Nevermind guys. I figured it out. The problem was I needed to use two fingers, not three, four, and certainly not five.
Now, seeing that this is been an ongoing problem for several months but that is totally baffled me, I am feeling pretty stupid. Oh well, live and learn I guess, ha ha? Chris. On Jul 17, 2013, at 5:25, "Chris Gilland" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 orie ntation, 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. > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that > the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security > strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something > unpredictable happen. > > Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by > visiting the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
