I don't spend a lot of time cleaning up my phone. I don't understand
myself why people don't let the phone and other services do more for
them, like those people who can't wait the 30 days to have Google remove
messages in their trash folder. That's just not something I want to
spend my time doing. I think people are free to use their phone any way
they want, and it's best not to criticize someone just because they
choose to do something a bit differently.
On 01/03/2015 10:04 AM, Deidre Muccio wrote:
Sieghard
It’s done, but hearing how you navigate - though lengthy in this
description, might well save
me some time swiping! I have to go back and see how to delete old calls
and texts in batches. I just did it message by message and it was far
too time consuming. I don’t understand why more than a few friends of
mine leave all that stuff on their phones after listening or reading
their messages. How many out there let the messages pile on even though
they’ve already been dealt with? While I am here I might ask another
question. I haven’t seem to find anything about getting alerts to calls
through notifications. Other than from a sound or going into messages
can I be alerted to missed calls or texts through notifications? Deidre
**
*Sent:*Saturday, January 03, 2015 10:49 AM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* RE: People icon?
Hi Deidre,
Turning off People in the app switcher is not difficult. You can get to
the correct area in Settings by using SIRI and say “Open Mail Settings”.
If you want to do it manually, double tap on Settings, then touch just
above the home button and Voiceover should say something like “Do Not
Disturb”, at least that is the last item on the first screen which is
shown when Settings opens on my 5S. You can then swipe right I think
about 9 times to get to “Mail, Contacts, Calendars” or you can swipe up
with 3 fingers from the bottom of the screen towards the top to scroll
to page 2 of the Settings and then Mail Contacts Calendar is the second
item from the bottom.
Anyhow, once you found this item, double tap on it.
Once Mail, Contacts, Calendar opens, you have a “Settings, back” button
at the top left of the screen. This is exactly what it sounds like, a
back button which will back you out of the settings for Mail, Contacts,
Calendar back to the main settings screen.
If you swipe right (visually this is to the left of the back button
underneath the status bar) is a heading which indicates where you are
and Voiceover will read this as “Mail, Contacts, Calendar, heading”.
Right underneath if you drag your finger down the screen or if you swipe
right again is another heading “Accounts, heading”.
This indicates that what comes next are your accounts. You may only have
one setup here or maybe you don’t even have any email accounts setup yet
in which case all you would have if you drag your finger down the screen
more (or swipe right) are 2 buttons, one is “Add” which you would use
to add an email account and the other is read as “Fetch New Data” and it
is followed by whatever setting is selected which by default I think is
“Push”. Push means that email is “pushed” to your phone and if you set
up an email account you’ll get emails immediately although I seem to
remember something about how this does not work with gmail accounts (I
could be wrong here). Anyhow, I won’t go into every setting here since
your objective at this point is to turn off showing contacts in the app
switcher.
What’s useful is to know that the entire settings area for Mail,
Contacts, Calendar has 4 sections so to speak and each section has it’s
heading which are:
Accounts
Mail
Contacts
Calendar
You can of course swipe right a lot or do a 3-finger swipe up on the
screen to switch pages and then check at the bottom of the screen above
the home button where you are, but if you have mastered using the rotor,
then you can also turn the rotor to “headings” and swipe down with one
finger to go from heading to heading. If I do that and start at the very
top after going into the mail settings, I just have to swipe down 4
times: first swipe takes you to the “Mail, contacts, calendar heading,
second swipe down takes you to the Accounts heading, third to Mail and
the fourth to Contacts.
Once you are on the contacts heading, swipe right 3 times and you’ll
find a button which Voiceover reads as “Show in app switcher. On”.
If you double tap on that button another screen opens and here you find
2 separate buttons which you have to turn off if you want nothing to
show in the app switcher.
These are “Phone Favorites” and “Recents”. I believe both are on by
default and double tapping on each will toggle it to Off.
When you are done you can simply exit Settings by pressing the home
button or you can double tap on the back button a couple of times to get
back to the main settings screen or you can use the scrub gesture, a
sort of zigzag swipe with 2 fingers which is the same as double tapping
on the back button.
Regards,
Sieghard
**
*From:*[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Deidre Muccio
*Sent:* Saturday, January 03, 2015 6:49 AM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* RE: People icon?
I definitely want to disable that feature! It’s distracting and I don’t
plan to be calling or texting anyone regularly throughout the day. Maybe
I have to do it from within the phone or messages app? Do I dare go poke
around again?
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