<p>I just got an iphone 5c, and am not yet loving it. I switched from an android, so I expect a learning curve, but so far I am not finding it to be anything special.</p>
<p>What is it that people love about these phones?</p>
<p>If there are any experts who can tell me how to turn off the sound to the telephone number pad that would be a great start. I know I can turn off all sound, but what if I just want the phone to give me a vibrate when a number is selected rather than a beep but still want sounds when a text or call come in? </p>
<p>Another thing I don’t like is that on my android, if i enlarged the text on a page, it would re-size to fit the window, but with this phone I seem to have to scroll left to right to read the larger type. This has to be something I am not doing right, because I can’t imagine people are willing to do this.</p>
<p>I am far far from an expert, but I think your 1st question is as follows:</p>
<p>Go to settings, then sounds (toward the bottom),
the keyboard clicks (again at the bottom)
Turn to off by holding your finger a second on the circle where it says “ON”
I hate that annoying click when people are typing.</p>
<p>The enlarging problem–I don’t know and I don’t like it. Hopefully someone will post something helpful.</p>
<p>ETA: Now I’m not sure that is your question! But I think it should be in sounds somewhere. You can set each sound, ie for text, for calls, etc.</p>
<p>thanks sryrstress. I did have the keyboard clicks off so I don’t get sounds when I touch the screen, but it still makes a beep when I use the phone keyboard.</p>
<p>It seems the options for sounds are just regarding the notification sounds for receiving and sent which doesn’t help.</p>
<p>I’m not sure how to turn off the sounds associated with dialing a number. I never even noticed that there were sounds- I had to check. What level is your sound? Maybe turn it down? I can barely hear my beeps.</p>
<p>I’m not sure what you mean by enlarging text on the screen. I just pinch to expand when I want to see something better. Are you referring to looking at a web page?</p>
<p>Do you find anything that you like better on the iPhone than the Android phone?</p>
<p>When you pinch to expand, the page doesn’t fit on the screen, you have to scroll left to right to get to the end of the line. On my old phone, when I pinched to enlarge text, the page would re-size to fit on the screen, no scrolling necessary.</p>
<p>So far I do not find anything that I like better. I feel like I downgraded. I can certainly make due, but it is not like “wow this new phone is so much better than my old one”</p>
<p>When I need to find out how to do something on my Iphone, I google the user guide. The answers are usually in there somewhere. My brother-in-law went to a class to find out how to use his Iphone.</p>
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<li><p>Keyboard touch tones are always enabled unless you mute the ringer/sound with the switch on the side. The decision was, it seems, made to mirror the way phones work.</p></li>
<li><p>You double tap text to expand it to fit screen. You can also enable universal access and tap with 3 fingers to make everything zoom (but that’s not scrollable). Pinching to zoom on text is considered a secondary, less efficient choice. The iOS does a very good job of expanding text to fill the screen with the double tap.</p></li>
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<p>As a public service, if you have the Android app Brightest Flashlight, which is extremely popular, get rid of it. Turns out they are tracking your location and user ID and in violation of terms (and bluntly lying) they have been selling this to advertisers. They claimed they would use it only for themselves but even if you opted out of that, they … well … did the obvious. The FTC is sanctioning them. The maker is GoldenShore. I would get rid of any app written by them because they are about as untrustworthy as it gets without actually planting malware.</p>
<p>^^^^
This is a big disadvantage to the Android platform - there is no vetting if apps. I guarantee there are a ton if Android apps doing this and worse.</p>
You’re doing it wrong. Lergnom explained how it works quite well. </p>
<p>Just remember this is a new phone and the previous functions will be different. Give a week or two weeks, but if you truly don’t feel like learning a new phone, take it back.</p>
<p>thumper1, I can return the phone but I got it because I wanted to be able to communicate without charges through the apple network when my DD is in Europe. That is the only reason. </p>
<p>I know it will take some getting used to, but I guess with all the hype about iPhones I expected to be wowed by it. </p>
<p>I do have the Brightest Flashlight app and will disable it right away…too bad because it does work really well. Thanks for the tip though.</p>
<p>I went from a clamshell free phone to a hand-me-down of one of my kids’ to an Iphone a little over a year ago. I am enough of a techno-idiot to be consistently amazed by what I can do via my phone… But probably none of it is unique to Iphones.</p>
<p>All five of us have Iphones now.</p>
<p>This year, my husband has been deployed to Afghanistan since May, one son spent part of the summer in Europe, and another son spent part of the summer in Malawi.</p>
<p>If for no other reason, it has been wonderful for us all to be able to facetime internationally for free (as long as we are connected to wifi). Maybe that is also a feature of androids, I don’t really know. But it is amazing to me that we have been able to connect, and to be able to share moments from around the world.</p>
<p>First, Google scans apps - has for a while - so there is vetting. Hasn’t eliminated Android malware and has no effect on apps not bought through Play. The flashlight thing is a different level of vetting and I think - not sure - the problem is how Android allows permissions versus how iOS does. The developer was able to lie to users.</p>
<p>Second, if you’re talking about double tapping in Mail in a message, the behavior is different: then it highlights words because Mail should be opening any message so it fills the screen. I’m talking about in a browser or other app: double tap takes the text and makes it fill the screen. If you want to make text bigger in Mail, you go into Settings/General/Text size and drag the slider to where you want. Any app - including of course Mail - that supports Dynamic Type will automatically make its text that big. You can make it really big. I have it set somewhere in the middle.</p>
<p>Without wifi, you can still communicate inexpensively using data plans. The fees are the same overseas. I have a spotty reception at home and can’t use facetime but did iMessage with my D when she was in Europe this summer. All included in the data plan fee.</p>