Thanks Richard, this is what I hope is a go between. I'm trying to help
someone that can't use the on screen keyboard, doesn't have a bluetooth
keyboard and needs to confirm or deny such text messages if help isn't
around. I'll do some experimenting with this and hopefully I can come up
with
It seems that I recall something like a spell command, buried in the Siri
commands.
I do not recall how that would be done with a single letter.
Perhaps a call to Apple Accessibility?
Richard
Linus to Charlie Brown: "Worrying won't stop the bad stuff from happening, it
just stops you from
I didn't ask about typing in the single letter confirmations that's only
obvious, I asked how people get around inserting the single letter
confirmations using dictation.
Take care. Mike. Sent from my iBarstool.
*My body has absorbed so much soap and disinfectant lately that when I pee
it
In that instance, I'd just type the letter or word. I mean, it isn't
that hard to type a y or a c on the iPhone
On 5/9/20, Mike B. wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Running iOS 13.4.1 on an SE 2020 phone, but I don't think what phone
> matters. When you get one of those text messages that requires a
>
I’m looking for something that would be useful on say a 100 or 200 mile hike in
the woods, say At trail. Either something GPS locations can be added to or if
possible even have it follow us on a map to indicate if we are on the trail.
I’m new at this so not sure what is the most helpful.
Perhaps sending a quick note to the app developer might either help you find
the fix or express the need for the feature to be reinstated if it really isn't
there any more. If you tap contact us (think it is in settings) you'll get an
email address . I wrote once just passing on a couple of
Hi All,
Running iOS 13.4.1 on an SE 2020 phone, but I don't think what phone
matters. When you get one of those text messages that requires a
confirmation reply, like a doctor's appointment, and you only need to insert
a single letter like, C, to confirm, Y, for yes, or an, N, for no ...,
I don't want to make a big deal of this but here's what I did.
Opened the app. My town showed. I tapped on it and went into the area where
favorite and recent places are located. That's where the activate button is
located. Follow me toggle used to be there. Tapped on activate and went into
Thanks Richard. Maybe activating follow me with toggle. Will let you know.
From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Richard
Turner
Sent: Saturday, May 9, 2020 21:00
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Weather Gods app question
I just opened Weather Gods, went into the settings,
I just opened Weather Gods, went into the settings, double tapped on activate,
and there are options to allow Siri and Search, Follow Me, and something else.
I did not tap on Follow me, but maybe if you go back there from the beginning,
it will offer to stop following?
Or go into the Privacy
This old lady is not happy. I'm not old either!
Most of you know about my Voice Over issue. That's okay now. I had to delete
and redownload Weather Gods which is working great but for one thing. I
found an option to activate but it didn't say what would activate. Being the
curious type, I
O I use a 10W wireless charger from Belkon,
Not sure I’m really a fan of it but it’s the best I could find at the time.
From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Malcolm
Parfitt
Sent: Sunday, 10 May 2020 12:26 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Anker wired fast charging option for
For non-established trails, are you looking for bread crumb navigation?
Prominent survival bloggers have evaluated iPhones and $500 Garman
navigation devices in places without cell signals and found both offer
the same level of accuracy. Realize though, calling the iPhone’s
navigation capability
Hey Group,
Hope you’re well. I’m looking for a audio media player for my phone that will
allow me to create playlists and adjust playback speeds to at least 3X. I tried
VLC and while I was able to make a single playlist, I can’t figure out how to
replicate the task to make additional
Hi Richard:
I have the XS phone. I don’t think I have closed the apps from the app
switcher, I’ll give that a try. Thanks
From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Richard
Turner
Sent: Saturday, May 9, 2020 4:29 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Using he calendar in the
Which phone?
And, have you made sure all the other apps are closed out of the app switcher
and rebooted the phone?
I have the most recent update and it works fine.
Richard
"There's a nap for that." - an anonymous cat in a window in Portland, Oregon.
From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf
Hi Richard:
I would say it is not so busy, four or five appointments a day. What is
interesting in couple of months ago this was never an issue, it started to
happen with more recent app updates. It can take some time up to three to four
minutes before I am able to use the app, in fact, I
Yes, if I open the folder where the app is and double tap on it, it launches.
It’s very strange how some apps don’t launch, and others do.
Sent from my iPhone
> On May 9, 2020, at 1:13 PM, Arnold Schmidt wrote:
>
> Will it launch if you double tap its icon? If so, in my opinion, that would
Well, I don't use it often, but I had not noticed that.
I just opened it, and it worked immediately.
Do you have an extremely busy calendar that might take a while to load?
Richard
Linus to Charlie Brown: "Worrying won't stop the bad stuff from happening, it
just stops you from enjoying the
Will it launch if you double tap its icon? If so, in my opinion, that would be
better than losing a bunch of settings or data if you have to reinstall it. If
it will launch, just move its icon to a very easily found place. I assume you
have restarted your phone since this problem started.
Hi all:
If you use the Outlook app for an Exchange email account, have you noticed that
in the last few updates of the app, each time you go to the calendar the app
freezes for a very long time before Voiceover become usable again?
Thanks
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Nope. Not in the cloud. It’s just that Siri comes back and says she can’t find
an app with that name. She even has suggested I spell it, which I have. She
still can’t find it. So, I think I have to uninstall. It’s not the only one
that won’t be launched by Siri. But it is the one I use a lot
Is that app saying something like in the Cloud when you touch the icon?
You may indeed have to start over, which is a pain.
Richard
"There's a nap for that." - an anonymous cat in a window in Portland, Oregon.
From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Mary
Otten
Sent: Saturday, May 9,
Hi Richard,
I hadn’t actually tried clearing out the ram, but I did that this morning, and
some apps are still not launching. Others are. I have no idea what could be
going on. I suppose in the case of this one that I really like to use a lot, I
will have to try reinstalling it. That’s kind of
I’m looking for info on both established trails but also less established ones.
And if a iPhone is not as strong as a designated receiver I’m ok with looking
into that.
Those with experience hiking with GPS, I’m hoping have some good advice to
share.
Eric
> On May 9, 2020, at 11:33 AM,
Kelly is right, it would be better for the friend to join the list; but beyond
that, one of the first things you are presented with when you first use any GPS
app, is the warning to not rely solely on a GPS device.
Anyone who does so, is asking to get lost or worse.
Perhaps a call to Aira, since
Well, that is why I avoid Facebook.
Wouldn't touch it personally.
Richard
Linus to Charlie Brown: "Worrying won't stop the bad stuff from happening, it
just stops you from enjoying the good."
Sent with the iPhone SE 2020
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On May 9, 2020, at 11:55 AM, Anne West wrote:
Please ask your friend to join this list. Then he can interact with
us and present his issue directly. Often, a third party’s question or
concern is either not fully understood or articulated.
Kelly
Oops! Facebook strikes again. It’s a good service. My late husband planned a
huge high school reunion on it but spent a lot of time cleaning viruses from
Facebook on his computer. Wow! So many things happen caused by Facebook. I
wonder why?
From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of
Thanks for the info. I’m not on Facebook but now I know the cause.
From: 'Maria Reyes' via VIPhone
Sent: Friday, May 8, 2020 22:18
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: An experience you don't want and some of you had
I haven't encountered this issue, but I heard that it had to do
Hello, I have a question on GPS Apps. Using Blind square, or any of the Apps,
I noticed that sometimes the direction will say, 100 feet to your right or left
or whatever it is. Sometimes the left or right is correct but, is there a way
to know for sure if it is left or right? If you are
Google Maps includes bike and hiking trails so it can offer turn by
turn directions on these. Would you be on designated trails or hiking
in areas off trail?
Kelly
https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email_source=link_campaign=sig-email_content=webmail_term=icon;
No, well, at least I don't think so. What I am looking for are podcasts. There
are a couple of free podcasts I was getting using Accessible Podcatcher, and
they are now only availible on Spotify, meaning, of course, the feed has
changed.
I don't like listening to these podcasts through the app
weird thing is happening to me as well. I made a donation to a charity, and
after this, my speech is very slow on my iPhone. I usually have it at 70%, but
when I try to raise it or lower it, it doesn't work. Yet, when I go onto a
particular game site for the blind, my speech is fine. It speaks
I have just reported it to apple. She didn’t saw it on her phone for some
reason.
But she submit the request
Sent from my Iphone
> On 9 May 2020, at 17:24, Richard Turner wrote:
>
>
> I misspoke, in the past, a two finger flick up would only read the body of
> the email.
> Now it just
I misspoke, in the past, a two finger flick up would only read the body of the
email.
Now it just makes that sound indicating you cannot do that.
The back button is always in the top left corner.
Also, the Scrub gesture will activate the back button.
Put two fingers on the screen, and scrub back
Hi, it can be reported?
Sent from my Iphone
> On 9 May 2020, at 16:50, Richard Turner wrote:
>
> That is a bug in iOS 13.
>
>
> Richard
> Linus to Charlie Brown: "Worrying won't stop the bad stuff from happening, it
> just stops you from enjoying the good."
>
> Sent with the iPhone SE
Hi,
Do you mean playlists?
Sent from my Iphone
> On 9 May 2020, at 16:13, Vicki W. wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know how to save Spotify files from the desktop app to the
> computer, that is download them from Spotify on to the computer? from either
> the computer or the IOS device
That is a bug in iOS 13.
Richard
Linus to Charlie Brown: "Worrying won't stop the bad stuff from happening, it
just stops you from enjoying the good."
Sent with the iPhone SE 2020
www.turner42.com
On May 9, 2020, at 5:49 AM, Afik Souffir wrote:
Hi, when swiping up in message with two
Hi,
Does anyone know how to save Spotify files from the desktop app to the
computer, that is download them from Spotify on to the computer? from either
the computer or the IOS device
Thanks.
Vicki
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10 Watts is fine, I assumed you were using a 5 Watt stock Apple charger
Malcolm Parfitt
> On 9 May 2020, at 13:07, Simon A Fogarty wrote:
>
>
> What,
> 10watts isn’t enough.
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of
> Malcolm Parfitt
> Sent: Saturday, 9 May 2020 11:33 PM
> To:
What,
10watts isn’t enough.
From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Malcolm
Parfitt
Sent: Saturday, 9 May 2020 11:33 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Anker wired fast charging option for iPhone
My understanding is that it does. However you will need to upgrade your charger
to
Ummm actually a three finger double tap turns / mutes voiceover on the phone,
A three finger triple tap turns on / off screen curtain.
From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Mike B.
Sent: Saturday, 9 May 2020 3:25 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Lost speech with voiceover on
My understanding is that it does. However you will need to upgrade your charger
to take advantage of the higher rated wireless devices.
Malcolm Parfitt
> On 9 May 2020, at 12:24, Simon A Fogarty wrote:
>
>
> Just a simple question,
>
> Does the iPhone sE 2020 use wireless charging?
>
>
Just a simple question,
Does the iPhone sE 2020 use wireless charging?
I just notice everyone talking of the fast charging using wires.
But what about wireless charging.
From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Mary
Otten
Sent: Saturday, 9 May 2020 7:53 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Hi Tracey,
I connected a USB hub to my iPad pro and got extra ports, but not a dock and or
used the pad as a monitor
As for the two keyboard
Can't see why not,
I have 2 bluetooth keyboards connected to my iPad mini 5 and they both work,
Although it seems like they confuse things for the pad
Hello Robert and Richard
Richard mentions a setting. Where is it?
Regards
Fanus
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Robert Doc wright
Sent: Saturday, May 9, 2020 11:04 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Apple devices and bluetooth
This works with my iPad when its connected to my Bose soundlink revolve.
**
If we don't take time to think before we speak we may find ourselves in a
situation where our speech becomes a bit stinky!
- Original Message -
From: Richard Turner
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
I have been running a list for beta testers for almost 2 years, and have never
had any issues. As long as you are not discussing beta features with non beta
users, you are good. Info is below
Are you testing an apple beta? want to discuss bugs with other testers? Then
come join a friendly,
Have you tried a 2 finger swipe down, to get Voiceover to read the screen. Then
pressing the volume up button.
Sometimes, Voice over can get knocked down to zero, which doesn’t affect siri
speech.
Dave.
From: ann...@sbcglobal.net
Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2020 3:30 AM
To:
Yeah, the same happend with Dice World.
But, i received a notification from Dice World, saying it was a FaceBook issue.
Now all seems to be good again.
Dave.
From: 'Maria Reyes' via VIPhone
Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2020 3:18 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: An experience you
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