Isn't there some way to reach the control center with one finger? I read somewhere about swiping up from the bottom. I think you have to do the vO-bypass double-tap-and-hold gesture, which could be just as cumbersome, but I'm not sure.
Teresa "Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough."--Richard P. Feynman On Mar 11, 2014, at 8:03 AM, Sandratomkins <sandratomk...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I may be missing something here, but from anywhere in the phone if you touch > the status bar at the top, four example, where the clock shows the time, and > then do the three finger flick up, you will open the Control Panel. > > Hope this helps, > Sandy > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 11 Mar 2014, at 14:26, "Ray T. Mahorney" <mahorney....@googlemail.com> >> wrote: >> >> 2 things here folks Siri can not open control center and I was able to get >> to the orientation lock >> by clamping the phone to the desk and doing the swipe that way. >> >> >> Ray T. Mahorney >> WA4WGA >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf >> Of Wayne Merritt >> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 14:17 >> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: locking orientation >> >> Ray, >> If you are not able to do the Control Center gesture from the status bar, >> the other ways I know of >> involve either using a Bluetooth keyboard or Braille display. If you don't >> have either of these, I >> don't know of another way to get to the Control Center other than the >> 3 finger swipe up after touching the status bar. It does appear that the >> settings/control center >> item does not yield anything useful; sorry about that. Perhaps someone has >> another idea. Perhaps you >> could open it with Siri. >> >> Wayne >> >>> On 3/11/14, Ray T. Mahorney <mahorney....@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> Iphone and that's not what I get when I press the control center >>> button the options I get appear to be whether access to the control >>> center is accessible on the locked screen. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Ray T. Mahorney >>> >>> WA4WGA >>> >>> >>> >>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On >>> Behalf Of Todd W >>> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 13:59 >>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >>> Subject: Re: locking orientation >>> >>> >>> >>> Ray, >>> >>> Are you on an iPhone or iPad? If you're on an iPad you can set the >>> side switch behavior to either mute/unmute or lock/unlock orientation. >>> This is found in Settings -> General -> Use side switch to... >>> >>> Unfortunately this option isn't available on the iPhone it seems. >>> Thelock orientation option is in the Control Center though, The >>> options are, from left to right: Airplane Mode, WiFi, Bluetooth,Do Not >>> Disturb, Lock Orientation. Under this row of toggles is the >>> Brightness control and under that are the Music controls, then things >>> like Calculator, Clock, Flashlight are on the bottom row. >>> >>> Todd >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Ray T. Mahorney >>> <mahorney....@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> >>> I can't make any of that work when I go into control center I see >>> nothing that says anything about locking orientation and three finger >>> swipes are physically difficult so there has to gbe another way to do >>> that? >>> >>> >>> Ray T. Mahorney >>> WA4WGA >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On >>> Behalf Of Wayne Merritt >>> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 13:00 >>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >>> Subject: Re: locking orientation >>> >>> Go to the Control Center, either from Settings, or by touching the >>> status bar and doing a 3 finger swipe up. If you then flick through >>> the items, there will be a lock orientation button which you can >>> double tap to lock. >>> >>> Hth, >>> Wayne >>> >>>> On 3/11/14, Ray T. Mahorney <mahorney....@googlemail.com> wrote: >>>> how is this done in IOS7 again? >>>> >>>> >>>> Ray T. 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