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South Bay Apple MUG Macintosh June 2019 A Monthly CUPFUL for South Bay Apple Mac User Group Members How to Declutter and Speed Up Your Phone, by Thorin Klosowski May 29 Meeting Last month we learned how to declutter your office. Beyond the Simple Selfie. by Don Stouder This month the focus is on your phone. We welcome back Don Stouder, a long-time amateur If you’ve never bothered to organize the apps on your photographer and adult school instructor. He describes phone, clean out old files or wrangle your notifications his upcoming presentation as follows: into a sensible order, that disorder can make your phone an overwhelming, slow and buggy device. You iPhones have gotten to the point where they can take can fix this and give your phone new life. Decluttering superb quality and creative photographs and videos. takes just a few minutes. Improvements to the camera, apps, and available Delete apps you don’t use accessories have allowed this to happen. Ever downloaded an app for a single purpose, such as This presentation will explore the capabilities of the a conference, work meeting or vacation, and then left current camera in the iPhone and the special capabilities that app on your phone to digitally rot away on the of Apple’s Camera and Photos apps. In addition, home screen? Be honest. selected third party apps and accessories that expand The fastest, easiest way to declutter your phone is to upon those provided by Apple will be addressed. get rid of apps you don’t need, and both Apple’s Don’t miss the meeting! See page 2 for details. iPhone and Google’s Android provide simple ways to figure out which apps you don’t use. The easiest way to find those neglected apps is to look at all of your apps in a list, organized by the ones you use least often. On an iPhone, head to Settings, General, iPhone Storage. On Android, open the Play Store, tap the hamburger menu in the top-left corner, tap My Apps & Games, Installed, Alphabetical and IN THIS ISSUE change it to Last Used. Delete apps that are listed as Never Used or that you haven’t opened in months. I Page 1 - Declutter Your Phone also prefer to delete rarely used apps for services Page 2 - Meetings/Location/General where I can just use the website instead. Page 3 - Shareware, iPhone Hack Once you’ve cleared out apps you don’t need, it’s time Page 4 - Limit Your Screen Time to organize the home screen. Everyone’s sense of order Page 5 - Portable Hard Drive with WiFi is different, but having a system — any system — in Page 6 - Syncing Contacts, Air Power, Screen Share place is useful to prevent clutter in the future. Page 7 - Supercharger Melanie Pinola, managing editor for Zapier, has a simple method for organizing folders: “One thing I continued on page 3 Welcome to the SBAMUG South Bay Apple Mac User Group Members,friends and colleagues are invited to attend our monthly meetings (usually the last Wed. of the month). The $35 annual membership dues entitle you to receive this Meetings: Lomita Veteran’s Hall, monthly newsletter by 1865 Lomita Blvd, Lomita mail or online, plus many Mail: PO Box 432, Redondo Beach, more benefits (page 8). Lomita Veteran’s Hall, CA To become a member or 1865 Lomita Blvd, Lomita 90277-0432 get more info please visit Phone: (310) 644-3315 our website sbamug.com Email: [email protected] SBAMUG Monthly Calendar SBAMUG Meeting Format: May 29: Camera & Photo Apps 6:30—7:30 p.m. Questions & Answers and Jun 26: TBD Sharing: Everyone is welcome, beginners encouraged 7:30—7:50 p.m. ‘iSocial’ – shoot the Mac breeze Other Meetings: with others over a cookie* • Tue (6 days after last Wed) - SBAMUG Core Group, 7:30 pm. 7:50—8:00 p.m. Announcements Join FaceTime SBAMUG community, or email: 8:00—9:00 p.m Program [email protected]. *Refreshments provided; donations appreciated! • 2nd Sat. each month - SMOG, 9AM in Costa Mesa, Submit suggestions for topics or speakers, or ocmug.org articles, ideas & original artwork for this newsletter •Last Sat. each month - Northrop Grumman-Ham Radio & to [email protected] by the last Wednesday of Computer Swap Meet, 7--11:30 a.m. Meet at SE corner of each month. Articles may be edited to fit space. Marine/Aviation Blvd, Redondo Beach •Los Angeles Portable Users Group: Mac OS X, iPhone, iPod, MacBook, etc., .lapug.org/ Officers & Volunteers: President: Kent McDonald Membership Report – 88 members! VP: open Please wear membership card as your name tag - you Secretary: Nancie Silver may notice your first name is in larger letters on your Treasurer: CW Mitchell card - so it can be used as a name tag at the meetings.:) Directors at Large: Dave Nathanson, Arnold Thank You Member Renewals: Mike Pauls, Steven Silver, George Wilde, Joan King, Pete Myers Barryte, James McGreevy, Richard & Taffy Rath PD Disk Editor: Jim Pernal If your name is not spelled right or your expiration date is Membership: CW Mitchell wrong, contact [email protected] for correction. Or Member Development: Pete Myers contact CW for everything membership, dues and benefits. Programming: Kent McDonald Please watch for your renewal letter, then sign and date it and Greeter: open return it with $35 check (in enclosed self-addressed envelope) Server Director: Dave Nathanson or bring letter with payment (cash, check, PayPal) to meeting. Newsletter: Pete Myers, Bill Berks USPS Liaison: CW Mitchell Refreshments: Arnold Silver/Andy Paroczai THE SOUTH BAY MUG (ISSN 1058-7810) is published monthly for $35 per year by South Bay Apple Mac User Group, 2550 Via Tejon, Suite 3J, Palos Verdes Estates, CA 90274. Periodicals postage paid at Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA and at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to THE SOUTH BAY MUG, P.O. Box 432, Redondo Beach, CA 90277-0432. The South Bay MUG is published by the non-profit South Bay Apple Mac User Group. Excerpts may be reprinted by user groups and other non-profit media. Credit must be given to SBAMUG and the author. In addition, a copy of all reprinted materials must be 2 sent to us at the above address. The South Bay MUG is an independent publication not affiliated or otherwise associated with or sponsored or sanctioned by Apple® Computer, Inc. The opinions, statements, positions and views stated herein are those of the author(s) or publisher and are not intended to be the opinions, statements, positions or views of Apple® Computer, Inc. SBAMUG May 2019 Shareware Free up storage Sometimes I miss 16 gigabyte phones — the studio apartments of phones — which required a certain This is the May shareware article. Five items this month. Two mindfulness and decision-making to prevent them from are available from the Mac App store, the others from the overflowing. In this age of nearly infinite storage, it’s easy vendors website, with the link included in each description. to collect more junk, and as you run out of space your phone begins to feel sluggish. To clear this out and speed AudioHijack 3.5.7: Utility to let you listen and record any up your phone, you need to peek into some menus you applications audio. Mostly bug fixes in this version. OS 10.11 may have never visited. or higher. $59.00. https://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/ First up are your messages. Threads filled with GIFs, memes, videos and photos can take up a ton of space. In File Juicer 4.7.5: This program will extract images, audio, iOS, you can change how long your phone stores messages video, etc from files. It finds and extracts: JPEG, JP2, PNG, so it clears out those old threads automatically, without GIF, PDF, BMP, WMF, EMF, PICT, TIFF, Flash, ZIP, HTML, you having to do it. WAV, AVI, MOV, MP4, MPG, MP3, AIFF, AU, WMV, or text Head to Settings, Messages, and Keep Messages. Once from files which contain data in those formats. OS 10.11+ there, set how long you want to keep messages before they $18.00 https://echoone.com/filejuicer/ self-destruct. If you want to keep the text but delete attachments, head instead to Settings, General, then Gapplin 1.6.1: Utility program to view scalable vector graphics iPhone Storage, scroll down to Messages and then tap Review large Attachments. This screen will show you all (SVG) often used on the web. Free at the Mac App Store the big files. Android’s Messages app doesn’t have a setting like this, My Wine Storage 2.3.0: Program to manage your wine cellar. but you can swipe left or right on a message thread in Displays the current value of your collection. Tracks quantities Messages to archive old threads. Most third-party apps, and sends a message if your go below your set minimum. OS including WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, have some 10.10+. App store $5.99 means to clear out old messages. The biggest storage hogs on your phone are likely photos Opera 60.0.3255.70: An alternative internet browser. Has and videos. Back them up to an online cloud backup opera turbo mode. OS 10.10+, free. service like Apple iCloud, Google Photos or Amazon’s http://www.opera.com Prime Photos. Once you back up the photos, you can See you at the May meeting. delete them from your phone and access them remotely through the backup service. Jim Pernal PD Editor If you’re still short on space even after taking those steps, the culprit might be an app that’s hoarding data.