In this podcast, Thomas Domville takes us deep in to Focus, an iOS feature that helps you reduce distractions and set boundaries. When you want to concentrate on a specific activity, you can customize one of the provided Focus options—for example Work, Personal, or Sleep—or create a custom Focus. You can use Focus to temporarily silence all notifications, or allow only specific notifications—ones that apply to your task, for example—and let other people and apps know you’re busy.
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In this podcast, Thomas Domville demonstrates how in iOS 16 you are now able to recover deleted conversations in the native iOS Messages app. Note that this will only be possible for up to approximately 30 days after the conversation was deleted.
With the release of iOS 16, when sending messages using Siri, you can now skip the confirmation step. In this podcast, Thomas Domville shows us how this works and how to enable it.
With Always-On display, your iPhone 14 Pro or iPhone 14 Pro Max will dim the Lock Screen while still showing information, such as the time, widgets and wallpaper, all while using new technologies that make the display power efficient.
There is likely to be no utility to this feature for blind and some low vision users, so in this podcast Thomas Domville shows us how to disable it.
In this podcast, Thomas Domville shows us how to turn on the Mac-like startup and shutdown chimes that are available on all iPhone 14 models.
Note that the chime is limited to the iPhone 14 as it is triggered by the iPhone's bootrom, which is the code responsible for starting the iPhone and is outside of iOS. As the bootrom is read-only and cannot be changed after manufacture, Apple cannot add this startup sound to older iPhones. See this article for more information on this:…
On iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max, Apple has replaced the ‘notch’ that's been a feature of Face ID-equipped iPhones since the iPhone X with what it calls the Dynamic Island. The Dynamic Island is a small area of display pixels surrounding the pill-shaped cutout. It appears whenever your iPhone is unlocked, and changes size and shape to accommodate various types of alerts, notifications, and interactions such as music that’s playing, your timer, an AirDrop connection, and directions…
New to the iPhone with the release of iOS 16 is the ability to report SMS/MMS messages as junk. This expands on the built-in "Report Junk" feature in Messages that previously only let you report iMessages. Now you can use the same option to report an SMS/MMS message as junk, which will alert Apple and your network carrier and delete the message in question.
In this podcast, Thomas Domville shows us how it works.
Note that availability of this feature will depend upon your…
Added in iOS 14, Sound Recognition is an accessibility feature that uses on-device intelligence to listen for certain sounds, like a doorbell, fire alarm or a baby crying, and alert the user if they're detected. With the release of iOS 16, Apple has made it possible to add your own custom sounds. In this podcast, Thomas Domville shows us how this works.
New with iOS 16 is the ability to unsend sent iMessages. In this podcast, Thomas Domville shows us how it works.
In this podcast, Thomas Domville discusses and shows us how — with the release of iOS 16 — Apple has made it possible to view details of all the Wi-Fi networks your iPhone has connected to in the past and remembered. If iCloud Keychain is enabled on all your Apple devices, you'll even be able to see the Wi-Fi networks saved by those other devices. For example, you could use your iPhone to see all the networks your Mac or iPad has saved, and copy the password so that you can connect via…
In this podcast, Thomas Domville walks us through where to find and enable the iOS setting that prevents the side or lock button from ending calls.
Note that some in our community have recently reported issues with the side button not behaving as expected in regard to ending calls.
Apple has made many improvements to its Weather app with the release of iOS 16. One of these is an option to receive alerts for severe weather for a particular location.
In this podcast, Thomas Domville walks us through the steps to enable this option.
In this podcast, Thomas Domville walks us through a new accessibility enhancement in iOS 16 that allows you to increase ‌Siri's pause time, which causes the voice assistant to wait a longer period for you to finish speaking.
In this podcast, Thomas Domville gives us a whistle-stop tour of some of the notable new features and enhancements in iOS 16. These include new features such as Lock Screen customization; new settings; enhancements to existing features; and improvements for many of Apple's apps such as Mail, Messages, News, and Music.
In this podcast, Thomas Domville gives us short looks at some of what's new and notable with Accessibility features in iOS 16.
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In this podcast, Thomas Domville, Dave Nason, and Tyler Stephen get together to discuss Apple's 'Far Out' event (September 2022).
In this month's edition of AppleVis Unleashed, Thomas Domville, Randy Rusnak, and Mike Malarsie discuss recent Apple news and other topics of interest. Topics featured in this podcast include:
To help start off a new school year, Tyler gives us a podcast demonstration covering some of the aspects of Pages for macOS using VoiceOver.
For information on more advanced formatting functions in Pages, the following additional guides may be helpful:
In this podcast, Thomas Domville gives us a full walk-through of Envision AI, a free iOS app that allows you to use your iPhone's camera to scan and recognize short text, documents, your surroundings, objects, people, products, and colours.
Key features of Envision AI include:
- Instantly read any piece of text in over 60 different languages.
- Easily scan your paper documents (…
In this podcast, Thomas Domville shows us how to customize the email signature that appears automatically at the bottom of every email you send from your iPhone.
In this podcast, Thomas Domville shows us how to add a website bookmark to the Home screen of your iPhone or iPad. This enables you to access the website with a double tap on a Home Screen icon , instead of having to open a browser and then select a bookmark or type in a website's URL.
It doesn't matter if you prefer using iCloud, Dropbox, or even OneDrive, or any other cloud storage service, there's a way for you to save email attachments on the iOS with Mail. Listen in as Thomas Domville shows us in how to save email attachments in the iOS Mail app.
In this edition of the AppleVis Extra, Dave Nason and Thomas Domville are joined by Sarah Herrlinger, Director of Global Accessibility Policy and Initiatives at Apple; and Dean Hudson, Accessibility Evangelist at Apple. Topics covered in this podcast include a look at some of the new accessibility features coming later this year to Apple's platforms, as well…
In this month's edition of AppleVis Unleashed, Thomas Domville, Randy Rusnak, and Mike Malarsie discuss recent Apple news and other topics of interest. Topics featured in this podcast include:
In this follow-up podcast to his sneak peak at the US voices, Thomas Domville gives us a quick look at some of the other English voices coming to VoiceOver later this year with iOS 16.
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