Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Weekly tips and troubleshooting for Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple devices AI summary

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson Visit website › Technology · EN · 1167 episodes · latest 2026-11-09

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Get answers to your Apple tech questions every week! Dave Hamilton, Adam Christianson, and Pilot Pete share tips, tricks, and troubleshooting advice for your Mac, iPhone, iPad, and more — all delivered in a fun, friendly way that helps geeks and everyday users alike. Don’t Get Caught without your tech working right!

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The Mac Observer, Inc. 2026

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Your Data Took the Scenic Route

2026-11-09 · 1 hr 9 min · Episode 1167

Bring back a tap-to-stop button for alarms and timers in iOS 26 with one Accessibility setting, then let Siri do the math when you ask for a timer that ends at a specific time. You’ll also learn how tapping the time in…
Seventeen Hours to Save Five Minutes

2026-11-02 · 1 hr 22 min · Episode 1166

Hold Option while you drag a window edge and your Mac resizes around its center, and that’s just the start of what the Option key unlocks, from hidden Wi-Fi diagnostics to extra Bluetooth details in your menu bar.…
Wake Up, It’s Time to Go to Sleep

2026-10-26 · 1 hr 18 min · Episode 1165

Kick off Mac Geek Gab 1165 with a stack of Quick Tips: find the four new options hiding in iOS 27’s jiggly-icon mode, see how Messages remembers where you were when you jump back through a thread, and control which…
Cool Stuff Made for an Audience of One

2026-10-19 · 1 hr 21 min · Episode 1164

Mac Geek Gab 1164 is all about Cool Stuff Made, the apps you built and sent in, starting with Tap2Click, which finally gives your Magic Mouse a quiet tap-to-click. You’ll hear why rough-draft coding with AI is changing…
Emphatically Kind Requests

2026-10-12 · 1 hr 18 min · Episode 1163

Customize your Finder icons for instant recognition, stretch your Apple Watch battery on long workouts with Low Power Mode, and jump months back in your Messages history with a single tap. You’ll also learn how to force…
Chromations or Aberrations or a Sheen

2026-10-05 · 1 hr 22 min · Episode 1162

Kick off Mac Geek Gab 1162 with a stack of quick tips. You’ll stop your iPhone’s Camera Control from firing on every accidental squeeze, flip the Mac app switcher into reverse without lifting a finger, and ask Safari to…
Naked In Public

2026-09-28 · 1 hr 23 min · Episode 1161

Kick off Mac Geek Gab 1161 with a round of Quick Tips: flip through browser tabs with Command-Shift-[ and ], kill your iPhone flashlight with one tap, and learn iOS 27’s new swipe-down layout, where notifications, Siri,…
Old Contact, Who Dis?

2026-09-21 · 1 hr 19 min · Episode 1160

You’ll learn how to ask S-Lady to find a family member through Find My so you don’t have to call them, and why Command-Backtick (one key up from Tab) cycles windows inside a single app while Command-1, 2, 3 hops tabs in…
It's Not a Crease, It's a Wave

2026-09-14 · 1 hr 35 min · Episode 1159

Apple’s September 2026 keynote is in the books, and Pilot Pete, Adam Christianson, and Dave Hamilton are here to help you figure out what’s actually worth your money. You kick things off with the big question: what are…
Maybe It's "S-Bot"

2026-09-07 · 1 hr 27 min · Episode 1158

Start Mac Geek Gab 1158 with Quick Tips you’ll actually use: trigger your iPhone’s camera from your Apple Watch, pull a full-quality photo out of any video in iOS 27, and find out why hybridsearchd is quietly eating…

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