At our 26th April meeting, we talked about recent Apple news, some iPhone tips and members shared several topics.
Tips
Robert shared a number of tips he’d found recently:
- Using the white point accessibility settings to dim your iPhone screen further in very dark environments.
- This article also highlights to multiple accesibility functions can be configured as accessibility shortcuts (accessed by triple clicking the power button).
- We discussed the usefulness of the magnifier feature which is the default shortcut.
- Air Pods tips and tricks including Audio sharing, Live Listen, Announcing notifications and renaming Air Pods.
- Also for Air Pods, Apple have videos highlighting the Conversation awareness and boost features.
- Accessing recent files from the iPhone home screen using the Files widget.
Duolingo Music
DaveK showed us the new music learning course added to Duolingo.
News
- Apple warns specific users in 92 countries about mercenary spyware attacks.
- A new Quartiles game is being added to Apple News+ in iOS 17.5.
- As Google launches the “Find my device” network on Android, iOS 17.5 will introduce “found with you” alerts for third party tracking devices.
- Apple allows retro game emulators on the App Store. Free multi-system emulator Delta proves popular.
- iWork applications are updated with new features and improvements.
- Spacial personas added to Vision Pro as a beta feature.
- Apple “Let Loose” event scheduled for Tuesday 7th May.
Member Topics
- DaveK mentioned Apple’s deemphasis of finewoven accessories and rumours that their production has stopped.
- Ben asked about photo mosaics such as this one of Steve Jobs. DaveK mentioned the technique being used for the Truman Show film poster.
- DavidB mentioned the David Attenborough Mammals series, available on iPlayer.
- Robert recommended the Apple Arcade puzzle game Stitch.
- DaveK mentioned the game 7 Little Words, which is similar to Quartiles, mentioned in the news.
