iPhone 4S - VoiceOver mode turned on randomly

I'm sure there is a quick option, but the only other option i know of is to reset the phone.

Get into your SETTINGS

Use 3 fingers to (swipe) scroll down on the screen.

Select Reset

That should fix it.

This literally just happened to me and this is what i did to fix it.

Hope this helps.

Hugo

With Voice Over, you highlight whatever you are trying to select and then double tap anywhere on the screen to select.

So for your password of 1234 you have to

"Highlight 1, then double tap the screen, Highlight 2, the double tap the screen,... etc."

In order to remove you have 2 options:

Option# 1 – Turn off Voice Over

1. Go to setting by, highlight "SETTING
2. Double tap screen to go into settings
3. Use 3 fingers to (swipe) scroll of down and highlight "GENERAL"
4. Double tap screen to go into general
5. Use 3 fingers to (swipe) scroll of down and then highlight “ACCESSIBILITY”
6. Double tap screen to go into accessibility
7. Once you are in make sure that EVERYTHING in that section are shown as “OFF”

Option #2 - Reset your Phone

1. Go to setting by, highlight "SETTING
2. Double tap screen to go into settings
3. Use 3 fingers to (swipe) scroll of down and highlight "GENERAL"
4. Double tap screen to go into general
5. Use 3 fingers to (swipe) scroll of down and then highlight “RESET”
6. Double tap screen to go into reset
7. Select “Reset all setting” and continue to follow the instruction

(When you reset, all of your data and music WILL NOT erase. So don’t worry about that)

Hope this helps.

- Hugo

Thank you. This worked perfectly. The voiceOver was driving me insane.

Thanks for the tip. hitting the home button three times work perfectly. For as messed up as my phone was it was nice to find that the solution was simple.

David Perrings

THANK YOU THANK YOU for posting such helpful answers, my little niece got her phone for christmas and she woke me up with an insane cry that she had broke it.... and the voice thingy was driving me crazy !!!!

Can someone point this out to me somehwere in Apple's support pages or iPhone documentation?

Thanks.

If you want to change the triple-pressed home botton to activate and de-activate VoiceOver, Go to:

Settings ---> General ------> Accessibility

at the bottom of the screen select Triple-click Home, and change to other than Voiceover.

This really has to be one of the dumbest things Apple has ever done. Here it is, two years later than this post and my stepfather and I were on the phone for an hour trying to figure out what the heck had been done to put this iPad thing in the voiceover mode. And that was after I figured out that voiceover mode even was the very thing is causing is all the problems. Incredible that somebody could find themselves accidentally in this mode, and unable to actually operate the iPad. Bizarre.

Siri, turn off voice over

I don't know how, but my sister in law seems to get her phone into voice over mode about once a day. Siri is the easiest way to turn it off.

I have this problem too, but all I see here are solutions. As this "problem" persists and is sustained unsolved over generations of phones and ios versions, I suspect something more nefarious by design. 3 times in 2 months for me. Big Brother pushes the industry real real hard to have phones, phone home regulary, and if they are in airplane mode always as mine. they want an apple store ios reset to restore that functionality. So I ask why do Iphones automagically turn on the impossible to function with voice over mode. if it were a "legit hack" it would be solved in generations of hardware and software upgrades as it is a clear and present issue. So what triggers this automagically without user intervention. Apple is part of big brother.

I have discovered the simplest way to turn it off....... Triple click the home button/square button, whatever.. the button at the bottom of your phone that you click once for close, hold for voice control and twice to open the app list.