Thanks, Eamonn.
Did you get the rotor rearranged?
All the best,
Cearbhall
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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
m +353 (0)833323487 Ph: _353 (0)1-2864623 e:
cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxx
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