User guide

Chapter 32 Accessibility 119
Activate
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Double-tap: Activate the selected item.
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Triple-tap: Double-tap an item.
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Split-tap: As an alternative to selecting an item and double-tapping to activate it, touch an
item with one nger, and then tap the screen with another.
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Double-tap and hold (1 second) + standard gesture: Use a standard gesture. The double-tap
and hold gesture tells iPhone to interpret the next gesture as standard. For example, you can
double-tap and hold, and then without lifting your nger, drag your nger to slide a switch.
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Two-nger double-tap: Answer or end a call. Play or pause in Music, Videos, Voice Memos, or
Photos. Take a photo in Camera. Start or pause recording in Camera or Voice Memos. Start or
stop the stopwatch.
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Two-nger double-tap and hold: Change an item’s label to make it easier to nd.
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Two-nger triple-tap: Open the Item Chooser.
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Three-nger triple-tap: Mute or unmute VoiceOver.
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Three-nger quadruple-tap: Turn the screen curtain on or o.
Using the VoiceOver rotor control
Use the rotor to choose what happens when you swipe up or down with VoiceOver turned on.
Operate the rotor: Rotate two ngers on the iPhone screen around a point between them.
Change the options included in the rotor: Go to Settings > General > Accessibility >
VoiceOver > Rotor and select the options you want to be available using the rotor.
The eect of the rotor setting depends on what you’re doing. For example, if you’re reading an
email, you can use the rotor to switch between hearing text spoken word-by-word or character-
by-character when you swipe up or down. If you’re browsing a webpage, you can set the rotor to
speak all the text (either word-by-word or character-by-character), or to jump from one item to
another of a certain type, such as headers or links.
When you use an Apple Wireless Keyboard to control VoiceOver, a speech rotor lets you adjust
settings such as volume, speech rate, use of pitch or phonetics, typing echo, and reading of
punctuation. See Controlling VoiceOver using an Apple Wireless Keyboard on page 122 .
Entering and editing text with VoiceOver
When you enter an editable text eld, you can use the onscreen keyboard or an external
keyboard connected to iPhone to enter text.
Enter text: Select an editable text eld, double-tap to display the insertion point and the
onscreen keyboard, then type characters.
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Standard typing: Select a key on the keyboard by swiping left or right, then double-tap to
enter the character. Or move your nger around the keyboard to select a key and, while
continuing to touch the key with one nger, tap the screen with another nger. VoiceOver
speaks the key when it’s selected, and again when the character is entered.