Q: My 5s screen wont work. I tried the hard resetting still won't work

*edit* by "my screen won't work" I mean that it is not responding to touch, the display still works but can only be navigated with Siri or an external keyboard.

This happened to my phone last week. When it initially started Siri could still be used to send texts and probably do most things on the phone. After resetting the phone it locked me out of Siri and TouchID and the phone was essentially a pager from 1998.

The apple store replaced the screen to see if that would work but of course something has died on the logic board and the phone has to be replaced, they quoted ~$270 for a new iPhone 5s. I had never backed up to my iMac so there was no way to "trust" the computer so everything on my phone was locked in.

Today I got a $42 lightning keyboard from Amazon and have unlocked the phone and turned on wifi and enabled siri but I'm still struggling to enable the iCloud backup. Not sure I will replace with another iPhone anyway so probably doesn't matter. Maybe this will become a replacement program eventually or something.

*edit 2* from http://www.iphonehacks.com/2013/11/keyboard-shortcuts-ipad-iphone.html

iPad Navigation

While not normally enabled, iOS will also let you switch between apps and do a lot more if you enable VoiceOver. To switch it on, go to Settings > General > Accessibility > and turn on VoiceOver. Along with the shortcuts, this will also enable the actual voice over, but you can turn that off by pressing Control + Option + S.

• Control Option H   Home button
• Control Option H H   Show multitask bar
• Control Option i   Item chooser
• Escape   Back button
• →  next item
• ←   previous item
• ↑↓ simultaneously tap selected item
• Option↓ scroll down
• Option↑ scroll up
• Option← or → scroll left or right
• Control Option S turn VoiceOver speech on or off
• Command Shift Tab switch to the previous app
• Command Tab switch back to the original app
• ←+→, then Option + ← or Option+→ navigate through Dock