Re: How to access a Facebook group that you have joined using your iPhone

2023-08-01 Thread Tom Lange
hi Mary, i’m in several Facebook groups, and I’ve noticed for quite a while now that there is a groups button at the left-hand top portion of the screen right below the status bar. If I double tap on that that button, it opens up a list of groups that I belong to and others that I may want to

Re: A Proglem Unique to Blind People

2023-08-01 Thread Robert Doc Wright
Here you go: INTEX 66551EP Inflatable Pull-Out Chair: Built-in Cupholder – Velvety Surface – 2-in-1 Valve – Folds Compactly – 89" x 46" x 26" $43.19 Amazon.com - Original Message - From: Alan Lemly To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 1, 2023 3:38 PM

RE: Talking cooking thermometers

2023-08-01 Thread Cristóbal Muñoz
Let me ask just to be clear… With the Weber thermometer and app, do you the VoiceOver user have to constantly flick away and back to the temperature display to get the current reading or can VO speak the temperature reading as it changes if you leave VO focus on that element? This would

Re: Talking cooking thermometers

2023-08-01 Thread Kay Malmquist
We use the iGrill and it has connections for four probes. We use this for smoking and grilling several pieces of meat at a time. We have an ambient probe plugged in to it as well as 3 regular probes and it works wonderfully with Voice Over. I have thought about buying the mini for when I am

Re: Talking cooking thermometers

2023-08-01 Thread Richard Turner
The iGrill Mini by Weber is a leave-in meat probe that works with their ap. So the brains are bluetooth, but it has a very long wire to the brains, and you pair it with your iPhone. I've used it for a few years now and love. They do have models with more probes, but we never cook more than one

RE: Talking cooking thermometers

2023-08-01 Thread Cristóbal Muñoz
I have as well the Kizen talking thermometer. It does read the temperature faster than the ThermowWorks RT8400, but the RT8400 does have that hands free feature which is super helpful and the RT8400’s probe is roughly one quarter of an inch longer than the Kizen. I did reach out to ThermoWorks

RE: A Proglem Unique to Blind People

2023-08-01 Thread Carolyn Arnold
On my 11, the Wal-Mart guy could not get facial ID to work. I took it outside on west side of the building on a sunny afternoon and got it going myself. So, when I got my 14 Pro, I just sat here in the house and did it. I am totally blind, so felt fortunate to have managed to do it.

RE: A Problem Unique to Blind People

2023-08-01 Thread Carolyn Arnold
You could try holding your phone from you a little and hold it parallel to the ground. Then bend your head forward in line with the phone, and see if that happens to help better. Also, you could put your phone on a table or desk and sort of bend toward it, and see if it gets a better focus on

Re: A Proglem Unique to Blind People

2023-08-01 Thread CHELA Robles
I am totally blind myself, but I turned off the attention awareness thing, so I didn’t quite understand what that meant and what that did and I read much earlier before this thread when I first got this iPhone 14 when I had questions a long time ago on this list I think Richard or somebody I don’t

Re: A Proglem Unique to Blind People

2023-08-01 Thread Agent086B
Hi, from what I have read we all do this slightly different. I just pick up the phone off a desk or out of my pocket and hold it about 18 inches or more from my face on a slide angle so the camera points to my face not my belly. I do have attention aware turned on as it is better security. I

Re: A Proglem Unique to Blind People

2023-08-01 Thread Alan Lemly
Hi Sieghard, I don't but that is an excellent idea. I need to find a LazyBoysAreUs website and see if they have an inflatable option. Alan Sent from my iPhoneOn Aug 1, 2023, at 1:34 PM, Sieghard Weitzel wrote: Hi Alan, how do you bring the easy chair along, do you have an inflatable model

Re: keyboard on apple watch?

2023-08-01 Thread Donna Casteen
The Apple watch 8 is the omly Apple watch that I know to have an on screen keyboard. I have my wireless bluetooth Logi-Tech 380 paired with my Apple watch Se. Donna > > Hi, > Maybe I am expecting way too much for such a little screen, but is > there an onscreen keyboard for the apple watch? >

Re: How to access a Facebook group that you have joined using your iPhone

2023-08-01 Thread Mary Otten
Thanks a bunch. I was actually in that menu thing, and I saw the shortcut, but said to myself: I don’t have any shortcuts. What are they talking about? So thank you very much. Mary Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 1, 2023, at 11:55 AM, Sieghard Weitzel wrote: > > You can ttry to tap the bottom

RE: How to access a Facebook group that you have joined using your iPhone

2023-08-01 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
You can ttry to tap the bottom right tab, "Facebook Menu", then select "Top Shortcuts" and then "Groups". -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Mary Otten Sent: Tuesday, August 1, 2023 11:47 AM To: via VIPhone Subject: How to access a Facebook group that you

How to access a Facebook group that you have joined using your iPhone

2023-08-01 Thread Mary Otten
Hi all, I was on Facebook several years ago and got off intending never ever to darken their door again. However, due to some circumstances, I’m back on there at least for a little while. I have successfully joined two groups, one of which I had to be admitted to as it’s private, the other of

RE: A Proglem Unique to Blind People

2023-08-01 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
Hi Alan, how do you bring the easy chair along, do you have an inflatable model 藍 From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Alan Lemly Sent: Tuesday, August 1, 2023 7:00 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: A Proglem Unique to Blind People Hi Sandy, I expect the majority of

RE: A Proglem Unique to Blind People

2023-08-01 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
Yes, Richard made an excellent point, turning off attention makes it easier by a lot. I could do it fine with attention on except for at night. I lost my sight in an accident so both my eyes are prosthetic and I prefer to not have them in a t night and it simply won't work at all in this case

RE: A Proglem Unique to Blind People

2023-08-01 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
In turn I hate to say this since I don't want to make you or anybody feel bad, but I never had any issue gretting Face I dto recognize me once set up. Do I sometimes get the message that it didn't work and to try again, yes, absolutely, but it's literally happening maybe once in 20 uses if

keyboard on apple watch?

2023-08-01 Thread Donald Raikes
Hi, Maybe I am expecting way too much for such a little screen, but is there an onscreen keyboard for the apple watch? I just got my watch last week and am still trying to figure out all its capabilities. I received a slack message this morning which showed up on my watch and wanted to reply to

Re: A Proglem Unique to Blind People

2023-08-01 Thread Alan Lemly
Hi Sandy, I expect the majority of problems using Face ID in our community have to do with incorrect distance between phone and face. I find that Face ID works most consistently with this distance: I sit in an easy chair such as a recliner. With the bottom of my phone lined up with my belly button

RE: A Proglem Unique to Blind People

2023-08-01 Thread tony k5twz . com
The friend that helped set up recognition moved the phone around my face up and down, left and right. When I have trouble getting it to work I slowly move the phone around, keeping it facing me and usually hit the right spot. Tony From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Sandra Finley

Re: A Proglem Unique to Blind People

2023-08-01 Thread Richard Turner
Check in settings Face ID and Passcode that the setting under the Attention heading says:Require Attention for Face ID, offIf that is on, you have to be looking at the phone in a precise way. It is more flexible when it is off.Even then, sometimes it still doesn't work, but those are the minority. 

Re: siri on apple watch

2023-08-01 Thread Jennie Facer
Hi there, I have the same issue. Siri doesn’t always work for me either. Jenn and Kumi > On Jul 31, 2023, at 6:39 PM, Donald Raikes wrote: > > Jenn, > > I found both of those options and they are on but most of the time > just raising my wrist doesn't allow me to ask siri anything so I >

Re: A Proglem Unique to Blind People

2023-08-01 Thread Robert Doc Wright
try this. Place the middle of the phone up to your nose and slowly pull away as straight as you can. - Original Message - From: Sandra Finley To: iPhone List Sent: Tuesday, August 1, 2023 5:01 AM Subject: A Proglem Unique to Blind People I hate to admit this, but if I

Re: A Proglem Unique to Blind People

2023-08-01 Thread Jennie Facer
Hi all, Here is how I do it. It may sound a little bit different than what others have said. I started by holding the phone right up to and touching my face. i had the middle of it right on my face. I then slowly backed the phone away and it then unlocked after a while. Now I hold it so that

Re: A Proglem Unique to Blind People

2023-08-01 Thread Mária Orovčíková
I know this is not the best advice, but just thought to say that I learned by practice, trials and errors. I must admit I am weird at figuring out measurement units. In Slovakia we use metric system like meters, centimeters etc, , so feet, inches and other units that you use in the U.S. and

RE: A Proglem Unique to Blind People

2023-08-01 Thread Christopher Chaltain
I struggled with this on my personal iPhone 11. For my part, I was holding the phone too close to my face. I now hold it about 18 inches from my face, and it works almost all of the time. I’d try varying the distances a bit to see if you can find that sweet spot. On the iPhone 12 I got from my

Re: A Proglem Unique to Blind People

2023-08-01 Thread Matt White
Thinking about this, the best way I can describe it is to say hold your phone in your hand or hands, about foot in front of your face, with your elbows close to your sides, and your hands about shoulder height. The phone should be angled Toward you, not necessarily straight up and down. Try doing

RE: A Proglem Unique to Blind People

2023-08-01 Thread realman02 via VIPhone
I am having this problem as well. Thanks for asking! From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Sandra Finley Sent: Tuesday, August 1, 2023 7:01 AM To: iPhone List Subject: A Proglem Unique to Blind People I hate to admit this, but if I can’t ask fellow blind folks, then what is the

A Proglem Unique to Blind People

2023-08-01 Thread Sandra Finley
I hate to admit this, but if I can't ask fellow blind folks, then what is the point of a list like this? I have never mastered the use of facial recognition. I was able to follow the directions given to set up face ID fine. The problem I continue to have is how to hold my phone up to my face so