Hi. This message serves two purposes. First, Christmas came yesterday for me. I am now the proud owner of a gold 128 GB iPhone 6s plus. It took some time to get up and running, and I did have a bit of trouble restoring things to my preferences, but I have it pretty well to my liking. I downloaded the Alex voice, and it sounds great to me. Other than the NFL Mobile app not working, all is well. I upgraded from an 8 GB 5c to this phone, so I'll have plenty of space on it for whatever I like.
Now for the second part of this note, and it shows how handy Siri can be. I need to set this up, so bear with me explaining some things. When I set up the iPhone 6s plus, I decided to skip the touch ID option. I then called up AT&T to activate the phone. I had some trouble entering in the numbers on my 5c, but that's normal, and I hope the larger size of the 6s plus will help. I was then routed to an agent. He sent me to the wrong web site to activate the phone, but in the end I didn't have to do anything to get it working, because AT&T had all my information on file, so he activated my phone. He told me to turn off both phones, then turn on my new phone, and he'd call me to see if it worked. Well, I followed his instructions, and, voila, I got a call from him. When I got the call I saw a message prompting me to enable WI-FI calling. I don't know what I did, but that message went away. I decided not to worry about it last night, so I went to sleep. When I woke up this morning, I decided to try to set up WI-FI calling. I looked under settings, but the option wasn't obvious to me. I then tried to call My Apple, but their offices were closed. I then thought, "Why not see if Siri can give me some help? I have nothing to lose, and if she can't, I can always call back for help." I asked Siri, "How do I set up WI-FI calling?" I got information on Android phones, so I tried again, this time specifying my iPhone type. Siri now returned some information on how to do this. I followed the instructions, and I now have WI-FI calling enabled. Next, I decided to try to configure the touch ID feature. Again, I didn't see the option in settings, so I figured that if Siri helped me once, she could do so again. I asked her about setting up touch ID, and I got good information on how to do this. Turns out the setting is pretty obvious, but I didn't remember hearing Alex tell me about it. Thanks to Siri, I now have touch ID working on this iPhone, and I'm really impressed. I had a laptop that had this option on it, but it was a royal pain to get working. You had to swipe your finger over this sensor, and if you were lucky, the print would be recognized. With the 6s plus, I get almost an immediate response from my iPhone. I like it for its security, and later on I'll configure the Apple Wallet for Apple Pay, but that will have to wait until I get that nice thing called money to use it. My point in sending this note is twofold. First, I wanted to share my experiences with the new iPhone, and second, and more importantly, I can't stress enough to ask Siri for help on something. That technology is amazing! That's it for now. I now am going to sleep a little, waiting for the SEC tournament to start. GO CATS! Have a blessed day. Kevin Minor, Lexington, KY -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
