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Appendix A Accessibility 160
VoiceOver basics
Important: VoiceOver changes the gestures you use to control iPhone. When VoiceOver is on,
you must use VoiceOver gestures to operate iPhone—even to turn VoiceOver o.
Turn VoiceOver on or o. Press and hold the Home button and tell Siri “turn VoiceOver on.”
To turn VoiceOver o, tell Siri “turn VoiceOver o.” You can also go to Settings > General >
Accessibility > VoiceOver, or use the Accessibility Shortcut. See Accessibility Shortcut above.
Explore. Drag your nger over the screen. VoiceOver speaks each item you touch. Lift your nger
to leave an item selected.
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Select an item: Tap once to select an item, double-tap to invoke it.
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Select the next or previous item: Swipe right or left with one nger. Item order is left-to-right,
top-to-bottom.
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Select the item above or below: Set the rotor to Vertical Navigation, then swipe up or down
with one nger. If you don’t nd Vertical Navigation in the rotor, you can add it; see Use the
VoiceOver rotor on page 162.
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Select the rst or last item on the screen: Tap with four ngers at the top or bottom of the screen.
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Select an item by name: Triple-tap with two ngers anywhere on the screen to open the Item
Chooser. Then type a name in the search eld, or swipe right or left to move through the list
alphabetically, or tap the table index to the right of the list and swipe up or down to move
quickly through the list of items. You can also use handwriting to select an item by writing its
name; see Write with your nger on page 164. To dismiss the Item Chooser without making a
selection, double-tap.
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Change an item’s name so it’s easier to nd: Select the item, then double-tap and hold with two
ngers anywhere on the screen.
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Speak the text of the selected item: Set the rotor to characters or words, then swipe down or up
with one nger.
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Turn spoken hints on or o: Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Speak Hints.
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Use phonetic spelling: Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > VoiceOver >
Phonetic Feedback.
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Speak the entire screen, from the top: Swipe up with two ngers.
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Speak from the current item to the bottom of the screen: Swipe down with two ngers.
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Pause speaking: Tap once with two ngers. Tap again with two ngers to resume, or select
another item.
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Mute VoiceOver: Double-tap with three ngers; repeat to unmute. If you’re using an external
keyboard, press the Control key.
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Silence sound eects: Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > VoiceOver, then turn o Use
Sound Eects.
Use a larger VoiceOver cursor. Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > VoiceOver, then turn on
Large Cursor.
Adjust the speaking voice. You can adjust the VoiceOver speaking voice:
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Change the volume: Use the volume buttons on iPhone. You can also add volume to the rotor,
then swipe up and down to adjust; see Use the VoiceOver rotor on page 162.
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Change the speech rate: Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > VoiceOver, then drag the
Speaking Rate slider. You can also set the rotor to Speech Rate, then swipe up or down
to adjust.
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