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Touch the screen or drag your ngers to hear dierent items on the screen. When you select text,
VoiceOver reads the text. If you turn on Speak Hints, VoiceOver may tell you the name of the
item and provide instructions—for example, “double-tap to open.” To interact with items on the
screen, such as buttons and links, use the gestures described in Learning VoiceOver gestures on
page 118 .
When you go to a new screen, VoiceOver plays a sound, then selects and speaks the rst item
on the screen (typically in the upper-left corner). VoiceOver also lets you know when the display
changes to landscape or portrait orientation, and when the screen becomes locked or unlocked.
Note: VoiceOver speaks in the language specied in International settings, which may be
inuenced by the Region Format setting in Settings > General > International. VoiceOver is
available in many languages, but not all.
VoiceOver basics
Important: VoiceOver changes the gestures you use to control iPhone. Once VoiceOver is turned
on, you must use VoiceOver gestures to operate iPhone—even to turn VoiceOver o again and
resume standard operation.
Turn VoiceOver on or o: Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > VoiceOver. You can also set
Triple-click Home to turn VoiceOver on or o. See Triple-click Home on page 124 .
Explore the screen: 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 it, or lift your nger while dragging over 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: Use the rotor to turn on Vertical Navigation, then swipe up or
down with one nger.
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Select the rst or last item on the screen: Swipe up or down with four ngers.
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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.
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Change the name of the selected item so it’s easier to nd: Tap and hold with two ngers
anywhere on the screen.
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Speak the text of the selected item: Set the rotor control 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.
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Include phonetic spelling: Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Use Phonetics.
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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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Stop speaking: Tap once with two ngers. Tap again with two ngers to resume speaking.
Speaking resumes when you select another item.
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Mute VoiceOver: Triple-tap with three ngers. Triple-tap again with three ngers to turn
speaking back on. To turn o only VoiceOver sounds, set the Ring/Silent switch to Silent. If an
external keyboard is connected, you can also press the Control key on the keyboard to mute
or unmute VoiceOver.
