Re: Latest phone scam

2019-09-05 Thread Andy Baracco
If it's an 800 number, a good site to research where it came from is www.800notes.com Andy - Original Message - From: 'Karen Delzer' via VIPhone To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2019 7:45 PM Subject: Re: Latest phone scam You could put it into

Re: Latest phone scam

2019-09-05 Thread 'Karen Delzer' via VIPhone
You could put it into a search, and you will probably find other instances of people receiving the same call. Karen At 03:31 PM 9/5/2019, you wrote: Just received a recorded call from a person claiming to be a Kathy Jackson wanted to refund our technical support payment from a few months ago

RE: A Strange Speaker Sound Scenario with Mark's Apple Watch, Series 4, with LTE

2019-09-05 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Angie, Yes, try re-pairing the watch and see if it makes any difference. Let us know what happens. Mark -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Angie Nutt Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2019 2:51 AM To:

Re: Latest phone scam

2019-09-05 Thread Keith Bierman
Good call. I often just google the callerID number. Sometimes one gets lucky https://lookup.robokiller.com/p/844-640-0874 was the first hit, an active scam as you suggest. Those of us who don't have any Microsoft products at home have an easier time guessing it's a scam ;> Of course, sometimes

Latest phone scam

2019-09-05 Thread Richard Turner
Just received a recorded call from a person claiming to be a Kathy Jackson wanted to refund our technical support payment from a few months ago and gave a supposedly toll free number to call, even repeating the number: 844-640-0874. I highly suspect that calling that number would end in a

How to change stride length in the health app

2019-09-05 Thread Mr. Ed
Hi, On my wife's health app on her iPhone when we go out walking it records less steps and distance than we have walked. For example we will walk a mile and it will show on her health app that we only walked .6 of a mile. So how do we adjust the health app stride length to make it more accurate?

RE: App Switcher

2019-09-05 Thread Carolyn Arnold
Kay, the gestures for the newer phones, as well as for the older ones are in Anna's book. On our older phones, we have a home button, and we touch status bar, then three fingers up or down for Control Center and Notification, where on the new phone, all of this works by scrolling home screen up

Re: App Switcher

2019-09-05 Thread Dave
No, they don’t work, on the phones, that have a home key. Just the later models. Dave. From: Kay Malmquist Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2019 8:02 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: App Switcher Do these kinds of Gestures work on phones that have the home key, such as the 6 s?

RE: App Switcher

2019-09-05 Thread Alan Lemly
Susie, If you're using an iPhone X or later, do the following: Open the App Switcher using one of the following methods: iPhone X and later: Drag one finger up from the bottom edge of the screen until you feel the second vibration or hear the third sound, then lift your finger.

Re: App Switcher

2019-09-05 Thread Kay Malmquist
Do these kinds of Gestures work on phones that have the home key, such as the 6 s? If so, where do you find a complete list of them? I might as well learn them now and avoid that learning curve when I get a new phone. Kay Malmquist kay.malmqu...@gmail.com The world is changed by your

Re: App Switcher

2019-09-05 Thread Kay Malmquist
I know that thanks to 3 D touch, I just press and hold for a tiny bit on the left side of the middle of the screen and the app switcher pops up. Also, swiping up with three fingers closes each app as you highlight it. Kay Malmquist kay.malmqu...@gmail.com The world is changed by your example,

RE: App Switcher

2019-09-05 Thread Carolyn Arnold
Susie, do you press Home Button to get to App Center? It is launched when you do that, then three-finger scroll up closes each program that is open. Best regards, Carolyn -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Anna Dresner

Re: App Switcher

2019-09-05 Thread Anna Dresner
Hi, On iPhone X and later, touch near the bottom. You should feel a vibration and hear a tone. Slide your finger up past the next tone and vibration to the third one, and then lift your finger. In other words, it's like the HOme gesture except you slide up to one more tone and vibration. HTH,

Re: App Switcher

2019-09-05 Thread Liel Ben Simonליאל בן סימון
Hi, i have iPhoneXS, the gesture to lunch the appswiture works to me. VoiceOver dosen’t announcing about closeing app but it works. נשלח מה-iPhone שלי ‫ב-5 בספט׳ 2019, בשעה 19:51, ‏‏Holly ‏ כתב/ה:‬ > Suzie: > > If you have an iPhone 8 or earlier, press the ‘home’ button til you hear >

Re: VPN’s?

2019-09-05 Thread Krshmann Vijay
PrivateVpn is also accessible and good. https://privatevpn.com On 9/4/19, KliphnShari Miller wrote: > >> >> Looking for an accessible VPN for iPhone and Mac. It seems the top 3 are >> Express VPN >> NordVPN >> And hotspot shield. >> Has anyone used any of these on both iPHone and Mac, if so are

Re: App Switcher

2019-09-05 Thread Holly
Suzie: If you have an iPhone 8 or earlier, press the ‘home’ button til you hear ‘settings’. Then press the ‘home 'button twice quickly and the app switcher will appear, then swipe up with three fingers to close the app. Don’t know about the new phone without a ‘home’ button. -- The

Re: App Switcher

2019-09-05 Thread nancy Lynn
I have the iPhone 7, so this may or may not apply to you. To launch the app switcher, I press the home button twice quickly with my thumb. I don’t know what you do without a home button. On Sep 5, 2019, at 11:16 AM, Susie Stageberg wrote: Since I upgraded to 12.4, the gesture for

Re: App Switcher

2019-09-05 Thread Anna Dresner
Hi susie, As far as I know, swiping up with three fingers has never launched the App Switcher, the list of all your running apps. Are you thinking of It will open Control Center if you touch the status bar first. Control Center is where you can adjust settings like Wi-Fi and Airplane Mode,

App Switcher

2019-09-05 Thread Susie Stageberg
Since I upgraded to 12.4, the gesture for launching the app switcher-swiping up with three fingers-does not seem to work. What's up? Is there another way to launch it? Am I missing something? Susie -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you

Re: iphone not talking

2019-09-05 Thread Janet Bell
the sounds has been turned off so hopefully it won't happen again. -Original Message- From: Carolyn Arnold Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2019 4:29 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: iphone not talking But, then, Sounds in Rotor can drive you crazy. I had a hard time keeping

RE: iphone not talking

2019-09-05 Thread Carolyn Arnold
But, then, Sounds in Rotor can drive you crazy. I had a hard time keeping sounds, because it got highlighted in the Rotor. Best regards, Carolyn -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Duane Steele Sent: Thursday, September

Re: Manage Health data on your iPhone, iPod touch, or Apple Watch, Apple Support

2019-09-05 Thread Ed Worrell
Hey Mark, This is a great article. Thanks for sharing it. I have been using these features for about 3 years now with my Dexcom Continues Glucose Monitoring System (CGM). I just now have discovered an insulin pen called “EnPen" that will track every time I take my rapid acting insulin and

Re: A Voice Dream Testimonial

2019-09-05 Thread Richard Turner
Russ, there is Send To Braille from APH. It also has an option called Back From Braille that tries to create a txt file. Try it out and see how it works for you. If you run into issues, contact APH, or whatever it says in the info. Here is the link:

Re: A Voice Dream Testimonial

2019-09-05 Thread Duane Steele
I suspect that the developers of Voice Dream Reader assumed that those wanting BRF files would be reading such files automatically on Braille devices. That being said, downloaded files are easily read in braille using a device. Being recently hearing-impaired, I read braille whenever

Re: A Voice Dream Testimonial

2019-09-05 Thread Russ Kiehne
Are there free programs to convert a brf file to text? -Original Message- From: Feliciano Godoy Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2019 6:43 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: A Voice Dream Testimonial This is true. However, considering the technology we have today, a .BRF file

Re: A Voice Dream Testimonial

2019-09-05 Thread Russ Kiehne
I mainly use voice dream reader to read epub, bookshare and listen to old time radio shows. -Original Message- From: Joshua Hendrickson Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2019 6:30 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: A Voice Dream Testimonial I've heard that there are text to

RE: A Voice Dream Testimonial

2019-09-05 Thread Richard Turner
Joshua, On the main screen of Voice Dream Reader, open settings at the bottom. Then, open Manage my voices. At the bottom right of that screen is a Shop button. Open that and you will find lots of voices to sample and/or buy. If you like British female voices, I recommend Amy by Ivona. But,

Re: A Voice Dream Testimonial

2019-09-05 Thread Feliciano Godoy
This is true. However, considering the technology we have today, a .BRF file could be converted to a text format that is compatible with voice dream reader. Feliciano For tech tips and updates: LIKE www.facebook.com/theblindman12v Follow www.twitter.com/theblindman12v Follow

Re: A Voice Dream Testimonial

2019-09-05 Thread Joshua Hendrickson
I've heard that there are text to speech voices that you can purchase for voice dream reader, but I must be doing something wrong. I only see a few voices that I could purchase and I'd heard there was a somewhat wide selection to choose from. I haven't tried out the ebook reading capabilities of

Re: A Voice Dream Testimonial

2019-09-05 Thread Russ Kiehne
I just wished you could read brf files with voice dream reader. From: Duane Steele Sent: Wednesday, September 4, 2019 12:10 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: A Voice Dream Testimonial This platform, besides answering questions about issues raised with APPS on our iDevices, is a great

Re: iphone not talking

2019-09-05 Thread Duane Steele
I'm always glad when successful outcomes happen. Do have a great day. Peace & Blessings, Duane L. Steele Phone (276) 730-5194 > On Sep 5, 2019, at 8:26 AM, Janet Bell wrote: > > Hi thanks very much for this I did as you suggested and hay presto click is > back. cheers and once again thanks

Re: iphone not talking

2019-09-05 Thread Janet Bell
Hi thanks very much for this I did as you suggested and hay presto click is back. cheers and once again thanks a lot. Janet From: Duane Steele Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2019 1:10 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: iphone not talking Hello Janet, I'm glad you got your iPhone

Re: iphone not talking

2019-09-05 Thread Duane Steele
Hello Janet, I'm glad you got your iPhone to talk again. Turn the rotor till you come to sounds and swipe up or down with one finger to toggle sounds on or off. If you don't hear sounds in your rotor, but you hear other things like hints, headings, punctuation, etc. go into your settings, go

Re: iphone not talking

2019-09-05 Thread Janet Bell
Hi guys I have finally got my iPhone to talk don’t ask how because I haven’t a clue. one question please can someone tell me how to put the clicks back on when you move about the screen as I cannot seem to find it. thanks again. Janet From: Gordon Sent: Wednesday, September 4, 2019 6:15 PM

I think I finally can send email from my IMAP account using the native email app on my iPhone!

2019-09-05 Thread Kevin Minor
Sent from my iPhoneHi all. Well, as I said, when I start working on something and it doesn’t work right away, I’ll keep workingat it until either I get it right, or I've exhausted absolutely every possibility. the subject tells you what happened, but I'll tell you how I got there. I went