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Page 1 Contents June Meeting .......................................................................................................... 1 Board of Directors Apple’s AirTag Promises to Help You Find Your Keys President By Julio Ojeda-Zapata ............................................................................ 3 - 5 Linda J Cober Apple Releases iOS 14.5, iPadOS 14.5, macOS 11.3, watchOS 7.4, and tvOS 14.5 By Adam Engst & Josh Centers ............................... 5 - 10 Recorder Standard Ebooks Makes Classic Texts Beautiful By Joh Centers ... 11 - 13 Wendy Adams Prevent Apple’s Updated Podcasts App from Eating Your Storage By Josh Centers .......................................................... 13 - 16 Treasurer Tim Sullivan Program Director Keystone MacCentral is a not-for-profit group of Macintosh enthusiasts who Dennis McMahon generally meet the third Tuesday of every month to exchange information, participate in question-and-answer sessions, view product demonstrations, and Membership Chair obtain resource materials that will help them get the most out of their computer systems. 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Eric Adams Throughout this publication, trademarked names are used. Rather than include a Web Master trademark symbol in every occurrence of a trademarked name, we are using the trademarked names only for editorial purposes and to the benefit of the Tom Bank II trademark owner with no intent of trademark infringement. Page 2 By Julio Ojeda-Zapata Apple’s AirTag Promises to Help You Find Your Keys you often misplace your keys or purse? Do Apple’s long-rumored AirTag has finally arrived to rescue you from your torment. The round doohickey attaches to something you tend to misplace or fear losing so you can zero in on it using your iPhone. This idea is hardly new. Similar location-tracking tags are available from the likes of Chipolo, ESR, Samsung, Spigen, and Tile. But full integration with Apple’s ecosystem is a selling point here since AirTags work with the Find My app that already helps you keep track of your Apple gadgetry along with your family and friends. An AirTag is a small disc of polished stainless steel with IP67 water and dust resistance. It incorporates a speaker to announce its whereabouts, and a removable cover lets users replace the CR2032 battery. Apple is offering free engraving, including a selection of 31 emojis. An updated version of the Find My app features a new Items tab (along with People, Devices, and Me) that displays your AirTags. If you need to track down a particular AirTag, Find My displays a map with the item’s current or last known location. Better yet, if the AirTag is within Bluetooth range, you can use Find My or Siri to make it emit a sound, just as you would with AirPods. You’ll get the best experience when tracking down an AirTag with an iPhone 11 or iPhone 12, which Apple intends the AirTags to match AirPods for can detect the AirTag’s U1 chip using Ultra setup ease. Simply bring them close to any iPhone Wideband technology. When that’s the case, a running iOS 14.5 or an iPad running iPadOS 14.5 feature called Precision Finding lets you accurately to connect. At that point, you can assign an AirTag determine the distance and direction of a lost to an item with a corresponding name (such as AirTag if it’s within Bluetooth range. As you move, “keys” or “backpack”) or use any other name you your iPhone gathers input from the camera, ARKit, like. accelerometer, and gyroscope to guide you using a blend of sound, haptics, and visual feedback— including a pointing arrow that shifts on the screen. Page 3 be a sound and not a little voice calling out, “Help me!” Apple took accessibility into consideration when designing the AirTag. Precision Finding using VoiceOver, for instance, can direct blind users to an AirTag with directions like “AirTag is nine feet away on your left.” The company also put a focus on privacy. No location data or history is stored inside AirTags. Communication with the Find My network is end- to-end encrypted so only the owner of a device has access to its location data, and no one, including Apple, knows the identity or location of any device that helped find it. Bluetooth signal identifiers transmitted by AirTags rotate frequently to prevent unwanted location tracking. Apple is making it easy to personalize your What if you’re not within Bluetooth range of the AirTags. In addition to engraving, it will sell a AirTag? That’s when Apple’s vast Find My network range of keychain-like accessories made from —with nearly a billion in-use Apple devices— materials such as polyurethane and leather. Third- comes into play. Any of those devices within range party manufacturers such as Belkin, Moment and of the AirTag can relay its location—anonymously, Nomad are already announcing their own AirTag privately, and in the background—back to you. accessories. If you lose track of an AirTag, you can place it into Lost Mode to be notified if and when it is found. A person finding that AirTag can tap it on an iPhone or other NFC-capable device (such as an Android phone) and be transported to a Web page showing contact information if you’ve provided it. Apple was careful to share other important facts: • iOS devices can detect an AirTag that isn’t with its owner and notify you if an unknown AirTag is seen to be traveling with you from place to place over time. That addresses concerns about the Find Apple is again teaming up with the luxury leather My network being used to track people without maker Hermès to offer ludicrously priced them knowing. accessories such as the Bag Charm ($299), Key Ring • If you detect an unknown AirTag, you can tap it ($349), and Luggage Tag ($449). Apple says that with an iPhone or other NFC-capable device, and Hermès accessories will be sold with a custom- instructions will guide you through disabling the engraved AirTag based on the brand’s iconic Clou unknown AirTag. de Selle signature. We don’t know what that means either. • An AirTag separated from its owner for an extended period will, when moved, play a sound to draw attention to itself. It’s probably best that it Page 4 A single AirTag costs $29, or you can buy a four- pack for $99. Pre-orders opened on 23 April 2021, with availability on 30 April 2021. By Adam Engst & Josh Centers Apple Releases iOS 14.5, iPadOS 14.5, macOS 11.3, watchOS 7.4, and tvOS 14.5 ready for the most significant set of more to say about AirTag support in these updates Get Apple operating system updates since since it’s built into the Find My app.) the release of macOS 11, iOS 14, iPadOS 14, After a quick look at the Apple Watch fallback watchOS 7, and tvOS 14 last year. In this bundle of authentication for Face ID mask failures, we’ll updates—iOS 14.5, iPadOS 14.5, macOS 11.3, cover the features shared among some or all of the watchOS 7.4, tvOS 14.5, and HomePod Software operating systems, followed by changes that are 14.5—Apple has added support for its new specific to each. Note that iPadOS 14.5 is, as far as AirTags, tweaked Siri, and beefed up Apple Music, we can tell from the release notes, just a subset of Podcasts, News, and Reminders. iOS 14.5 and iOS 14.5, so we won’t break it out separately. watchOS 7.4 also allow fallback authentication to an Apple Watch when Face ID fails due to mask- Unlock Face ID-enabled iPhones with an wearing, and macOS 11.3 improves its support for Apple Watch running iOS and iPadOS apps on M1-based Macs. If you have a Face ID-enabled iPhone and an Given the compelling nature of some of these Apple Watch, the “how fast can I install this features and the importance of the security fixes, update” feature in iOS 14.5 and watchOS 7.4 is the we recommend installing sooner rather than later. capability to unlock your iPhone if you attempt to However, it’s still worth waiting at least a few use Face ID while wearing a mask. It works days to make sure there are no unwanted side brilliantly, automatically unlocking your iPhone on effects.