finally fallen (but are okay though)

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How the new HomePod compares to its predecessor and competitors, when to use soundbars, fruitful speaker-wire connections, and the kids these days.

• Pre-show: Marco relives his middle-school years
• Follow-up:
  • HomePod 2
    • Siri speed test video
      • And a related #askatp from Justin Saucier
      • Sonos Premium Entertainment Set with Arc
    • HomePod 2 power connector
      • IEC 60320
    • A fix for tapping the HomePod near an outlet
  • Foo Fighters performed at iPhone 5 launch (via Sverrir Björgvinsson)
  • Twitter shenanigans continue
    • Twitter Dev’s tweet
      • Coverage on The Verge
    • Elon’s completely ambiguous tweet
      • Coverage on The Verge
    • Movetodon killed for reasons
    • Mastodon Flock still works
    • Paul Haddad reports the new rules
• Marco’s HomePod 2 Review
  • KEF Q150
  • HiFiMAN HE-6
  • Harman Curve
  • Dave2D HomePod 2 Video
• #askatp:
  • Will large enterprises set up Mastodon instances? (via Gavin Whitaker)
    • Masto.host
  • Why are Xcode downloads so darn huge? (via Nathan Roberts)
  • How the heck do you search for code-related help for iOS/macOS stuff? (via Darin Kelkhoff)
  • Queryable: iPhone photo search app
• Post-show: Audio is difficult
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