Perhaps, I am missing something here: but I just went to the messages app. I selected a small message, mid conversation. I turned the rotor to edit and chose copy. here is the result!
Are you on the boat yet? Sandy Sent from my iPhone > On 17 Dec 2013, at 14:10, Gmail <englishride...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've never had the edit rotor option come up in a text message conversation. > I can't even seem to use the gesture to select text in a conversation. It > just won't select anything. > > > Thanks, > Ari > >> On Dec 16, 2013, at 7:57 AM, "Alan Lemly" <wale...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I'll add to Sieghard's comments. Garth's democast on this topic is >> excellent. The title of the episode is Episode 12 - Selecting, Copying and >> Pasting Text and it can be found on this page: >> >> http://www.iblindtech.com/democast/?currentPage=3 >> >> Greg Kelchner also did a podcast called Exploring and Demonstrating the >> Advanced Text Editing Capabilities in iOS for VoiceOver Users which can be >> found on AppleVis at the following link: >> >> http://www.applevis.com/podcast/episodes/exploring-and-demonstrating-advance >> d-text-editing-capabilities-ios-voiceover-users >> >> That link will no doubt break since it is longer than one line so here is a >> TinyURL link to the same thing: >> >> http://tinyurl.com/ka32zkb >> >> Be aware that both of the above podcasts are pre-iOS 7 which added some more >> editing gestures as Sieghard already excellently explained. >> >> I agree that selecting and editing text on an iPhone is one of the most >> difficult things to do on it. But like everything, practice does make you >> better at it. I won't say perfect because I am so far from that level that >> I'm not even going to pretend it's attainable. >> >> Good luck. >> >> Alan Lemly >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf >> Of Sieghard Weitzel >> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 9:05 AM >> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >> Subject: RE: Need Some Tips on Edit Functions >> >> Hi Bill, >> >> I suggest you go to www.IBlindTech.com and listen to Garth's Podcast about >> selecting, copying and pasting text. I can't remember which number it is, >> but it is called very similar to what I just put here, Selecting, Copying >> and Pasting Text, so it should be easy to find. >> Doing this is one of the more tricky gestures and involves using 2 fingers >> which you place in the middle of the screen close together and then you move >> them apart horizontally. It is called a "Pinch Out" gesture and if, for >> example, you turn the rotor to Words, the text you want to select in Your >> Messages app will be selected word by word as you increase the distance >> between your fingers. >> If you get to the edge of the screen and not all the text has been selected >> you can repeat the gesture. >> When you are done you now turn the rotor to Edit, then flick down with one >> finger until you hear "Copy", then double tap. Your selected text has now >> been copied to the Clibboard. >> You next would open the Mail app, address the message and then in the body >> field once again turn the rotor to Edit, then flick down until you get to >> Paste and double tap. >> >> Another, easier way which often works well in iOS 7 is to use the new >> 4-finger quadruple tap. >> This gesture copies the last spoken text to the Clipboard, Voiceover >> actually calls it "Pastboard". >> You would just touch the message you want to copy, let Voiceover read it >> completely and then immediately after it finishes do a 4-finger quadruple >> tap. >> Then go to your Mail app, start a message and do what I described above >> which is to turn the rotor to Edit, flick down to Paste and double tap. >> One thing this method does is that it also pastes things Voiceover says like >> "link" or "button". >> For example, assume you have an email with a phone number or hyperlink and >> Voiceover reads the number followed by "phone number detected or the link >> followed by "link detected". >> If you do a 4-finger quadruple tap and then paste the number or link into >> another email, Voiceover would also paste the text "Phone Number Detected" >> or "link detected" and you would have to delete this again if all you wanted >> was the phone number or link. >> But this is still a very useful feature. >> >> >> Regards, >> Sieghard >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf >> Of Bill Gallik >> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 6:33 AM >> To: List, viPhone >> Subject: Need Some Tips on Edit Functions >> >> OK, I have to confess to some total ignorance here. I want to take the text >> from a text message and place it into an e-mail so I can send it off to >> somebody who doesn't have a mobile phone. Here's my questions: >> >> - How do I select the text I want from the text message? >> - How do I then copy it to the work space? >> - How do I then paste that text into an e-mail? >> - Where can I read about using these edit functions so I can learn how to do >> additional things? >> >> Thanks in advance! >> >> >> ---------------- >> Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to You and Yours Holland and Bill >> - Scrooge, witnessing the Cratchet family Christmas celebration, begins an >> exchange with the Spirit of Christmas Present: >> - "`Spirit,' said Scrooge, with an interest he had never felt before, `tell >> me if Tiny Tim will live.' >> `I see a vacant seat,' replied the Ghost, `in the poor chimney-corner, and a >> crutch without an owner, carefully preserved. If these shadows remain >> unaltered by the Future, the child will die.' >> `No, no,' said Scrooge. `Oh, no, kind Spirit. say he will be spared.' >> `If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, none other of my race,' >> returned the Ghost, `will find him here. What then. 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