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Transcript of Intego Mac Podcast episode 362
Voice Over 0:00
That is the Intego Mac podcast—the voice of Mac safety—for Thursday, September 19, 2024. This week’s Intego Mac podcast headlines embody: what’s new within the newest Apple working system updates, together with safety patches and our favourite options. We have to discuss a change to Apple ID that everybody must learn about. And we take a particular have a look at the Passwords app, which many customers could begin seeing for the primary time. Now, listed here are the hosts of the Intego Mac Podcast. Veteran Mac journalist, Kirk McElhearn. And Intego’s. Chief Safety Analyst, Josh Lengthy.
Kirk McElhearn 0:43
Good morning. Josh, how are you at present?
Josh Lengthy 0:46
I’m doing effectively. How are you, Kirk?
Pre-orders for Apple’s latest gadgets have begun.
Kirk McElhearn 0:47
I’m doing okay. How a lot cash did you spend final Friday?
Josh Lengthy 0:52
Um, I spent sufficient to purchase an iPhone 16 Professional with 256 gigs, clearly. As a result of why would you get any lower than that?
Kirk McElhearn 1:00
Since you don’t want it. My present iPhone 14 Professional has 128 and it’s nonetheless obtained about 40 gigs left, however that’s as a result of I don’t put loads of stuff on. It’s simply approach I’m. I ordered the Professional Max and we have been speaking earlier than we began recording that you simply don’t wish to have to achieve up a lot along with your thumb on the Professional Max. So you are taking the smaller Professional dimension. Me… It’s sort of a query of my eyes getting worse with age, and I wish to have a bit bit extra on the show. And I’m sort of the thought of an Apple phablet is admittedly sort of fascinating. Bear in mind once they used to speak about “phablets”, again within the day? 10 years in the past, it was a giant factor in Android, and Apple didn’t have something like that. And I’m embracing the Apple phablet.
Josh Lengthy 1:41
Yeah, phablet stood for it was sort of a hybrid cellphone pill, proper? So it’s sort of a portmanteau of these two phrases, however I, I don’t understand it’s a kind of issues that for some individuals, it’s nice, and for the use instances that you simply described, particularly like if, when you really feel such as you want it for imaginative and prescient causes. Okay, yeah, I completely get that. See, I’m the sort of one who I by no means wished, like a mini cellphone. Like I wasn’t just like the sort of one who ran out to get, just like the iPhone 13 Mini or something like that, which, by the way in which, didn’t apparently promote very effectively as a result of Apple’s effectively, not making mini telephones anymore, in order that sort of tells you all it’s worthwhile to know there, however there was a positively a distinct segment marketplace for it, however I’ve all the time been the sort of one who simply needs, like, a normal dimension cellphone, and the usual dimension has been getting larger and larger. It’s been creeping up over time, like I had an iPhone 4 again within the day, and you could possibly very simply maintain it in a single hand and attain my I might attain my thumb from one nook to the opposite. And now it’s very troublesome to do this. I can’t comfortably try this holding my present iPhone 14 Professional, after which the 16 Professional is a bit bit larger, I imagine, so it’s going to be only a tiny bit more durable for me to do this. And I don’t know, I’m I don’t need to transfer to the max. I’m not going to go to the intense, however on the similar time, I nonetheless like a bit bit smaller mannequin to place in my pocket. It simply matches higher.
“Apple ID” is now formally “Apple Account”.
Kirk McElhearn 3:15
Properly, one factor has modified. It’s not simply that the display screen is larger and your complete iPhone is larger, however the side ratio has gotten taller over time, so even when they took an iPhone 4 and made it larger, it wouldn’t be as tall as the present iPhone 16. We’ll know in so recording this on Wednesday. Folks can be listening on Thursday. Ought to get this Friday morning. For me, I don’t know what time you often get yours. Deliveries right here are sometimes late morning, so I’ll have time to arrange my iPhone and my watch on Friday, as will you, and subsequent week, we’ll have the ability to discuss these splendidly thrilling new gadgets. Public service announcement, the time period Apple ID has been modified to Apple Account. Apple began doing this within the betas of the present working methods again in June or July, and so they have made the change formally on the Apple web site. So when you used to go to the Apple ID web site, which was Apple id.Apple.com, it will redirect to account.Apple.com, with a bit banner on prime explaining similar nice Apple Account, only a new identify.
Josh Lengthy 4:18
Proper now, when you nonetheless have an older working system. I suppose you should still see the time period Apple ID, particularly in locations just like the System Settings app, however all over the place else, in any Apple web site and any future Apple merchandise, you’re gonna see Apple Account now.
Apple up to date all of its working methods’ software program.
Kirk McElhearn 4:34
Okay, so we’ve got new working methods. Are we excited?
Josh Lengthy 4:38
Properly, there’s lots to say from the safety perspective, proper? We did get a bunch of recent options, too, and so, yeah, I imply, you realize, a few of the options are good, there’s probably not an entire lot but.
Kirk McElhearn 4:51
We did get a bunch of recent options, however Apple’s been promoting some options that we don’t have but and that we received’t get for at the least a month, if no more, proper?
Josh Lengthy 4:58
Yeah. That that sort of bothers me a bit bit. So we’ve, we’ve talked earlier than about Apple Intelligence and the way most customers simply received’t get it, at the least iPhone customers, particularly as a result of it’s a must to have a 15 Professional or Professional Max or newer iPhone as a way to get all of the Apple Intelligence options. However past that, oh, and by the way in which, after all, when you’re nonetheless on an Intel Mac, additionally no Apple Intelligence options for you. Nevertheless, the opposite factor that’s essential to acknowledge right here is that we don’t get them. Even you probably have a brand new sufficient system to help Apple Intelligence, you’re not getting any Apple Intelligence options but. The primary wave it’s and it’s going to roll out in waves. Is subsequent month. We assume that in October, we’re going to get the purpose one launch that’s going to include the primary wave of Apple Intelligence options. After which sooner or later after that, we’ll get some extra and a few extra after that, and we would nonetheless be getting options into subsequent spring and probably past that. You understand, we’ll have to attend and see, however we all know that a few of these options that Apple is asserting and even displaying in ads that they’re presently airing, we don’t have these options but, which is sort of bizarre and a bit feels a bit disingenuous to me.
Kirk McElhearn 6:17
The truth that they’re promoting the brand new iPhone based mostly on these options, and folks will get the iPhone and never get these options. This type of smells like a category motion go well with, if you consider it.
Josh Lengthy 6:26
Yeah. Properly, I imply, to be truthful once more, a few of these options are coming subsequent month, and possibly I haven’t appeared carefully at these advertisements, possibly there’s a bit tiny footnote that claims these, a few of these options are coming quickly, however you realize, it’s nonetheless these are the principle options of their promoting for these telephones, and it’s sort of bizarre that they’re not able to go at launch.
Kirk McElhearn 6:45
It’s nearly as if Apple Intelligence is an working system and it’s grafted onto the opposite working methods, and it’ll be its personal unit of stuff because it goes ahead. And we’re getting the primary iteration of it now, and we’ll get extra, as you say, over time. One factor you may see, I’m working macOS Sequoia 15.1 on my iMac proper now, and in order that’s the model that may get Apple Intelligence. If I am going to settings, common storage, and I click on on macOS, it tells me that Apple Intelligence takes up 4.91 gigabytes. It’s treating it as if it’s an utility or one thing, whereas, and that is out of a complete of twenty-two.46 gigabytes for macOS, so it’s treating it individually, I suppose, as a solution to say, if you wish to save house and also you don’t use Apple Intelligence, you may flip it off, and possibly it will delete it.
Josh Lengthy 7:38
May very well be. I’m unsure but, so I haven’t actually I’ve tried utilizing the beta, however I’ve tried utilizing it in UTM, which is a virtualization app, so it permits you to run an working system inside your working system, and sadly, Apple Intelligence doesn’t work with that. Even the most recent beta of macOS Sequoia nonetheless doesn’t allow you to signal into your Apple Account throughout the beta working system with if it’s inside a digital machine. So in different phrases, the one approach for me to check these options is that if I have been to put in it in a separate apfs container. Now we’re getting actually technical right here, however this can be a totally different solution to set up the working system, the place I might twin boot if I wished to. So I might have the common macOS Sequoia on one aspect and the beta 15.1 on the opposite aspect if I wished to reboot into that. I haven’t actually been sufficient to do this or to switch my important working system with it, so I haven’t actually gotten to mess around with the any of the brand new options, even in beta on macOS but.
What safety patches did Apple situation?
Kirk McElhearn 8:47
Okay, so new working methods imply safety updates, plenty of safety updates, greater than 70 CVEs, which is Widespread Vulnerabilities and Exposures, a approach of classifying vulnerabilities, 35 extra recognitions, and going again to earlier working methods, as a result of they did situation updates for macOS Sonoma and macOS Ventura, we’ve obtained 33 and 40 CVS. Clearly, the iOS and iPadOS include an entire lot of CVEs. In addition they launched an replace for the iOS and iPadOS 17.7 working methods, which, as Josh goes to clarify, is a bit bit problematic. The way in which that Apple is providing to supply safety updates for this older working system, given Apple’s expertise on this space, we’ll see what occurs.
Josh Lengthy 9:32
All proper, I’ll begin with that final level, simply to make it possible for I don’t neglect to get again to that. So going again a number of years, I feel this began when iOS 15 got here out, Apple mentioned, actually, they introduced on their web site, and continued to go away this up on their web site for a complete 12 months till iOS 16 got here out. They mentioned that when you stayed on iOS 14, that it could proceed to get safe. Updates for a time frame. And that sounded actually nice. The one factor is that time frame truly was 36 days. So and Apple continued to make this declare for a complete 12 months, once they actually solely continued to launch iOS 14 updates for 36 days after iOS 15 got here out. Very awkward, very bizarre, however Apple’s nonetheless sort of been doing the identical factor ever since then, the place they launch the brand new level. Oh, after which in addition they launch a patch for the earlier one. The opposite factor that’s actually awkward about that is that when you haven’t up to date but this week, now, these updates simply got here out on Monday, and so when you haven’t gotten a push notification about these updates but, and also you go into your settings on the whole and examine for software program updates, the factor that you simply’ll discover first is that if in your iPhone, for instance, it’ll immediate you to improve to iOS 17.7 after which there’s a piece beneath that, that claims, additionally out there, and that’s the place you may go if you wish to get iOS 18.0 that is very awkward, as a result of it implies that Apple’s encouraging individuals to improve to a minor replace simply to get, I Guess, actually, some safety updates. But when they’re doing that, then why not go all the way in which to eight level 18.0 as a result of once more, the distinction is fairly important right here. IOS 18.0 has 33 named or numbered vulnerabilities. These are CVEs like Kirk was simply speaking about, plus there’s 20 or extra extra recognitions, I say or extra, as a result of they sort of record a variety of researchers collectively. So it doesn’t it’s probably not clear what number of separate different points have been fastened that don’t get a CVE quantity, as a result of it might be that a number of researchers work collectively and reported one thing to Apple. So we all know that there are at the least 20 extra recognitions. So you could possibly depend that as like 53 or extra vulnerabilities that obtained patched in iOS 18. Now with 17.7 there’s 16 CVEs and 0 extra recognitions. So let’s see 53, or 16. Which do I need to go along with? I’d fairly have the one which has all of the patches. Why wouldn’t I need that? It’s sort of bizarre that Apple’s like encouraging individuals to go to a much less safe working system fairly than simply putting in the principle new replace. Like, what’s even the purpose of nonetheless providing a 17.7 simply inform individuals to go to 18. I’d perceive if 17 have been solely out there for a subset of the variety of iPhones that may improve to iOS 18, however actually, each single iPhone mannequin that would get iOS 17 can improve to 18. So why also have a 17.7 proper?
Kirk McElhearn 12:59
The compatibility lists match, and it’s fascinating. On Twitter, you identified, I feel Apple had tweeted one thing about iOS 18 is out. Examine your iPhones compatibility. And also you tweeted, they’re truly all suitable. In the event that they have been suitable with iOS 17, they’re all suitable with iOS 18. We speculated once they did this, was it iOS 14 and 15? We speculated that they did this for the enterprise market, the place companies may not need to replace all their iPhones and have the choice to stay on an older working system for compatibility with software program, multi system administration instruments, and many others. But when that have been the case, they’d have executed it yearly.
Josh Lengthy 13:37
Yeah. And I all the time felt like, regardless that we mentioned that that was a risk. I all the time felt like that was sort of a flimsy little bit of logic. Like most cell system administration options are going so as to add Day Zero help, at the least any good ones, proper? Those which can be out there for Apple merchandise. Apple does launch betas months prematurely of releasing the brand new working system. So it’s very easy. Properly, I shouldn’t say it’s very easy, however I’d say any developer that’s centered on Apple has the chance, and if they’ve a big sufficient group that they’ll fairly make these adjustments within the couple of months that Apple offers individuals between beta launch and important working system launch, it’s it’s fairly attainable for many builders to be have day one help for a brand new working system, together with for cell system administration options. And actually, to be truthful, there’s not that a lot underneath the hood that adjustments, more often than not, from one iOS model to the subsequent when it comes to, like, app compatibility, like, most probably your apps for iOS, 14 are most likely going to run on 1517, are most likely going to run on 18, and many others.
Kirk McElhearn 14:51
Okay, we’re going to take a break. After we come again, we’ll speak a bit bit extra about these safety updates, after which Josh goes to rant about his Apple Watch Sequence 5.
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Some Macs can be unable to replace to the most recent Apple working methods .
Kirk McElhearn 16:18
Okay, we talked about that every one the iPhones that would run iOS 17 can run iOS 18, however not all Macs that would run macOS Sonoma can replace to macOS Sequoia.
Josh Lengthy 16:28
That’s proper, nearly all, however not all. There have been two Mac fashions that obtained dropped from with the ability to improve to macOS Sequoia, and that was the 2018 and 2019, MacBook Air. So you probably have both a kind of fashions, you’re presently caught with macOS Sonoma. So that may be a state of affairs the place it could make sense so that you can improve to macOS Sonoma 14.7 as a result of you don’t have any choice to improve to macOS Sequoia, aka macOS 15.0 it’s solely these two fashions. So all the pieces else that would run an earlier model of macOS Sonoma, any model of macOS Sonoma, you may improve to macOS Sequoia, apart from these two fashions. In order that’s a superb factor once more. Kirk talked about this earlier than, that there are greater than 70 CVEs patched in macOS Sequoia. In order of the present depend, it appears like 79 CVEs Now fairly often, Apple will go and revise that report later, and so they’ll add some extra issues that, oh yeah, we additionally patched this. We didn’t need to say something about it but as a result of possibly for no matter cause, it wasn’t patched throughout all of the working methods, and they also have been sort of holding on to some info. However as as of proper now, it appears like 79 CVEs and 35 plus extra recognitions. In order that’s a fairly large quantity. That places us effectively over 110 and possibly someplace past that even that’s loads of patches all in macOS Sequoia, so there’s loads of safety updates. It’s actually essential, I’d say, to improve to macOS Sequoia when you can, so long as you don’t have a kind of two fashions of MacBook Air. One different very nice factor that I wished to level out right here this this got here as an actual, actually huge shock. So I had only recently up to date our article on the Mac safety weblog about how one can improve to macOS Sonoma and even Sequoia on an older Mac that Apple doesn’t help for the most recent working system. And at the same time as of just some days in the past, actually as of Friday, it appeared like we weren’t going to get an up to date model of OpenCore legacy patcher. That is the app that allows you to set up the most recent model of macOS on a lot older {hardware}. It appears like the brand new model of that wasn’t going to come back till winter, they have been saying. After which they stunned everybody and launched open core legacy patcher, 2.0 level oh on Saturday, two days earlier than the brand new macOS Sequoia simply got here out, and it contains help for all Macs that it was suitable with, from my 2007 mid 2007 iMac, which has to have a CPU improve, which mine, after all, does all the way in which to all the pieces as much as and together with the Macs that have been minimize off from macOS Sonoma. So the one two fashions that aren’t but supported for opencore legacy patcher are, sadly, these two fashions of MacBook Air. So proper now you actually are caught with macOS Sonoma. You can not even with a 3rd occasion patcher. As of proper now, you may’t improve to macOS Sequoia. It doesn’t matter what you do, you’re simply out of luck.
Technically, Josh can be unable to obtain safety updates on his Apple Look ahead to 4 days.
Kirk McElhearn 19:54
Okay, so that you presently have an Apple Watch Sequence 5, and also you’ve ordered an Apple Watch Sequence 10, however you might be in purgatory. As a result of the Apple Watch Sequence 5 can’t run watchOS 11 and get safety updates, so you might be in danger in your wrist till you get your new Apple Watch on Friday.
Josh Lengthy 20:13
That’s proper, yeah, this isn’t the most important deal on this planet, however you realize, I care about these form of issues.
Kirk McElhearn 20:20
Properly, it’s an entire 4 days that you simply’re caught with out safety updates. That’s 4 days that, you realize, that’s greater than half per week. Josh.
Josh Lengthy 20:28
By the way in which, none of those working methods as of proper now, wanting on the launch notes for these, Apple doesn’t say that any of those vulnerabilities, these 100 plus vulnerabilities, even in Sequoia, none of those have been exploited within the wild. Apple hasn’t, hasn’t mentioned that about any of those vulnerabilities. So at the least from that perspective, I’m not tremendous nervous that somebody’s gonna hack my watch within the subsequent couple of days earlier than I get the brand new mannequin within the mail. So it’s, it’s not the tip of the world from that perspective, however it’s a little bit irritating that Apple didn’t launch a watch OS 10 replace. So sadly, my watch occurs to be one of many fashions that obtained minimize off this 12 months. I feel, if I’m not mistaken, there was a Sequence 4, Sequence 5, and likewise the SE first gen. All three of these Apple Watches obtained minimize off this 12 months from with the ability to improve to look at OS 11. So you probably have a kind of fashions, just be sure you both get a brand new watch. In the event you care about safety updates in your wrist. Some individuals don’t. I don’t know. I really feel like if I’m going to run with considered one of these gadgets that will get iMessages and different issues, I’d actually fairly have a tool that’s absolutely patched. So I favor to maintain all of my gadgets updated if I can. In order that’s why, for me, it’s essential to improve. And so I get a Sequence 10 this week.
How can I exploit the Passwords app?
Kirk McElhearn 21:50
Okay, we wished to take a detailed have a look at the brand new Passwords app within the working methods, in iOS 18, iPad, os 18 and macOS Sequoia, as a result of this new app has put passwords in entrance of individuals. Our producer Doug was saying that after he up to date his cellphone, there was the Passwords app icon on his dwelling display screen. Now most individuals most likely didn’t even know or didn’t take note of the truth that there was password saved within the Settings app on the Mac this goes again an extended solution to an app known as Keychain Entry. It’s been round for the reason that late Eighties it’s truly fairly previous, however bringing this app ahead to focus on the significance of passwords is admittedly fairly a giant deal. Now, whenever you have a look at the Passwords app, it’s not that totally different from the way in which it appeared final 12 months contained in the settings, however the distinction right here is it’s a standalone app, and it’s going to make individuals understand how way more essential passwords are than they could assume. In the event you hearken to this podcast, you realize passwords are essential. You understand you don’t put a password 123456, we’ve all the time really useful password managers and Apple’s Passwords app and password managers what they’re calling iCloud passwords and keychain. There’s a superb Passwords app when you’re within the Apple ecosystem. If not, then you might have issues, proper? In the event you’re utilizing, let’s say, a Mac and an Android cellphone, that’s totally different, and also you would possibly want one other password supervisor. However what’s actually essential is that you simply get into the behavior of utilizing the Passwords app to generate new passwords, checking the Passwords app for something that will have a safety warning, as a result of the Passwords app appears at credentials, so username and password mixtures which have been leaked in knowledge breaches, and it may well let you know if it’s been within the knowledge breach, offer you a hyperlink to go to a web site and alter the password. And all of this syncs by means of iCloud to your whole gadgets. Now, it doesn’t go on the Apple Watch but, and sort of stunned that Apple doesn’t have an choice for some form of Passwords app on the Apple Watch. And I’ll let you know why, as a result of whenever you want a two issue authentication code to log into a web site, it could be actually good when you might get it in your watch. I do that with one password for sure web sites, however iPhone, iPad, Mac, all of your passwords synced, safe, encrypted, it comes up with passwords you could possibly by no means provide you with. And, I imply, everybody ought to use it.
Josh Lengthy 24:10
Yeah, I feel it’s nice when you haven’t been utilizing a password supervisor already, and also you’ve simply been, sadly, possibly reusing the identical password throughout like, a number of web sites. This can be a nice various, like, actually, it’s it’s lots higher than not utilizing a password supervisor in any respect. For positive, you’re going to have entry to it, not solely on your whole, you realize, iPhone, iPad and Mac gadgets, however it’s also possible to even get the equal of this app. It’s not known as passwords, however you do get an iCloud app on Home windows, even that may permit you to see all the passwords that you simply’ve saved to your iCloud passwords. So that is that is good. It’s a very nice factor. I’d like to see an Android app. I don’t know whether or not Apples have. Going to do this simply because, you realize, Apple doesn’t actually like Android. They do have a transfer to iPhone app out there for Android, and so they and a few different apps, however, you realize, Apple, for essentially the most half, I feel most likely needs to keep away from placing a password supervisor on Android, simply because I’m positive that Apple looks like Android is extra susceptible, extra vulnerable to malware, and so possibly we simply keep away from placing our password supervisor over there.
Be cautious of browser extensions irrespective of the OS or browser.
Kirk McElhearn 25:27
It’s additionally value mentioning that a variety of internet browsers can retailer passwords, can sync them throughout gadgets, Chrome and Edge do that. I feel Firefox does it additionally. Apple has a few browser extensions for Chrome and Edge, particularly for Home windows customers. However once I was performing some analysis for updating this text, the evaluations of those extensions should not very constructive, so I wouldn’t rely on utilizing this in Chrome or edge, if these are the browsers you utilize, nevertheless, you may copy your username and password from iCloud for Home windows, paste it into Chrome or edge, which is able to then sync to different Chrome or edge. I imply, it will get a bit bit complicated like that. I’m positive you may belief Chrome and edge to additionally encrypt the passwords and sync them, you realize, safely. I wouldn’t fear an excessive amount of about that. However it doesn’t seem like these extensions are superb.
Josh Lengthy 26:15
By the way in which. Simply our regular reminder about extensions, we wrote an article not too way back about how Chrome extensions, and after we say Chrome, we’re actually speaking about all chromium based mostly browsers. So that features Edge and Courageous and Vivaldi and Opera and others. Try to be cautious about utilizing extensions. I’d say it’s actually essential to make it possible for if you’re going to use extensions, they arrive from a developer you realize you may belief, as a result of there have been loads of issues with not solely malicious extensions stepping into the official shops, but additionally in some instances, a few of the extensions which can be there have recognized vulnerabilities which have been sitting there for years, and loads of extensions simply not often get updates. And in order that’s sort of problematic, too. So if you’re going to use an extension, yeah, I’d say Apple’s one of many extensions you could possibly belief. However be very cautious about putting in some other extensions. In the event you haven’t reviewed what extensions you might have put in in your browser for some time, it’s a it’s a good suggestion to go in there and have a look and at what you’ve obtained put in and doubtless disable most of them, when you’re probably not utilizing them actively.
Unusual bug afflicts the Messages app.
Kirk McElhearn 27:22
Okay, there’s an fascinating bug that was reported at present iOS 18 bug and Messages triggered repeated app crash. Repair can require knowledge loss. Each every so often, there’s one thing in Messages the place when you sort sure characters, it crashes the app. I don’t know why. That is particular to Messages. On this case, the issue happens when somebody shares an Apple watch face. So when you’re within the Watch app in your cellphone, there’s a Share button for an Apple watch face, and you may share a face with somebody which is able to permit them to make use of a face you’ve designed. So the actual colours, the actual issues, and many others, if somebody shares a watch face with you in Messages and also you reply to them, then apparently all the pieces crashes. And the one solution to resolve this, when you’re fortunate, is to delete the dialog. However apparently, you probably have Messages in iCloud turned on, this may not even be attainable. I don’t know what to consider this form of factor. They’ve obtained to check this. They will need to have examined this earlier than it was launched. Though, you realize, I’ve been concerned in testing software program, and there are such a lot of little issues that may occur that Do you might have an inventory of each single factor it’s a must to take a look at and each button it’s a must to faucet and all the pieces it’s a must to attempt? However why does this occur in Messages? I don’t need to say usually, however we’ve had a number of instances the place specific characters or character mixtures can crash Messages?
Josh Lengthy 28:41
Properly, there’s loads of various things that Messages has to have the ability to course of proper now. There’s a resolution for all of this. You can just be sure you by no means actually have hardly any of those sort of issues. You know the way to do this.
Kirk McElhearn 28:53
Don’t use Messages?
Josh Lengthy 28:56
Properly, you may’t actually keep away from that (Use an Android cellphone?) No, no, no. So I’ll offer you a touch. My system doesn’t have this specific vulnerability. Why is my system totally different?
Kirk McElhearn 29:08
Since you’re utilizing Lockdown Mode (Precisely.) which turns off previews in Messages.
Josh Lengthy 29:13
That’s proper. So if anyone have been to ship me a watch face, I simply wouldn’t get it. It might simply present up as like a generic doc icon and and I wouldn’t have the ability to see it in any respect the identical factor if anyone sends me a PDF. Now, this does get actually annoying, which is why I feel most individuals most likely don’t need to use lockdown mode. However when you actually, actually need that further layer of safety, and also you don’t thoughts the annoyances that come together with it, lockdown mode is fairly good. I’m simply saying.
Kirk McElhearn 29:39
Okay, that’s sufficient for this week. Subsequent week, subsequent week, we’re going to have the ability to discuss our new iPhones and Apple watches. I feel we’ve ordered the identical Apple Watch Mannequin, and the distinction within the iPhone is that you simply obtained the small one and I obtained the phablet. Till subsequent week. Josh, keep safe.
Josh Lengthy 29:52
All proper, keep safe.
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About Kirk McElhearn
Kirk McElhearn writes about Apple merchandise and extra on his weblog Kirkville.
He’s co-host of the Intego Mac Podcast, in addition to a number of different podcasts, and is a daily contributor to The Mac Safety Weblog, TidBITS, and several other different web sites and publications.
Kirk has written greater than two dozen books, together with Take Management books about Apple’s media apps, Scrivener, and LaunchBar.
Observe him on Twitter at @mcelhearn.
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