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

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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. Mahorney
>>>> WA4WGA
>>>> 
>>>> 
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