Enter in the too field of the message app worked as advertised. To your other point I don't have the dexterity or coordination to perform a fair number of the gestures hence the keyboard.
Ray T. Mahorney WA4WGA -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 10:39 To: [email protected] Subject: Navigating the Messages app with a bluetooth keyboard Sorry, I should have changed the subject from the previous thread. "Installing iOS 7" does not really reflect what Ray asked about regarding using a Bluetooth keyboard in the Messages app, so I am reposting this. Hi Ray and Chris, First, I assume you are talking about text messages and not email messages because I just used my Apple Wireless keyboard to start a new email and added to recipiants, one by typing in the first few characters of a name and then selecting it from the list and the other by selecting the "Add from addressbook" button and selecting a second person. In the Mail app I was able to use the right arrow on the keyboard after doing that to swipe to the subject and message body field without any issues. Now, in the Messages app I was not able to arrow past the "To" field or the "Add from addressbook" button no matter whether I typed a few letters and selected the contact from the search results or whether I selected the Add from addressbook button and picked a person's mobile number from my Contacts. I could, however, touch the screen and put focus on the message field where I could then type my message and, in fact, once focus was on that I was able to left arrow back to the To field, the Add from addressbook button and also arrow back forward. If I opened an existing conversation and touched the screen on a previous message I was able to arrow back and forth in that message, but not outside it, Voiceover definitely behaves a bit strange here. But, the iPhone after all is a touch screen device and while it's handy to use a Bluetooth keyboard at times to type a longer message, I can still just touch the screen to get where I want to be; if I exclusively want to navigate with a Bluetooth keyboard without touching the screen then I would seriously reconsider owning an iPhone. I also found out that there is a simple work-around for getting from the "To" field to the message field after adding a recipient or recipiants. Just press Enter when you are in the "To" field and the cursor immediately jumps to the message field where you can type your message, right arrow to the "Send" button and activate it. I just tried the 2 obvious choices when I noticed I couldn't right arrow ahead, first I pressed Tab and since that didn't do anything I tried Enter and that worked fine. Regards, Sieghard -- 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. -- 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. -- 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.
