Re: Setting up new iPhone SE 2020

2020-04-25 Thread Richard Turner
Well, I cannot help with the positioning of the phone for the image they offer, but the manual method worked fine, and that button is just beyond where the position the phone instructions are and I got to it by just flicking right. The phones just need to be near each other. The message popped

RE: Warning to sprint customers: your old sim may not work in your new phone

2020-04-25 Thread Richard Turner
Thanks for this. Since I have Xfinity internet, they don’t charge for minutes just a very reasonable charge for data; which I use very little of, which is why I went with them for mobile phone coverage. I think they sublet the Verizon service. The eSIM, is so that if you were going to travel

Re: OCR PDFS on Mac or iphone

2020-04-25 Thread Ian Harrison
Hi Richard, good idea, but does it ocr pdf files imported , rather than pictures taken? Thanks Ian > On 25 Apr 2020, at 13:25, Richard Turner wrote: > > Voice Dream Scanner, $5.99 for the iPhone version. > The only limitation, which the developer is working on, is that columns do > not scan

V iPhone and Mac Visionaries List Members: Let's Talk Via Zoom, on Sunday, April 26, 2020

2020-04-25 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Everyone, So, it is my plan to host a Zoom meeting for all of the members of the V iPhone and Mac Visionaries communities tomorrow, Sunday April 26. As promised, I am posting this notification early so those who wish to attend may do so. It is my plan to start the meeting at 2p,

Re: V iPhone and Mac Visionaries List Members: Let's Talk Via Zoom, on Sunday, April 26, 2020

2020-04-25 Thread Joshua Hendrickson
I'm also looking forward to coming to the call. On 4/25/20, dacia.l...@gmail.com wrote: > Looking forward to joining this call. Thanks for being willing to put it > on. > Dacia > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Apr 25, 2020, at 11:17 AM, M. Taylor wrote: >> >> Hello Everyone, >> >> So, it is my

Re: V iPhone and Mac Visionaries List Members: Let's Talk Via Zoom, on Sunday, April 26, 2020

2020-04-25 Thread dacia . luck
Looking forward to joining this call. Thanks for being willing to put it on. Dacia Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 25, 2020, at 11:17 AM, M. Taylor wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > So, it is my plan to host a Zoom meeting for all of the members of the V > iPhone and Mac Visionaries communities

Apple just announced one of its biggest regional expansions for the App Store ever | Ars Technica

2020-04-25 Thread Richard Turner
I just received this via Google Alerts. For those in countries where some Apple services have not been available, take time to read the article. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/04/apple-expands-music-the-app-store-and-other-services-to-20-more-countries/ Richard Sent from the iPhone SE

Re: Setting up new iPhone SE 2020

2020-04-25 Thread Deidre Muccio
This may be Astupid question, but I guess I need to ask it I’ve never used iCloud to back up my phone’s. I use iTunes. So if I were to do this transfer from Phone to Phone I assume I need to have my iCloud back up drive on as well as have backed up the phone with iCloud as well. I mean I can

RE: Setting up new iPhone SE 2020

2020-04-25 Thread Carolyn
It would be interesting to hear what you could find out with sound compare ng the SE and the 11. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Richard Turner Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2020 10:53 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject:

Re: Setting up new iPhone SE 2020

2020-04-25 Thread Richard Turner
My understanding is that doing the phone to phone, the new phone inherits the settings, including the sign in. But, this is the first time iV: done this. So, I'd call Apple Accessibility. Richard Sent from the iPhone SE 2020 > On Apr 25, 2020, at 5:41 AM, Deidre Muccio wrote: > > I have

Re: Setting up new iPhone SE 2020

2020-04-25 Thread l . d . ethier23
Hello, The positionning for the transfert is: new iPhone under and the old one above with the camera facing the new one. The camera should point a little lower than the center of the new one and the distance between both should be about 6 inch. Hope it helps! Lyne > Le 25 avr. 2020 à 09:06,

Re: Warning to sprint customers: your old sim may not work in your new phone

2020-04-25 Thread alia robinson
I think I would have said well since it doesn’t work I’ll just switch cariers, have a nice day! what a horrible nasty comment. they wouldn’t be continuing to get my business. switching is easy. On Apr 25, 2020, at 10:30 AM, Kimberly wrote: Oh, and this was sort of snarky. At the end of this

RE: Setting up new iPhone SE 2020

2020-04-25 Thread Richard Turner
Well, I have my work iPhone 8 plus, and the new iPhone SE side by side. I played the same song on each and went back and forth. Actually with three songs. Away in the Manger and joy to the world by Judy Collins and If I Only Had A Brain by Natalie Merchant. The difference, if there really is

Re: Warning to sprint customers: your old sim may not work in your new phone

2020-04-25 Thread Kimberly
Yeah, it was a pretty crappy thing to say. But sprint’s cheapness makes it a bit easier to swallow. I’ve been with verizon and t-mobile and sprint has just good coverage but is around 100 dollars cheaper than verizon, so I will live with a little rudeness. Lol! Sent from Kimber's iPhone The

RE: Warning to sprint customers: your old sim may not work in your new phone

2020-04-25 Thread Dennis Long
I had sprint years ago. They were rude to me they are crap. I would certainly think about switching. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Joshua Hendrickson Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2020 10:38 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Warning to sprint

RE: Warning to sprint customers: your old sim may not work in your new phone

2020-04-25 Thread Dennis Long
I agree sprint sucks. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Joshua Hendrickson Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2020 10:38 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Warning to sprint customers: your old sim may not work in your new phone I think sprint is crap.

Re: iPhone SE 2020 and battery

2020-04-25 Thread Robin
Yeah, IKnow WhatHappens when YouAssume, That's "why" I didn't "assume", as "I Presumed" as Assumin' makes you a ... Blessin's to All! At 09:54 AM 4/25/2020, you wrote: Well, since the regular cases for the 8 are listed as working on the new SE, I would assume so, but you know what

Re: V iPhone and Mac Visionaries List Members: Let's Talk Via Zoom, on Sunday, April 26, 2020

2020-04-25 Thread Duane Steele
Greetings, I hope you won’t mind this simple suggestion from a list member who has used Zoom for a long time. If you have already scheduled the meeting, it would be good for list members to see the invitation a couple of times in advance of the actual meeting. For example, I’ll be on a Zoom

Re: Setting up new iPhone SE 2020

2020-04-25 Thread Robert Doc Wright
I had no problem setting up my wife's new SE2020 but when it came to setting up my old 6S+ that she was using I had to do what you did and do it manually. ** If we don't take time to think before we speak we may find ourselves in a situation where our speech becomes a bit stinky! -

Re: Setting up new iPhone SE 2020

2020-04-25 Thread Deidre Muccio
Richard Well that sounds cool. I might try that too. And I don’t have anywhere near 200 apps on my phone. Can you say more about how I would position the two phones near one another that would work well? The one thing that stood out in what you wrote here that is different from what I was told

Re: OCR PDFS on Mac or iphone

2020-04-25 Thread Richard Turner
> That's what I meant when I said Scanner will show up in the share sheet, so > it can be used to extract text from an image PDF. > I've always opened the PDF, then used the share button to get there. I've not explored grabbing it from somewhere directly. The developer, Winston Chen, is

Re: Setting up new iPhone SE 2020

2020-04-25 Thread l . d . ethier23
I did it with the quick way and it's fantastic because nothing to do and you find evrything the same. I didn't have to write my wifi key. Lyne > Le 25 avr. 2020 à 06:40, Robert Doc Wright a > écrit : > > I had no problem setting up my wife's new SE2020 but when it came to setting > up my

Re: iPhone SE 2020 and battery

2020-04-25 Thread Robin
Hope this is ON Topic: For ThisThread Does Apple offer its BatteryChargerCase for its NEW SE 2020 (iPhoneSE 2020)? I Presume the SmartBattery MobilePhone case for Apple's iPhone8 will Fit it, am I Right-Correct with MyThinkin??? Blessin's to All! & Enjoy YourPurchase At 08:03 AM

RE: Setting up new iPhone SE 2020

2020-04-25 Thread Richard Turner
At this point, I'd say call Apple Accessibility. You'll get better answers more quickly. I'm assuming the same, but I had used both iCloud and computer backups; and so I'll defer to the experts. Richard "There's a nap for that." - an anonymous cat in a window in Portland, Oregon.

Warning to sprint customers: your old sim may not work in your new phone

2020-04-25 Thread Kimberly
Hi, I got my new SE yesterday and I set it up this morning. Everything went fine until I put the old sim in the new phone and got no service with a message that said the sim had locked. I reached out to Sprint and after two hours in an online chat, I found out my old sim is not compatible

OCR PDFS on Mac or iphone

2020-04-25 Thread Ian Harrison
Hi listers, Just upgraded to Catalina and I’ve lost my accessible Fine Reader software. Can you recommend something for either the Mac or iphone that will extract text to plain text or MS Word that is voice over friendly and doesn’t cost the earth. I will be doing it a lot due to needing it

Re: OCR PDFS on Mac or iphone

2020-04-25 Thread Richard Turner
Voice Dream Scanner, $5.99 for the iPhone version. The only limitation, which the developer is working on, is that columns do not scan well. But, you will not find a better OCR app. It is fast, accurate, and you can save as accessible PDF, so the visual appearance is there, but the text is also

Re: Warning to sprint customers: your old sim may not work in your new phone

2020-04-25 Thread Joshua Hendrickson
I think sprint is crap. I'd never use them. I really like Verizon. They have wonderful disability support. Whenever I've called them, they've always been very helpful. That was a very rude thing to say to you. On 4/25/20, alia robinson wrote: > I think I would have said well since it doesn’t

Re: iPhone SE 2020 and battery

2020-04-25 Thread Richard Turner
Well, since the regular cases for the 8 are listed as working on the new SE, I would assume so, but you know what happens when you assume, grin. Richard Sent from the iPhone SE 2020 On Apr 25, 2020, at 8:15 AM, Robin wrote:  Hope this is ON Topic: For ThisThread Does Apple offer its

Re: iPhone SE 2020 and battery

2020-04-25 Thread Dave
Hi, The iPhone 8 case is fine, for the new SE. I was told by apple, and if you look on amazon, for a case for the iPhone SE 2020. You will find they also cover the new SE, iPhone 8, and the iPhone 7. Dave. From: Richard Turner Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2020 5:54 PM To:

Re: Setting up new iPhone SE 2020

2020-04-25 Thread Deidre Muccio
I have one more thing that might be a problem unless I make a change. My phone has also arrived. I have a different Apple sign in on the new phone because my old email and my whole sign in well the old sign in on my old phone works just fine except that I can’t access that email any longer so I

iPhone SE 2020 and battery

2020-04-25 Thread Richard Turner
Since Gordan asked about battery life with the new phone I thought I'd start a separate thread. Well, normally I would have thought the battery would run out very quickly for the first couple of days. Last night, after getting through the bulk of the set up, I unplugged it at 100% and hit the

Re: New SE iPhone Keyboard

2020-04-25 Thread Richard Turner
Mike, I can confirm that my new SE expands the keyboard when landscaped in iMessages. HTH, Richard Sent from the iPhone SE 2020 On Apr 24, 2020, at 6:23 AM, Richard Turner wrote:  Mike, I just had a thought. Do you have a extra large font set? I just use the standard font and know that

Re: Missing contacts

2020-04-25 Thread Denver A Jones, DD
I currently have nearly 1200 contact in my phone. Many of which I talk to on a regular basis. I have experienced this problem in the past with my iPhone. However, it is quickly resolved. What I have done, is to go into groups and hide all contacts and then show all contacts and the problem

RE: Missing contacts

2020-04-25 Thread portillo.jim
Right. I looked at all of that, but they were there before, including the nicnnames, which Siri had once programmed. Anyway, thanks much for your help, as always. From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Richard Turner Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2020 1:19 PM To:

RE: Missing contacts

2020-04-25 Thread Richard Turner
Yes, messages seem to sometimes decide to just show numbers. I have no idea why. Most of the time, I get names; but only Apple knows why it doesn’t show the name sometimes. As for entering them and then they are not there, I’m with Diane, maybe you missed the done button? I’ve never entered a

RE: Missing contacts

2020-04-25 Thread portillo.jim
I did that and unfortunately it didn’t work. Thankfully, they’re not many, so I’ll just re-add them, I guess. Jim From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Esther Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2020 6:28 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Missing contacts wow, that's amazing!

Re: Missing contacts

2020-04-25 Thread Diane Giannetti
Jim, I’m just wondering, by any chance, have you forgotten to hit done when you have finished? If so that definitely would explain it. Sent from Diane's awesome iPhone! > On Apr 25, 2020, at 4:00 PM, portillo@gmail.com wrote: > >  > Hi there, > I’m wondering if anyone has noticed

RE: Missing contacts

2020-04-25 Thread Richard Turner
I have around 400 contacts and have had nearly 900 when a stupid Outlook issue on my computer added everyone I ever emailed to contacts. That apparently is a feature of Outlook to some. Once I got that feature/pain turned off and cleaned up the contacts, it has worked fine. I’d highly

RE: Apple just announced one of its biggest regional expansions for the App Store ever | Ars Technica

2020-04-25 Thread Fazil
Does it include Pakistan? -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Simon A Fogarty Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2020 3:53 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Apple just announced one of its biggest regional expansions for the App Store ever | Ars Technica

RE: Missing contacts

2020-04-25 Thread portillo.jim
I certainly will, Richard. I just wanted to exhaust some resources before doing that and see if any of you had experienced anything similar. From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Richard Turner Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2020 3:20 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re:

One more thing about transferring to a new phone

2020-04-25 Thread Richard Turner
I noticed today that none of the apps that I had been testing through TestFlight showed up on my phone. Easy to redownload through TestFlight. Just wanted folks to be aware. Richard "There's a nap for that." - an anonymous cat in a window in Portland, Oregon. -- The following information is

Re: Apple just announced one of its biggest regional expansions for the App Store ever | Ars Technica

2020-04-25 Thread Richard Turner
The article lists them all but I did not read the entire list. Richard Sent from the iPhone SE 2020 > On Apr 25, 2020, at 4:19 PM, Fazil wrote: > > Does it include Pakistan? > > -Original Message- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Simon > A Fogarty > Sent: Saturday,

Re: Missing contacts

2020-04-25 Thread Esther
I did not get that impression at all. I do appreciate everyone's suggestions, however. If I don't have luck I will then call Apple accessibility. Esther Sent From Esther's Amazing and Awesome iPhone 7+ > On Apr 25, 2020, at 6:20 PM, Richard Turner > wrote: > >  I hope no one thought I or

Missing contacts

2020-04-25 Thread portillo.jim
Hi there, I'm wondering if anyone has noticed something odd with the Contacts app. A few weeks ago, I added a few people, numbers, and/or email addresses to my contacts app. A while later, I noticed that someone had texted me, but it just showed the person's number without the name or contact

Re: Missing contacts

2020-04-25 Thread Esther
Hi, Jim, I also have difficulty with contacts disappearing. Someone told me that you're only supposed to put 100 contacts in your phone, while others have told me that they have a lot more than 100. I always hit the Save or Done button after I add new contacts. My iPhone is a 7+ and I don't

RE: Apple just announced one of its biggest regional expansions for the App Store ever | Ars Technica

2020-04-25 Thread Simon A Fogarty
That's pretty interesting where they are bringing in these services, Pretty much covering the world with music and papstore -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Richard Turner Sent: Sunday, 26 April 2020 5:19 AM To: ViPone list Subject: Apple just announced

RE: Missing contacts

2020-04-25 Thread portillo.jim
Oh yes. As I said, some were there for a while and then suddenly weren’t. So, they were always saved. Just today, I was deleting old phone calls from my Recent calls area, and I found two calls from relatives that I’d recently added. They were certainly there last week, and now, they

Re: Missing contacts

2020-04-25 Thread Kimberly
I do have a problem with contacts disappearing. I’ve had an iPhone since 2012 and so I think I know how to add contacts either manually or from a call or text that I receive, however it seems that sometimes when I do this, especially since the advent of iOS 13 my contacts seem to be

RE: V iPhone and Mac Visionaries List Members: Let's Talk Via Zoom, on Sunday, April 26, 2020

2020-04-25 Thread Alan Lemly
I agree with Duane that having the Zoom meeting ID more than 15 minutes before the meeting starts encourages a greater attendance. It is also much easier to schedule attendance with all the necessary info so that email doesn't have to be checked constantly just before the meeting starts. Alan

Re: Missing contacts

2020-04-25 Thread Richard Turner
I hope no one thought I or anyone else was suggesting those of you having this issue didn't know what you were doing. Just trying to help trouble shoot. My last question is have any of you experiencing this talked with Apple? Richard Sent from the iPhone SE 2020 On Apr 25, 2020, at 3:14 PM,

Re: Missing contacts

2020-04-25 Thread Diane Giannetti
When I sent my message and saying perhaps you forgot to hit done, I certainly was not implying that one does not know how to use an iPhone. So if Kimberly, hope you didn’t take it that way as that was not my intentions. I was just throwing out an idea that possibly could happen. Sent from

Re: Missing contacts

2020-04-25 Thread Esther
wow, that's amazing! Thank you for that tip I will try it. Take care. Esther Sent From Esther's Amazing and Awesome iPhone 7+ > On Apr 25, 2020, at 6:47 PM, Denver A Jones, DD > wrote: > >  > I currently have nearly 1200 contact in my phone. Many of which I talk to on > a regular basis. I

RE: Missing contacts

2020-04-25 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
I never have only numbers show in the Messages app as long as the contact is in my contacts. What I have seen is that if I get a message from somebody who is not in my contacts and I add them from the messages app that it still shows the number after I added them. So far rebooting the phone has

RE: Missing contacts

2020-04-25 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
I wonder if it matters where you save them. I use Outlook.com for my personal account and Exchange via Office 365 for my business account and my contacts sync to my phone from these services. I have over 300 for each my personal and business accounts and I have never had problems with contacts

Re: OCR PDFS on Mac or iphone

2020-04-25 Thread Richard Turner
It's what shows up when you activate the share button. Like when you are on a web site and you double tap the share button at the bottom of the screen on an iPhone and you can email the link, text it, copy it and so on. Richard > On Apr 25, 2020, at 8:56 PM, kitty hevener wrote: > >

RE: OCR PDFS on Mac or iphone

2020-04-25 Thread kitty hevener
Richard, what is the "share sheet"? -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Richard Turner Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2020 8:26 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: OCR PDFS on Mac or iphone Voice Dream Scanner, $5.99 for

RE: Some important queries re setting up a new IPhone SE from scratch - all help appreciated

2020-04-25 Thread Simon A Fogarty
Just follow the prompts on the screen. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Arnold Schmidt Sent: Saturday, 25 April 2020 4:33 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Some important queries re setting up a new IPhone SE from scratch - all help appreciated

Re: Some important queries re setting up a new IPhone SE from scratch - all help appreciated

2020-04-25 Thread Dave
Hi, thank you for this information. Dave. -Original Message- From: Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2020 5:09 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Some important queries re setting up a new IPhone SE from scratch - all help appreciated Slide to type does not kick