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Shake to Print

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We’re going way back for this one. The easiest way to explain it is by refreshing your memory on Apple’s “shake to shuffle” feature, which would shuffle your music when you jiggled your iPhone or iPod (RIP, by the way). With shake to print, you would physically flip or shake your device to enable or disable certain printing features.

It sounds silly but…ok yeah, this is now and was then a pretty stupid idea. Apple clearly agreed, as the feature never went from paper to product. I can see a couple of smiling Apple engineers reminiscing over how bizarre this concept was. If only we could shake to delete it.