{"id":226997,"date":"2026-03-24T07:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/make-your-iphone-easier-to-use-when-you-need-it-and-harder-when-you-dont\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T07:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T11:20:14","slug":"make-your-iphone-easier-to-use-when-you-need-it-and-harder-when-you-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/make-your-iphone-easier-to-use-when-you-need-it-and-harder-when-you-dont\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Your iPhone Easier to Use When You Need It, and Harder When You Don&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/mobile\/how-to-use-iphone-accessibility-shortcuts\/\">Make Your iPhone Easier to Use When You Need It, and Harder When You Don&#8217;t<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/mobile\/how-to-use-iphone-accessibility-shortcuts\/\">https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/mobile\/how-to-use-iphone-accessibility-shortcuts\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-24 07:17:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnet.com\">www.cnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"u-speakableText-p1\">I used to avoid looking at my phone while I was in a moving car, because reading would give me motion sickness.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"u-speakableText-p2\">That changed when I learned about the Vehicle Motion Cues feature on my iPhone &#8212; when it&#8217;s enabled, animated dots appear on my screen and follow the movements of the car, which tricks my brain into forgetting to make me nauseous. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One great thing about this feature is that I don&#8217;t have to go hunting for it in my iOS settings when I need it. I don&#8217;t even have to look at my screen, because I&#8217;ve set it up as my iPhone&#8217;s Accessibility Shortcut.<\/p>\n<p>iOS Accessibility Shortcuts let you quickly turn on useful features like Vehicle Motion Cues, AssistiveTouch, Live Captions and more. Set it up once, and you&#8217;ll have another physical shortcut for your iPhone like the Action Button or Back Tap.<\/p>\n<h2>How to set up an iPhone Accessibility Shortcut<\/h2>\n<p>You have a pretty wide range of options for your Accessibility Shortcut. Go to <strong>Settings<\/strong>  <strong>Accessibility<\/strong>  <strong>Accessibility Shortcut<\/strong> to make a selection:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>AssistiveTouch<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Background Sounds<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Classic Invert<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Color Filters<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Control Nearby Devices<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Dim Flashing Lights<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Eye Tracking<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Full Keyboard Access<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Hover Text<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Hover Typing<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Increase Contrast<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Left\/Right Balance<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Live Captions<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Live Recognition<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Live Speech<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Magnifier<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Music Haptics<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Name Recognition<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Reduce Motion<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Reduce Transparency<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Reduce White Point<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Smart Invert<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Speak Screen<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Switch Control<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Vehicle Motion Cues<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Voice Control<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>VoiceOver<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Zoom<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve chosen your Accessibility Shortcut, you can activate it by triple-clicking the side button (or the home button, if you&#8217;re using an older iPhone).<\/p>\n<p>Some of these features can be permanently enabled on your device (for instance, I prefer more minimal animations, so I always have Reduce Motion turned on). But other features, like Vehicle Motion Cues or Color Filters, are only useful in limited scenarios, so the quick toggle is extremely handy.<\/p>\n<p>You can also choose multiple options from the Accessibility Shortcuts list. When you triple-click the side or home button, you&#8217;ll see those&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/mobile\/how-to-use-iphone-accessibility-shortcuts\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make Your iPhone Easier to Use When You Need It, and Harder When You Don&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/46963e04fd0de4459e733a84317dd7051a7f3472\/hub\/2025\/09\/09\/22c4f9f1-fc6c-442d-99c8-4dbd514ab602\/iphone-17-purple-and-green-side-view.jpg?auto=webp&fit=crop&height=675&width=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[69],"class_list":["post-226997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone","tag-ios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226999,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226997\/revisions\/226999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}