iOS 726: Diving into iWork - Keynote, Numbers, and Pages!
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Coming up on I O S today, rose mayoral and I microsoft talk about the I work sweet its pages, its numbers and its keynote. Coming up on I O S today. Love from people you trust this is to IT this is IOS today with rose, my orchard and me my a orchard episode seven hundred twenty six recorded tuesday, october twenty nine, twenty twenty four for thursday, october thirty first twenty twenty four diving in to I was hello and welcome to IOS today.

The show we talk all things I O S, T V O S, watt vision in all of the various OS is that apple has an offer. We love to talk about them here on IOS today I am one of your hosts. My name is mica sergeant.

and I am worse, my orchard. And I work really hard to make this show my cat. So I figure maybe this week we should talk about the the, all these, the goodies I work, because, you know, especially now that you really do have to pay for like a subscription to use a word and excel and powerpoint and so on.

And you know, google, google's document system is fine too. But we've got I work and I works pretty awesome. And I figured that would be nice to have a look at IT and remind folks .

about how great IT is. Yeah I mean, and that's the thing there is there there are so many different features. There's a lot of capability built into this eyes work sweet.

That really, I think, makes IT absolutely amazing for so many people. And sometimes you go weight, you haven't been using this sweet, you haven't been taking advantage of what's there. And so it's always a good reminder to just check back in and see what apple has added over time.

You know, when IT comes to the third party options, right, there are perhaps more incentives to a continue to add features to continue to add a new things that that that what new functionality and when IT comes to pages number is and keynote you're not buying needs a separate purchases. And so in that sense, I can kind of feel like, oh, this is just a free little thing that you get. No, these things get updates all the time.

They have great support for so many things. And IT is, you know, one of the ways that I do any of the kind of word processing that I need to do on a on my mac or even on my iphone of my ipad. So yeah, let's start by talking about pages, which is apple's word processor.

You can think of IT if you have been a microsoft word user, uh, as a little bit like microsoft word or uh, using google dox. IT is the way to create documents and pages a more and more just like the other apps that available, continues to become even more feature rich across the different platforms. So regardless of whether you're using IT on an iphone or an ipad or somewhere else, it's going to work well on those devices and you're going to get nearly the same features set across all of them.

And I think that's one of the things that makes a apple's eyeo sweet. So great. Yes.

yes, IT really is. And honestly, the the thing that I really love about pages and i'm just gonna uh pull up my ipad here uh so that I can show folks is you know you start in pages um and you know it's gonna you a little bit of what's new? Yes, IT took me a lot of folk to get this screen to come back up, including uh, improved support for the apple pencil pro.

So if you've gotten apple pencil pro and IT got that square ze feature than that, something that you can use now and there's uh nicer updated document browser. And but when you go to, for example, choose a template, there are nice templates here um and I feel like some of the word templates, I I feel like i've been seeing those since I had my first computer, which was warning windows ninety eight. Ah now I know that there have been new, new ten places so but just when you start writing IT opens a blank document and it's really easy to start writing.

Now i'm using this on the eleven and type a pro with a magic keyboard um so I don't have the on screen keyboard appearing but if I were to undock this and of course I get an on screen keyboard here and above that keyboard H I have some additional tools built into the keyboard which just make IT perhaps a little easier to you know do the thing that I was looking for so I don't necessarily have to think after i've in the word, I can say, hey, i'm going to put this word in bold and I can tap on the B, I, U. Slight bold, and then type mika, and then I can aunt a select bold, which is great for people who are not so familiar with kick at somebody who's editing on their phone or a attach screen device. And you know, there's just a whole bunch of things you built in here ready to go to make this nice and simple. There's even the option to you at page break them, section breaks and so on, which you know this is a fully for the fully featured uh word editor or document editor know you can publish e books with this you can convert to uh very is uh other document format s as well um but yeah you you can write a whole ebo care. And I know plenty of people who have uses of formatting their e books.

Uh another thing that I really like about IT is the ability to uh, export to so many different formats. Know what i'm using pages. Uh, I am typically exporting to a PDF.

And apple supports all sorts of options, including exporting to word, as rosemary mentioned, e pub plain tax rich text format. You can export images. You can also export a pages.

Temple let, yes, the APP does support team lets. And so you can create template over time. I've actually created a templeman is a recipe card template. And I use that anytime there's a recipe that sticks with me, there's one that, you know, I really like.

I will put that into my recipe card and created that way and then printed out the all of my recipes as far as the look and feel of the same, those the recipes that are near dear to my heart. They don't just need to be in the recipe APP, but I want to have them physically available to me. And so I will pop them into there instead.

And again, I can't stress enough how cool IT is that these these the pages works across the different devices. You know, I couldn't be on an ipad using pages and I can take IT over to, uh, another place. I can take IT over to my, my, my phone.

I can take IT over to the mac and IT pops up there just fine. I can interact with IT as I need to. And I can count on, you know, the support being there to make those adjustments as is needed. I think that is what makes pages particularly delightful and easy to use. And of course, its integration with I cloud is, I think, quite nice as well because what that means is I can count on those files being there regardless of what device i'm choosing to use and also share these files with another person very easily. Um IT does have built in support for collaboration ation and I think that, that has improved over time. I will say when I initially shipped, there were some you know as there always are some growing pains um but I don't I don't know I don't i'm curious rosman E I don't tend to use collaboration with the um I work sweet probably mostly because of the fact that much of my collaboration happens in google, various tools. But you know those features are there for someone who wants to use them yeah so uh.

I don't use the collaboration features super heavily, but I have just sent me an invite to the document that I was writing with Michael bol. So if he wants to pop in and add some them, we can have a look at that.

But I do use the collaboration features um every year at the holidays uh so in my family we always uh make a list of uh you know who sent us what present so then we can remember to properly thank the people who've given us gift uh which you know is just something that we've been doing ever since I was a kid. And I remember my mom used to do IT, you know, with handwriting. And so and then as, uh, you know, we've grown up and technology has become more ubiquitous available now. He started doing IT on A A laptop, and now we do IT on an ipad and we collaborate.

So that means the my mom and I both have the same numbers document open and we actually use numbers for this because it's just already in a table format, which is nice and easy that you can add tables to pages, of course um and uh yeah we we collaborate so I just go pop open my ipad here and I can see i'm not touching IT OK i'm go to my hands on camera so that everyone can see uh that i'm not doing anything mika is actually typing away and I can see this pretty much in real time, which is great because you know, if you are editing and sharing a document with somebody else, you probably want to in real time and you know I can go off and i'll go um you know i'm just gonna a change how this um is formatted this uh image here so i'm gonna range that and i'm going to make sure that IT moves with text and then just get me in line with the text uh and then I can just move that onto a new line and then maybe down here I will insert a table and one of the really cool things I love about tables uh in pages is there a little bit like many stretches um so I could put uh mika here and uh then on the next uh line loops uh if I can actually type then I can put and then I could put. Uh I don't know ipad and then iphone and i'm just going to put Michael has uh uh uh I ipad on one iphone I guess and I have uh for various reasons I have two iphones uh, so then what I can do is I could actually have a photo row here, and I can pop in a little formula, or I should be able able to pop in a formula. Certainly did this earlier.

Well, I can then add these things up. And yeah is is just, you know IT works quite nicely. And then if you put a table in here with data, you can then turn that into a little uh, chart as well. So i'm not quite sure what kind of chart is gonna be best for this.

Mica, um I gona start with something there um and there we go also inserted a nice chart as a sort of one h which is quite nice uh so yeah i'll arranged ed that and again, I just get pop that in line with text I preferred to have. My um item, my things that are in a document in line with the text that just me is that if I hit return a few times, then I don't get things like writing behind an image or in front of an image or a charter table or whatever IT is. Uh but yeah, you should be able to actually do all sorts of things here with you know this with this sort of data. And then I can I believe from here I certainly was having some fun with this earlier where I was able to turn the chart that i'd inserted IT into my page document with, into A A sorry, turn the table into a chart that I now forgotten how to do that because, of course, this is what happens when you are talking life on air and trying to demo things .

at the same time. On my end quickly shows something before we move on to the next APP, which is that um much like other collaboration systems, you are able to check in and see activity. So I can see things that rosemarie has done to the document.

Rosemary can see things that I have done to the document and then those things could be ruled back if they need to be um there is a lot that you can do with pages will include a link in the shown notes to the support page for pages that has even more information and looking forward to hearing what how people make you so at all a moving right along. We have another powerhouse, not of the cell, but of the apple. I work sweet, which is numbers.

Numbers is the spread sheet application, uh, from apple and IT is a tool that I do use all the time. Um look, excel ik excels at what IT does. It's amazing.

IT has so many different options. A google sheet pretty cool too. I like to do my spread sheet stuff as much as possible in numbers because the way the apple set IT up just works for me.

And I really like the a, the, the, the formulas. I like the look and feel. I like the fact that, as rosemary was showing, you can easily kind of move between types of documents. So if I want to take a spread sheet and kind of turn IT into a table that just pops into a pages document, I can do that. If i'm working on a keynote presentation and I have a chart in there, I can um edit part of that chart in numbers I have over time created dozens upon dozens, if not hundreds of a numbers documents because IT is a tool that I use for all sorts of of tracking and addition and attraction and and you know the expenses and things like that.

Um i'll show you the the templeton page here um really got me kind of short in the screen area you can see the basic templates that are just like having a blank uh, table where you have your header, you've got your title, you've got your kind of IDE robe, but also a table in a chart pivot tables yes, this does pivot tables, charting basics, a checklist, a checklist total. So IT actually add up the things that you happen there, a basic form and setting up different categories. You can breed of budget, their personal finance options, uh, stocks, shared expenses, net worth, school savings, retirement savings, loan comparison, a mortgage calculator, you can create a calendar in, uh, in numbers, you can create a running log, home improvement team organization, a baby record, travel planner, a meal planner, a recipe, yes, IT, maybe you want to create a recipe in numbers.

The business options, including a police schedule, I mean, the list goes on and on and on, of course but let's tap into the what was that that I wanted to look at the a the shared expenses. Where was that? So here, if I tap on shared expenses and again, i'm doing this an iphone um I can kind of zoom in and I can see this is calculate how much each person in your group owes, enter the details of your transactions in the expenses table, then type the names of when you get a phone call in the middle of your shell, then type the names of the people in your group in the person column of the people table you can at to remove rose columns necessary as you add expenses.

The amount each person OS is calculated and shown in the chart so if you all went on a trip together, for example, you can say concert tickets, food are lodging, this that the other, and IT will show you as well what money they are do, what money they are old, uh, how much each person is uh, old? I mean it's it's IT can be very, very, very involved. You can create some really cool uh, tools.

I mean, there are there are kind of like tools are little apps essentially to get built in right there in numbers and doing IT on your iphone, your ipad, your mac is just chefs kiss as they say. Now rose marries got a table up, so i'm onna move IT. Well, I might have Kevin moved IT over to her so he can show you what she's working on.

yeah. So I just wanted to take a moment to explain a formulas in numbers. Now I am not going to go through every single formula because let's face IT, there is a section we can yes we would be here forever um but just like you would in google sheet or excel or any number of these other uh systems, you type equals into a cell um and then you're off to the races. Now what is really great is there is a little F X here above my keyboard um and it's down in the bottom left hand corner. And if I tap on that then that comes up with to start with that comes up with recent so i'll show me some recent formulas that i've been using, but then I can switch over categories um and there is you all so I can look at everything.

There's stay in time, duration, engineering, financial, logical and information, america, reference, statistics, al text, chicken, a metric um and you know there's all sorts of functions and formulas here, which especially if you are used to excel or google sheet and so on, the way that these uh apps number their functions number, their functions name there for you, as I can differ ever so slightly um so you know if you're looking for something particular, you know like maybe you're looking something to the areas, well, you can look at that. And then there's one of mics favorite buttons, not his favorite button, which is not in a circle, but the eye in a circle, which I feel like is like a second favorite button because they're very close to each other. But if you tap on that little info, then I will explain.

So i've tapped on the areas function that says the areas function returns, the number of ranges, the function references um and then IT gives you some little examples and some of these uh which I was in uh, earlier. There was a something I would like to say I was under financial. I think IT might have been under occurring interest. They've even got little screen shots in there to explain uh you know how how these things work um award to give Better examples of them which is just really and of course there is an entire a formulas overview and a functions overview on the apple website uh which you can link to and you can also download uh the manuals for pages um and uh number number and keynote through the books APP uh you can actually down to the manuals as a book h which is pretty nice uh so yeah uh for anyone who is curious, the difference to in the formula and the function is a formula is sort of lake a plus b equal c uh and a function is okay. Here is the name of the thing so we're going to open the brackets, never go pop and parameters number go close that is the difference tween those but yeah these are uh really nice um and easy to use, I find um and it's uh you know quite nice. Be able to just tap and be like, okay, I want to just insert the current date done and that's a very nice if you are looking something like a financial spirit sheet or maybe you want to load your expenses, which by the way, you can also add a row to a number sheet through shortcuts if you are looking to build your own expense system.

nice. yeah. I I think the possibilities with numbers, I mean, the fact that I can be a spreading application but also quickly become its own kind of word processing document is what sets this APP apart um from, I don't know, other spreading applications that i've views that are just really kind of clunk y and intimidating from from the get go.

And that's what I really like about numbers that that on its own. And of course, as is the case with pages, this also has collaboration features. So if you do want to collaborate, maybe unlike a shared expenses document, this can be a great tool for that as well.

Yes, one more thing I wanted to mention about numbers my car and that is um of course you have a numbers document, okay? And you can have multiple sheet in that document and you can even add a form um on a as well the taps and so you can create a form and then you can say where IT goes, but inside of a sheet.

IT is not just one table, okay? You can have as many pretty much rows and columns in a tall as you like, but you could also have multiple tables and you can reference them differently and they get little titles. And this is something that I have not found in google sheet or in excel.

And you know you can sort of do IT with formatting and you putting things up. But if I were to put, I don't know, one and two and three over here um and then over in this table I wanted to some the entity of column a for table two. I can do that and IT references explicit table to uh which is in a really essence so dentists y inserts more rows over here um or and do that then uh you know that IT IT does just work, which is really nice.

So yeah there are multiple tables on each tap which can be very nice if you're looking to make something that looks nice as well as works well, which can be quite important for something like a financial sprach y especially if you been looking for the spouse and home acceptance factor. If you got somebody who is like, yeah i'll do IT, but I would like you to at least look kind of nice. You can definitely do that with numbers ah and it's you know pretty .

easy to do that by default indeed and then less but definitely one hundred percent not least uh I would argue is the darling of the eyeworks weet um and appreciated by people everywhere. It's keynote keynote the application for creating presentations, slide show presentations on your again iphone, ipad, mac at seta keynote is. IT is behind the well, I should say IT used to be the tool behind apple le's own presentations.

Steve jobs himself use keynote presentations to introduce new devices. These days, most of what we see is just video um but IT is still little tool that is used for world, the worldwide developers conference. Where are the different people from apple who are giving presentations about the new tools that are available are using keynote? And IT is a really, really feature packed awesome tool that lets you do all sorts of things like animations and magic move.

And uh even if you are trying to put together a presentation for a uh, career day as I oh I forgot to go, I have to keep IT this way. As I was recently um I used keynote to create my presentation, uh explaining to middle school what I did for work and what always involved in that. And I loved being able to use this tool because of the interesting things that are able to do.

While let me back out of that again, IT is it's it's just so nice. I know that i'm not I I just I really like keino and I like um everything that you're able to to create with IT because IT can simplify your your presentations and the presentations that you're looking to create very easily um because it's just so intuitive. Yeah and and I should also mention to apple has done something that i've appreciated over time, which is the deep integration with its other technologies.

So for example, one can use their iphone or not their apple watch as a means of controlling their keynote presentation. So if you are doing a keynote presentation, you pulled IT up on your mac, you show up on the display and extreme, you are trying to, uh, move the slide show on. You can use your apple watch to actually move the slide show along.

IT also has built in tools for practicing your presentation. Uh, I have used that a number of times when i'm planning on giving a presentation to pull IT up, have a time or running, know how long it's about, how long it's taking me to go through the presentation. And much like this is something that's available for any presentation tool, is the ability to add speaker notes, some things like that, but nee each of your presentations.

Now because of the the nature of the show, we aren't able to show off all of these these features. We're not able to give you A A complete and complex tour of how to use um keynote, but we are trying to highlight some of the things that we like about IT. And so as we wanted to show us what you work in on there.

yeah so I threw together this amazing presentation. I'm posing propose because there will be so much reply um because um I thought I would just quickly demo magic move because if you've ever had a sliding, you trying to do presentation and you ve got the thing over on the left and then you want to put that on the right in the next side like you can make that kind of like dissolve and then you make IT dissolved in and to try and do things like that.

But instead, what I have done here is i've used magic move. okay. So this is my title slide.

This is my second slide. As you can see, there is a lovely galaxy image on the right. And over on the left there some text. And then I used magic move.

And now when you add a transition to a slight and you say, I want a magic move, that automatically creates a duplicate, which is really nice, because that is then how you end up with something like this. Where is my image OOM? And you know, made IT largest. I'm just gonna play that again for anybody who wasn't watching the first time tea. And you know, there's obviously a lot of effects you can do here in uh you know keynote and you know IT is really nice where you can just be like, okay, transition so this is my transition for my whole side.

But then you can add your transitions on the individual things as well so you can add build in um or you could add a build out to a thing so I can do an eye effect um where IT you know disappears from the middle um or I can see IT out to one side. And there are all of these nice things. Now of course, little these things, there is A A lot of a power behind the phrase, less is more.

Yeah, if you overload your presentation with seventy eight thousand transitions, it's probably gonna a bit much. But you know what is really great for? And that something that I think a lot of people don't necessarily real.

You can use kino to create a video, so you can create a video with kino. What I can actually do is I can send a copy um and I can export this. And I can say, hey, I want to export this as a movie so you can set this up so you know that this lide takes three seconds.

And after three seconds, it's good transition auto next side. And it's going to do these things and those things so you can put videos in your sides and have them auto play all sorts. And then once you've done that, you can then tap on the exports options and then you can export this.

Obviously, there's P, D, F and this powerpoint, but there is also a movie. okay? And then there's an animated give or gift, depending on higher pronounced. And then of course, you can also export uh your uh whole slide deck as images are. So if you created this and then something like, yes, so I just want to like a bunch of images that I can embed into a website.

Uh, first of all, please remind them that um just putting images onto a website not a great idea especially if their text maybe they should consider all text um so the screen readers and people with accessibility, the requirements can actually look at them as well. And I appreciate them ah but you can then also include your bills. So if you have a slide where you know saying one appears in two appears, think three appears that can be exported as three separate images um and that is just you know some of the things that you can do chino.

But personally I love using IT to create a video. Every year at work we have A A little Christmas gathering where we, uh or a holiday gathering where we uh share what we've done over last year. When I like to share work things, we have to ship personal things, uh, you know only as much as we would like to, of course but uh we often a lot of us h choose to include BIOS and it's quite nice to be able to create a really .

cooking video with keynote absolutely yeah and know that the thing IT doesn't have to be a work tool either that like he can be used for so much. And I think that's what really I don't know if there's one APP that I suggest people just go in and play around with. This is definitely the one I I think that you'll be surprised by what you can do with that and how what kind of inspire you. I know alex linsey talks a lot about a keynote and the things that he uses keynote for. And I am really I used to have this um I did a presentation about a printing technique.

I think he was like a lathom phy or something back in college and I use magic move so perfectly in that presentation in so many like I was just done the right way still but I can't find IT and I i've looked for IT in the past and i'm so sad that I i've got ta tuck away somewhere on some flash drive surely but I I kind of think of IT when i'm looking for encouragement on how um on our us of inspiration on how to use magic move. Now there's again a whole lot uh when IT comes to these tools. And um we will you know maybe in the future will also have to have episodes where we just cover one of that when we kind of talk about our favorite tools or features of pages, our favorite of numbers, our favorite keynote, I would always I always love to hear that from you all.

And so you can email us, I O S today, twitter at T V, to tell us how you are making use of these tools and what you do with them. We'd love to see that as well. Any last words on pages, numbers and keynote. Before we move along.

just want to remind people that IT is also available uh on the web. So it's not just limited to apple devices. You can use IT in the braza as well. Um and this makes IT really great for you know collaborating with other people with if you know you want something that you free and euty in the ecosystem, you know maybe they've got a iphone.

You're trying to get them on to the apple train a little bit well, you know you can still collaborate online with them and you can also use this to a you know if you've been sent a word document that you need to you know like review and you know edit and then send back. You can actually use uh uh for example, pages uh to edit a word document and numbers to at excel and keynote at the powerpoint. And there is little guide on apple's website on how to export uh those back to that format if that is something that you need to do, which is just really handy. So 这样 really great series of .

tools already， well IT is time to move along to the feedback segment of the show uh, and view, of course, can send us feedback by our new questions. Whatever happens to be by emAiling us again, I O S S. With that TV listener, Steve has written in and says this, hello again, this is Steve from marco island, florida.

Again, i'll be seeing my ninety year old dad in a couple of weekends, and I am bringing him a new ipad for his birthday. The question I have is that the email that is on the apple account is no longer valid. Can I change that for him to his new email address? I wasn't sure that would cause any issues.

Are there any issues leaving IT? As is, he has no other apple devices and doesn't have a smart phone. Should he need to do two factor authentication for the apple account? Thanks, Steve.

Well, this is a really good question and I want to start out by saying Steve seems like a really great sun buying buying your dad and ipad pretty awesome present i'm gna go with turn out of tunnel that one um so yeah I mean, I would personally be a little concerned that the email address no longer exists and therefore can receive email only because you do get occasionally important information from apple sent to that.

And if at some point they try to send an email and they get a bounce back that that address no longer exists. I don't know how they handle uh, that and whether or not they might want to then get rid of your account because they don't have a way to get in touch with you. So personally, what I would do is I would consider creating A A an I cloud email address because that's free. It's attach the apple account and so on and then you can always create email aliens later if you want to um you can't change IT, but you can create a list for IT um and there is a little guide on apple's website on how to do that.

But yeah I would personally want to a have an e mail address actually works attached the apple I D, if only because that way if there is any situation where the device is be reset and so on in there going to email you a two factor authentication code because that is um I believe one of the back up options and is only there is a phone number, uh like I could be your phone number attach to the account if he doesn't have a cell number um then um you know that that would also be good. But yeah I would definitely be making sure that there is a valid email address connected to that account. What do you .

think yeah that's the maintain. Um you you can kind of forget the rest by having a valid email address is going to be incredibly important. Um you perfect the location is necessary to enable a lot of the features that apple has and a lot of the functionality that you're going to want, uh, both for your father's use of the device. But also I think this is important for you being able to provide support remotely here. And so in that way, it's important that some sort of email gets set up even if that's an email that you are managing for your dad.

Um having something there, I think would be very, very good by the way, if you have a gmail account, you can um use a little feature that built into gmail where after, say your gmail account is um I don't know strawberry one thirty nine A G mail 点 com um you could type the email as strawberry thirty nine plus dad at gmail about com and those emails would still go to you at strawberry one thirty nine and g email at com but IT it's an aliens and so what that allows you to do is create a filter in your gmail account so that if you um if if emails are going to strawberry one thirty nine plus dad at g mail at com logo specifically to a holder so you can always kind of find the emails that you're looking for that have do through dad。 You can also keep them from bugging you in your inbox if you want to. That's just one way of doing IT that makes IT that you don't necessarily have to create a new email.

So yeah, it's the plus a symbol. And then whatever word you wanted do afterward, uh, google basically builds in any any wild card allies with that that plus symbol. Some sites don't support that, by the way ah but you you can use that i've used IT in the past with apple.

And if websites don't support if that, then it's also important to note that the dots in google mae addresses, gm mail addresses specifically are not important. Okay, so if you are straw ry dot wine dot thirty nine at g mail 点 com， you're also strawberry one thirty nine at g mail 点 com or s dot adult。 Um you know you you get you get the idea, but you can put as men adults in there um or no dots as you like.

So that is also an alternative. But honestly, personally, I would just set up an I clod account um and I clud email action for him or whatever free email provider you would like to use or if you could at your own domain can do IT on there. Obviously if you you you've got your in omai, you've run male boxes and so on.

You're familiar without do that, but I would just set up an email for him and just have IT somewhere where you can monitor IT and so on, just in case I think comes through um and this uh, I believe you should you do also need, I think a valid email account. I think IT needs be an active email account for face time to work, which is also very important if you would like to use the screen sharing features in face time IT to potentially remotely fixed problems or show your dad how to set things up and so on. So I would definitely make sure that we have A M valid email set up for that.

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This is shortcuts corner, the part of the shower you write in with your shortcuts requests and rose mary, or should our shortcuts expert provides a response? Uh, this shortcuts corner request comes in from tim, who writes, hi rose marine, mika, please can you help with a shortcut or solution to my sound problem? I'm trying to use my paired home pods as the main speakers for my m1 mac。 Many the trouble is the sound reverts to the internal speaker.

After the mac goes to sleep, the home pod can a while to appear back in the sound output list and never reconnect. So IT takes a while for them to reappear, but they never automatically reconnect. I looked for automation and shortcuts for something that would reconnect the home pods when the mac wakes up, but I didn't find any anything.

I also tried a couple of applications that allowed scripting for connecting sound devices. These could pick from the permanent devices but would not find the home pods help. Best regards. And thanks, tim, from southern c essex.

Is that how I say that? Yeah, south. And see my go.

Thank you. Thank you. So really quick. Before rosemary gives us an answer, I want to explain things that tim is talking about in this. So tim is talking about using parent pods.

This is a feature that apple introduced with homeboys that allows you to use you are left while to use two home pods, left and right of a pair as a stereo pair, meaning that the left one will play the left channel audio. The right one will play the right channel audio, or if you're just listening to do mono, then it's going to play the thing from each one. But in any case, paid home pods kind of in in the system in in, you know, addressing them, they kind of become one device. They're seen as one device. And so you can very easily, well in theory, very easily and connect to both of them at the same time and have them just play something out for you. Um now tim is saying I use the paid home pod that I have that I have sitting on my desk or wherever in the room near my mac to actually do the output for my mac and so yes you can choose them as an output device but the problem that tim is having is that when the mac many goes to sleep IT because of the the uh power you profile on everything IT disconnects from those home pods and therefore does not um work as the IT IT loses connection to those homeboys as the output device you really awake in the device. You have to wait for them to show up again as an option and then are showing up so tim has asked for help with .

this yeah and this is a really good question. So you know I think that something that's important to know is if you open up shortcuts on an iphone or an ipad and am just going to a pop a shortcuts into full screen here on my ipad ah then you have this thing, uh which uh would be Better if I didn't run into that weird uh I O S book where a full screen and application of my eyeball and then suddenly it's only covering part of the screen.

Um but there is a tab called automation um and then you can tap on the plus, you can create an automation and tata automation magic. Now this is limited to a certain kind of triggers, for example. So focus modes.

Uh you know you've got a sound recognition when you put your device on charge, take your device off charge, open and close her in apps. This is not present in shortcuts for uh macos for stop. Uh so there are various things that you can do using um calendars and so natively. Personally my recommendation for automating uh with a sort of shortcuts like stuff interface on uh on the mac is actually to use uh something different is something called keyboard。 My stroke and keep on sure I will admit it's not free but there is a great APP. It's been there around for quite a while um and IT allows you to say, hey, when this thing happens, do that and this thing could be your mac wakes up, your mcc is about to go to sleep, your screen saver starts, this application opens, this application opens and there is this thing in the title of the window. All sorts is very powerful and IT has somewhat of a similar interface of shortcuts and that is a block based editor.

And what you can do with uh, keyboard my story and i'm just going to move my face over here or so that I am not in your way if you are looking at the screen and is you could create an automation um and I just called this one connect to home podd zone wake and then my trigger is very simple it's at system wake okay so in keyboard my show I selected the trigger called week um and then I added one simple action execute shortcut and i've put in an imaginary shortcut which is connect mac at home bots. But i'm assuming that you have created a shortcut that can do this um so that is one thing that I would do now if that doesn't work because it's trying to run a little too fast, then keep of my sure has a couple of polls actions or weight actions. Um so I just put in polls for one minute here and then um done this.

And in my anecdotal testing earlier today, IT does seem like this worked. However, I was also testing this whilst preparing for the show and so therefore when I putting my max asleep, I was putting my max sleep for between five to ten minutes at a time usually um now I didn't notice that I would usually discover during that time. But that doesn't mean to say this will necessarily be uh, enough of polls that one minute, however, uh, that is certainly something that is worth investigating.

There's also like pausing until sir and things happens on but unless you find a way to detect whether or not the mac has found that the blue truth devices exist, which you can do with some common line tools, but that's going to a get a little bit dicey. I think I probably just go for wait for a minute or go one point five minutes perhaps and then off you go um and to be clear, i'm showing this on a night out but this is a mac tool. I've sent a Green shot ever to my ipad so that I can show IT on the show um the keyboard boyster is a great uh APP for mac automation and I can run your cuts as well.

I love IT um I use IT all the time and I love that IT has a built in functionality for for this kind of thing in one of my favorite uses for its a very simple one. Occasionally there be an APP out there, a website, something that thinks that they're making their APP more secure by not allowing you to paste in a past, which is just the domus thing. And keyboard myer has a wonderful little feature that's just type, uh, type clipboard.

And so we had tricks the system into thinking that you are typing one. In fact, that is just copying what you've put on the clipboard and virtual typing IT out very quickly. And so that's my regular use for keyboard, my stroll, plus bunch of other little things.

But that one that seems very universal. So I like to mention that one is a great application that, again, the moment that you start playing around what you're going to be going, oh, I need to do this. And to do that, I, H, I could do, or I could do this.

You just, yeah, you can just dig in to what they have. So much fun. H I love IT.

There is also a great forum for the APP as well with loads of really supportive users uh and lots of examples on things as well. And yeah keep all my shores when I go to there is also a bunch which is a great APP. But it's very text space.

You have to write text smiles, which then brand things, make certain times and so on. Lovely APP, but perhaps you out there for a little shortcuts. Users who are looking for something similar keyboard matter is on the one of my favorites. I use all of them. I, I, I can't pick just one, but keyboard aster is what I would recommend for doing this automation.

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And no, you don't get access to my credit card details but they there that part of on the screen, you know just with them not shown so you have no excuse. I'm sorry watching his bit OS you're going and know how to get access to everything that you need. To get that tvs lish club to IT is how you join.

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