Re: Blind and quadriplegic

2022-07-13 Thread 'Harry Bell' via VIPhone
It is perfectly possible to use voice control with VoiceOver This all sounded OK to my ears, even though it may not look so to the eyes of others. > On 13 Jul 2022, at 22:37, Carolyn <4carol...@windstream.net> wrote: > > Oh yes, Joseph, I realize that and have concern for her situation. >

RE: Another question about notes app

2022-07-13 Thread Christopher Chaltain
Sounds like you're doing everything right to me. After you double tap on the add note button, make sure you're in the edit field and it has focus. Type what you need to type into your note, and it should appear. You should see it when you swipe around or explore the screen. Changing the roter

RE: Groups, list serves, et cetera for visually disabled

2022-07-13 Thread dandrews920
The National Federation of the Blind, NFB, runs a bunch of lists – some NFB-related, and some are more generic blindness stuff. They all can be found at: http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/ Dave From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Lynda Ingraham Sent:

RE: RE: It May be Time to Review Your Wireless Plan

2022-07-13 Thread janet gross
Kenny, Thank you for letting me know this, as this answers my question. So, that isn't a bad deal for two lines, meaning $35.00 for each line. Matter of fact, the rep who I talked to asked me if you were talking about the plan for two lines, but I didn't know that at the time. Janet

Re: problem with Shokz OpenComm headphones

2022-07-13 Thread Michael Feir
I think I know what you've run into here. For the buttons on the headphones to adjust the volume, there needs to be sound playing. That can certainly be your iPhone speaking. If those buttons are used when no sound is playing, they'll trigger the battery status check. Simply cause your iPhone to

RE: RE: It May be Time to Review Your Wireless Plan

2022-07-13 Thread Kenny Nead
We have two lines on the plan, and so it is 70 for the both of them, it is not 70 dollars unless you do the wireless billing. You may have to go into the store, and talk to them. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of janet

problem with Shokz OpenComm headphones

2022-07-13 Thread Jessica Barr
Hi listers, I just purchased a Shokz (formerly AfterShokz) OpenComm headset. It's paired with my iPhone, but when it's connected I can't hear anything. I tried adjusting the volume with the two buttons that are on top of each other on the right side, which I thought were the volume buttons, but

RE: RE: It May be Time to Review Your Wireless Plan

2022-07-13 Thread janet gross
Kenny, I searched on line, and I couldn't find any $35.00 phone plan for one line. So, I called T-Mobile, and spent 20 minutes on the phone with them as they were searching on line, but they said they have no phone plan unlimited text, calling, data for $35.00. Do you have one line or two

RE: How to read vitamin labels?

2022-07-13 Thread Kenny Nead
This is a labeler, that you put a label on your pills , and you have a pen, that you touch on it, and it reads outloud whatever you have put on that label. . From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ann M Medlar Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2022 5:31 PM To:

RE: How to read vitamin labels?

2022-07-13 Thread Ann M Medlar
No and not familiar with pen friend labler.I just use slate and stylus and Dymo tape. From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Kenny Nead Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2022 5:48 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: How to read vitamin labels? Do you have a pen friend labler?

RE: RE: It May be Time to Review Your Wireless Plan

2022-07-13 Thread Kenny Nead
I am pretty sure that pay in advance, but to get that price, have to have wireless billing. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Carolyn Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2022 5:08 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: RE: It

RE: RE: It May be Time to Review Your Wireless Plan

2022-07-13 Thread Kenny Nead
T Mobile, and customer service seems to lots better since T Mobile took over Sprint. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Carolyn Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2022 5:08 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: RE: It May be

RE: RE: It May be Time to Review Your Wireless Plan

2022-07-13 Thread Carolyn
Also, Kenny, is yours a pre or post paid plan? It would not matter to me either way. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of janet gross Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2022 5:49 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: RE: It May

RE: RE: It May be Time to Review Your Wireless Plan

2022-07-13 Thread Kenny Nead
Yes, in Missouri. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of janet gross Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2022 5:05 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: RE: It May be Time to Review Your Wireless Plan Kenny, Are you in the United

RE: RE: It May be Time to Review Your Wireless Plan

2022-07-13 Thread Carolyn
Who is your plan with? -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kenny Nead Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2022 5:43 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: RE: It May be Time to Review Your Wireless Plan I had no extr fees, and no

RE: RE: It May be Time to Review Your Wireless Plan

2022-07-13 Thread Kenny Nead
You are correct, you get the faster speed for so much, then it does slow down some, but had no trouble with that. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Minor Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2022 5:05 PM To:

RE: RE: It May be Time to Review Your Wireless Plan

2022-07-13 Thread janet gross
Kenny, Are you in the United States? -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Kenny Nead Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2022 4:55 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: RE: It May be Time to Review Your Wireless Plan Yes it is true, you should go into a

RE: RE: It May be Time to Review Your Wireless Plan

2022-07-13 Thread Kevin Minor
Hi. The term unlimited can be misleading. What I've found that the data is unlimited, but the speed you get it is throttled back if you go above a certain amount. I think Strait Talk gives you full speed up to 25 gigs of data, then they cut back the bandwidth a lot. I have what Spectrum calls

RE: RE: It May be Time to Review Your Wireless Plan

2022-07-13 Thread Kenny Nead
Yes it is true, you should go into a store, and ask them to go over your plan, I can't have Spectrum, and had trouble with Verizon, and AT, and T, so thought I would try out T Mobile, so far, so good, it is there cheapest plan for unlimited, but it works great for me. -Original

RE: RE: It May be Time to Review Your Wireless Plan

2022-07-13 Thread janet gross
Hello Carolyn and Kenny, $35 sounds fine to me, but can I ask you Kenny, am I understanding you right when you say you are getting unlimited services from T-Mobile for $35.00 a month? I have been getting unlimited phone services from T-Mobile for $50.00, this is the reason why I am asking you

RE: How to read vitamin labels?

2022-07-13 Thread Kenny Nead
Do you have a pen friend labler? From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ann M Medlar Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2022 4:29 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: How to read vitamin labels? I need to make Braille labels like MG for magnesium, V for

RE: RE: It May be Time to Review Your Wireless Plan

2022-07-13 Thread Kenny Nead
I had no extr fees, and no tax on that, that is the full price, and have no trouble, and am still using iphone 8 -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Carolyn Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2022 4:36 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com

RE: RE: Blind and quadriplegic

2022-07-13 Thread Carolyn
Oh yes, Joseph, I realize that and have concern for her situation. Nevertheless, as I understand it, it is either one or the other, not both. I hope someone can correct me, if I'm wrong. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of

RE: RE: It May be Time to Review Your Wireless Plan

2022-07-13 Thread Carolyn
$35 sounds good; AT offered me $50. Of course, then, there are taxes and fees and anything else they can think of to add. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kenny Nead Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2022 11:04 AM To:

RE: How to read vitamin labels?

2022-07-13 Thread Ann M Medlar
I need to make Braille labels like MG for magnesium, V for multi vitamin, D for D, C for calcium, B for Biotin. It would be great if an app could easily identify it. I'll try using Seeing AI again. Thank you for suggestions here is link: https://www.directionsForme.org/ I'll experiment with

Conference call question.

2022-07-13 Thread Carolyn
I was on the phone with two people, got a call. I put them on Hold and Accept, got the other caller. When we were through, I never could get my first callers back. The phone displayed them, but I couldn't get them back. What do I do, after Hold and Accept on a call, to get back to an original

Re: How to read vitamin labels?

2022-07-13 Thread chaim biberfeld
I have found that except for the fact that you cannot save the text in a file, seeing AI is the best of all the apps. When viewing complicated labels and such I always use the documents reader rather than the short text which I find to be enervating. I recently bought the Orcam Eye bought so

How to read vitamin labels?

2022-07-13 Thread Ann M Medlar
Recently got Script Talk to read prescription meds. However, I needed to call pharmasist to give a special label in order to work. I have iPhone 12 Pro with latest I O S with following apps: digit-eyes, TapTapSee, Seeing A I, Voice Dream Reader, OneStep Reader, Be My Eyes, EasyReader, and

Another question about notes app

2022-07-13 Thread Rena
Hello, When I type using the Bluetooth keyboard, later I find the note. However, now I'm practicing typing directly on the iPhone, and although I click on done button, there's no note at all. It's like I didn't write anything. Evidently, I'm doing something wrong. What should I do once I

Re: RE: Blind and quadriplegic

2022-07-13 Thread joseph . hudson
Hi Carolyn, actually, if she can’t see the screen, she needs VoiceOver and voice control. Sent using the mobile mail app On 7/13/22 at 9:58 AM, Carolyn wrote: > I think one either has to have Voiceover or Voice Control. > > -Original Message- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com

Re: RE: RE: It May be Time to Review Your Wireless Plan

2022-07-13 Thread joseph . hudson
Hi Kenny well good luck. That’s the company that told me, that I had too old of an antenna in my phone. So don’t expect that good service to last very long. Sent using the mobile mail app On 7/13/22 at 10:03 AM, Kenny Nead wrote: > I just went to T Mobile, left AT and T and getting my

RE: App switcher

2022-07-13 Thread Christopher Chaltain
I actually agree with Apple on this. I trust IOS and the Apple developers to know more about managing memory, performance and cache than I trust myself trying to do this manually. That being said, I do periodically clean out my App Switcher just to make it easier to ump between apps in the

RE: RE: It May be Time to Review Your Wireless Plan

2022-07-13 Thread Kenny Nead
I just went to T Mobile, left AT and T and getting my unlimited plan for everything for 35 dollars. The customer service has been very good, and had no problem with dropped called, can not tell any difference between the two services. -Original Message- From:

RE: App switcher

2022-07-13 Thread Carolyn
I tend, for the most part, to keep mine cleared, because when I first has an iPhone back in 2014, my 13-year-old granddaughter showed me how to use it and said it was important to do so. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of

RE: Blind and quadriplegic

2022-07-13 Thread Carolyn
I think one either has to have Voiceover or Voice Control. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of chaim biberfeld Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2022 9:11 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Blind and quadriplegic Sorry to

RE: RE: It May be Time to Review Your Wireless Plan

2022-07-13 Thread Carolyn
Goodness, Sarai, I would be frustrated indeed about that. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of sarai.bucciare...@gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 8:01 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: RE: It May be Time to

RE: RE: It May be Time to Review Your Wireless Plan

2022-07-13 Thread Carolyn
That sounds good. I did get a little reduction on my current phone plan for the time being. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of joseph.hud...@techie.com Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 7:58 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com

Re: Groups, list serves, et cetera for visually disabled

2022-07-13 Thread Lynda Ingraham
Do a Google search for the type of group you’re interested in joining. Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 13, 2022, at 9:06 AM, chaim biberfeld wrote: > > I have been using the iPhone for a very long time but I'm new to groups et > cetera where can I find social groups, waste serves and other

RE: Blind and quadriplegic

2022-07-13 Thread Richard Turner
Thanks Harry for giving me credit, but it is really your guide I posted, . But yes, using earphones is really helpful with having VoiceOver and Voice Control running together. Richard “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom

question how to stop my i pad and i phone saying the word soashel after some folders and before you flip to diffrentpages on the screen.

2022-07-13 Thread michv
Hi all I have a I pad forth gen. on this I pad I have a folder called soashel. I have named that folder but now when ever I swipe to different pages it says the word soashel before each page instead of saying page 1 page 2 etc. this is also happening on my I phone as well as some times it is

RE: App switcher

2022-07-13 Thread Richard Turner
AS far as GPS apps, they have to run in background if you are counting on them for directions. Yes, they work fine in the background while another app is open, at least all the ones I’ve used do. However, it would be senseless to leave them running when you are not using them as they are a

Phone plans - thanks, Mark.

2022-07-13 Thread Carolyn
So, I called AT, got disconnected, called again. It was like pulling wasp's teeth, but I got bill lowered a little. Eventually, I want to go to an AT store, replace my phone and see if I can get anything better. Thanks Mark, for bringing this billing issue to our attention. -- The

Re: App switcher

2022-07-13 Thread Alan Lemly
I'm with Richard on this issue. There seems to be no scientific definitive answer but common sense and logic developed from using computers over 40 years tells me clearing the App Switcher of running apps is good for your device at certain times. I always clear the App Switcher when performance

RE: App switcher

2022-07-13 Thread Star Gazer
It does, but I can’t prove it, at least not right now. From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of chaim biberfeld Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2022 9:03 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: App switcher Good morning.

Re: Blind and quadriplegic

2022-07-13 Thread 'Harry Bell' via VIPhone
Yes! Use EarPods and see Richard Turner’s guide http://www.turner42.com/ This all sounded OK to my ears, even though it may not look so to the eyes of others. > On 13 Jul 2022, at 14:11, chaim biberfeld wrote: > > Sorry to bother you all, another question. My sister has MS and is totally

RE: App switcher

2022-07-13 Thread Kevin Minor
Hi. I’m no expert on the App switcher, but I’d think some apps can run in the background. The one that comes to mind is GPS apps. I know that those will quickly drain a battery. What I don’t know is if they’ll still run if you go to another app. Just thinking. Kevin, Valerie and Jilly From:

Re: App switcher

2022-07-13 Thread Richard Turner
Apparently there is no definitive answer. Apple says leaving apps does not impact performance. My experience as a former rehab instructor and my personal experience says that when the phone is not working correctly, sluggish, apps not opening, etc., clearing the app switcher solves the issue

Blind and quadriplegic

2022-07-13 Thread chaim biberfeld
Sorry to bother you all, another question. My sister has MS and is totally blind and quadriplegic. She can only speak. I have tried to help her use her iPhone with VoiceOver, but when I try to use voice control with VoiceOver, the entire thing gets discombobulated. Is it possible to use voice

Groups, list serves, et cetera for visually disabled

2022-07-13 Thread chaim biberfeld
I have been using the iPhone for a very long time but I'm new to groups et cetera where can I find social groups, waste serves and other information for the visually disabled? Chaim Biberfeld, LCSW-R Private Practice 917-902-3349 thegototherapist.com -- The following information is

App switcher

2022-07-13 Thread chaim biberfeld
Good morning. Does anyone have a definitive answer as to whether leaving apps on in background as seen on app switcher, uses internal memory and processing or not? Chaim Biberfeld, LCSW-R Private Practice 917-902-3349 thegototherapist.com -- The following information is important for all