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One of my favorite new features in iOS 14 is an accessibility setting that allows a double tap or triple tap on the back of the phone to trigger an action. You
by AnonHP 6y ago
One of my favorite new features in iOS 14 is an accessibility setting that allows a double tap or triple tap on the back of the phone to trigger an action. You can set this up in Settings->Accessibility->Touch->Back Tap .
In general, I love how accessibility features on iOS are so useful even for the average person who wouldn’t be considered or classified as disabled.
- porkloin 6y agoSeriously! It's really frustrating that people tend to think accessibility features are just for people experiencing disability. The web, applications, and the whole world at large is made better for _all_ people when we build with a mind toward accessibility.
- city41 6y agoiOS lets you turn on a red filter that disables the green and blue channels. you can set it to turn on by triple tapping the home button (or I'm guessing the back for new phones). This is the one thing I really miss after switching to Android. The red screen is fantastic for reading at night, really easy on the eyes.
- davchana 6y agoMy Android 10 Realme Pro2 has a option to desaturate screen every day at a fixed schedule.
- city41 6y agoYeah Android has some features and apps in this space. This iOS mode is an accessibility feature. I guess for some people a pure red screen helps them see it better? This feature is not intended as a "night mode", it's very extreme. It also makes anything that has no red channel in its color disappear (although this is rare). I found it's a better night mode than actual night modes. But it's best if you're just reading text, for video or games it's probably too extreme.
- ponderingfish 6y agoThat the night-shift mode right? I've been using it for almost 2 years I think. I have the same settings on my iPhone and macbook pro
- evan_ 6y agoNo, it's a different thing. Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Color Filters
- jtvjan 6y agoCf.lumen has this feature (yes, true red colouring, not just a yellow tinge like night shift), but it requires root and it's not updated anymore. (you need to find the 3.72 beta version online for it to work on Android Q)
- irrational 6y agoAlso fantastic when out star gazing.
- culopatin 6y agoAndroid got night light even before Apple did, you could just set it at high intensity, but I’m sure you know this.
- gumby 6y ago> In general, I love how accessibility features on iOS are so useful even for the average person who wouldn’t be considered or classified as disabled. This is super important. People who don't need accomodation sometimes complain about the ADA rules for buildings but at some point everybody takes advantage of things like crash bars to open a door (when your hands are full, or are just on the phone), ramps (perhaps you're pulling something, have a kid, or are on crutches for a few days), handrails (momentary distraction) etc. And ditto for the phone. I consider the label on the "accessibility" settings just there to make them easy to find; they aren't there for a small number of people (even if most people change at most one default setting).
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- ghostpepper 6y agoThis does not appear to be available on the iPhone SE (2016). Interestingly, searching for "Back Tap" does show a singel result for Accessibility -> Touch, but once you're there the option is hidden.
- PascLeRasc 6y agoI believe it requires the Taptic Engine, which only appeared on the 7 and later models.
- diesal11 6y agoI have a 7 and cannot see this option.
- mthoms 6y agoDitto here.
- Answerawake 6y agoWhy is that? Isn't the taptic engine just a miniaturized vibrating unit?
- throwaway5792 6y agoI guess a vibrating unit is an electric motor fundamentally. And an electric motor is also a generator when run in reverse. Maybe the Taptic Engine can also sense vibrations too.
- OkGoDoIt 6y agoIt requires the iPhone 8 or newer, sadly
- scottkrager 6y agoI take screenshots often as reminders, to annotate, etc. I setup a double-tap as an action to take a screenshot. So much faster then the older methods. You get some false positives, but really handy productivity hack.
- Cro_on 6y agoi use the power button (which i wouldn't ordinarily use) so it's a single tap on the screen and done
- purephase 6y agoThis is really nice. I have my airpod double tap set to pause, play but I miss having siri available for hands free. This makes it easy to have both!
- ObsoleteNerd 6y agoMy wife has no disabilities (and is a very light/casual tech user) but uses heaps of the iOS accessibility features. I personally had never really looked at them until she started showing me how handy so many of them are day to day. Things like: The triple-tap-to-zoom feature has a “low light” filter that works on top of your brightness setting so you can use it to get a lower-than-lowest-brightness for reading in bed at night (even the lowest brightness isn’t low enough sometimes). Reachability setting if you have a big phone and small hands let’s you drag the entire interface down with 1 finger and reach buttons at the top of the UI. LED Flash for Alerts gives you a visual notification if you work somewhere where you need your phone on silent but also can’t use vibration alerts (she works in a medical field and her phone sits across the room on a table). Lots of interesting ideas in an area of Settings 99% of people never touch.
- Polylactic_acid 6y agoI make use of big text mode on my linux laptop because 1080p on a 13" laptop makes everything tiny and fractional scailing is still a beta thing right now.
- dhosek 6y agoI've long used the Mac's ctrl-scroll shortcut for zooming in on the display. Ages ago, when I was working in the same room as the design staff for a company I worked at, they saw me do that and were quick to activate it on their iMacs as it's really handy for checking pixel-level rendering on web interfaces.
- kiddico 6y ago"Zoom" settings seems like a very odd spot to put something like a low light filter, which is why I never found it. Thanks for sharing! (and the same to your other half!)
- singularity2001 6y agoYour “low light” filter is an unneccessary hack: just use the 'reduce whitepoint' feature and add it to power-button menu for quick access. ... which doesn't help the mayor annoyance that safari still doesn't support dark mode! (FF to the rescue)
- rexf 6y agoThat's awesome. The ergonomics seem to require a 2 handed phone hold. With 1 hand, holding the phone and trying to tap on the back in quick succession is too difficult for me.
- prh8 6y agoHave you used it? I tried it for awhile during beta and I found it triggering far too frequently by accident.
- tuananh 6y agoi tried it but it's too slow for me. i set it up with backtap for home but it only switch after like a second or so
- miguel_rdp 6y agoThis sounds great, tried it but I have Apple's silicone cover and it needs a forceful tap, which I didn't find confortable..
- sagz 6y agoI'm surprised they still don't have anything that comes close to Live Transcribe that Google has for Android.
- Cockbrand 6y agoI'd really like the double/triple tap to work on a locked iPhone. Opening the camera app when the phone is locked would be a nice use case for this.
- jazzdev 6y agoYou can already open the camera app when the phone is locked by swiping left on the lock screen.