Explore customizing phone gestures for seamless navigation and accessibility, even without physical buttons. Learn to identify songs with Siri and discover the intuitive Hable One remote control. Master its gestures and Braille-like commands for efficient device interaction, enhancing accessibility and functionality.
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Here’s a tip for you. In case you’re having difficulty transitioning from a phone that has a home button to one that does not. I did not realize that you could customize gestures to simulate the home button or the app switcher. And so buried in the voice over options and settings is a really cool way to give your absent home button and function a gesture and to give your app switcher a gesture. So where I went was under the.
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Settings and then accessibility and then commands heading.
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I went to voiceover and then commands. So it’s kind of several layers in here. So first of all settings on the main screen and then accessibility.
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Voiceover back button.
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Voiceover.
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Commands heading and then commands.
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All commands button.
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All commands. This is a button.
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So we’re going to go in here, interaction button.
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And you have different kinds of categories.
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For instance, there’s interaction, basic navigation button, text navigation button.
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Advanced navigation button, editing button. Rotor button, scrolling button, speech and audio button. Output button. Braille button. Voiceover button. System button.
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Okay, so we’re going to go here.
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To the system and double tap accessibility shortcut button.
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And now we’re going to go find either the home button or the app switcher.
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Activate speak screen button. App switcher button.
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Here’s the app switcher. So when I double tap, you’re going to find that I have assigned it adjuster because I got tired of dragging up from the bottom of the screen on my iPhone 15 Pro. So here I’m going to double tap on the app switcher.
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Touch gestures heading.
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Okay.
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And here it says touch gestures. So when I swipe through here, I’m going to hear different possibilities of gestures.
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I could assign two finger swipes left.
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And that’s exactly what I decided that I wanted my gesture to be. It did have a previous assignment and I had to agree that I wanted to change it. It is something to do with navigating in the Safari web browser, drilling down into, I believe it’s like a submenu kind of a situation. So this is a two finger swipe left.
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So adjuster button.
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I could add another gesture, but I’m going to go back.
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Two finger swipe adjust touch gestures heading system.
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Back button.
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Back system app switcher button.
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So I’ll show you how this works.
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Control center button.
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Control center. So I know that with the control center I’m going to touch the status bar and I’m going to swipe up with three fingers. But if I want a different gesture for that, let’s see how I would do this. So I would double tap on this.
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Touch gestures heading and here are my options. Adjuster button to add a gesture keyboard shortcuts heading because I don’t have a gesture add gesture button cancel button so.
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Now I have double tapped on add gesture. My focus is on the cancel button.
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Touch gestures heading search search field dictate button tab one finger heading okay, so one finger single tap ding.
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Obviously I don’t want to change a lot of these because they are defaults. One finger single tap is going to tell me what my focused item is and such. So let me just kind of swipe through here and see what I can find.
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One finger double tap one finger triple tap.
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So maybe I want it to be the one finger triple tap if I double tap on that to see what it says.
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One alert gesture in use.
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Okay, so it tells me the gesture is in use.
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The gesture is assigned to another command.
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Perform long press okay, so it’s designed to be used as like a long.
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Press cancel button and assign button.
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I could assign it though in fact to my control center. So I’m going to actually do that. So I’m going to assign it.
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System back button now control center edit button controls edit touch gestures heading it.
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Should happen that I am going to show you how this works. So I’m going to go back home with the gesture that I’ve assigned previously, and I’ve assigned the two finger swipe.
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Right to go home settings, three new.
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Items and now I’m back home if I do a two finger swipe left.
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App switcher settings active there is my app switcher.
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So now I can close settings, close.
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Settings, closing settings, transportation.
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And so now my settings are closed and now I’m going to do the.
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Triple tap with one finger control center.
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Airplane mode switch button off.
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And there’s my control center, which is really super easy. So like I say, it’s buried in there under settings, accessibility, voiceover commands, all commands. And then you have a very lengthy list of, well, you have some categories and then within those categories you have a list of things that you can change. And it’s a little bit of a convoluted process, but it is definitely well worth the effort to change a few gestures to make your life easier so that you can indeed activate your home button without a home button or activate the app switcher without a home button. Hope you found this tip helpful.
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You know that moment when you’re either in a store or possibly a car or maybe hanging out with friends and music’s playing, you hear this song and you go, oh, I know this song. Wait, who is this? Well, let me show you how you can find out. On an iPhone, what you would do is Invoke Siri say, what song is this? Point your phone in the direction of the music, give it a second or two, and see if it comes back with who the artist is and what the name of the song is.
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The Habel one is a remote control device you can use to control your iPhone or Android.
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What’s unique about the Habel One is it works similarly to the screen away.
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Braille mode, available on both platforms. So on your left hand you have.
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Dots one, two, three, and on your.
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Right hand you have dots four, five, six. There’s a spacebar both on the left.
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And the right side that you can use to navigate the phone. Instead of pairing the cable through the screen reader’s Braille section, you use the Bluetooth functionality of your phone to connect.
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The device to your phone.
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Habel has some great documentation available that you can use to check out how best to navigate your device using your hable.
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But once you get familiar with the.
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Gestures that you use and the commands.
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That you use, also available in the.
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User guide, you’ll be able to navigate your phone efficiently. Oh, did I mention that if you’re comfortable with braille, it’s a great way for you to enter text quickly without having to fiddle around with a touchscreen. But if you’re not comfortable with braille.
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Maybe this is the thing that’ll help teach you how to use braille on your devices.
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The Habel does ship with a lanyard that you can hang around your wrist to easily hold it. You hold the hable in, I guess what would be called landscape mode, with the switch across the top, and then your keys are facing away from you. If you want to go home, press and hold dots one, two, five until you feel a brief vibration. H if you’d like to get your notifications, press and hold dots 1345 until you feel a brief vibration. N as you can tell, using the Habel can be efficient and does make logical sense if you have some familiarity with braille. But if you don’t, well, learn those gestures and the knowledge of braille might.
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Happen to come along with it.