AppleVis Podcast

Did you know that your HomePod and HomePod Mini can play calm, relaxing sounds for white noise, background noise, or that can help you during your bedtime? Listen in as Thomas Domville demonstrate how to play ambient sounds on HomePod & HomePod mini.

In this podcast, Thomas Domville gives us short looks at some of what's new and notable with Accessibility features in iOS 16.

Topics include:

• Door Detection
• New Voices and locales
• Live Captions
• Hover Text
• Apple Watch Mirroring
• Sound Recognition customisation
• End call with Side or Lock button
• Sound and haptics feedback for VoiceOver users to identify the starting point for walking directions in Apple Maps
• Themes and customisation in Apple Books
• Magnifier Activities
• Automatic CAPTCHA skipping
• Screen Recognition item focus
• Use Siri to end calls, set auto-answer, and restart your device
• Configure Siri's pause time
• Custom spellings for Voice Control
• Startup chime on iPhone 14 Pro

In this podcast, Orinks gives us a walk-through and demonstration of Mixonset, an iOS app that offers to be your smart DJ with support for locally stored music and a number of music streaming services.

Description from the App Store:

Want to have a personal DJ? Try Mixonset. Mix the best part of your favourite songs with smooth transitions on Spotify, Apple Music, TIDAL, SoundCloud Free & local MP3s.

Mixonset - mix the right part of the right song with seamless transitions

Elevate your playlists into beatmatched mixes with Mixonset, your Smart DJ for music streaming. No knowledge or preparation is needed - just connect your favorite music library and start mixing. It’s perfect for all occasions, whether it’s a house party, workout, road trip, or you just love mixes.

Powered by award-winning AI technology, Mixonset helps you Smart Mix, beatmatch, discover and curate music like a DJ. Welcome to the future of streaming.

SMART MIX

Mixonset's Smart MixTM technology uses world-class AI to improve the music experience by doing what a professional DJ does in a DJ set in real-time:

• Queue optimization based on BPM and energy level
• AI identifies the 1-2 minute highlight of each track
• AI crossfades your track seamlessly into the next track
• Crossfade melodies, vocals, drums, bass lines automatically
• Time stretches and pitch shifts
• Beatmatched auto mixes generated by Artificial Intelligence

FILL THE GAPS

• Expand your playlist with boosted music discovery to discover 10 times more
• Choose between adding 20%, 50%, 100% or 300% suggestions
• Fill the gaps suggestions are smart queued
• Create a whole new mixtape from the songs you already love

MUSIC FILTERS

• Filter songs by energy, BPM and similar artists
• Other filters include: recent songs, offline songs, and filtering out explicit songs

INTERFACE

• Instead of a complicated turntable, Mixonset looks and feels like a regular music player with a twist – the purple dot is where the song mixes!
• Orbital Player gives you a taste of the future of music
• Enjoy your mix on set anywhere you go, just plug and play!

INTEGRATIONS

• Spotify Premium: Millions of tracks and your favorite playlists (Spotify Premium only)
• TIDAL: Millions of HiFi tracks and your favorite playlists (TIDAL Premium/HiFi only)
• SoundCloud Free: Mix with 200 million tracks with your SoundCloud Free account (Go+ tracks currently unavailable)
• Apple Music: Partial support with incomplete catalogue
• Local Music Library: Mix and beatmatch local tracks

SMART MUSIC LIBRARY

• “Heart” your favorite songs to save them to your Liked Songs
• Find my Vibe to automatically create music mixes
• Create your own custom mixtapes
• Generate and save song radios based on song vibes
• Switch song queues seamlessly

AWARD-WINNING AUDIO ANALYSIS

• BPM and beat detection
• Energy level detection

PRO FEATURES

• Unlimited Highlights: play highlights of every song...

In this podcast from his series looking at some of what's new and notable in iOS 15, Thomas Domville Shows us how to setup and use Focus modes.

Focus is essentially a supercharged upgrade of Do Not Disturb. This is how Apple describes Focus:

Focus helps you stay in the moment when you need to concentrate or step away. Choose a Focus that allows only the notifications you want — you can get work done while you’re in the zone or enjoy a distraction‐free dinner. Pick from a list of suggested Focus options or create your own.

What do you want to focus on? Choose a focus area to set up: Custom. Driving. Exercising. Gaming. Reading.

Stepping away is easier if others know you’re busy. So when you’re using Focus, your status will be automatically displayed in Messages. And for truly urgent messages, there’s still a way for people to notify you.

Key feature highlights of Focus are:

• Allow notifications only from certain people and apps.
• Time-sensitive notifications.
• Presets: There are presets for different parts of your day: work, personal time, workouts, and more.
• Dynamic home screen allows you to only show particular home screen pages when a Focus mode is enabled.
• Cross-device sync.

In this quick tip podcast, Tyler demonstrates how to create and use text replacements, short snippets of text which are substituted with frequently used words or phrases when typed, and which synchronise across all your Apple devices.

For more information, see:
Replace text and punctuation in documents on Mac
Save keystrokes with text replacements on iPhone