iBUG Buzz

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#483 - May 10, 2021 May 13, 2021

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Facilitators: Marc & Stephen

Topics: iBUG announcements; pairing Air Pods Pros; unsubscribing from a Podcast; Facebook and tracking; Siri not reading text message before sending, hard reset – volume up, volume down, power button down for 10 seconds; issue with volume on iPhone – adjust volume with side buttons, turn it off; old phone number is appearing, though it has been deleted from contacts; shutting down iPhone 12 Mini, hold power and volume down; can turn off 911 feature so avoid accidentally triggering that; VoiceOver losing focus while reading e-mail, toggle VoiceOver on and off; system reset, turn off iPhone; in Zoom, if change name in participants, that is temporary; change display name in Zoom app, is permanent; whether to put a password on your Apple Watch; can use Apple Watch to unlock iPhone with mask; can automatically unlock Apple Watch with iPhone; Apple Watch showing past back ups; joining Zoom meeting with link; under Zoom settings, can select how you connect; using Air Drop to share a password; Air Tag, how long will it take to get notified of stalker; Apple air tag key ring versus one by Belkin; if you loose your Air Tag, get notification, chirping after three days; turning on notification in Clubhouse for clubs, click on RSVP to get notifications; also get notifications if following one of the moderators; latest updates to Clubhouse tells you number of participants and moderators; in room in Clubhouse, two-finger double tap to see who is speaking; how to unfollow people in Clubhouse; in Netflix, trouble getting audio-description in a different language

#482 - May 3, 2021 May 06, 2021

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Facilitators: Maria & Sandhya

Topics: iBUG announcements; iOS 14.5 update review fixed Braille display panning; Braille input issues; use Apple Watch to unlock while masked; Air Tags; report accidents in Apple Maps like the Waze app; dual sim 5g support; over 200 new emoji; use Siri to set preferred music app; new Siri voices; Siri to announce incoming calls; use Siri to answer calls; app tracking transparency; view city charts in Apple Music; design changes in Podcast app; sort reminder list; able to print reminder list; new shortcut actions; using Find My to locate third-party items; Find My Security – helps detect an unknown Air Tag to prevent tracking; Air Tags cost $29.00 for one, or $99 for four Air Tags; when using Air Tags, ultra-wide band, gives straight line directions; difference between Tiles and Air Tags; downloading new Siri voices; setting up Apple Watch to unlock with mask; deleting podcast after listening automatically; using Siri to answer iPhone; trouble logging into Twitterific; use setting, then passwords; reading in Apple Books; use speak screen, and it will read separate from VoiceOver; dismissing notifications; different types of notifications; face recognition on iPhone 12 Mini; turn off attention, that way does not matter if you are not looking at the iPhone; checking for last Apple Watch back up; can schedule trash from e-mail to be emptied; adding a credit card to PayPal; Clubhouse update allows you to see who is speaking with VoiceOver; It is telling you who is unmuted; clearing storage in iCloud; use Google Photos to store photos; turning off alarms when on Zoom; using reminders instead of alarms.

#481 - April 26, 2021 Apr 29, 2021

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Facilitators: Keith & Sandhya

Topics: iBUG announcements; voice controls on iPhone – can cause echoing on Facetime calls, still need to know VoiceOver gestures; retrieving Siri searches; after conduct Siri search for website, use share sheet to create bookmark for website; can also share link to website on home screen; recommendations for accessories for iPhone 12 Pro – Otter Box Defender, Life proof case, make cables are MFI certified, Anker brand is reliable for cables, braided cables are more durable, Mag Safe charger; wireless chargers are slower than wired chargers; Friends getting kicked off of Facebook friend list; podcast apps include Backpack, Downcast, Overcast, and Castro, or Ootunes; ; ; Audesy (formerly Radio.com), features primarily CBS stations; Audacity is audio editing software; how to send long voice memos by text; audio recordings within Messages app – can set how long it should be saved; can record the voice memo and save to Dropbox or Google Drive, then just send out a link to that file; Just Press Record automatically saves to Dropbox; muting your self on Clubhouse, when called to the sgage, better to mute yourself; can remove yourself to the audience; join as speaker or maybe later; new Clubhouse update; in Clubhouse, is there a way to applaud with VoiceOver, like sighted people tap on their microphones and cause a flash; following a club versus joining a club in Clubhouse; starting a room versus starting a club in Clubhouse; is it possible to listen to a conversation in Clubhouse without entering the room? No; iToys segment – Air Pods Max headphones – presented by Brad. Over the ear or ear muff style headphones, heavy, all metal shell, ear piece covered by fabric; no on/off switch; automatic head detection; aumatically goes to lower power mode when not in use; store in a sleeve; Air Pods Max allows you to distinguish different instruments, better than Bose Quiet Comfort headphones; no mute button.

#480 - April 19, 2021 Apr 23, 2021

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Facilitators: Stephen & Sandhya

Topics: iBUG announcements;How to silence VoiceOver without turning off speech or VoiceOver – two-finger gentle tap on screen, or turn off raise to wake in settings; three-finger double tap to turn off speech; tap anywhere on screen to get focus off time in status bar; using beacons in Blind Square; Use Navi Lens app to create paper beacons; use Sound Scape; use Clew demo from iBUG Café of February 14, 2021; Power Beats 2nd Generation – weird deep voice when turning on device – try hard reset; cutting and pasting text with text selection; using three-finger quadruple tap to select text that has been spoken by VoiceOver; Pinch in and pinch out to select text; moving apps to a different page of home screen; find first app you want to move, swipe up or down, VoiceOver will say edit with different choices; using Alexa app on iPhone to locate iPhone; recommendation for quick way to save several Zoom links on home screen; trouble logging into Clubhouse – unable to set up profile; how to read a person’s contact information on Clubhouse – go to their profile; trying to sign into Zoom on a new iPhone – check Internet signal, original Airpods not pairing right away; key chain app explained- Blind Abilities podcast and app; Apple’s password manager; logging into Audible with Amazon password; Key chain can store credit card information; if you already have a password stored for a website, you will get a prompt to update your password; downloading the mentor application from iBUG website, saved to Files app, under iCloud drive and downloads folder; how to retrieve recording of Zoom from iPhone; Apple event – Air Tags, iPad Pro, iPad Mini, 12:00 PM Central Time; how to find people you are following on Clubhouse;

#479 - April 12, 2021 Apr 14, 2021

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Facilitators: Brad, & Sandhya

Topics: iBUG announcements; opening a link from a text message; e-mail notifications; notification settings; dismissing notifications; setting up Clubhouse app; using scrub gesture in Clubhouse; using Siri to read unread messages; sorting files on iCloud drive in alphabetical order; selecting multiple files in the Files app for sharing; creating sub-folders in Files app; gesture for iPhone without home button, swipe up from bottom, hear little blip or pop and haptic feedback , the first one is home screen, second one is for app switcher; lift your finger when you reach desired point; using Back Tap gesture to activate app switcher; pros and cons of Back Tap; single finger quadruple tap, secondary activation; entering name on Zoom app; create profile in Zoom; downloading the Clubhouse app; what to include in Clubhouse profile; do not include personal information, but generic information about interests that will help people to find you; first twelve words is immediately available without expanding profile window; can you enter a private meeting that appears in your hallway; VoiceOver bug, social meetings in Clubhouse appear as private rooms; sequence for installing Clubhouse app and then accept an invite; you will receive text message with invitation; active speaker avatar in Zoom; four-finger double tap, practice gestures; swiping through posts in Facebook; three-finger swipe up to move large post, then swipe right for next post; or double-tap on Newsfeed to refresh the screen; activating haptic feedback on Apple Watch; make sure Apple Watch is asleep before activating haptic feedback; turning off the iPhone 12 – power button and volume up, the buttons, emergency SOS, power off, or cancel; tap power button 5 times to activate emergency SOS; can also disable the Emergency SOS feature; if you activate Emergency SOS, tap on stop call; have to stop calling on two screens, if you hit cancel, it will continue to call 911; trouble with Face id, only works with iPhone in portrait mode, hold 14 inches from face, turn off attention; rerecord the face id.

#478 - April 5, 2021 Apr 09, 2021

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Facilitators: Maria, Brad, & Sandhya

Topics: iBUG announcements; labeling a picture; activate photo, swipe up, option to add caption; how to remove item from Amazon shopping cart; Amazon accessibility very helpful; rumors of monetization on Clubhouse; Clubhouse invitations; Amazon Accessibility line 206-922-0880; how to unmute a text message thread, swipe up on thread, option to hide alerts or show alerts; source of audio-described movies – ACB.ORG/adp; text message in Uber app; texts with an app such as Instacart or Uber shows up in messages as well; Searching in YouTube; using Siri to make a call – two fingers on the screen to silence VoiceOver, turn off VoiceOver to avoid interruptions, or three-finger double tap to silence speech; getting started with Apple Watch out of the box; sending message to driver in Uber; sharing live location in Uber; downloading files to iPhone; adding item to home screen from share sheet; Notes and add item to home screen are after the more button in the share sheet; four-finger tap to go to end of share sheet; After Shocks headphones called Aeropex; wired earpods on sale for $16.00 on Amazon; Using Siri to put event on the default calendar, then edit the event to move it to a different calendar; Voice Control.

#477 - March 29, 2021 Apr 04, 2021

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Facilitators: Marc & Sandhya

Topics: iBUG announcements; spell check, turn on auto correct; also go to settings, accessibility, keyboard, and enable full keyboard; in an edit field, choose misspelled word in rotor, swipe up and down to select words; typing post on Facebook, VoiceOver suggests possible contacts; best to keep typing; can also double tap in edit field, then dictate the post; trouble with dictating on Air Pods Pros, better to use wired headphones; turning off direct touch in an app in Blindfold games; ear piece on SE 2020 not working, try pressing volume up button; plug in charger for a few minutes, then reset ear piece; hearing echo on Verison iPhone; recommendations for upgrading iPhone, home button v. no home button, face recognition v. touch id; Se 2020 is smaller, body of iPhone 8 with internals of iPhone 11, also consider quality of camera for OCR;in a group text, if all are iPhones, then can rename, however, if there is one Android in the group, cannot rename; how to rename a group text; anyone in the group text can change the name of the group; is it possible to create a contact from a group text message? No; once you type a person’s name from the group, it will populate with the name of the group as if it were a regular contact; cheaper headphones are beeping when reading a document – suggest re-pairing the device; may beep because battery is low; how to check for firmware updates; how to turn off notifications on Clubhouse; navigating containers on iPad with Bluetooth keyboard; recommendation for a tether for wireless headphones; Skull Candy; Anchor Slim – inexpensive; demo of how to insert a passcode or numeric identification following a phone number; entering commas to create pauses; then it will automatically enter all of the numeric identifications; Can also type phone number with commas etc in the Notes app, copy and paste into phone field of the contact; also use same technique for Zoom phone numbers or One Tap calls; same technique can be used for bank and routing number.

#476 - March 22, 2021 Mar 30, 2021

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Facilitators: Kenny & Sandhya

Topics: iBUG announcements; turning off phonetics in touch typing; Kindle versus Apple Books; Book Share is accessible; Bard has live readers, and on Kindle is VoiceOver voice; Kindle allows navigation by page; Kindle allows annotations and ability to look up words; selecting text in Kindle in order to make annotation; muting a group text message; how to turn off character and word echo in Pages app; how to stop auto renewal after free trial; using Aira to take a selfie for posting; Selfie Ex app; how to upload avatar photo to Zoom, before a meeting, go to settings, your name, and can insert photo; entering numbers on a keypad in SE 2020 turning on reachability; wearing headphones helps entering on keypad; entering debit card into wallet; use Bluetooth keyboard to enter numbers or take a photo; need to line up the card correctly, verify card number, enter expiration and three digit CVV code; ;Apple Accessibility is blocking out any personal information; linking Twitter on Clubhouse; setting up Zell account; may be able to use bank app; Zell is Siri enabled; description of Clubhouse; switching account in Zoom; Apple Watch talking while sleeping; need to set a sleep window, then when you fall asleep, the watch will lock the screen; I Toys segment – the Envision Glasses by Saylor; description; price $3,500; allows you to take pictures, describe scene, identify people, read text, identify money, phone a friend to see what you are seeing; touch pad is on right side, camera on bridge of nose; 5 hour battery life; magic tap triggers music or Pandora; use magic tap to answer or disconnect a phone call; Siri not opening apps.

#475 - March 15, 2021 Mar 22, 2021

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Facilitators: Stephen & Sandhya

Topics: iBUG announcements; Facebook notification says images; flick up on image, says generate detailed image description; how to automatically update apps in App Store; toggle automatic update to on; can also update all apps at once; Facebook image – double tap on image, opens the person’s profile picture; recommendation for leather iPad case – Guidelights and Gadgets, cellularoutfitters.com; update mailing address for Apple id; copying Zoom link from Facebook, three-finger quadruple tap to copy link; two-finger double tap and hold, label element allows you to copy text; use rotor, go to edit, then paste text; after copying Zoom link, open in Safari, copy into address bar, then tap go or enter to launch the meeting; using spell check with Bluetooth keyboard; auto correct feature; using Airpods Pro on Clubhouse app; how to bookmark a website on Safari, click on share, then add to favorites, or create bookmark; how to answer the iPhone – two-finger double tap, sometime the magic tap does not work; check on your gestures with VoiceOver practice; make sure both fingers are touching the screen; incoming call is displayed as banner or full screen; four-finger double tap to open VoiceOver help; four-finger single tap at the bottom of screen will go to last element; using blue tooth headphones to answer a call; comparing size of iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro max; do you miss your home button?; face id works in the rain, better than touch id; invitations to Clubhouse; logging out of another Zoom account; updating credit card in wallet; turning on airplane mode fixes wifi issues; how to identify who is speaking in Clubhouse, see who is not muted on stage; turning of predictive words; turn slide to type off; in Facebook, 100 people reached; latest update, profile picture does not have the person’s name; Twitter Mobile app, 19 fleets; uploading a photo to Facebook; using Seeing AI to identify pictures.

#474 - March 8, 2021 Mar 13, 2021

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Facilitators: Brad & Sandhya

Topics: iBUG announcements; streaming v. downloading a podcast; finding Zoom link in text message; copy Zoom link and create a contact for iBUG meeting; how to get the price of an iPhone; Voice Control – how to flick left or right; list of commands with proper syntax to accomplish task; can create a list of fields with numbers, then go to a certain numbered field; online services to get price quote for iPhone – Gazelle; ask iPhone service provider about trade in value; ; check on E-Bay; VoiceOver shutting off frequently – restart of iPhone will fix temporarily; Siri repeating commands on Apple Watch, double announcements; use Alexa speaker as a Bluetooth device to play Net flix; Voice in a Can app – load on iPhone, connect to Apple Watch, then can have Alexa on your Apple Watch; Braille Screen Input on the iPad; adding Apple Card to PayPal; exiting share feature on Clubhouse App; asking accessibility questions in the Fifteen Percent Room on Clubhouse; once you ping someone on Clubhouse app, choose share, then close; when will iOS 14.5 be out; Airpods Max; March Apple Event – possibly release Air Tags; four-finger double tap turns on help; gestures on iPhones without a home button; demo of adding item to rotor - settings, accessibility, VoiceOver, rotor; activating the rotor; making a calendar entry, save URL as the location; if use list of history in Zoom, then must enter password; clearing a single item from Zoom history – all or none; Zoom history is device specific; accessible games – Dice World, Blindfold games, Moxi 2, saving Zoom link to URL field in a contact card;What’s App chat group about accessible games; navigating Blindfold Wheel of Fortune; auto fill; key chain store password for websites; auto fill draws from your contact information.

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