[Colorado-Talk] Using Assistive Touch to Restart Your iPhone

[Curtis Chong]

Apparently, you can set the single tap (double tap with VoiceOver on) gesture to have multiple actions associated with it. Then, when the menu pops up, you double tap the action you want to take. I haven’t tested this yet, though, so beware<smile>.

 

Curtis

 

From: Colorado-Talk <colorado-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of C. Charis Glatthar via Colorado-Talk
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2022 10:37 AM
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Cc: C. Charis Glatthar <cglatthar at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Colorado-Talk] Using Assistive Touch to Restart Your iPhone

 

I noticed that there were many options to chose from and could potentially set the assistive touch button to perform more than one action. I’m curious whether it would be possible to set it to accessibility menu using the single tap (double tap with voice over) and restart with long press ( I’m assuming long press would be the equivalent of a tap hold with voice over)? 

 

On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 16:05 Curtis Chong via Colorado-Talk <colorado-talk at nfbnet.org <mailto:colorado-talk at nfbnet.org> > wrote:

Greetings and salutations:

 

This email is aimed at those of you who use iPhones and find that restarting the iPhone by holding down the side button for many seconds is a task that you would rather not perform. The following instructions assume that you are using VoiceOver.

 

1.      Go to Settings, > Accessibility, > Assistive Touch.

 

2.      Flick right with one finger to the Touch icon and perform a one-finger double-tap.

 

3.      Flick right to Assistive Touch and perform a one-finger double tap.

 

4.      On the screen which then appears, Assistive Touch shows as being off. Turn it on by performing a one-finger double tap.

 

5.      Now, flick right with one finger until you hear “Single Tap”. Perform a one-finger double tap.

 

6.      Flick right with one finger until you hear “restart”. Perform a one-finger double tap to activate this.

 

7.      Go back to your home screen. You should be able to find an assistive touch icon in one of the corners of the screen, possibly the lower right corner. You cannot flick to this Assistive Touch icon, unfortunately. You need to slide your finger around to find it. I am told it looks like a brown dot.

 

8.      If you perform a one-finger double tap on the Assistive Touch icon, a restart dialog appears asking if you really want to restart the iPhone. Double Tap restart, and the automatic recycle will proceed.

 

For me, using the Assistive Touch icon to restart my iPhone makes restarting a breeze.

 

With kind regards,

 

Curtis Chong

 

 

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