I will answer your question about sending texts. You can dictate your text by holding down the home button until you hear a tone. Then say "send text to and the name or phone number you want to text." If you pause during the message the recording will stop and you start over again. When you are finished recording let go of the home button and, I think, SIRI will repeat your message to you. If you like the message press the home button and say send. Your other option is to purchase a Bluetooth key board and pair it with the phone. You can then type your message. If you enjoy reading books or magazines from BARD, Bookshare or Learning Ally, they all have apps so you can read with your IPhone. I would strongly recommend applevis.com. They have several guides, blogs and podcasts that can help you. I don't have IOS 7 yet so I don't know if they have anything on it yet. Best of luck. This group will really be helpful
On 9/23/13, Paulette Vickery <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > > > My name is Paulette Vickery. I just joined this group last night. I am > using > an Iphone 4 S and IOS 7, which I downloaded yesterday. I have been happily > married for 40 years, have 6 grown children and 11 grand children. I am a > psychotherapist in private practice and I am getting started in the voice > over industry. I also do quite a bit of baby sitting. I enjoy cooking, > reading, knitting, crocheting, safety pin beading and basket making. > > > > I enjoy my phone, but I know that I should be able to do so much more than > I > am presently doing with my Iphone. I often get frustrated, because there > seems to be nowhere I can ask even the simplest of Iphone questions. I am > glad that I learned about this list from asking people on other lists to > suggest a list I could join where I could ask such questions. > > > > So, here goes. I purchased the 2 booklets available from the National > Braille Press, full of good apps for the blind to download. I downloaded > many of them, but have never used them because I can't find anywhere that > shows me how to use the app. It's like it is generally assumed that I > should > know how to use it, because I downloaded the app. Well we all know what > happens when we assume, and I am ready for that to change, at least as far > as I am concerned. Smile. > > > > Here are a few of the problems I am having. I can't remember the app names > right now, I can check them in the morning. But one of the apps I > downloaded > was called, Cards, I believe. With it, I am supposed to be able to send > E-cards whenever I please, but I have no idea how to do it. I also > downloaded, Loose It, an app called, Work out, I think, remind me, and Stem > Stumper, which I can't even access. I am so frustrated because I have no > idea how to use these or many other apps. > > > > Now, to be fair, I also downloaded, Pandora and Dave Ramsey, both of which > I > can use pretty well. > > > > And about IOS 7. The first I new about it was yesterday when something > popped up in the middle of my screen yesterday morning, during a really > good > Toby Keith song I was listening to on Pandora. I was asked if I wanted to > update my Iphone by getting the app. Since a few others on other lists had > mentioned that IOS 7 was a good thing, and since nowhere could I find > anything on the screen that said that I had a choice of downloading the app > later, I decided to just go ahead and download it, so that I could give a > thumbs up to the Toby Keith song. To make a long story short, after I > agreed > to be a good girl and not do anything bad to the Apple company, I was told > that it was downloading, then that my phone was rebooting or something > similar. Then Voice Over went silent. I waited and nothing happened. I > called the accessibility arm of Apple Care and finally they told me that I > had to go to a near by Sprint store and they could get it up and running > for > me. My husband was annoyed because I downloaded it in the first place when > it was so hot off the shelf, so to speak, but he tried to get it to work. > He > said that the screen said I needed to connect to Itune s. That didn't work > either. We went to the Sprint store and they couldn't fix it. By this time > I > was wishing that I had never heard of IOS updates and I had learned to my > great surprise that I was willing to bring my day to a screeching halt > until > I got my phone useable again! The Sprint people said that we should go to > the Apple store. Finally, someone at Apple was able to get IOS 7 working > with my phone. Then, after all that, I discovered that Siri had a cold and > sounded simply awful! I called Apple accessibility again last evening and > between a very helpful and patient gentleman and my husband, who helped > when > the Apple man was flumixed because occationally I didn't understand what he > was talking about and my phone just wouldn't do what he said that it > should. > But finally I was able to get hooked up with wifi and begin downloading, or > expanding or whatever, something called the enhanced voice for Voice Over. > He said that it might take several hours to download, well whatever I was > downloading, so I should leave my Iphone hooked up to WIFI over night. I > certainly hope the voice sounds better in the morning. > > > > So, could someone please tell me in short sentences, how I can learn about > and use apps, find some good games that don't take a lot of brain power to > pass the time while waiting for a ride, andhow I can send a message easily. > I absolutely hate hunt and peck typing, which is what I have to do on that > little screen. > > > > I know this has been an unusually long post, but it was my first one and I > wanted to give you a real feel for my situation. I am so glad that I > learned > about this list, at last I have a group of blind people who use Iphones to > help me with my questions. Thanks so much in advance for any and all > assistance you are able to give. > > > > Paulette > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > [email protected]. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > [email protected]. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > 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]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Marianne Denning, TVI, MA Teacher of students who are blind or visually impaired (513) 607-6053 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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