Casey Liss

The downside, of course, is that the move makes it harder to repair an iPhone using parts harvested from legitimately acquired, broken devices. Apple has already introduced the ability to remove activation locks from Macs when wiping them rather than when setting them up as new.

The downside, of course, is that the move makes it harder to repair an iPhone using parts harvested from legitimately acquired, broken devices. Apple has already introduced the ability to remove activation locks from Macs when wiping them rather than when setting them up as new.

This is coming to Apple Business Manager 2, so enterprise companies and customers, excuse me, will be able to remove activation lock from entire batches of managed devices when preparing them for sale. All that is needed now is to ensure that this also covers activation lock for parts.

This is coming to Apple Business Manager 2, so enterprise companies and customers, excuse me, will be able to remove activation lock from entire batches of managed devices when preparing them for sale. All that is needed now is to ensure that this also covers activation lock for parts.

On the one side, this obviously is a real bummer for, you know, third party people that are legitimate and are just trying to get cheaper repairs by, you know, harvesting a phone for parts that maybe the screen is shattered because I was washing my car or something like that. And yet the camera is fine. And I get that that's a real bummer for them.

On the one side, this obviously is a real bummer for, you know, third party people that are legitimate and are just trying to get cheaper repairs by, you know, harvesting a phone for parts that maybe the screen is shattered because I was washing my car or something like that. And yet the camera is fine. And I get that that's a real bummer for them.

But I would say that broadly, this strikes me as a pretty good idea.

But I would say that broadly, this strikes me as a pretty good idea.

Yeah, it's unfortunate that this has to be a thing, but here we are, and Apple's doing their best to try to ride the line between blocking out third-party repair shops and whatnot and also just helping us not get our phones stolen, which would be preferred.

Yeah, it's unfortunate that this has to be a thing, but here we are, and Apple's doing their best to try to ride the line between blocking out third-party repair shops and whatnot and also just helping us not get our phones stolen, which would be preferred.

All right, let's do some Ask ATP. And Jov Zoldan writes, how do you explain to non-tech people, especially family, that your iPhone does not listen to you to show you ads? I can never get them to believe me. I think cross-site tracking is hard to understand and the conspiracy theory is more attractive. Do you know of an easy to understand explainer video maybe?

All right, let's do some Ask ATP. And Jov Zoldan writes, how do you explain to non-tech people, especially family, that your iPhone does not listen to you to show you ads? I can never get them to believe me. I think cross-site tracking is hard to understand and the conspiracy theory is more attractive. Do you know of an easy to understand explainer video maybe?

Well, this got complicated in the time between we added this to the show notes and... when we started talking about it just now, because there's been a couple of news reports. The title's Cox Media Group brags it spies on users with device microphones to sell targeted ads, but it's not clear they actually can. That was from Tech Dirt. We'll put a link in the show notes. And then from 404 Media,

Well, this got complicated in the time between we added this to the show notes and... when we started talking about it just now, because there's been a couple of news reports. The title's Cox Media Group brags it spies on users with device microphones to sell targeted ads, but it's not clear they actually can. That was from Tech Dirt. We'll put a link in the show notes. And then from 404 Media,

Here's the pitch deck for, quote, active listening, quote, ad targeting, which is also not great. So I don't really know how to answer this question anymore, to be completely honest with you.

Here's the pitch deck for, quote, active listening, quote, ad targeting, which is also not great. So I don't really know how to answer this question anymore, to be completely honest with you.

All right. Peter Wagner writes, it's been four years since MagSafe came out for the iPhone. I'd love to hear your take on the current state of MagSafe and your thoughts on it as part of the iPhone ecosystem. I really love... Qi charging. And I personally use Qi charging every night to charge my phone. MagSafe specifically, I also like, but I think that isn't as important to me as the Qi charging.

All right. Peter Wagner writes, it's been four years since MagSafe came out for the iPhone. I'd love to hear your take on the current state of MagSafe and your thoughts on it as part of the iPhone ecosystem. I really love... Qi charging. And I personally use Qi charging every night to charge my phone. MagSafe specifically, I also like, but I think that isn't as important to me as the Qi charging.

Although now that I say that, I look at my Pro Max with its pop socket on the back, and I wonder if I'm doing MagSafe a dirty by saying it's not that important to me. Because actually... Having something that I can, no, you know, I take this all back. Don't worry, we'll fix it in post.

Although now that I say that, I look at my Pro Max with its pop socket on the back, and I wonder if I'm doing MagSafe a dirty by saying it's not that important to me. Because actually... Having something that I can, no, you know, I take this all back. Don't worry, we'll fix it in post.