iBUG Android Insight

Facilitators: Ava and Harshi

Topics: iBUG announced a continued $50 gift card giveaway for 2026 to encourage participation on the mailing list and during live calls;  Pixel 9 and 10 Pro user; discussed battery health and iPad Pro; Past gift card winner; Uses the Wolfner Library for audiobooks; Samsung A15 and S9 Plus tablet;  Apple user learning Android on a Pixel 6a to help a friend;  Pixel 7 Pro and Samsung Galaxy Tab S9; Echo Show 5 and Samsung S8 Ultra and iPhone;  Alexa app settings and Gemini; Accessibility Tech Discussions; Braille Innovation: Hershey highlighted the "Mnemonic," a compact braille printer the size of a coffee mug, showcased at CES;  Sideloading & Screen Readers:  Using Commentary, a responsive  alternative to TalkBack, and the risks of sideloading apps; Device  Battery Longevity;  Maximizing battery health, specifically the 80/20 charging rule;  Smart Home Integration; Users discussed troubleshooting Alexa alarm settings on Android devices;  AI Tools; The group explored use cases for Google Gemini, such as searching through emails and managing device settings like "Back Tap";  Support Resources; iBug offers various community calls, including Trekkie Talk, Mac calls, and iOS calls, along side a weekly audio-described movie night every Friday.

Facilitators: Ava and Harshi

Show Notes coming soon.

Facilitators: Ava and Harshi

Topics:  Android accessibility features, including TalkBack, screen readers, and magnification apps; The group discussed technical support for mobile devices; troubleshooting issues like Do Not Disturb (DND) and Google Play notifications; provided guidance on casting content to TVs (e.g., Samsung TV and Google Streamer); Tips on using screen reader gestures across platforms (Android/iOS) and explored new assistive technology like Google Lookout Assisted Vision, Reading Mode, and the Google Pixel Magnifier app; The conversation concluded with updates on AI service server outages (e.g., AWS/ChatGPT) and general participant well- being

Facilitators: Ava and Harshi

Topics:  Samsung Z fold issue with zoom;   Where did the controls go? Go to APP settings and make sure all the permissions are set. Turn on everything; Use 1 finger and double tap in the middle of the screen;  Cannot swipe to left or right;  Check to make sure you are not in driving mode;   Alexa APP on the phone will not set an alarm or timer, check permissions;  Ear buds Bluetooth If you do not want to use Bluetooth, you would need to get a headset with  a USB C connection.  Recommendations suggested; Losing more vision and cannot see the apps , what can you use to help?  Talkback is a screen reader that can help to tell you feedback on the Blind Android users on YouTube can help to walk you through the beginning;  Had turned it on and it talked everything;  You can also use select to Speak Overview on how to use select to speak;  Using Talkback on a Samsung Tablet  Discussion on losing vision;  Navigating email using talkback;  Using voice commands

Facilitators: Ava and Harshi

Topics:   Brief  discussion about the session at the ACBT State conference- talked about Gemini and how live worked and gave a remark back.  Issue with using Gemini; Sometimes it does not respond/understand me when using the wake command;   Uses the side button  to talk with Gemini With the upgrade,  I had to go back and set the prompt  to have the beep;   Go into the assistance settings to add the prompt back;   Some still have the assistance APP;  Need to go in the accessibility section under the settings section;  When I go to the playstore, it has all the various categories; How can I tell what needs to be paid, subscription, Increase the sensitive in  settings If you are on a pixel, Gemini is  assistance of choice; Is there a way to switch between AI mode to Assistance?;  Tap the voice search button to get the regular google voice, search has a button to check to use Google AI;  You can still say Gemini is in another language, how to change it?  Demo on where to go change the language, Go to settings under google or the assistance app, Install from the playstore, languages maybe the first one.  Brand discussion Fire tablet – speech is call voice view You can say Alexa, turn on voiceview; I used to be able to say Hey Google call, now Gemini is pulling up names  and seems to be sluggish or ask me to call different people;  Suggestion: you have to add the people to favorites If it ask you the wrong name, go to thumbs down to report it;  Tell it that when I call always call from my contacts With messages, how to copy or share a message Tap twice with 3 fingers to copy or tap once with 3 fingers, or copy last spoken phrase;   Subscriptions for Youtube;  Youtube premium  account  - youtube music  for free Or family has multiple users; What is the difference between them all Using YouTube on the TV ; Google TV Volume goes higher and does not keep the settings;  YouTube Tv  volume goes higher How to tell if the APP is free or a charge? Meta AI glasses

Facilitators: Ava and Harshey

Show Notes to come soon

Facilitators: Ava and Harshey

Topics: Talking about what new devices are coming out and when; During the upgrade for the talkback: when I triple tap with three fingers it is scrolling the whole page;  It is scrolling down before it reads the next line; Triple tap with 2 fingers.  It is a Samsung issue and a Gmail issue. First, try the Samsung email and not the Gmail; Make sure message tread is off.   Metta Ray ban glasses are friendly and accessible with android.   Google Help.  Samsung email and is still having the issue.   Triple tap double finger to continuous read, Have the voice reader on the phone , to read messages.  Use the reading mode On Samsung, you can assign a hotkey for the reading mode.   At voice is another text to speech and speech central Resources:  Blind and visually impaired android users group on Facebook Blind& vision impaired android users on Facebook - Hershi is admin here ).  Having trouble with Alexa plus and using air fryer:  You will have to turn off the Alexa plus and then you can use your devices and turn it back on when finished Read out loud feature on an Alcatel phone KAIOS.  Testimonial for Talkback and Samsung Flip phone , whilst traveling internationally,and and the love of Talkback and the small form factor of a flip phone. Found it to work just as well as the iPhone.  TCL Android TV will have Gemini at the end of the year.  Are there other voices to use on the android? Yes, there is.  Vocalizer voices, Acapella, Speech synthesis by Google.  Instructions on how to find settings and accessibility #Samsung phones have it on the top corner of notification and #Pixel, go to the quick settings by swiping down twice with two fingers on the notifications.   What does it mean when talkback is saying that it is in list and out of list?  Explanation of list You can turn list announcements off.

Facilitators: Ava and Harshid

Topics:   How do you turn on Talkback?;   Pixel 9: hold the volumes up and down or hold the power button and ask Gemini to turn on talkback;  Can you tell Gemini to turn off Talkback? Yes you can;  Echoe show 8: does it come with Alexa plus?;  May not come enabled with Alexa plus.;   You can disable it  and enable it With BARD and ACB Media you have to disable it;  What is the benefit of  the Alexa plus It is the same as Gemini AI And others  in the ai world., Chat GPT;   Is Live transcript the same between Samsung and Pixel devices?;    Google made Live transcription first, but Samsung also have great tools for similar hearing loss tools. Including captioning.;   Remember to send your feedback to: g.co/disabilitysupport this way, you have a ticket and can get your issues resolved.;   Where can you go to practice gestures or tutorials;  Access the Talkback menu Touch the Screen with  to navigate to talkback settings  where you can find the tutorial.3 fingers;  Another way is to tap with 4 fingers. This turns on the tutorial. If you double tap the 4 fingers, you will go to the tutorial to learn to talk back, while one tap will give you a sketch pad to practice gestures to learn what those gestures do.; Quick setting use to be next to Notifications; The quick way to get to Quick settings is to swipe down with 3 fingers to get to notifications and swipe down with 2 fingers to get to quick settings;  Meta  and Gemini AI to compose a letter cross platform and Android .ChromeBook;   Using Dark Mode;  Gemini Live;  Is there a list of Talkback basic settings?;   We give you a rundown of what to expect from a new phone and as well as, how to work with talkback in reference to Voiceover and how it may be similar and different.;   The talkback menu is one area of talkback and it offers you the talkback settings and also, you can customize it to your liking. Example of using the triple finger one tap to get to the Talkback menu;  How to update Talkback;   Has anyone used aCo  pilot?;    It's from the Microsoft end, and some features are useful to the folks that have vision loss.;   ? The name of the app today is Link to Window, it was Link to PC yesterday, please just keep the same name please. Has anyone connected their phone to the PC?  What is Co-pilot vision ?  Microsoft ‘s probable version of having the camera looking at things to leverage the co pilot ai.;  Gemini Live is a camera. You can talk to it and have it describe items and things to you.  If you have a Pixel : the G-keyboard is the one;   The clipboard is the best.  It is very flexible and can capture email addresses and also separate out information to make it more useful when pasting, also has a number row.

Facilitators: Ava and Harshid

Topic:  Lets talk about Gemini;  What is Gemini; Can be used to  write a letter or paper; You can use Gemini Live on your phone;   Volume how to raise  it?  Can say speak louder or say a command to speak louder;  Let it talk and use the volume keys;  Under sounds settings you can turn up the volume;   Gemini is not as responsive,  It does not give the audible sound all the time to let you know it is ready;  It does not readd the whole message;  Update was pushed to all of the Samsung devices from Android 14 to Android 15. Gemini is now is in place of the Google Assistant;   Go to the settings and adjust the sensitivity;  Clear the data and retrain your voice model;  Go into settings and make sure it is giving you the whole messages;  Co polit is Microsoft version of AI;   Back to basics question:   Can we define some of these terms:   Gemini – A Assistant from Google;   Bixby is an assistant  from Samsung;  What is talkback,  is a screen reader like JAWS, NVDA;   Can you load this on a computer?;   Only on a Chromebook. You can add the Gemini APP;   Question: Will Gemini will be used on the microphone on the Chrome browser?    All this is backed in the cloud;   IPhone or Android?  It is about personal preference;  More information about the Pixel phones;   Low vision – Read out loud, reading mode, select to speak;   You can use the accessibility shortcuts The shortcuts are helpful and can use them with talkback;  Accessibility shortcuts are based on the accessibility settings such as, Pixel vs Samsung. You can have a floating button, gesture , and a docked button;  Google lens is a powerful tool to use;   There are many different magnifications APPS  to use;   Contact Disability Support, g.co/disabilitysupport;   BigFont is a low vision APP that does multiple things;   With the Quick Tap feature on the Pixel phone, what do you use it for?  You can go under settings and to the quick tap  setting to customize it;  To use it on the Samsung phone, Download  Good lock from the Galaxy  store;  The badges are smaller with when they pushed Android 15;  Want to make the tile tray pages bigger;  The badges are smaller.

Facilitators: Ava and HarshidTopics: If I get an Android and switch from Apple, which of my subscription would transfer?; There are some APPS that are on both the Android and Apple and you can use on Android; The Apple only APPS will work, like OKO for example; Apple Music and Apple Tv are cross platform; How do you like Gemini; Will it switch to Hey Gemini from Hey Google?; For a while you will be able to say both; Most of the features are working but some will stop; It does calendar and weather Now with Gemini you can edit pictures; You can go in and setup a routine for news and weather; They are working on things like composing a simple email; If you are using google messages, there is a Gemini button in the corner you can invoke; With the home speaker you can still use Hey G when controlling your home; Google is starting to use matter enable devices; At this time, we are running Android 16 beta 4; By May 1UI 7 should be out for most; What has been everyone’s experience with hyperlinks?; On Android 15, you need to be aware of your storage? They are requiring the base phone to have 32 gab; Links Now you can just double tap, so you do not have to listen for the click; 15.2 is the latest version of Talkback- you can just double tap on the link using one finger, If not then, you can one finger double tap and hold Or use 3 fingers and swipe up to actions and one finger swipe to find the action needed; Using zoom and teams on their phone receiving through email; Fastest way is to double tap and hold and then copy link must use google calendar when doing this; Go to the assistance and create an event and drop the link in the event Instructions for doing it on the computer; Custom actions in talkback- you may want to add it as a gesture; How can I block or stop ads or notifications, Go under notifications (using a Samsung 9A plus); How to delete an APP without going into settings?; Easiest way is to tap and hold the APP and swipe to uninstall APP; If you are in the APP draw ( on an Samsung) swipe up to uninstall; A Center wants to purchase an Android phone, which would you suggest?; Different suggestions are given; Has anyone have the switch to hey gemini from hey google; How will the new tariffs affect the Amazon products?; Information on dictation; When you are dictating, how to do all caps?; Use the google voice with the Samsung Keyboard