Hi Michael,

Doing a Reset following my instructions below will not delete any Data on the 
iPhone.

Not having a backup is risky, but I understand your reasons.
I think I would backup the iPhone data somehow if the data is important to you.

Cheers,
Ronni

Sent from Ronni's iPad

On 23/09/2012, at 5:10 PM, Michael Hawkins <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> Hi Ronni,
> 
> I have an aversion to saving anything to a device which I do not have in my 
> possession, and so I do not save to iTunes just in case everything is saved 
> on a cloud in Syria or outer Mongolia ...
> 
> If I Reset, would that mean the loss of everything stored on the iPhone?
> 
> Cheers and thank you,
> 
> Michael.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Michael.
> 
> 
> On 23/09/2012, at 4:55 PM, Ronni Brown wrote:
> 
>> Hi Michael,
>> 
>> I have not heard of this happening after upgrading to iOS 6.
>> The two things I can suggest you try are either A) or B) below.
>> 
>> A) Try a Reset:
>> 1. Reset the iPhone by holding the sleep/wake button at the top right of the 
>> device and the home button at the bottom center of the face at the same time.
>> 
>> 2. Hold them both until you see the screen go black. In some cases, you may 
>> need to keep holding them even after the red power off slider appears. If it 
>> does, just keep holding it.
>> 
>> 3. Wait until the white Apple logo appears.
>> 
>> 4. When this happens, you can let go - the iPhone is rebooting.
>>    This normally fixes any glitches
>> 
>> OR
>> B) If you have been backing up your iPhone in iTunes, Restore iPhone from 
>> Backup
>> How to Restore from a Backup:
>> 1. Connect iPhone to the computer you normally sync with
>> 
>> 2. Control-Click your iPhone and choose "Restore from Backup"
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Ronni
>> 
>> On 23/09/2012, at 2:15 PM, Michael Hawkins 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Ronni,
>>> 
>>> Yes, I tap in the oval box and then try to type. None of my habits have 
>>> changed since I got my iPhone 4S on the first day it was available in Perth.
>>> 
>>> I don't have trouble when emailing. It only occurs when mesaging and not on 
>>> every occassion.
>>> 
>>> Had no problem since I got the phone on the day it was available in Perth. 
>>> Problem only arose since I installed ios6.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> Michael.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 23/09/2012, at 2:03 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Michael,
>>>> 
>>>> You do 'Tap' first before you try to type?
>>>> Have you tried to 'Tap' a bit harder? 
>>>> Do you have any trouble with 'Tap' in any other text app?
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Ronni
>>>> 
>>>> Sent from Ronni's iPad
>>>> 
>>>> On 23/09/2012, at 12:39 PM, Michael Hawkins 
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Ronni,
>>>>> 
>>>>> It's when I try to type in the long oval shaped box placed between an 
>>>>> icon of a camera to the left and the word send to the right, and happens 
>>>>> despite having turned the iPhone off a couple of times since it was 
>>>>> upgraded to ios6.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers, 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Michael.
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 23/09/2012, at 11:52 AM, Ronni Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi Michael,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Do you mean, when you tap in the box where iMessage is greyed, you don't 
>>>>>> see a blinking cursor?
>>>>>> Have you tried restarting your iPhone?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> In Settings > Messages: What settings do you have?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Ronni
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 23/09/2012, at 10:15 AM, Michael Hawkins 
>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Since installing ios6 on iPhone 4S, I have had trouble with writing 
>>>>>>> text messages. I can select the recipient from Contacts, but cannot 
>>>>>>> write the text in the text box. Sometimes I can, sometimes I can't, 
>>>>>>> even though I've only just sent a text to which they have replied.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Michael Hawkins.
>> 
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