Use AssistiveTouch on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

You can use AssistiveTouch to adjust volume, lock your screen, employ multi-finger gestures, restart your device, or supervene upon pressing buttons with just a tap.

Turn on AssistiveTouch

When you plow on AssistiveTouch, you run across a push button appear onscreen. Y'all can drag the push to whatsoever border of the screen, where information technology stays until you lot move it again. Past default, tapping the button once opens the AssistiveTouch carte. Tapping once anywhere exterior of the menu closes the AssistiveTouch menu.

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

  • Go to Settings > Accessibility > Bear on > AssistiveTouch, then plow on AssistiveTouch
  • Use "Hey Siri" to say, "Plow on AssistiveTouch"
  • Become to Settings > Accessibility > Accessibility Shortcut, then turn on AssistiveTouch

AssistiveTouch tin can also be added to the Accessibility Shortcut for quick access from Control Center, or y'all can use the Side or Habitation button. And if you have an Apple Watch Series 4 or subsequently, you tin turn on AssistiveTouch on your Apple tree Watch.

iPhone Home Screen showing AssistiveTouch turned on

Apply AssistiveTouch instead of gestures

Admission menus and controls that require onscreen gestures like:

  • Control Center
  • Notification Center
  • Spotlight
  • Domicile
  • App Switcher
  • Speak Screen

Use AssistiveTouch instead of pressing buttons

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

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

Use AssistiveTouch for multi-finger gestures

  1. From the AssistiveTouch menu, select Device > More.
  2. Select Gestures.
  3. Cull between 2, 3, 4, or v finger input.

After you brand your option, multiple dots appear on the screen that betoken where the virtual fingertips touch 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 modify the lodge, number, and contents of the buttons in the carte:

  1. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Touch > AssistiveTouch.
  2. Tap Customize Peak Level Menu, so tap an icon to reassign a different office to its position.
  3. Use the + and - buttons to change the number of buttons that appear in the carte.

Utilize the Reset button to erase your changes and restore the default menu settings.

Use custom actions

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

  1. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Impact > AssistiveTouch.
  2. Under the Custom Deportment heading, cull Single-Tap, Double-Tap, or Long Press.
  3. Choose an action from the list to assign to the gesture.
  4. Utilise the AssistiveTouch button to go dorsum to Settings.

You can accommodate the amount of time the actions tin can perform a double-tap, or how long the push must be held for a long press.

Create new gestures

You lot can record custom taps and swipes using the touchscreen and salvage them to the AssistiveTouch bill of fare.

To create a new gesture:

  1. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Affect.
  2. Tap AssistiveTouch, and then tap Create New Gesture.
  3. Recording starts automatically when you impact the screen, so y'all can tap or swipe whenever you're fix.
  4. When you're finished, tap Stop.

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

If you lot're unable to perform a multi-finger gesture by using multiple fingers at the same fourth dimension, you can record private movements, and they grouping together. For example, depict 2 horizontal dots on the top one-half of the screen, and a half circumvolve on the bottom of the screen, then press Terminate. When you printing play, all dots and lines play at one time.

Connect a pointer device with AssistiveTouch

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