iPhone/iPad VoiceOver: Home Screen Gestures

Hello, my name is Douglas Walker. Today, we'll be checking out our home screen gestures. Yeah, Apple now has several devices that no longer have a home button, so this has really changed the way that we interact with our home screen. The fact that we have no home button changes the way that we launch Siri. It also changes the way that we open our accessibility shortcuts, as well as how we close any of our open apps.

We also have home screen gestures for opening our control center, our notification center, as well as our app switcher. Now, this might seem like a lot, and it is, however, the more we use our home screen gestures the more we'll find that our muscle memory will just kick right in. So let's go ahead and check it all out.

Okay, we're using our iPhone in today's workshop. But no worries, because all of this will work pretty much the same whether we're using our iPhone, or our iPad.

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