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what's good Bryant on here with the Apple buy for everything good and bad inside the world of Apple this week it's all about the software after Apple released the fine my ear pods feature for locating your lost earbuds in the iOS 10.3 developer beta release now to show you how it works I'll hand it off to my extremely good-looking friend Brian Tom thanks Brian all right check this out in the iOS 10.3 developer beta Apple is finally added the find my ear pods feature everyone kind of joked about it when they were first announced but I'm gonna show you how you use it so the first thing that you'll want to do is go into the Find My iPhone app and open it up we're gonna assume that you've already synced your air pods but let's say you've used them and like you don't know where they are like like where where are they oh yeah they're here okay so let's just say you took them out you put them down now on the Find My iPhone app you'll see a list of devices your air pods will show up if you want to find them you want to click on your actual air pods it'll show them on a map and then it gives you the general approximation of what area they are again they connect through Bluetooth and not the cellular connection so you can't be very super specific but what helps is if you click on the actions you have the option to play a sound so I'm gonna play a sound it's gonna start off soft but get a little louder as time goes on all right so there's that sound you can then stop playing them I located my air pods and there you go the other caveat about this is if you have the air pods in the case and they're closed it actually closes off that Bluetooth connection so you won't be able to see it it will just show you the last known spot that you left your ear pods in the case but that's kind of a really a quick way to show you how to find your ear pods using the developer beta again this is not available to the public just yet but it will be soon and there's your sneak peek for iOS 10.3 and find my ear pods back to you Brian thanks Brian all right the 10.3 beta also includes a few new tweaks there's a new Apple ID profile option that's at the top of the settings that shows all the devices you're signed into and links to services like iCloud the app store and family sharing in the iCloud section you know get a breakdown of how the storage is being used in maps there's an icon you can use to 3d touch and expand the weather forecast and push and pop into the weather app and iOS my 3 beta has been updated using Apple's file system it's their new modern file system that's optimized for flash and solid-state drive storage and features stronger encryption space sharing and more it replaces the over two decades old hfs+ file system now this is only available for developers right now and will likely get a public beta release in the near future and the latest Mac OS ten point twelve point for developer build finally brings nightshift to the Mac I've been using flux for at least a year now and it's done a great job but nice ship first appeared in iOS 9.3 and changes your screen from that cooler blue tint to a more yellow tint now at night staring into the blue tinted light of a screen really confuses your brain to think it's still sunlight out it can actually disrupt your natural sleep cycle making it harder to fall asleep and stay asleep and you know right now a few you just thought I didn't know that no kidding I didn't know that well thank you Brian see I told you now you can use Siri to turn night shift on or off it can be toggled in the Notification Center or found in the System Preferences in the display section and the rumored theater mode for the Apple watch looks to finally be coming in watch OS 3.2 it hasn't been released yet but apples notes indicate it will be part of the update theater mode will mute the sound of the watch and disable the raise to wake feature that turns on the Apple watch screen with an arm movement see I already have the theater mode active right now so you check it out I call it the I haven't charged my Apple watch because I don't always use it mode and a more Apple watch news patents granted to the big a describe how they could use a modular watch bracelet to bring more functionality to the wearable it could range from anything to health sensors additional power or cameras similar to that camera watch band that I arrived about but you know what let me just take a moment to talk about the camera watch band I was all about it you saw it I told you to get on board but I reached out directly to the camera team and found out that it will only handle video messages not a live video chat similar to FaceTime or Skype I want to be real with you all so I cancel my order until they bring that real Dick Tracy type functionality because that's what I wanted in that's what we'll take the Apple watch to another level also in a correction from last week many of you pointed out that I continue to call Intel's processor line cabbie Lake instead of pronouncing it correctly as kV Lake and for that yes I deserve a bad apple hi little boy what's your name hey Tyler you really liked that didn't you all right last week I asked for some of your thoughts with the new MacBook Pros because I want to include some of your real experiences on this show for others now Kent hurt says he's very happy with it his 7 an hour a battery life is great and he replaced a 2012 MacBook Pro with the new one but opted not to get the touch bar Venis Patel loves the larger trackpad and it does everything as well as far as the student life is concerned but Venus admits it comes with a pricey tag Venus also asked to be featured on this episode by asking please so hey Venus it worked now Ron cron event sent a detailed email but some of his highlights include a disappointing battery life on his 13-inch MacBook Pro wit touch bar that's only about five or six hours and Ron says it feels no faster than his 2015 MacBook Pro Ron also said the touch bar seems really cool at first but its usefulness is limited so that's really a mix of responses and I think a lot of you also depend on what laptop you had before you got the new one okay let's end this on a high note I like to feature the Apple by nation I received this picture from yang santamaría who says tell me I look bad with these yang you look bad with those but did you really take a picture of yourself inside the restroom at work Brooke come on all right that's gonna do it for this week's show you can email us at the Apple bite at cnet.com or to me at brian tom thanks so much for watching we'll catch you all next time for another bite of the