Hi Marlaina,
I always feel as though I should write the 3 finger flick instructions
as "3 finger swipe", because you need to make sure that this is a
deliberate gesture, with your fingers well separated, and your fingers
traveling in a horizontal direction to the right or left for at least
a minimal time so that the device registers the gesture correctly.
When I first got my iPod Touch, I initially had a little difficulty
getting this gesture to work reproducibly, and ended up rotating my
iPod Touch 90 degrees to landscape mode (don't laugh!) and doing a 3
finger swipe down to make sure I was scrolling. Then I rotated the
iPod Touch back to portrait mode to do the same gesture and made sure
that I was swiping horizontally. It's now second nature to keep my
fingers far enough apart to register as a sideways scroll, and to move
them in the right direction. I guess the other place you might notice
the problem with scrolling is moving between different pages of apps
on your iPhone.
I enjoyed reading your statements about the MacBook Air. Enjoy it!
Cheers,
Esther
On Nov 7, 2010, at 14:55, Marlaina Lieberg wrote:
Esther,
As usual, your directions are wonderful. I just got a replacement
iPhone 4, my first one just died one day but I have Apple Care
thankfully. Anyway, I'm now finding that the 3 finger flick left or
right is hardly working very well. I'm going to keep experimenting
to see if I can get this to work again in the weather app. I'm only
noticing it in weather; 'tis an odd one indeed!
Marlaina
On Nov 7, 2010, at 4:35 PM, Esther wrote:
Hi Allison and Others,
I also use the Australian voice (Karen) on my iPhone, although I'm
in the U.S. The weather app reports for whatever location you set,
regardless of the voice you use or the region format that you chose
in Settings > General > International > Region Format. You'll have
to add your city (and optionally delete the ones that are in the
app, if you don't want to hear those weather reports).
To add the city or cities of your choice for weather reporting:
1. Double tap the "Edit Cities" button in the bottom right corner of
your screen.
2. You'll be on a screen called "Weather" with focus on the "Add"
button in the top left corner. If you flick right or do a two
finger flick down "Read All" gesture you'll hear a list of city
locations currently selected for your weather app. One of these
will be Cupertino in California, headquarters of Apple. If you want
to delete any of the existing entries, just double tap the button to
the left of the listed city you want to remove. For example,
VoiceOver will say "Delete Cupertino, switch button off, double tap
to toggle setting" before the listing for the first item,
Cupertino. If you double tap the switch button, a "Delete" button
will appear to the right of the entry and receive focus, and
VoiceOver will say, "Confirm deletion for Cupertino". If you double
tap that button (or anywhere on the screen, since that button has
focus), the entry for Cupertino will be deleted.
3. To add your city, you want to double tap the "Add" button in the
top left corner. When you do, you'll be in a text box, and be
prompted to "Type a city, state, or zip code".
4. Type in a zip code. If you move your finger down from the search
box, you'll find a suggested city match. Double tap it and that city
will be added to the end of the list of cities when you are returned
to the "Weather" screen. If you want to rearrange the order in which
cities are displayed, touch or flick right to the right side of the
screen beside a city entry. You'll hear VoiceOver say "Reorder
<name of city> button, draggable, double tap and hold, wait for the
sound, then drag to rearrange."
5. If you want to move your city to the top of the list, use the
double tap and hold pass through gesture on the reordering button.
(Again, you can execute the pass through gesture anywhere on the
screen, if you first touched or flicked to that button so that it
has focus.) Keep your finger against the screen until you hear the
burbling sound of the pass through gesture, then move your finger up
to place the city in the position you want before lifting your
finger from the screen. You'll hear VoiceOver update the position
as you shift your finger position (e.g. "moved above Cupertino").
You can keep shifting cities until you get them ordered as you like.
6. You can also change your selection to report in either degrees
Fahrenheit or degrees Celsius by double tapping one of the two
buttons at the bottom of the Weather screen.
7. When you've finished selecting and ordering the cities for which
you want weather reports, double tap the "Done" button in the top
right corner of the screen. You'll be taken back to the weather
page for your cities.
8. If you have more than one city selected for weather reports, use
a three finger flick right or left to scroll between the entries.
VoiceOver will say, "Showing city 1 of 3", "Showing city 2 of 3",
etc. or however many cities you have configured.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Nov 7, 2010, at 3:33 PM, Allison Manzino wrote:
Hi Bryan and all,
I have Karen on now and the weather app thinks I'm I'n Australia.
Even when I changed the region to US. it still thinks w are I'n
Australia. It's no hat big of a deal but can this be fixed? Thank
you for all your assistance I really appreciate it. Have a great day
Senty.
Happilly,
Allison from my iPhone
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