Utilize AssistiveTouch on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

Yous tin can use AssistiveTouch to suit volume, lock your screen, use multi-finger gestures, restart your device, or supercede pressing buttons with just a tap.

Turn on AssistiveTouch

When y'all turn on AssistiveTouch, you see a push announced onscreen. You tin drag the button to any edge of the screen, where it stays until you move information technology once again. Past default, tapping the push one time opens the AssistiveTouch menu. Tapping once anywhere outside of the carte du jour closes the AssistiveTouch menu.

There are a few ways to turn on AssistiveTouch. You lot tin:

  • Go to Settings > Accessibility > Touch > AssistiveTouch, so turn on AssistiveTouch
  • Utilize "Hey Siri" to say, "Turn on AssistiveTouch"
  • Go to Settings > Accessibility > Accessibility Shortcut, then turn on AssistiveTouch

AssistiveTouch can as well be added to the Accessibility Shortcut for quick access from Control Heart, or you can employ the Side or Dwelling button. And if yous have an Apple Sentry Series 4 or later, yous can plough on AssistiveTouch on your Apple tree Watch.

iPhone Home Screen showing AssistiveTouch turned on

Use AssistiveTouch instead of gestures

Access menus and controls that require onscreen gestures similar:

  • Control Center
  • Notification Heart
  • Spotlight
  • Home
  • App Switcher
  • Speak Screen

Use AssistiveTouch instead of pressing buttons

The AssistiveTouch bill of fare gives you access to functions that you would otherwise command by pressing physical buttons or moving the device. With AssistiveTouch, yous can:

  • Activate the Accessibility Shortcut
  • Lock the screen
  • Adapt the volume
  • Summon Siri
  • Restart the device
  • Capture a screenshot
  • Simulate shaking the device

Use AssistiveTouch for multi-finger gestures

  1. From the AssistiveTouch carte, select Device > More.
  2. Select Gestures.
  3. Choose betwixt 2, 3, 4, or 5 finger input.

Subsequently you make your selection, multiple dots appear on the screen that indicate where the virtual fingertips touch on the screen. Moving i finger around the screen or performing taps control all virtual fingertips at the same time. The virtual fingertips automatically go away after a few moments of inactivity.

iPhone Home Screen showing the AssistiveTouch menu

Customize the AssistiveTouch menu

To change the order, number, and contents of the buttons in the menu:

  1. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Touch > AssistiveTouch.
  2. Tap Customize Top Level Menu, then tap an icon to reassign a dissimilar part to its position.
  3. Use the + and - buttons to change the number of buttons that appear in the card.

Use the Reset button to erase your changes and restore the default card settings.

Utilize custom actions

To assign an AssistiveTouch office to a unmarried-tap, double-tap, or long press of the button:

  1. Become to Settings > Accessibility > Bear on > AssistiveTouch.
  2. Under the Custom Actions heading, choose Single-Tap, Double-Tap, or Long Press.
  3. Choose an activeness from the listing to assign to the gesture.
  4. Use the AssistiveTouch button to become dorsum to Settings.

You tin can adjust the corporeality of time the actions tin perform a double-tap, or how long the button must be held for a long press.

Create new gestures

You tin can tape custom taps and swipes using the touchscreen and salve them to the AssistiveTouch menu.

To create a new gesture:

  1. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Touch.
  2. Tap AssistiveTouch, and so tap Create New Gesture.
  3. Recording starts automatically when yous touch the screen, so you can tap or swipe whenever y'all're ready.
  4. When y'all're finished, tap Cease.

To review your recorded gesture, press Play. If you want to re-record your gesture, tap Record. Press Save to name your gesture when y'all're ready.

If you lot're unable to perform a multi-finger gesture by using multiple fingers at the aforementioned fourth dimension, you tin record individual movements, and they group together. For example, depict two horizontal dots on the top half of the screen, and a half circumvolve on the lesser of the screen, then press Stop. When you lot press play, all dots and lines play at once.

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