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For people with motor skill impairments, Touch Accommodations is a useful and convenient accessibility feature that helps make using a touchscreen much more comfortable and much less frustrating.
Here's how to set things up to work for you.
- How to enable Touch Accomodations
- How to enable and change Hold Duration
- How to enable and change the duration for Ignore Repeat
- How to enable Tap Assistance
How to enable Touch Accommodations
- Launch Settings from your Home screen.
- Tap Accessibility.
Choose Touch under Physical and Motor.
Source: iMore- Tap Touch Accommodations.
Toggle on Touch Accommodations.
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How to enable and change Hold Duration
If you have tremors or tics that might cause you to tap your iPhone or iPads screen repeatedly, you can enable a Hold Duration so that you must hold an on-screen button for a certain length of time before it is activated.
- Launch Settings from your Home screen.
- Tap Accessibility.
Choose Touch under Physical and Motor.
Source: iMore- Tap Touch Accommodations.
- Toggle on Hold Duration. Confirm your selection.
Tap the plus or minus button to increase or decrease the Hold Duration.
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How to enable and change the duration for Ignore Repeat
Ignore Repeat works similarly to Hold Duration in that you can set a duration during which multiple taps will be recognized as only one tap. This is particularly useful if you're trying to enable settings or type a text or email.
- Launch Settings from your Home screen.
- Tap Accessibility.
Choose Touch under Physical and Motor.
Source: iMore- Tap Touch Accommodations.
- Toggle on Ignore Repeat. Confirm your selection.
Tap the plus or minus button to increase or decrease the Ignore Repeat setting.
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How to enable Tap Assistance
Enabling Tap Assistance will allow any single finger gesture to perform a tap.
- Launch Settings from your Home screen.
- Tap Accessibility.
Choose Touch under Physical and Motor.
Source: iMore- Tap Touch Accommodations.
Choose Use Initial Touch Location or Use Final Touch Location under Tap Assistance.
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Questions?
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