AppleVis Podcast

In the second episode of his two part mini series, Thomas Domville concludes his in-depth look at Mastodon and the MetaText app for iOS. Chapter 6 Explore (00:00:08) Chapter 7 Notifications (00:19:07) Chapter 8 Messages (00:31:52) Chapter 9 Account Menu (00:37:06) Chapter 10 Publishing a Toot/Post (01:26:08) Chapter 11 An Alternative Way to Follow a Mastodon User Account (01:42:46) Chapter 12 Clos...

In the first episode of a two part mini series, Thomas Domville gives us an in-depth look at Mastodon and the MetaText app for iOS. Chapter 1 Introduction to MetaText (00:00:08) Chapter 2 Instance: Finding your New Home (00:04:33) Chapter 3 Getting Started (00:38:20) Chapter 4 Exploring the Interface (00:48:22) Chapter 5 Timelines (00:53:35) Resources Searching for instances mentioned in this Seri...

In this podcast, Thomas Domville introduces us to Evidence 111 for iOS. Description from the App Store: September 13, 1985, a small town of Farnham, England. Just like every Friday, Chief inspector Alice Wells is on duty. An ordinary night shift is suddenly interrupted by a mysterious phone call - an anonymous caller knows something about the chief inspector that none was supposed to find out. Wha...

By default, VoiceOver does not start automatically at the macOS login prompt. In this episode, Tyler demonstrates how to change this. The steps to do so are as follows: Choose Apple > System Settings, and select Lock Screen in the table. Click accessibility options and toggle the “VoiceOver” switch on. Click done. On some older Mac models, if FileVault disk encryption is turned on, which is the...

In this podcast, Kushal Solanki introduces us to Vacayit, a free iOS app That aims to make locating travel opportunities accessible for everyone. From the App Store: Vacayit makes adventure accessible for everyone. Vacayit helps users easily locate travel opportunities near and far to engage in the world around them in a new and exciting way. Explore a growing collection of unique experiences and...

Welcome to our 1500th podcast. We would like to thank everybody who has helped us in reaching this landmark - everybody who has recorded and shared a podcast and everybody who has been a guest. Thank you all 🙇 In this month's edition of AppleVis Unleashed, Thomas Domville and Mike Malarsie are joined by Jeff Thompson from Blind Abilities to discuss recent Apple news and other topics of interest....

In this episode, Tyler demonstrates the VoiceOver Text Checker on macOS, a feature that identifies common errors in typed text such as misspellings, repeated spaces, and misplaced capital letters. This feature can be accessed via Keyboard Commander, and by default is mapped to the letter D. When in a text field, pressing this command should present menus for the types of errors identified in the t...

In this podcast, Thomas Domville shows us how to enabled Low Power Mode on your Apple Watch. Introduced with watchOS 9, Low Power Mode reduces the amount of power that your Apple Watch uses so that you can save battery life. Low Power Mode turns off these features Always On display Heart rate notifications for irregular rhythm, high heart rate and low heart rate Background heart rate measurements...

In this podcast, Thomas Domville takes an in-depth look at Podcast Guru, an easy to use podcast player for iOS. From the App Store: You want an easy to use podcast player with simple settings and no fuss navigation? You've found your podcast app! We've designed Podcast Guru to install quickly, so you can find the shows you want to hear and start listening in 30 seconds or less. Why are you going t...

In this podcast, Thomas Domville discusses and demonstrates a new feature in iOS 16 that provides a customisable time window during which you have the opportunity to change your mind after you send an email.

With iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 or later, you can schedule times to receive a summary of notifications each day so you can catch up when it's convenient for you. The summary is personalised to you and ordered by priority based on how you use your apps. The most relevant notifications will appear at the top. In this podcast, Thomas Domville walks us through the process of setting up a notification summar...

In this podcast, Thomas Domville demonstrates Parcel - Delivery Tracking, an iOS app that enables you to access tracking information for 300 delivery services, including UPS, USPS, FedEx, DHL, TNT, LaserShip, Aramex, OnTrac, China Post, Amazon Logistics and many other carriers. You can use its widgets to see your upcoming deliveries and the share extension to add a new delivery directly from any o...

With iOS 16, Apple added a new feature for AirPods users called Personalized Spatial Audio. According to Apple, “with Personalised Spatial Audio, the AirPods listening experience is even more immersive,” as you perceive sound individually, based on the size and shape of your head and ears. Personalized Spatial Audio does this by using the TrueDepth camera on an ‌iPhone‌ to analyze the shape of you...

In this podcast, Thomas Domville discusses and demonstrates the relocation of the audio messages function in iOS 16. This is now accessed by a iMessage app in the Messages app dock, rather than a button next to the text field where you type your message.

In this podcast, Thomas Domville introduces us to The Klaxo Radio Hour, a free audio-based interactive narrative experience for iOS set in a 1940s radio. Description: Pull up a chair and grab a friend for radio's newest detective: Sandra McCall as Kat Keene, Investigator! Kat is a woman with a knack for finding trouble... and she'll need your help to get out of it! You can navigate the branching s...

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: Post Discussion on the Apple Far Out Event (00:11:42) Apple October Event: New iPad Pro, iPad 10, M2 Macs, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura (00:22:55) Thoughts on the iOS 16 and other iOS News (00:29:56) iPhone...

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...

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. Open the Messages app and double-tap the Edit button. From the menu that appears, double-tap Show Recently Deleted. Select at least one conversation. Dou...

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 later pro-model iPhone 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 episode Thomas Domville shows us how to disable it. T...

In this episode, Thomas Domville shows us how to turn on the Mac-like startup and shutdown chimes that are available on all iPhone 14 and newer models. To do this, go to Settings > Accessibility > Audio & Visual, and double-tap the "Power on and off sounds" toggle. Note that as this option is facilitated by the iPhone's boot rom, the read-only code responsible for starting the iPhon...

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 ale...

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 u...

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.