The Samsung S6’s Voice Assist And Other Annoyances

My son managed to turn on Voice Assist on his S6. Don’t do this unless you really mean to. And I recommend spending some time learning about the system before diving in. For me, coming into the middle, it was an exercise of frustration. Fortunately, I figure this stuff out. 

The biggest challenge was learning to type within this system. You tap the desired key once, then two more times. So, two traps total. My frustration was getting in through the lock screen. My son does have a great password, which is a pain to enter taps per character. Fyi, that includes “shift” and “done”.  Then I was able to “tap” the settings, which I needed to do with two fingers, which has made my life better. 

Anyway, glad this mess is done.

Mailchimp Issue: Solved

While trying to send out an email this morning I got stuck with this error message.

“Your list has an email type option, so the text part is required”

Mailchimp has settings for each list and the issue is buried in there.

  1. Go to “Lists”
  2. Select the list in question
  3. Then “settings”
  4. Then “List Name and Defaults”
  5. Uncheck “let users pick plain text or html”

That fixed the problem for me and let me send the email.