Me too. I keep it on characters or words. I actually have been doing this for as long as I have been using an iphone. I had that problem as far back as my iphone 5s.
On Thu, Aug 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM Alex Stone <[email protected]> wrote: > Carolyn, that's a good idea, if screen recognition gets turned on in the > wrong place, ít can be really > > Written in Braille on Alex's Iphone > > > > On 8 Aug 2025, at 01:24, Carolyn Arnold <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Could it help to turn off Screen Recognition? > > > > Carolyn Arnold > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Gerardo Corripio > > Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2025 6:07 PM > > To: iPhone List <[email protected]> > > Subject: Issues with Gesture Navigation on iPhone 16E When Rotor Is Set > to Activities or other actions > > > > 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: > [email protected]. 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