[Electronics-talk] iOS 8 Problems

[cheez]

Jim, I can attest to your assessment of the 8.1.1 update.  Siri was driving 
me nuts when composing a message.
Vince

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Aldrich via Electronics-talk" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
To: "Kendra Schafer" <redwing731 at gmail.com>; "Discussion of accessible 
electronics and appliances" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2014 7:51 AM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] iOS 8 Problems


> Hi Kendra and all,
>
> Be sure to get the 8.1.1 update.  This fixes many of the problems with 
> IOS8.  I understand this works better with the older phones as the 4S. 
> Siri even works much better, it doesn't cut off as much if at all!  Thus 
> far, Siri seems to work much better with my IPhone 6.  I believe the Bard 
> app works better as well.
>
> Jim
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On Nov 21, 2014, at 3:52 AM, Kendra Schafer via Electronics-talk 
>> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all!
>> It was IOS8 that caused me to get an iPhone 5 for my main duties. I still 
>> have my old iPhone 4s for smaller tasks while I'm on the phone or for 
>> when I want to watch a sports game out loud but don't want to use my main 
>> phone. IOS8 works better on my iPhone 5 much better than it does on my 
>> old iPhone 4s. I have noticed one very impossible bug to get around 
>> without a bug fix. The PPP up buttons and the buttons that you use to 
>> flick down or up as in one that allows for you to enter a year while 
>> filling out an online applacation or a letter while searching for a book 
>> author on BARD are no longer accessable to us Voice Over users. I also 
>> wish that I waited!!! I have not at all been impressed with IOS8!!! I 
>> still miss old IOS7 which I loved.
>> Kendra
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On Nov 8, 2014, at 5:05 PM, Nicole Torcolini via Electronics-talk 
>>> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> I recently updated my iPhone 5 to iOS 8, and I am having some 
>>> accessibility
>>> problems. The first one may have been present before, but I just did not
>>> know. It seems to be possible to change the volume of the ringer and 
>>> alerts
>>> and of the VoiceOver speech using the buttons, but it does not seem to 
>>> be
>>> possible to change the volume of the VoiceOver sounds with the buttons. 
>>> The
>>> next problem is that emails keep temporarily disappearing. I will be on 
>>> an
>>> unread message in a thread and swipe right to a read message. When I 
>>> swipe
>>> left, the unread message is going. Pressing home and then reopening mail
>>> makes the message come back and stay. I disabled the swipe left and 
>>> swipe
>>> right actions in settings for emails, but that did not help. Another
>>> VoiceOver related issue is that, sometimes, VoiceOver is not reading the
>>> on/off state of a toggle button. Restarting the iPhone fixes it. 
>>> Finally,
>>> the money reader does not seem to work with iOS 8. It was finicky with 
>>> 7,
>>> but seems to not work at all with 8. Has anyone else experienced these
>>> issues or know anything about them?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Nicole
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