We continue the series of articles on hidden features in iOS 5 that started with a compilation article There are 155 features Then an article explained Some unknown features Then we talked about Hidden features in the system Expected to be presented by Apple in the next updates, an article about advantages For people with special abilities This time, we introduce a new feature that benefits the elderly and possibly even the average user, which is the Assistive Touch feature.
The basic idea of the Touch Assist feature is that some people, such as the elderly or patients with certain diseases, may face difficulties in controlling the phone by touching in some matters, so he cannot tap twice quickly to make a zoom, or his hands tremble greatly, so multi-touch is difficult or finds it difficult to press The buttons for one reason or another and other problems (praise be to God who healed us) so Apple designed this matter to facilitate interaction with the device, whatever the person’s condition and appreciation from Apple for all people. The truth is this is a witness to Apple that it really cares about everyone and is keen on these features and these advantages are found in the iPhone The iPad, but there are some advantages there are only iPad.
To enable this feature, go to Settings> General> Select Accessibility
You can activate Assistive Touch from here and you can also create custom gestures from it, which we will talk about later.
And when you activate it, a circle like the one shown in the picture will appear for you, and it will be visible in all screens, games and applications because it represents the shortcut. Once you click on this circle, the following figure will appear for you:
There are 4 main sections of shortcuts that we will talk about and explain in detail and start with gestures
The gestures
To understand this feature, you must know in advance the multi-tasking gesture feature, which means multi-touch, for example when you see images and swipe left or right with one finger, it moves to the next image, and in the case of four-finger swipe, it moves between open applications. In short, the device recognizes the number of fingers that move on the screen, whether two, three, or four, and others. You can watch the detailed explanation in this video:
This feature is mainly intended for iPad users because it contains the previous feature. By clicking on gestures, the following options appear:
As you can see, there are 4 options which are two, three, four or five fingers. Choose the number of fingers corresponding to the movement that you want to do and choose it, and let it be that you want to move between the open applications on the iPad, which is a swipe left or right with four fingers, then choose four fingers and the following figure will appear for you.
Now, swipe with one finger, and the device translates them into four fingers. A left or right swipe moves you between open applications, and a swipe up with only one finger shows the open applications.
the device:
As shown in the picture, this option shows you several things to control the device's features such as locking the screen, raising or lowering the volume level, shaking the device, locking the rotation and rotating the screen (on the iPhone the option to make the phone silent appears instead of the rotation lock).
main screen:
This option takes the place of the home button, so by pressing the home screen, it exits the application that is currently running, and another click returns you to the first page and a third click takes you to search
Favorite:
This command addresses the shortage of gestures, for example you want to enlarge the image, which is the well-known way, which is placing two fingers and spacing them, and this cannot be done by choosing two fingers with gestures. The solution is to assign gestures that have a specific task, for example, press any blank box and the device will take you to customize a movement as in the image, in the same old special way Customized vibrators The former explained.
Touch the screen with the number of fingers required according to your need and record the movement, and let it be as we said, make a zoom in the image, then touch the screen with two fingers and spread them apart, and now you have a recorded movement dedicated only to enlarge the image. It is spaced between two fingers (view large image)
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