Wow! Thank you Chris for explaining all of this. I can now have fun sending text messages.
Liz Ulrich and Leader Dog Sammie Westwood Church of God Prayer Chain Coordinator http://www.facebook.com/elizabeth.ulrich.1 Sent from my very intelligent ParrotHead of an IPhone > On Sep 16, 2016, at 5:36 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > > A nice summary and description, Chris, just wanted to add to this that if > Voiceover is running the effects don't actually play when a message is > received but instead you get the description as Chris described. I was > sending messages to my wife who was right next to me and I still had > Voiceover on and was wondering why the fireworks and so on didn't play, then > as soon as we turned off Voiceover all was as it should be. > It also seems that once the message is received that if you go back to it in > the conversation it no longers has the effect description. > > Lastly, my wife sent me a message where she used handwriting as I was curious > as to what Voiceover would do with that. She just wrote "Hi" and Voiceover > said the message had handwriting and "2 strokes". > I then tried it and wrote something and Voiceover said it had 9 strokes, but > of course there is no way for Voiceover to figure out what it says which is > expected. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Jenifer Barr > Sent: Friday, September 16, 2016 1:12 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Message Effects do Work, here's how! > > Thanks Chris. > > > Jenifer Barr > Jenifer571 on dice world > Sent from my iPhone > > On Sep 15, 2016, at 10:05 PM, Chris Chaffin <chaffin102...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > OK, I am running iOS 10 on an iPhone 6, and message effects works fine for me. > The way I tested it, and to see what it is like, is I sent messages to > myself. I know, boring, but it works!! :) > > To get message effects to work, just do a double tap and hold on the send > button and a pop up window will appear. Now there is no sound with the pop > up window, and sometimes voice over does not focus on it, but if you explore > the screen a little, then try swiping left or right, you will find yourself > in the effects window. > Now there is two types of effects, bubbles and screen. Bubbles are selected > by default. If you land on bubbles, you will notice that voice over says, > bubbles selected, one of two. > Now there is three or four different bubbles to choose from, Slam, loud, > gentle, and one more that I can not remember, smiles! I sent myself a test > message with a slam bubble effect, when the message came in, voice over said > something like, a message from Chris comes slamming in with dust flying up > around it. So voice over does describe the effect, so that is pretty cool!! > > Now, in the pop up window, if you swipe one time past bubbles, you will hear > screen. This is the second type of effect, so just double tap it to bring up > the screen choices. > Now if you swipe right you will come to the first of five screen choices, > balloons. This is a button, so just double tap it to send the balloon effect > with your message. > If you swipe past balloons, first is a close button, then you will find a > counter, and it will say, one of five. To move between the different screen > effects, just flick up or down with one finger. > As screen effects you have, balloons, confetti, lasers, fireworks, and > shooting star. > > Now I know these effects might not work perfect, but since they are very > graphical in nature, I think it is pretty cool that not only can we send the > effects, but voice over also describes the effects when the message comes in. > Thank you Apple for including accessibility! > Now I will only mention one more thing. > > When you receive a message, if you flick up or down with one finger on the > message, within the choices will be react. If you double tap on react, it > lets you send a reply back with your reaction to the message. When you > double tap on react, a pop up menu will appear with different reaction > choices like, red heart for love the message, thumbs up, thumbs down, and > more. To send your reaction, all you have to do is to double tap on your > choice and it is automatically sent. > Another cool thing!! > > I hope all of this has been helpful! > > Chris > > -- > 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. > -- > 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. > -- > 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. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. 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