Ah, Chris, your comments are very welcome!
All the best,
Cearbhall
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As always Cearbhall excellent notes and you handled the delicate bits with
great finesse Thanks Chris
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On 23 Jan 2021, at 22:16, Kenneth Walsh <kennethwalsh12@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:===========================================================
Cearbhall
A fantastic record of everything.
All The Best,
Ken
On 23 Jan 2021, at 22:08, Cearbhall O'Meadhra <cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxx>===========================================================
wrote:
Inn attendance: (12 participants)
Gavin Allman, Martha Parkinson, Martin Kelly, Paul Griffith, Pat
McCarthy, Derry Walsh, Ken Walsh, Jackie McBrearty, Chris Egan,
Dominique Farrell, Noreen Meagher, Cearbhall O'Meadhra.
Noreen is getting used to her new watch. Various members offered
useful advice on what can and cannot be done on it. The watch is
waterproof and really useful as a fitness monitor with many
intriguing features for swimming.
Dominique needed help with two-factor authentication on the iPhone.
She encountered it when trying to hook up her watch with the phone.
Jackie had recently discovered that when she connected the Envision
AI app to her camera on the iPhone, she had to use two-factor
authentication and was surprised to find that she was not asked for
any security verification after that. Ken also shared that
experience. Jackie noted that a continuity keyboard appears whenever
a password is required. This is a qwerty-style keyboard that only
appears when entering passwords and does not appear when entering text in
the body of a message.
Ken wondered if his battery was running down too quickly in his
iPhone 11. He explained that the sate of the battery can be seen in
"Battery Health" under settings. Compared to other iPhones among the
membership, this was a significant drop and might indicate a faulty
battery. Pat advised that the battery life could be lengthened by
managing apps more efficiently and only keeping them open while they
are in use. Ken likes to keep his phone locked during lengthy
sessions such as the regular Zoom meetings, so that the usage of the battery
is considerably reduced.
The presence, amongst members, of various iPhone models without a
home key, opened up a question of how to access functions previously
requiring the home key. Jackie, Chris and Ken explained the single
finger up-stroke and double tap that achieves the home key function.
All felt that they had become so used to the new keystroke that they no
longer missed the actual home key.
Pat drew the attention to a special feature of the iPhone 12, the
presence of "Lidar". Lidar stands for light detection and ranging. It
uses lasers to ping off objects and return to the source of the
laser, measuring distance by timing the travel, or flight, of the
light. Nobody in Ireland has used it yet but Jackie had heard that UK
users are using it to maintain social distancing. This is a development that
would be worth watching.
Pat is a volunteer in assessing a new app that is still in
development on behalf of the RNIB-Northern Ireland. The "Finderr" app
competes with the Seeing AI app and, he finds, is more effective at
identifying physical objects. The app works with a library of images
so it can identify an object that matches one of these. Pat was
disappointed that it failed to recognise a wheelie bin although it
was very accurate in identifying a whiskey bottle. A lively
discussion ensued in which various objects were discussed. Some very
practical detection requirements relating to dog management and cleaning up
created quite a stir but no firm conclusions emerged!
Chris had a bit of a fall recently and his iPhone went flying out of
his pocket! He had an awful time trying to find it again and wondered
if there was any solution that others could offer. Hey Siri was the best
option.
Gavin was worried that he could not keep track of the premiership in Britain.
Derry found five Live very good. Paul likes Talk Sport as it
broadcasts live matches. Jackie found that other services were able
to provide preview discussions but were barred from reporting the actual
matches.
Martin asked Jackie about saving photos in the Cloud. He wondered if
they were deleted from the phone would they still remain in the
iCloud. Jackie explained that this depends on the synchronised
setting in the iPhone. With this control "on", the photos are removed
from all connected systems when deleted from the iPhone but remain in
the cloud if not synchronised. Pat pointed out that items saved in
the iCloud have to be kept active. If the iCloud is not used for a
few months, the contents are automatically deleted, even though the
storage is paid for, in accordance with the terms of the agreement
with Apple. This applies when data is backed up to the iCloud in the
course of an update. So, Pat suggested that users regularly click
"update", even if there was nothing to update, to avoid a break in
continuity.
Prior to the meeting, Jackie raised an important question on the
FB-Exchange list looking for help to attach multiple files to an
email from within the Files app on the iPhone. She needs to attach
several reports to one email on a weekly basis and is tired of having to add
each file singly every time.
Cearbhall recommended using Dropbox so that she need only update the
files in the same folder every week. This would mean that she could
just send a Dropbox link every week. Jackie was not comfortable with this
option.
Everyone got down to the job of finding the right answer. Acting on
the many suggestions that began to emerge, Jackie eventually found
the perfect solution!
here is the answer:
1. open the Files app;
2. double tap on Browse" at the bottom of the screen;
3. A new screen will appear, showing a list of folders;
4. select the button marked "on my iPhone" ;
5. A new screen will appear, showing various folders such as
"Microsoft Word" folder, double tap to open the desired folder;
6. In the new screen that opens, find the "more" button at the top
left of the screen;
7. This opens a range of options, double tap on "Select" to start a
selection mode;
8. Next, double tap each file that is to be attached (VoiceOver will confirm:
"files selected" on each one);
9. When all are selected, double tap on "done";
10. open "share" and double tap on "Mail";
11. This opens a new email message with all the selected files attached.
Great teamwork, everyone!
the meeting ended.
All the best,
Cearbhall
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cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxx
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