The Future of Leaks: How Apple's Clampdown is Changing the Game

The world of tech leaks has always been a fascinating one, with sources from all over the globe sharing information about upcoming products and technologies. However, with Apple's increasing efforts to crack down on these leaks, it seems that things are taking a turn for the worse. According to John Prostera, many sources out of China who were tweeting rumors and leaks earlier this year in 2021 recently seem to have stopped doing that. Some of these anonymous leakers that were tweeting things just kind of disappeared off the face of the Earth, with their accounts going dormant.

It's not just the number of leakers that's decreased, but also the accuracy of the information being shared. Mark Gorman and Mingi Quo both had leaks that they were saying were coming all of them agreed on the flat Edge Apple watch redesign, including Mark Gorman a few days before the event, and they were all wrong. This suggests that Apple is becoming more effective in identifying and silencing its sources.

Tim Cook's recent comments about how frustrated he is with these leaks seem to be a clear indication that Apple is taking steps to address the issue. The phrase "it's getting out of hand" suggests that the company feels overwhelmed by the sheer volume of leaked information, which is being shared not just on social media but also through more traditional channels such as tech websites and blogs.

One of the most amusing examples of Apple's crackdown on leaks was when John Prostera mentioned how he would enjoy learning about new products at events. However, unlike anyone else, he wants to know more than just speculation. Instead, he expects concrete information to be shared during the event itself. This desire for authenticity is something that Apple has struggled with in recent years.

The issue of leaks is not just a matter of accuracy; it's also about timing. Apple's announcements often rely on a well-timed leak or rumor, which can generate a lot of excitement and anticipation among fans. If these leaks are coming from sources that are less reliable, it's likely to be disappointing for those who were hoping for more concrete information.

The case of the iPhone 4 prototype is a notable example of how far Apple has gone to protect its intellectual property. The story goes that an Apple employee was sent to confiscate hard drives and equipment belonging to Gizmodo's editor after the website published a detailed report on the leaked phone. This incident highlights just how serious Apple takes these leaks, even if they are technically "stolen" merchandise.

In recent years, it seems that Apple has become more effective in identifying and silencing its sources. While the leaker community is still active, it's clear that the company is becoming more sophisticated in its efforts to crack down on misinformation. Whether this will lead to fewer leaks or simply more accurate information remains to be seen.

For now, fans of Apple products can only wait and see what comes next. With all the devices on the horizon, including the iPhone 13 13 Pro and iPad Mini, we'll have a chance to get our hands on them and experience their features firsthand. In the meantime, we can continue to speculate about upcoming releases and technologies, but with the accuracy of these leaks decreasing, it's clear that Apple is taking matters into its own hands.

**The Leaker Community: A Changing Landscape**

The world of tech leaks has always been a fascinating one, with sources from all over the globe sharing information about upcoming products and technologies. However, in recent years, it seems that this community is undergoing a significant transformation.

One of the most notable changes is the decline of anonymous leakers. According to John Prostera, many sources out of China who were tweeting rumors and leaks earlier this year in 2021 recently seem to have stopped doing that. Some of these anonymous leakers that were tweeting things just kind of disappeared off the face of the Earth, with their accounts going dormant.

Another trend is the decreasing accuracy of leaked information. Mark Gorman and Mingi Quo both had leaks that they were saying were coming all of them agreed on the flat Edge Apple watch redesign, including Mark Gorman a few days before the event, and they were all wrong. This suggests that Apple is becoming more effective in identifying and silencing its sources.

**Apple's Crackdown: A Response to Leaks**

Tim Cook's recent comments about how frustrated he is with these leaks seem to be a clear indication that Apple is taking steps to address the issue. The phrase "it's getting out of hand" suggests that the company feels overwhelmed by the sheer volume of leaked information, which is being shared not just on social media but also through more traditional channels such as tech websites and blogs.

One of the most amusing examples of Apple's crackdown on leaks was when John Prostera mentioned how he would enjoy learning about new products at events. However, unlike anyone else, he wants to know more than just speculation. Instead, he expects concrete information to be shared during the event itself. This desire for authenticity is something that Apple has struggled with in recent years.

The issue of leaks is not just a matter of accuracy; it's also about timing. Apple's announcements often rely on a well-timed leak or rumor, which can generate a lot of excitement and anticipation among fans. If these leaks are coming from sources that are less reliable, it's likely to be disappointing for those who were hoping for more concrete information.

**The Case of the iPhone 4 Prototype**

The case of the iPhone 4 prototype is a notable example of how far Apple has gone to protect its intellectual property. The story goes that an Apple employee was sent to confiscate hard drives and equipment belonging to Gizmodo's editor after the website published a detailed report on the leaked phone. This incident highlights just how serious Apple takes these leaks, even if they are technically "stolen" merchandise.

**What's Next for Leaks?**

For now, fans of Apple products can only wait and see what comes next. With all the devices on the horizon, including the iPhone 13 13 Pro and iPad Mini, we'll have a chance to get our hands on them and experience their features firsthand. In the meantime, we can continue to speculate about upcoming releases and technologies, but with the accuracy of these leaks decreasing, it's clear that Apple is taking matters into its own hands.

The future of leaks is uncertain, but one thing is clear: Apple is becoming more effective in identifying and silencing its sources. Whether this will lead to fewer leaks or simply more accurate information remains to be seen. One thing is certain, however: the world of tech leaks has changed forever.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome to the Apple Insider podcast this is your host Steven Robles and we're going to talk about all the iPhone 13 iPad mini stuff pre-orders devices coming in then iOS 15 and 15.1 we're going to cover it all and this episode is brought to you by posty fast growing trees quip and Zach do you'll hear about those in a moment and joining me this week is my friend across the pond William Gallagher how's it going William hello I'm really glad to be here this week cuz all those things you just said I want to know about tell me everything oh goodness I want to talk about it all talk about it all first of all we are now have done our pre-orders as we record we are eagerly awaiting devices to arrive the next day as you listen to it it should be Friday we should be getting our stuff but what I want to know William is how did pre-orders go for you and what if anything did you pre-order Apple's end of the pre-order bit went very well but I got my dispatch notification as we call it here I was told today that's not Americans don't call it that you call it shipping inform I don't know anyway dispatch deliver okay dispatched okay I like itch got one of those uh but unfortunately Apple in the UK uses a uh carrier called dpd and I kind of sank slightly when I saw it was them and sure enough you clicked the tracking link and the this parcel delivery thing tells me my iPhone 13 Pro was delivered into my hands on the the 30th of January 2021 what thought you know I might have mentioned it to Apple Insider if I'd had it8 months early yeah I'm fully confident that it's going to arrive tomorrow William you could have been a professional leaker if you had had it back in January that would have been incredible yeah but then Tim Cook wouldn't have liked me would he oh that is true yeah that is true oh we we have to talk about that too oh my goodness he he got a on those leakers but anyway so what exactly did you pre-order I 2013 Pro 256 GB in Sierra blue and I in the after an amazing amount of spreadsheet work here I decided to buy it outright while trading in my iPhone 11 Pro instead of going on the iPhone upgrade program uh it just the numbers were ever so slightly better that way okay so that's great but you are on the iPhone program so yes which model and capacity and color have you got so I went with the iPhone 13 Pro I did the 5 12 GB I looked at my current iPhone that's I got 512 last year as well and I'm just about at 250 gigs now having used it for a year so I didn't want to go 256 and risk you know having doing stuff I will say a majority of what I save on my phone is podcast episode hoarding like I literally have 50 gigabytes of podcast stuff on my phone just like old episodes so I could probably clean that up but I just like to keep it just in case you never know you never know you're on a plane you're traveling so I just thinking you fill up your iPhone so you buy a new one that's all right that's exactly it's it's an attitude it's an approach that's what you do so I did that I got the Sierra blue it's the first time I ever will have a color iPhone I've always gone either the white and silver or the black and space gray so this is my first actual color of an iPhone so I'm excited for that as we speak I got my parcel dispatch or whatever you call it I got my delivery notification and it says it is coming tomorrow Friday September 24th so I'm excited for that and I also should have an iPad Mini coming on the same day oh I think yes I'm excited to use that it'll be my first iPad Mini think I might be doing a video review of that so I'm excited to try that out over the weekend and of course the 13 and I convinced my wife to upgrade hers she was on an 11 and it's just about 2 years old now and she actually got a really good tradein price for her phone like you're saying she got like almost $400 I think for the iPhone 11 and it was hers is a 256 GB so with that trade in it was a pretty good deal and hers will be coming on launch day as well pre-order process super fast I got my orders in at like 801 and 802 yes even using the Apple card I did not have an issue I know there were many people Neil Hughes at Apple Insider had issues with the Apple card and took him like an hour to get his pre-order in so not sure what was going on with apple card there but my Apple card was fine and I know sorry it's a touchy subject William you don't have apple card I apologize well it also meant I didn't have any problems so there exactly exactly it was a Flawless experience so very good so I'm excited for that I know a lot of people getting theirs tomorrow the iPhone 13 looks like the Pro Models were pretty popular this year I think the camera improvements from the 13 Pro versus the 13 regular are significant enough where people jump to that pro model I know even like John grber you know of Daring Fireball you know pretty well-known Apple pundit he just had the 12 regular for the past year for his personal phone he talked about it on his talk show but actually going pro this year because of the camera differences so I think those camera improvements are pushing people towards the Pro Models it's part of the reason I've gone for it but I'm I'm surprised the first one in the in the US the first model to go on back order and be delivered later was the iPhone 13 Pro Max and this year there isn't is there any difference in the cameras between the two I don't think there is no oh no the 13 Pro regular and 13 Pro Max have the exact same camera system I'm surprised but I suppose it's just cuz I had a year with a large iPhone and and I liked it very much but then I went to my 11 Pro and I loved it so much more that I can't imagine going back to the bigger size and paying for the privilege either so I was surprised that I thought the pro iPhone 13 Pro would be the first one to back order but apparently not apparently not everybody's getting blue though that sounds like it's the col the color to be it is I mean I just I wanted to get a color this year I don't know so I'm excited to to try it out there were iPhone 13 and 13 Pro reviews that came out the kind of first round of early reviews from the likes of MKBHD I Justine Renee Richie The Verge all those reviews came out and a lot of the reviews really said of the improvements across the lineup battery life is noticeably better in the 13 phones as opposed to the 12 models so that is great to hear that there is better battery life and that the cameras are dramatically improved across the lineup especially with low light especially on the 13 Pro and 13 Pro Max models and one of the interesting things about it is if you had a 12 Pro Max your camera module was already bigger on the 12 Pro Max but if you had a 12 Pro like myself just the regular size 12 Pro the camera module size difference going to the 13 Pro is going to be significant and I discovered this because the case I got a silicone Abyss blue case for my iPhone 13 Pro came in early it came in like this past T Monday or Tuesday and holding up the case for the 13 Pro versus the 12 Pro the camera bump on the 13 Pro is massive like it is a massive bump and because the phone is smaller but the camera bump is basically going to match the 13 Pro Max size camera bump it is huge I'll put a link to my tweet where I kind of compared the 12 Pro case to the 13 Pro case but man that is a big bump that's all I'll say about that no no no no no hang on hang on hang on hang on yeah you have for the first time ever bought a color iPhone and you're going to put in the case straight away okay listen listen listen I use cases pretty much regularly as I'm out and about walking around but when I'm home and maybe if I'm like at an office where I'm not so worried about dropping it I'll take it out of its case I ride the I ride the fence I do both end both end okay now I will Point our people if you want to see like the most in-depth camera review of the 13 pro and pro Max Austin man who's actually been a guest on this podcast before he talked about the M1 iPad Pro a few months ago he does a review of the iPhone cameras every year he went on an African safari this year with the 13 pro and pro Max his review is spectacular the images that he gets from these phones are spectacular and he is a professional photographer you know he uses like Hasselblad and all this professional equipment in his normal photography and seeing what he gets out of the 13 Pro is amazing video and photo and he had great things to say about the macro mode as well so I encourage everyone to check it out did you have a chance to look at any of his images no actually I've got him in my readit later service to enjoy over the weekend but I think uh I don't to know if he covers I mean he's still photographer isn't he I'm very keen to see how the iPhone 13 Pro Works in video in lower light mode everybody talks about their still cameras but I I just don't know if it's actually better with video and pure nosiness really I don't have a practical use for going around filming at night but i' I've got to try it yeah and I think the Verge talked about low light video and it is dramatically improved especially the 13 Pro over the 12 Pro so yes video and low light is improved and Austin man's got a whole whole like 9 minute video with like video footage from the 13 Pro so I encourage you to check it out the one thing that most of the reviewers said about the 13s is the new cinematic mode that Apple announced at the event this is the artificial bokeh effect like portrait mode but for video that you can capture live and then also even edit later is a little bit unpredictable you know if you're in very bright outside Sunny environment cinematic mode does pretty good around the hair and around certain parts of the body like where portrait mode struggles sometimes cinematic mode also struggles and you'll see kind of that weird blurring around the hairlines and stuff like that and in lower light cinematic mode really struggles and if we didn't mention this before the new cinematic mode on the 13 lineup only films in 1080P 30 frames per second no yeah you cannot film 4K video in cinematic mode that's a pattern for apple is it there's this wonderful thing they announced um was it with the 12 Pro the or even the 11 I think it was the reason that got me to go to the 12 was the fact that you could shoot uh on both cameras simultaneously front and back and filmic pro did this big thing of they're going to come out with this feature and they never did in filmic Pro they released a separate thing double Tech I think it's called which is right it's fine it's nice but it's still 1080p so you're shooting everything else in 4k why would you dup down to a qu of the quality to get a shut I'm that's a big that's almost disappointing as the fact that we in the UK aren't getting mmwave 5G right even now I man between apple card and mmwave you should you should just move just move over here will come on over turning to Android that's what I'm doing no no no no it's not worth it it's not worth it so from the these early reviews it does look like battery life is greatly improved obviously the phone is super fast the promotion display the variable refresh rate looks great MKBHD said that was one of the first things that when he took it out of the box it was just noticeably really good glad for that that's also helping with the battery life because not only do you get high refresh when you're scrolling but when you're just reading something or the screen is static then the refresh rate can drop down to 10 htz and that saves battery life and processing power so looking forward to that but obviously the cameras we're going to be doing some testing ourselves I really want to try out the macro mode which is the close-up photography Austin man said those features were really good on it the macro modes were great so I'm curious how it actually compares to a full-on camera's macro lens but cinematic mode seems to be like the eh maybe fun to use but no one's probably going to be making like serious movies with IT Joanna Stern she did the review for The Wall Street Journal and she actually did like an entire music video filmed in cinematic mode with the iPhone 13 she always does Incredible video work but she said you know when you're trying to do like a professional environment or serious shooting then you get with that struggle in the Cinematic mode so remains to be seen we'll have to try it out it seems like it'll be a fun feature to try but not something that you're going to be using in professional situations now there were also reviews that came out for the iPad Mini so if you want to check out some of those early reviews a lot of reviewers said it's a fun device it's really great it's super fast with the a15 bionic processor but remains to be seen like where does it fit in someone's workflow or productivity I'm excited to try editing these podcasts on the mini as opposed to the iPad Pro M1 I'm curious to see what the performance differen is like between the M1 and the a15 and also for e-reading a lot of people were saying it's very light it's pocketable if you have a big enough pocket to put it in there but we'll talk about more we'll talk about the iPad Mini more once we have it in hand and can talk about it there but are you excited for that mini have you ever had an iPad mini um I've used an iPad mini and a relative of mine had some problem or other and for whatever reason although I could fix whatever it was straight away she couldn't collect it for about a week so I had a week playing with this thing a couple years ago and I really liked it I thought it was a tremendous machine for reading just deep deep Joy but I don't know that I would pay uh all the money of the iPad Mini 6 because I'd need for that amount of money I'd need to be able to work on it and I don't think I could really write on it as easily as I can well uh the cheaper iPad really so I'm a bit right I was surprised how popular it was and then reviews came through and they all started saying fantastic but very expensive and you can't really work on it and now I'm kind of torn so I it's down to you what if you tell me is what will I will go by yeah I see you know that's the one thing where I use a Smart Keyboard I used it with my 11 Pro I use it now with my 12.9 in Pro and to have a you know Smart Keyboard or magic keyboard with an iPad Mini I totally understand why that's not a thing I mean it would be a super cramped keyboard but you know when I edit podcasts I hold the iPad the entire time cuz I'm editing with the pencil and I will say the 12.9 9 in iPad while I like the screen real estate gets pretty heavy cuz when I edit a show like the Apple Insider or homekit Insider I might be editing for like 2 hours maybe 2 and 1 half hours and holding the big iPad for that long gets a little cumbersome and so I'm very curious to try editing these shows on the mini with being lighter being smaller I'm curious to see if I actually like doing it more on the mini than the large one and really use the large one as like a laptop replacement so I'm very curious listeners tune in next episode because because we will have the iPhone 13s and 13 Pros in hand and the iPad mini and we'll be trying all of them out doing reviews of it and we'll go more in depth once we have them in hand but if you want to watch those early reviews we'll put the links in the show notes so you can check those out I am concerned about you having to hold an iPad for a couple of hours should we speak faster or something will that make it quicker for you well we can speak faster and fit more into an hour podcast but I don't know if that's a that's just more to edits more to edit no okay this episode is brought to you by our friends at fast growing trees listen over the past year and a half you've probably upgraded a few things around the house we've 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because of the radar maps like I want to see The Radars I want to make sure the notifications are going to be equal so I'm going to keep rolling with both for a while and see if I still get the same precipitation notifications from both apps from what I've observed so far in the past week the stock weather app has been pretty good giving me those it's going to rain in so many minutes it's going to stop raining in so many minutes and those radar maps basically look just like the dark sky ones so I'm really liking it what do you think of that new weather app uh I haven't opened dark sky since I went to the beers for this I love the new they up uh I think part of it I have to say though the whole thing of what you just said rain stopping into 3 minutes beginning in 9 whatever it is it's never been as accurate here in the UK as it has in the states um I suppose microclimates not as many radar stations and things like this but for whatever reason it's never been that great it's just always been better than everything else so I don't have a lot to compare it to and so far the weather app itself seem to be doing as good a job as dark sky and for me that was always the thing that was the most useful should I wait 10 minutes before I go out or not and yeah so far I have plus I just I really like the design of it I think they done a gorgeous job oh yeah with that yes I agree you know what looks great too the weather app on iPad and uh that app looks like The Weather Channel but anyway we won't go there right you threw me there for a second what yeah I was trying to catch you trying to catch you on that so yeah maybe maybe one day we'll get the weather app on the iPad you know you get the widgets but when you tap the widget it just goes to weather.com so I would love to see those like cool animations you know when it's raining or thunderstorming and you open the stock weather app on iPhone you get this cool like thunderstorm animation and you get this rain falling down like on the iPad screen that would be so cool and the rain bounces off uh the pain I actually have a few different cities set up for legitimate work purposes but I still occasionally I will flick through them just to see the different weathers to enjoy the animation of it you're looking at me now okay I'll stop no I think it is very cool beautifully designed and so that that's just why I want to see it on on the iPad the iPad I just want to see it on the iPad that's all so in addition you have the focus modes in iOS 15 and iPad OS 15 I had resisted creating a bunch of focus modes while I was on the beta because I wasn't going to have the betas everywhere and the big benefit of focus modes is that they apply on all your devices so if you enable to focus mode on your iPhone your iPad and if you have a Mac running Mac OS monor they'll go into the same Focus mode with the same settings we don't have Mac OS Monteray just yet but across my iPhone and iPad I've been trying to set those up and play with them I'm curious your thoughts on this William I I love the idea I love the granular control you get in the focus modes but I feel a little bit of option overload and as I try to set these up I feel a little bit like there's so much you can do with this plus shortcuts and automations and the home screens and all this kind of stuff it feels a little complicated and it's going to take me a while to kind of tweak all those have you found what's been your experience with Focus modes I rushed into it started setting up loads of things then I think I found the same thing as you I've kind of pruned it back to just a couple of things and I must be doing something wrong because I've set one up that that locks out everything except my wife and one editor and things like that and even today in the middle of all of that suddenly a couple of people who AR on my VIPs list or anything the bleep came when they emailed me and I cannot cannot see why they broke through for it so I what I'm doing wrong but it must be option related so yes I'm going to study this except I also realized that uh this happened yesterday and because it got the bleeps through and I thought I'll take a minute to look at this I switched off the focus mode I was in and the phone rang with a a job from the BBC for me that I wouldn't have got if I'd been in Focus mode and they needed it right away it was a radio thing so very quick face more stuff but a lot of fun and I would have missed it if Focus mode had been working so I'm a bit conflicted here so the bugginess is a feature that's what you're saying yes there you go very good very good well I have used live text on the iPad since all the betas have come out and if you haven't played with live text yet it is an incredible feature you can select copy paste text from any image in your phone and images you just find on the web you know you can actually just to do a little video to somebody I got a picture of the Declaration of Independence on Google I saved it to my camera roll and you can just just like select the text from the Declaration of Independence you know font notwithstanding sometimes it's struggles with some of those like fancy writings but any image you have if it has a phone number or an address it can recognize those things and the real power comes when you search in Spotlight on your iPhone or iPad and soon Mac OS monor it will search all your photos for the text of what you are searching so if you're trying to remember you know where did I go I don't know like what was the phone number of that cafe or something if you took a picture of the cafe and the name of the cafe like on a sign or on a menu that you took it will actually search and hit that as a search result because it can recognize the text across all your photos across your entire iCloud photo library so really cool have you found any use cases for live text uh Yes actually I was pulling out quotes from something I just for some reason couldn't uh select and copy so I took a photograph of it and did exactly that same thing for except except have you not found this yet every now and again all you're trying to do is drag an image from one place to another and your finger on the iPad or your cursor on Mac OS Monterey happens to catch somewhere that's got text in it and so it goes and selects the text instead oh yeah I've heard that so often and you haven't okay I I have not I mean I I haven't used it used it a ton I just kind of like playing with it and see you know will it translate this text and will it do that but I feel like if you work in a situation where you're writing stuff on whiteboards or you're in meetings and you have stuff where everyone's referring to some display or board or maybe you take a picture of a PowerPoint slide you know that is going to be really useful cuz you can just copy that text save it to a note and now you have editable text you know you don't have just an image of a whiteboard or a slide so I think it's going to be really good it's incredible yes and you realize you don't even have to take the photograph you just hold the camera up right take it I mean I always would because you know something's going to you'll lose the text and you could have taken the shot but the fact that you don't even have to bother doing that so it's any photograph you've ever ever taken and even photographs you haven't taken that's that's how comprehensive live text is absolutely no it's great you also have the background sounds now built into iOS 15 so if you want to have like rain or ocean sounds you don't even need a separate app anymore you can enable it right in the settings accessibility Audio Visual and you can do background sounds right there which is pretty cool a ton of updates to the messages app you know if you send multiple photos there's now like this little stacked of view in the conversation and then you can break those out to a grid view so messages got a lot of updates there's also drag and drop on iPhone now and this is not something I think a lot of people realize but if you go to say Safari on your iPhone and you do an image search search for dogs you can actually tap and hold on one of those images and once you're tapping and holding you can actually with your other hand swipe up to go home and it will have that image as like a drag and drop file and you can go to another app like messages and literally just drag that into the message conversation and it will send it or if you do it in an email it'll attach it to an email so you can now do drag and drop on iPhone if you use kind of that twohand thing where you're holding something with your thumb or another finger and you use your other hand to navigate around the phone pretty wild that you can do that now on the iPhone and did you know about that just trying to contort my fingers to do that and I can't quite get there but I I will work on it okay it's it's complicated you kind of have to do a little bit of a contortionist move with all the the drag and drop yes so one of the biggest changes in iOS 15 is the Safari redesign and this has been talked about over the summer and all the betas and the different things Apple changed right of the bat let me just say if you update to iOS 15 and you cannot stand the tab bar and address bar at the bottom you can go into settings go to Safari scroll down to tab View and you can basically set it just like it was in iOS 14 you can totally revert back and just have that you know have it like it was in iOS 14 but I am trying to live with it now for the first time on the iPhone full time using it all the time there's a lot of muscle memory to get over cuz I just automatically tap on the top of the screen to access the address bar to type a search or a website URL so it's a little bit of muscle memory retraining to the bottom of the screen but I don't know William I will say my first impressions are I think I like seeing the website unobstructed at the top of the screen you know cuz now with the tab bar at the bottom websites really go all the way up into the the very top of the screen so that's nice I feel like I don't have a distracting address bar but it used to just shrink when you would start scrolling so it wasn't a big deal but I I just I don't know I don't know how I feel about this I like swiping between tabs and I like the new tab view where you can see all the websites kind of in squares and it's not this you know like Rolodex card looking thing but how how are you feeling about the iPhone Safari I switched that bit back actually for a long because I mean I thought the same as you muscle memory we're so used to going to the top but actually we're also so used to going to the top in pretty much every website we go to it's where the menu is where the search function is so you'd be forever going to the top no I've got to go to the bottom to do this and then when the sight load is right right got know got to go to the top and things and the cognitive load of moving up and down I just in the end there are certain things about Safari that I utterly love uh but what they've done with tabs in the end no that tab view thing uh instead of the Rolodex thing yes definitely better but you get to keep that even if you opt back to the older version so yeah I I tried for a long time and no okay well I'm I'm trying you know because I I've only been living with it for 4 days right now on the iPhone so I'm going to keep trying and see what it's like but I understand why it was so divisive initially when people first put this beta on their iPhone because it is is very different and I don't know if if it's if it's better and it is a little confusing now to get to the do I have to turn off content blockers for this website or do I want to access the reader view settings like all that stuff feels a little more convoluted and as we'll talk about in a second if you start adding extensions into the Safari of iOS 15 that little menu with the two A's gets very busy very quickly and there's a lot of stuff yeah it's a lot of stuff in that menu and I don't know if it's the best way to display all that information but I'll Reserve judgment I'm going to keep using it this is about tabs what about the complete opposite uh tab groups which I'm just going to tell you now is immediately perfectly the way it should always have been in life everywhere that good immediately do do you agree with me or have you not looked yet no no tab groups are amazing and if you didn't know Safari on the Mac even though we don't have Mac OS Monteray you can update to Safari 15 on the Mac by itself and you get tab groups you get the redesign on the Max so you can have this stuff everywhere right now like tab groups and all that and the tab groups are great no I I do love those that is incredible they Apple comes out announces it and I think oh that's very nice it's like a bionic bookmarking thing yeah whatever I might try it someday and then I had to write an article about it actually all very very clever and then the next thing you know I'm obsessed I'm using it for everything and I'm zooming between apple Insider work writer's Guild work other stuff for it I just one click and I'm suddenly in a completely different head space as well as Safari space because of tap grips you go so the other thing about Safari though like I mentioned a second ago is extensions are now available on iPad and iPhone and I will say this opens up an entire world of possibility the extensions on iOS 15 are really good there's a limited amount of them right now I'm sure extensions will grow and increase over time but just the few that are available right now are great and one of the first to adopt it and update their app was one password and the one password extension on iOS 15 and iPad OS 15 works just like you would hope like you probably have the extension if you use one password in Safari or even Chrome you get the choice of choosing a login right there on the website you don't need to hit the share button and tap one password to access your logins it just shows up right in the web browser it can do the two- Factor authentication codes and all that so extensions two thumbs up I'm curious have you played around with extensions do you have any that have stood out to you in the me time barely at all actually cu the extensions were not available during the beta process so they're new too and I it was one of those things where as soon as they're out I must look into them but no on my iPad I was actually kind of nudged into finding the one password one I Ed one password and then suddenly there was a you know you could add this and I did and I haven't got it on my iPhone yet I haven't been prompted through it and I'm not honestly clear where to add it on the iPhone but it's looking at me right now in on the iPad it's uh one password logo in icon rather in the address bar for it are you saying that when you got a few of them it fills up that address bar in Safari on my iPad the extensions now only show up as like a little puzzle piece in the address bar and it has the number four next to it telling me that there are four extensions available and again this is one of the things where I wish that there were multiple icons or they broke out some of this functionality cuz right now and I will take a screenshot and maybe put this as the chapter art but there's like the circle with three dots and if you tap that you have like some shortcuts if you have those saved you have the reader view or read later links you have the translate commands and text size and then you have extensions below that and then the manage extensions there if you tap the puzzle piece I guess it actually brings up the same menu even though there's a second icon in that address bar it's not any different functionality I guess it's just one big tap Target between the puzzle piece and the round circles so I don't know just a little bit of a confusing UI there trying to get to the extensions and all that but all that being said the few extensions that are available right now one password is great there's an extension called momentum which I've actually used in Chrome for a long time and it basically is a customized start screen and you can now have that on iPad and iPhone and so that's fun and then this last one I highly recommend ATU HTML viewer it's a funny name but I'll put links to all these extensions in the show notes if you want to try them out but if you're a web developer or you need to look at the code of a website often there were shortcuts you could do before to try and view the source code and all that but ATU HTML viewer it's actually better it's a easier you can just tap this extension you start seeing the code in a little window and then you can copy that to a document or share it somewhere so at you HTML viewer is actually really useful so pretty cool I I suddenly get it what you say it's a viewer so it's here is looking at you isn't it that's what it is okay now I understand you did it you did it very nice one last iOS 15 Safari extension that I highly recommend is called amp plosion ampion and this extension what it does is if you go to a website and it would have loaded the Google amp version of a website which is like amp. whatever if you don't know what this is maybe it doesn't bother you but I always want to get like the raw website I don't want to look at The Amp version this extension for Safari will actually automatically redirect you to the raw link of that article rather than the amp web page so you never have to see that amp version at all so that's amp plosion it's $3 on the App Store but I'll include a link to that because very cool extension right there oh I'm having that definitely yeah it's pretty cool this episode is brought to you by quip if you've heard me for any amount of time you know I love smart home devices and homekit and I also love when smart devices get 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that's zoc do.com slapple Insider our thanks to zacho for sponsoring this episode so I then also want to touch on Safari 15 on the Mac so like I said you can update Safari on the Mac right now even without updating to Mac OS monor and the Safari on the Mac is even more jarring in this redesign I will say it is something I'm trying to figure out if I want to have the tab bar separated from the address bar I don't know if that's any better and then the feature where it colors the web browser according to the website you're visiting I feel like on a large display on a Mac that can be really jarring and even more so than on like the iPad sometimes it'll be like the Wells Fargo website it's all red up at the top like the entire top of safari is a bright red and then if I go to Apple Insider it's like a dark black and if you try to go between tabs quickly it's just a a big color difference so I actually turned off that feature which you can do if you go to Safari preferences on Mac you can go to the tabs option you can do the automatically uh collapse tab titles into icons you can do the show color and tab bar like there's some options there to customize it but not sure how I feel about it I got to spend some more time with it but have you gotten used to the new version of Safari on the Mac or have you tried to revert it basically to what it was before at some point during the be they walked back some part of the change and I almost missed what they've done I because of tab groups I don't tend to have a huge number of tabs open on screen at any one time so it's when they get smaller that it's much harder to pick through I still find it hard to be certain which one I've currently selected which is a bit odd but um when you were saying that about Wells Faro I remember BBC News goes red as well so I went to that side and when it's red actually the S the tabs are much clearer I know which one of the redness it is so I I quite like the colors it does give a very different feel to each site but I'm quite happy with that okay well listeners let us know what you think of the new Safari designs across all the platforms you can tweet at William and myself we'd love to know and then also iOS 15.1 the very first beta of the next version 15.1 has come out in that beta it looks like shareplay will be coming in iOS 15.1 whenever that's released publicly Dolby Atmos and lossless audio coming to homepod in that update and vaccination cards in apple wallet if you're healthcare provider actually supports that so those are some of the big features coming in iOS 15.1 the beta is out there if you want to be on that beta train or the official release will probably be coming in the next month or so also wanted to mention with the iPad Mini I'm going to be trying it with an ebook reader and I actually have a Kindle paper white I'm going to be comparing it to but on the heels of the iPad Mini Amazon announced a new version of the Kindle and you can now get an updated version of the Kindle paper white with USBC which was one of my complaints about the current Kindle paper white so the version you can get USBC it's got some other updates so I'll be comparing that with the new iPad Mini to see which is the better e-reader especially outside I'm curious how that new iPad Mini does outside without that mini LED display I'll be comparing it to my 12.9in iPad Pro to see how is the readability outside did you ever have a Kindle or any kind of e-reader like that I've tried some uh my problem with them is I love the fact that you can read them outside but I find the display and the font really ugly remember when version 10 of the Kindle software came out the headline feature was that the typography was better anything the 10th version they're finally looking at what the thing is you're reading all the time uh I just find that the way it breaks the font size everything is horrible and uh books on iPad look utterly gorgeous except when you're outside I didn't really believe I mean it sounds rotten but I didn't believe people was complaining about iPads outside uh until I changed iPads recently my 2015 iPad Pro yes you knew it was a problem with the sunlight but it wasn't Dreadful it was very rarely a problem but now with that the 11in iPad Pro it's very much up on when I'm outside in sunlight so uh I could be drawn back to paper whites and things but only if they've improved the text I can't stop seeing how what to me looks like very ugly text it is very ugly and you know you get an iPad Mini you also get like an iPad that's true with a bunch of other things that it can do so you know there's that um I want to mention to the new magsafe wallet I did get one of the new magsafe wallets and new is like in the biggest air quotes possible because it is basically the same as last year's maxafe wallet save for the fine my integration really wondering why the new mag safe wallet can be integrated with fine my and not the old one they're both just NFC chips neither of them has a U1 chip like a air tag or anything so I don't know functionality seems curious between the two but I already got mine in the mail and when you put it on the back of your phone you get that little setup screen like you do an air tag the little card slides up so you can add a ma safe wallet to find mine I do like the notification you get so when you take the new mag safe wallet off your iPhone after a minute it will send you a notification that says you've left your magsafe wallet at such and such address if you reattach it in less than a minute you won't get a notification so the idea is you know if you're just taking it off paying for something and putting it back on your phone you won't get a notification but if it gets separated then you'll get that notification and you can hopefully recover your wallet and you can even program it where if you lose your wallet entirely if someone else slaps it on the back of their iPhone 12 or 13 it will actually say this wallet belongs to such and such and it will show your phone number if you choose from the find my app settings that you have it'll show your phone number and so someone who finds the wallet could in the most altruistic scenario call you and say hey I have your wallet and return it so cool features again weird that it's not available for the original maxafe wallet this seems just like an iOS 15 feature it could have been enabled pretty cool it's a little weird if you want to take the wallet off like in the car and attach it to a car mount like I did that and then I got a notification like hey you left your magsafe wallet somewhere it's like well it's sitting right here I just wanted to put my phone on the car mount right yeah I almost wish there was some way where you can just put it on a car mount with the wallet attached and I know with all the magnets you'd probably erase your cards completely but that's the only like weird scenario from that it'd be much better yes yeah apart from totally rendering all your cards unusable so that's the only weird thing about the magsafe wallet but if you didn't have a magsafe wallet before you might want to try with the fine my especially if you maybe lose your wallet or maybe you leave it places a lot and have to go back and recount your steps to find it it is nice to just have a notification and information in the find my app that says hey this is where you left your wallet it's at this address so that's cool I would like to ask the about the car mount thing uh I just broke my old car mount and I've ordered a new one and I've ordered mag safe uh for are you happy with your magsafe car mount I got the moment mag safe Mount and I wasn't crazy about that because it it was very shallow and it didn't fit my vent then I tried the car and driver one and that one was kind of meh the last one I got is the Belin magsafe car mount and that one I've been happy with it articulates well it comes out from the vent so it's it's not like super flush or pushed weird against the vent and holds the phone pretty securely so I got the belcon one and I'm happy with that one which one did you get I went for a window suction cut one by made by otter I don't like vent ones cuz uh some years ago I managed to break the vent on something I prefer the higher rise uh site view as well of it I I think in the states there are some places where you can't have that but here you can in the UK so I just I also occasionally I've done uh videos uh shot from the mag safe thing I just put the phone the other way around and photographed myself for it that sounds wrong when you see what I mean but I had to do a video where I was arguing with myself in the car and a secured man was great and I've just realized this second saying to you I can't do that now I can't use the back cameras because I can't turn the phone around okay well yeah I had to replace it so I'll be a safer driver that's what I'll be yeah there you go there you go and you can use the driving Focus mode turn off notifications while gets in the car that yes yeah so I'm I'm trying to do that I'm I'm trying to set up Focus Mode best best I can so we'll see one last feature I want to touch on this is an iCloud plus feature the custom email domains I believe you actually had the how-to article about this and I was waiting till it was officially released cuz it's been in beta till recently but I actually put a couple domains in my iCloud settings I set up the custom domains the DNS servers I verified everything in the iCloud dashboard thing and so everything looked like it was ready to go it's a email address so should be fine there and when I went to add the custom email to use with my iCloud mail it keeps giving me the error that it's just not unable to create the email address it just keeps erroring and so in a rare move I actually contacted Apple support cuz I was like maybe something with my account something I don't know but when I contacted them they said there's multiple people experiencing this issue will add you to like the escalated ticket that the engineers are working on and hopefully it will get resolved soon so custom email domains with iCloud Mail still a little buggy but you could try it you can set it up now you don't have to be a part of the beta program or anything but you know let me know people's experience with that if you actually get it set up accurately you've been able to set it up on yours right no uh you mentioned the howto article it's the only howto article I've written about monreo iOS 15 iPad OS which is this is how it's supposed to work but it wasn't it was falling over at one point and I remember when it came out I was looking at you you do I thought am I doing this wrong yeah I can't get answers for it there's no support for it yet and I read several other articles on how to do it and because I'd done this gone through the process I could see who had actually bothered to try doing it and who hadn't okay cuz most of them say it's fine after this point everywhere that it failed for me and then I think Federica vtii uh went all the way and got it working perfectly but I couldn't emulate what he did so I was waiting for the official release to so we will rework that feature when we can figure it out but yeah there was I mean there were definite obvious bugs like uh it wouldn't allow there was an email address I have it's uh I'm William Gallagher so I I have an email it's WG at a particular uh domain name and it said no that's too short to be an email address I thought yeah right okay um yeah there some issues there I thought they'd been fixed by now and I'm I'm dis pointed that they're not but you know they've been very busy doing a lot of things and I couldn't do any of this so let them off they're doing things I'll give them that so we'll have to see I'm I'm trying to use it I really want to create the things and all so I'll let I'll report back if it ever gets fixed and I get contacted by Apple support but listeners if you were able to set it up I'd be curious I really wanted to try and use it maybe even ditch like G Suite because that's the main reason why I use Google email is the custom email domains so I'm curious how it functions like with the the mail app on iPhone and all that but I'll have to report back once it actually works all right well last thing let's just touch on this memo that Tim Cook sent to Apple employees this was after they did an internal meeting I think talking about some of their policies for health and co uh policies once people come back to the office and things from that meeting leaked out to the Press on that plus the other device leaks Tim Cook sent this memo to Apple employees earlier this week and there were a couple lines that I thought very interesting he addresses leakers directly and he says I'm going to quote now from his memo quote I'm writing today because I've heard from so many of you were incredibly frustrated to see the contents of the meeting leak to reporters this comes after a product launch in which most of the details of our announcements were also leaked to the Press I want you to know that I share your frustration and I want to reassure you that we are doing everything in our power to identify those who leaked end quote so I think there's a couple interesting pieces of information from those statements one apparently Tim Cook himself and apple is frustrated by leaks in general and it seems like there's a common sense of frustration amongst Apple employees that maybe work on these products so the frustration is real number two I think it's interesting that Tim Cook phrased it as most of the details of the recent Apple event were leaked and this is after the Apple watch leaks were incorrect about the Apple watch redesign the satellite feature for the iPhone 13 that that was a rumor prior to the event did not actually come out so I find it interesting that Tim Cook actually phrases it as most of the details leaked whereas we know many of the rumors were actually wrong so that's a curious piece of information and thirdly that Tim Cook says that they are doing everything in their power to identify those who leaked information and I don't know if I was a source for one of these leakers that leaked some of this information I would be watching my back because it seems like Tim Cook is after you but I don't know what were your feelings about this memo I I felt slightly embarrassed actually the poor guy writes a memo about things being leaked and that memo is leaked it feels like I'll give him a just a little break you know oh that's so true I didn't even think about that yeah it's a double leak this thing about basically hunting down the leakers I didn't pry quite like that but yeah we know near enough uh thing is I remember uh I looked up an article on Tim cooking 2012 was saying that Apple was doubling down on secrecy and things so it feels like did they not do it or do they need to Triple down um there's always going to be something right I know John prer one of the big leakers we report on him and apple Insider he wrote on his website front page Tech that the leak Community has always been around and it has leaks and rumors have been a thing for decades in regards to Apple and will always be around and whatever methods have to change for sources to get information out they'll just adapt to whatever stop gaps that Apple puts in place I think that's interesting you know I think one of the B biggest leaks ever was that iPhone 4 prototype that was left in a bar but that was you know we haven't seen that since no no Hardware leak to that extent but I don't know I'm curious what they're going to do again John proster said in his article many sources out of China who were tweeting leaks and rumors earlier this year in 2021 recently seem to have stopped doing that some of these Anonymous leakers that were tweeting things just kind of disappeared off the face of the Earth like they just their accounts have gone dormant so it seems like maybe apple is clamping down on some of those sources especially in China or supply chain sources the last event you have John prer Mark German and mingi quo all had leaks that they were saying were coming all of them agreed on the flat Edge Apple watch redesign including Mark Gman a few days before the event and they were all wrong so whether or not you know it looks like leaks are going to be coming out or not maybe the accuracy of these leaks will actually decrease in the near future as Tim Cook and apple tries to clamp down on some of this leaked information but I thought it was so interesting just how Tim Cook phrased it and clearly it's a frustration for the company yeah it's got to be I I'm slightly T over this because uh in most ways I'm with apple I would enjoy learning about these things at the event I would enjoy the surprise of it but unlike anybody else I want to know and if it comes out I want to know more but I I was very amused by the Apple watch when the first shot of the watch came on and it was curved I was so pleased cuz I thought the square thing looked really ugly but then immediately afterwards you were hearing people saying there had been a problem with the flat Edge thing and apple had suddenly changed so you know like last Friday or something they decided to ret all yeah right and others others saying well well well we didn't say it was Apple Series S it's eight it's series eight yeah right okay fine it's actually contributing factor in case they're right I'm want to buy a seven right cuz I don't want to get a squar of um uh eight kind of thing I know yeah a lot of people saying you know Mark Armen and the ATP guys are like you know that design is not super pleasing as just a watch design in general so you know Apple mine never go to it and if it doesn't that really says something about the leaks you know and and John presser supposedly leaked the iPhone 14 a couple weeks ago we have to wait a year to actually see if that pans out but I think that'll be telling as well you know maybe the leag community will get a little quieter over the next year I'm not sure it's just a curious situation for sure I'm glad you amended one thing though and said that the accounts of these leakers had gone cuz when you started by saying they disappeared off the face of the Earth it sounded a bit violent didn't it really it's just like they personally have been removed from the problem the Apple Mafia has gone door to door well and you know when that iPhone 4 leaked so that was a Gizmodo leak and when they actually had the physical device they did the big report on it Apple literally sent law enforcement to the Gizmodo editor's house to confiscate like hard drives and equipment and that was kind of the first time was like woo slow down Apple you know that that seemed like very aggressive but again it was quote unquote stolen merchandise you know it was left in a bar that's bad on the Apple employee who did that but to actually take it and then report on it you know maybe that's a different story but I don't know I don't think it's the Apple gestapo going after leakers I think they're just figuring out where they're coming from and I don't know really addressing the issue it's quite an image though Apple Stormtroopers I mean the costumes helmets that be brilliantly designed wouldn't they oh that's right but they'd all be square helmets Square edges flat edges just kidding well listeners come back next week as we will have all these devices in hand iPhone 13 13 Pro iPad Mini we'll go in depth on all of that and anything else that comes out and again you can tweet at William and myself our Twitter handles are in the show notes also if you haven't yet you can give the podcast of festar rating and review and apple podcast that helps out the show and if you want to help out the show by supporting us directly you you can do that directly in apple podcast or atwelcome to the Apple Insider podcast this is your host Steven Robles and we're going to talk about all the iPhone 13 iPad mini stuff pre-orders devices coming in then iOS 15 and 15.1 we're going to cover it all and this episode is brought to you by posty fast growing trees quip and Zach do you'll hear about those in a moment and joining me this week is my friend across the pond William Gallagher how's it going William hello I'm really glad to be here this week cuz all those things you just said I want to know about tell me everything oh goodness I want to talk about it all talk about it all first of all we are now have done our pre-orders as we record we are eagerly awaiting devices to arrive the next day as you listen to it it should be Friday we should be getting our stuff but what I want to know William is how did pre-orders go for you and what if anything did you pre-order Apple's end of the pre-order bit went very well but I got my dispatch notification as we call it here I was told today that's not Americans don't call it that you call it shipping inform I don't know anyway dispatch deliver okay dispatched okay I like itch got one of those uh but unfortunately Apple in the UK uses a uh carrier called dpd and I kind of sank slightly when I saw it was them and sure enough you clicked the tracking link and the this parcel delivery thing tells me my iPhone 13 Pro was delivered into my hands on the the 30th of January 2021 what thought you know I might have mentioned it to Apple Insider if I'd had it8 months early yeah I'm fully confident that it's going to arrive tomorrow William you could have been a professional leaker if you had had it back in January that would have been incredible yeah but then Tim Cook wouldn't have liked me would he oh that is true yeah that is true oh we we have to talk about that too oh my goodness he he got a on those leakers but anyway so what exactly did you pre-order I 2013 Pro 256 GB in Sierra blue and I in the after an amazing amount of spreadsheet work here I decided to buy it outright while trading in my iPhone 11 Pro instead of going on the iPhone upgrade program uh it just the numbers were ever so slightly better that way okay so that's great but you are on the iPhone program so yes which model and capacity and color have you got so I went with the iPhone 13 Pro I did the 5 12 GB I looked at my current iPhone that's I got 512 last year as well and I'm just about at 250 gigs now having used it for a year so I didn't want to go 256 and risk you know having doing stuff I will say a majority of what I save on my phone is podcast episode hoarding like I literally have 50 gigabytes of podcast stuff on my phone just like old episodes so I could probably clean that up but I just like to keep it just in case you never know you never know you're on a plane you're traveling so I just thinking you fill up your iPhone so you buy a new one that's all right that's exactly it's it's an attitude it's an approach that's what you do so I did that I got the Sierra blue it's the first time I ever will have a color iPhone I've always gone either the white and silver or the black and space gray so this is my first actual color of an iPhone so I'm excited for that as we speak I got my parcel dispatch or whatever you call it I got my delivery notification and it says it is coming tomorrow Friday September 24th so I'm excited for that and I also should have an iPad Mini coming on the same day oh I think yes I'm excited to use that it'll be my first iPad Mini think I might be doing a video review of that so I'm excited to try that out over the weekend and of course the 13 and I convinced my wife to upgrade hers she was on an 11 and it's just about 2 years old now and she actually got a really good tradein price for her phone like you're saying she got like almost $400 I think for the iPhone 11 and it was hers is a 256 GB so with that trade in it was a pretty good deal and hers will be coming on launch day as well pre-order process super fast I got my orders in at like 801 and 802 yes even using the Apple card I did not have an issue I know there were many people Neil Hughes at Apple Insider had issues with the Apple card and took him like an hour to get his pre-order in so not sure what was going on with apple card there but my Apple card was fine and I know sorry it's a touchy subject William you don't have apple card I apologize well it also meant I didn't have any problems so there exactly exactly it was a Flawless experience so very good so I'm excited for that I know a lot of people getting theirs tomorrow the iPhone 13 looks like the Pro Models were pretty popular this year I think the camera improvements from the 13 Pro versus the 13 regular are significant enough where people jump to that pro model I know even like John grber you know of Daring Fireball you know pretty well-known Apple pundit he just had the 12 regular for the past year for his personal phone he talked about it on his talk show but actually going pro this year because of the camera differences so I think those camera improvements are pushing people towards the Pro Models it's part of the reason I've gone for it but I'm I'm surprised the first one in the in the US the first model to go on back order and be delivered later was the iPhone 13 Pro Max and this year there isn't is there any difference in the cameras between the two I don't think there is no oh no the 13 Pro regular and 13 Pro Max have the exact same camera system I'm surprised but I suppose it's just cuz I had a year with a large iPhone and and I liked it very much but then I went to my 11 Pro and I loved it so much more that I can't imagine going back to the bigger size and paying for the privilege either so I was surprised that I thought the pro iPhone 13 Pro would be the first one to back order but apparently not apparently not everybody's getting blue though that sounds like it's the col the color to be it is I mean I just I wanted to get a color this year I don't know so I'm excited to to try it out there were iPhone 13 and 13 Pro reviews that came out the kind of first round of early reviews from the likes of MKBHD I Justine Renee Richie The Verge all those reviews came out and a lot of the reviews really said of the improvements across the lineup battery life is noticeably better in the 13 phones as opposed to the 12 models so that is great to hear that there is better battery life and that the cameras are dramatically improved across the lineup especially with low light especially on the 13 Pro and 13 Pro Max models and one of the interesting things about it is if you had a 12 Pro Max your camera module was already bigger on the 12 Pro Max but if you had a 12 Pro like myself just the regular size 12 Pro the camera module size difference going to the 13 Pro is going to be significant and I discovered this because the case I got a silicone Abyss blue case for my iPhone 13 Pro came in early it came in like this past T Monday or Tuesday and holding up the case for the 13 Pro versus the 12 Pro the camera bump on the 13 Pro is massive like it is a massive bump and because the phone is smaller but the camera bump is basically going to match the 13 Pro Max size camera bump it is huge I'll put a link to my tweet where I kind of compared the 12 Pro case to the 13 Pro case but man that is a big bump that's all I'll say about that no no no no no hang on hang on hang on hang on yeah you have for the first time ever bought a color iPhone and you're going to put in the case straight away okay listen listen listen I use cases pretty much regularly as I'm out and about walking around but when I'm home and maybe if I'm like at an office where I'm not so worried about dropping it I'll take it out of its case I ride the I ride the fence I do both end both end okay now I will Point our people if you want to see like the most in-depth camera review of the 13 pro and pro Max Austin man who's actually been a guest on this podcast before he talked about the M1 iPad Pro a few months ago he does a review of the iPhone cameras every year he went on an African safari this year with the 13 pro and pro Max his review is spectacular the images that he gets from these phones are spectacular and he is a professional photographer you know he uses like Hasselblad and all this professional equipment in his normal photography and seeing what he gets out of the 13 Pro is amazing video and photo and he had great things to say about the macro mode as well so I encourage everyone to check it out did you have a chance to look at any of his images no actually I've got him in my readit later service to enjoy over the weekend but I think uh I don't to know if he covers I mean he's still photographer isn't he I'm very keen to see how the iPhone 13 Pro Works in video in lower light mode everybody talks about their still cameras but I I just don't know if it's actually better with video and pure nosiness really I don't have a practical use for going around filming at night but i' I've got to try it yeah and I think the Verge talked about low light video and it is dramatically improved especially the 13 Pro over the 12 Pro so yes video and low light is improved and Austin man's got a whole whole like 9 minute video with like video footage from the 13 Pro so I encourage you to check it out the one thing that most of the reviewers said about the 13s is the new cinematic mode that Apple announced at the event this is the artificial bokeh effect like portrait mode but for video that you can capture live and then also even edit later is a little bit unpredictable you know if you're in very bright outside Sunny environment cinematic mode does pretty good around the hair and around certain parts of the body like where portrait mode struggles sometimes cinematic mode also struggles and you'll see kind of that weird blurring around the hairlines and stuff like that and in lower light cinematic mode really struggles and if we didn't mention this before the new cinematic mode on the 13 lineup only films in 1080P 30 frames per second no yeah you cannot film 4K video in cinematic mode that's a pattern for apple is it there's this wonderful thing they announced um was it with the 12 Pro the or even the 11 I think it was the reason that got me to go to the 12 was the fact that you could shoot uh on both cameras simultaneously front and back and filmic pro did this big thing of they're going to come out with this feature and they never did in filmic Pro they released a separate thing double Tech I think it's called which is right it's fine it's nice but it's still 1080p so you're shooting everything else in 4k why would you dup down to a qu of the quality to get a shut I'm that's a big that's almost disappointing as the fact that we in the UK aren't getting mmwave 5G right even now I man between apple card and mmwave you should you should just move just move over here will come on over turning to Android that's what I'm doing no no no no it's not worth it it's not worth it so from the these early reviews it does look like battery life is greatly improved obviously the phone is super fast the promotion display the variable refresh rate looks great MKBHD said that was one of the first things that when he took it out of the box it was just noticeably really good glad for that that's also helping with the battery life because not only do you get high refresh when you're scrolling but when you're just reading something or the screen is static then the refresh rate can drop down to 10 htz and that saves battery life and processing power so looking forward to that but obviously the cameras we're going to be doing some testing ourselves I really want to try out the macro mode which is the close-up photography Austin man said those features were really good on it the macro modes were great so I'm curious how it actually compares to a full-on camera's macro lens but cinematic mode seems to be like the eh maybe fun to use but no one's probably going to be making like serious movies with IT Joanna Stern she did the review for The Wall Street Journal and she actually did like an entire music video filmed in cinematic mode with the iPhone 13 she always does Incredible video work but she said you know when you're trying to do like a professional environment or serious shooting then you get with that struggle in the Cinematic mode so remains to be seen we'll have to try it out it seems like it'll be a fun feature to try but not something that you're going to be using in professional situations now there were also reviews that came out for the iPad Mini so if you want to check out some of those early reviews a lot of reviewers said it's a fun device it's really great it's super fast with the a15 bionic processor but remains to be seen like where does it fit in someone's workflow or productivity I'm excited to try editing these podcasts on the mini as opposed to the iPad Pro M1 I'm curious to see what the performance differen is like between the M1 and the a15 and also for e-reading a lot of people were saying it's very light it's pocketable if you have a big enough pocket to put it in there but we'll talk about more we'll talk about the iPad Mini more once we have it in hand and can talk about it there but are you excited for that mini have you ever had an iPad mini um I've used an iPad mini and a relative of mine had some problem or other and for whatever reason although I could fix whatever it was straight away she couldn't collect it for about a week so I had a week playing with this thing a couple years ago and I really liked it I thought it was a tremendous machine for reading just deep deep Joy but I don't know that I would pay uh all the money of the iPad Mini 6 because I'd need for that amount of money I'd need to be able to work on it and I don't think I could really write on it as easily as I can well uh the cheaper iPad really so I'm a bit right I was surprised how popular it was and then reviews came through and they all started saying fantastic but very expensive and you can't really work on it and now I'm kind of torn so I it's down to you what if you tell me is what will I will go by yeah I see you know that's the one thing where I use a Smart Keyboard I used it with my 11 Pro I use it now with my 12.9 in Pro and to have a you know Smart Keyboard or magic keyboard with an iPad Mini I totally understand why that's not a thing I mean it would be a super cramped keyboard but you know when I edit podcasts I hold the iPad the entire time cuz I'm editing with the pencil and I will say the 12.9 9 in iPad while I like the screen real estate gets pretty heavy cuz when I edit a show like the Apple Insider or homekit Insider I might be editing for like 2 hours maybe 2 and 1 half hours and holding the big iPad for that long gets a little cumbersome and so I'm very curious to try editing these shows on the 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like I want to see The Radars I want to make sure the notifications are going to be equal so I'm going to keep rolling with both for a while and see if I still get the same precipitation notifications from both apps from what I've observed so far in the past week the stock weather app has been pretty good giving me those it's going to rain in so many minutes it's going to stop raining in so many minutes and those radar maps basically look just like the dark sky ones so I'm really liking it what do you think of that new weather app uh I haven't opened dark sky since I went to the beers for this I love the new they up uh I think part of it I have to say though the whole thing of what you just said rain stopping into 3 minutes beginning in 9 whatever it is it's never been as accurate here in the UK as it has in the states um I suppose microclimates not as many radar stations and things like this but for whatever reason it's never been that great it's just always been better than everything else so I don't have a lot to compare it to and so far the weather app itself seem to be doing as good a job as dark sky and for me that was always the thing that was the most useful should I wait 10 minutes before I go out or not and yeah so far I have plus I just I really like the design of it I think they done a gorgeous job oh yeah with that yes I agree you know what looks great too the weather app on iPad and uh that app looks like The Weather Channel but anyway we won't go there right you threw me there for a second what yeah I was trying to catch you trying to catch you on that so yeah maybe maybe one day we'll get the weather app on the iPad you know you get the widgets but when you tap the widget it just goes to weather.com so I would love to see those like cool animations you know when it's raining or thunderstorming and you open the stock weather app on iPhone you get this cool like thunderstorm animation and you get this rain falling down like on the iPad screen that would be so cool and the rain bounces off uh the pain I actually have a few different cities set up for legitimate work purposes but I still occasionally I will flick through them just to see the different weathers to enjoy the animation of it you're looking at me now okay I'll stop no I think it is very cool beautifully designed and so that that's just why I want to see it on on the iPad the iPad I just want to see it on the iPad that's all so in addition you have the focus modes in iOS 15 and iPad OS 15 I had resisted creating a bunch of focus modes while I was on the beta because I wasn't going to have the betas everywhere and the big benefit of focus modes is that they apply on all your devices so if you enable to focus mode on your iPhone your iPad and if you have a Mac running Mac OS monor they'll go into the same Focus mode with the same settings we don't have Mac OS Monteray just yet but across my iPhone and iPad I've been trying to set those up and play with them I'm curious your thoughts on this William I I love the idea I love the granular control you get in the focus modes but I feel a little bit of option overload and as I try to set these up I feel a little bit like there's so much you can do with this plus shortcuts and automations and the home screens and all this kind of stuff it feels a little complicated and it's going to take me a while to kind of tweak all those have you found what's been your experience with Focus modes I rushed into it started setting up loads of things then I think I found the same thing as you I've kind of pruned it back to just a couple of things and I must be doing something wrong because I've set one up that that locks out everything except my wife and one editor and things like that and even today in the middle of all of that suddenly a couple of people who AR on my VIPs list or anything the bleep came when they emailed me and I cannot cannot see why they broke through for it so I what I'm doing wrong but it must be option related so yes I'm going to study this except I also realized that uh this happened yesterday and because it got the bleeps through and I thought I'll take a minute to look at this I switched off the focus mode I was in and the phone rang with a a job from the BBC for me that I wouldn't have got if I'd been in Focus mode and they needed it right away it was a radio thing so very quick face more stuff but a lot of fun and I would have missed it if Focus mode had been working so I'm a bit conflicted here so the bugginess is a feature that's what you're saying yes there you go very good very good well I have used live text on the iPad since all the betas have come out and if you haven't played with live text yet it is an incredible feature you can select copy paste text from any image in your phone and images you just find on the web you know you can actually just to do a little video to somebody I got a picture of the Declaration of Independence on Google I saved it to my camera roll and you can just just like select the text from the Declaration of Independence you know font notwithstanding sometimes it's struggles with some of those like fancy writings but any image you have if it has a phone number or an address it can recognize those things and the real power comes when you search in Spotlight on your iPhone or iPad and soon Mac OS monor it will search all your photos for the text of what you are searching so if you're trying to remember you know where did I go I don't know like what was the phone number of that cafe or something if you took a picture of the cafe and the name of the cafe like on a sign or on a menu that you took it will actually search and hit that as a search result because it can recognize the text across all your photos across your entire iCloud photo library so really cool have you found any use cases for live text uh Yes actually I was pulling out quotes from something I just for some reason couldn't uh select and copy so I took a photograph of it and did exactly that same thing for except except have you not found this yet every now and again all you're trying to do is drag an image from one place to another and your finger on the iPad or your cursor on Mac OS Monterey happens to catch somewhere that's got text in it and so it goes and selects the text instead oh yeah I've heard that so often and you haven't okay I I have not I mean I I haven't used it used it a ton I just kind of like playing with it and see you know will it translate this text and will it do that but I feel like if you work in a situation where you're writing stuff on whiteboards or you're in meetings and you have stuff where everyone's referring to some display or board or maybe you take a picture of a PowerPoint slide you know that is going to be really useful cuz you can just copy that text save it to a note and now you have editable text you know you don't have just an image of a whiteboard or a slide so I think it's going to be really good it's incredible yes and you realize you don't even have to take the photograph you just hold the camera up right take it I mean I always would because you know something's going to you'll lose the text and you could have taken the shot but the fact that you don't even have to bother doing that so it's any photograph you've ever ever taken and even photographs you haven't taken that's that's how comprehensive live text is absolutely no it's great you also have the background sounds now built into iOS 15 so if you want to have like rain or ocean sounds you don't even need a separate app anymore you can enable it right in the settings accessibility Audio Visual and you can do background sounds right there which is pretty cool a ton of updates to the messages app you know if you send multiple photos there's now like this little stacked of view in the conversation and then you can break those out to a grid view so messages got a lot of updates there's also drag and drop on iPhone now and this is not something I think a lot of people realize but if you go to say Safari on your iPhone and you do an image search search for dogs you can actually tap and hold on one of those images and once you're tapping and holding you can actually with your other hand swipe up to go home and it will have that image as like a drag and drop file and you can go to another app like messages and literally just drag that into the message conversation and it will send it or if you do it in an email it'll attach it to an email so you can now do drag and drop on iPhone if you use kind of that twohand thing where you're holding something with your thumb or another finger and you use your other hand to navigate around the phone pretty wild that you can do that now on the iPhone and did you know about that just trying to contort my fingers to do that and I can't quite get there but I I will work on it okay it's it's complicated you kind of have to do a little bit of a contortionist move with all the the drag and drop yes so one of the biggest changes in iOS 15 is the Safari redesign and this has been talked about over the summer and all the betas and the different things Apple changed right of the bat let me just say if you update to iOS 15 and you cannot stand the tab bar and address bar at the bottom you can go into settings go to Safari scroll down to tab View and you can basically set it just like it was in iOS 14 you can totally revert back and just have that you know have it like it was in iOS 14 but I am trying to live with it now for the first time on the iPhone full time using it all the time there's a lot of muscle memory to get over cuz I just automatically tap on the top of the screen to access the address bar to type a search or a website URL so it's a little bit of muscle memory retraining to the bottom of the screen but I don't know William I will say my first impressions are I think I like seeing the website unobstructed at the top of the screen you know cuz now with the tab bar at the bottom websites really go all the way up into the the very top of the screen so that's nice I feel like I don't have a distracting address bar but it used to just shrink when you would start scrolling so it wasn't a big deal but I I just I don't know I don't know how I feel about this I like swiping between tabs and I like the new tab view where you can see all the websites kind of in squares and it's not this you know like Rolodex card looking thing but how how are you feeling about the iPhone Safari I switched that bit back actually for a long because I mean I thought the same as you muscle memory we're so used to going to the top but actually we're also so used to going to the top in pretty much every website we go to it's where the menu is where the search function is so you'd be forever going to the top no I've got to go to the bottom to do this and then when the sight load is right right got know got to go to the top and things and the cognitive load of moving up and down I just in the end there are certain things about Safari that I utterly love uh but what they've done with tabs in the end no that tab view thing uh instead of the Rolodex thing yes definitely better but you get to keep that even if you opt back to the older version so yeah I I tried for a long time and no okay well I'm I'm trying you know because I I've only been living with it for 4 days right now on the iPhone so I'm going to keep trying and see what it's like but I understand why it was so divisive initially when people first put this beta on their iPhone because it is is very different and I don't know if if it's if it's better and it is a little confusing now to get to the do I have to turn off content blockers for this website or do I want to access the reader view settings like all that stuff feels a little more convoluted and as we'll talk about in a second if you start adding extensions into the Safari of iOS 15 that little menu with the two A's gets very busy very quickly and there's a lot of stuff yeah it's a lot of stuff in that menu and I don't know if it's the best way to display all that information but I'll Reserve judgment I'm going to keep using it this is about tabs what about the complete opposite uh tab groups which I'm just going to tell you now is immediately perfectly the way it should always have been in life everywhere that good immediately do do you agree with me or have you not looked yet no no tab groups are amazing and if you didn't know Safari on the Mac even though we don't have Mac OS Monteray you can update to Safari 15 on the Mac by itself and you get tab groups you get the redesign on the Max so you can have this stuff everywhere right now like tab groups and all that and the tab groups are great no I I do love those that is incredible they Apple comes out announces it and I think oh that's very nice it's like a bionic bookmarking thing yeah whatever I might try it someday and then I had to write an article about it actually all very very clever and then the next thing you know I'm obsessed I'm using it for everything and I'm zooming between apple Insider work writer's Guild work other stuff for it I just one click and I'm suddenly in a completely different head space as well as Safari space because of tap grips you go so the other thing about Safari though like I mentioned a second ago is extensions are now available on iPad and iPhone and I will say this opens up an entire world of possibility the extensions on iOS 15 are really good there's a limited amount of them right now I'm sure extensions will grow and increase over time but just the few that are available right now are great and one of the first to adopt it and update their app was one password and the one password extension on iOS 15 and iPad OS 15 works just like you would hope like you probably have the extension if you use one password in Safari or even Chrome you get the choice of choosing a login right there on the website you don't need to hit the share button and tap one password to access your logins it just shows up right in the web browser it can do the two- Factor authentication codes and all that so extensions two thumbs up I'm curious have you played around with extensions do you have any that have stood out to you in the me time barely at all actually cu the extensions were not available during the beta process so they're new too and I it was one of those things where as soon as they're out I must look into them but no on my iPad I was actually kind of nudged into finding the one password one I Ed one password and then suddenly there was a you know you could add this and I did and I haven't got it on my iPhone yet I haven't been prompted through it and I'm not honestly clear where to add it on the iPhone but it's looking at me right now in on the iPad it's uh one password logo in icon rather in the address bar for it are you saying that when you got a few of them it fills up that address bar in Safari on my iPad the extensions now only show up as like a little puzzle piece in the address bar and it has the number four next to it telling me that there are four extensions available and again this is one of the things where I wish that there were multiple icons or they broke out some of this functionality cuz right now and I will take a screenshot and maybe put this as the chapter art but there's like the circle with three dots and if you tap that you have like some shortcuts if you have those saved you have the reader view or read later links you have the translate commands and text size and then you have extensions below that and then the manage extensions there if you tap the puzzle piece I guess it actually brings up the same menu even though there's a second icon in that address bar it's not any different functionality I guess it's just one big tap Target between the puzzle piece and the round circles so I don't know just a little bit of a confusing UI there trying to get to the extensions and all that but all that being said the few extensions that are available right now one password is great there's an extension called momentum which I've actually used in Chrome for a long time and it basically is a customized start screen and you can now have that on iPad and iPhone and so that's fun and then this last one I highly recommend ATU HTML viewer it's a funny name but I'll put links to all these extensions in the show notes if you want to try them out but if you're a web developer or you need to look at the code of a website often there were shortcuts you could do before to try and view the source code and all that but ATU HTML viewer it's actually better it's a easier you can just tap this extension you start seeing the code in a little window and then you can copy that to a document or share it somewhere so at you HTML viewer is actually really useful so pretty cool I I suddenly get it what you say it's a viewer so it's here is looking at you isn't it that's what it is okay now I understand you did it you did it very nice one last iOS 15 Safari extension that I highly recommend is called amp plosion ampion and this extension what it does is if you go to a website and it would have loaded the Google amp version of a website which is like amp. whatever if you don't know what this is maybe it doesn't bother you but I always want to get like the raw website I don't want to look at The Amp version this extension for Safari will actually automatically redirect you to the raw link of that article rather than the amp web page so you never have to see that amp version at all so that's amp plosion it's $3 on the App Store but I'll include a link to that because very cool extension right there oh I'm having that definitely yeah it's pretty cool this episode is brought to you by quip if you've heard me for any amount of time you know I love smart home devices and homekit and I also love when smart devices get small and 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tabs option you can do the automatically uh collapse tab titles into icons you can do the show color and tab bar like there's some options there to customize it but not sure how I feel about it I got to spend some more time with it but have you gotten used to the new version of Safari on the Mac or have you tried to revert it basically to what it was before at some point during the be they walked back some part of the change and I almost missed what they've done I because of tab groups I don't tend to have a huge number of tabs open on screen at any one time so it's when they get smaller that it's much harder to pick through I still find it hard to be certain which one I've currently selected which is a bit odd but um when you were saying that about Wells Faro I remember BBC News goes red as well so I went to that side and when it's red actually the S the tabs are much clearer I know which one of the redness it is so I I quite like the colors it does give a very different feel to each site but I'm quite happy with that okay well listeners let us know what you think of the new Safari designs across all the platforms you can tweet at William and myself we'd love to know and then also iOS 15.1 the very first beta of the next version 15.1 has come out in that beta it looks like shareplay will be coming in iOS 15.1 whenever that's released publicly Dolby Atmos and lossless audio coming to homepod in that update and vaccination cards in apple wallet if you're healthcare provider actually supports that so those are some of the big features coming in iOS 15.1 the beta is out there if you want to be on that beta train or the official release will probably be coming in the next month or so also wanted to mention with the iPad Mini I'm going to be trying it with an ebook reader and I actually have a Kindle paper white I'm going to be comparing it to but on the heels of the iPad Mini Amazon announced a new version of the Kindle and you can now get an updated version of the Kindle paper white with USBC which was one of my complaints about the current Kindle paper white so the version you can get USBC it's got some other updates so I'll be comparing that with the new iPad Mini to see which is the better e-reader especially outside I'm curious how that new iPad Mini does outside without that mini LED display I'll be comparing it to my 12.9in iPad Pro to see how is the readability outside did you ever have a Kindle or any kind of e-reader like that I've tried some uh my problem with them is I love the fact that you can read them outside but I find the display and the font really ugly remember when version 10 of the Kindle software came out the headline feature was that the typography was better anything the 10th version they're finally looking at what the thing is you're reading all the time uh I just find that the way it breaks the font size everything is horrible and uh books on iPad look utterly gorgeous except when you're outside I didn't really believe I mean it sounds rotten but I didn't believe people was complaining about iPads outside uh until I changed iPads recently my 2015 iPad Pro yes you knew it was a problem with the sunlight but it wasn't Dreadful it was very rarely a problem but now with that the 11in iPad Pro it's very much up on when I'm outside in sunlight so uh I could be drawn back to paper whites and things but only if they've improved the text I can't stop seeing how what to me looks like very ugly text it is very ugly and you know you get an iPad Mini you also get like an iPad that's true with a bunch of other things that it can do so you know there's that um I want to mention to the new magsafe wallet I did get one of the new magsafe wallets and new is like in the biggest air quotes possible because it is basically the same as last year's maxafe wallet save for the fine my integration really wondering why the new mag safe wallet can be integrated with fine my and not the old one they're both just NFC chips neither of them has a U1 chip like a air tag or anything so I don't know functionality seems curious between the two but I already got mine in the mail and when you put it on the back of your phone you get that little setup screen like you do an air tag the little card slides up so you can add a ma safe wallet to find mine I do like the notification you get so when you take the new mag safe wallet off your iPhone after a minute it will send you a notification that says you've left your magsafe wallet at such and such address if you reattach it in less than a minute you won't get a notification so the idea is you know if you're just taking it off paying for something and putting it back on your phone you won't get a notification but if it gets separated then you'll get that notification and you can hopefully recover your wallet and you can even program it where if you lose your wallet entirely if someone else slaps it on the back of their iPhone 12 or 13 it will actually say this wallet belongs to such and such and it will show your phone number if you choose from the find my app settings that you have it'll show your phone number and so someone who finds the wallet could in the most altruistic scenario call you and say hey I have your wallet and return it so cool features again weird that it's not available for the original maxafe wallet this seems just like an iOS 15 feature it could have been enabled pretty cool it's a little weird if you want to take the wallet off like in the car and attach it to a car mount like I did that and then I got a notification like hey you left your magsafe wallet somewhere it's like well it's sitting right here I just wanted to put my phone on the car mount right yeah I almost wish there was some way where you can just put it on a car mount with the wallet attached and I know with all the magnets you'd probably erase your cards completely but that's the only like weird scenario from that it'd be much better yes yeah apart from totally rendering all your cards unusable so that's the only weird thing about the magsafe wallet but if you didn't have a magsafe wallet before you might want to try with the fine my especially if you maybe lose your wallet or maybe you leave it places a lot and have to go back and recount your steps to find it it is nice to just have a notification and information in the find my app that says hey this is where you left your wallet it's at this address so that's cool I would like to ask the about the car mount thing uh I just broke my old car mount and I've ordered a new one and I've ordered mag safe uh for are you happy with your magsafe car mount I got the moment mag safe Mount and I wasn't crazy about that because it it was very shallow and it didn't fit my vent then I tried the car and driver one and that one was kind of meh the last one I got is the Belin magsafe car mount and that one I've been happy with it articulates well it comes out from the vent so it's it's not like super flush or pushed weird against the vent and holds the phone pretty securely so I got the belcon one and I'm happy with that one which one did you get I went for a window suction cut one by made by otter I don't like vent ones cuz uh some years ago I managed to break the vent on something I prefer the higher rise uh site view as well of it I I think in the states there are some places where you can't have that but here you can in the UK so I just I also occasionally I've done uh videos uh shot from the mag safe thing I just put the phone the other way around and photographed myself for it that sounds wrong when you see what I mean but I had to do a video where I was arguing with myself in the car and a secured man was great and I've just realized this second saying to you I can't do that now I can't use the back cameras because I can't turn the phone around okay well yeah I had to replace it so I'll be a safer driver that's what I'll be yeah there you go there you go and you can use the driving Focus mode turn off notifications while gets in the car that yes yeah so I'm I'm trying to do that I'm I'm trying to set up Focus Mode best best I can so we'll see one last feature I want to touch on this is an iCloud plus feature the custom email domains I believe you actually had the how-to article about this and I was waiting till it was officially released cuz it's been in beta till recently but I actually put a couple domains in my iCloud settings I set up the custom domains the DNS servers I verified everything in the iCloud dashboard thing and so everything looked like it was ready to go it's a email address so should be fine there and when I went to add the custom email to use with my iCloud mail it keeps giving me the error that it's just not unable to create the email address it just keeps erroring and so in a rare move I actually contacted Apple support cuz I was like maybe something with my account something I don't know but when I contacted them they said there's multiple people experiencing this issue will add you to like the escalated ticket that the engineers are working on and hopefully it will get resolved soon so custom email domains with iCloud Mail still a little buggy but you could try it you can set it up now you don't have to be a part of the beta program or anything but you know let me know people's experience with that if you actually get it set up accurately you've been able to set it up on yours right no uh you mentioned the howto article it's the only howto article I've written about monreo iOS 15 iPad OS which is this is how it's supposed to work but it wasn't it was falling over at one point and I remember when it came out I was looking at you you do I thought am I doing this wrong yeah I can't get answers for it there's no support for it yet and I read several other articles on how to do it and because I'd done this gone through the process I could see who had actually bothered to try doing it and who hadn't okay cuz most of them say it's fine after this point everywhere that it failed for me and then I think Federica vtii uh went all the way and got it working perfectly but I couldn't emulate what he did so I was waiting for the official release to so we will rework that feature when we can figure it out but yeah there was I mean there were definite obvious bugs like uh it wouldn't allow there was an email address I have it's uh I'm William Gallagher so I I have an email it's WG at a particular uh domain name and it said no that's too short to be an email address I thought yeah right okay um yeah there some issues there I thought they'd been fixed by now and I'm I'm dis pointed that they're not but you know they've been very busy doing a lot of things and I couldn't do any of this so let them off they're doing things I'll give them that so we'll have to see I'm I'm trying to use it I really want to create the things and all so I'll let I'll report back if it ever gets fixed and I get contacted by Apple support but listeners if you were able to set it up I'd be curious I really wanted to try and use it maybe even ditch like G Suite because that's the main reason why I use Google email is the custom email domains so I'm curious how it functions like with the the mail app on iPhone and all that but I'll have to report back once it actually works all right well last thing let's just touch on this memo that Tim Cook sent to Apple employees this was after they did an internal meeting I think talking about some of their policies for health and co uh policies once people come back to the office and things from that meeting leaked out to the Press on that plus the other device leaks Tim Cook sent this memo to Apple employees earlier this week and there were a couple lines that I thought very interesting he addresses leakers directly and he says I'm going to quote now from his memo quote I'm writing today because I've heard from so many of you were incredibly frustrated to see the contents of the meeting leak to reporters this comes after a product launch in which most of the details of our announcements were also leaked to the Press I want you to know that I share your frustration and I want to reassure you that we are doing everything in our power to identify those who leaked end quote so I think there's a couple interesting pieces of information from those statements one apparently Tim Cook himself and apple is frustrated by leaks in general and it seems like there's a common sense of frustration amongst Apple employees that maybe work on these products so the frustration is real number two I think it's interesting that Tim Cook phrased it as most of the details of the recent Apple event were leaked and this is after the Apple watch leaks were incorrect about the Apple watch redesign the satellite feature for the iPhone 13 that that was a rumor prior to the event did not actually come out so I find it interesting that Tim Cook actually phrases it as most of the details leaked whereas we know many of the rumors were actually wrong so that's a curious piece of information and thirdly that Tim Cook says that they are doing everything in their power to identify those who leaked information and I don't know if I was a source for one of these leakers that leaked some of this information I would be watching my back because it seems like Tim Cook is after you but I don't know what were your feelings about this memo I I felt slightly embarrassed actually the poor guy writes a memo about things being leaked and that memo is leaked it feels like I'll give him a just a little break you know oh that's so true I didn't even think about that yeah it's a double leak this thing about basically hunting down the leakers I didn't pry quite like that but yeah we know near enough uh thing is I remember uh I looked up an article on Tim cooking 2012 was saying that Apple was doubling down on secrecy and things so it feels like did they not do it or do they need to Triple down um there's always going to be something right I know John prer one of the big leakers we report on him and apple Insider he wrote on his website front page Tech that the leak Community has always been around and it has leaks and rumors have been a thing for decades in regards to Apple and will always be around and whatever methods have to change for sources to get information out they'll just adapt to whatever stop gaps that Apple puts in place I think that's interesting you know I think one of the B biggest leaks ever was that iPhone 4 prototype that was left in a bar but that was you know we haven't seen that since no no Hardware leak to that extent but I don't know I'm curious what they're going to do again John proster said in his article many sources out of China who were tweeting leaks and rumors earlier this year in 2021 recently seem to have stopped doing that some of these Anonymous leakers that were tweeting things just kind of disappeared off the face of the Earth like they just their accounts have gone dormant so it seems like maybe apple is clamping down on some of those sources especially in China or supply chain sources the last event you have John prer Mark German and mingi quo all had leaks that they were saying were coming all of them agreed on the flat Edge Apple watch redesign including Mark Gman a few days before the event and they were all wrong so whether or not you know it looks like leaks are going to be coming out or not maybe the accuracy of these leaks will actually decrease in the near future as Tim Cook and apple tries to clamp down on some of this leaked information but I thought it was so interesting just how Tim Cook phrased it and clearly it's a frustration for the company yeah it's got to be I I'm slightly T over this because uh in most ways I'm with apple I would enjoy learning about these things at the event I would enjoy the surprise of it but unlike anybody else I want to know and if it comes out I want to know more but I I was very amused by the Apple watch when the first shot of the watch came on and it was curved I was so pleased cuz I thought the square thing looked really ugly but then immediately afterwards you were hearing people saying there had been a problem with the flat Edge thing and apple had suddenly changed so you know like last Friday or something they decided to ret all yeah right and others others saying well well well we didn't say it was Apple Series S it's eight it's series eight yeah right okay fine it's actually contributing factor in case they're right I'm want to buy a seven right cuz I don't want to get a squar of um uh eight kind of thing I know yeah a lot of people saying you know Mark Armen and the ATP guys are like you know that design is not super pleasing as just a watch design in general so you know Apple mine never go to it and if it doesn't that really says something about the leaks you know and and John presser supposedly leaked the iPhone 14 a couple weeks ago we have to wait a year to actually see if that pans out but I think that'll be telling as well you know maybe the leag community will get a little quieter over the next year I'm not sure it's just a curious situation for sure I'm glad you amended one thing though and said that the accounts of these leakers had gone cuz when you started by saying they disappeared off the face of the Earth it sounded a bit violent didn't it really it's just like they personally have been removed from the problem the Apple Mafia has gone door to door well and you know when that iPhone 4 leaked so that was a Gizmodo leak and when they actually had the physical device they did the big report on it Apple literally sent law enforcement to the Gizmodo editor's house to confiscate like hard drives and equipment and that was kind of the first time was like woo slow down Apple you know that that seemed like very aggressive but again it was quote unquote stolen merchandise you know it was left in a bar that's bad on the Apple employee who did that but to actually take it and then report on it you know maybe that's a different story but I don't know I don't think it's the Apple gestapo going after leakers I think they're just figuring out where they're coming from and I don't know really addressing the issue it's quite an image though Apple Stormtroopers I mean the costumes helmets that be brilliantly designed wouldn't they oh that's right but they'd all be square helmets Square edges flat edges just kidding well listeners come back next week as we will have all these devices in hand iPhone 13 13 Pro iPad Mini we'll go in depth on all of that and anything else that comes out and again you can tweet at William and myself our Twitter handles are in the show notes also if you haven't yet you can give the podcast of festar rating and review and apple podcast that helps out the show and if you want to help out the show by supporting us directly you you can do that directly in apple podcast or at\n"