all I know is that with my iPhone 5s I have find my iPhone and on. This has been the case for one year now.
> On 6 Nov 2014, at 18:07, Paul Hopewell <hopew...@hopewell.org.uk> wrote: > > Hello, > I have an iPhone 5S running the latest IOS 8. I had set the iPhone up with > “Find my iPhone” enabled in the phone’s iCloud settings. Bad idea!!!! > > This afternoon my phone suddenly stopped talking in the middle of reading an > Email. I tried pressing the home key 3 times to restart VoiceOver but to no > effect. I then tried a 3 finger double tap to turn on speech assuming it had > somehow become disabled. No joy. I turned the phone off and back on again but > could not get VoiceOver to start. I then connected the phone to my iMac and > tried “restore from backup”. itunes told me that I had to first turn “Find my > iPhone” off in the phone’s iCloud settings before I could restore the backup. > As I could not get the phone to speak I could not do that. > > So I was stuck until my sighted wife came home and looked at the screen. She > saw a message saying that the phone was disabled and that I had to wait 16 > minutes before entering my passcode to restart the phone. After 30 minutes my > wife was able to start the phone and enter the passcode. She then saw that > VoiceOver was turned off in the accessibility options and so turned it on for > me. I then turned off “Find my iPhone” but tat caused VoiceOver to stop > speaking and demanded my Apple password before it would disable “Find my > iPhone”. My wife had to do that for me and then had to re-enable VoiceOver > from the accessibility options. > > I suspect that somehow the “find my iPhone’ sequence had been activated by > some spurious event which caused all the above problems. > > As it seems that it is not possible for a blind person to recover from such a > event I would recommend that you do not set “Find my iPhone” on! > > does anyone have any insight into this problem? > > Many thanks. > > Paul HopewellM > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > mac-access@mac-access.net > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > the list's public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> > > As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we always strive to ensure that the > Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. > However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume > neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. > > Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by > visiting the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at the list's public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we always strive to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
