A lot of other interesting settings in developer options too, including reducing animation speed that makes the phone so much more snappier.

Most Bluetooth devices even when “asleep” can receive your other BT device’s connection request and magically “wake up”. For e.g. your laptop can connect with your switched off bluetooth speaker.

The speaker is in “sniffing” mode where a tiny part of its bluetooth radio is kept on to periodically “sniff” for incoming BT connection requests. A pre-paired device remembers each other’s BT addresses and can therefore connect to each other magically. This also ensures that no non-paired devices can just randomly wake up your bluetooth speaker.

Spotify now allows you to paywall protect podcasts with real time info-sharing of your subscriptions on other platforms. E.g. this NYT podcast that is only accessible to NYT subscribers, with in-app authentication possible on Spotify to vet your subscription status.

Knowing this means you can potentially “program” your laptop to do X things at Y time of the day every Z days. This fact, merged with Claude Code Skills, effectively means you can setup complicated workflows in a recurring manner all natively on your Mac, with no need to access any server based service like n8n, github actions etc.

There are 2 built-in job schedulers in Mac: Cron and Launchd. Cron will miss stuff out if your laptop is “off” at the time of the job. Launchd can queue in stuff so even if a job is missed, it will re-activate the next time your Mac wakes up.