iPhone101: 2 Ways To Skin This Cat! Managing Your Subscriptions with iTunes and Apps on Your iPhone

Show Summary: In this iPhone101 demonstration, Jeff takes us through the process to manage your subscriptions so you can change or cancel subscriptions and not be surprised by another monthly charge. There are 2 ways to Manage your subscriptions and thanks to Peggy's and Scott's feedback, an easier way is demonstrated first. Thanks Peggy and Scott! 1. Open up the App Store by tapping on the App Store icon. 2. Go to My Account. 3. Go down to...

iPhone101: Text Replacement – The Keyboard Shortcut That Lets Two Letters Launch a Thousand Words

Show Summary: iPhone 101 demonstrations and reviews brings you another demo and this one is all about the Keyboard shortcut, Text Replacement. With just a couple of letters for a shortcut, you can populate the dialog box or page with commonly used phrases, names, hashtags, email addresses and anything you desire. Head on into the shortcut keyboard settings and check out Text Replacement. In this demo Jeff Thompson will “add” a phrase and a...

iPhone101: Air Drop – Sharing Across Your Apple Orchard and Keeping the Unwanted Out

Show Summary: iPhone 101 demonstrations and reviews brings you another demo and this one is all about Air Drop. What is Air Drop? It is a feature in the Apple devices and Macs that allows you and others to share across a Bluetooth connection simply and easily by just a couple of taps. You can set yours up to limit just who can Air Drop to your device or Mac. Let’s imagine you are hanging out and around a table and you want a friend to visit a...

iPhone101: 3D Touch – A Light Sensitivity to a Firm Touch

Show Summary: iPhone 101 demonstrations and reviews brings you another demo and this one is all about 3D Touch. So, what is 3D Touch? It is a feature in the Apple iOS on most of the latest iPhones that allows developers to set up a form of interaction with the App icon and within the apps themselves. 3D Touch can and does work like a single-finger-double-tap in some instances. However, in this demonstration, Jeff Thompson will show you how he...

iPhone101: Air Pods and the Live Listen Feature Allows You to Listen Up!

Show Summary: iPhone 101 demonstrations and reviews brings you another demo involving Air Pods from Apple. Air Pods are ear phones that have no wire to worry about. They connect via Bluetooth thus allowing you to enjoy listening in stereo or by using just one Air Pod in either ear, you can keep one ear open for the environment you are in. Thus, doubling the life of the battery charge and allowing you to listen and hear around you as well. Air...

iPhone101: Even More Tips and Tricks with the Single Finger Double Tap and Hold Gesture

Nick D'amBrosio is back with three more tips and tricks for the use of the single finger double tap and hold gesture. Join Pete and Nick as they present the following new gesture using VoiceOver accessibility:: * in the drafts folder in your email app. Double tap and hold on the compose button, and watch your drafts folder open up magically! This is a quick and easy way to resume working on an old draft email, or start a new one. * double tap...

iPhone101: A Review of Locking Screen Rotation, Auto Lock and Raise To Wake Features

Blind Abilities presents another episode in our iPhone101 series. As we move past our in depth review of all of the various Voiceover gestures, Pete shares three simple iPhone settings which he ensures are in place whenever he sets up a new iPhone. They are: * Screen Rotation - located in the iPhone Control Center, this allows us to lock the screen rotation to eliminate the constant, annoying Voiceover message telling us that our phone has...

iPhone101: Finishing Up With VoiceOver Gestures

Blind Abilities presents another episode in the iPhone101 series, with this wind-up of Voiceover gestures. Pete walks us through some miscellaneous VO gestures not covered in the previous episodes, including the 4-finger double-tap (to open VO help); the split-tap (another variation of the single-finger double-tap); the 2-finger double-tap (to label buttons or photos), and the single-finger flick up or down (to select values in pickers such as...

iPhone101: The 4-Finger Single Tap: A Real Time Saver!

Blind Abilities presents another installment in its iPhone 101 series involving Voiceover gestures. As we draw near the end of our gestures presentations, Pete reviews the 4-finger single tap. This gesture can be somewhat difficult to perform since its kind of tight having to fit four fingers onto your iPhone screen, especially when in portrait mode (upright with your Home button at the bottom). Pete shares a tip where he turns his phone...

iPhone101: VO Gestures Part 4 – Exploring The World of the Single-Finger Double-Tap and Hold

Pete Lane and Nick D’Ambrosio present another installment in the iPhone 101 series involving Voiceover gestures. This episode explores the many ways we can use the Single-finger double-tap and Hold gesture. Ranging from several uses in Safari, the iPhone web browser, and sending audio messages in the Messages app, to Fast-forwarding and Rewinding music, Youtube videos or audio books in the player screens of your various audio apps, this...