This is all very well, but when I want it to tell me whether my desk is
level, and it says -2 degrees, is my desk sloping to m y left or right? I'm
sure this is perfectly obvious visually, but doesn't make a lot of sense in
voiceover.
Cheers
Alex

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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of Thom Spittle
Sent: 19 September 2013 14:44
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: New Spirit level feature part of iOS 7. Wow

A spirit level tells you when something is level. 
If you lay your iPhone on it's long edge with the screen facing you, you get
a horizontal level.
If you hold the long edge of your iPhone against a wall, you're checking
vertical level.
And, if you lay your iphone on a table with the screen facing up, you are
using a plane level.
With any of these, your iPhone will tell you the amount of degrees that your
phone is off of horizontal, vertical level, or plane level.
So, let's say I place it on a picture frame, on edge, with the screen facing
me, and the level running. I can adust the frame until the iPhone level
tells me that it's at zero degrees. This would tell me that the picture
frame is level.
Do the same on shelving to check level from side to side, or from front to
back.

I hope this helps,
Thom

Sent from my iPhone

> On Sep 19, 2013, at 9:17 AM, Wayne Merritt <wcmerr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Pardon me for asking, but could you explain exactly what the spirit 
> level refers to? How would you use that in putting up shelves?
> 
> Regards,
> Wayne
> 
>> On 9/19/13, Andy Lane <andylanesem...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all, has anyone noticed the new spirit level feature in compass app???
>> Previously compass was just a compass but now if you 3 finger swipe 
>> to the second page, you get a spirit level which is very accurate indeed.
>> Unfortunately it doesn't do less than 1 degree resolution which would 
>> be even better but the accuracy is good enough for putting up 
>> shelves, levelling pictures etc.  It also works on 2 axis 
>> simultaneously.  Very impressive.  On a negative note though the 
>> compass app doesn't seem to read out headings anymore so great we got 
>> spirit level but not so great they seem to have broke the compass.  
>> Hopefully I am wrong and doing something incorrectly or they fix it 
>> very quickly.  Also very disappointed the Safari bug where focus 
>> jumps around is still there.  I think that is the worst bug iOS 
>> currently has for a VO user as some websites become completely unusable.
>> 
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