That's only just started happening in 16.2, at least for me. The bright side is
now I have a 100% reliable method of hitting the status bar. I ended up adding
a battery widget to my lock screen because I got sick and tired of trying to
check my battery in the status bar and missing. If I didn't
iphone@googlegroups.com> > On Behalf Of
James Homuth
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2023 5:42 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>
Subject: RE: Twitter officially kills off all third-party client apps
I need to download one of those apps for my phone – m
I need to download one of those apps for my phone – maybe I’ll pay more
attention to my Mastodon account then. Any accessible apps for Windows that
aren’t the website? The thing likes to bounce around on me once I reach a
certain number of messages scrolled.
From: viphone@googlegroups.com
client apps
Why don't we all remember to revisit this say 1 year from now. Let's see what
happens by then.
From: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>
mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> > On Behalf Of
James Homuth
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2023 1:06 PM
I’m 100% sure he has a plan, and 125% sure that plan will bite him in the ass.
Anyone who tries to wiggle out of a legally binding agreement before the ink’s
even dry has no intention of doing positive things with it when they’re forced
to go through with it. Twitter’s going to be losing money
?
Why not set it
on the raise to wake setting?
From: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>
mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> > On Behalf Of
James Homuth
Sent: Wednesday, December 7, 2022 10:22 AM
To: viphone@goog
try turning that
off to see if you get the desired result.
Alan Lemly
Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 7, 2022, at 2:02 AM, James Homuth mailto:ja...@the-jdh.com> > wrote:
Hey again, folks. Thanks for the help with my last Face ID question. Mostly I
think it’s just going to
as a blind fool?
You will definitely have better luck if you disable attention.
-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of James
Homuth
Sent: Monday, December 5, 2022 9:29 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Best practices for Face ID as a blind fool?
Do you
it is Unlock iPhone. You might try turning that
off to see if you get the desired result.
Alan Lemly
Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 7, 2022, at 2:02 AM, James Homuth mailto:ja...@the-jdh.com> > wrote:
Hey again, folks. Thanks for the help with my last Face ID question. Mostly I
thin
t; On Behalf Of
James Homuth
Sent: December 7, 2022 3:02 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>
Subject: How to prevent Face ID from misfiring?
Hey again, folks. Thanks for the help with my last Face ID question. Mostly I
think it’s just going to be getting us
Hey again, folks. Thanks for the help with my last Face ID question. Mostly
I think it's just going to be getting used to it. Speaking of that, I'm
wondering if there's a way I can prevent Face ID from being the default -
right now, the iPhone assumes I want to unlock my phone when it wakes, which
: December 6, 2022 12:46 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Best practices for Face ID as a blind fool?
I made sure the aquire attention was turned off before I even began to set up
face ID. You want to make sure this setting is turned off.
On 12/5/22, James Homuth wrote:
> Do you k
board most of the time to unlock
my phone with my passcode. I use my face ID for my crecdit card and paypal
apps.
On 12/5/22, James Homuth wrote:
> That’s the weird part. Setup seemed to go okay for me, except for once
> when my head was down a little too far. It corrected me and I didn’t
one@googlegroups.com>
mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> > On Behalf Of
James Homuth
Sent: Monday, December 5, 2022 9:33 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Best practices for Face ID as a blind fool?
Yup, me again, with what I’m sure is another question
the screen on my nose, and far away from
my face.
You need to get practis on that, but it worth this.
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0509549090
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ב-6 בדצמ׳ 2022, בשעה 5:33, James
Yup, me again, with what I'm sure is another question that was answered when
modern phones came out. What tricks are people using for successfully and
consistently getting Face ID to succeed? It seems to enjoy failing on me on
a regular basis and I end up resorting to the passcode. Which, I mean,
I've been out of the new phone game for a while. I've been rocking the 7
since shortly after it launched. I've since moved over to the 14 Pro Max,
and they changed my text message notifications on me. Before, I used to be
able to read my text messages from the lock screen without unlocking the
have any voice feedback. I got an Apple Watch
instead, which I enjoy quite a bit.
- Original Message -
From: James Homuth
Date: Monday, June 13, 2022 04:04 PM
To: blindt...@groups.io;viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Is there such a thing as an accessible Fitbit?
A bunch of folks in my
A bunch of folks in my circle are getting on the Fitbit train, and I thought
about joining. Are there accessible Fitbit devices out there? I know the app
for iPhone is accessible, but not sure re: devices. Pointers/info would be
helpful. Thankya!
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The following information is important for all
one@googlegroups.com>
mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> > On Behalf Of
James Homuth
Sent: Sunday, August 1, 2021 11:42 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>
Subject: RE: Having Proof of COVID Vaccination on Your Phone
My provincial government emailed it to me.
<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>
[mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of James Homuth
Sent: Monday, 2 August 2021 4:12 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>
Subject: RE: Having Proof of COVID Vaccination on Your Phone
My proof is a PDF fil
My proof is a PDF file, so I just store it locally.
From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Andy
Baracco
Sent: August 2, 2021 2:11 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Having Proof of COVID Vaccination on Your Phone
I have heard folks talk about having proof of their COVID
Hey folks,
I'm curious how useable/accessible the authenticator app is with VO. I'm
being required to use it for 2FA with one of the systems I need to access.
Thoughts? Appreciated!
--
The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list.
If you have any questions or
Where can you set it up so they can text you?
Sent from my iPhone
> On Nov 9, 2020, at 3:00 PM, James Homuth wrote:
>
> You can do that in the app. Tap on your order, and you should see an option
> to chat once it starts being shopped. Alternatively, if you have Instacart
> set
You can do that in the app. Tap on your order, and you should see an option to
chat once it starts being shopped. Alternatively, if you have Instacart set up
to text you, the chat messages from your shopper will also be texted to you.
Reply to those texts and they'll get it.
-Original
How accessible was the process for actually getting it connected? I don't
imagine you could do the wifi setup independently on that thing?
-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Robert
Doc Wright
Sent: August 13, 2020 1:33 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
unes however, couldn't find a way of getting at my tones library at all.
really not happy!
Simon
- Original Message -
From: James Homuth <mailto:ja...@the-jdh.com>
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2017 5:59 PM
Subject: iTunes 12.7 - things missing?
He
There are benefits, depending on your usage, for installing iOS via iTunes.
Since the iOS image needs to exist on the phone before it can be installed
from the phone, your storage habbits may not allow you to actually do an
over the air update without deciding which app you want to (hopefully
Hey folks. So here's a thing. It used to be that you could do things like
enable VO from within iTunes. Running 12.7 now, it looks like that's gone
missing. I'm also not seeing the area you're supposed to be able to paste
content onto your device from. Did they move it, or take it out entirely, or
Eh. As long as Apple gives me some benefit to plugging the phone in,
particularly to my computer, I'm probably not going to switch to wireless
charging. Okay, so perhaps you won't be able to use your computer to
download apps going forward. I assume you can still use it to download iOS,
and back
I assume the usual copy/paste will work as well? Also: Would I be right in
assuming the "automatically add to iTunes" folder is also retired?
-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of M. Taylor
Sent: September-13-17 9:38 PM
To:
require the latest version of iTunes to work. Of
course I could be wrong, it does happen once or twice a year *smile*.
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of James Homuth
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 8:05 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: iTunes
*.
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of James Homuth
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 8:05 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: iTunes 12.7: How to cope with the abrupt changes
Note to self: hold on to current version of iTunes until it becomes
Dropbox content in the Files app. I assume OneDrive will
follow suit and this new app should really make it much easier to add and
manage files of all types on your device.
Regards,
Sieghard
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of James Homuth
Sent
Note to self: hold on to current version of iTunes until it becomes
impractical.
Also: what does this mean for those of us who prefer to make our own
ringtones? Are we boned as of latest version?
_
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of Mary Otten
Yay woo. So TMobile gets to throttle your hotspot data like they would the rest
of your cell data and call it unlimitted. Awesome. If I'm you, I'm keeping wifi.
-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Joseph Hudson
Sent: May-04-17
Largely it depends on how unlimitted your unlimitted cell plan is. The thing
these days is to tell you it's unlimitted, but once you've past a certain
point, to throttle your connection down a few knotches. You're still not
being charged for the overage, but you're not using your full connection
getting increasingly bad
For somebody who spams the list with a reply to every single message in a
thread instead of reading everything and then responding to the last
message, it's strange to see why your comment on sending multiple messages
should even be taken seriously.
On 4/4/2017 8:36 PM, James
@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of James Homuth
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2017 7:35 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Uber app experience getting increasingly bad
As I've said before. I personally know of a couple cases where the driver
has been flat out let
And especially if you've told the driver you've got a dog with you, and you
can prove it, that driver is sunk quicker than quick. As always, text
messages are a man's best friend.
-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of Jeremy
If you send more than one message, I'm not surprised you're bumped down to
the bottom of the queue. I'd take my time answering you if you pinged me
every couple hours about the same thing either. Seriously, I've never
required more than one message to actually get something resolved, unless it
was
As I've said before. I personally know of a couple cases where the driver
has been flat out let go from Uber for not taking a guidedog. This on top of
a complete refund.
-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of Donna Neff
Sent:
The question has to be asked. How much of what you hear is the handler
blowing things out of proportion because the alternative is said handler
actually having to admit they oopsed? The story that comes immediately to
mind is the handler who let a Uber driver put their guidedog in the trunk,
then
Location services is only useful if you want Uber to find your pickup
address. If you're specifying your pickup address anyway, turning it off
doesn't matter. The driver's GPS will use whatever address Uber feeds it.
And Uber gets that address in whatever way you give it to them.
-Original
Actually, and in order:
1. Guidedog users who bother to actualy speak up have seen results. Drivers
have been fired from Uber for not taking guidedogs. At a minimum, the user
has not ever had that driver again.
2. You're an idiot. One such Uber customer service center is about 5 hours
from me, in
Am I the only one who doesn't have an issue with this change? They did it to
provide more frequent updates re: progress and such - which I, personally,
can already see improved after most of the time the driver would ping me
before the app registered he was here.
Also I don't see it refreshing at
I'm not entirely sure when this started, but I finally had time to attempt
to diagnose it this morning. when I plug my iPhone 7 into my PC to
charge/sync, iTunes will come up, then hang at the syncing process for
several minutes. Sometimes the sync will finish, other times it will insist
the sync
So my iPhone 7's been running iOS 10.1.1 since shortly after it came out.
Not the beta version, because I prefer not to break the only phone I own. I
plugged my phone in just now, and iTunes tells me there's a new software
version available. That new software version... is iOS 10.1.1. What broke,
Um. The home button on my 7 looks pretty much like a button to me. We
looking at the same phone?
-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of Debby
Sent: November-07-16 7:01 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: no home button?
...@gmail.com
I device support
Telephone
2543007667
Skype
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On Jun 29, 2016, at 9:58 PM, James Homuth <ja...@the-jdh.com> wrote:
Running the latest stab
Running the latest stable iOS on an iPhone 6. I have no idea what caused it,
but at some point tonight I lost pretty much all iPhone audio. This includes
notification sounds, voiceover, everything. If someone calls me, I have
voiceover back and can hear the call, or otherwise use the phone. If I
I used to use the Degrees app, but it apparently no longer exists in Canada.
It's still available in the US store, though. Now I use the weather network,
though I'm open to replacements.
-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of mike
Okay, so this is weird. If I poke at the iPhone, it tells me 3 apps are
available to download. Since I poked at the iPhone while on the cell
network, I wasn't about to download the offending apps there and then. I get
home, plug into iTunes, and iTunes tells me there are no updates available.
I
,
Is there a accessible app to use for blackboard on the mack?
Becky Sabo
On Jan 12, 2015, at 5:13 AM, James Homuth ja...@the-jdh.com wrote:
Unfortunately the only app that will let you access Blackboard on your
phone is Mobile Learn. That's pretty intentional, if I remember
correctly, and even sighted folks
Unfortunately the only app that will let you access Blackboard on your phone
is Mobile Learn. That's pretty intentional, if I remember correctly, and
even sighted folks say for the best experience, use an actual computer. I
personally don't use that app for anything beyond notifications, since in
Can't say's I've seen this on any version of 8 so far. Granted could be I've
also got a 6, but I've kept a fairly stable connection to wifi at any rate.
At least, as stable as it gets if you're me.
-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On
Guessing either Google or the mods broke something. That message was sent to
the list, not to a specific person.
-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of Bill Gallik
Sent: March-26-14 5:53 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re:
As far as I'm aware, tripple click home doesn't actually work in the setup
screen. Again, because it's not actually enabled by default. At least, none
of the devices I've had a hand in setting up have ever had that option.
-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com
To answer Raul's question, yes I do. It gets updated when I have time to
babysit it in the event the thing breaks. But to my knowledge, Apple isn't
actually forcing the update to install on your phone, just download, so I
really don't see the problem. Granted I also don't store my life on my
I can see why Apple just downloading the update to your phone could pose a
problem if your phone already has a tiny fraction of the space it came with
left. That's valid, if avoidable by the user--just don't store your entire
life on your phone. It would be useful if Apple gave you the option of
Once again. The update won't install itself without you knowing about it and
telling it to. Worst it would do is just sit there looking at you. So you
could have gone on just fine with not actually installing it. Which, rather,
is exactly what I'm about to do until a proper bug fix release hits
Hello,
If you delete the foursquare app, you should still be able to use Checkie.
You won't get the notifications on your phone, but it should still email you
as that part's handled by the Foursquare system itself. Checkie's a useful
app, with my only complaint being the options of posting your
Funny. I figured she just didn't want to be ripped off. As has been said on
here and elsewhere. Navigon is a one-time payment, and is pretty much
exactly as accessible as the Seeing Eye app. They also don't charge you for
updates. The Trecker, while more expensive, also doesn't charge you for map
Uh. The last update we pulled in for the Breeze in this house? That would be
yesterday. And yes, it was free. Now, granted to buy any other map, there's
an extra cost. So say you're going to England for a vacation and decide to
drag your GPS along. Except you won't be dragging the Seeing Eye app
Really? I never have, and I've used the thing for 2 years. Now, if there's a
map you don't have, then sure you'll have to pay for it. But if you don't
need the map, there's a good reason not to buy it. But no, any updated maps
I've pulled down have been at no cost to me. And as for
the app already, I can confirm that this application pulls
its points of interest from three sources and not just foursquare.
Bob Fenton
Sent from my iPhone
On 2013-07-03, at 6:41 AM, James Homuth ja...@the-jdh.com wrote:
Funny. I figured she just didn't want to be ripped off. As has been
said
.
Let's get back to talking about the right thing on this list.
Peter Logan
-Original Message-
From: James Homuth
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 8:57 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: The Seeing Eye app, greed, greed, greed!
Really? I never have, and I've used the thing for 2
So those maps are more detailed. Sure. They're also not required. And the
maps you get *with* the program are still updated. An optional $19 is
nowhere near the same as a mandatory $70.
-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of Robert
To my knowledge I don't see any way of determining whether or not these
settings are enabled, but I can say double tapping to supposedly enable or
disable them doesn't appear to have any real effect. So if I think the
setting is turned off, and I double tap it, it doesn't appear to switch that
What are you using for your personal blog now? Get in touch with me
off-list, and there might be a way we can transition you to using WordPress.
-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of Mike
Sent: June 7, 2013 11:07 PM
To:
I have an interesting problem that I'm looking to solve. We've got a
computer that's decided not to give us any kind of audio output whatsoever.
Potentially because we're not even seeing the OS. What I'm wondering is if
there's an app available that can let me use my phone to tell me what's on
the
unusual purpose?
Hi,
I have successfully done this with textdetective and vizwiz.
Sent with Siri from Brett's iPhone
On 01/03/2013, at 7:22 AM, James Homuth ja...@the-jdh.com wrote:
I have an interesting problem that I'm looking to solve. We've got a
computer that's decided not to give us any
I did some digging, so I probably already know the answer, but I'm wondering
if anyone on the list has tried playing the game Tiny Tower, and if so, how
accessible/useable is it with VO? I know a few folks who play it, and
wouldn't mind joining them. But, since they don't use VO I can't very well
If you don't use wordpress.com, you can actually make the website fairly
accessible. Translation: self-host your own WordPress install, that solves
most of your problems. Other than that, yes the iOS app is very accessible.
I use both with some regularity.
-Original Message-
From:
In what universe does Apple not support that? Particularly since that's
pretty much step 1 of troubleshooting your phone in the event a restore
doesn't work, since that kicks your phone back to the factory defaults.
Which, yes, also means no voiceover. Get used to it, or stay close to your
iTunes
You probably could, but if you're using POP, what would be the point? That
kind of setup works best with IMAP.
-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of salama
Sent: November 26, 2012 12:09 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject:
If you're using mail on your phone, I'm assuming you're using IMAP. So why
couldn't you just access that same email on another computer? Maybe I'm
misunderstanding something but wouldn't that make more sense? And if you're
not using IMAP for mail, then... Uh... Can I ask why?
-Original
Neither, sadly, does Telus or I believe Rogers, although I could be wrong
about the latter. My research turns up mostly apps that either 1: cost you
or 2: aren't accessible. And occasionally, they fall into both categories.
So I'd also appreciate a pointer or 6 in the right direction. Thanks as
She means blocking one specific person from iMessaging her, not turning off
the app. Although, 45 seconds on Google and another 45 on Apple say that's
about the only way to do it. Apple, rather stupidly, doesn't offer you a
block option. You'd think that'd be, y'know, common sense, but then, this
I do know the delete button's at the bottom of the screen, usually to the
right, but I can almost never get to it by swiping. It's more of a guess and
see if I land on it type thing.
-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of
If there were, I'm pretty sure your iThings wouldn't have the slightest clue
what to do with it. The support for that kinda thing just isn't there,
hardware or otherwise.
_
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of Jen Colley
Sent: May-30-12 12:10 AM
I've got plenty of blackberry and android ringtones over here if you'd like
to let me know how to get them to you. As for the other thing, unfortunately
most of the free utilities aren't all that great. But depending what you're
looking for, I may be able to oblige.
_
From:
the iPhone doesn't have a tuner antenna, so unfortunately what you're after
is quite not very possible. If you want to listen to the radio via the
iPhone, it's gonna have to be online, I'm afraid.
_
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of Jen Colley
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