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Is there a voiceover touch gesture to turn on and off voiceover

By Dylan, 18 February, 2022

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I don’t want to triple click my ipad minis power button to turn on and off voiceover is there a touch gesture I could use instead

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Think a little

By Unregistered User (not verified)

6 months ago

Well, assumed we have a gesture for turning of voiceover.
What is next?
How do you want to use an assigned gesture for turning on voiceover?
The service is off.
Yeah, the solution exists.
Just a hint:
Use automation task (command) in iphone.
How? I know, But i won't say.
Cheers!

A couple options

By Cobbler

6 months ago

Ignore the unhelpful comment above. This appears to be all that zeirus-fr ‘contributes’ to our community.

You have a couple of options.

If you simply want to mute VoiceOver speech, then you can use the 3-finger double tap.

If you want to completely turn VoiceOver off, then the Back Tap feature is likely your friend.

You can set this up at Settings > Accessibility > Touch, where you can choose to use either a double or triple tap on the back of your device to toggle various settings - one of which is VoiceOver.

Of course, Siri is one other option too.

Other option

By Oliver Kennett

6 months ago

Though your first responder is a pretty useless individual... They are correct that turning it back on would be an issue. If you wanted to turn it off, however, I think it is possible to set it up as a custom gesture. Of course, with voiceover off, however, voiceover gestures don't work to turn it back on.

Turning VoiceOver on and off

By Curtis Chong

6 months ago

First, you can tell Siri to start or stop VoiceOver. If your phone is online, this works every time. Second, you can set up the side button so that a triple tap will toggle VoiceOver on or off. This is referred to as the accessibility shortcut.

Thanks for the replies

By Dylan

6 months ago

Although I didn’t find a solution I appreciate the replies the closest was back tap but it’s not supported on my new iPad mini

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