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He says, a few weeks ago, you mentioned the trick in the Notes app on the Mac that if you press Command-Enter while in a note, it jumps you back to the main list where you can then arrow up or down in the list of notes. And if you press Command-Enter while in the list of notes, it jumps your cursor to the end of whatever note you have selected. The new tip, if you hit tab while in the list of notes, it jumps your cursor to the start of that note instead of the end.

I use this command all the time to order my notes by number since I keep it sorted alphabetically. Oh, I like this. All right. More tips like this, plus your questions answered today on MacGeekCab 1097 for Monday, July 7th, World Chocolate Day 2025. Greetings, folks, and welcome to Mac Geek Cab, the show where you send in quick tips like that. You send in cool stuff found. You send in your questions. We share it all. We answer your questions.

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for those using Apple Music on the Mac and for those using Spotify. So Tony writes in, he says, this is for people using Apple Music on the Mac. Think of a song in your library or in Apple's music that's typical of what you like to hear. Select the song, right-click, and select Create Station. Put on the headphones and enjoy. Boy, overall, this seems to work much better

than in the past. It seems to work best with well-known artists and songs, which makes sense because it's got a bigger data trove to work with. But even if you select a big hit, music will offer less famous pieces as well. And then my quick tip to that, because my daughter won't let me do Apple Music because she has all her stuff in Spotify. If you, you can use Spotify Create Station and I have liked songs.

So if you open your liked songs playlist, tap the three dots next to any song and in the menu that comes up, go to song radio and a new playlist will start with similar tracks. So ways to get music that you like without actually having to go and pick out each song.

Should I take us to Alan?

When I plugged in my X9 Pro SSD, the time machine for that Mac automatically, when I plugged that in, the time machine for that Mac automatically starts up. When that finishes, I go into Disk Utility, eject the SSD from the top level, and eject the SSD from the top level. I also set my time machine to, time machines to backup daily. By the way, containers cannot be encrypted. Just the volumes within it can optionally be encrypted on a per-volume basis.

But this is the way to do it. And I love the idea of encrypting certain volumes. Certainly, he's doing all of them, and that's fine. But, yep.

that I could create with naming that I wanted to define and ideally would be an iCloud email. My first thought to just create a new Apple ID, but that was going to be a pain because I had to earn a new Apple ID and mail and track that. And you also have to enter a credit card, my comment. Looking for an answer on the web, I had completely forgotten about Apple email alias. Turns out every Apple ID is allowed to have up to three alias emails associated with the same account.

So I simply went into iCloud Mail on the web, clicked the little gearbox, and selected Email Alias that's in the left column as you're looking at it. Creating a name of my making, and boom, all of a sudden I had a new email with an iCloud extension that routes to my existing email account. It's sort of like a self-assigned hide-my-email feature that can be turned on or off as needed. Anyway, something folks have probably known about for years, but something that's easy to forget.

Keep up the great work, Joe from Raleigh. And I will also add that while you're limited to three active aliases at any one time, you can delete one and replace it with a new one. Just remember that if you do delete that alias, it's gone forever. You're not going to be able to delete it and turn it back on.

but this is the kind of thing that's worth thinking about when you go to delete one of these aliases. Like, just make sure. Yeah, very good point.

And then I was like, well, why would Steve not see that? And it turns out that the battery indicator is only available in wireless CarPlay. Because I guess the postulation on at least Reddit is that if you're wired into your thing, it's already charging. So why would you need to know what the battery was at?

on the on the screen for the battery but you're right we don't get percentage we just get whatever visual indicator you know shows you know half three quarters one quarter kind of thing but yeah i like the idea of asking You don't have to be on CarPlay to use the S-Lady to ask your battery status. You can do that at any time. Oh, sure. And it, in theory, will work. Speaking of wireless assistance, has anyone used Alexa Plus? This is...

So like that part's cool. But in terms of being a functional voice assistant in our homes, that took four steps backwards.

Some of the services uh that we have the skills you know with with the a lady you assign skills to it to link it to all your other smart home stuff some of the skills that we have work fine the same way but when we say you know a lady preheat oven to 350 now we have a ge oven that has wi-fi and it says yeah i can't do that it's like but you used to be able to and not every um, a lady capable device in the house shifted over only the echo dots that those

are the only devices we have that are compatible with the new thing so like the the sonos that we have that has the a lady built in is just the old school a lady so i could go to another room and preheat the oven, but yeah right that's convenient oh no yeah but so lisa started yelling at it and it's like this is stupid and it's like well i wish i could help you with that and lisa asked can you can you turn off the new features and go back and it was like well yes would you like to

disable early access to a lady plus and lisa i mean i was just standing there but i was i was not part of this conversation nor was i smart enough.

experience with it than than we had so yeah Yeah.

Yes. And, and Apple is slow on the uptake on that. You know, I mean, I, you know, we used to have, and sometimes still have things where it's like, Hey, you know, S lady, can you do this? It's like, I can't do that while you're driving. And like, cause I can't show it to you. It's like, I don't want you to show it to me. I want you to tell it to me.

have you used ChatGPT's voice mode recently?

we were talking about CarPlay. Yes. And Reverend Gary wrote in about Don at the Boise Apple Store who solved a CarPlay issue for him. Yeah. So essentially it's this. Want to rearrange apps in CarPlay? Go to Settings, General, CarPlay, and select your vehicle. This is on your iOS device itself. And then drag to rearrange the app icons to the order you prefer. For example, bring your favorite navigation and audio programs to the first page.

Push less used apps, in my case, like the Honda Link, to other pages, making using CarPlay way more simple and intuitive. And again, that's from Reverend Gary. And I always love his signature. Alcohol and calculus don't mix, so don't drink and derive.

He says, hello, to get alternate directions suggested by Apple Maps while using CarPlay, tap on the screen once to bring up the options. Then tap the icon in the top right corner to toggle to the overview mode instead of turn-by-turn mode, While in overview mode, maps will pop up alternate route suggestions as long as you stay in that mode. To select an alternate route, tap on it. So you can get alternate driving directions from Apple Maps in CarPlay.

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But I have it in front of me now.

Often, it did not find any programs to update. I hope that CleanMyMac would get as good as MacUpdater before that stops. That's all I can give you. See you at MacStock, Father John. Cool. I think we shared with somebody last week, a couple weeks ago, that someone found another update program, and now I don't remember what it is.

And Bob says, I've long used Mac Updater, and sad to see it go. I also used CleanMyMac and the App Store app for updating. Command-R to force a check. I just learned of an app called Latest that looks like it might help fill the gap. It can be found here, and he provides a link that we will obviously provide in the show notes. So maybe that one is the one you're thinking of, Pete?

So, yeah, great stuff. Love it.

Because I got caught with something that we've been talking about. For a long, long time, and a bunch of you folks have tried to help me with this, I was attempting to take your advice. And what I'm talking about is the merging of my iCloud account, which is my family-sharing iCloud account, where I'm the organizer, head of the household, whatever it might be. And then I also have my Apple ID that I've used for all of my purchases.

So anything that I bought on, you know, movies or iTunes or, and that account goes all the way back. And I was trying to explain this to Apple support. That account goes all the way back to iTools.

And so I went to go do this process Saturday, and lo and behold, I did not have that option. And I dug through the support article, and there are a bunch of different criteria. I don't want to go into all of them because it's too much time, but there's a bunch of situations where you can't do it. I mean, like one thing, all the accounts have to be on two-factor authentication, like that sort of stuff.

One of the criteria is if you have iTunes music data on both your primary and your secondary account, apparently you're not allowed to merge for some reason.

And so I wasn't sure because my primary account my iCloud account as far as I know I've never used for iTunes but I mean it's been so long it's possible I logged in to the wrong account at one time or another and you know uploaded some music from my music library to that account right and so i called apple support and i i thought i you know i could just tell them well how do i get into my primary account and just delete the itunes data if that's what's

stopping me i don't care what's in there because all my music is you know all my itunes data and my uploaded music from the past when we had itunes connect and all that other stuff is in this purchases account that i have so like just blow it away or you blow it away i don't care like clear it yeah get

And I'm like, well, yeah, probably. Uh, but that account, uh, got screwed up. I couldn't get logged into it. Um, I would, I would accept my username and password, but then it would go to this page and say, there's a problem with your account, contact developer support. And I contacted developer support multiple times. They never get back to me. And finally, I think one time someone said, well, just create a new developer account. So I created a new developer account under my primary Apple ID,

my iCloud account. That's the one I've been using. So he seems to think that's the reason why, but basically Apple's just making me... So I got caught because apparently my accounts are all screwed up and can't be resolved. And they're just going to make me pay $29.99 a month for storage, right? Because I can't do the add-on storage, because that's the problem behind this whole issue.

solves the problem. So I'm going back and forth with Apple support.

I forget how she tried to explain it, but she said, normally you could just leave the share and then come back in but you're the organizer so if you leave, everybody has to leave and she's like, but you can do that and she was trying to convince me to just do that and I'm like, that sounds not good to me what happens when I'm the organizer and all my family has access to all my and she assured me everything would be fine that I could leave the share, disband the entire family share

restarted up but the thing she couldn't tell me is like how is that going to be any different like if i'm still using the same icloud account and i'm inviting the same people how is that going to fix my situation because you know i'm willing to do it if you're like if you were telling me oh you have to use your what's now your secondary account as your icloud account like flip the two and that would like resolve the issue great um but obviously there i would lose access

to all my iCloud data because all my iCloud data is associated with my iCloud account. I don't know, but disbanding the entire family share. I said, one, that sounds like a lot of work. Two, I'm not convinced that that's going to actually do what you think it's going to do.

And they wouldn't lose their data from what I understand, but they would not be able to add anything more to it because they would be over their storage quota. Right. So letting that happen temporarily. Again, I've never personally experienced it, but we've heard from a lot of you that have gone through not quite this, but other things where you've effectively orphaned a family member temporarily in iCloud only. I don't mean, you know, and then brought them back in and all was well in the end.

They might have gotten some emails like, you need to upgrade your storage. It's like, yeah, OK, great. Thank you. And then, you know, it all just worked out fine and there was no data loss. So from that standpoint, what the woman says, what the woman said to you is is consistent with reports that we've heard. But again, secondhand. But your point about, well, on just like turning it off and turning it on again.

Why is that going to be any different? I would think you would need to turn it off and do some – and now maybe you have a different opportunity for merging if you're not part of a family account when you do the merge. Like maybe there's some order of operations here that walks Apple's path. I don't know. But that would be the only part that would make sense to me. And then once you can get the storage the way you want it, then you bring your

family back in and everything's, you know, where you want it. I don't know. Yep.

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All right, as we transition into cool stuff found here, I figured I'd take a minute and talk about this turntable that we're giving away this month, the Victrola Stream Onyx. It is a Wi-Fi and Bluetooth turntable. As I mentioned in the beginning of the show, it works with Sonos. You don't have to have Sonos to use it, but it certainly just connects to Sonos. You set up the turntable. You, it, it, there's, you know, there's some parts that you just got to kind of connect together.

Uh, it very easy. The way that you connect the belt drive to the, the motor as, after you lay the platter in is kind of brilliant actually. And, uh, they've got like a little, a little hook there that you kind of use and then remove. It's already built in. It's, it's pretty good. Uh, and then you power it on, you use their app to connect to it.

And once you do that then you can connect it to your sonos you can connect it to uh rune if you're a rune user you can connect it to bluetooth speakers you can connect it to upnp speakers or it's got outputs on the back you can connect it to wired speakers too and works very well it's been a blast we uh it it has brought the vinyl experience back into our home i've had a turntable in my office for a little while.

And I, the thing that I am not one of those people that says that vinyl sounds better than something else. It sounds different. And if you like that better, then it does sound better to you. Um, I I've always said that experiencing music is one of those places where confirmation bias is, uh, welcomed because if you love your $50,000 speakers, then you think things sound better on your $50,000 speakers, then by all means, man, use your $50,000 speakers. It's wonderful.

I don't need to argue with you that I have a set of, you know, $500 speakers that sound better. Like it's just, that's, that's not going to, there's no reason for this. Right. But what I do love about vinyl is the interaction with the music where, you know, every 20-something minutes, you've got to, like, go over and either flip the record or put a new record on and, you know, all that.

That tactile experience of interacting with music is something that I do really like about the vinyl experience. And this Victrola thing is a high-class turntable, and they've got new colors now. It's not just available in black. They've got, there's a white, there's a green, I don't know, I'm sure I'm not using their colors right, and a blue. I wound up getting the white one. A matte blue, sorry. And what are they calling the green?

As I float my matte green and white. That's how I got it right. Close enough. Yeah. So, fun stuff. And we'll put links in the show notes to everything. But enter that giveaway. That's your first place.

think of this um i'm trying to get you the link here i got the

It's USB. You can use it as a USB speaker. It has a strap, so you can carry it around and take it with you. And I bought this for, you know, it's $65 on Amazon. Yeah. And, I mean, it's fine. It's not going to blow anything away in terms of the audio quality. But it lets me play my old few vinyl albums that I have from when I was a kid. Yeah. And I can move it around the house. I can take it with me somewhere. It comes in different colors it's just a fun little

like oh like this this thing actually you know yeah so like.

the little noise is coming out of your airpods and your airpods cases and all that sort of stuff means. And PJ sent in, go to airpodnoises.net.

That's a whole list of them right there. And it'll actually, you can click on it and it will play the noise telling you what each one means kind of diagnostic test uh that they're the case battery case is low case battery is low rather that the uh airpods are seated in the case properly or improperly uh all that kind of stuff so it looks like there's about uh let's see four eight oh 14 of them

And I did look this up. It does look like there are some caveats to this. You need an Intel processor 2018 or later, and you need any generation of an M-series Mac, but it needs to be a Pro Max or Ultra processor.

time here? You want to take us to Alan, Adam?

So Apple created this thing called Bonjora Sleep Proxy. And what it does is when your Mac goes to sleep, it looks for another device on the network.

And I think certainly other Macs could be this, but I think your Apple TV can also be a bonjour sleep proxy and you know maybe a home pod i'm not sure about that but in any event it goes finds another device that is on and says hey will you well i'm going to sleep will you be my proxy and offer these services on my behalf while i'm sleeping and if someone requests one of these services from you would you wake me up so that i can handle the request and of course it says yes got you and

and that's exactly what it does and and that's how all of that works and it's wonderful and usually it works just fine and we don't even think about it. However, what happens sometimes is your Mac goes and wakes up and or comes back online after a reboot or whatever and says, oh, my gosh, there's another Mac. It sees its sleep proxy and doesn't realize it's its sleep proxy and says somebody else is using my name. I have to use a different name.

And the way it does it is it just increments. It doesn't, it does, if it's, you know, if you're at, you know, MacBook Air dash five, it doesn't look to see if MacBook Air dash one is available. It just says, well, I'm dash five. So I need now to go to dash six. And then this just keeps happening and happening.

So, and, and starts this loop. You can, once it's like up and interactive, you can go into system settings and change the name back and remove the numbers at the end and, and sort of start this cycle all over again. And that's often what I do, but it will start this cycle all over again. It kind of baffles me that this has been going on for years, maybe a decade plus now, and that Apple hasn't fixed it.

It seems, and of course, you know, this is the guy that's five days later still has a fever and is not on the coding team at Apple for very good reasons. But it seems to me that it would be very easy to have the affected Mac ask the first Mac, hey, who are you advertising that name for? And if it's me, you can stop because I'm here now. I'll take the name back. Like, I know that that negotiation, that handshake happens when the Mac wakes up and comes back on the network.

It just hands all its services back to it. So why can't it, when it sees that name, why can't it go and sort of proactively say, I think you're doing this for me, right? And if the other computer says yes, then okay, then all is well. I don't know why that hasn't happened. And I guess I just leave it at that. So anyway, go Adam.

So if you're not using the sharing, you could just turn it all off, and then it's not going to do the sponge or sleep thing, right?

So I think what you just suggested, even for someone like me who knows that I'm always going to have something on and I'm going to need to deal with this problem occasionally, uh it's still worth going in and looking at what else you're sharing because, it it's good to turn that stuff off just out of if you're not intending to share it especially music sharing and all that stuff so yeah file sharing file sharing that's.

Are we going to Tim next here? Is that the plan?

to my aftermarket iDoing Android head unit. I don't know what an iDoing Android head unit is. I'll research. Using wireless CarPlay.

While my phone connects just fine i'm having an issue with my phone not being able to use the cellular connection to access maps streaming media media or any other data the carplay screen shows the 5g signal strength and beside that is the wi-fi logo which should not be showing It seems that the phone is seeing the head unit's Wi-Fi CarPlay connection as the primary data source. Do you all have any recommendations for maintaining my wireless CarPlay connection

and restoring the cellular data access? Thanks, Tim.

So if you go to settings, cellular, Wi-Fi assist, and make sure it's turned on, that tells the phone to fall back on cellular when there's a Wi-Fi connection but no actual internet. That being said, that's one of probably, I don't know, four or five answers.

So it is supposed to connect to the head unit via Wi-Fi. And I look, this iDoing is a brand that makes aftermarket head units that you replace in your car. Gotcha. For CarPlay. Yeah. Yeah. It looks, I'll put a link in the show notes to it because it looks like a more integrated way than just the, you know, $60 one that you buy on Amazon and clamp to your, you know, suction to your windshield and forget about it. This actually replaces your car's head unit with CarPlay.

Uh, but it, it should use wifi for that. And, and like in any, uh, wireless car play scenario, either the aftermarket ones that we have in many of our cars here or the inbuilt one that I have in my newest car here, it all uses wifi, but the phone is smart enough to use cellular for the data connection in those scenarios.

So there's a couple of things I'd try. One is unpairing and repairing the phone, you know, with the CarPlay head unit just to see if that got somehow confused during the process. The other is some cars and therefore aftermarket CarPlay units, because how could the iPhone know the difference? But some cars offer their own Wi-Fi connections.

Like they have their own cellular radios in them and essentially offer their own hotspots is the right way to say it so if your phone thinks that your car is offering a hotspot and perhaps your car is offering a hotspot hotspot but does not have that hotspot like enabled from a data standpoint then everything you're describing would make perfect sense because it would say yeah i'm connected to the internet but i or it doesn't seem like i'm getting anything so look in

the settings for your head unit to see if hotspot is turned on and turn that off those are the only things i can think of adam you have any anything you can think of on this no yeah no okay okay Okay. Well, then that's where this ends for us at the moment. But, you know, the Discord discussion is continuing, and obviously, you know, we're always available at feedback at MacGicab.com, too. All right. Excellent.

I think we've gotten some comments about Apple's upcoming 2026 OSs, And I think it's probably worth sharing RN Doug's comment about the iPad OS 26 beta if you've still got that at your fingertips, Adam.

In some cases, a button can't be selected from the keyboard, but works with an on-screen tap. Two, liquid glass effects can obscure buttons, especially when in windowed mode, the stoplight and new menu bar are the most frequent offenders. Three, in windowed mode, it's easy to make windows suddenly fly off the screen. This usually happens to me when I'm typing on the keyboard. I haven't been able to identify what I'm hitting to do that,

but it happens regularly. I wonder if that's an expose thing.

The windowed mode is a step up from slide over in my opinion, but I haven't found a lot of use for it so far. Maybe if I had the 13-inch iPad versus the 11-inch. Oh, those are some good thoughts.

and I think it's a second generation iPad pro. I'd have to go look. I've had it like for forever. It's an 11 inch. And I was thinking that there'd be a bunch of features that didn't work. And so far, everything seems to be there. Like I can do the multiple, multiple scale windows because Apple always seemed to allege like that was a processing issue thing or something that we couldn't have you know overlaid windows with multiple windows because it

i would say i'd give it a 95 rating i really like it except for uh the home screen the i depending now i have a varied wallpaper so the wallpaper changes fairly regularly depending on the wallpaper i can read the names of my apps or the folders and on some wallpapers i cannot there's no automatic contrast behind there so if i have something white in the wallpaper it's very difficult to read uh some of the icons And it just doesn't look right. Now, that being said, I do really like it.

Although it did cause me to use a lot of data because it said, you know, if you want to do the spatial effect on your photos, you need to have your photos on your phone. So I downloaded my entire photo library to my phone. Ouch. But, you know, I'm at 80-some gigs this month. Thank goodness I have the unlimited plan. from Mint Mobile, which became truly unlimited a few months back. No more of this throttling at 30 gigs or 40 gigs or whatever it used to be.

so we're going to have a Cool Stuff Found review sometime soon.

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