Long-Press, Click, Recover: iPhone Tricks You'll Actually Use

About this episode

The episode covers practical iPhone tricks, troubleshooting tips, and new productivity tools.

Pilot Pete and Dave open Episode 1140 with a rapid-fire round of quick tips you’ll wish you’d known sooner: long-press the App Store icon to jump straight to Updates, long-press a folder to break down its notifications, push iOS updates to your iPhone through your Mac, and delete apps before they auto-update. You’ll also discover that iPad status bar elements respond to mouse clicks, that not every airline demands a passport scan for TSA Touchless, and where to grab a free customizable QR code generator. Then Javier drops by the Don’t Get Caught segment with a warning: run a beta macOS on your daily driver only with your eyes wide open to what could break. In the mailbag, you’ll troubleshoot a Notes folder that keeps un-deleting itself, get walked through iCloud Data Recovery, plan a Fastmail migration and a clean EarthLink exit, weigh OneNote and Apple Notes as Evernote alternatives, decode why your copyright date is stuck in the past, and figure out how much life remains in a 2019 MacBook Pro. Angel cues up the question everyone’s asking: what is an MCP server? And Cool Stuff Found delivers right on cue with the new Fastmail MCP Connector, a…

People in this episode

Hosts: Pilot Pete, Dave

Guest: Javier

Topics covered

• iPhone tips
• iOS updates
• app management
• data recovery
• macOS beta
• productivity tools

Keywords

• iPhone tricks
• iOS updates
• data recovery
• Fastmail
• macOS beta
• app management
• QR code generator

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Fastmail, EarthLink, OneNote, Apple Notes, Evernote

Products: Fastmail MCP Connector, Keyword Navigation extension, I Love a Piano app

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