If you double tap on a text message conversation the action rotor should automatically be selected. If so, flicking down with one finger will select "More". You can now double tap and this is basically the same as tapping "Edit" in iOS 6. You now have a "Clear All" button at the top left of the screen which allows you to delete all messages in that conversation without actually deleteing the conversation itself. You can also double tap any messages in the conversation and Voiceover will say "selected". If you have selected one or more messages in this way you can now turn the rotor to Edit, then flick down with one finger to "Copy". Now double tap and the messages you had selected will be copied to the clipboard and you can paste them into an email, a Note or other app.
Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gmail Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 6:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Need Some Tips on Edit Functions I've never had the edit rotor option come up in a text message conversation. I can't even seem to use the gesture to select text in a conversation. It just won't select anything. Thanks, Ari > On Dec 16, 2013, at 7:57 AM, "Alan Lemly" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'll add to Sieghard's comments. Garth's democast on this topic is > excellent. The title of the episode is Episode 12 - Selecting, Copying > and Pasting Text and it can be found on this page: > > http://www.iblindtech.com/democast/?currentPage=3 > > Greg Kelchner also did a podcast called Exploring and Demonstrating > the Advanced Text Editing Capabilities in iOS for VoiceOver Users > which can be found on AppleVis at the following link: > > http://www.applevis.com/podcast/episodes/exploring-and-demonstrating-a > dvance d-text-editing-capabilities-ios-voiceover-users > > That link will no doubt break since it is longer than one line so here > is a TinyURL link to the same thing: > > http://tinyurl.com/ka32zkb > > Be aware that both of the above podcasts are pre-iOS 7 which added > some more editing gestures as Sieghard already excellently explained. > > I agree that selecting and editing text on an iPhone is one of the > most difficult things to do on it. But like everything, practice does > make you better at it. I won't say perfect because I am so far from > that level that I'm not even going to pretend it's attainable. > > Good luck. > > Alan Lemly > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel > Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 9:05 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Need Some Tips on Edit Functions > > Hi Bill, > > I suggest you go to www.IBlindTech.com and listen to Garth's Podcast > about selecting, copying and pasting text. I can't remember which > number it is, but it is called very similar to what I just put here, > Selecting, Copying and Pasting Text, so it should be easy to find. > Doing this is one of the more tricky gestures and involves using 2 > fingers which you place in the middle of the screen close together and > then you move them apart horizontally. It is called a "Pinch Out" > gesture and if, for example, you turn the rotor to Words, the text you > want to select in Your Messages app will be selected word by word as > you increase the distance between your fingers. > If you get to the edge of the screen and not all the text has been > selected you can repeat the gesture. > When you are done you now turn the rotor to Edit, then flick down with > one finger until you hear "Copy", then double tap. Your selected text > has now been copied to the Clibboard. > You next would open the Mail app, address the message and then in the > body field once again turn the rotor to Edit, then flick down until > you get to Paste and double tap. > > Another, easier way which often works well in iOS 7 is to use the new > 4-finger quadruple tap. > This gesture copies the last spoken text to the Clipboard, Voiceover > actually calls it "Pastboard". > You would just touch the message you want to copy, let Voiceover read > it completely and then immediately after it finishes do a 4-finger > quadruple tap. > Then go to your Mail app, start a message and do what I described > above which is to turn the rotor to Edit, flick down to Paste and double tap. > One thing this method does is that it also pastes things Voiceover > says like "link" or "button". > For example, assume you have an email with a phone number or hyperlink > and Voiceover reads the number followed by "phone number detected or > the link followed by "link detected". > If you do a 4-finger quadruple tap and then paste the number or link > into another email, Voiceover would also paste the text "Phone Number Detected" > or "link detected" and you would have to delete this again if all you > wanted was the phone number or link. > But this is still a very useful feature. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Bill Gallik > Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 6:33 AM > To: List, viPhone > Subject: Need Some Tips on Edit Functions > > OK, I have to confess to some total ignorance here. I want to take > the text from a text message and place it into an e-mail so I can send > it off to somebody who doesn't have a mobile phone. Here's my questions: > > - How do I select the text I want from the text message? > - How do I then copy it to the work space? > - How do I then paste that text into an e-mail? > - Where can I read about using these edit functions so I can learn how > to do additional things? > > Thanks in advance! > > > ---------------- > Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to You and Yours Holland and Bill > - Scrooge, witnessing the Cratchet family Christmas celebration, > begins an exchange with the Spirit of Christmas Present: > - "`Spirit,' said Scrooge, with an interest he had never felt before, > `tell me if Tiny Tim will live.' > `I see a vacant seat,' replied the Ghost, `in the poor chimney-corner, > and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved. If these shadows > remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die.' > `No, no,' said Scrooge. `Oh, no, kind Spirit. say he will be spared.' > `If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, none other of my race,' > returned the Ghost, `will find him here. What then. If he be like to > die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.' > Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and > was overcome with penitence and grief." > - "A Christmas Carol," 1843, Charles Dickens > > -- > 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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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