I can't swipe to unlock my phone or even turn it off :(

OK - I know this works for iphone 4s ios 9.1. BTW: Everyone should turn on "Hey Siri" - go to Settings-General-Siri & go thru prompts to turn on. If you've totally screwed up your accessibility and can't access anything, i.e., can't turn off/reset phone by pressing & holding home button and power button together, can't slide to unlock, and if unlocked, can't tap app to open - IF "Hey Siri" is enabled, you can ask Siri to to "Open Accessibility in Settings." If you cannot choose the desired Accesibility option as you normally would, e.g., by scrolling down and tapping, then tap the screen as many times as necessary to get a menu (that has B&W icons) to pop up. An outline around each menu icon/choice (on this B&W menu) will automatically move from one icon to the next. Choose "Item Control" which will then start to automatically outline each Accessibility Area/option, one after another, indicating when an option can be tapped to choose. TURN OFF ALL "INTERACTION" CONTROLS. If the "Item Control" outline does not move far enough down to the Accessibility area of Interaction Controls, and you cannot swipe down, pop the B&W icon menu up again. Then select the option "More" which is indicated by an outline around a set of dots centered under the B&W icon rows, and you will be able to then choose the "Scroll Down" icon. When you have then scrolled down far enough on the Accessibility screen and see the Interaction control area, choose the "Item Control" icon again from the B&W menu, and this outline will again automatically move from one control to another. Tap/turn off all "Interaction" options. Hope this helps.

I tried the home/sleep reset but did not work. After reading the manual online under reset (page 145-146) it sounded like it might be a setting that accidentally was set called "Assistive Touch" which referred me to page 127. So much for where to find it, the solution was pressing the home key at the bottom 3 times in a row and voila everything was back to normal. Thanks to this discussion page I got on the right track to find it even though the resolution was not here. I have also accidentally set "Voice Control" on in the past and reset that setting using the same push home key 3 times. These setting apparently have been done through a shortcut that I am unaware of having made but pressing the home key 3 times apparently is the solution the these type of issues.

Shocking.

I've had several iPhones over the years, I even write software for iPhones & iPads... but today, I bought my wife a brand new iPhone 4s, but even I couldn't get past the very first "Swipe to setup" screen.

For some reason, from coming out of the box, the phone was just reading out the text on whichever control was highlighted on this first start screen. If I tried to tap on any other button, it'd just highlight that control, and read out it's text. I could not work out how the **** to turn this feature off and go to the next screen !

Without this Apple Discussions thread, I would've had absolutely no idea that I needed to "tap the Home button three times" to turn this annoying feature off.

Seriously... it's 2015, the first impression should be more friendly than this...

Try a reset, no data loss. Hold down the home/sleep button together until you see the apple logo and then release, then wait for the phone to boot back up.

I've done that and it doesn't work. There is a white line box around the 'slide to unlock' and a box around the red 'slide to power off' I've restarted the phone several times holding down the home and sleep buttons together. Now what?

I've done that and it doesn't work. There is a white line box around the 'slide to unlock' and a box around the red 'slide to power off' I've restarted the phone several times holding down the home and sleep buttons together. Now what?

was accessibility and it's been handled

I have an old ipod touch 3rd gen without a camera and I cant swipe to go to my home screen, cant press, when I hold my power button I cant slide to shut off or press cancel. its like my screen is frozen, how do I reboot it? do I need to wait ti it shuts off or what?

Or how do I shut it off?

Same thing just happened to me. All I did was use another line to call the iphone and it allowed me to answer the incoming call! VIOLA! It works!!! so happy right now. Good luck to all!

dont reset it!!!! only hold your home button and lock button at the same time for 20 seconds and then it will reset on its own!

This worked for me as well. I thought all was lost. : 0 Thank you!!!

I found a solution for this, I literally spent 12 hours trying to solve this problem and almost got crazy. Restore your iPhone, the when it asks you to set a password skip this step. Your iPhone won't ask you again to "Swipe to upgrade". The only problem here is that you won't be able to set a password because if you try to do that the "Swipe to upgrade" bug will appear again.

Thanks! This worked for me!!!