Hi, I noticed this some time ago and wanted to confirm if this is the case for others. If I want to open an app which is not on my first home screen I often use the handwriting feature where you can write the first letter or two of an app and a short list of apps which meet the letter or letters you wrote shows up. I noticed some time ago that I could not open WhatsApp this way any more, it simply does not show up when I use handwriting at all. If I write a W I get 4 results: Wallet Watch
Weather Weather Office The first 3 are stock apps which are preinstalled with iOS and the last is a Canadian weather app I use. I definitely have WhatsApp on my iPhone as I use it all the time, but it simply stopped showing up under “W” some months ago although I used to be able to open it from handwriting. The interesting thing is that if you write a single letter, for example, an “A”, you get a list of all apps starting with an A, in my case there are 13 of them. If I now swipe right to left with 2 fingers I am deleting the letter I just wrote and if I only wrote 1 letter it means the entry field is now blank and you get an alphabetical list of all apps on your phone, in my case Voiceover says “111 apps”. Alphabetically you will be at the place in that list based on the letter you wrote, e.g. if you write a “G” and swipe left with 2 fingers to delete that G and you then swipe down with 2 fingers in the full list of apps you have you will be in the apps starting with G, if you swipe up once you will be at the last app in the list of apps starting with a F. For example: If I write a “G” I get the following apps: Google Google Home Google Maps If I now delete that G by swiping left with 2 fingers I hear “111 apps” and if I swipe up once with 2 fingers to move to the previous app in the list I hear “Flicktype” because that is the last app I have starting with an F, if I swipe down again with 2 fingers I get Google, Google Home, Google Maps, then Health. I discovered that WhatsApp is still there in this alphabetical list, but it’s the very last entry and it’s the first one if I type an “A” and swipe up with 2 fingers. In fact, the last app in my list alphabetically is YouTube, but if I swipe down from YouTube instead of going directly to the “A” apps, I have 4 apps which are not in alphabetical order: Epost iTunes Store my Sun Life WhatsApp Please note that I actually used a 3-finger quadruple tap to copy each of the above apps to the clipboard, I then pasted them into an email and sent it to myself and copied them to paste them here. I wanted to see if there was anything strange about the spelling or upper/lower case. Interestingly enough the first 3 apps, epost, iTunes Store and My Sun Life I can all access directly using handwriting, e.g. epost shows up if I write an “e”, iTunes Store is the only thing under “I” and My Sun Life shows up under “M”. I will have to ask a sighted person, but there is something in front of WhatsApp which Jaws does not read, it just doesn’t say anything, not blank or a letter, just silence, but there is a character there which is I assume what prevents WhatsApp from not showing up under “W”. I’d appreciate it if somebody could confirm this since I’d love to let WhatsApp know about this and I want to make sure this is not just some strange behavior on my phone. Regards, Sieghard -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
