After Assistive Touch is enabled on the iPhone, the Assistive Touch gesture menu is superimposed on the home screen menu. With Assistive Touch iPhone user can do a lot of actions on iPhone without using the Home button and Sleep/Wake up button. However, not all the people like iPhone Assistive Touch. Someone may find Assistive Touch confusing, distracting or even troublesome. Someone may buy a used iPhone, and the iPhone Assistive Touch was enabled previously. But he does not know how to get rid of Assistive Touch on iPhone. Our tutorial below will show you how to turn off Assistive Touch on iPhone so that you can stop it from appearing on your screen.

How to Turn off Assistive Touch on iPhone

Assistive touch is by no means the replacement of your physical touch button on iPhone or iPad. As its name indicates, it is assistive and it is supplementary to the physical touch button. You can use Assistive touch to adjust volume, lock your screen, use multi-finger gestures, restart your device, or replace pressing buttons with just a tap.

Overall, when you turn on Assistive Touch, you'll see a button appear on the screen. You can drag it to any edge of the screen, where it will stay until you move it again. By default, tapping the button once will open the Assistive Touch menu. Tapping once anywhere outside of the menu will close it. You can achieve a lot from this assistive touch, for example, connect a pointer device with Assistive Touch, create new gestures, customize actions, and so on and so forth.

How to Turn off Assistive Touch on iPhone

1. Turn Off iPhone Assistive Touch in Settings

To know how to get rid of Assistive Touch on iPhone successfully, you can follow the steps below.

  • Tap the Settings in the iPhone home screen to launch the Settings menu.
  • Tap General > Accessibility.
  • After seeing the Accessibility Settings menu, tap the option Assistive Touch.
  • As the Assistive Touch Settings screen opens, slide the slider from On to Off to disable the Assistive Touch feature, which will turn from green to gray.

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2. Turn iPhone Assistive Touch off by pressing the home button quickly for 3 times

Other than going to the settings, there’s another way to enable Assistive Touch quickly. Check out the content below to see how to turn off Assistive Touch on iPhone in another way.

  • Tap on Settings > General > Accessibility > Accessibility Shortcut.
  • Select Assistive Touch from the menu.
  • Triple-click on iPhone Home button, you will find the iPhone Assistive Touch button disappeared. Trigger it again and you can turn on Assistive Touch again.

Turn off Assistive Touch

In the meantime, the method to disable Assistive Touch on iPad and iPhone has changed in iOS 13. If you want to turn off Assistive touch on iOS 13, you can follow the below steps.

Step 1: Go to the Settings app. And scroll down and tap Accessibility.

Step 2: Step 2: Select Touch. Then, tap on Assistive Touch. Turn it off.

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How to back up your iPhone using Leawo iOS Data Recovery?

Knowing how to get rid of Assistive Touch on iPhone is not difficult. And we all know that it is a bit hard or even complicated to back up your iPhone data with iTunes. Hereby, I will introduce a powerful program, which can help you back up your iPhone data easily, Leawo iOS Data Recovery.

As we all know, Leawo iOS Data Recovery is specially designed for iPhone users to get back the lost data. The software enables users to recover most important data on their iOS devices, including Email, Camera Roll, Photo Stream, Photo Library, Contacts, Messages, Message Attachments, Voice Memos, Call History, Calendar, Notes, Reminders and Safari Bookmarks. To back up your iPhone, you need to follow the steps.

   

Step 1. Download and launch the software Leawo iOS Data Recovery in the computer first, then plug iPhone to computer using a USB cable. Click Recover from iOS Device.

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Step 2. The software Leawo iOS Data Recovery will detect the iPhone automatically, then click the button Start fort the software to scan your iPhone.

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Step 3. All the data on iPhone will show on the screen after scanning, from which you can see the category shown in the left part of the window while the specified files shown in the right part of the window. Select the data that you want to back up and click the button Recover.

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Step4. A dialog will pop up later, user is supposed to select the target folder to save the data backup to computer by clicking Open beside the Save to option. Click Go to start to backup data to computer.

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