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Healthier Than Doomscrolling – Mac Geek Gab 1136 where @DaveHamilton @PilotPete & @MacCast answer your questions and share your Quick Tips, Cool Stuff Found and more. macgeekgab.com/episode/1136/

Keep your Mac awake with one command: Open Terminal → type caffeinate → press Return. When you’re done, press Control-C in that Terminal window to stop it. What would you use this for? Reply below.

What's one product you keep checking for a price drop or restock? Safari's proposed page-change notifications could make that a lot easier by watching for changes you care about. Would you use this for prices, restocks, or something else?

Your iPhone remembers which way you’re swiping through photos. Delete one, and Photos continues in that same direction. Had you noticed? Reply with another tiny iPhone detail more people should know about.

Get motion sick looking at your iPhone in the car? Try Settings > Accessibility > Motion > Vehicle Motion Cues. Animated dots respond to vehicle movement and may help reduce motion sickness. Have you tried it? Did it actually work?

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Printer keeps disappearing from your Mac? One MGG listener found a workaround for his HP: leave Print Center open and hidden instead of quitting it. A week later, he reported it was still working flawlessly. Worth trying next time yours goes missing.

Do you really need to charge your iPhone to 100%? On iPhone 15 and later: Settings > Battery > Charging Set a limit like 80% or 90% to help reduce long-term battery wear. The tradeoff? Less battery life between charges. What's your limit: 80%, 90%, or 100%?

Stop dragging your Mac windows to resize them. Option + double-click a corner fills the screen without entering full-screen mode. Double-click the left or right edge to expand the width. A tiny shortcut worth remembering.

Liquid Glass: beautiful design or readability nightmare? On iPhone, go to Settings > Display & Brightness > Liquid Glass. Clear keeps the transparent look. Tinted adds more contrast.

FaceTime can show your face and what you're looking at simultaneously on supported iPhones with iOS 27. Your rear camera shows the scene while your face stays visible in a smaller window. Useful for troubleshooting, showing someone a project, or giving a quick tour.

Why should your most-used iPhone Camera controls take extra taps? In iOS 27, open Camera > Camera Controls > Edit to customize the controls above the camera frame. Timer, Exposure, Styles, Live Photo. If you could keep only one front and center, which would it be?

Your iPhone Messages conversations could be hiding years of storage-hungry videos. Open a conversation, tap the name at the top, and review its shared photos and videos. Delete attachments you no longer need, but remember that Messages in iCloud syncs deletions across devices.

Don't trust an important webpage to stay online forever. In Safari on iPhone: Page Menu > Share > Markup > Done > Save File To. You can save a PDF copy of instructions, receipts, reservations, or other important pages. What webpages do you always save?

Switching email apps is easy. Retraining your fingers? That’s the hard part. Mail Keys maps familiar Gmail keyboard shortcuts to Apple Mail so your muscle memory can come with you. Which shortcut could you never give up?

You can hand someone your unlocked iPhone without giving them easy access to every app. Touch and hold an app > Require Face ID > Confirm. That app now requires authentication to open. Your passcode can still unlock it, so keep that private too.

Movie night shouldn’t be an hour of scrolling followed by going to bed. Faro is a free iPhone app that recommends movies based on your ratings. Tap “Help Me Choose” and get a handful of picks. No ads. No tracking. Nothing to buy. What’s your go-to movie recommendation?

Your iPhone is on Silent Mode, but some calls are too important to miss. Open Contacts > Select Person > Edit > Ringtone or Text Tone. Enable Emergency Bypass. That person can make your iPhone play a sound even when Silent Mode is on.

Accidentally deleted an important iPhone text? It might not be gone. Open Messages > Filters > Recently Deleted. Select the conversation and tap Recover. Deleted messages are generally recoverable for up to 30 days.