Hi Cearbhal, well done, concise and comprehensive as ever. E
On 19 Jul 2021, at 16:47, Cearbhall O'Meadhra <cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxx>===========================================================
wrote:
In attendance (12 participants):
John Chambers, Mary Lavelle, Bert Brown, Eamonn O'Connor, Michael Lorigam,
Tom Langan, Noreen Meagher, Martin Kelly, Annette McCarthy, Vera Naughton,
Joe Murphy, Cearbhall O'Meadhra.
apologies: Paul Griffith, Michael Brown
Enjoying the wonderful sunshine, everyone gathered to share the latest
technology. Both Martin and tom had a shock to find how hot their phone got
when lying in the sun. They warned that the phone should be kept covered with
a cloth or in the shade to prevent overheating.
Tom uses the Aeropex After Shokz Bluetooth headphones. His iPhone sometimes
freezes so that his only recourse is to restart the phone to regain control.
Cearbhall reflected a similar issue in that he finds that typing on his
Bluetooth keyboard is sluggish while After Shoks is in use. He switched over
to the Bose Bluetooth headset during the meeting and the sluggishness went
away immediately. Bert had a similar experience, again with After Shokz,
while typing. He stressed that the After Shokz is one of the best headsets
for audio while listening to phone or radio and highly recommended for that
purpose. Could it be that there is some sort of processing in the After Shokz
relating to how it functions that is causing this effect on typing and screen
movements?
Tom wondered how the iPhone 8 compares with the iPhone 11 or 12.
Joe is using the iPhone 11. He acknowledged that many people don't like to
lose the home button. He quickly adapted to looking for the strong vibration
at the bottom of the screen and a stroke up or sideways to activate the Home
button function. Bert agreed and pointed out that some phones permit a tap on
the back of the casing to activate the home button. He encouraged everyone to
keep their equipment up to date and not to be put off by the need to learn
new techniques to move forward with the technology. Vera has some sight and
likes the iPhone 12XR because she is able to magnify items that are difficult
to see with the stronger zoom function that this phone makes available. The
zoom was not as efficient in the earlier models.
Bert suggested practising the use of a new phone without a SIM card until
its is more familiar and only then switching over from the old phone.
John was having trouble answering a call on his iPhone. He has to extract
the phone from its cover when a call comes in. He wondered if he might be
touching something by accident that prevented him from answering despite his
careful use of the two-finger double-tap gesture. After many suggestions from
the others present, he agreed to try out a few options. After the meeting, he
and his wife found that the one-finger double tap activated the answer button
for him and now he is happy that he can, at least, answer the phone.
Bert shared a novel solution to an annoying habit of Siri to misname people
inappropriately. He found that when referring to a person named "Daisy", Siri
would announce: "... Daisy Flower"! He and Jackie found that opening contacts
and adding a new contact with the name in question, in this case Daisy, and
no other details or numbers, Siri used the correct form of the name.
Martin urged members to support the forthcoming "Hugh Lane Gallery Audio
Description Tour taking place tomorrow, Tuesday 20th July at 12pm.
Bert gave Eamonn the steps to move items to different locations on the
Voiceover rotor. by opening Disability>settings>voiceover>rotor and moving
down through the list of items available, swipe to "reorder" and swipe up or
down with one finger to move the item up or down the rotor.
Annette found that she lost all her messages when trying to delete only one
of them. While on the offending message, she pressed down arrow and found
"Delete all" so took this to refer only to her message. The result was that
everything was deleted and she now has no messages - even those which she
wanted to keep! his puzzled everyone and so Annette said she would contact
Apple Accessibility and see if the answer could be found.
As more and more people are receiving their Covid-19 vaccination certificate
in hardcopy, or email, all were wondering how to retain the certificate for
best usage. Opinions varied as to what to do and so it was agreed to
investigate the procedure and report to the next meeting.
The meeting ended.
All the best,
Cearbhall
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