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    Apple Daily Advice Thread - March 16, 2022

    Daily Advice Thread - March 16, 2022

    Posted: 16 Mar 2022 03:00 AM PDT

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    PSA: Fixing Universal Control if it doesn't work for you

    Posted: 15 Mar 2022 05:03 PM PDT

    After upgrading to macOS 12.3 and iPadOS 15.4, one of my Macs refused to work with Universal Control. I did a lot of digging and figured out everything I could about when it does and doesn't work.

    • Both devices must be signed into the same iCloud account
    • Your devices must be compatible with the feature
    • Bluetooth must be enabled on both devices.
    • WiFi must be enabled on both devices and connected to the same network. Even if you use an Ethernet as the preferred connection, the WiFi must still be on.
    • Handoff must be enabled on both devices:
      • macOS: System Preferences>General>Allow Handoff between this Mac and your iCloud devices
      • iPadOS: Settings>General>AirPlay & Handoff>Handoff (toggle on)
    • Universal Control must be enabled on macOS: System Preferences>Displays>Universal Control...
      • Allow your cursor and keyboard to move between any nearby Mac or iPad (must be checked)
      • Push through the edge of a display to connect to a nearby Mac or iPad (optional. If not checked, you can still manually link it through Control Center>Display>Link keyboard and mouse to:>[Device Name])
      • Automatically reconnect to any nearby Mac or iPad (check if you want to, optional)
    • Universal Control must be enabled on iPadOS: Settings>General>AirPlay & Handoff>Cursor and Keyboard (Beta)
    • macOS Firewall must allow incoming connections from Universal Control.
      • System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Firewall > Firewall Options > "Block all incoming connections" must be off.
      • "Universal Control.app" must be listed and set to "Allow incoming connections". It may not be if you have unchecked "Automatically allow built-in software to receive incoming connections"

    If after all that it still doesn't work for you, check your router's network firewall settings. I expect Universal Control will not work on public or hotel WiFi networks that restrict communication between devices on the LAN for security reasons.

    Other issues you may encounter:

    Scrolling direction differs between your connected devices

    These settings should be set the same way on your devices. Set them both either on or off, as you prefer.

    • macOS: System Preferences>Trackpad>Scroll & Zoom> Scroll direction: Natural
    • iPadOS: Settings>General>Trackpad & Mouse>Natural Scrolling

    If these are different, then you will have a confusing time switching scroll directions as you move between devices.

    Cannot use Universal Control while using the iPad as Personal Hotspot

    The Personal Hotspot feature disables WiFi on the iPad while any device is tethered to it, so Universal Control does not work. Both devices must be on the same WiFi network.

    Universal Control can Interfere with Sidecar

    If you frequently use Sidecar to use your iPad as an extra display, I recommend disabling the "Push through the edge of a display..." option. If you are using Sidecar, then accidentally push against the edge of that display, Universal Control will take over and disconnect the Sidecar display.

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    I hope iOS 16 has interactive widgets.

    Posted: 15 Mar 2022 11:11 AM PDT

    Like the title says, I really hope iOS 16 has interactive widgets. I have my music, weather, and note widgets on my home screen. It would be such a HUGE QOL feature to be able to quickly tap the widget to change the song (I know I can swipe from the top and do that I'm control center), or scroll through my locations next few hours to view the weather, or have a quick note function for the notes widget.

    I'm really pleased with this current version of iOS, but a few quality of life tweaks would really be great.

    What are some that you'd like to see implemented?

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    So when I search for "Twitter" in the App Store... I get the following results.

    Posted: 15 Mar 2022 09:25 PM PDT

    Here are my search results, in order, for the keyword "Twitter" in the App Store.

    Bolded apps are at least somewhat relevant to Twitter.

    The rest are completely irrelevant.

    What hurts the most is that apps like Tweetbot or Twitterific are at #22 and #54.

    1. Twitter
    2. Instagram
    3. Color Effects - Recolor Pictures
    4. Followgrow - Get More Followers for Twitter
    5. Happy Park - Best Theme Park Game
    6. Alarm Clock - Free
    7. Flipboard: Your Social News
    8. Hootsuite: Schedule Posts for Twitter
    9. Crowdfire - for Twitter & Instagram
    10. G-Whizz! for Google Apps
    11. Find Unfollowers And Track New Followers
    12. TwitBoost Pro for Twitter - Get 1000+ followers
    13. Pic Collage Maker, Photo Editor
    14. Symbol Keyboard - Unicode Icons Signs
    15. Two Dots
    16. Google+
    17. Photo Scrapbook - Collage, Frame, Capture
    18. Emoji for Message, Texting, SMS
    19. Vine
    20. Cool Fonts
    21. MB: YouTube music edition
    22. Tweetbot 4 for Twitter
    23. Emoji Art & Text Picture - The Best Cute Emoji
    24. Glow Draw - paint, doodle, color on camera
    25. Infinity Followers for Twitter - Get More Followers
    26. Nimble Quest
    27. Buffer for Twitter & Social Media Scheduler
    28. Better Fonts Free - Now With Cool New Fonts
    29. TwitGrow for Twitter - Get 1000+ followers
    30. UberSocial for Twitter
    31. unfollow for Twitter
    32. Google Apps Browser Plus by G-Whizz!
    33. Emoji>
    34. TwitBoost for Twitter - Get 1000+ followers
    35. Wefollow for Twitter
    36. Alarm Clock
    37. Get Followers for Twitter - Get more Twitter followers
    38. FollowBoost for Twitter - Get 1000+ followers
    39. Double Ball
    40. VPN Express - Best Mobile VPN for Blocked Websites
    41. Get Followers For Twitter - Get More Followers
    42. Follow for Twitter - Get more follows, retweets, followers
    43. Pimp Wallpapers(HD) Customize Your Home Screen
    44. Emoticons & Extra Emoji Keyboard
    45. Earthquake+ | Earthquakes Map, News, Alert, Info
    46. TwitBird free for Twitter
    47. Follow Tool for Twitter
    48. InstaWords Free - Add Text Over Your Photos
    49. Echofon Pro for Twitter
    50. Follower Boost for Twitter - Get More Twitter Followers
    51. Jedi Lightsaber
    52. Find Unfollowers And Track New Followers On Twitter
    53. Text2Pic - Musical Text On Photo + Caption Pictures
    54. Twitterrific 5 for Twitter
    55. PhillyD Official
    56. Keyboard Pro - new emoticons and creative text art
    57. Color Cap - Add custom text to photos & pics for Instragram
    58. Make A Zombie
    59. Get Retweets - Get more Twitter Retweets
    60. Get Favourites - Get more Twitter Favourites
    61. Big Emoji Keyboard - Stickers for Messages
    62. Unscamble - Free Anagrams / Jumbled Words Game
    63. Taple Top Racing
    64. Get Followers for Instagram (Earn thousands of follows for free)
    65. Get Followers for Instagram, More Real Likes
    66. Voice Dictation - Voice To SMS, Email, Facebook
    67. Productivity apps (Scanner, OCR, Voice Dictation) bundle
    68. Ultimate Voice Dictations app (Translate, Dictionary...) bundle
    69. IF by IFTTT
    70. InstaSize - Post Entire Photos on Social Media
    71. Cool Frames & Picture Effects Free
    72. Emoji Emoticons Pro - Best Emojis Emoticon Keyboard Art
    73. Yik Yak
    74. FollowBoost for Twitter Pro - Get Followers, Retweets, Favorites
    75. Apply Geek - tech news
    76. Symbol Font Keyboard - Cool Text Fonts Symbolizer and Better Funny Fantastic Keyboard, Emoji Icons for Instagram and Vine Comments or iMessage, Kik, and Twitter Message by Active Studio
    77. Echofon for Twitter
    78. Insta+Follow Mania: Just Gain Get+Followers on Instagram
    79. FaceStealer: Live Face Swap Booth FX via Camera and Video
    80. Hyperlapse from Instagram
    81. Giant Square - Create banner pictures and big images
    82. FacelyHD for Facebook Free + Social Apps Browser by G-Whizz!
    83. MyPad+ for Facebook, Twitter, & Instagram by Loytr Inc
    84. TweetList for Twitter
    85. Animated 3D Emoji Free - Cool Animated Emojis Icons
    86. Christmas Music - 10,000 FREE Christmas Songs! by Zaggle, Inc
    87. You Doodle Plus - Draw on Photos, Chibi, and Share to Flickr
    88. Twitterlator Pro for Twitter
    89. GameFly
    90. Get Followers for Twitter - more followers by Mech Bracket LLC
    91. Get Followers for Twitter - Free Twitter Followers
    92. Vintaframe Pro - photo collage & scrabooking frames for Instagram and twitter by Momo Bampoka
    93. Pimp My Hair
    94. Japanese Emoticons: Cute Kaomoji and Emoji for Emails, Texts, Facebook, Twitter and More! by Peter Saydak
    95. TurboBoost - Get followers, revines, and likes for Vine by GameStruct, Inc.
    96. Singing Texts - Add Text, Quotes, Words, Captions to Photos & Pictures for Instagram Free by G-Power
    97. Followers for Twitter - Track Twitter Followers and Unfollowers
    98. Everypost: Social Media for Business
    99. SquareSized - Photo.s and video.s edit.or and cool effect.s for picture.s + make movie by TheAppHoles
    100. TwitGrow Pro for Twitter - Get 1000+ followers, retweets and favorites by GameStruct, Inc.

    Ok, I think you get my point. The results just keep going and it's really painful to read.

    35 apps are bolded. So that's about 35% accuracy, and I'm being generous here, because a lot of these apps are complete rubbish.

    There's a couple of things Apple could do to address the 1.5 million apps currently in the App Store:

    • Hire 500 tech-savvy teenagers as contractors to go through 1.5 million apps. That's 3000 apps per person. If each person reviewed 30 apps per day (16 minutes per app), in 100 workdays, the entire team would be able to go through the entire store and re-organize it.
    • This team could tag each app with relevant keywords, they could place each app into genuinely specific niche categories, they could request developers to change app names (see app #76 in the list), they could remove search ranking from apps that don't belong under those keywords.
    • Team members could shadowban obviously spammy apps. These apps would still be available if you searched for them directly by name, but they would be automatically ranked lower in search results (always below the 30th result, for example). Any app that's shadowbanned will be internally marked with the team member's name, so that if there's ever any dispute, you have someone responsible.
    • Team members could influence search results by having curated lists of specific app categories. This is a tricky line to hold to, but it can be done if each list is managed by a specific team member. It would it be wonderful if Twitter, Tweetbot, and Twitterrific were actually in the top results for the keyword "Twitter". Same goes for other specific categories (Password Manager apps, Note-taking apps, Converting Currency apps, Weather apps... imagine if you actually had relevant human-curated lists for each of those apps. Developers could apply to have their app included in a list; customers would also be able to recommend apps to add to a specific list.)

    Yes, it would be a lot of work, and a lot of people to hire, even if only as contractors. But this is literally one of those problems that if you throw enough manpower at it, you would immediately improve the App Store by 50%. And if, afterwards, you throw some engineering and design power at this problem, you could implement processes to make sure future apps that are submitted are vetted correctly.

    What I'm saying is: this is a solvable problem. The solution is actually doable. This problem is vast, yes, but it can be done. It's not enough to say "There's 1.5 million apps, so obviously you can't human curate them all". Actually we can. We can human curate them, and even if we human curate them crudely, it would still be better. We don't have to give up the algorithms doing the work for us (Google seems to manage pretty well with algorithms, at least with their search engine) but if some human curation is necessary to bring the App Store into order, then so be it.

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    iOS 15.4 lets iPhone apps offer ProMotion 120Hz refresh rates for all animations

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    What Apple product have you bought that wished you never did?

    Posted: 15 Mar 2022 02:17 AM PDT

    It's rare we buy Apple products that we hate. Macs, iPhones, AirPods, accessories. I still use my 4th gen TC to back up the three Macs in the house and if you could fell in love with an accessory then the leather iPhone cases is where my heart is.

    Then there are things I dislike but I learn to live with, like sharp edges on devices.

    And then there is the very rare occasion I hate something so much that I wish I never bought.

    For me that would be the Smart Folio case for the iPad Air. Moving from the old leather folio cases that offered all round protection to the Smart Folio felt like a tremendous downgrade.
    No leather, sharp corners, no edge protection. After two drops, I threw it in a drawer and got an off brand slim folio for 1/3 of the price and all round edge protection.

    What Apple product have you bought that wished you never did?

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    Universal Control is insane

    Posted: 15 Mar 2022 02:02 AM PDT

    Using it now for the first time and it works like magic, actually typing this post on my ipad mini from my macbook pro's keyboard and touchpad, it's insane how natural it also feels and instantly pairs up without any lag or annoying popups and permission requests.

    Didn't dive into it's functionality but enjoying the simple macbook mini experience shall i say? I had my doubts about picking the ipad mini over an air or pro due to losing the magic keyboard and smart connection pins, but this is a perfect alternative, if anyone has cool tricks in universal control please share them in a comment, would love to know how far this can go.

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    Apple’s Impact Accelerator unlocks new opportunities for US businesses - Launched as part of Apple’s Racial Equity and Justice Initiative, the Impact Accelerator is designed to support equity and opportunity in the environmental sector for Black-, Hispanic/Latinx-, and Indigenous-owned businesses

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    Posted: 15 Mar 2022 12:01 PM PDT

    Do we know how many thunderbolt 4 buses are on Mac Studio?

    Posted: 15 Mar 2022 06:45 PM PDT

    Very surprised I can't seem to find any info on this yet.

    We know the Mac Studio comes with 4 or 6 Thunderbolt 4 ports, but has Apple release the specs yet on how many buses are on he Mac Studio?

    One of the things I love about my M1 Max MacBook Pro is how - despite just having three T4 ports - each port has a dedicated bus.

    I hope it's the same for the Mac Studio. But I have doubts since they also added 10G Ethernet, USB ports, etc.

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    iOS 15.4 Brings Visual Lookup to More Regions…?

    Posted: 15 Mar 2022 04:09 PM PDT

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    Apple Releases iOS 15.4 and iPadOS 15.4 With Face ID Mask Unlock, New Emoji, Universal Control, and More

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