How to Peek and Pop Master – iOS9
iFocus@Hadley
How to Peek and Pop
Presented by
Douglas Walker
Douglas Walker
The Hadley Institute for the Blind and Visually
Impaired Presents iFocus, tips on using the vision
accessibility features in iOS. In today’s installment
we’ll look at how to peak and pop.
Hello, my name is Douglas Walker and today we will
be looking at a couple of totally new ways to interact
with our iPhone and these are our peak and pop
gestures. Now, these gestures are only going to be
available if we have an iPhone 6s, an iPhone 6s Plus
or newer and we’ll also need to be running iOS 9 or
newer. Apple has always been really great at making
every aspect of iOS accessible and peek and pop are
no exception to the rule. Now, we are all familiar with
gestures like flicking left and right, single finger double
tapping and even using our rotor gesture. Well, now
we have what Apple calls 3d touch and the peek and
pop gesture are all part of this new 3d touch
technology.
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First of all how about we talk a little about exactly
what 3d touch will do for us and then we’ll take a look
at how to use the peek and pop gestures that make
our new 3d touch technology really come to life.
Force touch is actually the magic behind 3d touch and
force touch allows us to press down on our iPhone
screen to activate our 3d touch feature. If we’re within
an app such as mail and we are touching one of the
messages within our inbox, all we need to do is just
press down firmly on our screen to activate 3d touch
and when we do this we will be given a preview of our
mail message. This is actually referred to as our peek
gesture because we’re just getting a little peak at our
message or inside of our message. Now, it does
seem a bit awkward at first to be pressing down on
our iPhone screen, however, when we press down
firmly on our screen we’ll launch or activate our
preview for the mail message that we happen to be
touching at the time.
We’ll also have some action features that will also be
available to us and if you aren’t yet sure how to use
action features it is your lucky day because we have
an iFocus video called using the email action features
that does a pretty good job at explaining what our
action features are and exactly how they work. Again,
pressing firmly on our screen will allow us to peak at
or preview our mail message. Of course, this is just
for the message that we’re currently touching and
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then again we just slide our finger to the bottom right
corner of our screen we can find these really great
action features for our app. Now, as we know, there
is always more than one way to perform most actions
or features on any device and the one that we just
discussed means that we actually have to be touching
the mail message in which we want to see our
preview before we perform our press, our force touch.
Now, if you’re like me and you interact with you
iPhone by flicking left and right on your screen in
order to move between the items on the screen than it
is your lucky day because Apple has created a
gesture for us as well and this is our double tap, hold,
and then press gesture and this will also launch our
message preview. Now, the really cool thing is that
we’ll be given both auditory and tactile clues that will
help us or help to let us know what is happening on
our screen. Now, all of this might sound a bit
confusing, but it will all really will begin to make sense
once we really see it in action, so how about we take
a look at exactly how all this works?
Okay, we have our iPhone right here in front of us and
our 3d touch feature is pretty much limited to our
Apple apps for now, that is, until 3rd party developers
really start to take advantage of it. Since we’ve been
talking about peak and pop work in our mail app, how
about we move to a message within our mail app to
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check out exactly how all this works. We’ll just flick to
our mail app and we’ll just flick.
Phone Voice
Mail, 4 unread emails, double tap to open.
Douglas Walker
All right, and we will just single finger double tap to
open it, so we’ll single finger double tap anywhere on
our screen here.
Phone Voice
Search field, double tap to edit.
Douglas Walker
Great, so here we are in our inbox folder and we have
several mail messages here in our inbox so let’s go
ahead and just right flick to the first message in our
list and we’ll just right flick, so we’ll flick to the right.
Phone Voice
Search.
Douglas Walker
There’s our search field there.
Phone Voice
Unread, secure your home burglary so -
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Douglas Walker
We’ll pause it there. Here we are on some junk mail,
which is fine and it is currently unread. Now, how
about we look at our first method for performing our
peak gesture here. This means that we’ll first need to
be touching our mail message then we’ll firmly press
on our message to perform our peak gesture. We’re
going to end up with a preview pane here of our
message. Now once we perform our peak gesture by
pressing down, we’ll need to leave our finger on our
screen because if we lift our finger, our preview is
going to close and we’ll be placed right back in our
mail inbox list. Once we have performed our peak
gesture and our preview has opened here we can just
slide our finger down our screen to check out our
preview and we’ll see what our email message
actually says or if we slide our finger to the bottom
right of course in this preview we’ll find those action
features that we talked about. Now once we’ve found
our action features we can then life our finger to flick
through these actions. Okay, I know this sounds like
a lot, and it is, however we’ll just take it step by step
and it’ll all make sense to you very soon. So let’s take
a look at how this message works. We’ll just touch
the message that we want to peek into. Actually,
we’re going to reach up and we’re going to drag our
finger down the screen to find this first message.
Now it’s going to read the preview of this and we’ll just
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let it read out because we’re not going to lift our finger
off this.
Phone Voice
Unread, secure your home, burglaries [crosstalk]
Douglas Walker
We’ll let it kind of read out, it’s going to read a bit of
the message and then it’s going to give our action
features here.
Phone Voice
- then examine this URL, less than http//www –
actions available.
Douglas Walker
There’s our actions available here. Now to peak into
the message for our preview, we’ll just press firmly on
our screen, let’s just press here, so we’ll just press
down on our screen here. We have performed our
peek gesture here. [crosstalk]
Phone Voice
- offer link.
Douglas Walker
Let’s get to an area that it’s not reading in. You hear
that tapping? That’s because my finger is still
touching the screen, it’s the blank area here. We
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performed the peak gesture, we don’t have to keep
pressing firmly on the screen to keep it active here
however we do have to continue to keep our finger on
our screen because if we lift our finger our preview
will close and we’ll be placed right back in our inbox
here. If we want to see the preview or hear the
preview of our message we can just slide or drag our
finger down our screen to check it out here, so how
about we do just that, we’ll just slowly drag our finger
down our screen and we’ll slide down here.
Phone Voice
Subject, burglaries, ruined Douglas Walker
There’s the subject, I want to keep dragging my finger
down the screen here.
Phone Voice
Message, if you cannot observe our AD because
images are turned off.
Douglas Walker
It may because this is – here. I this is an image here
[crosstalk]. We get the idea here so what we’re going
to do – if it’s a long email we’re not going to be able to
see it all here because we’re just getting a preview of
it here. Remember, we still have our finger on our
screen and we have some action features available to
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us. As we mentioned earlier to find our action
features, all we have to do is just find our finger to the
bottom right until we hear voice over announce
preview actions available. Now once we hear
voiceover announce that action features are available,
we can then just lift our finger and then we’ll be able
to interact with our action feature, so how about we try
it. We will just slide our finger to the bottom right
hand corner of our screen here.
Phone Voice
Preview, actions available.
Douglas Walker
We heard voiceover announce that preview actions
we’re available and now thank goodness we can
finally just lift our finger off the screen, so we’ll just lift
our finger and we’ll touch it again – touch in the
bottom right again.
Phone Voice
Preview, actions available.
Douglas Walker
Sometimes it does disappear and you have to touch
in the bottom right corner to make those action
features pop back up for us there. Now we can just
flick up or flick down to interact or to go scroll through
our action features so how about we do just that.
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We’ll just flick down and move through them here. I’m
going to go call the way through them and then we’ll
check out a really useful once here, so I’m going to go
ahead and flick down.
Phone Voice
Show preview actions.
Douglas Walker
Single finger double tapping here is actually going to
bring up a dialogue box at the bottom of our screen.
We will come back to this and interact with this, but
let’s scroll through all of our actions features, so I’ll
flick down again.
Phone Voice
Read.
Douglas Walker
Great, and if I want to single finger double tap now I
can just mark this message as read and we’ll flick
down again.
Phone Voice
Trash.
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Douglas Walker
Or I could single finger double tap and we can send
this message right to our trash. Let’s flick down again
to find another action feature.
Phone Voice
Activate item: default action.
Douglas Walker
Here’s our default action and actually, this is
activating this item so that it can open it for us
completely, but if we flick one more time, I think we’ll
end up back in every first action item here.
Phone Voice
Show preview actions.
Douglas Walker
Okay, and this is going to show preview actions here,
so this is where I want to sort of dig into, so I’m going
to single finger double tap on our screen to show
some additional preview actions here. Remember, I
said we’re going to have a dialogue box pop up here
at the bottom of our screen, so I’ll just single finger
double tap here.
Phone Voice
Reply.
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Douglas Walker
Now, we single finger double tapped and here we
have a context menu appear down here, and we can
just right flick through this to see what we have in this
here. How about we do just that? We will just start
flicking through this. Now, at the top of our list here,
we have a reply button, and so if we wanted to reply
to this email, all we need to do is just single finger
double tap to activate it and reply directly to it, which
is pretty great there. Okay, so let’s just right flick
through the rest of this context menu here and we’ll
check out our other actions, so we’ll just right flick.
Phone Voice
Forward.
Douglas Walker
Okay, so there’s our forward, so if we wanted to
single finger double tap here, we could just forward
this email message to someone. We’ll right flick
again.
Phone Voice
Mark.
Douglas Walker
Now we could mark this and we could choose to mark
it read or unread here, so we could do that, and I’ll
just right flick again.
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Phone Voice
Notify me.
Douglas Walker
Okay, now this is a cool feature because if I single
finger double tap here, I could be notified if any
strings or conversation strings that were associated
with this mail message came through in the future, but
since this is a junk mail, we don’t need to worry about
that. I’ll go ahead and right flick again.
Phone Voice
Move message.
Douglas Walker
Activating this would allow me to move this message
to another folder, so that’s pretty handy there. Flick
one more time.
Phone Voice
Move message.
Douglas Walker
There we heard our end of list audio cue and it
repeated that move message there at the bottom of
the list, so we know that we’ve reached the bottom of
this context menu here. We don’t want to perform
any of these actions right now, and if we want to exit
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this context menu, we’ll need to just perform our scrub
gesture. Now, to perform our scrub gesture, we’ll just
of course place two fingers on our screen and sort of
just scrub them back and forth. It’s almost like writing
the print letter Z on our screen. Now of course we’ll
need to have our fingers separated just a bit,
otherwise, our device will see our finger as just one
big giant finger here, and we don’t want that, so let’s
just scrub this all away, or close our context menu
here. Let’s go ahead and just scrub.
Phone Voice
Inbox search field – double tap to edit.
Douglas Walker
Alright, so great; our context menu closed. Actually,
our preview has closed as well and we’ve been
placed right back in our mail inbox folder, which is
pretty great. Like we mentioned earlier, we actually
have two ways to activate this peek gesture, and if
you flick through your screen like I do, then this next
gesture is really the one for you, so how about we just
right flick back to our mail message to check out how
to use the second peek method? We’ll just right flick.
Phone Voice
Search.
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Douglas Walker
There’s our search field there; we’ll just right flick.
Phone Voice
Unread: fix your blood pressure, quarantine, simple
blood pressure.
Douglas Walker
Another junk mail has popped in on it. Here we are
on our new first mail message here, only now, to
perform our peek gesture, we’ll just single finger
double tap, hold, and then press down firmly on our
screen. Now the key is to hold on our second tap;
otherwise, if we just single finger double tap, we will of
course just open our mail message, and we don’t
want that, so how about we go ahead and just give
this a try? We’ll just single finger double tap and hold,
and then we’ll just press down firmly on our screen.
Let’s go ahead and do it. Here we go; we’ll double
tap, hold, and then press.
Phone Voice
Message: simple blood pressure fix without drugs.
Douglas Walker
Alright, and here we are back in our preview, and just
like before, we are able to slide our finger around our
screen to check out our preview, or we could again
slide our finger to the bottom right to check out or find
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our preview action features. Now remember, we still
haven’t lifted our finger from our screen, and don’t
forget, if we lift our finger, we’re going to end up right
back in our list, our email list. This does bring us to
our next gesture here, and this is our pop gesture.
Now, our pop gesture gives us the ability to pop the
rest of the way into our message, or rather, open our
message once we’ve peeked into it because maybe
after previewing our message, we’ve decided that we
want to open it, so all we need to do to activate our
pop gesture from here is to just press firmly on our
screen again. That sounds pretty simply, and it is, so
let’s give it a try. We’ll just press firmly again to pop
right into this email message. We’ll just press from
here.
Phone Voice
Simply blood – 8808 – [Inaudible numbers and letters
– 0:18:37].
Douglas Walker
Okay, I paused it there. We heard a couple of tones
that let us know that our email message has opened.
Now of course we can lift our finger from our screen
and we can just right and left flick through our open
message just like we typically would, and so that is
pretty great.
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When new gestures are added to our device, it can be
a bit intimidating at first, especially when they have us
interacting with our phone in a whole new way.
However, our peek and pop gestures are a couple
that I am sure that we’ll find ourselves using all of the
time. Again, my name is Douglas Walker and I am
the access technology instruction specialist here at
Hadley. Take care and I’ll see you next time.
For more from the iFocus series including many other
topics of interest to individuals with vision loss, visit
the Videos@Hadley page on the Hadley Institute
website at www.hadley.edu.
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