How to turn off VoiceOver if you turned it on by accident

Everything is laughter, until it happens to us. Surely some user who knows what VoiceOver is will be happy to read threads like this in which a user accidentally activates something in the Accessibility section of iOS and then is not able to control their iPhone. Like I say, it can be funny, until it happens to us, and the problem is even greater if we do not know how to turn off VoiceOver that option since the iPhone only talks but the screen does not slide.

Disabling VoiceOver is very simple and in this post we will explain how to do it, not without first mentioning that I, who in theory have a lot of knowledge of iOS, have suffered in my flesh a problem related to some Accessibility that made my iPhone have a life of its own and he decided what to select at all times, something that, honestly, neither I don't remember what it was and I don't expect to ever activate again

How VoiceOver works

As we read in the support page Apple, we can control VoiceOver with a few simple gestures:

• If we touch the screen or drag our finger across it, VoiceOver will tell us everything we touch.
• If we tap once on a button, we will hear a description.
• If we touch twice, we will select what is marked.
• If we slide our finger to the left or right we will go to the next or next element.
• When we interact with an element, it appears surrounded by a black rectangle so that non-blind users can follow everything that the blind are doing. If you prefer to have a certain level of privacy, there is an option that allows you to activate a screen curtain so that nothing is seen, but the prompts will continue to be heard.

How do I turn off VoiceOver?

The simplest is ask Siri. Our virtual assistant is becoming more and more capable and has been able to manage some settings for a long time, such as lowering the brightness, turning off Bluetooth or, from what this article is about, turning off VoiceOver.

If for whatever reason, like you are not able to understand our pronunciation of the accessibility option, you cannot use Siri to disable VoiceOver, We can do it manually from Settings / General / Accessibility / VoiceOver and deactivating the lever. Keep in mind that to be able to select any option we have to double click on it, something that we also have to do to deactivate this function for blind or visually impaired users.

I also find it interesting to mention how to swipe up or down If we have VoiceOver activated, in case we want to access a different option: if we do not have it activated, in applications such as Twitter or iOS Settings whose interface can be moved up or down, sliding the screen is as simple as put your finger on it and slide to where we want it to move. If we have this accessibility option activated, things change slightly: first we have to put our finger on the screen for a second and then it will no longer allow swiping the screen. If we put our finger on the screen and do not leave it fixed, what it will do is read everything we put our finger on.

Have you had or know someone who has had a problem with VoiceOver?