iPhone User Guide
- iPhone User Guide
- What’s new in iOS 13
- Supported iPhone models
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- Wake and unlock
- Adjust the volume
- Change sounds and vibrations
- Access features from the Lock screen
- Open apps on the Home screen
- Take a screenshot or screen recording
- Change or lock the screen orientation
- Change the wallpaper
- Make screen items more reachable
- Search with iPhone
- Use AirDrop to send items
- Perform quick actions
- Use and customize Control Center
- View and organize Today View
- Charge and monitor the battery
- Learn the meaning of the status icons
- Travel with iPhone
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- Calculator
- Compass
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- View photos and videos
- Edit photos and videos
- Edit Live Photos
- Edit Portrait mode photos
- Organize photos in albums
- Search in Photos
- Share photos and videos
- View Memories
- Find people in Photos
- Browse photos by location
- Use iCloud Photos
- Share photos with iCloud Shared Albums
- Use My Photo Stream
- Import photos and videos
- Print photos
- Shortcuts
- Stocks
- Tips
- Weather
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- Intro to CarPlay
- Connect to CarPlay
- Use Siri
- Use your car’s built-in controls
- Get turn-by-turn directions
- Change the map view
- Make phone calls
- Play music
- View your calendar
- Send and receive text messages
- Play podcasts
- Play audiobooks
- Listen to news stories
- Control your home
- Use other apps with CarPlay
- Rearrange icons on CarPlay Home
- Change settings in CarPlay
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- Restart iPhone
- Force restart iPhone
- Update iOS
- Back up iPhone
- Return iPhone settings to their defaults
- Restore all content from a backup
- Restore purchased and deleted items
- Sell or give away your iPhone
- Erase all content and settings
- Restore iPhone to factory settings
- Install or remove configuration profiles
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- Get started with accessibility features
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- Turn on and practice VoiceOver
- Change your VoiceOver settings
- Learn VoiceOver gestures
- Operate iPhone using VoiceOver gestures
- Control VoiceOver using the rotor
- Use the onscreen keyboard
- Write with your finger
- Use VoiceOver with Magic Keyboard
- Type onscreen braille using VoiceOver
- Use a braille display
- Customize gestures and keyboard shortcuts
- Use VoiceOver with a pointer device
- Use VoiceOver in apps
- Zoom
- Magnifier
- Display & Text Size
- Motion
- Spoken Content
- Audio Descriptions
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- Important safety information
- Important handling information
- Get information about your iPhone
- View or change cellular settings
- Find more resources for software and service
- FCC compliance statement
- ISED Canada compliance statement
- Ultra Wideband information
- Class 1 Laser information
- Apple and the environment
- Disposal and recycling information
- Copyright
Use Switch Control on iPhone
With Switch Control, you can use the following methods to select an item on the screen:
Item scanning: The focus moves (automatically or manually) from one item to the next until you select an item; this is the default scanning method.
Point scanning: You select an item on the screen by pinpointing it with scanning crosshairs.
Head tracking: (on an iPhone with Face ID) You move your head to control a pointer on the screen. You can also use facial expressions to perform actions.
After you select an item, you can choose an action (for example, tap, drag, or pinch) in the Scanner Menu.
Use item scanning
With item scanning, the focus sequentially moves from one item to the next item on the screen.
If you use Auto Scanning, watch or listen as the focus moves. If you use Manual Scanning, trigger your Move to Next Item action to move the focus.
When the focus surrounds the item you want, trigger your Select Item switch.
In the Scanner Menu, choose an action such as the following:
Tap
Gestures
Scroll
Media Controls
More (the dots at the bottom of the menu) for more options
Home (to return to the Home screen)
Device (for other hardware actions)
Settings (to adjust Switch Control behavior)
The available actions in the Scanner Menu depend on the selected item.
To dismiss the Scanner menu without choosing an action, trigger your switch while the original item is highlighted and all the icons in the Scanner Menu are dimmed.
Use point scanning
With point scanning, you select an item on the screen by pinpointing it with scanning crosshairs.
Use item scanning to select an item.
In the Scanner Menu, choose Gliding Cursor.
To position the vertical crosshair, do the following:
Trigger your Select Item switch when the wide vertical band is over the item you want.
Trigger your Select Item switch again when the fine vertical line is over the item.
Repeat to position the horizontal crosshair.
Choose an action from the Scanner Menu.
To return to item scanning, choose Item Mode in the Scanner Menu.
Use head tracking
On an iPhone with Face ID, you can move your head to control a pointer on the screen. You can also use facial expressions to perform actions.
Go to Settings > Accessibility > Switch Control > Head Tracking.
Turn on Head Tracking, then do any of the following:
Assign actions to facial expressions: Choose actions to perform when you smile, open your mouth, stick out your tongue, or raise your eyebrows.
Choose how the pointer tracks your head movement: Tap Tracking Mode, then choose With Face, When Facing Screen Edges, or Relative to Head.
Adjust the pointer speed: Tap or .