VOLUME 31, NUMBER 6 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP JUNE 2020 FOUNDED MAY 1989 MEETINGS - SECOND SOME WEBSITES SATURDAY OF THE MONTH 13-inch MacBook Pro vs MacBook Air: Buy this or buy that? If you're in the market to buy a new laptop, you ought to FOCUS - HARDWARE & iPHONE read this article. bit.ly/376F6aP. Quad 9 DNS Servers. Last m o n t h ’ s E x p e r t P a n e l ASK THE EXPERTS PANEL discussed Domain Name Services (DNS). For more detail Because of coronavirus conditions, MLMUG has postponed our Annual Picnic. on how a DNS Server works Instead, we will have an Ask the Experts Zoom meeting from Noon to 2 pm this and to change your preferred coming Saturday, June 13, 2020. DNS, try bit.ly/2MA3dVF and bit.ly/2YanCGe. Our Expert Panel will hopefully consist of Bob Barton, Nick Iacona, Mike Inskeep, and Adam Rice. Bored During Self-Isolation? 1 0 0 + T i p s f o r S t a y i n g Entertained and Engaged. Many more tips than you can possibly use. Choose what you like. bit.ly/3gZx3RB. The 10 Best Free Netflix Alternatives of 2020. Explanations of like and don’t like for additional streaming programs. Very useful for cord cutters. bit.ly/2A9cJwr. iPhone SE vs iPhone XR vs iPhone 11. bit.ly/2YcLGIw. JUNE “PICNIC LOCATION” WE WILL AGAIN MEET VIA ZOOM. GO TO ZOOM.US/DOWNLOAD TO DOWNLOAD THE APP. CLICK ON DOWNLOAD IN THE BIG BLUE BOX NEAR THE TOP CENTER. 1 VOLUME 31, NUMBER 6 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP JUNE 2020 CONTENTS Some Websites and Program Info 1 MLMUG and Newsletter Info 2-4 Contributors and Authors Bookmarks: My Experiences in Cutting The Cord 5-6 Newsletter Editor Mark Bazrod Speaker Roster 2020 6 Mark Bazrod Tim Brookes May 2020 Meeting Minutes 7-9 Graphics Editor Danilo Campos Speaker Roster Details 2020 9 Sally Bazrod What Is an ARM Chip and Why Is It So Important 10-13 Glenn Fleishman Copy Editor For Macs To Get Them? Hillary K. Grigonis Deane Lappin Apple’s iPad Pro Magic Keyboard 14-15 Marshall Gunnell MLMUG Journal How to Securely Erase Your Mac’s SSD 16-17 Patrick Shawn Hearn How To Use A New Monitor With An Old Mac 18 Masthead Chris Hoffman Apple Chooses Thin Devices Over 19-21 Designed by Dale Fletcher Jeff Longer Battery Life Based on prior designs by Are 4K Monitors Worth It for General Computer Use? 21-24 Joseph Keller Marc Robinson, Steve How To Listen to FM Radio On iPhone 24-26 Kibbles & Bytes Evans & Bobby Foster How To Get Internet While Traveling on the Road 27-29 Chris Morris M L M U G J o u r n a l i s How To Use Search on iPhone & iPad With Spotlight 29-30 Local Adventurer published monthly by the Main Line Macintosh Users How to Screen Record on iPhone and iPad 31 John Martellaro Group and is available iPhone Not Charging Reliably? Use a Toothpick 32 Daniel Nations online. It is produced using How to Use Your iPhone as a Webcam 33-34 Andrew Orr A p p l e P a g e s w i t h a Details For The Entire iPhone 12 Lineup Have Leaked 35 Helvetica Neue font (Same OSX Daily Photo Backup Gadgets Review: The Round-Up 36-38 as Yosemite). Parth Shah 2 Ways to Recover iCloud Drive Files 39 How to Set Up a Zoom Meeting 40-41 Jason Snell Unsubscribe From Automated Text Messages 42 How to Forward a Text Message to Email 43-44 Tight On Space? Here’s How To Transfer Photos 46-48 From An iPhone To A Computer 2 VOLUME 31, NUMBER 6 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP JUNE 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] Newsletter Graphics Editor been visiting for some time, but haven’t joined, Treasurer, Membership & Sally Bazrod consider these BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP: Facilities Coordinator Elliott Cobin [email protected] • Monthly meetings, where you can learn, share, [email protected] OS/iOS SIG Chair and meet everyone from working Mac Secretary & Newsletter Editor Adam Rice professionals to new Mac users from all Mark Bazrod [email protected] backgrounds. [email protected] Picnic Coordinator • Monthly newsletter, which is full of interesting Educational Liaison Tony DiPiano Mac news, tips, and information. Linda McNeil [email protected] • Useful free items at the monthly Raffles. [email protected] Raffle Chair • Discounts. Vendors offer special prices to User Member-at-Large, Newsletter Susan Czarnecki Group members. Copy Editor & Apple User Group [email protected] Ambassador • Web Site with 2-3 years of MLMUG Deane Lappin Social Secretary newsletters, meeting information, a member [email protected] Gail Montgomery directory, directions to our meetings, and much [email protected] 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 6 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP JUNE 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, 9:05 - 10:15: Q&A Panel - 3 or 4 expert hosted at Groups.io. Compose members will answer your questions your letter and email it to about anything relating to your Mac, [email protected] and your iPad, iPhone, iWatch, and any message will be sent to everyone attached peripherals. on the mailing list. Contact Bob New Users SIG Questions can relate to the most basic Barton ([email protected]) if you are a member and you are not on items, equipment issues, Apple’s You don’t have to wait a whole the list. o p e r a t i n g s y s t e m s , a n d a l l month to get answers to your basic applications, including applications for Please observe good email Mac questions! Get together with photo, video, audio, and print media. etiquette. If your message is other members on the fourth humor or not Apple-related (off- Answers are amazingly helpful and Saturday (i.e., two weeks after each topic), please include "Humor" or often in depth, exploring the subject regular meeting) for the Startup "OT" in the subject line. The beyond the question. Folder Lite. Groups.io Terms of Service are at groups.io/static/tos. Look for the Many new users have said that they 10:15 - 10:30: Welcome and other business. section on "Conditions of Use" can learn much more from face-to- face meetings than they do from 10:30 - 11:50: Main Presentation (by a The MLMUG list may be used to manuals or other sources. That’s post Apple-related items for sale, member or guest) what this meeting is all about. Go but any solicitation of members to www.mlmug.org/nusfl.html for 11:50 - Noon: Raffles and silent auctions. through the list is forbidden details. without the written consent of a Come join some fellow MLMUG members MLMUG officer. Violation of the for lunch after the meeting at a nearby Groups.io terms of service or restaurant. good email etiquette may result in removal from the list. 4 VOLUME 31, NUMBER 6 MAIN LINE MACINTOSH USERS GROUP JUNE 2020 We have a smart TV (a TV which connects to the Internet through Bookmarks your Wi-Fi network). It has a built-in Roku channel which made By Mark Bazrod switching easier. My Experiences In Cutting The Discussions with Verizon I used Verizon for TV, Internet and landline phone and my bill had Cord one number for all three. I spent about 4 or 5 or hours talking to Verizon customer support representatives and going through the Verizon website. I asked detailed questions to understand what Several months ago I started to explore the possibility on cutting the situation was. The Verizon customer support people gave me the cord - no longer using Verizon for TV watching. As my lots of information. However, they provided lots of numbers and investigations progressed, I decided I would do a presentation to that was confusing at times because some were before taxes the Riddle Village Computer Club as to what was involved and and fees and some were not. Also, the alternatives they offered what alternatives there were. required a new two-year contract. The basic purpose in cutting the cord is to significantly reduce your monthly expenses. You can also determine what additional I think what you need to do is pretty much determine what you content you can stream to enhance your TV viewing. want before you start the conversations and keep at it until you see what is possible.