You do not need to do anything with any app to use these shortcuts,
they are Siri shortcuts.
If you updated the app, and checked that the phrases are there.
Close all your apps, or whatever, but just tell Siri one of the
phrases like:
Siri, describe fully with Be My Eyes, and whatever the camera sees
will be described.
Ask Siri to read with Be My Eyes and whatever the camera sees will be
read.
Richard, USA,
"When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to
step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two
things will happen: there will be something solid to stand on or you
will be taught how to fly."
-- Barbara J. Winter.
My web site: https://www.turner42.com/ <https://www.turner42.com/>
*From:*'Harry Bell' via VIPhone <[email protected]>
*Sent:* Thursday, February 6, 2025 12:17 PM
*To:* [email protected]
*Cc:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: A new update, 6.1 for Be My Eyes is in the app store
and brings the updates mentioned in this article
I’m sorry I still don’t understand concretely how to use these
shortcuts! I just tried opening the Camera app and then telling Siri
to give a full description with be My Eyes and Siri simply replied
replied that I would have to add her information to the Contacts app.
Can you give an example step-by-step of using these Commands?
Thanks
Harry.
On 6 Feb 2025, at 20:10, 'Richard Turner' via VIPhone
<[email protected]> wrote:
That is because the Siri commands are for using the camera, not
the screen. Or, for asking questions which I assume will involve
using the internet…
You still have to share the photo from the camera or photos app to
have it described with Be My Eyes.
Richard, USA,
"When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about
to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one
of two things will happen: there will be something solid to stand
on or you will be taught how to fly."
-- Barbara J. Winter.
My web site: https://www.turner42.com/
*From:*ubupanoramix via VIPhone <[email protected]>
*Sent:* Thursday, February 6, 2025 12:03 PM
*To:* [email protected]
*Cc:* [email protected]; [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: A new update, 6.1 for Be My Eyes is in the app
store and brings the updates mentioned in this article
I have updated the app, but if if I get a photo on the screen of
my iPhone and then issue one of those commands to ask Siri to give
a full description for example, Siri just says I will need to add
this to my contacts first and who do I want to call??
Harry.
On 6 Feb 2025, at 19:25, 'Richard Turner' via VIPhone
<[email protected]> wrote:
See the end for my note about enabling the Siri commands.
From David Goldfield's Tech VI list:
Original Source
<https://www.bemyeyes.com/blog/be-my-eyes-releases-winter-25-app-update>
Be My Eyes Releases Winter ‘25 App Update Promising
Significant New Capabilities for Blind Users
Introduces Performance Enhancements and Flexible New Data
Choices for Users
Be My Eyes logo
*San Francisco, 5 February, 2025* - Be My Eyes (bemyeyes.com
<http://bemyeyes.com/>), the company that breaks down barriers
to accessibility for people who are blind or have low vision,
announced today a major update to its award-winning app. The
Winter ‘25 release is focused on enhanced usability and
performance as well as improving data controls and choices for
its users.
Although Be My Eyes makes continuous improvements to its app
with incremental updates throughout the year, the Winter ‘25
release - which coincides with the recent 10th anniversary of
the original launch of the Be My Eyes app - holds significant
new capabilities for its users. It also introduces important
new data management capabilities including the formalization
of a data retention policy promised in the announcement in
July 2024 about AI training data
<https://www.bemyeyes.com/blog/be-my-eyes-launches-initiative-to-make-ai-models-more-inclusive>.
The new capabilities are focused around two main areas:
1. User Experience and Performance
2. User Data Management
*User Experience and Performance*
**The Winter ‘25 release adds some new and exciting user
experience and performance features.
/*Higher Resolution Video*/*/
///*Call-a-Volunteer video calls are now made in full 1080p
HD resolution as a default. This higher resolution provides
volunteers and Service Connect agents (when calling a
business) with clearer images and finer details when
zooming-in before providing any description or answers to the
user.
/*Auto Read Aloud*/
/**/Be My AI, the AI-powered visual interpretation agent, has
also undergone some enhancements. For example, at the request
of many low vision users, descriptive texts can now be read
aloud automatically even if a screen reader is not active on
the device, making for a more elegant and easy way to access
descriptions without the need for additional software or
settings.
/*Image Saving and Sharing*/
/**/Images taken with the app, along with the AI-generated
descriptive text, can now be permanently saved directly to the
smartphone’s camera roll, or shared with friends or family.
Any saved photos will be excluded from a new 30-day
auto-deletion data protection policy. Previously saved photos
can also be unsaved and will then be archived according to the
30-day limit. When a photo is shared it will also be saved
indefinitely past the 30-day limit, until such time as the
user chooses to unshare and remove the link.
/*Custom iOS Shortcuts*/
/**/And for Apple iOS users, the release provides new
shortcuts to quickly and easily access Be My Eyes
functionality. Users can use built-in phrases or build their
own in the Shortcuts app in iOS. For example “Hey SIri” will
now be able to read text aloud from a document with “Read with
Be My Eyes” or provide a summary description of an image with
“Describe quickly with Be My Eyes”, and many more.
*User Data Management*
**Since launching its ground-breaking Be My AI service, which
interprets images taken by the user and describes them in
detail using advanced artificial intelligence, Be My Eyes has
been storing images and the corresponding AI descriptions
under strict compliance with its data policy terms. It has
done so primarily for testing and product enhancement
purposes. However, with Be My AI now officially out of Beta
testing, and to fulfill the promise made to formalize a new
data retention policy and implement it in early 2025, all
images and their AI descriptions will now be saved for just 30
days, before being deleted. Users will have the ability to
save specific images if they choose, but by default any images
not saved will be deleted after the 30 day period.
Be My Eyes users have always been able to control, opt out or
delete their data, but now, they have more seamless control
via new Settings options, accessible from an updated and
simplified Settings Menu. For example, some users may choose
to opt-out of the much lauded Be My Eyes AI training
initiative, whereby video data (with metadata stripped of
Personally Identifiable Information) is shared with AI vendors
to train their models in being more inclusive, accessible, and
without disability bias. If they choose to opt-out they can
now do so with a simple switch in the app.
/“We first launched the Be My Eyes app 10 years ago. A lot
has happened in the years since, both within our app as well
as the broader market place in which we provide it. One of the
biggest is obviously generative AI, our early and innovative
adoption of it, and the market’s thinking around how it will
develop and how to protect individuals from misuse” s/aid
Jesper Henriksen, CTO of Be My Eyes. /“We take that maturity
of thinking very seriously, and is why we embrace AI so fully
as part of our product development plans and why we put so
much thought and effort into our data management policies and
control of them into our users’ hands.” /
/“We are very proud of just how far our Be My Eyes platform
has come in the 10 years since we launched” /continued
Henriksen./ “With over seven hundred and fifty thousand blind
and low-vision users, eight and a half million sighted
volunteers, ground-breaking use of AI, millions of user
requests every month, and some of the world’s most iconic
brands as paying customers, I think it is fair to say that Be
My Eyes really is doing its bit to make the world more
accessible and continues to be a world leader in providing
innovative, free accessibility solutions for the world’s 340
million people who are blind or have low vision.”/
*END*
*About Be My Eyes*
**Launched in 2015, Be My Eyes is a globally recognized and
award-winning access technology provider for people who are
blind or have low vision. With a global community of 750,000
users, and over 8 million volunteers, Be My Eyes connects
blind and low-vision users with sighted volunteers and
companies, through live video and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
to tackle inaccessible parts of everyday life, whether at home
or at work; all for free to the end user.Be My Eyes is
available in more than 150 countries worldwide and its
volunteers speak more than 180 languages. To learn more,
please visit bemyeyes.com <http://bemyeyes.com/> or join us on
LinkedIn
<https://www.linkedin.com/company/be-my-eyes/?originalSubdomain=dk>,
X
<https://twitter.com/BeMyEyes?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor>,
Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/bemyeyesapp/>, Instagram
<https://www.instagram.com/bemyeyesapp/?hl=en>, Mastodon
<https://mastodon.social/@bemyeyes>, Threads
<https://www.threads.net/@bemyeyesapp>, Bluesky
<https://bsky.app/profile/bemyeyes.bsky.social> and TikTok
<https://www.tiktok.com/@bemyeyesapp?lang=en>.
Read more blogs <https://www.bemyeyes.com/blog>
David Goldfield,
Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist
www.DavidGoldfield.com <http://www.davidgoldfield.com/>
Director of Marketing,
Blazie Technologies
www.BlazieTech.com <http://www.blazietech.com/>
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Note about Siri commands in Be My Eyes 6.1:
First, make sure you have updated Be My Eyes.
Second, be sure you open the settings tab at the bottom right
of Be My Eyes.
Third, Double tap on Shortcuts.
Fourth, Read that screen.
It says:
You can trigger shortcuts with Siri using the phrases below or
create your own in the Shortcuts app..
With Siri you can say:
* Call a volunteer with Be My Eyes.
** Ask Be My Eyes.
* Read with Be My Eyes
* Describe with Be My Eyes.
* Describe quickly with Be My Eyes.
* Describe fully with Be My Eyes.
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