Apple Watch alerts

Apple Watch users, I am no longer able to edit the alarms in the Apple Watch, have anyone else noticed this, or do anyone have a workaround for this? Sent from my iPhone -- The following information is important for all members of the VIPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about

Re: Lightning Cable Keyboard

I doubt it. If I understand correctly, people that use refreshable braille displays with their iPhones aren't experiencing the same kinds of problems as people using Bluetooth keyboards. Also, the connection type is totally different than Bluetooth for these lightning keyboards. You never know,

RE: Up to date Bluetooth keyboard commands for iOS

I did. I don't think they have put it up yet. Richard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Gmail Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 4:11 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Up to date Bluetooth keyboard commands for

RE: Up to date Bluetooth keyboard commands for iOS

I can't get any information from that page. It seems to be very graphics oriented or something. Anyone found anything about keyboard commands? Richard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of gs Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015

Re: Lightning Cable Keyboard

One of the questions that was asked and answered, either on the Apple Store or Amazon, I forget which, said that this keyboard from Belkin will in fact work with an iPhone. Mary Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 24, 2015, at 4:04 PM, Gmail wrote: > > Do you think these

Re: All these wonderful perplexing devices

I don't know if this will help you any, but somewhere in the accessibility settings is a switch to make print bold. You also might want to give Zoom a try. You can find that in the accessibility settings under the vision heading. Thanks, Ari > On Sep 24, 2015, at 3:50 PM, Christopher Moss

RE: Battery drain since recent update

Hi Mary, There is not much to mess with, all you do is go to Settings > General > Reset, double tap on Reset Network Settings and confirm. Your phone will reboot, after you unlock/enter your passcode you simply go back to Settings > WiFi, connect to your WiFi (enter your password) and it's

Re: Lightning Cable Keyboard

Do you think these keyboards with work on iPhone as well as an iPad? I know that the new iPhones and new iPads have the same lightning connector, but I know that there are some things that are iPad-specific, i.e., The camera connector kit that was iPad-specific, and couldn't be used on iPhones.

names being dimmed in contacts

Hey guys, Alright, this is extremely odd. It's happening to random people and i ahve no idea why. I went in to the messages app, clicked compose, add contact, then searched for my friend. When i found him, it said his name, dimmed. Basicly, it meant it was dimmed out. So, i figured ok,

Re: item chooser

To bring up the item chooser just do a two finger triple tap. The item chooser takes the items on the screen and list them in alphabetical order. Just flick through the list and double tap on the one you want. Hope this helps. Chris > On Sep 24, 2015, at 9:16 PM, Robbie Miller

Re: item chooser

The Item Chooser also has a "search" option, allowing you to look for a word or phrase on the page loaded into Safari. As you type letters, the contents of this area changes. You can flick from choice to choice. When you find the one you want, doubl-tap it, and you will be taken to the portion of

Erasing a stubborn iPhone 4

Hi all, I'll likely be trading in my iPhone 5 *and* iPhone 4 tomorrow for the 6S Plus. As part of that, I need to erase them and remove them from Find my iPhone, so they don't appear and Activation Lock can be disabled. The 5 is fine, it's the 4 that's the problem. I don't know what passcode I

Audio Demonstration of the iPhone 6s Plus

Hi everyone, This morning I received my iPhone 6s Plus. I've put together a 30 minute podcast detailing my initial impressions. It includes an explanation of a Siri bug unique to the new phones, and a demonstration of 3d Touch. You can listen to the demonstration here

Re: Apple Watch alerts

work around: ask siri to do it. Really works great. Change my 5:30 alarm to 6 am, or something like that. -Original Message- From: Thomas Williams Sent: Friday, September 25, 2015 1:08 AM To: via VIPhone Subject: Apple Watch alerts Apple Watch users, I am no longer able to edit the

Re: Ios9 no longer reports number of Messages in thread

I use threading all of the time. I just find it a more efficient way to handle messages, and the Mail app in conjunction with VoiceOver does a great job with threading. You're right, the problem is that we used to see how many messages were in the thread when we were in the mail box view

Re: Cooking with terabytes

hahahahahahahhaa. sorry but that's pretty funny! At 02:52 PM 9/21/2015, you wrote: I think one of the old bloopers goes back to DOS and early Dolphin screen reader, used a lot by physiotherapists. Which got pronounced physio-the-rapist. - Original Message - From: "Jonathan Mosen"

Facetime Is Missing

Hi. My girlfriend has an iPhone 6 running IOS 9.0, as I do. I don't know how this happened or when, but the Facetime app is missing from her phone and we can't find it anywhere. I've gone through all of her home screens and various folders, and tried finding it using spotlight search, with

Updating The Phone Creates Unresolvable errors

Every had tried to update through iTunes from my backup, it would say backup and restore and each time an error came up unab le to restore pease update and try again. This continued in a circle as it were. When doing the restart through home and power, I got the prompt to plug into iTunes. This

Erasing iPhone 5, and removing it from my account?

Hi all, The iPhone 4 has been resolved--I'd lent it to my mother and forgotten, so that explains the different passcode. Now I'm getting ready to erase my own iPhone, a 5, after doing a full backup. What I'm wondering is: will doing this remove it from my account? I ran into a situation last

AmazonBasics Bluetooth keyboard, working, but who in h___ knows why

I think David's note got me going in a track that ended up getting this keyboard working, but honestly, I have no bloody idea what actually did the trick. First, I tried turning off quick nav even though VoiceOver said it was off. That turned it back on. So, no go. I turned VoiceOver off and

RE: All these wonderful perplexing devices

Hi, If you don’t want to use VoiceOver and have everything speak to you but would rather use your vision, you want to turn on Zoom in Settings, General Accessibility, Zoom. Zoom magnifies everything on the screen. I’m going to paste in some basic instructions on how to use Zoom. Feel free

RE: Apple Watch alerts

Yes, after updating to OS2. I was on the phone yesterday with Apple Accessibility. After about an hour, they decided to escalate the issue and sent it on to engineering. I understand I may hear back from them tomorrow evening some time. Keith -Original Message- From:

warning about restoring transferring purchases

Hello all, I am struggling with iTunes. I am trying to restore my phone from a backup, but I get a warning stating there are purchases on my phone that have not been backed up. Using Jaws 16 and Windows 7. How do I find and enable this option? Thanks. -- The following information is

Re: Updating The Phone Creates Unresolvable errors

Hi, sounds similar to my problem. Only way I got it fixed was to completely wipe the phone by putting it in to recovery mode. Max. > On 25 Sep 2015, at 11:00 am, Brian Albriton wrote: > > Every had tried to update through iTunes from my backup, it would say > backup and

Re: Erasing a stubborn iPhone 4

I would put it in recovery mode, then restore it. This will not require it to be out of iCloud, and it will erase all data if you restore as new. > On Sep 24, 2015, at 10:06 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > > Hi all, > I'll likely be trading in my iPhone 5 *and* iPhone 4 tomorrow

Re: Updating The Phone Creates Unresolvable errors

I had this problem on my iPhone 4S. Click the restore button instead of the update button and your phone will be restored to factory settings with IOS 9 installed. You can then restore your last backup and sync your content and you'll be good to go. On 09/24/2015 08:00 PM, Brian Albriton

Re: iOS 9.01 is out

I'm not sure how anyone but someone working for Apple in IOS development could know this for sure. Plus, I'm pretty sure in IOS 8, we saw a critical VoiceOver bug fixed in one of the very first dot releases. On 09/24/2015 09:31 AM, Davy Cuppens wrote: There are no bug fixes at all for

Re: Erasing iPhone 5, and removing it from my account?

According to an article I read recently, just erasing your iPhone is not going to do it. You have to do some getting rid of iTunes account and iCloud account. I will see if I can find the link for that and post it here. Mary Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 24, 2015, at 9:21 PM, Alex Hall

Re: Lightning Cable Keyboard

Oh well Andrew, I have no idea about customs charges. I suppose you are right, and that is why they have a UK store. So the Amazon UK store has none of those keyboards. How weird. Mary Sent from my iPad > On Sep 24, 2015, at 10:28 PM, Andrew Lamanche wrote: > > Ah, yes,

RE: warning about restoring transferring purchases

Got it, thanks. Amy From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Richard Turner Sent: Friday, September 25, 2015 12:45 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: warning about restoring transferring purchases To transfer purchases, while the phone is

RE: Time doesn't show on locked screen any more after upgrade to 9.01

Hello Andrew, I cannot reproduce your findings. VoiceOver does, indeed, announce the time, as it has always done, upon pressing the power button on both my 6 Plus and 5 S running iOS 9.01. Mark -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On

How-To: Safely prepare + wipe your iPhone for resale or trade-in | 9to5Mac

http://9to5mac.com/2015/08/25/how-to-safely-prepare-wipe-your-iphone-for-resale-trade-in/ Sent from my iPhone -- The following information is important for all members of the VIPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's

Re: Lightning Cable Keyboard

It seems that these keyboards with lightning connection are not available in the UK. Shame! Andrew > On 24 Sep 2015, at 23:25, Richard Turner wrote: > > I just did a search on Amazon and Logitech has one as well. It doesn't > mention a stand. The price on that

Re: Lightning Cable Keyboard

Hi Andrew, This is probably a stupid question, but did you try the Amazon UK store? I found two or three of them there. In the US store of course. Mary Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 24, 2015, at 10:20 PM, Andrew Lamanche wrote: > > It seems that these keyboards with lightning

Re: Lightning Cable Keyboard

Ah, yes, Mary, I found the keyboards in Amazon.com in the US but are we able to buy them in the UK? Won't there be customs charges? Andrew > On 25 Sep 2015, at 06:23, Mary Otten wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > This is probably a stupid question, but did you try the Amazon UK

Re: iOS 9.01 and External Bluetooth Keyboards

Hi Chris Please report any problems like this with your bluetooth keyboard to accessibil...@apple.com. It's really important that as many people report it as possible in the hope that Apple might actually listen to us, take the problems seriously, and actually do something about fixing it.

Re: Battery drain since recent update

Hi Richard, I didn't think to check privacy and location, so I will go do that now. Also cellular, but I have been in there a lot recently, and I don't think anything is on that shouldn't be. Mary Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 24, 2015, at 8:53 AM, Richard Turner

Re: iOS 9.01 and External Bluetooth Keyboards

Hi, I was getting double characters when I pasted text in using Tye2Phone in iOS 9, but I'm not having that problem with 9.0.1, so I do think they fixed at least some issues with Bluetooth keyboards. Best, Anna > On Sep 24, 2015, at 10:30 AM, Chris Smart wrote: > >

Re: Lightning Cable Keyboard

Are the keys on this keyboard programmed such that they will do the Mac things like command control and option, rather than the windows things? I know that if you have certain windows keyboards and connect them to a Mac, those keys don't work right. Mary Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 24, 2015,

RE: IOS 9 and big brotherly attitude of Apple

not to mention, Canadians can join Bookshare too. Then there's iBooks, Kindle, Voice Dream Reader, etc. We've never had access to so many books! At 05:30 PM 9/20/2015, you wrote: As a Canadian I usually don’t read threads about BARD, but while the CNIB library may not have all the newest

RE: Facetime Is Missing

How did you look for it, maybe it ended up in some folder. Easiest way to find it is to use Spotlight search and look for "Facetime". If you have handwriting in your rotor, you can also turn the rotor to handwriting when you are on the home screen and write an "F", Facetime should be there as

Re: NEW EDITING FEATURE - LOVE IT!

Hi. I'm really jazzed about the text selection feature in IOS 9, this feature is HUGE! I've used it to extract content from web pages in Safari and paste it into notes, and also to paste into e-mails. See my most recent post about missing facetime. As for using that editing feature to

Re: Battery Dead When Plugged In

Something similar happened with my wife’s iPhone, and the problem turned out to be with the electrical outlet. Andy From: Feliciano Godoy Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 6:46 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Battery Dead When Plugged In Interesting. Do a hard reset by holding

Re: Some odd behavior in Voice Dream Reader.

This behavior is not occurring in other file types, just in mp3 files. Thanks, Ari > On Sep 24, 2015, at 12:16 PM, Gmail wrote: > > When playing an mp3 (I haven't tested to see if this happens with other file > types yet) and I create a bookmark, instead of having

RE: Battery drain since recent update

Hi Andrew, It messes up nothing with respect to cellular or carrier settings. The only two things you have to do is reconnect to your WiFi which means of course you hve to know and enter the password if your WiFi is protected as it most likely is. Also, if you have changed the name of your

Re: Up to date Bluetooth keyboard commands for iOS

I remember viewing a manual for iOS eight on Apple's website at one point through Safari, and somewhere on the page was a link or button or something to bring up a version of the manual that was more accessible via the web. You might want to take a look for something like that on that page.

Re: Lightning Cable Keyboard

Hello, Can anyone tell me if the issues present with the Bluetooth keyboards and I OS 9 are also present with the lightning keyboards and iOS nine? Nancy Badger, Ph.D Assistant Vice Chancellor, Student Services UT Chattanooga Sent from my iPhone with dictation software. Please excuse spelling

RE: Facetime Is Missing

Indeed. Handwriting is an awsome tool for quickly looking for an app. It's got to be on the phone. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 5:37 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com

Re: Battery drain since recent update

If you have information stored about multiple wifi networks then you'll have to readd all of these networks after resetting your network connections. This shouldn't keep you from taking Sieghard's advice, but it may be a bit tedious if you're frequently connecting to multiple wifis. On

Re: Facetime Is Missing

Hi Sieghard. As I said in my post, i'd perused all of her home screens, including a variety of folders, and I used Spotlight Search, with no luck. So I did a Google search to see why it might be missing and how to get it back. As the following article will show, I think she turned on

item chooser

Hello all, Can anyone tell me how to bring up the item chooser, and how to use it? Are there any podcasts on how to use the item chooser? Thanks in advance. Robbie millerrob...@comcast.net -- The following information is important for all members of the VIPhone list. If you have any

my braille is working

Rebecca and Zeb email: rilni...@gmail.com Hi all. For those of you who are having difficulty with using your braille display go into your braille settings and make sure yr automatic braille translation is on. After I did that all is now working. Mine was off before. -- The following

Re: warning about restoring transferring purchases

To transfer purchases, while the phone is connected to the computer with iTunes running, hit alt-F to bring down the file menu, then arrow to devices. Right arrow then down arrow to transfer purchases. HTH Richard > On Sep 24, 2015, at 7:11 PM, Amy Ruel wrote: > > Hello

Time doesn't show on locked screen any more after upgrade to 9.01

Hello, I've just updated my iPhone 5C to the latest OS 9.01. The curious thing is that since then I can't see the time showing on the locked screen as I push the power button. I'm baffled. Up till now, I used to push the power button and Voiceover would give me the time. Now it doesn't and

Re: Ios9 no longer reports number of Messages in thread

I'd like to see them change this behavior back to what it previously was, but I'd also like to see the behavior return that told you the email subject, then the number of unread messages, instead of listing the names of the people in the thread, then the subject, then the number of messages.

How to Rename an iOS Device in iTunes 12.3 for Windows Using Jaws for Windows 16.x or Later

Hello Everyone, After a recent thread in which I posted that a person using a screen magnifier can rename an iOS device in iTunes 12.3 for Windows, I decided to determine how such a task may be performed using a screen reader, in this case, Jaws for Windows version 16. Before I begin, let me say

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