Hi Deidre, I assume when you say you moved the "Home icon" to the last page you mean the Home app from Apple. If so then this has very little to do with what Voiceover calls Page 1 which is called the Today screen. I do find it useful, but I did customize it to show me the stuff I want to see, e.g. I have it setup so the information of my Netatmo Wweather Station is displayed there, my Scotia Bank app can be set up so it displays account balances on the widget so I have those there etc. This means instead of having to open Netatmo and looking at the outside and inside modules separately I can just do a 3-finger swipe left to right to go to the Today screen and get a summary of current temperatures, humidity etc. at all my modules. The same with my bank app, instead of having to open it and sign in, I can just swipe right if I just want to see my balance etc. I think of it as no different than swiping down from the taskbar to go to the notification centre or up to go to the control centre, it's there if I want it and if I don't want it or need it I don't have to go there. I think there are a few OCD type personalities who are greatly offended by the fact that the first home page is now calleD "2 OF 4" OR however many home pages you have. All I can say there is so what, it's just that Apple chose to call the Today page page 1, if you are anywhere and press the home button you still go to your first home page (page 2) so it's not like you always end up there if you don't want to and if you don't wat to use the widgets there just ignore it.
As for the app switcher I am not sure what the problem is, I don't have that issue. I can close any app with a 3-finger swipe up or with a single finger swipe up or down to put the rotor on "Close" and then double tap. Note if you use the rotor gesture you don't have to do the one-finger flick again unless you end up on "home" and swipe left again to close more programs, if that happens you do have to swipe down or up again so Voiceover says "close" followed by the app name. This is the same when you tap on the "Pages" button at the bottom right in Safari. This brings up a list of open pages/tabs in Safari, you flick down with one finger to "Close" and then double tap and now if you have 8 more pages/tabs to close you can simply touch each one to focus on it and double tap as the rotor will remain on the "close" function. I have no idea what said "Hello" and why it said so. Maybe you can explain this more. Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of deidre muccio Sent: Monday, June 5, 2017 7:05 AM To: [email protected] Subject: last update I have read here that the most current update will overall help your phone work far more efficiently. Really? Is this a fact? I'm not so impressed with some of the new features of the last update, and here we are onto 11. Is anyone finding that page 1 Home thing of any use? As it is I moved the HOME icon to a far page because I don't even want to see it. I'm also often getting stuck when in the app switcher trying to close out applications. Facebook is particularly obnoxious and I could not close it without shutting down the phone. First it had to say hello then ask me to either double tap to activate the program, or hit on the button before it would do anything. I could not simply close it out. I'm not even sure the program was open but why was it sitting there prompting me to do something with it? . I'll give it up before I spend another minute fussing with it. Please lighten my load of ignorance over another issue if I am off the wall with this next comment. When doing searches using a very old update on a 4S, when I do a search, the results are solid and get me to a web site with real language in it and not a whole lot of extraneous links. Is the arrangement of results when doing searches with current updates likely to be different? Also even though there is an option to choose Google as my default for a search engine, it always brings up search results via BING. I remember on the old desktop BING kept reasserting itself no matter what. I hate this kind of lack of control. Ok, was that off the wall? Deidre -- 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. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
