Hi Vicky,
If I run into a situation when after an app update the app seems to not work
correctly I always make sure to remove all apps from the app switcher and
then to power off the phone, wait 30 or so seconds and then turn it on
again. If that doesn't help it's probably not a bad idea to delete the app
and to redownload it in order to make sure nothing went wrong with the
update. If the app still has accessibility issues or just doesn't seem to
run, then it's pretty safe to say that indeed the update has broken
something and it's time to restore a previous version and to maybe contact
the developer.
As for restoring a previous version, if you sync your apps with iTunes it is
not necessary to to a complete restore from iCloud. All you have to do is
make sure you don't update the app in iTunes so that you have the last
version there which you know works, then delete the app from the phone and
then resync it from iTunes.
As for Vizwiz, yes, it is gone at least from the Canadian app store. I
searched for "Vizwiz on iTunes" with Google and found the app store link no
problem. When I clicked on it Internet Explorer asked me if I would allow it
to open a program on my computer by which it meant iTunes. I allowed it and
when iTunes opened I got a message that VizWiz was no longer available in
the Canadian app store. I only had the option to click OK, sometimes I have
seen messages that a particular app was not available from the Canadian app
store, but was available from a different app store, but not this time.
Well, I guess at this point that is no great loss since everytime I tried
Vizwiz in the last few months it took forever for an answer to come back,
often 3 to 4 hours and sometimes not until the next day. Because of this I
hadn't used it in a long time and didn't even have it on my phone any more.
Let's hope Tap Tap See will be able to include the ability to ask a question
along with the picture in some future update, but even without this I find
that Camfind, Talking Goggles and Tap Tap See often give me what I want. If
not my "Ask Mom" app works awesomely *smile*. OK, before a dozen people ask
where they can find the "Ask Mom" app it doesn't exist. It is just my way of
saying that calling my Mom (or another friend or relative for that matter)
with Facetime and asking them to take a look at whatever it is I am trying
to identify or do is often the best way to get a great answer.
As for your third question about Contacts, yes, that is the default. I
personally find I rarely use the actual Contact app because I can just as
easily get to my contacts by going into the Phone or Facetime app and
tapping on the Contacts tab. I have Contacts in a folder I called Utilities
on my second home page and if I really want it, I just turn the rotor to
handwriting and write a "C" and "O" on the screen, I then get "Compass" as
the first result and a quick 2-finger swipe down puts me on Contacts.
Best regards,
Sieghard
-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of Vicky Collins
Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2014 5:48 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: three apps questions, Schwan's and VizWiz and Contacts
First, has anyone tried to update the Schwan's Frozen Food app
from version 1.0.5 to 1.0.6? When I did so earlier today and then
launched the app, it would just sit there and do nothing. Or,
having no sighted folks around, that is how it appeared to me.
And, no matter what I tried, even with turning VoiceOver off and
trying to tap the screen, I couldn't get the app to do a thing.
Second, when I then did the restore from iCloud, I was quite
pleased to find that the version 1.0.5 of the Schwan's app did
indeed get restored and did work, at least as well as the app did
before, anyway. But, I was told that some things couldn't be
restored from my iCloud backup. And, I finally figured out that
the missing app was VizWiz. Then, upon further checking, I
couldn't seem to find VizWiz in the app store, either.
Fortunately, I never actually used the app, but was wondering if
it still works for others, or is it gone completely?
And, finally, third, what with VizWiz being gone, at least on my
iPhone 4s, I had a blank space at the end of my second page of
apps, something I would prefer to have at the end of my last
page. So, I started trying to move apps around and messed things
up quite nicely, so decided to go into settings and put the home
screen back to its default layout. And, much to my surprise,
having restored from backups for years now, I found contacts to
be in an extras folder, rather than an app out by itself. Is
this really the default for this app? I mean, I somehow thought
it would be more prominently displayed.
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