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Appendix A Accessibility 159
Use iPhone with VoiceOver
Unlock iPhone. If you’ve set up Touch ID, place your nger on the Home button. Otherwise,
press either the Home button or the Sleep/Wake button, swipe to select the Unlock button, then
double-tap the screen.
Enter your passcode silently. To avoid having your passcode spoken as you enter it, use
handwriting; see Write with your nger on page 164.
Open an app, toggle a switch, or tap an item. Select the item, then double-tap the screen.
Double-tap the selected item. To invoke a command normally executed by tapping twice on the
screen, tap three times.
Adjust a slider. Select the slider, then swipe up or down with one nger.
Use a standard gesture. Double-tap and hold your nger on the screen until you hear three
rising tones, then make the gesture. When you lift your nger, VoiceOver gestures resume. For
example, to drag a volume slider with your nger instead of swiping up and down, select the
slider, double-tap and hold, wait for the three tones, then slide left or right.
Scroll a list or area of the screen. Swipe up or down with three ngers.
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Scroll continuously through a list: Double-tap and hold until you hear three rising tones, then
drag up or down.
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Use the list index: Some lists have an alphabetical table index along the right side. Select the
index, then swipe up or down to move through the index. You can also double-tap, hold, then
slide your nger up or down.
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Reorder a list: You can change the order of items in some lists, such as the Rotor items in
Accessibility settings. Select to the right of an item, double-tap and hold until you hear
three rising tones, then drag up or down.
Open Notication Center. Select any item in the status bar, then swipe down with three ngers.
To dismiss Notication Center, do a two-nger scrub (move two ngers back and forth three
times quickly, making a “z”).
Open Control Center. Select any item in the status bar, then swipe up with three ngers. To
dismiss Control Center, do a two-nger scrub.
Switch apps. Double-click the Home button to display open apps, swipe left or right with one
nger to select an app, then double-tap to switch to it. Or, set the rotor to Actions while viewing
open apps, then swipe up or down.
Rearrange your Home screen. Select an icon on the Home screen, double-tap and hold, then
drag. Lift your nger when the icon is in its new location. Drag an icon to the edge of the screen
to move it to another Home screen. You can continue to select and move items until you press
the Home button.
Speak iPhone status information. Tap the status bar at the top of the screen, then swipe left or
right to hear information about the time, battery state, Wi-Fi signal strength, and more.
Speak notications. Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > VoiceOver, then turn on Always
Speak Notications. Notications, including the text of incoming text messages, are spoken
as they occur, even if iPhone is locked. Unacknowledged notications are repeated when you
unlock iPhone.
Turn the screen curtain on or o. Triple-tap with three ngers. When the screen curtain is on, the
screen contents are active even though the display is turned o.
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