How to customize accessibility on iPhone and iPad

Posted by Michael
Posted in Okategoriserade

Make your iPhone or iPad's accessibility settings work for you.

Apple offers a range of accessibility options that let you customize how your iPhone or iPad behaves when you perform certain actions. You have a choice between a few options so you can pick the one that's most convenient and useful for you.

How to enable and use the triple-click Home button shortcut on iPhone and iPad

We use single and double clicks on our iPhones and iPads to return to the Home screen and open the app switcher. However, you can enable and customize a triple-click in iOS.

Launch the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad.
Tap on General.
Tap on Accessibility.
Tap on Accessibility Shortcut — it's all the way at the bottom.
Tap the action you'd like to perform when you triple-click the Home button. Here is a list of them:
- VoiceOver - Allows your iPhone or iPad to speak to you when enabled. Commonly used by folks with visual impairments.
- Invert Colors - A great option for anyone with a visual impairment such as color blindness. All colors across iOS will be inverted.
- Zoom - Allows you to zoom the Home screen and all other content for better visibility. You can then use two and three finger gestures to tap and pan around.
- Switch Control - Lets you use external switches, or the screen itself, as a switch for motor accessibility.
- AssistiveTouch - Adds the ability to access many common hardware buttons and gesture controls with single taps. A useful feature for those with motor impairments.

Once you've made your selection, simply triple-click the Home button from anywhere and your iPhone or iPad will enable the function you've selected. Triple-click it again to disable it.

How to slow down the Home button click speed on iPhone and iPad

Adjusting Home-click speed is an Accessibility feature that lets you increase the interval of time needed for your iPhone or iPad to recognize a double or triple click. By default if you want to enter multitasking app switcher or bring up the accessibility shortcut you need to double or triple tap quickly, each click following in a very short period of time. Adjusting the speed lets you set a slow or even slower pace, so you have all the time you need to click-click or click-click-click. Here's how you can do that:

Launch the Settings app.
Tap on General.
Tap on Accessibility.
Swipe up to scroll down.
Tap on Home Button
Tap the Click Speed option of your liking:
- Default
- Slow
- Slowest

How to adjust 3D Touch sensitivity on iPhone and iPad

If you're either tripping 3D Touch too easily or you're having too hard a time engaging it, you can change the pressure sensitivity levels in Settings as well.

Launch Settings from your Home screen.
Tap General.
Tap Accessibility.
Tap 3D Touch.
Move 3D Touch from Medium to either Light (to require less pressure) or Firm (to require more pressure).

You can test each setting using the peek and post demo below the setting. That'll make sure you get the best option.

How to enable or disable 3D Touch on iPhone and iPad

If none of the settings work for you, or f you have a motor skill or interactivity impairment, you can turn 3D Touch off in the Accessibility Settings.

Launch Settings from your Home screen.
Tap General.
Tap Accessibility.
Tap 3D Touch.
Switch 3D Touch to off.

To turn 3D touch back on, repeat the same process flip the switch to off.

How to disable Show Lowercase Keys on iPhone and iPad

This setting is turned on by default. If you only want uppercase letters shown on the keyboard, you can disable it. Here's how.

Launch Settings from your Home screen.
Tap General.
Tap Accessibility.
Swipe up to scroll down.
Tap Keyboard
Toggle Show Lowercase Keys* to **off.

How to turn Vibration off in iPhone and iPad

This setting controls the vibration function of your iPhone or iPad. If you can't tolerate, or otherwise don't want your device to vibrate, then you can switch it off. Here's how to do it:

Launch Settings from your Home screen.
Tap General.
Tap Accessibility.
Swipe up to scroll down.
Tap Vibration.
Toggle Vibration to off.

How to disable Shake to Undo in iPhone and iPad

Shake to Undo lets you shake your device to undo your last action. However, if you jostle your device around a fair amount, could get annoying after a while. Here's how you can turn it off:

Launch Settings from your Home screen.
Tap General.
Tap Accessibility.
Swipe up to scroll down.
Tap Shake to Undo.
Toggle Shake to Undo to off

How to disable Reachability in iPhone and iPad

When Reachability is enabled, which it is by default, double-tapping the Home button makes the screen scroll up to the top. If it interferes with other accessibility options you have set, you can switch it off.