I prefer holding the phone between your palms, in what would be landscape orientation, that is the charging port against one hand the top of the phone against the other, and curl your index, middle, and ring fingers over to the kind of middle of the phone.
That way, your left hand will do dots 1,2,3 and your right hand will do dots 4,5,6, just like on a perkins that was bent in half, 😊. Richard, USA, "When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: there will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught how to fly." -- Barbara J. Winter. My web site: <https://www.turner42.com/> https://www.turner42.com/ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Tony Sweeney Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2025 10:44 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Thoughts and List of commands for BSI. Hi Duane and all, i'm wondering with BSI have you any recommendations as how to place one's fingers for maximum result? Should we place them toward the top of our phone, halfway or toward the bottom of the screen for example? Thanks, Tony On 30/03/2025 16:32, Duane Steele wrote: I echo all the good thoughts about BSI. APPLE has really done a great job making the braille screen perform phone commands when a braille device is absent. I'm one of those people who loves braille, and uses it for all kinds of daily work. I had never tried using the "command mode" until yesterday, and I absolutely love it! Thanks for the conversation, and for the complete list of commands provided on this list. +Peace & Blessings, Pastor Duane L. Steele Phone (276) 730-5194 On Mar 29, 2025, at 12:36 PM, 'Richard Turner' via VIPhone <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote: I would phrase it that BSI command mode is for controlling or navigating the phone, just like a braille display or bluetooth keyboard. If in command mode, you pretty much can do the same things as with a braille display only you do not need a spacebar to make the cord commands. So, h goes to the home screen, etc. HTH, Richard, USA "While striving for perfection, let us do what is possible." -- John Wesley My web site: https://www.turner42.com (sent from my iPhone 16 pro) c On Mar 29, 2025, at 9:30 AM, Tony Sweeney <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote: Yes I see now that braille entry mode is for writing, whilst command mode is what it indicates, commands for operating BSI. Tony On 29/03/2025 16:04, 'Richard Turner' via VIPhone wrote: I find I have to be a little slower than normal when entering text with BSI or it misses contractions or letters. Otherwise I use the entry mode a ton. I have not used the command mode much, but am considering using it more as it would be rather efficient I think to just stay in BSI mode and switch between Command mode and Entry mode. HTH, Richard, USA, "When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: there will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught how to fly." -- Barbara J. Winter. My web site: https://www.turner42.com/ From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Tony Sweeney Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2025 5:20 AM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Thoughts and List of commands for BSI. Hi Richard, all, I have just seen this post and it's something that I only very recently set my thoughts to. I wonder how many folk use BSI and how they find/found it? I think I'm going to like but wonder first of all how others got on? Thanks for keystrokes incidentally many of them I coincidentally came across on a search on Copilot which was interesting. Tony On 04/11/2024 17:02, 'Richard Turner' via VIPhone wrote: Chris Chaffin posted a list of Braille Screen Input commands on Applevis and it was posted to another iphone list. I thought it was worth posting here as well. I made several additions to the list and combined a couple that were the same gesture with some of what it did. So below is what I can sort out is a pretty full list of commands that can be done with BSI. Braille Screen Input on Apple Products Chris Chaffin, 22 September, 2024 Modified by Richard Turner November 4, 2024. I found a few extra gestures that work so added them to the list. Here is the entire list as it stands now. In iOS 18, Braille Screen Input, (BSI), got a major overhaul. One of the main new features is Command Mode. This allows you to navigate your phone while never leaving Braille Screen Input. Please find below a list of commands that can be used while in Command Mode of Braille Screen Input. You must be in Command Mode in order for the below commands to work. Toggle from Braille Entry to Command Mode, 3 Finger swipe to the left or right. 1. One finger swipe to the right, Dot 4. 2. One finger swipe to the left, Dot 1. 3. Double tap, dots 3 and 6. 4. Go to first item or top of screen, Dots 1, 2, and 3. 5. Go to last item or bottom of screen, dots 4, 5, and 6. 6. Item Chooser, letter I. 7. Status bar, letter S. 8. Notification Center, dot 4 and 6. 9. Control Center, dots 2 and 5. 10. Escape current context, letter B. 11. Scroll forward, swiping left to right, dots 1, 3, and 5. 12. Scroll back, swiping right to left, dots 2, 4, and 6. 13. Scroll up a page, swiping bottom to top, dots 1, 4,5,and 6. 14. Scroll down a page, swiping from top to bottom, dots 3, 4, 5, and 6. 15. Move to next rotor item, dot 6. 16. Move to previous rotor item, dot 3. 17. Move to next selection within a rotor setting, dots 5 and 6. 18. Move to previous selection within a rotor setting, dots 2 and 3. 19. volume Up, dots 3, 4, and 5. 20. Volume down, dots 1, 2, and 6. 21. Toggle show / hide keyboard, dots 1, 4, and 6. 22. 1 Finger Triple tap or double tap and hold, dots 3, 5, and 6. 23. Read page from top, letter W. 24. Read page from selected position, letter R. 25. Select All, dots 2, 3, 5, and 6. 26. Select left, dots 2, 3, and 5. 27. Select Right, dots 2, 5, and 6. 28. Copy, letter C. 29. Cut, Letter X. 30. Paste, Letter V. 31. Activates delete key, Letter D. 32. Text search, Letter F. 33. Magic Tap, dots 1, 5, and 6. Start or stop the current action (for example, play or pause music or a video, take a photo in Camera, start or stop a recording, start or stop the stopwatch, answer/hangup a phone call, start dictation in an edit field.) 34. Toggle screen curtain, dots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. 35. Toggle, Mute / Unmute Voice Over, Letter M. 36. Go to home screen, Letter H. 37. Go to App Switcher, Letter H twice. 38. 2 Finger Double tap and hold, dots 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6. 39. Practice mode, Letter k. 40. Pause or continue speech, letter p. 41. Speak page number or rows being displayed, dots 3, and 4. (VO help says “read item summary.” 42. Select text, Dots 2,5, and 6. 43. Deselect text, Dots 2, 3, and 5. 44. Undo typing, Letter z. 45. Redo typing, dots 2,3,4, and 6. 46. Move to next visible app, dots 2, and 6. 47. Move to previous visible app, dots 3, and 5. 48. QuickNav toggle, letter q. The original forum link is: https://www.applevis.com/forum/braille-apple-products/list-commands-bsi-ios-18 Richard, “Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in touch with it.” – Jane Wagner, from The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. My web site: <https://www.turner42.com> https://www.turner42.com -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. 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