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AssistiveTouch In iOS 5
Mar 11, 2025
A demo of how-to enable and use AssistiveTouch in iOS 5.
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hey everyone today I'm going to show you
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the new Assistive Touch features in the
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iOS 5 beta 3 and what you can do with
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them so basically these features are if
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you have a broken component of your
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device let's say your home button or
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maybe accelerometer or if you need
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accessibility help so to activate these
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features first you're going to go into
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settings and from there you're going to
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scroll down and then you're going to tap
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on accessibility and there's quite a few
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options in the accessibility menu but
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we're going to focus on Assistive Touch
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from here we're just going to turn
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Assistive touch on now I've noticed that
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it's a little bit buggy uh in that it
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takes probably a good 2 to 3 minutes to
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start up on my device I don't know if
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that's a you know a speed performance
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issue it really shouldn't be um or if
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it's just an issue with the iOS 5 beta 3
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but I noce it takes a while to show up
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so I'm just going to come back once it's
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shown up now here you can see the
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Assistive Touch features have started up
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and as default you'll see this little
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box in the bottom right hand corner and
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it sits right there but you can move it
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around you can move it to six individual
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locations on your home screen um in in
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the corners as well as in the middle and
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then across the top as well uh for this
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demo we're just going to set it over on
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this side right here so you can see the
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assist of Touch button right here and
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when I tap on it you're you're going to
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see this menu come up right in the
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middle of the screen you have a couple
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different options here uh first of all
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let's go into the device menu if I touch
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screen rotation you're going to see a
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couple different options uh right now
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it's in portrait mode so if I touch that
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nothing happens but if I touch right the
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entire iPad will rotate right and I can
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do upside down as well as left and then
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bring it back to Portrait if I want to
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so that's nice and then if you want to
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get back from there you can just tap the
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center of the little box and it'll go
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back back and then from here I can also
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mute and unmute the iPad uh so I can
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just touch it it switch between and I
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can also simulate a shake gesture by
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just touching this and then I can change
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the volume up and volume down just by
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tapping these two buttons here so that's
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neat U let's say if your volume buttons
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are broken you know that that could come
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in handy and then this is a really neat
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one you can tap lock screen and it'll
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instantly lock your iPad screen so then
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once you're done in that menu of course
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you can tap the center again to go back
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out and then this is neat uh if your
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home button's broken and that's a pretty
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common thing on iOS devices as they
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start to age you can just hit home right
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here and it'll take you right back home
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uh so it just simulates a home button
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press now the last couple menus here are
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for gestures and there's quite a few of
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them so if I tap gestures you're going
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to see 2 3 4 and five finger gestures so
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these gestures are more specifically
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application based than anything and I
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haven't personally found a use for them
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yet yet for example I'm not quite sure
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of any applications that use a five
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finger gesture although I know that
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there are some uh multi-touch gestures
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in iOS 5 that let you return to the home
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screen uh using a five finger gesture
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but that's not present on the original
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iPad which I'm using so I wasn't able to
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test that out but what you do is you
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just tap on the gesture and on the
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screen you're going to see the number of
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uh fingers that you would you know the
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gesture and you can move the gesture
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around to use it a better example of
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this is INS saari if I go under the
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favorites menu you can see there's a
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couple favorite gestures in here pinch
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and swipe or the two default ones and I
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added five finger pinch and I'll show
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you in just a second how to do that so
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if I tap pinch you can see on the screen
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I have a little pinch to zoom menu here
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so I can take this bar and I can drag it
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in and out to zoom in and out of the
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page just like that and I guess if you
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have trouble with the gestures this is
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probably a handy thing to use instead of
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the pinched zoom and you can also do
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swipe which uh when I tap on it nothing
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happens once again this could be
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something with the beta I'm not sure but
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what you can do is you can hit one of
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these plus buttons here and it will
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launch you right back into settings and
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in settings here you can see you can
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create a custom gesture so let's say I
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want a two finger swipe uh I can do a
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two finger swipe uh it's a little bit
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laggy in the beta uh but you can see
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that would work and then down at the
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bottom I can save or reset that gesture
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and I'll just call it two swipe and I
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can hit save and I when I go back into
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my gesture menu and I go under favorites
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you can see that two swipe is present
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and if I touch it uh there's the two
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finger gesture that I made this gesture
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comes in handy if you want to swipe
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across the pages of your home screen as
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I can take it from here and I can just
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drag it across the screen and it will
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hopefully simulate a page turn gesture
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for me right there so that's pretty neat
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and that is how you use the new
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Assistive Touch features in iOS 5 beta 3
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and I'm sure they'll have worked out the
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bug by the time the actual iOS 5 build
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comes out but for now it's a really cool
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Edition and I hope to see them
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implemented further in the future so I
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hope you found this video useful and
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thank you for
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watching
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