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VOLUME 31, NUMBER 11 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP NOVEMBER 2020 SOME WEBSITES FOUNDED MAY 1989 How to Backup iPhone. As the MEETINGS - SECOND article says, this is a good SATURDAY OF THE MONTH starter kit, explaining the various ways to do it, and giving many links for more details. bit.ly/2JuzJdH. FOCUS - iPhone 12 Which iCloud storage plan should you get? Good analysis of which storage plan you MEMBER PRESENTATIONS should purchase and why. bit.ly/3jUx8pQ. A number of our members will make presentations. They have always been interesting and informative and I look forward to them this year. The names of the presenters and U S B E x p l a i n e d : A l l t h e their topics may be posted on our website (although I will be one of them). Anyway, I Different Types (and What They’re Used for). Great doubt we would have had room on this page for their pictures, but you will certainly explanations of all the different see them on the Zoom meeting. shapes, sizes, speeds, etc. As is normally the case, we will have a panel of experts engage in a question and Now all you have to do is remember this stuff.bit.ly/ answer session. You might write down your questions before hand and that will help in 3mEMsIW. organizing that section of the meeting. What Is 4K Resolution? An I must add that I chair the Riddle Village Computer Group which meets twice a month. Overview of Ultra HD. Here's The members concluded that they liked the Zoom meeting format better than in how to cut through the jargon person because they could see the slides much better on their computers and they when you're buying a new TV. could see everybody else's faces all the time. So maybe the Zoom format is bit.ly/3mMAIUY. preferable, although we miss the personal contact. Maybe we should have Zoom How to Check How Much meetings and have the first 15 minutes or so for everyone to say hello. Just a thought. RAM Is in Your Mac. And also what kind of ram do you have and what you can put in. bit.ly/ 34Qbsa7. And for Which CPU NOVEMBER “LOCATION” Your Mac Uses, go to bit.ly/ WE WILL MEET VIA ZOOM. GO TO ZOOM.US/DOWNLOAD TO DOWNLOAD THE APP. 34Qbsa7. CLICK ON DOWNLOAD IN THE BIG BLUE BOX NEAR THE TOP CENTER. 1 VOLUME 31, NUMBER 11 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP NOVEMBER 2020 CONTENTS Some Websites & November Program Information 1 MLMUG and Newsletter Info 2-4 Bookmarks: Which Browser 5-6 The iPhone 12: Here’s What You Need to Know 7-13 Contributors and Authors Newsletter Editor iPhone 12 & iPhone 12 Pro: A Roundup of Reviews 13-19 Mark Bazrod Mark Bazrod The Empty Promise of the iPhone 12 19-20 Karl Bode What Are the Orange and Green Dots 21-22 Copy Editor Josh Centers On an iPhone or iPad? Deane Lappin DealPost Team Getting a New iPhone? Let iMazing Handle 23 MLMUG Journal Moving Your Data Benj Edward Masthead Speaker Roster 2020 23 Adam C. Engst Designed by Dale Fletcher How To Change Your Default Browser on 24-25 Kathy Garges Based on prior designs by iPhone & iPad Tim Hardwick Marc Robinson, Steve Speaker Roster Details 25 Chris Hoffman Evans & Bobby Foster iPadOS 14: How To Add Widgets to Your 26 Bruce Ironhardt M L M U G J o u r n a l i s iPad's Home Screen published monthly by the Macworld staff iPods Defeating Insomnia 27-28 Main Line Macintosh Users Khamosh Pathak Group and is available How To Stop iPhone Widget Stacks 29-30 online. It is produced using From Automatically Changing Mikah Sargent A p p l e P a g e s w i t h a How To Use iCloud Keychain on iPhone and iPad 31-34 Bryan M Wolfe Helvetica Neue font (Same Voice Control’s Dictation Julio Ojeda-Zapata as Yosemite). Apple Introduces $99 HomePod mini 35-36 Apple & Samsung Are on the Brink 37-40 Of Something New Best VPN Services: Reviews and Buying Advice 40-43 For Mac Users AI and Humans: Micro Intelligence 43-45 2 VOLUME 31, NUMBER 11 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP NOVEMBER 2020 President, Program Director & Multimedia SIG Co-Chair Membership Information Vendor Liaison Nicholas Iacona Membership dues are $30 for individuals and $40 for Maria O. Arguello [email protected] families. Memberships are based on your anniversary [email protected] Newer Users SIG Co-Chair & date, which is the month you joined. You will be e- Vice President & Multimedia SIG Webmaster mailed reminders when membership fee is due. Co-Chair Bob Barton Larry Campbell [email protected] If you’re just visiting to check us out, or if you’ve [email protected] OS/iOS SIG Chair been visiting for some time, but haven’t joined, Treasurer, Membership & Adam Rice consider these BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP: Facilities Coordinator Elliott Cobin [email protected] • Monthly meetings, where you can learn, share, [email protected] Picnic Coordinator and meet everyone from working Mac Secretary & Newsletter Editor Tony DiPiano professionals to new Mac users from all Mark Bazrod [email protected] backgrounds. [email protected] Raffle Chair • Monthly newsletter, which is full of interesting Educational Liaison Susan Czarnecki Mac news, tips, and information. Linda McNeil [email protected] • Useful free items at the monthly Raffles. [email protected] Social Secretary • Discounts. Vendors offer special prices to User Member-at-Large, Newsletter Gail Montgomery Group members. Copy Editor & Apple User Group [email protected] Ambassador • Web Site with 2-3 years of MLMUG Deane Lappin newsletters, meeting information, a member [email protected] directory, directions to our meetings, and much more! Our web site is www.mlmug.org. • MLMUG Mailing List, to post technical questions or comments to each other and the experts within the group. • Reviewers keep items reviewed. Are you ready to join? Please make a check payable to MLMUG and bring it to a monthly meeting or mail it to: Treasurer, MLMUG P.O. Box 1374 Southeastern, PA 19399 3 VOLUME 31, NUMBER 11 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP NOVEMBER 2020 Typical Meeting Agenda MLMUG Email list 9:00 - 9:05: Call to order in main meeting room. The Main Line Macintosh Users Group has its own email list, hosted at Groups.io. Compose 9:05 - 10:15: Q&A Panel - 3 or 4 expert your letter and email it to members will answer your questions [email protected] and your about anything relating to your Mac, message will be sent to everyone iPad, iPhone, iWatch, and any on the mailing list. Contact Bob attached peripherals. Barton ([email protected]) if you New Users SIG are a member and you are not on Questions can relate to the most basic You don’t have to wait a whole the list. items, equipment issues, Apple’s month to get answers to your basic operating systems, and all Please observe good email Mac questions! Get together with applications, including applications for etiquette. If your message is other members on the fourth photo, video, audio, and print media. humor or not Apple-related (off- Saturday (i.e., two weeks after each Answers are amazingly helpful and topic), please include "Humor" or regular meeting) for the Startup often in depth, exploring the subject "OT" in the subject line. The Folder Lite. beyond the question. Groups.io Terms of Service are at groups.io/static/tos. Look for the Many new users have said that they section on "Conditions of Use" can learn much more from face-to- 10:15 - 10:30: Welcome and other business. face meetings than they do from The MLMUG list may be used to manuals or other sources. That’s post Apple-related items for sale, what this meeting is all about. Go 10:30 - 11:50: Main Presentation (by a but any solicitation of members to www.mlmug.org/nusfl.html for member or guest) through the list is forbidden details. without the written consent of a 11:50 - Noon: Raffles and silent auctions. MLMUG officer. Violation of the Come join some fellow MLMUG members Groups.io terms of service or for lunch after the meeting at a nearby good email etiquette may result restaurant. in removal from the list. 4 VOLUME 31, NUMBER 11 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP NOVEMBER 2020 A new tab bar design that provides tab previews so you can Bookmarks see what you have open at a glance. Which Browser(s) A customizable start page which allows you to set a background image and add a new section, including pages By Mark Bazrod from your reading list. bit.ly/3mROkhu. Removal of support for Adobe Flash for improved security Perhaps it's time to take a look at the Internet browser you've Cross-site tracking prevention and threatened restrictions to been using and whether it's time for a change. In all probability, websites that seek to circumvent its rules. Apple also you've been using the same browser for years and you've gotten implemented a form of “privacy preserving ad click used to its features and are very comfortable using it. attribution,” so you can click on adverts without seeing ads following you around the web. But all browsers change over the years, often copying features from other browsers. So let's see if it's time for a change and, Suggesting a strong password when you sign up for a even so, is the inconvenience of making a change worthwhile.