I never learned how to do that scrub gesture on my iPhone. Sent from Joshua’s radical chariot!!!
> On Oct 7, 2024, at 6:40 PM, Carolyn Arnold <2carolynarn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have found that if I go to Keypad to dial a number, the Keypad is way down > toward the bottom, not in its otherwise place. > > -----Original Message----- > From: 'Richard Turner' via VIPhone [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] > Sent: Monday, October 7, 2024 10:44 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: RE: The iPhone Dial Pad, Back on Top, After All These Years! > > The Phone app, for me at least, has always remembered the tab I had left it > on. > > So, if I open the phone app, and select the Keypad tab at the bottom, exit > the app, use other apps, reboot the phone, whatever, the next time I open the > phone app, it is on th keypad. > > If on the other hand, I am in favorites, or contacts, etc., and exit the app, > when I start the app again, it will be exactly on the tab I left it on. > > I suspect, and I have not done this, but if say you use the quick launch on > the lock screen, and after your call, look up someone in your contacts, and > close the app; the next time you use the quick launch, you may find yourself > in the contacts tab having to select the keypad again. > > Perhaps you could test this Mark. > > > > > > Richard, > > “Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in touch with it.” > > – Jane Wagner, from The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. > > > > My web site: https://www.turner42.com <https://www.turner42.com> > > > > > > > > From: VIPhone <viphone@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Sunday, October 6, 2024 11:15 PM > To: VIPhone <viphone@googlegroups.com> > Subject: The iPhone Dial Pad, Back on Top, After All These Years! > > > > Hello Everyone, > > Well, with iOS 18, it is, once again, easy to access the phone dial pad on a > Smartphone. > > Younger people may not know this but, once upon a time, the primary purpose > of a mobile phone was to actually make a phone call using a dial pad (smile). > > And, as we old-timers will recall, eons ago, it was possible to make a call > on a Smartphone after only having to wake up the device. > > These days, actually making a phone call, on a Smartphone, is neither a > primary or secondary purpose of these amazing little devices. > > Be that as it may, with the ability to customize a quick launch button on the > iPhone lock screen, one can now easily access the phone dial pad after only > having to essentially wake up the device. > > Scenario: I want to call a number that is not in my Contacts list on my > iPhone 14 Pro Max running the latest release of iOS 18. > > 1. > Wake the phone which is automatically unlocked with FACE ID. The lock screen > is now displayed. > > > 2. > Activate a lock screen quick launch button. The phone dial pad immediately > appears, ready for action. It’s just that simple. > > I believe there is an AppleVis podcast on how to customize a lock screen but > I will provide the broad strokes on how to set the phone app as one of the > quick launch buttons via VoiceOver: > > 1. > With the lock screen currently displayed, single-finger triple-tap on the > Time wiget, located near the top center of the lock screen. (This places you > in to lock screen edit mode.) > > 2. > Touch the center of the phone screen to place focus on the lock screen. (Use > only one finger to do this.) > > 3. > Single-finger swipe from left to right until you land on the Customize button > and activate the button. > > 4. > Using the swipe gesture, find and select the customize the lock screen button. > > 5. > Using either explore by touch or the swipe gesture you will need to remove > either or both of the currently active quick launch buttons. Actually, you > don’t need to remove them. You can simply single-finger, double-tap on > either of them in order to bring up a selection screen from which you may > choose a different app. > > So, let’s say that one of your currently active quick launch buttons > activates the flashlight and you want to change the flashlight app to the > phone app. In this case, in the selection dialog box, you will select the > option that reads, Open App. This will open yet another dialog box that will > have the default wording of, Choose. Single-finger, double-tap on the Choose > button and a list of all of your currently installed apps will be listed. > > 6. > Select the Phone app. > > Now, as of this writing, there is a VoiceOver bug that will not allow one to > close the currently open dialog box; at least, I could not find a way to > close this box via VoiceOver as there is no visible close option. My > solution? Using the back tap option, quickly disable VO and touch the > display in the corner of the quick launch button. This will close the dialog > box. Turn VO back on and proceed to the next step. > > 7. > Select the Done button located near the upper right corner of the display. > > 8. > Finally, exit lock screen edit mode by single-finger double-tapping the time > widget. > > 9. > Now, launch the phone app via the quick launch button. The first time you do > this, the phone app will open to the favorites screen. > > 10. > Select the dial pad tab and close the app. > > 11. > On the lock screen, again, activate the quick launch app and now you will see > that the phone app opens with the dial pad, ready for action. > > Mark > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > 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: > mk...@ucla.edu <mailto:mk...@ucla.edu> . 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