On Mar 1, 2025, at 7:08 PM, Carolyn Arnold<[email protected]> wrote:
Josh, I am exactly like you are about all that. I never think to have Siri
open an app. It annoys me, though, when I ask Siri something, and she says
here's what I found on the weg, and half the time, I xan't find whatever she
found.
Carolyn Arnold
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Sent: Saturday, March 1, 2025 6:06 PM
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Subject: Re: 16, or 16E?
Personally I just learned the original gestures which work fine for me. I never
have Siri open apps when I can omen them myself and I know where the app is
either on my home page or on which of my three pages the app I want is located.
It is great the iPhone is so customizable.
Sent from my quantum phone!!
On Mar 1, 2025, at 4:53 PM, Barbara Stahl<[email protected]>
wrote:
You can also create your own gesture, or assign a particular gesture for
going to the home screen, or opening the app switcher I prefer that method for
these functions there was an email thread about how to do this a while back. I
copied the method used in the email thread and use swipe left with two fingers
two for the app, switcher and swipe right with two fingers to access the home
screen.
On Mar 1, 2025, at 12:22 PM, 'Richard Turner' via
VIPhone<[email protected]> wrote:
Marta, Thanks for the kind words on my web site,.
I honestly don't miss the home button.
The gesture for the App Switcher or going home is not that hard with a
little practice.
You can use the side button for Siri much like the home button. I
pretty much only use the app switcher now to close out apps, unless I am
somewhere that asking Siri to open an app is not appropriate.
I mostly tell Siri to open x y z app.
HTH,
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/>
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Marda
Sent: Saturday, March 1, 2025 9:02 AM
To: 'Richard Turner' via VIPhone<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: 16, or 16E?
Hi, Richard. Thanks for adding that info. That was one of my initial
feelings of frustration because you can do a lot of those things quickly with
the home button (accessibility shortcut, tripple click, app switcher double
click, Siri, hold, wait for the sound (or just hold for the appropriate time if
you can't hear the sound which because of my hearing loss I sometimes can't)
and it seemed like taking away the home button and assigning its functions to
several different things was making things needlessly complicated. But then,
what do I know? I don't know much about tech and certainly am not a designer
or programmer, just a lowly end user who has gotten to like doing things a
certain way but of course will adapt. Thanks for as always being so helpful
and thanks too for your website which I have directed quite a few people too
with happy results.
Marda
On 3/1/2025 10:00 AM, 'Richard Turner' via VIPhone wrote:
Hi Marta,
Yes, I was just giving the default function not having read through
Scott's complete email comparing the 16e and 16.
But, here is all the things you can set the Action button to:
Silent/Ring mode
Focus
Camera, Open the camera app
Flashlight
Voice Memo
Recognize Music
Magnifier
Controls. )the comment here says Quickly access your favorite
control.)
Shortcuts, (which says Open an app or run your favorite shortcut.)
Accessibility, (quickly use an accessibility feature.)
No Action.
I added the explanation where I thought it was useful in that list.
Note you can only have the action button do any one of those things.
I have a demo that I recorded on my web site for the gestures to
try and help folks learn how these work.
It is a few headings down on the demos page, link below.
https://www.turner42.com/DEMOS.html
HTH,
Richard, USA
"While striving for perfection, let us do what is possible." --
John Wesley
My web site:https://www.turner42.com
(sent from my iPhone 16 pro) c
On Mar 1, 2025, at 12:03 AM, Marda<[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
But the action button can also be set up to do other things as
well, right? So if you choose not to have it function as a toggle between ring
and silent modes you can have it do shortcuts like the accessibility shortcut
or you can have it do other things like turn on a specific focus mode, turn
airplane mode on or off or things like that. Not sure if you can make the
action button put you in the app switcher or not and I don't think you can do
things like you can with the home button like double click it for the app
switcher and tripple click it for the accessibility shortcut and if you don't
use it to toggle between silent and ring mode I'm not sure how you'd easily do
that so it doesn't seem as though it's as versatile as the home button unless
there's something I'm missing which seems sad to me. I'm not sure I understand
the rationale of getting rid of a button that has multiple functions with one
that can only do one thing, can't be double or tripple clicked. I'm not sure
about face ID either. I've heard from some people that, for instance, if they
wear a mask (which is sometimes still required in certain situations) it has
trouble. Also, can it really tell the difference with people like identical
twins i.e. will an identical twin get access to your iPhone because it can't
tell the difference in the face IDs?
Marda and so on.
On 2/28/2025 8:23 PM, 'Richard Turner' via VIPhone wrote:
The Action button replaces the switch above the volume
buttons on the left side. Instead of a lever, it is a button that if you hold
it in it will toggle from ring mode to silent mode. If you tap it, it tells you
which mode you are in.
The action button is about half the length of the volume
button.
The button on the right is the power/lock button, and if
held in, you can talk to Siri.
The 16 models that came out last fall also have a camera
button on the lower half of the right side that can be used to take pictures
and do other camera controls. It also works with Be My Eyes for taking a
picture.
The 16e does not have that camera button.
HTH,
Richard, USA
"While striving for perfection, let us do what is
possible." -- John Wesley
My web site:https://www.turner42.com
(sent from my iPhone 16 pro) c
On Feb 28, 2025, at 5:17 PM, 'Curtis Delzer' via
VIPhone<[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
I did not see this, thank you!
I do not know what that "action" button is, the right hand button on the phone for locking, etc? thanks
On 2/28/2025 2:48 PM, 'Richard Turner' via VIPhone wrote:
I don't know if you saw the article from AppleVis.com, but
here it is.
Hands On with the iPhone 16e: My First Impressions
iPhone 16e availability in the U.S. is less than 24 hours
away, and ahead of the launch, I was provided a unit for review.
Going into today, I was looking forward to sharing the
iPhone 16e with our community, especially as there has been much anticipation
and excitement on AppleVis surrounding this phone in particular. Unboxing
podcasts are a lot of fun, especially when the recording goes well. And I am of
the opinion that as Apple no longer sells a device with a Home Button, we
should be doing everything possible to ease the transition for people who are
still on older devices for whatever reason. It’s a bigger deal than you might
think, especially for the everyday blind, DeafBlind, or low vision user who
really relies on that Home Button as an anchor.
All in all, there is a lot to talk about with the iPhone
16e, but I wasn’t going to say any of it today. But that changed when I
actually experienced the iPhone 16e for myself.
The iPhone 16e is Apple’s most affordable phone at US$599,
and, to be honest, I was disappointed by the price when it was announced. I see
the iPhone 16e as the iPhone for the everyday person, the person who just needs
an iPhone to do the basic things. And I really was hoping Apple could get the
price down to something under $500 and make that phone available to as many
people as possible. On the other hand, the iPhone 16e has a lot of advanced
tech (a current-generation A18 processor, Apple Intelligence, the Action
Button, an all-new Apple-designed modem, just to name four); so the starting
price is more understandable when you consider what all you’re getting.
Concerns about price aside, I tried to approach reviewing
the iPhone 16e with an open mind. I know what I like in an iPhone, and I also
know that the iPhone 16e is meant for a different type of user than me. And
yet, I interact with people from all walks of life; and for many of them, all
they want is a basic iPhone. So the iPhone 16e interested me at first for those
reasons: Is this the modern iPhone for everyone?
As interested as I first was in the iPhone 16e, I never
expected that I would personally ‘like’ it—especially after only a few hours
with the device. But I do like it—a lot.
Generally, I gravitate towards the bigger phones for their
battery, speaker, and bigger ‘feel’. ‘Bigger’ has always meant ‘better’ to me.
But the iPhone 16e challenges my assumptions in a pretty big way, no pun
intended. Contrary to my expectations, I actually really like the thing. I like
the way it feels in my hand. Picking it up, holding it while on the phone, even
sending messages with Braille Screen Input—it feels great. And this was
unexpected to say the least.
Perhaps just as unexpected and even better than the
device’s ‘hand-feel’, are the speakers. Yes, I said ‘speakers’ because both the
bottom speaker and earpiece speaker are noticeably better than my
$600-more-expensive iPhone 16 Pro Max. In my review of the iPhone 16 Pro Max, I
shared about issues with the quality of sound output from the speakers. Other
members of the community have experienced similar issues.
I am happy to report that the sound on the iPhone 16e has
none of these issues. At higher volume, the iPhone 16e puts out a lot of bass
for its size. (I remember my iPhone 15 Pro being similar.) But, unlike my
personal iPhone 16 Pro Max, the iPhone 16e better maintains this bass at lower
volumes. There is none of the dramatic fluctuation in bass with volume
adjustment that I see on my iPhone 16 Pro Max, and this is a subtle—but
nevertheless huge—improvement.
And it is not just the bottom speaker that is improved; the
earpiece speaker has more bass as well, making the sound fuller and more
natural. I was on a FaceTime audio call shortly after setting up the iPhone
16e, and I actually called the person back from my iPhone 16 Pro Max to be sure
I wasn’t just imagining things. I wasn’t—the speaker quality is just better. If
the speakers are important to you, you will really like the iPhone 16e.
The iPhone 16e has a 6.1-inch display, similar to recent
smaller iPhones. If you have seen an iPhone 13 or 14, or their Pro
counterparts, for example, the iPhone 16e’s size will be familiar to you. The
iPhone 16e has the same A18 series processor as other iPhone 16 devices, and
VoiceOver performance is as snappy as on my iPhone 16 Pro Max.
In the iPhone 16e, Apple has tried to make the iPhone 16
experience available to more people at a lower price. The device has a lot to
like: the same series of processor, support for Apple Intelligence, and other
key features of the iPhone 16 family—even an Action Button. But there is no
getting around the fact that the iPhone 16e’s starting price tag of US$599 is
still way out of reach of a lot of people, which is both unfortunate and also a
lost market opportunity for Apple. Nevertheless, everything I have seen with
the iPhone 16e so far suggests that Apple may very well have a hit on its hands.
Watch this space.
Article from:
https://applevis.com/blog/hands-iphone-16e-my-first-impressions
Richard, USA
"While striving for perfection, let us do what is
possible." -- John Wesley
My web site:https://www.turner42.com
(sent from my iPhone 16 pro) c
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