An Update about Apple Watch Family Sharing in Australia

 

Since I last did a talk with the Accessible Technology Users Group where I said family sharing wasn’t available yet for the Apple Watch, it now is.

 

An Observation or two about Widgets on the iPhone

 

Just a tip, you can only fit a certain number of widgets on the Home screen without VoiceOver not being able to find them, so I use stack in stead which works much better anyway.

 

Apple 1 is Now Available

 

Bundle up to 6 Apple services in to one subscription:

Apple Music,

Apple TV+,

Apple Arcade,

iCloud,

Apple News+

Apple Fitness+ (coming later this year).

 

Individual (50G), family (200G), and premium (2TB) plans.

 

https://one.apple.com/au/?cc=au&urlDesc=&ign-itsct=one-NA-home-tile-apl-avl-102020&ign-itscg=10000

 

HomePod Mini Available to order November 7

 

No, I didn’t mention this in the show, but I’m getting 6 perhaps smile.

 

https://www.apple.com/au/homepod-mini/

 

One Benefit of the iPhone 12 Pro I’ve been Waiting for!

 

Camera on iPhone 12 pro tells people who are blind how far people are away via LIDAR.

 

https://www.applevis.com/blog/apple-adding-customizable-people-detection-capability-lidar-equipped-iphones-and-ipad-pro

 

Beats Flex

 

In The Box:

Beats Flex, very short UsBC to USBC cable, Quick start, and warranty card.

 

Wired neck (flex form cable) style ear buds.

4 pair of different sized ear bud tips.

No in ear wings on the tips to secure them in the ear.

Magnetic ear buds and auto pause (start/stop music or answer call).

 

Each side of the wire as they sit next to your neck has an inline control unit:

The full length of the wire between the ear phones is 32 inch’s or about 81CM.

 The left inline control has the  small round Multi function button, medium rectangular Volume rocker, Microphone, and USBC port, and

The right inline control has a small rectangular pairing/on off button. 

 

No IP rating.

 

Multi feature Button functions:

1 stop/pause music or answer/hang up phone call,

 

If music playing

2 times next track or held fast forward,

3 times previous track or if held rewind.

 

Multi feature button can be thought of as  the  clicker on Apple wired Ear phones.

 

12 hours playing time.

10 minute quick charge for an extra 1.5 hours of playing time.

1 to 2 hours fully charge time.

Easily connect via the W1 chip to Apple Watch, and iPhone. via iOS iCloud.

No active noise cancellation.

Very clear on phone calls.

 

Colours - Black, Yellow, Blue, Grey, 

Can be used as general BT ear phones to other devices.

Medium range sound, great for spoken word, VoiceOver, not so good for music lovers.

Only $79Au.

 

https://www.beatsbydre.com/au/earphones/beats-flex

 

Snap on Cases from the AT Guys for the Orbit Writer

 

A 3D printed case to protect the Orbit Writer, but allow you to use it with the lanyard.

 

https://www.atguys.com