Hi Pablo and Donna, It is possible to edit emails, but you have to remember that the behavior is different and work around it. I do this (both for emails and text messages) by swiping into the field. For example, if I want to review a text message, I put my finger on the Sent button on the right side of the screen just above the "P" on the keyboard. Now I swipe left once. This will make Voiceover read out the content of the entire edit field. I can now double tap with one finger to move to the beginning of the edit field or double tap again to move to the end again. If I want to go through my text word by word and make some corrections, I go to the beginning of the text, then I turn the rotor to words and swipe down which moves my cursor word by word. As soon as Voiceover speaks a word the cursor is placed at the end of that word. Let's assume I used Dictation to dictate the following text message:
Hello, I am back from my trip no but I only just came back to the office and will call soon. Note that I wanted to say "back from my trip now", but SIRI heard "no" and I want to add the "w" at the end of "no". I swipe into the text field, then I do a double tap with one finger to move the cursor to the start of the text. Now I turn the rotor to words and swipe down with one finger 8 times and the last swipe will be when Voiceover reads the word "no". I know my cursor is at the end of the word so I just type a "w" then I once again touch the send button and swipe left once. Voiceover now reads the sentence out correctly, I can swipe right again to Send and double tap to send the message. In email it works the same way, if you swipe into the message body field you can go to the start or end with a double tap and you can turn the rotor to characters, words or lines to read through your email. If it is a longer mail I would use lines to find the line I want, then turn the rotor back once to words, find where I want to make a correction or insert more text and do it. I haven't practiced writing an email and editing it by moving the cursor with my finger as David suggests you can do and therefore I can't really say if I like it or not. I don't write an email on the iPhone unless I am away and have to, doing email on a computer is so much faster and more efficient and I just don't see the point in trying to do more than maybe read email, but if I am at home or at my office where a computer is always nearby then that is certainly easier. Just because I can reply to an email on my iPhone doesn't mean I have to do it if I can do it quicker on my laptop at home or one of my desktops at work. Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Donna Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2013 5:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Problem typing email Hi Pablo For me, this is the most frustrating and the only bug in IOS 7 that I complain about and haven't found a work around. Guess this is something we will have to suffer, bang our heads, yell and deal with the best we can without giving ourselves a heart attack before Apple comes up with a bug fix. Hopefully another update to IOS 7 is just around the corner! Donna > On Dec 1, 2013, at 12:55 AM, Pablo Morales <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey guys I am getting the same problem. I cannot edit emails, no matter if I am using handwriting, or just the virtual keyboard. They voiceover coursers jumps everywhere all the time when I am writing. What is ?that I have to do? > > -- > 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.
