After the WWDC 2020 keynote and working through all of the home screen changes I’ve decided to put the podcast on hold for a couple of months. There’s so many great changes to how we can customise the look of our devices now to make them our own I felt that talking about the iOS 13 way to do it wasn’t that interesting given most of us are excited about widgets and app libraries.

Even a day in my home screen is working completely different for me, I want to chat with guests about their iOS 14 setups.

Thanks for subscribing (if you are) and also for listening to the current episodes. I hope you agree that’s it’s better to focus on the future of how iOS 14 will change the look of our home screens.

I may do a few solo episodes talking about the changes, my experience and how to setup - sound interesting?

Another great guest up this week in the form of Matt Birchler and we go through a number of new apps that I am now using just in the short time since recording the show.

• Show Link
• Matt on Twitter

Home Screen:

A few weeks to get done but I’m back with Episode 2 that I have just uploaded to Anchor so should be aggregated to your podcast app of choice soon.

This week I have a guest in Daryl Baxter who I got to know via Twitter and our mutual love for the iPad.

Here’s the screenshot that we will be going through.

Thanks again to everyone for the positive feedback and if you have any guest or show suggestions (or you’d like to come on please let me know).

As you’ll know if you follow me I finally got in gear and put out a new podcast. It’s one I’ve wanted to do for a few years but with everything going on right now I needed a distraction so put some energy into doing something creative.

I looked into hosting options and decided that right now given I’m on a budget and want ease of posting I decided to go for Anchor.

I work primarily on iOS so downloaded the app.

When you launch you can create an account and podcast including adding artwork all within the app itself.

I created some simple artwork on my iPad using Procreate and exported as a JPG ready for adding to my podcast in the Anchor app.

Once I’d created an outline of the first episode I recorded it with my iPad Pro 10.5” and Blue Yeti Microphone using Ferrite.

I did my best to edit on the iPad but ended up falling back on old habits and used my MacBook and GarageBand.

Once I had my finished and exported MP3 file I used the Anchor website to add the show. I found the app a little lacking for adding shows and writing a good show note was a nightmare. You get a little text box and can’t see the text very well.

That was it.

Anchor handles distribution to other providers and I’m currently still waiting for it to propagate to them all.

If you’re looking for a quick and simple way to get a podcast off the ground Anchor might be a good choice.

Another creative project that I’ve kicked off as a distraction for both myself and hopefully others who are into other people’s setups.

• Google podcasts
• Spotify
• PocketCasts

Please let me know if you enjoy it or think of ways that I can improve.

I really appreciate anyone that listens or subscribes, I’m learning this one as I go.

Source: Star Wars Minute Podcast

I’ve recently picked up a few new Star Wars podcasts and one of my current favourites is Star Wars minute. At the moment they are deep diving each minute of Rogue One, which is one of my favourite bits of Disney era content. It’s fascinating, especially the most recent where they have the screenwriter himself talking insights and thoughts behind filming decisions.

If you’re into film at all I think it’s worth a listen, but even more if like me you’re obsessed with Star Wars.

It occurred to me the other day that I’d had a podcast on for an hour and not taken in a single bit of information or followed the conversation - listening to podcasts has become a habit. I’ve lost the ability to just have some peace and quiet and time to shut myself off from having a constant stream of conversation in my ears.

I’m trying to be more intentional with my technology and breaking this habit has gone to the top of my list.

I’ve deleted overcast from my devices and going to take a month away from listening to podcasts.

It’ll be interesting to see how long I last and how much more music I enjoy again.

Where I’ll struggle is on walks and long drives but let’s at least give it a try.

Had a lot of fun chatting with Tim about using the iPad Mini as my main iPad, thanks for having me on.

Check it out here.

A week or so ago I was listening to a tech podcast and I realised I had little interest in what was being discussed, I stopped and realised listening to others had become a habit. I had over 15 shows in my list and I’d stopped being able to just have peace and quiet. It’s ok to be bored and have some headspace to digest and think about things. Having a job where I drive a lot it’s good to have some podcasts to listen to but listening at home when I’m not doing something else has become a bit excessive.

I’ve decided to reduce my podcasts down to about 4 shows and I’m only going to use them for driving or out walking.

It’s been nice the last few days not reaching for my headphones and just being present in the moment.

When I started doing my little solo podcast it was easy, I had a few topics to discuss and could just talk unscripted. However this became difficult after a few weeks and has since been put on hold.

Being motivated to continue on your own is harder that it sounds, well it was for me. Without someone to bounce ideas off it became difficult to both come up with topics and the motivation to go the extra mile (working late into the night after a day of work and family life).

This is also true for having someone to push you and have a schedule not to let them down.

So I don’t discourage a solo podcast but it didn’t work for me, I like to talk to others and have a good time.

On that note if anyone wants a guest or start a tech, Marvel or Star Wars podcast let me know 😀

Managed to get a podcast done (applause please…) now we have one feed again. I did a ‘What’s on my iPhone’ episode to get ready for inviting others on.

IOS ONLY PODCAST FEED: Here’s the link to my podcast feeds

Here are my home screens to go along with the episode.

Podcasting with as little friction as possible is where I’m currently at so I’ve moved iOS Only to Anchor as an experiment.

Let’s see where this goes.

Anchor link.

It’s in the process of being distributed to platforms so will have to wait and see what happens to that but I’ll update this when it happens.

With the new year upon us and feeling a little down on my passion projects I’ve decided to close my podbean account and with it iOS Only.

I’ve thought of a few new ideas but for now I can’t justify hosting costs for the amount of downloads I’m getting. It’s hard for me to pay for all of the infrastructure for this and my blog and I prefer to blog just now.

I’m looking at alternatives so it might come back in the new year but for now I’ve stopped to take a break and take stock of all of my projects.

Thanks to those that downloaded and followed along.

At the moment my little podcast gets done once every one or two weeks and I’m trying to figure out a recording schedule going forward.

For those that listen, what would you like to see?

My thought is every two weeks.

I’ve just uploaded the next episode of “iOS Only”, my new iOS focussed podcast. If you’re subscribing already (thanks) it’ll appear.

Otherwise here are all the link you need.

Thanks to everyone that’s listened and given me feedback on the first episode of iOS Only. I’m really pleased that it’s been well received and I appreciate everyone that took the time out to listen.

I’ve been thinking about episode 2 and what the ongoing schedule should be. I’m thinking weekly with a release hitting your podcast player Thursday or Friday.

Look out for episode 2 next week.

I’ve wanted to launch a podcast on my own for a while, not just to share my thoughts but to learn how podcasts are made and distributed. I’m pleased to announce that I’ve finally got it done and all on iOS. The show is called iOS Only and at the time of writing this it’s been approved by Apple so all of the links in the page I’ll share below are valid. The only thing I’m waiting on is for it to appear in the search of iTunes.

I can’t wait to hear what you think and please send any feedback to me at iosonlypodcast@gmail.com

Thanks in advance to everyone that takes time out to listen, sub, review and give me feedback.

You’ll find all the info here.

As someone trying to launch a podcast I’m struggling a bit with sending my feed to Apple Podcasts at the moment and it appears I’m not alone. A quick Google search shows that other users experience this intermittent problem with little support from Apple. There is a bit of a infinite loop going on that some users are experiencing.

When I head over to the applepodcastsconnect page, log in and accept terms I get the above page. Tapping on ‘contact us’ takes me to iTunes connect, which then loops back to the same podcastsconnect log in, which as you might guess gives me this error again.

It feels more like an Amazon or Google support experience than Apple. I’ve contacted the support team linked to my developer account in a hope someone can help me out.

I can’t give you my podcast subscription link until I sort this out.

If by a miracle someone from Apple spots this please reach out to me.

I’ve started the first steps into podcasting on iOS, whilst I spent a bit of time planning I realised I needed to use iOS to create some artwork. I ended up using procreate, the Apple Pencil and an image I took of my iPhone X.

Imported the original image into Procreate then created a new layer and started to sketch an outline. I’m no artist but pleased with how it came out. It’s almost finished…

iPad Pro + Camera connection kit + blue yeti + ferrite app

Source: Upgrade

It’s the summer of fun over at Relay.fm and this weeks episode is all about podcasting. As someone that’s looking at moving to podcast like me it’s a must listen.