Re: Apps and Widgets

[William Outman]

To each his own, I suppose. As a total I prefer not to mess with widgets, because they can become confusing for me. I had been having trouble discerning whether I was in the widget or the actual app, both on the 8 Pluse I used to have and the 15 Pro I have now.  The Weather app was a particularly bad situation, because I could not tell that what I thought was a set of focus issues was actually being in the widget. Apple Accessibility could not tell me that was the problem; I had to discover it accidentally. So I deleted the widgets I unknowingly had, and things got considerably better.  Bill Outman  Sent from my iPhone On Mar 7, 2024, at 7:23 PM, John Panarese <jpanar...@gmail.com> wrote:     As a side note, apparently, you can also have widgets added to your Mac desktop from you iPhone. I have not experimented with this, but I read an article talking about it. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL and Trainer AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Mar 7, 2024, at 6:39 PM, Mario Eiland <eila...@gmail.com> wrote: HI Jim, If I remember correctly widgets were an option we could have on or turned off when we first set up our iPhones. If that’s something you want back such as the weather widget, then try the following. Double tap twice and hold on the second tap and you will hear couple of tones and VoiceOver will announce “start Editing.” Scroll to the top and you will find an option to add a widget. Double tap on that and you will see a list of widgets you can add and one of those is the weather widget. That should give you a good start.   From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of portillo....@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, March 7, 2024 2:31 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Apps and Widgets   Good afternoon, I have an inquiry, so please bear with me, because I’m uncertain about some things. When I received a new work iPhone, one thing I noticed was that when I’d put my finger on the Weather app, it would not just say “Weather”, but it would also give me the location and other information, such as temperatures and whether or not rain was expected. My own personal phone doesn’t do that when I touch the weather app. I have to go into it and then read about my location and temperature and such. Much more swiping. I’d love to be able to have my weather app speak those things on my personal iPhone as well. It’s the same with the calendar app on my work iPhone. I’ll touch it, and it will give me the date, and then I swipe to the right, and it lets me know if I have any appointments or events.  I’ve looked at things like settings in both apps, which really didn’t do me much good. Then, someone asked if I had widgets on my screen for these apps, and I had no idea what that meant. So, I thought I’d ask. What’s a widget? How can I make the weather app or widget speak my location’s temperature and relevant information by just simply touching it without actually getting into it? How can I get my calendar to automatically let me know if I have any appointments or events without always getting into it?  If these things are being done on my Work iPhone, which is a 12, I would imagine they can be done on a 15 Pro. Thanks for any information. 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