[Assistive Touch Apk Mod Unlimited
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AssistiveTouch helps you use iPhone if you have difficulty touching the screen or pressing the buttons. You can use AssistiveTouch without any accessory to perform actions or gestures that are difficult for you. You can also use a compatible adaptive accessory (such as a joystick) together with AssistiveTouch to control iPhone.
Pinch and Rotate: Tap Custom, then tap Pinch and Rotate. When the two pinch circles appear, touch anywhere on the screen to move the pinch circles, then drag them in or out to perform a pinch or rotate gesture. When you finish, tap the menu button.
Multifinger swipe or drag: Tap Device > More > Gestures, then tap the number of digits needed for the gesture. When the circles appear on the screen, swipe or drag in the direction required by the gesture. When you finish, tap the menu button.
Touch-and-hold gesture: Touch and hold your finger in one spot until the recording progress bar reaches halfway, then lift your finger. Be careful not to move your finger while recording, or the gesture will be recorded as a drag.
To use your custom gesture, tap the AssistiveTouch menu button, tap Custom, then choose the gesture. When the blue circles representing your gesture appear, drag them to where you want to use the gesture, then release.
It seems that Assistive Touch should be able to simulate the three finger double tap that turns on the Zoom feature. I have been unable to make it work. is it possible? I have friends with macular degeneration, who also have a lot of trouble doing a three finger double tap. Assistive Touch would be very helpful.
Thanks, bobseufert. I'm aware of the Zoom controller. For me, the Zoom controller is very helpful, but when I showed it to my 92 year old friend, she had difficulty seeing and operating it due to her macular degeneration and finger control problems.
Yes, I did try the Window Zoom. In fact, that was the main reason I was trying to find an easier way to activate Zoom for my elderly friends. I've found the whole screen Zoom to be impossibly confusing for most of them, since it is 1) disorienting since you can't be sure where on the screen you are and even which screen, and 2) which compounds the confusion, you must use three fingers to navigate - this is not particularly intuitive, so most times they forget, and or because of arthritis or whatever, is physically difficult.
I really admire Apple for the effort they put into help for disabled people, but I'm not sure they understand the real world needs of people, particularly elderly who may have more than one disability combined with reduced cognitive abilities. That said, I still think iPads are wonderful for us older people.
With all the talk about Zoom and assistive touch I forgot the simplest solution. Two fingers on the screen and seperate them. You can control the magnification and move the screen around with one finger. It also avoids the lag in scrolling assistive touch adds. Also there is a zoom where you double tap the screen with one finger.
I like what you said about one day something is impossible and the next you can do it easily. I kept that in mind and encouraged my friend to use the zoom controller with the window zoom. We'll see how she does. Perhaps I wasn't giving her enough credit. She wants to learn which I really admire.
It's funny you mention the two finger pinch and zoom. When she told me that her eye doctor had recommended that she get an iPad, I thought that's great, she'll be able to pinch and zoom everything - that's something you can't do in Windows XP (what her computer is running). However, I quickly realized there are lots of places that doesn't work, settings, home screens, App Store, Google News and some web pages, specifically our local newspaper which she was very anxious to be able to read on her iPad.
You welcome. The first time I turned on show controller I turned it off not knowing what it did. But I'm curious And figured I'd tap it once and was pleasantly surprized how useful it was. I'm glad you pitched the idea to your friend. Sometimes just walking a person through the steps is all it takes.
Since the iOS 15.6 update, the assistive touch function turns on (or even off) by itself randomly, sometimes when I'm using the device, but even when I don't use it. When I turn it off, in a couple seconds it turns on automatically, and it also turns on when I press the home button to exit the settings after I disable it. I can not restore the previous release (15.5), because it's not signed anymore. My home button works fine, it does not have any issues, though it was replaced half a year ago because of a crack on it, so the TouchID does not work, but there were no issues until now. It's really annoying when it pops up so the phone just goes to the home screen instead of doing what I want. I've tried to restart the phone, going back to factory settings, etc.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix the assistive touch icon from moving? Sometimes it will stay where I put it but sometimes I find that it has moved covering up a spot on the screen that I need so I have to move it back.
Hi,
I'm a newbie to the assistive touch setting. I enabled it on my iPhone 14 pro, because that, to my knowledge, is the only way I can have my phone restart, as opposed to doing a manual power off and power on. So what I'm wondering, is how can I set where my assistive touch icon is? It's really weird, because mine is on the bottom of the screen, just when I don't need it, and then I can't find it when I want to do a restart and need it. Any help would be appreciated.
Hi, That's what I thought, but when I asked siri to restart, she said "sorry, I can't help you with that", or something along those lines. Now, I do have type to siri enabled, because several people in my household ask me who I'm talking to when I'm talking to siri, which never fails to complicate things, but that's neither here nor there. :)
Prior to the 10.4 update, I was able to call up Apple Pay on my watch using the gestures feature under Accessibility. I would also be able to confirm with assistive touch using gestures, too. This allowed me to complete an Apple Pay transaction just using gestures on my left hand (ie Double Tap). Prior to the update it worked great and I fel it was pretty convenient.
It was escalated to the Apple engineers to review, but the promised callback appointment never happened. So I tried calling Apple Care again. This time, the level 2 support person thought it might be an issue with the latest update. So, hopefully, a future update will resolve, but I will have to wait and see.
i had to replace the home button on my iphone 7. got a 3rd party button on ebay that looks exactly like the kind sold here on ifixit. the home button function works great, Touch ID does not (as expected). i recently upgraded IOS from 15.1 to 15.7 that's when the weirdness started. after the upgrade the Assistive Touch (on-screen) Home Button was turned on. i'd turn it off, but it would just turn itself on again.
i read in a few places that (and this is conjecture from multiple sources) this is a new "feature" in IOS 15.6 (and later), that when IOS detects there "is a problem" with the home button (meaning it doesn't see the one that was shipped from the factory) it very helpfully turns on the Assistive Touch on-screen button - whether you want it or not. and even if you turn it off, it IOS doesn't care and will turn it back on.
i get that Apple is just trying to make the user experience better - we're from the government, we're hear to help you... - but when we switch the setting off, it should stay off. "No" means "No" Apple!!!
Apparently all aftermarket buttons for iPhone 7 & 8 models employ some kind of workaround, as the original Apple buttons changed from a mechanical contact to being a capacitive sensor as of the iPhone 7. I remember when replacements first came out they actually connected to the phone via bluetooth, of all things, but later models figured out how to connect the button without it.
There seem to be a couple of different kind of buttons; the one I see most commonly is called 'YF'; it has those letters printed on the button's ribbon cable shield. I'd suggest trying one of those; you can pick one up on eBay for like $4 USD with free shipping. Here's an example (I hate posting eBay listing since they eventually go away, but here you go anyway).
Amazon.com: Latest Home Button Replacement for iPhone 7 7Plus 8 8Plus,GVKVGIH Home Button Main Key Flex Cable Assembly Replacement with Repair Tools for iPhone 7 7P 8 8P (Version4.0 Black) : Cell Phones & Accessories
I haven't run into your problem with assistive touch being turned on, but I have used that particular button before. That doesn't prove anything since it was quite some time ago so the chances are it was on an older version of iOS though.
go to Settings > Accessibility > Touch > Back Tap. Is Back Tap On with Assistive Touch listed for either Double/Triple Tap? If so, that's probably what's turning it on. Set the Tap to something else, or None..
There is; you have to download the IPSW file you want to use first (unless you already have it on your computer), then when selecting the Restore option, you hold down the Option key (Shift for Windows) and it will let you select which OS version to restore. Full instructions here:
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