While you are on the phone, you can press the Home button. Then you can go into the Messages app or whatever app you want o check. The only thing is that you can’t tell SIRI to open an app while you are on the phone.
Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 3, 2019, at 3:17 PM, Carolyn Arnold <4carol...@windstream.net> wrote: > > I'm with you, Seigard. Once you get the hang of the touch screen and realize > that it is a touch screen, not a bang screen, it does pretty much what it > says it will do. For me, most of it has been just learning what I really > needed to do. For instance, I get annoyed by notifications, tried to cut them > back. I was using the phone today, and it started about a voice mail that I > was well aware of, and I heard it say something about tap or double tap, > can't remember, but I did, and it shut the thing up, so that I could be in > control and tend to the voice mail on my terms when I wanted to. > > The other day, my daughter-in-law wanted me to hear a message that she > forwarded me. I said I did not know how to do that while in conversation with > someone, so she asked me to hang up, check it, then call her with my opinion, > which I did. I am sure there is a way to do that. Do any of you ever do that, > while talking check other things on the phone, and how, please? > > Best regards, > > Carolyn > > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Sieghard Weitzel > Sent: Thursday, January 3, 2019 11:09 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: RE: Using Your iPhone Without a Touchscreen > > I think I heard about this before and maybe this is a newer version, but for > the most part I am amazed at how much trouble people go to and how much money > they spend to take away the strength of the iPhone or, for that matter, other > advanced smartphones. I understand that there might be a few cases where a > person for whatever reason can't touch the phone, e.g. if they are > quadriplegic, have no hands etc. Apple and now Google have put a lot of very > smart people to work to come up with this incredible way to make touchscreen > devices extremely accessible, apps like Flicktype make typing very efficient > with a bit of practice yet some people still think they are better off trying > to avoid touching that screen as much as possible. 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