Hey you might want to try the time to walk series. That’s pretty accessible as
well. I like it.
Sent from my iPhone
> On Jan 2, 2022, at 5:25 PM, M. Taylor wrote:
>
> Hello Everyone,
>
> So, along with my purchase of Apple Watch 7 came a free, three-month trial
> subscription to Apple
If you turn off all apps and set it to home screen you should be fine.
From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Alvin Ng
Sent: Sunday, January 2, 2022 9:00 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: the power of Voiceover dictionary
When you replace the three words status bar item
When you replace the three words status bar item with a space, what happened
to this three words when they are mentioned in any article. Will voice over
still read them?
On 3 Jan 2022, at 04:53, Dennis Long wrote:
Here are those instructions again. I even included how my status bar now
Hello Everyone,
So, along with my purchase of Apple Watch 7 came a free, three-month trial
subscription to Apple Fitness Plus.
I decided to give it a try.
As far as I can tell, my experience via watch 7 will also work on watch 4.
As for the accessibility of the Fitness Plus, workouts,
I agree with Anna about the light, did mine in afternoon bright sun.
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Woody Anna Dresner
Sent: Sunday, January 2, 2022 1:33 PM
To: VIPhone Mailing List
Subject: Re: Homepage & App Switcher
You get Siri either by cellular or Wi-Fi. So, if you aren't connected to Wi-Fi,
you use your cellular data.
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Fazil M.
Sent: Sunday, January 2, 2022 1:12 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Well now, if it couldn't be set up in the store, why did he try? Go figure.
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Fazil M.
Sent: Sunday, January 2, 2022 1:00 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Face ID Revisited
The
Note you must enter exactly. If you don't enter exactly it will not work.
-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Joshua
Hendrickson
Sent: Sunday, January 2, 2022 5:22 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: the power of Voiceover dictionary
I tried your
Okay Joshua
When creating the entry it says "apply to all apps on" turn that off and set
to home screen.
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Joshua
Hendrickson
Sent: Sunday, January 2, 2022 5:22 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: the power of
I tried your steps Dennis, and I couldn't get it to work. I don't
know if it matters if I am using a bluetooth keyboard or not. The
first step about turning off aps confused me.
On 1/2/22, Malcolm Parfitt wrote:
> I remember the Talks days well the user’s group and blindsea site.
>
> There are
I have updated to IOS 15.2, and I want to use a different clock app. I
have used west minester app, and I like that one, but I was wondering if
anyone has any other suggestions on time apps that you guys like to use
that announce the time every hour?
Thanks for any help,
Chris
--
The
I remember the Talks days well the user’s group and blindsea site.
There are a couple of things I would say, when selecting the string you want to
replace it’s often useful to use the Copy Last Spoken output to insert as your
string, saves some typing!
I wish under verbosity you could
No problem. I can’t take the credit completely my Friend Stephen Giggar and I
were talking he suggested it. We were both users of the Talks program for
Symbian phones and it had a powerful dictionary.
From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Karen
Poulakos
Sent: Sunday, January 2,
Thanks so much for this tip! I finally was able to make the changes I’ve been
wishing I could make for a very long time. I’m sure there will be more, now
that I know how.
Saving your instructions for future reference.
Karen P
--
The following information is important for all members
Here are those instructions again. I even included how my status bar now reads.
NOTE TURN OFF ALL APPS SET it TO HOME SCREEN FOR ALL OF THEM
Now follow the below instructions.
1 go to settings double tap.
2 accessibility double tap.
3 go to voice over on double tap.
4 speech double tap.
5
Hi Karen,
It seems like some of the words you hear could be eliminated by turning off
hints.
Like, double tap to open.
HTH,
Rick
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From: Karen Poulakos
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2022 3:40 PM
Subject: RE: the power of Voiceover dictionary
Lol see what I posted your problems will be resolved. Your bill is $1500
*smile*
From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Karen
Poulakos
Sent: Sunday, January 2, 2022 3:41 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: the power of Voiceover dictionary
I managed to get it to stop
I managed to get it to stop saying “Double tap to open” on the Home Page.
I can’t seem to locate an option for the Status Bar. I want to stop VO from
saying “Not Charging, when checking the battery status. I only want to know
for sure that it is charging when I plug it in.
Getting rid
This happened to my husband a couple of times and what the people on the
apple accessibility line told him to do was to press and hold both the side
bar button and the digital crown for a few seconds and it will reset. Let
them go and in around 30 seconds it will come back up and voice over
NOTE TURN OFF ALL APPS SET it TO HOME SCREEN FOR ALL OF THEM
Now follow the below instructions.
1 go to settings double tap.
2 accessibility double tap.
3 go to voice over on double tap.
4 speech double tap.
5 pronunciations double tap.
6 tap add or add new not sure what it says.
Then
1 go to settings double tap.
2 accessibility double tap.
3 go to voice over on double tap.
4 speech double tap.
5 pronunciations double tap.
6 tap add or add new not sure what it says.
Then follow the instructions below
On the Status bar it says cellular 4 of 4 bars signal strength I
The Waycloud allows you to have a back up of all of your tags in case something
happens to your phone, and for when you want to change or get a new phone. As
far as I know, you are not able to access the information on your tags through
the Waycloud.
As far as copying the information that you
I will post step by step instructions later.
Dennis Long
Sent from my iPhone 13 Pro
> On Jan 2, 2022, at 1:57 PM, Mo wrote:
>
>
> Also interested. Is this available to all iphones? Can you describe the
> process to get there please?
> Thank you.
> Mo.
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com
You were correct. As this is a wonderful community and wouldn’t want to
confuse/upset anyone.
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Christopher Chaltain
Sent: 02 January 2022 16:21
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: duckduckgo [was "RE:
Also interested. Is this available to all iphones? Can you describe the process
to get there please?
Thank you.
Mo.
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Karen Poulakos
Sent: 02 January 2022 18:02
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: the power of
In settings, just go to accessibility / Voice Over, then swipe down to Speech
and double tap.
In there, swipe to pronunciation, and double tap.
This screen will contain a list of any pronunciation changes you have
previously made, and any new ones will be added to this list.
To make a new
Hi Fazil,
If Face ID fails, the keypad should come up automatically so you can enter your
password.
If Face ID is failing all the time, make sure you are holding the phone about
12 cm in front of your face and that the phone has a clear view of your face.
You might want to get sighted help to
How do you get to the edit boxes to edit the dictionary?
- Original Message -
From: Dennis Long
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Sent: Sunday, January 2, 2022 8:12 AM
Subject: the power of Voiceover dictionary
I was talking to a friend Stephen Giggar some of you might remember
Hi, Group.
I have learnt the gestures for going to Homepage and App Switcher. Thank you
all.
Now Another Question.
When Face ID does not work (it hasn't worked so far *Smile*), I ask Siri to
open, for instance, YouTube or any other app for that matter.
Siri says but you have to unlock iPhone
This is interesting. Where did you find the dictionary in order to do this? I
looked in the Voiceover settings, and couldn’t find any listing for a
dictionary.
Can you please describe the steps you used?
Thanks.
Karen P
From: viphone@googlegroups.com
The Genius-bar in the Apple Store tried to setup my Face ID for me but he could
not do it either. He said that it can not be set up in the store.
Thanks!
-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Carolyn
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2022 6:56 AM
To:
I know Way-Around saves my tags in the cloud, but does anyone know how to
retrieve them? I have to update a tag to something I tagged before, so I'd like
to pull a list of the tags that were saved in the cloud, select one and then
rewrite it to the tag. Does anyone know if this is possible? If
Plus, it's easy to stumble across how to disable VoiceOver with a web search.
Almost any kind of generic web search on VoiceOver will bring up a bunch of
hits on how to turn off VoiceOver. I'm assuming sighted people will
accidentally turn it on and go looking on how to disable it.
--
No reason to apologize. I was just pointing out a few options you might not
have considered. Sorry my message was so terse.
--
Christopher (AKA CJ)
Chaltain at Outlook
From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Mo
Sent: Sunday, January 2, 2022 10:19 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject:
Yes I agree, am extremely sorry.
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Christopher Chaltain
Sent: 02 January 2022 16:15
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: duckduckgo [was "RE: Bluetooth Headset recommendation"]
You could always have just started
You could always have just started a new thread, or at a minimum changed the
subject line.
--
Christopher (AKA CJ)
Chaltain at Outlook
From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Mo
Sent: Sunday, January 2, 2022 5:50 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Bluetooth Headset recommendation
Have you tried to do a threee-finger double tap on your watch to see if speech
got turned off? That works the same on the watch as it does on the phone.
Jenn
Jenn and Kumi
> On Jan 1, 2022, at 3:53 PM, Andrew Roberts
> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone and a very happy New Year to you all.
>
>
The reason I did that was because the Wal-Mart guy, where I bought my phone,
tried, and face ID never engaged. After I had my phone a few days, I decided to
see what I could do, and the mission was a success. I don't know why he
couldn't. It probably has something to do with me being totally
That's what my cousin says.
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Sieghard Weitzel
Sent: Sunday, January 2, 2022 12:32 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Face ID Revisited
I wouldn't count on that, any respecting
Oh yes, right, Sieghard about swiping up for Home Screen. That just seemed so
necessary, that I didn't think to mention it.
-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Sieghard Weitzel
Sent: Sunday, January 2, 2022 12:31 AM
To:
Then, the best thing is to try holding your phone out about one foot from your
face, and try to align the phone to sort of match the level of your face. It
should work.
-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Fazil M.
Sent:
Oh yes, it will direct you to get facial ID in place.
-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Simon A Fogarty
Sent: Saturday, January 1, 2022 9:55 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Face ID Revisited
Hi Fassle,
Yes, that is what my cousin says, but most would not know.
-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Cris Ali
Sent: Saturday, January 1, 2022 5:17 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Face ID Revisited
True, except that if
I was talking to a friend Stephen Giggar some of you might remember him from
the talks days. He said you might be able to customize what voice over does
and doesn't speak. I'm posting this example to show what can be done with
the Voiceover dictionary.
On the Status bar it says cellular 3 of 3
On a completely unrelated thread, the question was asked about DuckDuckGo and
how secure it is.
I heard about DuckDuckGo several years ago while listening to Clarke Howard, a
consumer advocate.
I have used nothing else since.
It gets some of the best results without all the tracking nonsense.
Hi all,
Sorry to make this post on the wrong thread but couldn’t find the vpn one. What
do you all think of duckduckgo for security? Seems quite secure with both
computer and mobile version. Interested to get your views as find there is many
people with amazing knowledge on here that I learn
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