How to Use Assistive Touch on Your iPhone and iPad
Assistive Touch is a virtual Home button which permits you to control the iDevice and also helps you to create gestures such as 3D Touch, pinch, multi-finger swipe, and many others. You can customize gestures and top level menu with the Assistive Touch feature. In this article, you will get to know how to use Assitance Touch on your iPhone and iPad.
Steps to Turn On Assistive Touch
• Go the Settings option by going to the home screen.
• Press on the General option.
• Press on the Accessibility option.
• Click on the Assistive Touch option.
• Click on the switch given near the Assistive Touch to turning it on.
Steps to Use Assistive Touch on Your iPhone and iPad
• Press on the shortcut of the Assistive Touch given on display.
• Press on any of the options which are mentioned below:
1. Custom. This option permits to insert gestures such as zooming.
2. Notification Center. It will open the Notification Center so that you do not need to slide down from the upper side of the display.
3. Siri. This option helps you to activate Siri to use Assistive Touch on your iPhone and iPad.
4. Control Center. It opens the Control Center rather than you need to slide up from the end of the display.
5. Device. This option permits you to use many features such as placing a lock on display, adjusting the volume and moving the display on the upward or downward direction and many other options.
6. Home. It opens the home screen, and you don’t need to click on the Home button.
Steps for Adding Custom Gestures to Assistive Touch on Your iPhone and iPad
• Open the Settings tab by going to the home screen.
• Press on the General option.
• Click on the Accessibility option.
• Press on the Assistive Touch button.
• Press on the Create New Gesture option.
• Slide to create a new gesture option.
• Press on the Stop option located at the end right-hand side after completing the adding process of gesture.
• Press on the Play option to go to your created gesture.
• Click on the Record option for recording it again.
• Press on the Save option located in the upper right-hand side of the display for saving the created gesture.
• Give a title to the created gesture.
• Press on the Save option.
Steps for Customizing the Top Level Menu in Assistive Touch in Your iPhone and iPad
• Open the Settings option by going to the Home screen.
• Press on the General option.
• Press on the Accessibility option.
• Click on the Assistive Touch button.
• Press on the Customize Top Level Menu option.
• Press on the add buttons option.
• Otherwise, click on the existing symbol.
• Click on the function or action option
• Click on the Done button located in the upper right-hand side of the display.
• Click on the plus and minus options given on the end right-hand side for adding or subtracting the options.
Steps for Using Custom Actions on your iPhone and iPad
• Go to the Settings tab located on the home screen.
• Press on the General option.
• Press on the Accessibility option.
• Click on the Assistive Touch option.
• Press on the Single Tap, Double Tap or Long Press button for customizing every action.
• Press on the Options button.
• Now, you have completed all the steps to know how to use Assistive Touch on your iPhone and iPad.
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