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I am trying desperately to turn off Switch Control on my iPhone and nothing so far has worked. I have tried clicking the Home button three times, and the option of Switch Control comes up with a check beside it, but with no way to turn it off. Siri when asked to disable switch control will say "Which setting?" which will only bring me to Accessibility but I still can't click anything! Any suggestions appreciated.
iPhone 5, iOS 7
Nevermind, I figured out how to do it by trial and error.
If you are wondering how to turn off switch control with a frozen screen, here's how I did it:
-Ask Siri to "Turn on Voice Control." (She'll turn on/off Voice Control but not Switch Control- go figure.) IOS 7 will not allow both Voice Control and Switch Control to operate together, so when Voice Control is on, Switch Control is off and vice versa.
-With Voice Control on, go to Settings/General/Accessibility. To tap on options, you must tap once to select it in a black box, then twice quickly to execute it. To scroll, you must use three fingers instead of just one.
-Turn off all swiches so the Switches option has a 0 next to it in Switch Control, then turn it off. Tada!
but what if your phone is locked because it keeps asking for a passcode
My settings allow access to Siri when my phone is locked. If you restart your phone, you can quickly put in your pass code before the switch control kicks in.
i go to setting and i cant turn it on
my iphon is locked i cant enter the passcpde due to switch control on what i do
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I have the same issue, except nothing works...
Power boot, triple click trick
iTunes workaround
Siri trick
Anybody else found a way around this?
Found my answer!! It's the worse case scenario (which is my case), which requires you to restore a previous backup, but this works for sure because of the restore mode built-in feature.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5326149?answerId=23366304022#23366304022
It's a disaster turning Switch Control.
i stuck for one day and wasn't able to unlock my iPhone.
All you have to do is connect your device to iTunes, go to iphone, summury, at the bottom you'll find options, then configure accessbility. There change it to zoom or whatever. eventully it will deactivate the f----- switch control.
best luck.
With siri say turn on voice over . then the switch control turned off because voice over and switch control does not turn on together , then with siri say turn off voice over . this is the way to deactivate switch control .
With siri say turn on voice over . then the switch control turned off because voice over and switch control does not turn on together , then with siri say turn off voice over . this is the way to deactivate switch control .
you can try 'triple-click' Home button, it would turn off Accessibility, so you can return to normal usage of touchscreen.
OMG thank you!! I was begging for answers on how to turn it off!
Thank you! The triple click didn't work, the voice control request didn't work, as my screen was locked and it said it needed the passcode first. But asking for assistive touch worked!
But now it is saying it cannot locate my face. I got it working on the first try though.
Hey thanks buddy that is the exact thing cheers
I can not find the switch control option on my iPad mini, it is by the way just wifi not cellular
Thank you so much! It's work for me !
How to turn off Switch Control???
