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NC #1064 Too Soon for iOS 26, 4th Try with AirPods Pro, Andy Dolph on Presentation Software, Security Bits

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The live translation feature only worked when the AirPods listened through their microphones, not over Bluetooth.

1. NosillaCast Apple Podcast #1064 centers on Alison Sheridan's reactions to presentation software, iOS 26, AirPods Pro 3, and Security Bits. 2. Alison Sheridan hosts the show from podfeet.com, and Andy Dolph appears in an audio comment because he works in technical theater and university event production. 3. The episode asks whether PowerPoint and Keynote are bad tools or badly used tools, whether iOS 26 is ready for immediate installation, and whether AirPods Pro 3 finally solve Alison's fit problem. 4. Andy Dolph compares bad slide decks to using a screwdriver for the wrong job and says presentation graphics should support the presenter. 5. He argues that speaking outlines belong on paper or an iPad, not projected in front of the audience, and that slides should be illustrations, charts, or short title pages. 6. Alison says she generally skips slides unless they add something clear and resists giving students outline-style slides for note taking. 7. She then answers a question from a user-group message board about updating to iOS 26 versus staying on iOS 18.7. 8. Alison says iOS 26 is not terrible, and she even likes the liquid glass interface, but she still recommends waiting because of bugs and poor decisions. 9. She describes the TV app asking for her Apple account password, the Camera app flipping a portrait preview to landscape, and HomeKit notification settings being reset. 10. She also reports that Apple enabled audio readouts in her headphones and that she had to dig through Apple Intelligence and Siri settings to disable them. 11. The HomeKit change is especially noisy because Alison and Steve have eight Yuffie cameras, and mode changes generated 16 notifications when they left or returned home. 12. Alison says Apple changed those camera notification settings back to defaults on both of their devices, forcing her to reset each camera one by one. 13. She calls the notification audio path a puzzle because the toggle was buried under Apple Intelligence and Siri, and the workout voice-feedback control was hidden in different settings areas. 14. Calendar search on iOS 26 also misbehaves for Alison, since searching for birthday events with "BD" returned nothing even though macOS 26 found them. 15. Norbert in Slack suggested toggling off and on "Show Content in Search" under Settings, Apps, Calendar, and Alison says that fixed iOS search for her too. 16. Alison later found a Find My gear icon that did nothing, which made her suspect poor UI rather than a real settings entry. 17. Her strangest iOS 26 banner showed Steve's avatar and said he was connected, but tapping it opened what looked like his contact card and trapped her on the screen. 18. Alison says ChatGPT guessed the banner might be a contact card, while Richard Piazza suggested hotspot behavior, but the mystery remains unresolved. 19. The tone shifts to a detailed, practical comparison of AirPods Pro 3, with Alison narrating fit tests, travel charging, ANC, live translation, and Find My behavior in a conversational style. 20. Security Bits with Bart Brousseau closes the episode with quick coverage of GitHub's NPM 2-factor authentication plans and a possible TikTok deal, which suits listeners who want Apple troubleshooting, audio gear comparisons, and security news, but not people avoiding long hardware-and-settings digressions.

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