I find the gesture for the home button okay but accessing the app switcher is a 
pain. so can you use assistive touch to open it. I checked the web site but did 
not see any specific reference to the switcher. Is this just wishful thinking 
on my part?
Marie


From: Cristobal Munoz 
Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2018 5:13 PM
To: [email protected] 
Subject: Re: got a new toy!

Here you go: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202658

On Nov 8, 2018, at 3:33 PM, Carolyn Arnold <[email protected]> wrote:


  Did you go to settings to make that change?What were the steps (for whenever 
I get a new phone)? Thanks. 

  Best regards,

  Carolyn 


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  From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
Cristóbal Muñoz
  Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2018 4:56 PM
  To: [email protected]
  Subject: RE: got a new toy!

  Speedwise, the SE can still hold its own. I was getting more hanging and apps 
taking longer to open, switching between apps  and things like that to where it 
was getting noticeable for me though. My business line I use for mainly 
receiving and making calls. All the other work related stuff like alerts, 
texting, calendar look ups, email, etc I do off of my main phone. Thus I 
decided to upgrade.
  I'm still not a fan of Face ID and it's fairly frequent that I'm prompted for 
a passcode. I know the new gestures to replace the home button are there, but I 
simply don't find them as convenient or intuitive as just pressing the home 
button. Had they come out with a second generation SE, I would have snatched 
that sucker up in a second. 
  I know Apple talks up the new gestures a lot, but I find them to be bleh and 
at the very least a step back in user experience. 
  What I ended up doing too is to enable the assistive touch button and place 
it in my dock sort of as the fifth app there. Right between the second and 
third apps. 
  I then changed the behavior of the button so that one tap (VO double tap) 
would act as the home button and a double tap (VO triple tap) would be the 
control panel. With the long press and hold activating the menu for the rest of 
the assistive touch options. 
  This for me works since I can use the XR more comfortably as a one handed 
device and not bother with the swipe up gesture as the home button as I find 
just tapping the assistive touch icon much faster. That and I'm lazy too I 
guess. Makes unlocking the phone quicker for me as well.

  Cristóbal

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  From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Mike 
Arrigo
  Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2018 1:22 PM
  To: [email protected]
  Subject: Re: got a new toy!

  I'm actually surprised at how fast the iphone se is, for every day tasks, 
it's not much slower than the XR or 8, definitely faster than the 5S. The only 
thing I have noticed is that the cell reception is not quite as good in some 
areas as with the 8 and XR, the SE will have less bars in some areas, it's a 
great little phone, I was kind of sorry to see it discontinued even though the 
technology in it was starting to show its age.
  Original message:

    With my XR, I bumped my SE to my business cell since my trusty 5S was 

    giving me more and more trouble. Slightly annoying that the SE's a 64 

    GB device since it's got nothing on it now, but oh well. Slowness 

    aside on the 5S which is to be expected for such an old device, it 

    started to act all weird on me. VO wasn't reading the phone numbers 

    and often, it would automatically call people.

    The 5S has a broken volume up button, a touch ID that doesn't work and 

    a rear camera that's also broken. My wife changed the battery on it 

    over the summer so as a super simple internet device, it can still 

    work. She's going to buy the replacement camera module ($12 or so) and 

    try to fix it. We've got nothing to lose. It's already broken.

    We'll probably use it as a security camera or something. She's also 

    got designs on taking it out with her to rack up more shoppkick and 

    iBotta points by piggybacking off of her cell's personal hotspot.

    We're going to use that sucker for something until the wheels fall off.



    Cristóbal



    -----Original Message-----

    From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of 

    Mary Otten

    Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2018 8:38 AM

    To: [email protected]

    Subject: Re: got a new toy!



    I also got an XR to go with my iPhone 7 Plus, which just got a nice 

    new battery, thank you Apple for the rather inexpensive battery 

    replacement program.



    I retired in old iPad mini too, which I used for lots of book reading. 

    So the 7+ is now taking over for that phone. I only have one working 

    phone. That is just one phone line. But I think I will be set for 

    several years to come with these phones and their big batteries.



    Sent from my iPhone



      On Nov 8, 2018, at 8:29 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote:



      Must be nice to be rich *smile*

      I would love an XR, I could afford one but I really just don't see 

      the need at this point and I never found much use for having more 

      than one cell phone. When I bought my current 6S Plus I first kept my 

      5S and thought I would use it at home, for Audible and all that. I 

      quickly noticed I just never did so I sold it.



      -----Original Message-----

      From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf 

      Of Mike Arrigo

      Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2018 8:26 AM

      To: [email protected]

      Subject: got a new toy!



      So, I decided to add another iphone to my collection, the Iphone XR, 

      so I have an XR, an Iphone 8 and an Iphone SE. It's a nice phone, the 

      Apple store only had one case for it which was an Otterbox.

      Unfortunately the Mophie juice pack is not available for this phone, 

      at least not yet. I wasn't sure how easy it would be to get used to 

      not having a home button but it wasn't too bad, basically a short 

      swipe up from the bottom takes you home and a longer swipe opens the 

      app switcher. The vibrations are helpful but once you do it a few 

      times, you learn how far you must swipe up for each function. Battery 

      life seems really good especially if you turn the brightness all the 

      way down and turn off the true tone, over all it's a great phone for 

      my collection.



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