Re: Issues with Gesture Navigation on iPhone 16E When Rotor Is Set to Activities or other actions

[Alex Stone]

Gerado, my su)estion would be to try and make sure you're siping straight up. If thinks you're swiping to the left or right when you're swiping up, it might think you're trying to change the rotor. Written in Braille on Alex's  Iphone On 7 Aug 2025, at 23:07, Gerardo Corripio <gera1...@gmail.com> wrote:  Hi all, After five faithful years with my iPhone SE 2nd Generation, I recently upgraded to the iPhone 16E because the Haptic Home button stopped working. Since the 16E doesn’t have a physical Home button, I’ve had to rely entirely on gesture-based navigation — especially the swipe up from the bottom to go Home or open the App Switcher. Here’s the issue I’m facing: When I perform these gestures, particularly when VoiceOver focus is near the bottom of the screen, the Rotor sometimes reacts — switching Activities unexpectedly or triggering features like Screen Recognition. It feels like the gesture is being misinterpreted as a Rotor movement. To work around this, I’ve been manually setting the Rotor to something like “Containers” or “Headings” before doing the gesture, and that seems to help. Still, it’s something I never had to worry about before — not on the SE, and not even on my iPad 9th Generation, which still has a Home button. (There, I actually like using the new gestures, and they don’t cause this kind of conflict.) One thing that might be contributing: I usually leave the Rotor on “Activities” since I use one Activity for English and another for Spanish. I never saw a need to switch away from it constantly — but with these new gesture-based interactions, I’m having to be much more mindful about that. I’ve considered assigning a custom gesture, like a three-finger triple-tap, to perform the “Go to Home” action — which might avoid the conflict altogether. But doing that feels like it would take away from the whole point of learning and adapting to the new gesture system, so I’m hesitant to go that route. Has anyone else dealt with something similar? Am I maybe just performing the gesture slightly off, or is this a known quirk when using the Rotor with Activities? Would love to hear your thoughts or any suggestions you’ve found helpful. Thanks in advance! Gera Enviado desde mi iPhone 16e -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list.   If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself.   Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com   The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/516732A9-DE12-4642-8ECB-F14C9F330DF1%40gmail.com. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list.   If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself.   Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com   The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/334CB67B-2E41-4101-9F54-C8C5B32737D0%40gmail.com.