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There is a passing reference to shaking in the on line help file, but once you go to the Accessbility section, the path disappear.
iPhone 6, iOS 8, There is a passing reference to "s,
It's now in Accessibility.
There are references to it in the User Guide, but there is no place to turn it on or off. I believe this is just a feature of iOS. I've used it twice today as a matter of fact.
I've tried that, shaking until my wrist is sore, but there's no response from the phone. For what it's worth, it was enabled on my iPhone 5, and I used it all of the time.
It's not enabled on my wife's iPhone 6, either.
There definitely is a reference to turning it on through the Accessibility menu, but once there I can't make heads or tails out of the options afforded. You get a funny square "palette" style menu, with four choices (including shake), but once you select it, there's no way to make Undo the action.
I'm not sure where you are getting to this setting. Can you provide a screenshot or indicate how it is that you are getting to this area you are looking at?
In the Settings menu, go to the Accessibility topic, then scroll down to Assistive Touch. Turn on Assistive Touch, then select Create New Gesture. Then, tap the "floating circle in a box" that appears. You get a square floating palette with six options. Select Device, then select the ellipsis (…) that is in the lower right corner of the square palette.. You then have the option Shake displayed on the left side of the palette.
Selecting Shake doesn't seem to do anything - you are returned to the Tap or Swipe message, with nothing to save following your selection of Shake.
I'd send a set of screen shots, but I don't know how to do it with the iPhone. One new experience at a time...
That setting is just what it says. This gives you the option to create new assistive touch gestures. You would create something to open an app or something to that effect. That is not where you activate the shake to erase. I believe since they have connected the shake to many other functions in the new iOS, it is not able to be used except for a short time after doing what you want to erase. In other words, you have to use it quickly. Check out the User Guide in your bookmarks for Safari to read about the features of the phone.
Nope. I've tested that multiple times with native Apple applications, including just now with Notes. An entry of "bomf", followed by immediate (within a second) vigorous shaking that worked with OS 7 leaves "bomf" un-Undone.
I just tested mine again. It did not seem to work when I shook the phone from side to side. When I shook it in front of me, like away and close to me, then it worked, and continued to work no matter how I shook it. Don't know if it was an error, but it is working now. Try shaking the device differently. I know that sounds strange, but it seemed that it was about the way I shook the device that seemed to make mine work. I do know that it seems to require a harder shake to get it to work.
I frequently used "Shake to Pay" in the Starbucks app and that suddenly quit working. I thought maybe they had done an update to the app so I tried shake to delete (which I never used) in another app and that wouldn't work either. I speculated that maybe a sensor in my 5s was malfunctioning. Then I noticed that Steps in the Health app works and it seems likely that would use the same sensor so I was really curious what was going on. Then I saw your post and tried a substantially harder shake - - and it works.
I was afraid I was going to drop or throw my phone as hard as I ended up having to shake, but got it to work. It used to be so sensitive in the past that if I wasn't careful in locking my phone before I put it in my pocket, I would get that error on the screen by just tilting it over and placing it in my pocket. Takes quite a bit more than that now.
I Am running 9.3.2 on an iPhone 6s. I have to shake like a lunatic in mail (2 iCloud accounts) and even then it's 1 in 3.
How do I restore "shake to delete " on my iPhone 6?
