[Electronics-talk] iOS 8 Problems

[David Andrews]

Why -- I haven't upgraded yet?

Dave

At 10:10 AM 11/24/2014, you wrote:
>I still say if you haven't upgraded from iOS 7.1.2, don't.
>
>Mike
>
>
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>From: Electronics-talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>Behalf Of cheez via Electronics-talk
>Sent: Monday, November 24, 2014 7:47 AM
>To: James Aldrich; Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
>Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] iOS 8 Problems
>
>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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