OK, a lot of you have told me that you can do a penching gesture to select
and unselect text if I need to copy something directly from a web page or
from an e-mail. I'm just not seeming on my IPhone 5 to have any luck with
this at all. I've tried and tried and tried, and it just doesn't work. I'm
taking my right thumb, putting it almost completely touching my other 4
fingers on my right hand, and then very slowly am moving my 4 fingers twoard
the top speaker part of the phone, moving upward toward the status bar at
the top of the screen, while I'm letting my thumb kind a slide downward if
you will from the place it was more toward the mouthpiece near the bottom of
the screen. More easily explained, I'm basically spreading my thumb down
away from my other 4 fingers which are touching on the screen. This is not
selecting anything though when I do this. If anything, it's having no
effect at all. Someone told me actually, I need to do this gesture while in
landscape orientation, not while in portrait, but both ways, it's not
working. Yes, I am certain that my orientation wasn't locked to portrait.
I am a very very low partial, but I have just enough vision to see that I
could easily tell that the phone definitely was rotated to landscape. I
tried it both with the home key on my left, and again with it on my right.
Again, I tried it in portrait with the home key toward me, and again with it
pointing out away from me. Basically, I've turned the phone in all 4
directions possible. I even have tried penching with my thumb, index, and
middle fingers only. I've tried with my thumb, index, middle, and ring
only. then finally I tried with all 5, my thumb, index, middle, ring, and!
pinki. Never penching together nor moving apart has worked.I just wonder if
someone could tell me step by step how to do this to insure that it
definitely! will work. In explaining, can you give me a very specific
exercize to try, and tell me within that exercize step by step what you want
me to do, so that I can get the hang of this? If I need first to slide with
one finger around the screen and locate the line of text first that I want
to start selecting from, then you need to tell me that in my directions.
Don't assume that I know what I'm doing, as I obviously don't. Be as
detailed, and as specific as you can possibly be. Pretend you're talking to
a dummy. LOL! Not really, but, yeah...
This is IOS 6.1.4, on an IPhone 5.
Chris.
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