Hi Barbara,
You can't answer by voice, of course you can answer very easily if your headset is connected by pressing the answer/hang-up button which is also the Play/Pause button when you are not on a call. It is the slightly resessed middle area on the headsets remote. I rarely answer with a 2-finger double tap since it's very easy to find the "Slide to Answer" control. The choices are slightly different depending on whether your phone is locked when the call comes in or whether you are doing something and it's unlocked. Keep in mind that you can press either the volume up or down key when it is ringing and this will mute the ringer which of course makes it a lot easier to hear Voiceover. If you hear the caller Id and decide you don't want to take the call you can press the Power button twice quickly and that will decline the call and send it to Voicemail. OK, so here is what I do when the phone is locked: As soon as the phone rings you only have 3 things on the screen: The caller's identity, either their name if they are in your contacts or the phone number. A large "Slide to answer" control This si super easy to find as it takes up the entire bottom area above the home key exactly like the "Slide to Unlock" control. You can just put your finger on the home key, then slide up a bit and you will hear "Slide to Answer", now double tap anywhere and the call is answered. If you want to hear the caller's identity again, do the same and when you hear "Slide to Answer" just do a quick single finger flick left and Voiceover reads the caller's identity/phone number. Do a single finger flick right and you are on the "Call Options" button which I explain next. Third and this is new in iOS 6 is the "Call Options" button. If you double tap it you get a new screen with the following 6 items from top to bottom: 1. Caller's identity 2. Decline button 3. Answer button 4. Call Options button (this will hide that screen again if you tap it) 5. Reply with Message button (I am always placed on this by default it seems after I double tap Call Options" If you double tap you get to choose 1 of 3 pre-programmed messages and the caller will get a text message with the text of whichever message you pick. You can configure what these messages say in "Settings", "Phone" and "Reply with message". All 3 messages start with "Can't talk right now" and then whichever custom text you set up, e.g. Please call me back in 10 minutes. Thank You." 6. Remind Me Later button Double tap this and you can choose from the following: 1 hour When I leave When I get Home When I get to Work I assume the "When I get Home" or "When I get to Work" options of course depend on whether you set up your home and work address as the phone has to know who you are and what these locations are. The "When I leave" would most likely refer to wherever you are currently and the geofence would bbe set up based on your current GPS location. The "In 1 hour" reminder is of course a simple time based reminder, the others are location based reminders and you want to keep this in mind because as soon as you set up a location based reminder your phone constantly monitors your location and this will use more battery. OK, second scenario is that your phone is unlocked and it rings. Now instead of one large "Slide to Answer" along the bottom you have "Decline from the left edge to about the middle above the home key and "Answer" from the home key to the right and on the very right is the "Call Options" button. Your caller identification is displayed above. It is once again very easy. Put your finger on the home key and slide up and to the right just a bit, maybe towards the 1 o'clock position. This will put you right on the Answer button. Should you for some reason are on "Decline", just do a quick single finger flick right and you are on Answer. If you slide to high and you hear the caller's name or phone number, flick right twice, first time it will go to Decline, second time to Answer. If you want the Call Options flick right once if you are on Answer or twice if you are on Decline. I highly recommend you use your landline or, if you don't have one, visit a friend or family and ask them to call you repeatedly to become familiar with the layout and practice this. If you want to use the Call Options to Reply with Message, for example, you don't actually have to have this all done before it goes to Voicemail. As long as you get to it you can finish making your selections even if the caller has already been forwarded to Voicemail. Since I know that after I double tap on Call Options focus is placed on Reply with Message, all I do is double tap Call Options, then I double tap again and for me I am always placed on the very top which is the common heading "Can't talk right now". Then I can flick right to my first custom text message, flick right again to the second, flick right again to the third. If you flick right again you actually get a "Custom" button which allows you to type a personalized message just for that particular call. Lastly there is a "Cancel" button if you decide not to send a text. OK, hope this helps. Regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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