There are very few people who have such battery issues and doing a few simple
preparations before you upgrade like making sure all apps are closed and
turning your phone off and back on reduce the likelyhood even further. Apart
from that I certainly enjoy how snappy iOS 12 is on my iPhone 6S
I have had no issues with SIRI like what you described.
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Anthony
Vece
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 3:24 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Siri very sluggish in IOS12
I have the same experience with my iPhone
Hi Richard,
I have a 6S Plus and this has happened to me as well.
Just now I tested it and when I first tap on Create New Contact the first name
field had focus and was in editing mode, the keyboard was on the screen but
when I typed something I got the bong sound. However, when I double tapped
I also have an iPhone SE and find that Seri is not only sluggish, it
sometimes doesn't answer and I have to check the screen to find out whether
I got a response for simple things like setting timer, etc.
Also, I am finding that screen response to gestures slow and requiring
repeated
Hearing this Makes me Glad, I didn't Update My
iPhoneSE From iOS10.3.3 TO iOS12
At 08:46 AM 10/23/2018, you wrote:
It say the batter is operating at 92% capacity,
but it still delivers peak performance according
to the iPhone's battery health section.
I didn't have these problems,
I have the same experience with my iPhone acts.
I think it has to do with that load on this server because it happened at
certain times of the day name my lunchtime and dinner time.
God bless
Sent from my Verizon iPhone X!!!
> On Oct 23, 2018, at 3:26 PM, 'Terry-GOOGLEMAIL' via VIPhone
>
With the se phone, it didn't happen with our bluetooth keyboard.
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From: Robert Wright
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 4:46 AM
Subject: RE: four-finger tap near bottom of screen stops working after a bit.
It isnot just the
Judy, have you gone to settings, general, accessibility, voiceover & swiped
down to confirm that Always Speak Notifications is turned on?
Donna
>
> My problem is slightly different to Carolyn. The phone numbers in my
> Contacts will not speak. If somebody calls and I do not know their
The model I heard demonstrated did 9 lines by 40 which is why they had “360” in
its name.
From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Flor
Lynch
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 1:45 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Braille displays
The current Canute does 5 lines of
I have an iPhone 8 plus for work and have done this several times in the last
couple of days without any issues.
Do they have a bluetooth keyboard that could be interfiering or a bluetooth
braille device?
Just guessing here.
Richard
"Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in
"Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in touch with it." —
Jane Wagner
> On Oct 23, 2018, at 12:27 PM, 'Terry-GOOGLEMAIL' via VIPhone
> wrote:
>
> I have found that Siri is very sluggish - taking at least ten seconds to
> respond to simple questions or instructions -
I have found that Siri is very sluggish - taking at least ten seconds to
respond to simple questions or instructions - since upgrading to IOS12 or soon
after. Anyone had the same experience?
My phone is an SE.
Terry
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From: Susie Stageberg
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 5:48 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Braille displays
I’ve been
We have an el braille 14 4th generation. I understand that they’re still
working on the 5th generation. It works as advertised but I found the learning
curve for the braille commands steeper than I wanted to climb. The orbit reader
for a fraction of the price does exactly what we need.
How do I separate the phone number so I'm using in a group text? Do I use a
comma,;, or space
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Hahahaha.
You really made me laugh Susie. You are so correct and direct. I have also
been hearing about a 9 lines-360 cells braille display for over ten years.
Cris
From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Susie
Stageberg
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 12:49 PM
To:
Hi folks
I appologize for the fact that maybe some menu items are not translated
correctly because I am a native Dutch speaker.
This has been confirmed by some iphone 8 and 8+ users. Do the following.
Go into the telephone app and tab the section recent calls. There you find all
calls that
I did that, Donna. Had lunch and some stuff, so we'll see.
Best regards,
Carolyn
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Donna
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 11:04 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Not hearing
I’ve been hearing about full-page displays for at least a decade. Every so
often, somebody comes up with a prototype, and it’s going to be the next
greatest thing since sliced bread. I hate to be a party-pooper, but I wouldn’t
hold my breath if I were you.
Susie
From:
I saw a demo of ElBraille at a tech fair near here over the summer. It is a
very nifty device. It’s billed as a tablet dressed up as a notetaker. It seems
to me it has 40 cells and looks kind of like a notetaker, but it is running
windows 10 and can read Excel and PowerPoint and all that. It
Correct, it is for the iPhone 6 and up, but in this case up means newer and not
older, if you have an iPhone 5S you don't qualify for the $29 battery
replacement.
I have a 6S Plus and my wife has a 6S and we both had our batteries changed by
Apple at the end of May, we showed both I think 83%
Hi all. Just wondering, is anyone familiar with the elBraille put out by
Freedom Scientific? If so, what do you think of it? Thanks.
God bless!
Paula and Garçon
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Robert Wright
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2018
My problem is slightly different to Carolyn. The phone numbers in my Contacts
will not speak. If somebody calls and I do not know their number, it will
speak out that number.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Judy
Sent from my iPhone
> On 23 Oct 2018, at 12:50, Richard Turner
It say the batter is operating at 92% capacity, but it still delivers
peak performance according to the iPhone's battery health section.
I didn't have these problems, either until I did the 12.0 upgrade.
I'll give Apple a call and see what they suggest.
Should be interesting considering I
Hmm, I thought the free battery promotion was only for the iPhone 6 and
up? The SE came out after that if I remember correctly.
Lisa Belville
missktlab1...@frontier.com
On 10/23/2018 7:36 AM, Gordon wrote:
You said 18 month old iPhone SE. That battery is probably a bit
degraded which would
I called Apple Accessibility, and had gotten Auto Answer on, which is now off
and that problem solved.
Best regards,
Carolyn
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Carolyn Arnold
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 11:11 AM
To:
That's an interesting one about which I did not know.
On 10/23/2018 10:35 AM, Traci Duncan wrote:
I am having inconsistent results with this gesture as well.
On the other hand, I am having consistent results with the 3-D gesture. Hold
your thumb down, along the very left side of your screen,
Yes it can be used to type or edit email. We have an Orbit and we really like
it. It does everything we need it to do for us.
Sent from my iPhone
> On Oct 22, 2018, at 7:21 PM, Karen Poulakos wrote:
>
> I’m finding this discussion very interesting. Can the Orbit Reader be used
> with the
I don’t find a keyboard equivalent to the four-finger single-tap, on the BT
keyboard I have paired with my iPhone.
From: Flor Lynch
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 12:01 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: four-finger tap near bottom of screen stops working after a bit.
What is the
What Richard is referring to is that notifications will show up on your phone
screen with the phone locked. This has nothing to do with the volume of
incoming calls being announced at a volume level that can be heard.
Donna
>
> Where is allow unlocked screen?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Carolyn
Somehow, now, I have managed to get it where it just rings
twice. I went back to Notifications, but can't figure out
what change to make there to restore to normal rings.
If you pray, don't worry; if you worry, don't pray,
Carolyn
If you pray, don't worry; if you worry, don't pray,
If you pray,
Carolyn, do you use headphones with your phone? If so, go to settings, sounds &
turn off change with buttons. This may solve your problem.
Donna
>
> I don't suppose there is any way to alter that, Robert?
> That could be my situation.
> Best regards,
>
> Carolyn
>
>
> -Original
Where is allow unlocked screen?
Best regards,
Carolyn
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Richard Turner
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 7:50 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Not hearing announced callers on
That is reassuring. I am thinking it could have happened with updates. It used
to announce.
Best regards,
Carolyn
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Judy Pryor
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 7:28 AM
To:
I don't suppose there is any way to alter that, Robert?
That could be my situation.
Best regards,
Carolyn
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Robert Wright
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 5:49 AM
To:
Hi all,
I abandoned this some time back, being unable to progress very far.
Well, I now have added passwords, it seems, via Keychain and have come
across a password which is repeated elsewhere - "Unsafe," I accept this
is the case!
Okay: Now how do I fix it, please?
Is via KeyChain the
I am having inconsistent results with this gesture as well.
On the other hand, I am having consistent results with the 3-D gesture. Hold
your thumb down, along the very left side of your screen, maybe in the middle.
So the left middle, if that makes sense. This is consistently working for me to
Just to add something here about the focus 14 blue 5th gen. For those of you
that own an older model, you may be able to turn it in for a bit of credit
towards a new one.
I asked about my particular unit and I would get $200. I’m just not sure if
this is the route I want to go.
Traci
Sent
Mystic access did a braille me presentation several months ago and the device
in our opinion had serious flaws and wasn’t on our list to buy. We bought the
orbit and it has done everything we asked for.
From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Kay
Malmquist
Sent: Tuesday, October 23,
Thanks for the memory refresh!
From: Richard Turner
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 1:59 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Braille displays
Here is a link to the information on the Focus 14 5th generation from Freedom
Scientific with all the details.
The price is $1295.00.
They change their name every year ot two, depending on who has the highest
stake in the company shares. Fortunately though, the freedomscientific.com
domain is still alive and kicking.
From: Paul Mcgann
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 2:11 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com ; Richard Turner
As someone else pointed out, be sure to check the junk mail folder.
IF it isn’t there, or the confirmation time has expired, I’d send another
subscription message and keep track of the junk mail folder.
Richard
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The new Focus 14 blue is $1,295.00
Karl
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Under Settings, Battery, does it show anything about it not being 100%
available (or whatever the phrase is.)
18 months should not have degraded much, but if you haven't spoken with Apple
about this, I would.
I purchased my SE in December last 2017 and it doesn't lose that much over
night.
Here is a link to the information on the Focus 14 5th generation from Freedom
Scientific with all the details.
The price is $1295.00.
https://www.freedomscientific.com/Products/Blindness/Focus14BrailleDisplay
Richard
“Definition of an expert: An ex is a has-been and a spirt is a drip under
The neweest model of it also has note-taking capability with a USB drive, if I
have it coprrecly.
From: Flor Lynch
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 1:43 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Braille displays
The Focus 14 Blue (with computer) has auto-scroll, and it’s probably
The Focus 14 Blue (with computer) has auto-scroll, and it’s probably
$1700-$1800 or less.
From: Richard Turner
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 5:22 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Braille displays
The MPower will probably not be supported by the newer computers/screen
Readers.
You said 18 month old iPhone SE. That battery is probably a bit degraded
which would cause something like this to happen. but you can go to
settings and battery to see if you're phone is doing anything during
those six hours it's just sitting there. I recently learned that mine
was and zello
Hi, all. I'm using an eighteen month old iPhone SE. I've had iOS 12
for over a month and I'm still plagued by battery issues.
I can unplug my phone once it's charged to 100% and leave it alone for
six or seven hours and my battery will be at around 92% with no apps
running, the phone being
Be sure to look in your junk mailbox, that is where I unfortunately get some of
my emails from that list.
Lelia
Sent from my iPhone
> On Oct 23, 2018, at 5:06 AM, Maria Reyes wrote:
>
> I was subscribed successfully and I am receiving emails from the list
>
> My group:
>
i have an iPhone SE and it works fine.
It sounds like under VoiceOver settings you have it set to always speak
notifications. Did you also check under Accessibility what Call Audio Routing
is set too?
Lastly, under notifications, are the phone notifications set? Make sure allow
on lock screen
I am also running a SE and the caller announcement does not work either. Speak
notifications is on.
Judy
Sent from my iPhone
> On 23 Oct 2018, at 01:48, Donna wrote:
>
> Carolyn
>
> If Im understanding correctly, you can hear the phone ring, but the callers
> name isn’t announced? If Im
I had a BrailleMe this summer for a month. I could never get it to connect with
my phone, so I sent it back. The staff at National Braille Press did their
best to help, but without success. It is a cute little device and I wayted it
to work, but it never did. Just my experience. Susie
> On
Plus, can you or anyone here tell me if this failure on Bluetooth keyboards
happens without VoiceOver in use? (Sounds like it very well could.)
From: Flor Lynch
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 12:01 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: four-finger tap near bottom of screen stops
I was subscribed successfully and I am receiving emails from the list
My group:
marias-chat+subscr...@googlegroups.com
> On Oct 23, 2018, at 6:58 AM, Donna wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I have sent several emails to subscribe in the past 3 months & I have not
> received a reply email.
>
> Donna
>
I subscribed to the orbit list on Sunday and got an immediate
response. But I just now tried that braille users list at groups.io
and have got nothing back from that one.
Patti
On 10/23/18, Donna wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have sent several emails to subscribe in the past 3 months & I have not
>
What is the keystroke for four-finger single-tap near the bottom of screeen on
BT keyboards? I’ll pass that one on to Apple Accessibility as well. Thanks.
From: Robert Wright
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 10:46 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: four-finger tap near bottom of
Hi
I have sent several emails to subscribe in the past 3 months & I have not
received a reply email.
Donna
>
> Hi.
>
> has anyone subscribed? If so, did you get anything back? I subscribed a few
> days ago, but have not received anything asking me to confirm subscription or
> say i am
I just checked the APH Refresh a Braille is $1695
Orbit 20 $449
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From: Andy Baracco
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2018 9:36 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject:
You would have to send to your pc to place on a SD card.
character is found in how you treat people who cannot do anything for you!
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From: Flor Lynch
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2018 1:44 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re:
I have a 6s+ and when I plug in my headset voiceover comes out of the left
channel. I have to go to voiceover settings to fix this. Has anyone heard why
this still happens?
character is found in how you treat people who cannot do anything for you!
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In my case the problem is not that it announces its that it usually focuses on
the accept button rather than who is calling.
character is found in how you treat people who cannot do anything for you!
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From: Carolyn Arnold
Sent: Monday,
It isnot just the gesture. It happens with BT keyboards as well.
character is found in how you treat people who cannot do anything for you!
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From: Flor Lynch
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2018 1:23 PM
To:
So, I realize we are mostly talking about the Orbit, but I wondered what
ever happened with the Braille Me. I really liked the looks of it but only
got a short chance to play with them both. I like the cursor routing keys
on the Braille Me and honestly thought that might be the way to go. I
Thanks to all for very helpful replies. I decided to go with the app and was
able to listen to the Knicks vs Bucks game last night.
Bill Gallik
wfgal...@icloud.com
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has anyone subscribed? If so, did you get anything back? I subscribed a few
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thanks
Maria
> On 22 Oct 2018, at 8:54 am, Richard Turner
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> Marie,
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