Hi Afrim.

Funny you just got an Iphone 6. I recently ordered one for my lady and I've been trying to assist her with setup and learning how to use vo.

The phone is layed out with a notification bar at the top of the screen that has info like your mobile network sygnal strength, temperature, time etc, then under that the home screen (or if your running an ap the screen for what your running), with all the links on to open different aps and parts of the iphone.
When you have more aps that will fit on one screen your home screen will have multiple pages, however you also have
the dock at the bottom, where there are links to three or four perminant aps that will always be there no matter what page of the home screen your on.
You can double tap and hold to drag things around the home screen to move them into the dock or ontop of each other to create folders, or double tap and hold then double tap again to delete, (creating folders is a bit of a pain but it's useful when you have many aps and games and such).

At a pinch you can operate vo in a basic mode with just two gestures, the flick left and right, and the double tap. Flicking is a little like tabbing on a windows machine, it takes you through all elements on a page (including paragraphs and headings), while double tap is your accept. You can also read the hole screen top to dottom with a two finger flick up, or from your current position with a two finger flick down.

The first ap I'd recommend is getting the looktell vo tutorial which will introduce all the gestures and a little about how to use the phone with a couple of games (it's description of the phone screen is a trifle out of date given the buttons have different names in Ios nine eg answer instead of accept call but it's still useful).

To do this find the ap store on your home screen and double tap, then flick to "search and double tap" you will then have a search box appear asking you for text so flick to the keyboard letters and enter looktell vo tutorial (you won't have to type all of this), then flick through the results and double tap on the "get" button then on "download"

The tutorial will take you through most of the necessary vo gestures including more advanced stuff like the roter, and has a few minigames to help you get used to the finger movements.

If you go into the settings menu, hit general, then accessibility, then voiceover, then find the link to "voiceover practice" you can  try out vo gestures (I've tried this on my fiance who found it rather useful), this will let you perfect your technique and also tell you what gesture your doing and also what it does in terms of vo commands, which is useful on several lessons.

Then, don't forget siri. Enable siri in settings > general > siri. hold the home button down until you hear a bing, then release and say what you want, and siri will do it (you can also set hay siri to your voice so that you can use siri without holding the home button when the phone is plugged in). Siri can display help files, bring up screens on the phone, start aps and also do other useful things such as phoning different contacts or telling you the temperature, all in all very useful if your a lazy person like me .

The only funny thing to remember with the Iphone is that once you hit the home button to shut and ap and go back to the home screen, the ap isn't actually shut, it's still running in the background. Hitting the home button twice will bring up the ap switcher and you can flick left and right through various running aps and do a three finger flick up to close them (it's a good idea to do this ocasionally so you don't have male and ap store and settings and phone and goodness knows whatever else all running together taking up your phone's ram).

As to other useful aps, blindsquare is one I've got a lot of use out of. Basically, it tells you what shops, roads etc are around you and what sort of thing they are. So when walking along it'll say things like "your address is 22 whatever street, intersection with random road in 25 m at twelve O.clock, sandwich place, subway at 9 o.clock"
It's not exactly a satnav, it won't give you routes to places, but is great none the less.

As to getting used to the phone itself, I'd recommend personally finding some games to try out so you can explore vo and how it works and learn while you have fun with it. All of the choiceofgames and hosted games titles are available on Ios and will help with listening to and operating vo, what you will enjoy will depend upon your genre preference obviously, but I'd personally recommend fatehaven and samurai hyuga from the hosted games, and mecha ace and choiceof robots from the choiceofgames.

A dark room and the ensign are awesome rpg games, though start with a dark room. they've been optimized with vo in mind so are very! accessible, and addictive, though start with a dark room (particularly sinse the ensign is intendede to be a hard game).

King of dragon pass and Adventure to fate battle arena are great rpgs, but both have slightly more complex interfaces so should be handled with caution, similarly Silver sword is now accessible but has a lot oin terms of interface to play with and I confess I've personally not investigated it as yet.

There are some mmorpg type battle games if those are your thing such as turf wars (a mafia game), and solara, which has elements of building and battling and is imho rather a lot of fun (solara is a game I've enjoyed myself).

In audiogames, there are the games from somethinelse such as pappasangre 1 and 2, nightja and audio defense zombie arena. Apparently these are no longer supported but they do still work in Ios 9, (and some more sales might encourage the developers to support them more).

Ticonblu also have Ios versions of all of their games such as the inquisitor,space encounter, flarestar  etc, which I have.

There are a lot of more simple games too, lost cities is a hugely fun and deceptively simple strategical card game,  while the blindfold series has some nice entries if you want a qick game, from card and puzzle games to some rather cool audiogame versions of classic arcade games (their breakout is rather a lot of fun especially using the phone gyro).

Hth.

I'm afraid sinse I have found Itunes to be the spawn of satan, I don't use it at all, sinse even if I bought something on my phone I'm not prepared to just have it on there and no way to get it out of itunes (and itunes on a pc is pure evil), so I can't help with that sort of thing.

Any other questions let me know.

Hi.
Well I guess if you are doing a lot of typing a bluetooth keyboard is needed and maybe a headset.
Also if you use it a lot a battery pack or 2.
One thing I do know you will absolutely want to get off the bat is a case for the thing.
They break so easily screen wise and apple charge to get those fixed.
Worse, you get a third party repair, well apple is cracking down on those.
You get it and your phone is useless.
Back up your stuff etc.
You will want a case with grip maybe one where you don't have to get the phone out of the case to actually use it thats what I will probably end up doing to.

Yes, there is a gesture you can use instead of using the back button. It's called a two finger scrub and can be invoked by quickly swiping two fingers back and forth three times. This can also be used to dismiss alerts.

To answer your second question, yes, you can upload media to Dropbox. You won't be able to play them in the native music and videos app, but you can certainly play them in the Dropbox app. I'd recommend searching around for a dedicated media player app that integrates with Dropbox so you don't have to use their own app.

lol I sincerely don't know why placing everything you want on your iOS device in one folder on the windows machine is so hard, since that is honestly, honestly, all one need do to get music, books, videos, pretty much anything on their iPhone.  You coppy it from whatever harddrive or other storage device, you paste it into a folder called Automatically Add to iTunes, no joke, that's what the folder is called, you open iTunes, you plug in your iOS device, it syncs, you're done.  make playlists and ask Siri to play them, or just shuffle your entire music library if you're into that sort of thing.  The only reason I don't do it is because I have so much music that 64 gig sjust doesn't do it justice.  I'll be listening to something and something else will pop into my mind, then I'll want to listen to that and find that it's elsewhere, which leaves me feeling all cold and lonely and empty inside, and then I want my mommy!

so hi, yeah, I got the iPhone 6 now on my hands, it's pretty cool, fast, reliable, thin, lovely, amazing. It's the perfect size I want it to be. I turned on the device, waited for 15 seconds and pressed the homebutton three times, Samantha, as usual said, "Voiceover on".
I configured some options on the roter section which seem to be very handy for me, especially speech rate, languages, paragraphs, words, characters and selection mode. I got accustomed to Voiceover's gestures pretty quickly and now I can use it without any issues so far. Of course, changing from one operating system to another can be a little difficult, yes, I still look for the back button on the bottom right side of the phone like I used to do on my samsung mobile, but using the gesture that Dark gave me speeded things up a little. Now I have to create an apple ID using my phone to avoid a hectic option that doesn't show up during the process of creating the account. In the paying methods, there are three options I suppose, "mastercard, Viza and none". The none alternative does not show up there, so I will use my device to complete it. Some of my friends reported that it works when you create the ID via iPhone. I will also try uploading some of my favourite songs on dropbox and see if I can copy them to my device.
Again, thank you all for your help, I really appreciate it. Wish you all a Good time.
Cheers!

HI,
By the end of the process of creating an apple ID, you are required to verify the account, and having a working email is essential in this case because there will be no way to access this new apple ID you created, despite having provided all the necessary information that apple required. I would advise you to recover that email, or create a new one. Don't try it with the non-working email, you will just waste time! I really hate those questions like what is your dreamed job, what is your favourite sports team, in what city did your parents meet and how old is the son of the niece of the youngest son of your next dorr neighbor.
Really unnecessary

Great thread and some nice opening suggestions for apps here. Think I've got everything now. The number of things I do on my desktop gets smaller and smaller over time, and I just seriously wonder whether desktops are even cool anymore.

I think it's fair to say that iTunes is like marmite: you either love it or you hate it. Although perhaps it's also fair to say that the proportion of those who love it will be more on the Mac side, and those who hate it on the Windows side, for the usual reasons.

@Dark: if you don't have an email address for the lady, you can always create an iCloud.com email address during creation of the Apple ID. If you do this, that email address becomes the Apple ID. You can still add alternative email addresses and they will be recognised as the Apple ID, but after that point, you can never disassociate the iCloud address, which will always be active and receiving mail even if you are no longer using it. So think carefully before committing to that course of action. If you now plan not to use iCloud for any reason, don't use iCloud Mail to sign up. Of course, as the forum's resident Apple salesman, I am here to tell you that iCloud Mail is very easy to set up on any Apple device (obviously) and allows access using IMAP and SMTP from other clients, so you aren't locked in, if that should be the concern, and it is an otherwise very convenient choice for iThings. The accounts support server-side filtering (needs webmail access on desktop), knows how to autoreply and forward, does limited spam filtering, and gives you three additional "Aliases" which are addresses that come back to your primary account.

Yeah! I really hate those stupid security questions. Just make stuff up and forget it; it's a stupid countermeasure. iCloud supports the use of secondary email accounts for recovery, so use it. Or better yet, set up "Two-step verification" (i.e. two-factor authentication) and thereby avoid all this bollocks.

@dark,
I know.  Sometimes it gets weirder.  My wife and I were filling out an application for an apartment and one of the requirements was proof of income.  Since we both receive social security benefits both of us had to have a letter documenting said security benefits.  She sends off for a letter and is told it should arrive promptly within two weeks; we're already supposed to have mine, but more about that later.  She doesn't receive the letter within two weeks and we figure that she should go and create an account on the social security website since one can download their letter this way.  Here's where things get interesting.  She atempts to create an account on the social security website only to be told that her social security number is already in use.  She calls the phone number they give her and goes through representatives that tell her there's nothing they can do for her and that she'll have to go down to the nearest social security office to get an authorization code to unlock her account, the account she never created.  She goes down to the office, gets the code and the letter in one shot, and a week later, gets the letter she was supposed to have gotten a week and a half before in the mail.  it doesn't end there though.  Since I had an electronic copy of my letter and the apartment staff told us it would suffice we went ahead and sent it, only to discover that it is protected and cannot be opened.  Even more importantly, it's not in any universal format as far as files go, not HTML, not PDF, etc.  I brows on over to the website to try and redownload my letter and discover after two atempts that I've forgotten my password... Fine, I'll just reset it, right?  Nope, I manage to varify that I'm me not only by providing my social security number, but by answering my questions, and yet I've been locked out for an additional 24 hours because I tried to access my account and failed too many times.  it almost makes captchas sseem like a walk in the park!

Eh, i've been there.  The only thing that sucks more than being blind, is being blind and practically deaf.  I can't have someone speak on my behalf, even though I've made it clear countless times to countless organizations and companies that I don't always do well with phones.  You kind of wish everything would just be automated by now, then you think that, on the other hand, if there weren't at least some hack at the office ready to take your call, you'd be at the mercy of an automated system that only has as much logic as programmed by yet another hack in his parents basement.

Oddly with this security rubbish I think automation is the problem. Far better if orgnizations you know, have people with that thing called intelligence, but that means A, actually paying money to employ humans and B, trusting humans to think, neither of which are really things that the current state of most organizations are compatible with.

I did consider an Icloud address for the apple id, but I'm not sure how then setting up on another machine like say microsoft outlook would be, plus apart from data backups and an excuse not to use Itunes from hell, I'm not even sure what Icloud is for on Ios given that apple are allergic to file management on Ios.

Hi,
if I sign in to iCloud, can I transfer music in any other way except for itunes because it is driving me crazy.

Sent from my iPhone