The Future of Apple TV: What to Expect from the Next Generation of Set-Top Devices

It's been a while since Apple has made any significant updates to their set-top devices, and with the latest generation of Apple TV being released at an affordable price of $60 earlier this year, it's likely that we'll see some major software overhaul in the near future. As Apple continues to push the boundaries of innovation, it's expected that they'll make a big impact on the Apple TV experience.

According to Mark Gurman, a well-known tech journalist, there have been rumors about a potential beta release for the new Apple TV operating system. While no official details have been confirmed, Gurman has shared some mock-ups of what the new interface might look like, which are expected to be quite different from the current version.

One major change that's expected is a more modern and sleek design, with a focus on brightness and color accuracy. The new Apple TV will likely feature a more streamlined user experience, making it easier for users to navigate and find their favorite content. With the latest advancements in technology, we can expect a smoother and more responsive interface that will provide an enhanced viewing experience.

However, some people might be wondering how to reset activity data on their Apple Watch. If you're looking to start fresh or need to get rid of your activity data, you can do so from the Health app on your iPhone. To reset your activity data, go to the Activity tab and tap on "Reset Activity Data." This will dump all your activity data and bring you back to zero.

However, some might be hesitant to reset their activity data due to concerns about losing progress or motivation. If you're struggling with self-consciousness about your activity data or want to use it as a tool to motivate yourself to do better, you can keep using the Apple Watch instead of resetting it. This way, you can still track your progress and see how far you've come.

Apple Watch: Resetting Activity Data

For those who are struggling with self-consciousness about their activity data or want to use it as a tool to motivate themselves to do better, there's an alternative solution. Instead of resetting your activity data, you can keep using the Apple Watch and view your progress over time. This way, you'll be able to see how far you've come and make adjustments to reach your goals.

If you're looking for ways to improve your fitness journey or want to get started with the Apple Watch, there's a wealth of resources available online. From workout routines to nutrition tips, there are plenty of articles, videos, and podcasts that can help guide you on your fitness journey.

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couple other things i wanted to mention quickly we've started up again our iOS and it's locking to iOS is going to iOS and OS 10 and watch OS and serenity and I and some of our internet friends are going to basically explain how all this new stuff works because sometimes it's just it's it's very nebulous like you press this and that happens but it doesn't happen and then you try to figure out what's not happening so we try to explain in some cases down to the frame works and and why they work and why they're only compatible with some devices and not others but one of my favorite series every year n because it seems to actually it's almost like a translation service yeah me too I really like the ability for that we have to break things down into easy-to-understand component parts you know we talked about split split view on the iPad okay so but how do I use it how do I get into it is there a difference between that little drawer that I saw it dub dub DC and the big giant the big giant screen you know those those are serious questions today yes they are and there's also stuff that we discover while writing them like it you're trying to you're trying to swipe to go forwards or backwards in Safari but you're getting the gesture that opens or closes multitasking and you have to find out you gotta switch swipe at a certain spot higher up on the screen and you can discover the stuff but if we can just tell you it's so much easier yes I agree so that is all the announcements we have some news going out iOS 8 point port sorry iOS 8 point 4.1 ran it fixed a lot of the music things yes thank goodness I'm really excited about that um they're far far fewer bugs yeah and they fixed accessibility to so now if you were using voiceover with it you can get voiceover down to the interface level and it actually and this informed some of our switch the iphone stuff it occurred to me that Apple pushed out iOS 8 point 4.1 to everybody in every region on every carrier on every device going back to the 2011 iphone 4s all at once and you watch Google busy pushing out stuff to address stage fright and then I did I did a look and if you the two 2011 phones like the samsung galaxy s2 even the people say get a nexus even the Nexus the Galaxy Nexus though that was end-of-life tin 2013 so kudos to Apple for taking this stuff seriously absolutely yeah I appreciate how far back they reach for their past devices and you know as much as Apple wants you to buy the latest and greatest version of the iphone they also know that not everyone is going to have an iphone 6 some people are still on a 4s they're still on a 5 they're still waiting to upgrade and the fact that they can acknowledge that and be like yeah we we still want to support our consumer base even if they're not on the latest in the greatest yeah I think it comes down to they want your next phone like everyone wants the next phone to be the same manufacturers but there's Google who really has great intentions within the manufacturers and the carriers and the carriers get often care less and it just it and the iOS mine is going to go back on every phone that has iOS 8 so that goes back to 2011 as well iphone 4s ipad 2 ipad mini one it's I'm really happy about that me too sprint got everyone up early today by announcing that they are going to let customers upgrade now when people make fun of spring when I go to the US but it looks like that is sort of translating into them trying to do more almost like in a tmobile mode yeah well I mean t-mobile and Sprint are actually pretty good comparisons and that they both started out as fairly minor carriers in the world t-mobile really got a leg up because it had it managed to buy up quite a lot of 4G and LTE infrastructure whereas before it was kind of carrier sharing with AT&T Sprint has that same problem where sprint has a much smaller network than the big to the night T and Verizon um and as such they've they've had to differentiate themselves in different ways then can you hear me now or best coverage in the world and instead it's with things like this it's with early upgrade plans it's with you know music offerings it's the same same kind of things that t-mobile is doing oh I I definitely think sprint at least from from my memory sprint tends to target more conservatively where they're like will cut your bill in half well you know we'll do is half of this and t-mobile's like will pay for everything just come to us and then drop a couple f-bombs in the statement yeah so sprint what they announced was starting today new and eligible Sprint customers can get iphone 4 just $22 per month with iphone 4 ever anytime customers don't have the latest iPhone they are eligible to upgrade they bring the iphone upgrade on the spot and away they go it's that simple iphone 5 rows available on any eligible sprint rate plan and upgrade eligibility is always included in your press I appreciate that you did that with what you think of southern Americans sounds like there is a railroad company right that's healthy had read a passage for all their towers that just sounded real roadie to me yes sir we're going on the long lonesome road so if chemo if t-mobile is awesome in your area then this is something you really want to look into yeah I mean if it's one of those things where as long as as long as you can get good connectivity via sprint and you can tell sprint has those maps available um and little LTE jungles are also very useful 22 dollars a month is you know what what is that over two years Oh 2020 plus 25 yes so I just went apply buy something yes so it's a it's it's it's a little bit more expensive than just flat-out buying a new iphone but if you are somebody who upgrades every year it may end up working out pretty well for you because if you're looking at it over a year instead of over two years it becomes a lot better yeah and you can upgrade all the everyone lost up at all the time now many people there was some discussion about how Apple might need to be worried because the contract prices are going away but competing phones are the same price the two new Samsung phones are introduced are as expensive and more expensive than the iphone 6 plus though the price is going to get hidden in other ways I mean cow yea ill outlets are great at hiding they don't want you to know how much to actually costs no there is nothing to fear retail itself I cloud file recovery you go to icloud.com now you hit on settings you go all the way to the bottom under advanced and you can restore your files on a file by file basis just like you were able to restore photos before and you can also it's almost drop-off is not quite as nice and that is not quite but but it's a it's a nice step forward although you mentioned I remember we were talking about this a little bit and is there you were saying something about how there's no way to wipe certain things yeah cuz like in photos thought app on iOS and OS 10 you can go into your recently deleted photos omit any photos you'd rather the world never ever not ever see you can just purge them basically but you can't do that in icloud.com / photos and you can't do that anywhere as far as I can tell for iCloud file so if you have you know some document that that details your nefarious spector scheme to finally rid the world of j bond and take over and he'd rather bought not find out about it in advance you you can't purge that there's 30 to 40 days that if he gains access to iCloud account he'll be driving an Aston Martin right on top of you so maybe you don't put those things on iCloud Drive yeah I filed a radar and we'll get a post up about it but I filed a radar and sent it off to some friends hopefully hopefully because I was usually pretty good about adding those sorts of features mm-hmm so fingers crossed you'll be able to purge everything but most people i mean that's that's sort of more of a niche need most people the biggest problem they face is data destruction and data loss and to be able to go in there and you can reclaim old contacts old calendars old reminders that all gets archives and if you lose your stuff you delete it by accident going in and getting it back is invaluable it's awesome I'm really happy that they did this I believe you're probably also even happier that modern buckles are shipped yes I am so happy that modern buckles are shipping how did you know were they I think you ordered like nine of them I think that was a tip-off yeah I ordered no I spent my entire month's salary on a couple modern buckles no I mean I've been wearing I'm actually I'm wearing a bracelet around it right now but I have been wearing my modern buckle which was on loan from Apple for quite a few months now I got it back in June so I've been wearing this thing for three months and in that in that period um it hasn't worn down at all it looks beautiful it looks as clean as the day that I got it they are stunning they are they are stunning and they are comfortable my modern buckle is as comfortable if not more comfortable than my sport band which is something that I would have never guessed going into it I don't like leather bands I feel like leather bands are sweaty and they get itchy and this it's because it is so thin because it is so you know it's so thin and so tiny it doesn't feel like anything's on your skin and because the you know you can adjust this buckle to perfectly fit around your wrist and then once you do so you never have to readjust it again unlike the sport band where you have to like reach over and redo it every time with the modern buckle it's just I've just and now it's 11 clasp on it just sits it's it's so nicely on the wrist it feels so triple to be on my wrist and the colors just look great even with a despite you know I have a sport right now and I'm wearing obviously the modern buckle it technically is designed for the stainless steel Apple watch um but it looks great you can't really even tell that it doesn't belong on this watch unless you look really really closely mr. engages snob goggles yeah pretty much um I i am absolutely like I wouldn't have gotten one for my cell like I wouldn't have spent two hundred and fifty dollars on a on a leather band in addition to the review unit that I have if I didn't think it was truly quality ya know it's amazing um my mom wanted to get one but alas she has the 42 millimeter band and as Virginia Roberts wrote for us last week there's no parity in bands you can't get the modern buckle at the 42 you can't get the leather loop at the 38 but Apple did release a bigger version of the sport band and the released extra links for the link bracelet so there's movement there is yes so the bigger and the lot we're technically talking about longer longer nails not so much wider there is some some pushback from folks with slightly larger wrists who are complaining they just didn't have a band that could probably fit properly fit their wrists and thankfully now if you have the link they banned or if you want the sport band there are options for you I don't know if they're marking it as large XL on the sport it's all do I Dwayne the rock Johnson is much happier this week than he was last well I had bet he's probably yeah his his poor restful is being choked of all life Holly Ronda Rousey years ago yeah all the happiness uh yeah I'm uh I'm happy that they are moving I still don't know whether we're gonna see more bands more colors more options come the fall and watch os/2 but at least it hasn't stopped yeah I'm glad that they're focusing on keeping it going I'm not wearing my watch today because last night I was woken up by the fire alarm going off and I have one of those fire alarms where it's not a battery it's in the building there was no reason for it I keep my windows open in summers I think maybe someone was you know smoking it was yeah or there was more sir or something from the air conditioner i'm not sure but 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at all i'm excited that we got so many great responses but in general i feel like once the watch is on you it's kind of set it forget it and then you use it when it involves in your in your daily life and for a lot of us I think we're finding many many ways to incorporate it in really smooth comfortable ways yeah I love Benedict at Evans post last week where he said me I got the baby in one arm the wash basket in the other and his wife is calling he can answer with his nose and he feels like he has superpowers like Elastigirl Incredibles he's just delightful delightfully British then the FCC has outed people say FCC leaks things FCC doesn't leak things it's a government agency and companies that submit things so the FCC know that they're going to be made public so it's not a League it's just we found out by way of the FCC that Apple has a new magic mouse to ready a new wire apple wireless keyboard these are bluetooth 4.2 peripherals they didn't look they didn't look outlandish friend they look like new versions of the crusty old accessories so what do you what do you want to bet the magic mouse has forced touch though I didn't see a magic trackpad though and that's where I really want it yeah I think it might be a little bit yeah yeah horst touch is hard for such is hard and I would really like it on a magic trackpad but you know I'll take it on a magic mouse there was also the Guardian filed a Freedom of Information request on a government Naval facility and found out that Apple amongst other companies had asked to use the facility to trip to test automobiles and they said that this was proof confirmation that Apple is making a self-driving car it is confirmation that Apple wants to experiment with khari things confirmation I know it's confirmation that Apple wants a private place to test something that might need to be tested on a road that could just be car play guys car play to uses manufacture integration and you probably need to drive around and you can't drive around in unannounced cars that you like next year's car is that the companies haven't announced yet in public yeah 2016 vws i think i think volts why gonna be pretty upset if Applewood went around leaking their cars which is not to discount the fact that Apple may may well be testing off-road you know autonomous cars but they could also be in a very early stage of it I mean google has a lot of parking lots to play around in your problem yeah until Cupertino builds their underground parking structure for the for the spaceship they need some space you know you know that there is a mario kart track at the bottom of that thing oh my gosh yes be so cool uh yeah I'm not saying where some of our friends have been awfully quiet lately is all I'm gonna say I've made a joke this weekend that one of the things that concern me most about the short term future of Apple is the lack of spite of drone footage showing the building of a bjs too but I was assured that there are plenty of bars across the street from the new place as well so if you were gonna write that into your next insider headline please don't yes it's ok bjs bjs the original stands alone you can only get pizookies one place some apple released their diversity report and on the surface I mean this is one those things around where numbers are not your friend because in terms of raw numbers Apple hired a lot more women and minorities but because Apple is a large company the percentage the Delta change is in the miniscule want to two percentage range yeah the diversity report is very hard and very frustrating to deal with because I think well the way that Tim Cook introduced it i think is pretty self-explanatory where it's like there are numbers here that you know make it look like we're on the right track and there are numbers that show how far we still need to go and both of these things are true and i think that's that's very you know i am i'm glad that he acknowledges both sides of that coin because yes women are up in certain areas and i'm really glad to see that but it is mostly retail and while you know what retail is a great place to have to have diversity and not everyone is just you know let me sell you a computer we've got the creatives at the geniuses so there are you know women who often use those kind of jobs to spring into tech fields I mean I used an apple store job to to get where I am now so it's definitely a good starting point but it would still be good to see like I don't think there wasn't really any change in leadership there wasn't a lot of change in corporate or engineering and tech was weird because it added up to like it was 22 and 79 which adds up to 101 so I don't know if there was a one-percent changer to present change there yeah it's complicating numbers yeah and it's again you don't you have to hire a lot of people and apples an older company if you have a new company you tend to have more diverse workforce is because work forces are more diverse now Apple has to add people to change the numbers in the leadership and they're doing it with people like Lisa Jackson but more please and the numbers especially for African American and Hispanic Americans to single-digit for leadership half I saw in single digit for just the general workforce half that for leadership roles yeah so yeah they they and they do say more work has been needs to be done that's I think no one is disagreeing that no all right QA we're doing a Q&A show because people have a lot of questions and we are hopefully going to provide answers I want to start off with a couple emails I think we can get through those relatively quickly James has discovered something that we've known about the I the Apple watch for a long time but maybe hasn't been made as clear as it should have been and that is it was announced that if you had an iphone and you had an Apple watch on the same network you would be able to pretty much go anywhere on that network and your Apple watch would stay in contact with your iPhone regardless of Bluetooth range but people who are on 80 to dot 11 X and similar networks or places where you need to login for Wi-Fi are fine that's not the case and it's my understanding that you that stuff is not built into the Apple watch it doesn't have the ability to negotiate login based or 802 11 X networking connections so it doesn't it doesn't see them basically yeah I mean I've had this problem in my own house where the Apple watch sometimes just won't connect to and like if my iphone is more than three away it will just assume that all network connectivity is down and that's definitely frustrating especially because Apple is kind of like yes this is how this is going to work it's another it's another example of Apple being I over enthusiastic about something without necessarily disclosing the technical hurdles and complications that are required which we saw a lot with Apple music words you know these excuse me these that these features do have a large amount of technological complexity complexity underneath it and Apple by and large wants to be like no just don't don't pay attention to the man behind the curtain it's not we don't want to make this difficult for you but when it doesn't work when it doesn't just work it gets very sad and frustrating yeah so what Apple music where you know they sort of yadda yadda at the Apple music itunes match thing and then when you have trouble it's impossible to find any information on you gotta do a lot of testing mm-hmm so more information and all that stuff is always appreciated this next one is just adorable and I'm not sure how to fix it yet but we were looking into it I got a cute sound from my friends baby sent via I message I was wondering if I could save that sound and convert it to a texting tone I know how to do the conversion in sync between mac and iphone but i can't figure out how to get the AMR file out of the I message conversation help Adam all right Adam well I would check and see if ECAM ECAM software has a think that I think it's called I phone you you yeah awesome s so it's entirely possible that you might be able to pull that out of out of your SMS alternatively um I'm not sure if you can share an AMR file I imagine you might be able to in iOS 9 because you'd be able to highlight it if you can share it and if you can get it into an email message then from there or if you can forward it to an email message you would be able to get it out of the iMessage silo and do something a little more interesting with it that's actually really good idea let's try that and I find some baby sounds and get me working yeah all right this last one and we get this quite a lot so I figured I put it in here I was wondering if you could help me out for my iphone well the problem is i have an iphone 5c and i want to reset it but it's locked because someone's account has it locked how can i reset it when someone else's account is locked on it I tried dfu but it went through sorry that's a little bit confusingly written it went through but it need to enter the password for the account that has it locked and I don't know what that password is because I originally got this from my friend he found it and gave it all the story the story thickens get banded and gave it to me good you help we get this so often from people who want to basically remove the access lock feature which is Apple's theft prevention system which means that if you get an iphone you can't really do anything with unless you have the owners iCloud email address that includes if you find it or air quotes find it and that is for very good reason yes you're not sorry you're not going to you're not going to circumvent apples activation lock tech yeah nope nope nope nope nope alright moving on to Twitter we have some good questions in Twitter to Michael a bishop he wants to know how i can use Siri with hue lights he could not find the answer online well Michael unfortunately you can't use Siri with hue lights yet Phillips has said that they will be integrating hue lights with with home automation so we'll see that hopefully with iOS 9 later in the year whenever philips decides to release their hub to make all the hue lights home kit compatible until then unfortunately you won't be able to make a make Siri make your lights dance i'm going to try a workaround i just received the ihome plug that is home kid in surrey compatible and i was doing some testing and it looks like when power goes out and comes back on the hue lights come on to their default normal light mode which means theoretically you could you could tell the plug to turn off and the plug to turn on you wouldn't be able to control the lights but you could at least get them to turn on and off and that's terrible solution but it's a nerdy thing to try that's a good start here alright here's a question for you right Peter Gilbert wants to know he says I've discovered the Batman Arkham series on the imac but I struggle with it on the mouse and the keyboard can you suggest a good Bluetooth controller really thats a guy English question but this guy English no appliqués I think he just hardwired there I think he's not a cable from the from Arkham that goes directly to the back of his brain stem matrix haha oh thanks what what I tried was an Xbox controller and there are various bits of software and github repositories and we have an article on it so I'll add that to the show notes that lets you get your xbox controller working with your Mac and since a lot of us are used to using Xbox controllers for console league gaming gaming using it on on the Mac is quite easy and I was playing not the layout of the latest outcome but they are come before that on my Mac for quite a bit and it worked great awesome I'm gonna run away for one second because I wrote a man is at the door run run shovel any known iOS updates to stalk weather or Apple or other apps yes shovel in fact there are stock whether Apple has not said anything about but Apple completely redid the notes apps as one of their highlights one of their tent pole features it's a brand new notes app that lets you not only take notes but in more of like an Evernote Ian one note ii sense you can actually embed things including directions and websites and all sorts of other data inside the note pictures and then you can quickly find them you can see a list a sort of an abstract view of all different media you've embedded and so far it's pretty useful you can even sketch if you have an iPhone or an iPad even sketch right into the note little hand-drawn thingamabobs and they all come right in there so notes is a big we design also they've gotten rid of newsstand all the newsstand apps have been set free to roam around the home screen and they've got a brand new news app and the news app pulls in sort of all the RSS news sources that you know and love and then presents them to you in a very slick not quite Flipboard way but like a technology 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the deal with all Apple Mail going into junk mail I've tried all the apple support options to no avail true on OS 10 and iOS so I have not actually ever seen that down and that that would certainly be incredibly stressful if that were the case so or if that is the case so a couple things that I could recommend that you try is marking people as VIPs and seeing if they stay out of the junk mail folder for you and maybe set up a secondary account just for testing purposes and see if those also go into junk mail because if that's happening is probably not an iCloud issue but might be something on how you have your local client setup and if it's maybe also try setting up a gmail account and see what happens with that again just to sort of the rule of troubleshooting is to reduce everything to a simple unknown state as possible and then to try out logical variants so your email is all going to junk you make sure that other iCloud email does that go to junk or not other email does that go to drunk or not and once you can start answering those questions it makes it makes finding out where the exact problem is much easier absolutely round your back I am back yes I I got an extra dog nice they just mail those two you know yeah they just they just kind of show up from vet appointments ah alright so let's see who else bread Covington wants no coving t'en Covington sorry if I'm mispronouncing your name brett wants to know when do you think the macbook pro will get us bc well brett i think it's probably going to be a couple years yet usually when Apple wants to experiment with something they tend to do it on a computer like thee like the air or now like the new macbook I think maybe we'll see like send us v seaports possibly Renee do you have any more insight in your in your shipping shipping supply lion brain no I like it's hard because they they just updated those machines like they updated the macbook pro 13-inch to broadwell already in the app the updated the macbook 15 is macbook pro 15-inch to Haswell 1.5 it's always like you can never say never with Apple then one of the most agile and and you know companies out there so they could push out updates whenever they want but I think well it'll probably be a redesign maybe next year when we see them and all us bc i think they'll just i think with the pro little be additive it won't really work they'll replace the existing USBS with us bc and keep the Thunderer yeah in addition to Thunderbolt 2 you won't see 11 USBC port macbook pros and i think i'll write to sky like maybe we'll see thunderball 3 and us bc that's true i wonder if they'll keep the magsafe or if they'll use us bc for charging as well i think us bc i think the magsafe the magsafe stays are limited which makes me sad because I really Capone I really do love having my super light laptop not fly off the table if someone trips over the cords that has happened on multiple occasions and in fact you can you can see the one the one time where uh-huh where something bad happened on that that poor little bent corner I like other people wish they would just put the magnetic coupling on the AC adapter now side ya just bring us more sense that makes a lot more sense do it Apple do it what's next Renee are there this is from mark mark D more dime more we are terrible at this are there any advantages to buying an iphone unlocked well mark there are a bunch of advantages actually I mean it's more expensive which is definitely a downside but you're going to get a better resale value for it because you can use it on any network and on top of that you will be able to use it overseas which if you are either planning on doing some traveling or if you travel overseas regularly or just to other countries unlocked iPhones are incredibly useful because then you can pick up pay-as-you-go sins and basically pay next to nothing for your internet connectivity and phone coverage whereas if you're locked to a certain networks a AT&T the overseas fees are ridiculous it's slightly better than they used to be but it's still something like sixty dollars for 120 Meg's or something silly like that it's absurd and in my case because I'm a complete and utter idiot it just lets you i buy unlocked all the time even though there's no advantage because Rogers charges me the same thing but I just like the idea that I'm not beholden to Rogers it's almost like it's civil protest it cost me the same but it's civil protest putting my foot down Nathan Taylor asks is time machine for iOS doable there have been rumors for a long time they would Apple would take the time machine and basically the airport extreme box and turn that into an intermediary for iCloud so basically backups would be staged on that device and also be copied to iCloud and updates to device would come down there and then go to all your machines that would stop you having to up to download gigs and gigs of data on every device that you have that's been rumored for years and years and year is but Apple hasn't actually implemented it in the field it's it's absolutely possible and it's good to have a local backup because your iCloud could be unreachable for some reason and the ability just to restore from that local machine would be great in a lot of situations so it's something that i would i would just really like them to ship eventually yeah i agree i do think that obviously iCloud already exists as a form of time machine for your iOS devices but if you want a local intermediary something that doesn't require your iOS backups to be stored on your computer which I would really like Apple by the way it would be really cool to see that hook into the airport end into time castle and there might be some people who just for security reasons or because of the the jobs they have in security reasons for those jobs don't want to or aren't allowed to use to store data of any form including back up on someone else's servers including Apple servers so Howie like you probably wouldn't get the fancy time machine interface and be able to go back in time and choose your email from two days ago probably not just your device image having it locally would be great absolutely alright sure Chiquita I'm gonna say she kita cuz it sounds like Shakira this is the question we probably won't be answering until much closer to shipping date because things change so fast like we saw with sprint today but which character which carrier should I chill i choose to pre-order next sorry i'm not a good at deciphering people trying to make tweets really short to fit the character limit which case you should i choose pre-ordering next month i'm paying full price and using as a prepaid well i would say get an unlocked phone first and yet in terms of specific carriers we're going to do a revamp of our annual guide to which carrier is the best for the iphone and i would say hold off until we've got that sort of put together it really it largely depends on where you live yeah what's important to you if you have a family and thus a family plan and how long you're going to be using the phone yeah absolutely mean that's the age-old answer is that we could tell you some characters amazing and maybe they just there is just no reception in your in your area or at your place of work or school and then that is of no use to you yeah Celia we've got a couple couple more Justin Sealy asks do you expect apple to release an iPad pro I need to upgrade but i'm hesitant given the rumors of a September refresh well Justin I would say don't upgrade until September regardless or october yeah or october um as for an iPad pro or whether it's just going to be a next generation ipad i am still I'm still see-sawing honestly I really like the idea of a larger iPad I think that it has a lot of potential avenues in both business and in education which are two markets that Apple is very interested in we've also seen that the tablet market has steeply declined not just for Apple but all over the place I forget who did the recent research numbers but tablets right now are in this weird lull and I think Apple needs to be very smart about what they're doing for the next generation of the iPad it can't just be an ipad with a faster processor and I i think they are aware of this and they know that something has to be like iOS 9 software improvements for the ipad already looked to be promising from that Avenue it says to me yes we're actively looking at the ipad and what we can do to make the ipad a better machine um but whether or not we're going to see and I an actual iPad pro and a stylus in september-october whether it's just going to be a new iPad that has some professional features that's still TV but regardless don't buy an ipad right now ya know absolutely and again Apple as far as I know apples had my pad pro for a while and it's just what Wren said whether they choose to release it or not and they could choose to release it now and they could choose not to they had apple had a large-sized iphone 4 they chose an effort to release and we await until the iphone 6 to get that large size phone so if you absolutely have to have it today then just be happy with what you get because it'll always they'll always be something you coming out but if you can wait wait as long as you can and then be happy with what you get then Charles Charles says as a parent what size hard drive is right for a new iphone 64 gigabytes or 128 gigabytes given the tons of pics and videos are in I use a 64 gig and I still have I think 10 gigs left something like that and I have a ton of photos 10 a video however if you have the money to upgrade to the 128 and you really want to make sure that you have the space go for it but the 64 gig I'd say is the good the good size for the majority of people yeah I have six point six gigabytes currently available and I have something like I have a hundred and eighty-eight applications on my phone I'm reading for my about page now nine songs 588 videos twenty-two thousand photos 188 applications I think that's all that's interesting and I have six gigabytes available on my 64 gig phone so if that helps in any way hopefully it does uh if you if you have the money to spend the extra hundred bucks to get the 128i it's highly recommended yeah what am I now to actually have no idea what my current stats are some settings general about and I have 113 gigabytes of which 80 gigabytes is free mm-hmm and I'm using all the guy called Apple music and iCloud photo library all that stuff so it's it's super efficient but if you're planning on shooting tons and tons of 1080p video then I think or if you want to store tons and tons of 1080p video that you download from iTunes for example then the four gigs a swatch you're going to go through that pretty quickly but otherwise I think you're pretty much fine with either of them uh rich w woods Wren it's got two of them it was yes is the third generation Apple TV no longer supported the apple TV never a 0 s 8.4 and there's no sign of an iOS 9 beta well uh rich I would say that's largely because we have heard lots of rumors about a new Apple TV and I am guessing that they do not want to give away things that up might be present in a new Apple TV by unleashing us a beta software update I'm assuming that the next version of apple TV is going to be a very a very big overhaul on the software side because currently the software has kind of been minorly updated since iOS 5 or so and as a result I think that they want to kind of hold that new inner back um I do think we will see new iOS software for the latest generation Apple TV especially because Apple made such a big push at selling it for sixty dollars earlier this year but I don't think we'll see a beta until the new apple TV is released yeah mark Gurman just put up a CA shot a mock-up of what it might look like so you can check that out it is it is very white eager man fellow very very white very white the new interface is we're going to be interesting for brightness but Mary Estevez wants to know how do i reset activity data on an Apple watch I want to start over how do you reset activity data that is a great question and so I believe to reset activity data I I'm going to investigate it more thoroughly but I believe you can do it a from the Health application and be you might be able to do it from the activity app on your phone i reset my very gonna period you could also do that yes it will we brought all of your activity data it will dump your activity data if you don't make a backup um but yes this this is what I would recommend yeah but even so I mean um i would just a devil's advocate deb devil's advocate for a moment suming this is your activity data and you tonight you're starting over because you know one of your friends was using it or your husband or your your wife or your kids um it's you know it even if your move circles look not great for the last month or so that you've had the watch or you feel self-conscious about it I don't don't reset it use it as a use it as a point to to go better and and step up from there and and say okay so this month wasn't great I'm going to use that as my you know my motivation to do better and obvious you better in September they're racing sometimes sometimes it's good to have data of where you know you didn't do as well plus wicked bragging rights because they look at the progress I made from just then it is always good to have that big hockey stick at the beginning of your graphs oh I think that is all the questions that we have for today run what well those were a wonderful series of questions thank you readers and listeners we appreciate it and we are going to be back I believe on Friday again we've had a little bit we we were we were hip deep and so many of the things as Friday that we punted till Monday but we'd wanted to make sure we got it done on Monday but we're gonna we're gonna try and keep fairly consistent for the weeks ahead leading up to I think there's something going on in September yes just something nothing nothing it shouldn't be a big deal we're up to your hardware maddening maddening year after year probably unheard of it yeah make sure just that I mean what else do they have to prove they could just drop the mic and go into hot tubs sure exactly seriously all right round people want to find out more about you on the Internet where can they go they can go to my Twitter feed or instagram at saturn sc tter n or on I'm more calm or on the incomparable where we're about to launch our radio theater and soon you'll be able to find us on the iBookstore under I'm or editors you can find the Apple music book for pre-order available today five dollars less than a venti cup of coffee what entertainment looks and hearts of podcasts yeah I'll radio theatre knows me and comfortable does yes if you want to hear me doing all kinds of crazy voices beyond the occasional joking accents I do on the show check it 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has put her natural Snoopy dancing powers party in his eye socket uh so what does that mean what does it book finished me and ran a book finished means that we have compiled over 70 articles from I'm more calm into an e-book and made it pretty and made it readable and added a bunch of images and written I've probably written seven thousand new words for this book I so we basically put together a ton of apple music content and hopefully it'll be on the store in just a few days we're really excited about it and really proud of this book and so i hope i hope people check it out you can pre-order it now five dollars that's awesome it's about the cup cost of like a cup of coffee and a croissant so if you arrange hey x six bucks for this there you go second cup yeah pickups and when you say we I'm use hard he's being probably why we say we she took this mountain of mismatched articles and by will and skill force them into something that is amazing looking and incredibly knowledge packed is the word I've been one bed right now yes I would agree about knowledge packed this is definitely it's a five chapters and each chapter has about 12 sections in it so we've we've got a lot a lot of stuff in here all that music all of the Apple music I'm really excited for people to get their hands on this and get a chance to take check it out especially if you're you're still having problems on Apple music or you know people who are or were like I don't understand how a music it's here it's scary come check out our book it's awesome how much more Apple music affinity put in that book and done none more helpful music we have chalk we have pushed it Chuck Ville is chock full of music I'm gonna rap for this show I'm gonna a Lea sigh more calm / Apple music book and take it right to the ordering page i make everybody there we go I like it quicklinks alright awesome so that will be out soon we also are busy running our hashtag air hashtag switch to iphone it's gotta be a thing I want to make yeah I need a sticker let's face oh yeah sticker hashtag switch to iphone contest so we've been talking a lot about switching to iphone and Tim Cook said in the last report that more people are switching to iphone than ever but there are some people who just can't they really want you but they just they just can't do it so we wanted to try to help and to do that we've been doing some contests we did one last month we're doing another one this month last time it was a comment contest this time it's a twitter contest all you have to do is go to I'm more calm / switch dash to dash iphone you'll find all the details basically you you tweet to a dime or hash tags which the iphone and tell us why you want to switch and we will help you do it to the tune of 500 bucks 500 of real gift certificate monies so check that out a couple other things i wanted to mention quickly we've started up again our iOS and it's locking to iOS is going to iOS and OS 10 and watch OS and serenity and I and some of our internet friends are going to basically explain how all this new stuff works because sometimes it's just it's it's very nebulous like you press this and that happens but it doesn't happen and then you try to figure out what's not happening so we try to explain in some cases down to the frame works and and why they work and why they're only compatible with some devices and not others but one of my favorite series every year n because it seems to actually it's almost like a translation service yeah me too I really like the ability for that we have to break things down into easy-to-understand component parts you know we talked about split split view on the iPad okay so but how do I use it how do I get into it is there a difference between that little drawer that I saw it dub dub DC and the big giant the big giant screen you know those those are serious questions today yes they are and there's also stuff that we discover while writing them like it you're trying to you're trying to swipe to go forwards or backwards in Safari but you're getting the gesture that opens or closes multitasking and you have to find out you gotta switch swipe at a certain spot higher up on the screen and you can discover the stuff but if we can just tell you it's so much easier yes I agree so that is all the announcements we have some news going out iOS 8 point port sorry iOS 8 point 4.1 ran it fixed a lot of the music things yes thank goodness I'm really excited about that um they're far far fewer bugs yeah and they fixed accessibility to so now if you were using voiceover with it you can get voiceover down to the interface level and it actually and this informed some of our switch the iphone stuff it occurred to me that Apple pushed out iOS 8 point 4.1 to everybody in every region on every carrier on every device going back to the 2011 iphone 4s all at once and you watch Google busy pushing out stuff to address stage fright and then I did I did a look and if you the two 2011 phones like the samsung galaxy s2 even the people say get a nexus even the Nexus the Galaxy Nexus though that was end-of-life tin 2013 so kudos to Apple for taking this stuff seriously absolutely yeah I appreciate how far back they reach for their past devices and you know as much as Apple wants you to buy the latest and greatest version of the iphone they also know that not everyone is going to have an iphone 6 some people are still on a 4s they're still on a 5 they're still waiting to upgrade and the fact that they can acknowledge that and be like yeah we we still want to support our consumer base even if they're not on the latest in the greatest yeah I think it comes down to they want your next phone like everyone wants the next phone to be the same manufacturers but there's Google who really has great intentions within the manufacturers and the carriers and the carriers get often care less and it just it and the iOS mine is going to go back on every phone that has iOS 8 so that goes back to 2011 as well iphone 4s ipad 2 ipad mini one it's I'm really happy about that me too sprint got everyone up early today by announcing that they are going to let customers upgrade now when people make fun of spring when I go to the US but it looks like that is sort of translating into them trying to do more almost like in a tmobile mode yeah well I mean t-mobile and Sprint are actually pretty good comparisons and that they both started out as fairly minor carriers in the world t-mobile really got a leg up because it had it managed to buy up quite a lot of 4G and LTE infrastructure whereas before it was kind of carrier sharing with AT&T Sprint has that same problem where sprint has a much smaller network than the big to the night T and Verizon um and as such they've they've had to differentiate themselves in different ways then can you hear me now or best coverage in the world and instead it's with things like this it's with early upgrade plans it's with you know music offerings it's the same same kind of things that t-mobile is doing oh I I definitely think sprint at least from from my memory sprint tends to target more conservatively where they're like will cut your bill in half well you know we'll do is half of this and t-mobile's like will pay for everything just come to us and then drop a couple f-bombs in the statement yeah so sprint what they announced was starting today new and eligible Sprint customers can get iphone 4 just $22 per month with iphone 4 ever anytime customers don't have the latest iPhone they are eligible to upgrade they bring the iphone upgrade on the spot and away they go it's that simple iphone 5 rows available on any eligible sprint rate plan and upgrade eligibility is always included in your press I appreciate that you did that with what you think of southern Americans sounds like there is a railroad company right that's healthy had read a passage for all their towers that just sounded real roadie to me yes sir we're going on the long lonesome road so if chemo if t-mobile is awesome in your area then this is something you really want to look into yeah I mean if it's one of those things where as long as as long as you can get good connectivity via sprint and you can tell sprint has those maps available um and little LTE jungles are also very useful 22 dollars a month is you know what what is that over two years Oh 2020 plus 25 yes so I just went apply buy something yes so it's a it's it's it's a little bit more expensive than just flat-out buying a new iphone but if you are somebody who upgrades every year it may end up working out pretty well for you because if you're looking at it over a year instead of over two years it becomes a lot better yeah and you can upgrade all the everyone lost up at all the time now many people there was some discussion about how Apple might need to be worried because the contract prices are going away but competing phones are the same price the two new Samsung phones are introduced are as expensive and more expensive than the iphone 6 plus though the price is going to get hidden in other ways I mean cow yea ill outlets are great at hiding they don't want you to know how much to actually costs no there is nothing to fear retail itself I cloud file recovery you go to icloud.com now you hit on settings you go all the way to the bottom under advanced and you can restore your files on a file by file basis just like you were able to restore photos before and you can also it's almost drop-off is not quite as nice and that is not quite but but it's a it's a nice step forward although you mentioned I remember we were talking about this a little bit and is there you were saying something about how there's no way to wipe certain things yeah cuz like in photos thought app on iOS and OS 10 you can go into your recently deleted photos omit any photos you'd rather the world never ever not ever see you can just purge them basically but you can't do that in icloud.com / photos and you can't do that anywhere as far as I can tell for iCloud file so if you have you know some document that that details your nefarious spector scheme to finally rid the world of j bond and take over and he'd rather bought not find out about it in advance you you can't purge that there's 30 to 40 days that if he gains access to iCloud account he'll be driving an Aston Martin right on top of you so maybe you don't put those things on iCloud Drive yeah I filed a radar and we'll get a post up about it but I filed a radar and sent it off to some friends hopefully hopefully because I was usually pretty good about adding those sorts of features mm-hmm so fingers crossed you'll be able to purge everything but most people i mean that's that's sort of more of a niche need most people the biggest problem they face is data destruction and data loss and to be able to go in there and you can reclaim old contacts old calendars old reminders that all gets archives and if you lose your stuff you delete it by accident going in and getting it back is invaluable it's awesome I'm really happy that they did this I believe you're probably also even happier that modern buckles are shipped yes I am so happy that modern buckles are shipping how did you know were they I think you ordered like nine of them I think that was a tip-off yeah I ordered no I spent my entire month's salary on a couple modern buckles no I mean I've been wearing I'm actually I'm wearing a bracelet around it right now but I have been wearing my modern buckle which was on loan from Apple for quite a few months now I got it back in June so I've been wearing this thing for three months and in that in that period um it hasn't worn down at all it looks beautiful it looks as clean as the day that I got it they are stunning they are they are stunning and they are comfortable my modern buckle is as comfortable if not more comfortable than my sport band which is something that I would have never guessed going into it I don't like leather bands I feel like leather bands are sweaty and they get itchy and this it's because it is so thin because it is so you know it's so thin and so tiny it doesn't feel like anything's on your skin and because the you know you can adjust this buckle to perfectly fit around your wrist and then once you do so you never have to readjust it again unlike the sport band where you have to like reach over and redo it every time with the modern buckle it's just I've just and now it's 11 clasp on it just sits it's it's so nicely on the wrist it feels so triple to be on my wrist and the colors just look great even with a despite you know I have a sport right now and I'm wearing obviously the modern buckle it technically is designed for the stainless steel Apple watch um but it looks great you can't really even tell that it doesn't belong on this watch unless you look really really closely mr. engages snob goggles yeah pretty much um I i am absolutely like I wouldn't have gotten one for my cell like I wouldn't have spent two hundred and fifty dollars on a on a leather band in addition to the review unit that I have if I didn't think it was truly quality ya know it's amazing um my mom wanted to get one but alas she has the 42 millimeter band and as Virginia Roberts wrote for us last week there's no parity in bands you can't get the modern buckle at the 42 you can't get the leather loop at the 38 but Apple did release a bigger version of the sport band and the released extra links for the link bracelet so there's movement there is yes so the bigger and the lot we're technically talking about longer longer nails not so much wider there is some some pushback from folks with slightly larger wrists who are complaining they just didn't have a band that could probably fit properly fit their wrists and thankfully now if you have the link they banned or if you want the sport band there are options for you I don't know if they're marking it as large XL on the sport it's all do I Dwayne the rock Johnson is much happier this week than he was last well I had bet he's probably yeah his his poor restful is being choked of all life Holly Ronda Rousey years ago yeah all the happiness uh yeah I'm uh I'm happy that they are moving I still don't know whether we're gonna see more bands more colors more options come the fall and watch os/2 but at least it hasn't stopped yeah I'm glad that they're focusing on keeping it going I'm not wearing my watch today because last night I was woken up by the fire alarm going off and I have one of those fire alarms where it's not a battery it's in the building there was no reason for it I keep my windows open in summers I think maybe someone was you know smoking it was yeah or there was more sir or something from the air conditioner i'm not sure but you can't turn it off because there's no batteries in it so i had to go turn off the power or and the power because it's way inside my room that power is also my room I didn't realize it 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your in your daily life and for a lot of us I think we're finding many many ways to incorporate it in really smooth comfortable ways yeah I love Benedict at Evans post last week where he said me I got the baby in one arm the wash basket in the other and his wife is calling he can answer with his nose and he feels like he has superpowers like Elastigirl Incredibles he's just delightful delightfully British then the FCC has outed people say FCC leaks things FCC doesn't leak things it's a government agency and companies that submit things so the FCC know that they're going to be made public so it's not a League it's just we found out by way of the FCC that Apple has a new magic mouse to ready a new wire apple wireless keyboard these are bluetooth 4.2 peripherals they didn't look they didn't look outlandish friend they look like new versions of the crusty old accessories so what do you what do you want to bet the magic mouse has forced touch though I didn't see a magic trackpad though and that's where I really want it yeah I think it might be a little bit yeah yeah horst touch is hard for such is hard and I would really like it on a magic trackpad but you know I'll take it on a magic mouse there was also the Guardian filed a Freedom of Information request on a government Naval facility and found out that Apple amongst other companies had asked to use the facility to trip to test automobiles and they said that this was proof confirmation that Apple is making a self-driving car it is confirmation that Apple wants to experiment with khari things confirmation I know it's confirmation that Apple wants a private place to test something that might need to be tested on a road that could just be car play guys car play to uses manufacture integration and you probably need to drive around and you can't drive around in unannounced cars that you like next year's car is that the companies haven't announced yet in public yeah 2016 vws i think i think volts why gonna be pretty upset if Applewood went around leaking their cars which is not to discount the fact that Apple may may well be testing off-road you know autonomous cars but they could also be in a very early stage of it I mean google has a lot of parking lots to play around in your problem yeah until Cupertino builds their underground parking structure for the for the spaceship they need some space you know you know that there is a mario kart track at the bottom of that thing oh my gosh yes be so cool uh yeah I'm not saying where some of our friends have been awfully quiet lately is all I'm gonna say I've made a joke this weekend that one of the things that concern me most about the short term future of Apple is the lack of spite of drone footage showing the building of a bjs too but I was assured that there are plenty of bars across the street from the new place as well so if you were gonna write that into your next insider headline please don't yes it's ok bjs bjs the original stands alone you can only get pizookies one place some apple released their diversity report and on the surface I mean this is one those things around where numbers are not your friend because in terms of raw numbers Apple hired a lot more women and minorities but because Apple is a large company the percentage the Delta change is in the miniscule want to two percentage range yeah the diversity report is very hard and very frustrating to deal with because I think well the way that Tim Cook introduced it i think is pretty self-explanatory where it's like there are numbers here that you know make it look like we're on the right track and there are numbers that show how far we still need to go and both of these things are true and i think that's that's very you know i am i'm glad that he acknowledges both sides of that coin because yes women are up in certain areas and i'm really glad to see that but it is mostly retail and while you know what retail is a great place to have to have diversity and not everyone is just you know let me sell you a computer we've got the creatives at the geniuses so there are you know women who often use those kind of jobs to spring into tech fields I mean I used an apple store job to to get where I am now so it's definitely a good starting point but it would still be good to see like I don't think there wasn't really any change in leadership there wasn't a lot of change in corporate or engineering and tech was weird because it added up to like it was 22 and 79 which adds up to 101 so I don't know if there was a one-percent changer to present change there yeah it's complicating numbers yeah and it's again you don't you have to hire a lot of people and apples an older company if you have a new company you tend to have more diverse workforce is because work forces are more diverse now Apple has to add people to change the numbers in the leadership and they're doing it with people like Lisa Jackson but more please and the numbers especially for African American and Hispanic Americans to single-digit for leadership half I saw in single digit for just the general workforce half that for leadership roles yeah so yeah they they and they do say more work has been needs to be done that's I think no one is disagreeing that no all right QA we're doing a Q&A show because people have a lot of questions and we are hopefully going to provide answers I want to start off with a couple emails I think we can get through those relatively quickly James has discovered something that we've known about the I the Apple watch for a long time but maybe hasn't been made as clear as it should have been and that is it was announced that if you had an iphone and you had an Apple watch on the same network you would be able to pretty much go anywhere on that network and your Apple watch would stay in contact with your iPhone regardless of Bluetooth range but people who are on 80 to dot 11 X and similar networks or places where you need to login for Wi-Fi are fine that's not the case and it's my understanding that you that stuff is not built into the Apple watch it doesn't have the ability to negotiate login based or 802 11 X networking connections so it doesn't it doesn't see them basically yeah I mean I've had this problem in my own house where the Apple watch sometimes just won't connect to and like if my iphone is more than three away it will just assume that all network connectivity is down and that's definitely frustrating especially because Apple is kind of like yes this is how this is going to work it's another it's another example of Apple being I over enthusiastic about something without necessarily disclosing the technical hurdles and complications that are required which we saw a lot with Apple music words you know these excuse me these that these features do have a large amount of technological complexity complexity underneath it and Apple by and large wants to be like no just don't don't pay attention to the man behind the curtain it's not we don't want to make this difficult for you but when it doesn't work when it doesn't just work it gets very sad and frustrating yeah so what Apple music where you know they sort of yadda yadda at the Apple music itunes match thing and then when you have trouble it's impossible to find any information on you gotta do a lot of testing mm-hmm so more information and all that stuff is always appreciated this next one is just adorable and I'm not sure how to fix it yet but we were looking into it I got a cute sound from my friends baby sent via I message I was wondering if I could save that sound and convert it to a texting tone I know how to do the conversion in sync between mac and iphone but i can't figure out how to get the AMR file out of the I message conversation help Adam all right Adam well I would check and see if ECAM ECAM software has a think that I think it's called I phone you you yeah awesome s so it's entirely possible that you might be able to pull that out of out of your SMS alternatively um I'm not sure if you can share an AMR file I imagine you might be able to in iOS 9 because you'd be able to highlight it if you can share it and if you can get it into an email message then from there or if you can forward it to an email message you would be able to get it out of the iMessage silo and do something a little more interesting with it that's actually really good idea let's try that and I find some baby sounds and get me working yeah all right this last one and we get this quite a lot so I figured I put it in here I was wondering if you could help me out for my iphone well the problem is i have an iphone 5c and i want to reset it but it's locked because someone's account has it locked how can i reset it when someone else's account is locked on it I tried dfu but it went through sorry that's a little bit confusingly written it went through but it need to enter the password for the account that has it locked and I don't know what that password is because I originally got this from my friend he found it and gave it all the story the story thickens get banded and gave it to me good you help we get this so often from people who want to basically remove the access lock feature which is Apple's theft prevention system which means that if you get an iphone you can't really do anything with unless you have the owners iCloud email address that includes if you find it or air quotes find it and that is for very good reason yes you're not sorry you're not going to you're not going to circumvent apples activation lock tech yeah nope nope nope nope nope alright moving on to Twitter we have some good questions in Twitter to Michael a bishop he wants to know how i can use Siri with hue lights he could not find the answer online well Michael unfortunately you can't use Siri with hue lights yet Phillips has said that they will be integrating hue lights with with home automation so we'll see that hopefully with iOS 9 later in the year whenever philips decides to release their hub to make all the hue lights home kit compatible until then unfortunately you won't be able to make a make Siri make your lights dance i'm going to try a workaround i just received the ihome plug that is home kid in surrey compatible and i was doing some testing and it looks like when power goes out and comes back on the hue lights come on to their default normal light mode which means theoretically you could you could tell the plug to turn off and the plug to turn on you wouldn't be able to control the lights but you could at least get them to turn on and off and that's terrible solution but it's a nerdy thing to try that's a good start here alright here's a question for you right Peter Gilbert wants to know he says I've discovered the Batman Arkham series on the imac but I struggle with it on the mouse and the keyboard can you suggest a good Bluetooth controller really thats a guy English question but this guy English no appliqués I think he just hardwired there I think he's not a cable from the from Arkham that goes directly to the back of his brain stem matrix haha oh thanks what what I tried was an Xbox controller and there are various bits of software and github repositories and we have an article on it so I'll add that to the show notes that lets you get your xbox controller working with your Mac and since a lot of us are used to using Xbox controllers for console league gaming gaming using it on on the Mac is quite easy and I was playing not the layout of the latest outcome but they are come before that on my Mac for quite a bit and it worked great awesome I'm gonna run away for one second because I wrote a man is at the door run run shovel any known iOS updates to stalk weather or Apple or other apps yes shovel in fact there are stock whether Apple has not said anything about but Apple completely redid the notes apps as one of their highlights one of their tent pole features it's a brand new notes app that lets you not only take notes but in more of like an Evernote Ian one note ii sense you can actually embed things including directions and websites and all sorts of other data inside the note pictures and then you can quickly find them you can see a list a sort of an abstract view of all different media you've embedded and so far it's pretty useful you can even sketch if you have an iPhone or an iPad even sketch right into the note little hand-drawn thingamabobs and they all come right in there so notes is a big we design also they've gotten rid of newsstand all the newsstand apps have been set free to roam around the home screen and they've got a brand new news app and the news app pulls in sort of all the RSS news sources that you know and love and then presents them to you in a very slick not quite Flipboard way but like a technology similar Flipboard where it's just presented in its own sort of frame that's a couple redesigns and there are new features in a lot of the apps nail and Safari and everything got new features so there's quite a lot of updates on the way and we have a complete FAQ and a preview that shows you all of those things at I'm more calm / iOS we take another short break so I can tell you about Red Hat it is tried it is tested it is trusted it is simple but not easy so what does it mean when every commercial bank and the fortune 500 relies on red hat for enterprise software or every department in the executive branch of the u.s. government or every airline in the fortune global 500 it means that more than ninety percent of all companies in the fortune 500 understand the value of supported enterprise open-source software and what it can bring to their businesses if the value of open source is rapid innovation freedom and interoperability that comes with community power technology then the value of Red Hat is taking responsibility for that technology testing it enhancing security certifying it that it'll all work in your data center Red Hat is making a big difference 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that that would certainly be incredibly stressful if that were the case so or if that is the case so a couple things that I could recommend that you try is marking people as VIPs and seeing if they stay out of the junk mail folder for you and maybe set up a secondary account just for testing purposes and see if those also go into junk mail because if that's happening is probably not an iCloud issue but might be something on how you have your local client setup and if it's maybe also try setting up a gmail account and see what happens with that again just to sort of the rule of troubleshooting is to reduce everything to a simple unknown state as possible and then to try out logical variants so your email is all going to junk you make sure that other iCloud email does that go to junk or not other email does that go to drunk or not and once you can start answering those questions it makes it makes finding out where the exact problem is much easier absolutely round your back I am back yes I I got an extra dog nice they just mail those two you know yeah they just they just kind of show up from vet appointments ah alright so let's see who else bread Covington wants no coving t'en Covington sorry if I'm mispronouncing your name brett wants to know when do you think the macbook pro will get us bc well brett i think it's probably going to be a couple years yet usually when Apple wants to experiment with something they tend to do it on a computer like thee like the air or now like the new macbook I think maybe we'll see like send us v seaports possibly Renee do you have any more insight in your in your shipping shipping supply lion brain no I like it's hard because they they just updated those machines like they updated the macbook pro 13-inch to broadwell already in the app the updated the macbook 15 is macbook pro 15-inch to Haswell 1.5 it's always like you can never say never with Apple then one of the most agile and and you know companies out there so they could push out updates whenever they want but I think well it'll probably be a redesign maybe next year when we see them and all us bc i think they'll just i think with the pro little be additive it won't really work they'll replace the existing USBS with us bc and keep the Thunderer yeah in addition to Thunderbolt 2 you won't see 11 USBC port macbook pros and i think i'll write to sky like maybe we'll see thunderball 3 and us bc that's true i wonder if they'll keep the magsafe or if they'll use us bc for charging as well i think us bc i think the magsafe the magsafe stays are limited which makes me sad because I really Capone I really do love having my super light laptop not fly off the table if someone trips over the cords that has happened on multiple occasions and in fact you can you can see the one the one time where uh-huh where something bad happened on that that poor little bent corner I like other people wish they would just put the magnetic coupling on the AC adapter now side ya just bring us more sense that makes a lot more sense do it Apple do it what's next Renee are there this is from mark mark D more dime more we are terrible at this are there any advantages to buying an iphone unlocked well mark there are a bunch of advantages actually I mean it's more expensive which is definitely a downside but you're going to get a better resale value for it because you can use it on any network and on top of that you will be able to use it overseas which if you are either planning on doing some traveling or if you travel overseas regularly or just to other countries unlocked iPhones are incredibly useful because then you can pick up pay-as-you-go sins and basically pay next to nothing for your internet connectivity and phone coverage whereas if you're locked to a certain networks a AT&T the overseas fees are ridiculous it's slightly better than they used to be but it's still something like sixty dollars for 120 Meg's or something silly like that it's absurd and in my case because I'm a complete and utter idiot it just lets you i buy unlocked all the time even though there's no advantage because Rogers charges me the same thing but I just like the idea that I'm not beholden to Rogers it's almost like it's civil protest it cost me the same but it's civil protest putting my foot down Nathan Taylor asks is time machine for iOS doable there have been rumors for a long time they would Apple would take the time machine and basically the airport extreme box and turn that into an intermediary for iCloud so basically backups would be staged on that device and also be copied to iCloud and updates to device would come down there and then go to all your machines that would stop you having to up to download gigs and gigs of data on every device that you have that's been rumored for years and years and year is but Apple hasn't actually implemented it in the field it's it's absolutely possible and it's good to have a local backup because your iCloud could be unreachable for some reason and the ability just to restore from that local machine would be great in a lot of situations so it's something that i would i would just really like them to ship eventually yeah i agree i do think that obviously iCloud already exists as a form of time machine for your iOS devices but if you want a local intermediary something that doesn't require your iOS backups to be stored on your computer which I would really like Apple by the way it would be really cool to see that hook into the airport end into time castle and there might be some people who just for security reasons or because of the the jobs they have in security reasons for those jobs don't want to or aren't allowed to use to store data of any form including back up on someone else's servers including Apple servers so Howie like you probably wouldn't get the fancy time machine interface and be able to go back in time and choose your email from two days ago probably not just your device image having it locally would be great absolutely alright sure Chiquita I'm gonna say she kita cuz it sounds like Shakira this is the question we probably won't be answering until much closer to shipping date because things change so fast like we saw with sprint today but which character which carrier should I chill i choose to pre-order next sorry i'm not a good at deciphering people trying to make tweets really short to fit the character limit which case you should i choose pre-ordering next month i'm paying full price and using as a prepaid well i would say get an unlocked phone first and yet in terms of specific carriers we're going to do a revamp of our annual guide to which carrier is the best for the iphone and i would say hold off until we've got that sort of put together it really it largely depends on where you live yeah what's important to you if you have a family and thus a family plan and how long you're going to be using the phone yeah absolutely mean that's the age-old answer is that we could tell you some characters amazing and maybe they just there is just no reception in your in your area or at your place of work or school and then that is of no use to you yeah Celia we've got a couple couple more Justin Sealy asks do you expect apple to release an iPad pro I need to upgrade but i'm hesitant given the rumors of a September refresh well Justin I would say don't upgrade until September regardless or october yeah or october um as for an iPad pro or whether it's just going to be a next generation ipad i am still I'm still see-sawing honestly I really like the idea of a larger iPad I think that it has a lot of potential avenues in both business and in education which are two markets that Apple is very interested in we've also seen that the tablet market has steeply declined not just for Apple but all over the place I forget who did the recent research numbers but tablets right now are in this weird lull and I think Apple needs to be very smart about what they're doing for the next generation of the iPad it can't just be an ipad with a faster processor and I i think they are aware of this and they know that something has to be like iOS 9 software improvements for the ipad already looked to be promising from that Avenue it says to me yes we're actively looking at the ipad and what we can do to make the ipad a better machine um but whether or not we're going to see and I an actual iPad pro and a stylus in september-october whether it's just going to be a new iPad that has some professional features that's still TV but regardless don't buy an ipad right now ya know absolutely and again Apple as far as I know apples had my pad pro for a while and it's just what Wren said whether they choose to release it or not and they could choose to release it now and they could choose not to they had apple had a large-sized iphone 4 they chose an effort to release and we await until the iphone 6 to get that large size phone so if you absolutely have to have it today then just be happy with what you get because it'll always they'll always be something you coming out but if you can wait wait as long as you can and then be happy with what you get then Charles Charles says as a parent what size hard drive is right for a new iphone 64 gigabytes or 128 gigabytes given the tons of pics and videos are in I use a 64 gig and I still have I think 10 gigs left something like that and I have a ton of photos 10 a video however if you have the money to upgrade to the 128 and you really want to make sure that you have the space go for it but the 64 gig I'd say is the good the good size for the majority of people yeah I have six point six gigabytes currently available and I have something like I have a hundred and eighty-eight applications on my phone I'm reading for my about page now nine songs 588 videos twenty-two thousand photos 188 applications I think that's all that's interesting and I have six gigabytes available on my 64 gig phone so if that helps in any way hopefully it does uh if you if you have the money to spend the extra hundred bucks to get the 128i it's highly recommended yeah what am I now to actually have no idea what my current stats are some settings general about and I have 113 gigabytes of which 80 gigabytes is free mm-hmm and I'm using all the guy called Apple music and iCloud photo library all that stuff so it's it's super efficient but if you're planning on shooting tons and tons of 1080p video then I think or if you want to store tons and tons of 1080p video that you download from iTunes for example then the four gigs a swatch you're going to go through that pretty quickly but otherwise I think you're pretty much fine with either of them uh rich w woods Wren it's got two of them it was yes is the third generation Apple TV no longer supported the apple TV never a 0 s 8.4 and there's no sign of an iOS 9 beta well uh rich I would say that's largely because we have heard lots of rumors about a new Apple TV and I am guessing that they do not want to give away things that up might be present in a new Apple TV by unleashing us a beta software update I'm assuming that the next version of apple TV is going to be a very a very big overhaul on the software side because currently the software has kind of been minorly updated since iOS 5 or so and as a result I think that they want to kind of hold that new inner back um I do think we will see new iOS software for the latest generation Apple TV especially because Apple made such a big push at selling it for sixty dollars earlier this year but I don't think we'll see a beta until the new apple TV is released yeah mark Gurman just put up a CA shot a mock-up of what it might look like so you can check that out it is it is very white eager man fellow very very white very white the new interface is we're going to be interesting for brightness but Mary Estevez wants to know how do i reset activity data on an Apple watch I want to start over how do you reset activity data that is a great question and so I believe to reset activity data I I'm going to investigate it more thoroughly but I believe you can do it a from the Health application and be you might be able to do it from the activity app on your phone i reset my very gonna period you could also do that yes it will we brought all of your activity data it will dump your activity data if you don't make a backup um but yes this this is what I would recommend yeah but even so I mean um i would just a devil's advocate deb devil's advocate for a moment suming this is your activity data and you tonight you're starting over because you know one of your friends was using it or your husband or your your wife or your kids um it's you know it even if your move circles look not great for the last month or so that you've had the watch or you feel self-conscious about it I don't don't reset it use it as a use it as a point to to go better and and step up from there and and say okay so this month wasn't great I'm going to use that as my you know my motivation to do better and obvious you better in September they're racing sometimes sometimes it's good to have data of where you know you didn't do as well plus wicked bragging rights because they look at the progress I made from just then it is always good to have that big hockey stick at the beginning of your graphs oh I think that is all the questions that we have for today run what well those were a wonderful series of questions thank you readers and listeners we appreciate it and we are going to be back I believe on Friday again we've had a little bit we we were we were hip deep and so many of the things as Friday that we punted till Monday but we'd wanted to make sure we got it done on Monday but we're gonna we're gonna try and keep fairly consistent for the weeks ahead leading up to I think there's something going on in September yes just something nothing nothing it shouldn't be a big deal we're up to your hardware 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