How to use AssistiveTouch on your iPhone or iPad — Apple Support

With assist of touch .

You can customize how you navigate and use your iphone or ipad .

Whether that's replacing a button press with a gesture or returning to the home screen with a tap instead of a swipe .

Here's how we'll show you how to turn on and use assistive touch and then how to customize it .

Let's start by turning it on .

You can add a system of touch as an accessibility , shortcut or ask Siri to open it .

You can also find it in settings , just scroll down , tap , accessibility , tap , touch , tap , assistive touch and tap to turn it on .

The assistive touch menu button will now appear on screen .

You can tap the button for quick access to dozens of different device functions like returning to the home screen , opening control center , bringing up Siri and more to move it , touch and hold the menu button , then drag it to a new spot .

The menu button will automatically stick to the closest edge of the screen .

The menu button will dim when not in use but you can change its opacity by tapping idle opacity at the bottom of the screen to use assistive touch , tap the button to open the menu and then tap to select one of the functions .

For example , you can now open control center with a tab instead of a swipe .

Next , we'll go over how to customize a system of touch to fit your needs .

In assistive touch settings .

You can change how you interact with the menu button and add new functions to the menu itself .

You can assign different assistive touch functions to a single tap , double tap or long press of the button .

By default , tapping the button once will open the assistive touch menu , you can also create a new gesture by recording custom taps and swipes which you can activate from the assistive touch menu .

Later to customize the assistive touch menu tap , customized top level menu .

You can change one of the buttons functions by tapping an icon or you can add a new function by tapping the add button which looks like a plus sign .

Then tap the new icon that appears in your assistive touch menu layout and select a function from the list .

We'll select screenshot , then tap done .

Now we can take a screenshot without having to press two physical buttons at the same time , tap the menu button and your customized menu will open , then tap screenshot .

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You can tap the menu button again to select a different function like returning to the home screen .

Now you're ready to start using assistive touch on your iphone to learn more about accessibility features .

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