User's Manual
APPLE CONFIDENTIAL — PRELIMINARY DRAFT
If you don’t see the VoiceOver Practice button, make sure VoiceOver is turned on.
Here’s a summary of key VoiceOver gestures:
Navigating and Reading
Tap: Speak item.
Flick right or left: Select the next or previous item.
Flick up or down: Depends on the Rotor Control setting. See “Rotor Control” on
page 240.
$ Stop speaking the current item.
$% Read all from the top of the screen.
$% Read all from the current position.
$!"
“z”) to dismiss an alert or go back to the previous screen.
$% Scroll one page at a time.
$% Go to the next or previous page (such as the Home
screen, Stocks, or Safari).
$ Speak the scroll status (which page or rows are visible).
$%
$% Select the last element on the screen.
Activating
Double-tap: Activate the selected item.
Triple-tap: Double-tap an item.
Split-tap: An alternative to selecting an item and double-tapping is to touch an item
$$!"
Activate the item.
Double-tap and hold (1 second) + standard gesture: Use a standard gesture.
The double-tap and hold gesture tells iPhone to interpret the subsequent gesture as
$ Answer or end a call. Play or pause in iPod, YouTube, Voice
Memos, or Photos. Take a photo (Camera). Start or pause recording in Camera or
Voice Memos. Start or stop the stopwatch.
$ Mute or unmute VoiceOver.
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