[Fredslist] FYI - Answers: Iphone Questions - Mostly Calendar

[Corey Bearak]

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On Feb 8, 2012, at 11:11 AM, Jonathan Marc Bearak wrote:

On Feb 8, 2012, at 9:15 AM, Corey Bearak wrote:

> Do you have time to guide my friend Paul

These are the answers to his questions.  The staff at the Apple Store will also do this for you.

> 
>    When my iphone is dormant it will chime when a calendar event(s) occurs. Before I unlock the phone, I can see the event(s) listed. However, as I unlock it they disappear. Then I go to the calendar and they are not listed in a “properly reviewable” fashion, as with a Blackberry. If I’m in a meeting for a few hours, I often come out and have ten reminders for calendar events waiting for me. Some have 1 hour reminders, some 1 day, some 1 week. I have no clue which events they are after I unlock the phone, so they are basically lost. I can set the second reminder, but that is of little help to the way I do business. Please help!

You have a choice of "List" "Day" "Month" at the bottom of the Calendar app.

To see your notifications, open Notification Center.  Swipe down from the very top edge.

> 2.   Email is really second rate on the iphone, correct? With my Blackberry I always knew when I had a new email because it had the red light indicator. And unless I physically opened the email, it remained new and obvious that it was unread. Also, importantly, I could save emails as new so I could review them when I had time. With the iphone, the emails are not “there” unless I click on the mail icon. I could get used to that, but what about keeping the emails as “new”? Also frustrating, only sometimes do I have the dot that indicates the emails are new, why is that? Why is the fastest email “push” setting 15 minutes? That’s slow in my business.

That's not push.  That's "pull", and it's only applicable if you're using POP or IMAP email.  

Push is instant.  If you've configured an Exchange account, it will instantly update.  You might have to ask your IT support staff for the proper settings.

The iPhone can mark emails as new.  There are two ways to do this.

If you are reading an email (the message is open), you should see "Mark" in blue on the right side, next to the date and below the subject line.  Tap this, and press "Mark as Unread."

En masse, from the message list, you can also click "Edit", check the emails you want to change, press "Mark" on the bottom, and then "Mark as Unread".

> 3.   Is there a way to back scroll over text? That is, rather than highlighting an entire word or backspacing and erasing it.

Press and hold.  A magnifying glass will appear over the text, showing the cursor.  You will be able to move around the text.

If you're trying to select text, drag the blue dot on the left or right further out until you've selected everything.




On Feb 8, 2012, at 11:50 AM, Jonathan Marc Bearak wrote:

By the way, if you go to Settings -> Notifications -> Mail (it's toward the bottom), the system offers several options for visually alerting you about emails in addition to the sounds and vibrations configured elsewhere.  At the bottom of this page, you can also turn on "View in Lock Screen."

Jonathan Marc Bearak
PhD Candidate in Sociology
Institute of Education Sciences Predoctoral Fellow
New York University
jonathan.bearak at nyu.edu


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