[Diabetes-Talk] Iphones

[Patricia Maddix]

I don’t know the exact answer to that question but I can say that it does work fine on my iPhone eight running the latest version of iOS 14. Hopefully there are enough people in this group using various iPhones and Dexcom to do a survey of all the different models. A low vision group I belong to meets monthly with a former employee of the Apple Store who is now a technology trainer for people who are blind and low vision. He periodically discusses with us the different iPhone models and which ones he would recommend for us. Right now the fairly new iPhone SE 2020 is the least expensive iPhone for $399. It still has the home button which a lot of us really like. It does everything you’d want the device to do and apparently has most of the capabilities of the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro without the fancy cameras for a lower price. For people who want a very small iPhone the new 12 mini is the smallest phone but of course does not have the home button. Looking at future technology for the blind the 12 pro and the 12 pro plus have a technology called LiDAR which is able to detect objects in your environment and tell you how far away they are and whether they are true your left or right or straight ahead. The Seeing A I has a new channel for these phones called world preview that takes advantage of this LiDAR feature. This feature is still very new and should improve with time so general advice is to not buy this model of iPhone just for that one feature as it is quite expensive. No doubt in the future all new iPhones will include LiDAR.
My brother-in-law recently bought an iPhone 8 online for around $100 so unless you want something really new that could be an option.
Patricia


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> On Feb 28, 2021, at 10:00 AM, Les Fitzpatrick via Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> It looks like I'm going to have to go back to an iphone because the latest
> update for android has made my phone unusable. So is there any iphone that
> doesn't support Dexcom?
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