what do you use your iPhones for?

I personally use my phone for writing, Safari, music, email, games, health, news,weather, GPS, podcast,OCR, Tap tap see, texting, hotspot, and so much more. It is truly up to you what you will really use your phone for. . There are many apps and people on this site that can help you figure out what you really want to do. Do some searching and you never know what you were fine. Good luck

Game Center is for when you download games from the App Store the game center will keep track of your score and if you want to compete against others you have that option. Passport is used for taking trips such as flights, storing flight info etc. But I have never used it personally.maybe next time I fly I will. Health, is to keep track of your health status such as how many feet you walked or ran that day and other information that you provide Some apps work with it as well. videos, when you purchase a movie or TV show from iTunes they are placed in videos. Also, you mentioned Skype you might want to stop it from running in the background if you're not using it. Apps will waste battery life if they are just running in the background without you closing them. There is a podcast on here that teaches you how to edit text with iOS if you have a 6 or 6 plus there's Apple Pay. Lastly, the apps the phone comes with is only a start. Also for books check out BARD, its free.

I have been using my phone to write these comments to you. You can use the dicgation, a Bluetooth keyboard, or the keyboard that comes on the phone. When ever you tap on an edit field a keyboard will pop up at the bottom of the screen.
Jailbreaking is still possible. There is a forum on here that guides you through it.

I haven't used Kurzweil in years. I do missit at times. KNFB works well. Tap tap see still works. I tried the app be my eyes, but no one answered at the end of the line. We'll see how that goes.

I use it for a lot of things from surfing the web to texting in Thai. Oh yes, I love how IOS works with multiple languages, and how voice Over automatically switches between language voices when the language scripts are up. I'm using an iPhone 6; my first iPhone ever. I'm a former Android user.

To text use the rotor. Choose words or characters and swipe one finger down the word or upward to go in either direction forward or backwards through the text. To me tethering and hotspot are the same. I'm just used to calling it hotspot.

I came from using a Samsun Cativate Glide. The Voice Over for IOS does a lot more than Google TalkBack has done.

I can say it is so much easier to edit text on iOS. I had an android for a little bit.

Yeah, Google Talkback isn't for editting or knowing how words are spelled as clearly stated in its disclaimer. IOS does let you edit and check how wors are spelled, but the navigation rotor doesn't have paragraph navigation, unlike the Mac.

Paragraph would be a good feature.

Hello,

I have multiple apps on my iPhone but below are the apps I use very often.

KNFB Reader reads letters and documents aloud to me if my son isn’t around. KNFB reader isn’t perfect but at least it doesn’t whine and tell me it’s hungry.
Blind Square tells me what’s around me and if needed, how to get somewhere.
Tap Tap See and Seeing Goggles tells me what I am looking at. They both have up and down sides but again, it’s better than waiting for someone sighted.
Google Chrome works better for me than safari. Until Safari is fixed, Chrome is my web browser.
Trulink to control my Halo Hearing aids. Best Bluetooth device I ever purchased. Everything streams from my phone to my Has without remotes or neck loop.
Uverse to watch TV or recorded shows.
Netflix to watch movies.
Then there are the usual text message, email and music. If you don’t already have it, go to blind mice mega mall and download descriptive audio enabled movies for free.

Hmm.. come to think of it, I don’t really use my phone to make phone calls. LOL

For games, there are plenty. Check out the IOS gaming section.

Take care and good luck.

Hi.
I use my phone for so much: music, the web, movies, pictures, writing, email, reading books, taking pictures and videos, and I think that's it.
Some apps I use are:
Bard Mobile- this is a free organization that allows you to read books.
Learning Ally- I use this for school it allows you to read books.
Voice Dream Reader- also reads books. You can get access to bookshare, another organization that allows you to read books. It's free if you are a student.
Twittereffic a Twitter app
Pages, Keynote, and Google Drive and Google DOCX- writing and editing text for school. You can also read powerpoints if you need too.
Netflics, the Nickaloden, and the Watch Disney Channel apps-watching T.V. and movies.
Facebook-I use this sometimes.
Youtube-listening to music and watching videos
KLove- this is a Christian radio station. I love it!!!
I have Bible apps as well.
So I use it for a lot! Haha.
Hope that helps.

For example: if you write this sentence today is a good day. And you misspelled "is" with "os" instead, here's a way to correct it.

With voiceovers focus on the edit field if you double tap with one finger it will take you to the beginning of the edit field and if you double tap with one finger again it will move the cursor to the end of the edit field.
Depending on whether your roder is set to word or character will depend on the movement of the cursor.
Double tap to go to the beginning of the edit field. Use one finger and swipe up to down to move forward with in your edit field. If you swipe down to up it will move backwards
Choosing character on the roder and being at the beginning of your edit field swipe with one finger up to down to move through the characters until you hear the letter "o".
You can press the delete and it will delete the "o" and you can type an "i" inthe place.

In addition to what everyone else said, I also use my iPhone to do online banking. this includes transferring funds, pay bills, and check the balance on my checking and savings accounts. I also now use it to make payments in participating stores with apple pay.

Hi John. If you'd like to work off this forum, please contact me and we'll arrange something. Once you hear someone else doing it, it will be eaiser then just reading it.

Hi. I use a lot of the same apps as some people do, but let me tell you guys about a few apps I really like, but for whatever reason are overlooked. YouPlayer: this is an app for watching Youtube videos. If you subscribe to a lot of Youtube channels like I do, it's very easy to view the latest videos from all your subscribed channels. Just double-tap on latest videos (remember you must have a google account for this and you have to subscribe to a few Youtube channels for this to work.)
Weather Radio by WDT: this is a paid app that lets you know when bad weather conditions are in your area, or in other cities you monitor. This works only for the US, so unfortunately it doesn't work for international users. An even easier interface to weather is called Degrees. This app is $1.99 but is worth it if you want a more detailed app with weather conditions. Very accessible with VoiceOver.

VoiceDream Reader is an absolute must if you listen to a lot of mp3 audio books, or read a lot of text documents. You can choose a number of voices to download, each one costs a few bucks but it's very much worth it.
Bard mobile as others have mentioned is great.

Dice World is an awesome app for playing 6 different dice games with friends across the internet. The developers have actually gone out of their way to make absolutely sure that this app is accessible to blind users, so their efforts are definitely to be commended. They also make a black jack game, that one is called Black Jack Free. it does include some in-app purchases though, you can buy different amounts of chips if you get low. Tip, if you don't play for a couple days, it'll nudge you to come back and it'll give you 250 chips just for doing so. you can also brag to your friends on Facebook for 100 chips and tweet about the app for 25 extra coins as well. Please be careful about this, you don't want to spam your friends. They might be a bit angry with you. The other games I'll mention are the ones in the blind fold series made by Kid Friendly Software. There is Blind Fold Crazy Eights, Blind Fold Blackjack, Blind Fold Solitare, and Blind Fold video poker. All of these games are excellent, and definitely deserve a look if you're into that. For podcasts, Downcast is my favorite. It offers a few nice little things that the regular podcast app doesn't, so if you listen to a lot of podcasts, check that one out. I hope this has been helpful to some folks!

Just to be clear, the native youtube app works just fine as well and one can very easily find and watch videos from the channels they are subscribed to.

I use my iphoen for texts, calls, phone, notes for school, dropbox and audio recording, audioboom, mind games for brain exercise, my calandar, an address book and so much more. I also keep track of how much I sleep with the health app. I also live stream events using my iphone as well. Ther'es a lot you can do with an iphone. I started using mine farily well after about a day of using it.

Take care.

in response to a couple comments above I just want to tell you guys there is a game called "Silversword" for the iOS. Huge sprawling RPG game which I've been playing for about three months now.note, I've been playing the same game for three months!like I said, it's huge. It's in the style of the old "bards tale "game of the 80s but much more complex. The only game I've found that I can play with voiceover and touch screen. A little bit of vision is required to see the map.I plan to add this suggestion to the appropriate bread if I ever find it. :-)

i some times use it for phone calls. but i am mostly on social meadia with mine. sutch as face book, skype. twitter, eth. and i play games too with my iphone.

I use it for all things. Reading books with ibooks or voicedream, taking notes in every day life or for my work, phone calls, messages, imessages, calendar events, navigating with maps, playing games, listening to spotify, itunes music and youtube and many many more stuff. In near future i plan to buy apple bluetooth keyboard, because i vould like to write my blog articles and other larger text on iphone too.

That is such an open question! I use it for communication and GPS

I have the iPhone 6 and iOS 9.02. I use it to check news with the news app, check for video at youtube, check email, send messages, play games, listen to audio books from audible and bar mobile, listen to old radio shows from vintage radio, play music for me and Bella the cat, she likes ruck. I almost forgot I use it to make calls.