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[Ivan AI @ivan_ai_world]

If you're on an iPhone 12, 13, 14, 15, or 16, do NOT update to iOS 26. Apple's "Liquid Glass" is wrecking older phones.

Already updated? Here are 6 settings that fix it:👇

[Viora Tech @Viora_Tech_Ai]

A guy bought a 4-pack of AirTags for $99. He put one on his keys. Three sat in a drawer for a year.

Then his luggage got lost on a flight to London. His wallet fell out of his pocket at a stadium. His kid left a backpack at school and nobody turned it in.

Three losses. Three times he wished he'd taken the AirTags out of the drawer.

His wife an operations manager who tracks $2 million in company assets using the same Find My network finally said: "You bought a 4-pack of the most powerful consumer tracking devices on the planet. You used 25% of them to find your keys in the couch. The other 75% sat in a junk drawer while you lost $1,800 in luggage, a $200 wallet, and a $90 backpack."

"An AirTag doesn't need GPS. It doesn't need Wi-Fi. It doesn't need a data plan. Every iPhone on Earth is secretly working as your search team. 2 billion devices. Finding your stuff. For $29. No subscription. Forever."

"But tracking your stuff is only half of what an AirTag does. The other half Left Behind alerts, Precision Finding, family sharing, Lost Mode, anti-stalking detection is sitting inside the Find My app right now. Untouched."

Here are 10 AirTag features most owners have never set up:

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[Oscar @HeyOscarx]

Open Amazon right now. Go to Account. Tap "Your Prime Membership."

Look at the date you joined.

That's how long you've been paying $139/year for 10 benefits and using 1.

Do the math.

2 years? You wasted $1,112.
3 years? $1,668.
4 years? $2,224.
5 years? $2,780.

Not on shipping. Shipping works fine. On the 9 benefits sitting inside your account that you've never opened. Not once.

Right now. While you read this.

You have a music app. 100 million songs. Free. You're paying Spotify $12/month to do the same thing.

You have unlimited photo storage. Full resolution. Better than iCloud. Free. You're paying Apple $3/month.

You have a free library. Thousands of books. Rotating monthly. Free. You've never opened the Kindle app.

You have 30+ free games. Every month. Free. You didn't know.

You have prescription discounts. 80% off. Free. You paid full price at the pharmacy yesterday.

You have grocery delivery. Free. You paid a $7 delivery fee last week on a service your Prime already includes.

You have a cashback tool inside the app. Free. You've never turned it on. It's been sitting there for years.

You have a price drop tracker. Every item you overpaid for last month? It caught every single drop. You didn't know it existed. Amazon kept the difference.

A woman who worked Amazon customer service for 3 years told me:

"Amazon doesn't make money when you use Prime. Amazon makes money when you don't. Every benefit you ignore is pure profit. Your annual fee funds a platform designed to make you forget what you're paying for."

"200 million Prime members. 190 million have never opened the benefits page."

Here are 10 Amazon Prime benefits you're paying for right now but have never opened:

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[Eric Smith @Eric_Smith08]

Every time you swipe your credit card, 11 protections activate automatically covering your purchase against damage, theft, warranty failure, fraud, defective products, travel disruptions, and disputes. You don't opt in. You don't sign up. You don't pay extra. They're built into the card.

Most cardholders know about 1 of them fraud protection. The other 10 are worth $500-$2,000/year in coverage that most people are either paying for separately or absorbing as out-of-pocket losses when things go wrong.

A financial consultant who's helped clients file $400,000+ in credit card claims over 12 years said: "Your credit card is the most underused insurance policy in your wallet. It covers your phone, your electronics, your travel, your rental car, your purchases, and your rights as a consumer automatically, on every transaction. Most people carry a card with $50,000+ in annual protection coverage and file $0 in claims per year because nobody told them to read the benefits guide that came with the card."

He showed his friend 11 protections on the credit card she'd carried for 6 years. In those 6 years, she'd experienced a cracked phone screen ($280), a broken laptop 14 months after purchase ($650), a scratched rental car ($500), a delayed flight where she bought dinner and a hotel ($340), a stolen pair of headphones ($250), and an online purchase from a seller who sent a defective product and refused a refund ($180).

Total she paid out of pocket: $2,200.

Total her credit card would have covered: $2,200.

"Every one of those incidents was covered by a card sitting in your wallet at the time, with protections active on every one of those purchases. You paid $2,200 for claims you never filed because you didn't know you could."

Here are the 11 protections behind every swipe 🧵

[Viora Tech @Viora_Tech_Ai]

Your glasses cost $400. The frames cost $8 to make.

Not $80. Not $50. Eight dollars. Acetate. Injection-molded. In a factory in China or Italy that produces 1 billion pairs a year. The markup on the frames sitting on your face right now is somewhere between 1,000% and 2,000%.

And the company that made them also made the "competing" brand next to them on the shelf. And the store you bought them from. And the insurance plan that "covered" them. And the lenses inside them.

One company. €28 billion in annual revenue. 17,750 stores. 80+ brands. 600+ factories. A monopoly so complete that you can't buy glasses at any price, in any store, without putting money in their pocket.

A former optical industry executive who spent 12 years inside the eyewear supply chain told me something that should make every glasses wearer look at the logo on their frames tonight:

"There is no glasses industry. There's one company EssilorLuxottica and everyone else fighting over the 5% they left on the table."

"You think you're choosing between Ray-Ban and Oakley. Same company. You think Prada glasses are made by Prada. They're not. You think LensCrafters and Sunglass Hut are competitors. Same owner. You think your vision insurance is independent. They own the second-largest vision insurer in America."

"They make the frames. They make the lenses. They own the stores that sell them. They own the insurance that 'pays' for them. They license the luxury names that justify the price. And they control enough of the supply chain that no competitor can challenge them on price, distribution, or brand."

"4 billion people on Earth need corrective lenses. Most of them are buying from one company and paying a 1,000% markup because nobody told them what a pair of glasses actually costs."

Here's how the monopoly works from raw material to your face and exactly how to stop paying $400 for an $8 product:

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[Jack @jackcoder0]

DoorDash makes money on fees. Every delivery fee, service fee, small order fee, and inflated menu price is revenue. Every feature that reduces those fees is buried tucked into submenus, hidden behind toggles, and never surfaced on the checkout screen where you're about to pay $26 for a $15 burrito.

A DoorDash power user who's saved $2,400 over 2 years showed his friend 9 features DoorDash doesn't prominently advertise features that cut $40-$70/month off her delivery spending without ordering less food.

The DashPass math most users calculate wrong and the break-even point that's lower than most people think. The Pickup mode that eliminates every single fee and earns 5% back in credits. The DoubleDash that adds a second store to your delivery for $0 extra delivery fee. The small order fee trick that saves $3 by spending $2.50. The scheduled delivery that avoids surge pricing and gets priority handling. The group order system that splits costs fairly without one person fronting the bill. The Quality Guarantee that refunds wrong, missing, and spoiled items within 24 hours, no argument. The gift card discounts that save 10-15% at brands you already shop at. And the Chase credit card perk that gives you DashPass for free turning a $120/year subscription into $0.

He told his friend: "DoorDash has 2 modes. Default mode where you open the app, order food, pay full fees, and close the tab. And power-user mode where you use 9 features that reduce or eliminate every fee on every order. Default mode costs $1,200-$2,000/year in fees. Power-user mode costs $400-$700. Same food. Same restaurants. Same delivery. Different checkout total."

She said: "Why doesn't DoorDash show me these?"

"Because every dollar you save on fees is a dollar DoorDash doesn't earn. The features exist because they have to competition from Uber Eats and Grubhub forces them. The features are buried because DoorDash profits when you don't find them."

Here are the 9 features 🧵

[Ivan AI @ivan_ai_world]

@_evon3929 The wildest part is that most of these features are hiding in plain sight.

[Evon @_evon3929]

iOS 18 came out 2 years ago.

You updated your phone. You noticed you could move your app icons around. You thought: "cool." You moved two apps. You never opened Settings again.

Meanwhile — for 24 months — your iPhone has had the ability to lock any app behind Face ID, record and transcribe phone calls, text via satellite without cell signal, schedule messages to send at midnight, type to Siri instead of talking, customize your Lock Screen controls, lock your Hidden photos album, and search your call history by typing a name on the dial pad.

For 2 years. On the phone in your hand right now.

A former Apple trainer who spent 3 years teaching Genius Bar staff told me: "iOS 18 was the biggest iPhone update in a decade. It added features people had been begging for since 2010. And 2 years later, I'd estimate 90% of iPhone users haven't discovered a single one."

"They know they can move their icons. That's it. That's the one feature they found."

"Underneath that — buried in menus nobody opens — are 10 features that change how you use your phone every day. They've been there for 2 years. On every iPhone from the XS forward. And almost nobody knows."

Here are 10 iOS 18 features that have been on your iPhone for 2 years — that you've never used:🧵

[Viora Tech @Viora_Tech_Ai]

McDonald's made $25.9 billion last year. A significant chunk of that came from people who walked up to the counter, looked at the menu board, and ordered at full price.

They drove past the same McDonald's the app users drove past. They ordered the same food the app users ordered. They paid 40–60% more.

A guy managed a McDonald's for 4 years. He watched it happen every shift customers paying $9 for a meal the person behind them in line just got for $5. Same food. Same bag. Same register. Different price because one of them opened an app and the other one didn't.

"McDonald's has two pricing systems. The menu board price which is what you see when you walk in. And the app price which is what you see when you open the McDonald's app on your phone. They're different. On almost everything. Every day."

"The app has daily deals that rotate every 24 hours. BOGO sandwiches. $1 large fries. $2 McNuggets. $0 delivery fees. These deals don't exist at the counter. They don't exist on the menu board. They exist only inside the app. If you don't open the app, you don't see them. You pay full price. The person behind you pays half."

"But the deals aren't even the biggest savings. The rewards program is. Every dollar you spend earns 100 points. Those points convert to free food free Big Macs, free McNuggets, free McMuffins, free Happy Meals. Most McDonald's customers eat there 2–3 times a week and have never earned a single point. They've been spending $15–$25/week for years without ever scanning a code and the free food they could've earned is just gone."

"The app has been live for years. The deals have been running for years. The rewards have been accumulating for everyone who scans and evaporating for everyone who doesn't."

"40 million people eat at McDonald's every day. The majority of them have never opened the app."

Here are 10 McDonald's app tricks that cut your bill by 40–60% on every single order:

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[Ivan AI @ivan_ai_world]

@Tech_Marsha @details_with_ai Great share

[Frances Marsha @Tech_Marsha]

Don’t expect extraordinary results if you only tell ChatGPT, “Make me a design.”

❌ “Make me a graphic”

❌ “Design a flyer”

❌ “Create a poster”

Generic prompts = generic AI designs.

Want your designs to look more professional, creative, and intentional?

Here are 8 powerful prompts to 🧵

[Eric Smith @Eric_Smith08]

A ChatGPT user switched to Claude for a week.

He was impressed by the writing quality the responses read like a thoughtful colleague instead of a machine. The code was cleaner on the first draft. The analysis had nuance he wasn't used to. But he couldn't find the features he relied on. "Where's computer use? Where's Sites? Where's the browsing? Where's the live website builder?" He concluded Claude is "a great writer but limited" and went back to ChatGPT.

A Claude user switched to ChatGPT for a week.

She was impressed by the computer use the AI opened browsers, navigated websites, and completed multi-step tasks while she watched. Sites built a live landing page from one paragraph. The research was autonomous instead of collaborative. But the responses felt different. "The answers are faster but shallower. The code works but needs more follow-up fixes. The writing is competent but sounds like AI." She concluded ChatGPT is "a capable assistant but less thoughtful" and went back to Claude.

Both conclusions are wrong.

Both users tested the surface of the unfamiliar platform for 7 days and judged the entire product on the 20% they discovered without finding the hidden capabilities that make each platform extraordinary at tasks the other platform's users assume it can't handle.

The ChatGPT user who called Claude "limited" never found Claude Code, extended thinking, the 1-million-token context window, or the effort adjustment that turns a fast answer into extraordinary analysis. The Claude user who called ChatGPT "shallower" never found recurrent depth, reasoning effort adjustment, Codex persistent notes, or the prompting techniques that extract the deep thinking Astra is capable of but doesn't apply by default.

Here's every hidden capability on both platforms that the other platform's users never discover 🧵

[Jack @jackcoder0]

Apple has a $200 billion reason to never show you this thread.

Right now while you're holding your iPhone reading this 9 settings are working against you.

Your battery is dying by 2pm. Not because it's old. Because a setting is letting dozens of apps run in the background every 30 seconds.

Your location is being tracked. Right now. Every store. Every street. Every building. Stored in a hidden map on your phone you've never seen.

You didn't turn any of this on. Apple did. The day you set up your phone. Without asking. Without telling.

A guy spent 5 years at Apple training Genius Bar staff. He said one sentence that should make every iPhone owner stop scrolling:

"I watched people spend $1,200 on a new iPhone every 2 years because nobody told them to spend 10 minutes in Settings."

"Every single day someone walked into the Genius Bar with the same complaint: 'My phone is slow. My battery dies. My storage is full.' Every single day I changed 9 settings in 10 minutes. Every single day they said the same thing:"

"'It feels like a brand new phone.'"

"It was never broken. The settings were. And 1.2 billion iPhones have never changed a single one."

You don't need a new iPhone. You need 10 minutes.

Here are 9 iPhone settings Apple doesn't want you to change:

[Rasel Hosen @details_with_ai]

We were spending 4 weeks every month putting together campaign briefs. Now, 4 briefs can be turned around in a single afternoon.

Running influencer campaigns across multiple creator accounts means every partnership needs a clear plan before it goes live.

Audience. Content direction. Deliverables. Timeline. Success metrics. Usage rights. Disclosures.

We tried building templates. We tried shared docs. We even blocked out time every week just for briefing. But the hard part was never creating the document — it was thinking through all the details from scratch.

So we handed that recurring task to Viktor.

One prompt gave us a 4-page designed PDF in 2 minutes, complete with structured sections, creative direction, a pivot rule, and usage rights.

The interesting part was that we didn't have to spell out every detail. Viktor understood what needed to be included and turned the context into a usable brief.

We still review and approve everything before it reaches a client. Viktor handles the work; our team makes the final call.

That’s the difference between asking AI for an answer and giving AI a real job.

A copilot helps you work. An AI employee takes on the work.

Hire @viktor_com for your team. $100 in credits included, no card. Full link in first comment.

#AIemployee #CreatorEconomy

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[Viora Tech @Viora_Tech_Ai]

Your AirPods Pro just tested your hearing. You didn't know. You didn't feel it. It happened automatically.

Then they rewired every song you'll ever listen to based on what your ears can't hear.

You've been listening to music wrong. For years. On $249 earbuds that were trying to fix it for you. You never let them.

A former Apple product specialist told me one sentence that made me pull my AirPods out of my ears and stare at them:

"You're wearing a $249 hearing clinic and using it as a Bluetooth speaker."

"Your AirPods Pro can do a clinical-grade hearing test. The same test an audiologist charges $200 for. 5 minutes. It maps your exact hearing. Then it adjusts every frequency in every song, every podcast, every call to match what YOUR ears actually need. Not default. Not generic. Yours."

"You've been listening to half the detail in every song for years. Frequencies your ears miss your AirPods already know about them. They're waiting for you to take the test. You never did."

"But the hearing test isn't even the feature that should make you angry."

"Your AirPods drop your music and amplify human voices the instant you start talking. You've been ripping them out of your ears every conversation. For years. For nothing."

"Your AirPods track your head in 3D and place sound around you like a movie theater. You've been listening in flat stereo. On earbuds designed for spatial audio."

"Your AirPods play rain, ocean, and white noise with no app and no subscription. You're paying $5/month for a sound app you don't need."

"Your AirPods turn your iPhone into a directional microphone that streams audio from across a room directly into your ears. You didn't know."

"Your charging case has a speaker that chirps when you lose it. You've been digging through couch cushions for 20 minutes. Your phone could've found it in 3 seconds."

"300 million AirPods sold. 280 million owners paired them once and never opened Settings."

"You're not wearing earbuds. You're wearing a hearing clinic, a sound studio, a white noise machine, a 3D theater, and a tracking device. And you're using it to listen to Spotify on the bus."

Here are 10 AirPods Pro features most owners have never turned on:

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[Eric Smith @Eric_Smith08]

In 2027, the iPhone turns 20 years old.

Steve Jobs walked onto a stage on January 9, 2007 and introduced a device that changed the trajectory of human communication, commerce, entertainment, and daily life. Twenty years later, Apple is reportedly preparing the most dramatic iPhone redesign since the iPhone X in 2017 and they might not even call it the iPhone 19.

The rumors point to a possible naming skip. Apple may jump from iPhone 18 straight to iPhone 20 or iPhone XX or a "20th Anniversary iPhone" that breaks the numbering convention entirely. The way Apple skipped iPhone 9 in 2017 (jumping from iPhone 8 to iPhone X to mark the 10th anniversary), 2027 may see Apple skip iPhone 19 to mark the 20th.

The name is uncertain. The hardware leaks are not.

A near bezel-free display with virtually no visible border the closest any iPhone has come to an all-screen front. A quad-curved screen that wraps around all 4 edges. Under-display Face ID no Dynamic Island, no notch, no cutout of any kind. Possibly an under-display selfie camera zero visible sensors on the front. A glass-centric body that makes the iPhone 18 Pro Max look like an artifact. And an A21 chip with unified memory architecture borrowed from M-series MacBook processors bringing laptop-class AI processing to a phone for the first time.

If the leaks are accurate, the 2027 iPhone isn't an upgrade. It's a generational reset the kind Apple performs once per decade.

Here's everything the leaks reveal about the most significant iPhone since the iPhone X 🧵

[Jack @jackcoder0]

What if you could control a game with nothing but natural language? This is not GPT Astra or Opus 5.5.

@PixVerse R2 makes it real. WASD movement drops you straight into an AI-generated scene, moving through it live not watching a clip play out.

Here's the interaction: type "Flame Magic," and your character shoots fire forward, hitting whatever's in its path.

This is the shift from typical AI video. Instead of prompt, generate, watch you're now inside the world, guiding it as it happens.

AI video is quietly becoming something you walk through, not just watch.

Try it Now:[https://t.co/jvEZZB1ZWR]

#PixVerse R2

[Roha Shah @tech_feel_roha]

Good Morning, AI Enthusiasts!

The frontier used to live inside the model.

Now it’s leaking into infrastructure, commerce, and occasionally traffic cones.

The interesting part? AI is becoming a system, not just a model.🧵

[Ivan AI @ivan_ai_world]

@_evon3929 Bill splitting directly in Wallet could save a lot of unnecessary back-and-forth.

[Evon @_evon3929]

iOS 27 dropped 9 days ago. Hundreds of millions of iPhones updated.

Most people noticed one thing: Siri looks different. Then they went back to using their phone exactly the same way.

A former Apple software engineer who spent 4 years on the iOS team told me: "Every year, Apple ships 200+ changes inside a single update. The keynote covers 10 of them. The press covers 5. The average user discovers 2. The other 190 sit there — unused, unopened, invisible — for the next 12 months until the next update buries them even deeper."

"iOS 27 is the biggest iPhone update in 3 years. Siri AI got all the headlines. But underneath the Siri news, Apple shipped features that make your apps launch 30% faster, your photos load 70% faster, your AirDrop transfer 80% faster. They added a tool that lets you adjust how the entire interface looks with a single slider. A Safari feature that alerts you when a product drops in price. A way to create automations by describing them in plain English. A separate volume control for alarms. A bill-splitting tool in your Wallet. And a drawing app hidden inside iMessage."

"Nobody's talking about any of it — because Siri AI consumed every headline."

"Siri is important. But these 12 features change how you use your iPhone every single day — starting tonight."

Here are 12 iOS 27 features most iPhone owners updated past without ever discovering:🧵👇

[Viora Tech @Viora_Tech_Ai]

Costco has 135 million members. Most of them walk the same loop every weekend samples, rotisserie chicken, toilet paper, checkout. They think that's Costco.

It's not. That's 20% of Costco.

A guy worked at Costco for 8 years 3 on the floor, 3 as a supervisor, 2 in membership services. He told me something that should make every Costco member open their account tonight:

"The Executive Membership costs $130/year. Most members upgraded because someone at the register asked them to. They said yes. They've been paying it ever since. And they've never once checked what it actually includes."

"Right now on the membership you're already paying for you have a 2% annual reward on every purchase up to $1,250 back. Most members have a check sitting at the membership desk they've never picked up. Literal money. With their name on it. Waiting."

"But the 2% cashback is the part everyone knows about. It's the 9 things nobody knows about that add up to $1,370/year."

"Your Executive Membership includes discounted auto insurance most members don't know Costco sells. Home insurance. Life insurance. All negotiated at group rates that beat your current provider by 20–40%. You've been paying full price at State Farm while Costco had a better rate sitting in your membership this entire time."

"Your membership includes a pharmacy that's 30–50% cheaper than CVS and Walgreens and non-members can use it too. But Executive Members get additional pharmacy discounts most people never activate."

"Your membership includes an optical department cheaper than every chain in America. An exam plus frames plus lenses for less than what LensCrafters charges for frames alone."

"Your membership includes a travel service that consistently undercuts Expedia and Kayak on vacation packages, rental cars, and cruises. Members have saved $500–$2,000 on a single trip through a booking page they didn't know existed on Costco's website."

"Your membership includes free tire installation, rotation, balancing, flat repair, and inflation checks for the life of the tire when you buy tires from Costco. Most members buy tires at Discount Tire and pay for every service separately."

"Your membership includes discounted pet insurance most pet owners have never seen."

"And every single price tag in the store is telling you a secret you've been walking past for years."

"An asterisk means the item is discontinued buy it now or it's gone forever. A price ending in .97 means it's been marked down by a manager. A price ending in .00 means it's been clearanced to the lowest it will ever go. A price ending in .88 or .49 means the manufacturer is subsidizing the discount."

"135 million members. Walking the same loop. Grabbing the same items. Paying the same membership. Using 20% of it. Costco isn't hiding these benefits. Members just never look past the checkout line."

Here are 10 Costco membership benefits most members have never used and exactly how to activate each one today:

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