How do I get out of accessibility shortcuts? It seems to have frozen my screen, making it unable to shut down or go to any other page. When I tap on a button, it highlights it and speaks the text, but I'm unable to move anywhere.

It seems to have frozen my screen, making it unable to shut down or go to any other page. When I tap on a button, it highlights it and speaks the text, but I'm unable to move anywhere.

This is on the iPhone12 Pro Max, Thx

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Posted on Feb 3, 2021 2:52 PM

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Posted on Feb 3, 2021 3:33 PM

You’ve activated Voice Over (for vision-impaired users). That means you have to double-tap everything to navigate (single tap just announces what you’ve tapped). Go to Settings - Accessibility - VoiceOver, and turn it off. Remember - you have to double tap everything to get there.

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How do I get out of accessibility shortcuts? It seems to have frozen my screen, making it unable to shut down or go to any other page. When I tap on a button, it highlights it and speaks the text, but I'm unable to move anywhere.

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