Hello, Good luck with the app and your new job. Connie -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Wayne Merritt Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 9:20 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: question about setting up OnCallDefender app found on Applevis
Try the app called Blue Light, which sounds like it does the same thing, allowing you to contact the nearest EMS services. When I got it it was free but there may be a subscription now. The app is very accessible, though there may be more exploring involved in the initial sign-up screens. Good luck, Wayne On 12/15/15, Brent Harding <br...@hostany.net> wrote: > I found this personal safety app on AppleVis called OnCallDefender. It > is like a panic button for your phone that lets some kind of > monitoring company know you need help in those situations one hopes > will never happen. I may potentially be starting a job some time in > the new year if all goes well, and walking home in the dark around 9 > at night might be part of what I have to do for awhile until the > earlier shift opens up. . My apartment is only around 4 street > crossings away from there, but safety is something I think about, but I'm not > worried enough to say no to the offer if it comes my way. > I tried to create an account and subscribe to this thing, presumably > through an iTunes subscription, but all I get is the alert sound with > the screen staying the same. In looking at the app store entry, the > app hasn't been updated since 2010, and it is advertised to be > compatible with phones of that era. I am running iOS 9.2 on an iPhone > 6. I tried doing the explore by touch thing to try to get to the > fields to fill out to no avail. I have also tried restarting VO to get > it to refresh its model of the screen, and that did nothing either. > How can I make this thing let me sign up? Even though their site is > still online, I have a small suspicion they killed it since the > Applevis review was posted last year. Are there any similarly priced > services with apps that are accessible that are still providing this > kind of service? The demo part I did see looks tricky to actually > activate because getting a tripple tap passed through VO correctly reminds me > of the child-proof containers we are probably all glad we couldn't open as > kids. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, > or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact > the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Follow me on Twitter at: www.twitter.com/wcmerritt My website: www.wayneism.com My book list: www.wayneism.com/books.php -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
