Use AssistiveTouch on iPod touch

AssistiveTouch helps you use iPod touch if you have difficulty touching the screen or pressing the buttons. You can use AssistiveTouch without any accessory to perform actions or gestures that are difficult for you. You can also use a compatible adaptive accessory (such as a joystick) together with AssistiveTouch to control iPod touch.

With AssistiveTouch, you can use a simple tap (or the equivalent on your accessory) to perform actions such as the following:

Open the AssistiveTouch menu
Go to the Home Screen
Double-tap
Perform multifinger gestures
Perform scroll gestures
Activate Siri
Access Control Center, notifications, the Lock Screen, or the App Switcher
Adjust the volume on iPod touch
Shake iPod touch
Take a screenshot
Speak screen
Adjust dwell settings
Restart iPod touch

Set up AssistiveTouch

Siri: Say something like: “Turn on AssistiveTouch” or “Turn off AssistiveTouch.” Learn how to ask Siri.

Or do the following:

Go to Settings > Accessibility > Touch > AssistiveTouch.
Turn on AssistiveTouch.
To customize AssistiveTouch, tap any of the following:
- Customize Top Level Menu: Tap an icon to change its action. Tap or to change the number of icons in the menu. The menu can have up to eight icons.
- Single-Tap, Double-Tap, or Long Press: Assign custom actions that run when you interact with the menu button.
- Create New Gesture: Add your favorite gestures.
- Idle Opacity: Adjust the visibility of the menu button when not in use.

Tip: To turn AssistiveTouch on or off quickly, triple-click the Home button.

Add a pointer device

You can connect Bluetooth and USB assistive pointer devices, such as trackpads, joysticks, and mouse devices.

Go to Settings > Accessibility > Touch > AssistiveTouch.
Turn on AssistiveTouch.
Below Pointer Devices, tap any of the following:
- Devices: Pair or unpair devices and customize buttons.
- Mouse Keys: Allow the AssistiveTouch pointer to be controlled using the keyboard number pad.
- Pointer Style: Adjust the size, color, and auto-hide settings.
- Show Onscreen Keyboard: Display the onscreen keyboard.
- Always Show Menu: Show the AssistiveTouch menu when a pointer device is connected.
- Tracking speed: Drag the slider to adjust the speed.
- Drag Lock: Turn on to enable dragging.
- Zoom Pan: Choose Continuous, Centered, or Edges.

See Change the pointer appearance when using a mouse or trackpad with iPod touch.

Set up Dwell Control

iPod touch performs a selected action when you hold the cursor still on a screen element or an area of the screen.

Go to Settings > Accessibility > Touch > AssistiveTouch, then turn on Dwell Control.
Adjust any of the following:
- Fallback Action: Turn on to revert the dwell action to the selected fallback action after performing an operation.
- Movement Tolerance: Adjust the distance the cursor can move while dwelling on an item.
- Hot Corners: Perform a selected action—such as take a screenshot, open Control Center, activate Siri, scroll, or use a shortcut—when the cursor dwells in a corner of the screen.
- Time needed to initiate a dwell action: Tap or .

Move the AssistiveTouch menu button

Drag the menu button to a new location on the screen.