[Trainer-Talk] Screen Curtain on iPhone

[Snow, Amy L. (IT)]

Hi all I'm hoping you can help me with a question.

My mom has the beginning to moderate stages of dementia and she keeps turning her screen curtain on accidentally.  Having the screen visible helps her orient to the device just a little (and as we know, any sort of change encountered by people with dementia really can throw them off).  At times she has a care worker help her with her phone and she needs the screen to do that.

I thought I'd removed the gesture shortcut to turn the screen curtain on and off in Mom's phone settings so that she couldn't inadvertently activate it, but that appears to not be working the way I thought it would.

I'm wondering if there is a way to disable the ability to turn the screen curtain on or off in voiceover at all that I may be missing? I figure my mother can't be the only one with this issue so there has to be a way to circumvent the problem.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Amy

Amy Snow
Certified Assistive Technology Instructional Specialist
Teacher of the Visually Impaired
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Janesville, WI 53546
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