iPhone/iPad VoiceOver: 3 Finger Gestures

Douglas: Hello, my name is Douglas Walker. Today we're gonna check out our three finger gestures. Now, we can do so many things with our three finger gestures everything from quickly moving through our device to copying text, and turning on screen curtain for privacy. Well, I could go on and on, but how about we jump right in and check out all of our three finger gestures.

Now, our first three finger gesture is our three finger single tap. Yeah, our three finger single tab will speak what Apple calls our item summary. Now, our item summary will tell us where an item is located on our screen and exactly how we're able to interact with it. Now, our voiceover focus is currently on our phone app. So, let's go ahead and check out our summary.

We'll just perform our three finger single tap

Voiceover: Dock phone in dock position one, bottom of screen. Double tap two open.

Douglas: Yeah, and this is great. We were told that our phone app is in our dock here, at the bottom of our screen. And we were then told that it is in position one and we were told that we could interact with it by using our double tap gestures. So, it's pretty cool that with our three finger single tap, we can get a lot of information about any item or element on our device. Okay, our next three finger gesture is our three finger double tap. Now, our three finger double tap will actually mute our speech. Yeah, this can be really great if we happen to be using a refreshable braille device to navigate through our phone or, maybe to read a book and we don't want voiceover speaking at the same time. So, we can just tap our screen twice with three fingers to mute or silence our speech. And yep, how about we do just that? We'll, just three finger double tap

Voiceover: Speech off.

Douglas: Yeah, and we heard voiceover announce speech off. So, now when we move through our phone or read a book, all of our speech will be muted. All right. We need our speech today, so we'll just three finger double tap to turn it back on

Voiceover: Speech on.

Douglas: Great. And voiceover announced that our speech is back on. Okay, our next three finger gesture is probably my favorite and this is our three finger triple tap. Our three finger triple tap turns on what apple calls our screen curtain. And this means that our screen will actually dim or go black, which is super useful if we're needing some privacy and we don't want others around us to be able to see what's on our screen. So, let's go ahead and do it. We'll just three finger triple tap

Voiceover: Screen curtain on.

Douglas: Yeah, I love this one. Now, we can move through our device knowing that others around us can't view any of our personal information. All right. And of course to turn off our screen curtain, we'll just three finger triple tap again. So we'll do just that

Voiceover: Screen curtain off.

Douglas: Yeah. And our screen curtain is off and we're good to go. All right. Our next three finger gesture is our three finger quadruple tap. And our three finger quadruple tap will copy the last thing that voiceover said and then we can paste it into any text field. Now, this is a super handy way to quickly copy something that we can paste into a note, into an email or even a text message if we like. So, yeah, our three finger quadruple tap is pretty cool. Okay, our next two gestures are our three finger right and left swipe gestures. Now, these gestures allow us to switch from one screen or page to another. So, let's check out how this works. Now, we're currently on our home screen, however, we do have additional screens or pages here. So, we'll use our three finger left swipe to move to our next screen and we'll just swipe to our left with three fingers.

Voiceover: Page two of three.

Douglas: Great. And here we are on our next screen. And of course, we can use our three finger right swipe gesture to swipe back to our previous screen. So, let's just three finger right swipe here

Voiceover: Page one of three.

Douglas: And there you go. The three finger right and left swipe really does help to speed things up. Now, I do want to mention that our three finger right and left swipe also does a really great job when switching between pages in an Apple book. Okay, our last three finger gestures are our three finger swipe up and swipe down gesture. Okay, these two gestures really help when we want to quickly scroll up or down through a really long list. Yeah. And a great place to check out how all of this works is in our settings app. And our settings app is right here on our home screens. So, we'll just touch our settings out.

Voiceover: Settings. Double tap to open.

Douglas: Yeah. And we'll just double tap to open our settings here.

Voiceover: Settings.

Douglas: All right. And here we are in our settings menu. Now that we know that we could just move through this list by just swiping to the right, but what if we quickly wanted to move to an item at the very, very bottom of this list? Well, we could quickly swipe to the right a lot of times. Or, we could use our three finger swipe up to jump by larger increments through our list. Now, this is just like the three finger swipe to the left and right, only we're swiping up towards the top of our screen. Now, we're currently on our heading here at the top of our list, and we'll actually need to be within our list before our three fingers swipe up will work. So we'll just touch in our list here, somewhere near the middle of our list

Voiceover: Notifications button.

Douglas: Great. Now let's quickly move through our settings list with our three finger swipe up. So we'll just go ahead and swipe up

Voiceover: Rows 10 to 26 of 138.

- Yeah, and we just heard voiceover announce that Rows 10 through 26 of 138 are available. And goodness, that would be a lot of right swiping. So, it's really great that we can quickly jump down or forward on our list. Now, you've probably already guessed that if we want to quickly move back to the top of our screen, we could just perform our three finger, swipe down. And you know, how about we do just that? We'll just swipe down our screen with three fingers

Voiceover: Rows, one to 13 of 138.

Douglas: And, there you go. I tell you, this also works great on a long webpage or maybe in a long email or even in our artist list, in our music app. All right, that pretty much covers all of our three finger gestures. Yeah, we can do so much with our three finger gestures from copying our speech to quickly moving through our device to my favorite, turning on our screen curtain. I tell ya, our three finger gestures really do give us so much control of our device. Again, my name is Douglas Walker. Take care, and I'll see you next time.