iBUG Buzz

#469 - February 1, 2021


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Facilitators:  Maria & Sandhya

Topics: iBUG announcements;  recommendations and deciding factors when upgrading to new iPhone – cost, storage, battery life,   availability of lidar; Apple may stop selling iPhone 12 Minis; iPhone 13 will most likely all have lidar; sending a group message that includes an Android user; enable text message as well as iMessages;  if SMS is turned off, cannot send message to Android user; turn off Bluetooth, when having conductivity issues;  in iOS 14.4 can define a device as a headset under Bluetooth settings; managing storage on iPhone, whether to upgrade iCloud storage; configuring iCloud; making FaceTime calls on iPad; posting to iBUG Facebook group page; find create post button;  activating hand off; accessing folder on i-Cloud Drive;  can toggle iCloud Drive on and off; more drastic step is sign completely our of iCloud; answering a second call on iPhone,  three buttons, end and accept, hold and accept, and  decline or ignore; BARD moved files to the cloud, so will have quicker downloads; new settings in BARD, automatic play  and 5-second rewind; iOS 14.4 and Braille displays; Kindle skipping pages on Braille display; work around – turn off automatic panning; sharing a contact card; how to turn off punctuation on iPhone; if activities is in rotor, can  accidentally turn on programming, which causes VoiceOver to read all punctuation;  iOS bug, can go to VoiceOver, activities, programming, and verbosity; text selection; demo of selecting text; need to add text selection to rotor; make sure text selection and edit are next to each other in rotor; enabling spoken content when selecting text; Things app – organizing your life beyond the calendar, has journaling capabilities; can use Drafts App and Day One for journals; VoiceOver, Braille, turn off automatic panning; automatic panning v. automatic scrolling in iOS 14; sharing Facebook post; scheduling posts as an admin on a Facebook account; sending a text message with a Zoom link; iOS is creating two separate messages; iOS creates a smart link, that says join Zoom meeting.

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