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How to get Assistive Touch on iPhone

 
Max. D Gray
By Max. D Gray. Updated: January 16, 2017
How to get Assistive Touch on iPhone

Someday your iPhone home button will be damaged or not work at the speed you want. At that point it will be time to adjust the centre button on your iPhone and use the assistive touch button. Here we explain how to activate Assistive Touch to adjust the centre button of the iPhone. Enabling Assistive Touch makes a semi-transparent button appear. Tapping this button will allow you to access the same functions as the home button on your iPhone does.

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Steps to follow:
1

The first thing to do to activate Assistive Touch is go to "Settings".

How to get Assistive Touch on iPhone - Step 1
2

Go to "General" to find Assistive Touch.

How to get Assistive Touch on iPhone - Step 2
3

Select the "Accessibility".

How to get Assistive Touch on iPhone - Step 3
4

Scroll to the bottom of the screen and tap to activate Assistive Touch. Then, a floating button appears in the top left of the screen.

How to get Assistive Touch on iPhone - Step 4
5

Getting Assistive Touch makes a semi-transparent button appear. Tapping this button allows you to access the same functions as the your iPhone's home button, such as volume up or down, as well as various types of gestures such as pinch to zoom. You can even set customized gestures.

How to get Assistive Touch on iPhone - Step 5

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Tips
  • If you don't want to have Assistive Touch on your screen constantly you can set Assistive Touch to your "home" clicking on "function" and only activateit when necessary.

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